CCE One-Click Software Beta

[jdobbs]

I'm confident that this is only happening on people who are using the trial version. I downloaded it and was able to repeat it. For some reason the trial doesn't read the filename input from the .ECL file -- it could be related to eclCCE (since that is the only way you can use an ECL with the trial). I also noticed (at least on my system) that I get an annoying sound after every segment is processed when using the trial.

Anyway, I'll fix it by forcefully renaming the file to .M2V after it is encoded.

[Abnormal1]

After playing a bit i think you are right that this is eclCCE causing this problem, as if you open the ECL and manually change the extension to .m2v CCE encodes it to the correct name.

Abnormal

[jdobbs]

It's fixed. You'll see it in a version loaded later today. Right now I'm working on the TMAPTI table updates.

[Mad_Max_73]

An Italian (from venice)here wants a simple update...
Can you move
quality_prec=5 (25 is too high)
dvd=1
vbr_bias=20 (10 is too low)

on ecl creation....and
custom bitrate for every title set....tnx

[jdobbs]

I'll make them adjustable in setup.

[RB]

Originally posted by jdobbs
I'm confident that this is only happening on people who are using the trial version. I downloaded it and was able to repeat it. For some reason the trial doesn't read the filename input from the .ECL file -- it could be related to eclCCE (since that is the only way you can use an ECL with the trial). I also noticed (at least on my system) that I get an annoying sound after every segment is processed when using the trial.
Actually, it's a problem in both CCE and EclCCE. Run CCE manually and type a path with .M2V extension for the video output files. Now change the encoding mode, say from VBR to CBR. You'll note that CCE changed the extension from .M2V to the default extension, most likely MPV. Now that's exactly how EclCCE works, it simply simulates user input, hence the problem. I'll fix that in the new version I'm working on right now, this will also allow to run CCE minimized.

I also know where this annoying beep could be coming from, but thought I took care of that several versions back. It doesn't happen here with CCE-SP 2.67.00.23 trial. What version did you use?

[jdobbs]

@RB

Cool... Thanks. BTW, do you know why there is a sound made every time CCE exits when I'm using eclCCE with the trial? It doesn't do it with 2.50. (not a criticism, just a question)

[FilipeAmadeuO]

Can you add a One Pass CCE ???
I normaly use one pass with Q=35 and then if it get bigger i move to multipass.
Thank you a continue the good work

[RB]

Originally posted by jdobbs
@RB

Cool... Thanks. BTW, do you know why there is a sound made every time CCE exits when I'm using eclCCE with the trial? It doesn't do it with 2.50. (not a criticism, just a question)
It's coming from the "Do you want to save changes to 'noname' ?" prompt that CCE pops up when it exits because it is completely unaware of EclCCE :) I thought I had suppressed that, at least it doesn't make any sound here. Can you run EclCCE manually, load an ECL and then exit? Does it make that sound then?

[quantum]

Originally posted by jdobbs
I'll make them adjustable in setup.
Something to consider before you start making buttons and switches to adjust every setting in CCE. Think about supporting ecl template files. You have an ecl set the way you want via the CCE interface, then saved as normal. Your program then uses this template and inserts/replaces the important stuff like filenames, bitrates, etc. I went down this road before and found this much easier.

[jdobbs]

@RB
It's coming from the "Do you want to save changes to 'noname' ?" prompt that CCE pops up when it exits because it is completely unaware of EclCCE I thought I had suppressed that, at least it doesn't make any sound here. Can you run EclCCE manually, load an ECL and then exit? Does it make that sound then? Yes. At first I wasn't sure what was causing it so I tried it with CCE alone and got the sound.

[jdobbs]

Originally posted by FilipeAmadeuO
Can you add a One Pass CCE ???
I normaly use one pass with Q=35 and then if it get bigger i move to multipass.
Thank you a continue the good work No. There are way too many "gotchas" involved with one-pass. It's next to impossible to size it correctly and I personally don't think the quality compares at the same filesize (I know I'll get comments on that one).

[r6d2]

Originally posted by jdobbs
(I know I'll get comments on that one). Not from me. :D It's a religious discussion and won't get into it.

However, prediction has improved a lot. Tylo's D2Sroba currently achieves about 1% error and when oversized this can be corrected by a Requant pass. If interested, let me know.

[jdobbs]

Attached is the lastest DVD-RB (Beta) update. Here is a summary of the changes made:

- Added code to update the TMAPTI table based upon the newly authored VTS, this should fix problems associated with direct positioning

- Implemented support for "Open" and "Save" of project files -- lets you save and restore the current state of all configurable settings and paths. This is the first step in implementing batch processing.

- Implemented support for Nic's QuEnc (FFMPEG Library) program (he's done it again!) -- Please note that when checking this option "ConvertToYV12()" line is automatically added to .AVS files and "ConvertToYUY2()/AddAudio()" are disabled

- Fixed the bug that causes DVD-RB to get stuck if attempting to run "Prepare" when no input path has been selected

- Added the VTS number to the status screen output while encoding segments

- Fixed error associated with CCE Trial in which filenames were outputting as .MPV rather than M2V. (Note, though, that .MPV is still the correct extension for ReJig encoding)

- Added a dialog box for customizing some of the CCE settings. Removed the number-of-passes choice from the "Options" menu (it is now set via the CCE Dialog. Please note that no matter how you set the "passes" value, CCE Basic will only do a 2-pass encode.

- Fixed error in which Mode and Options menu were not disabled during encoding (if changed while encoding it might cause several errors)


Next up on the agenda is:
1. Allocating bitrates proportionally to each cell based upon the original bit distribution
2. Settings so bitrates can be different between VTSs so more can be allocated to the movie and less to VTSs holding extras.
3. Improvements so stills are better supported.

NOTE ADDED LATER: Thought I should mention. The QuEnc support requires QuEnc v.41 or later -- I've used an aspect ratio parameter that wasn't a part of earlier versions. Thx


DELETED ATTACHMENT: See bug posted a couple messages down.

You can get the fixed version here (http://forum.doom9.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=461790).

[hypo20]

Ok. New bug with this version:

When selecting CCE SP (2.66+) next happend:

Runtime Error '424':
Object required.

[Oldeman]

Man,
I've been waiting all day for this. Can't wait to try it with Rijig.
I think the tmapi(sp?) was my main problem with prior version.

Thanks...Thanks...Thanks....

[jdobbs]

Originally posted by hypo20
Ok. New bug with this version:

When selecting CCE SP (2.66+) next happend:

Runtime Error '424':
Object required. It happened when you selected it?

[SLA]

Originally posted by jdobbs
It happened when you selected it?

Yes same happens to me if i select it i get this errormessage. After restarting it it's already selected.

[jdobbs]

Originally posted by hypo20
Ok. New bug with this version:

When selecting CCE SP (2.66+) next happend:

Runtime Error '424':
Object required. Ok, found it. Stupid mistake. I'll be uploading the fix in a couple of minutes.

[lab-one]

v0.17 is working fine with CCE SP 2.50.

Thanks again for the new features.

[trebor]

Still get that runtime error 9
subscript out of range

Is there anything we can do to help you solve it? Like sending you the ifo that's causing this or something?
I've tried it on 3 dvd's so far. 2 worked perfectly but on the 3'rd i get this right away :(

[jdobbs]

Okay here is version 0.18 -- summary of changes:

- Fixed stupid bug that resulted in error '424' when selecting CCE version

Sorry about that -- I'd left some dangling references to the menu items that used to change the number of passes.

NOTE: YEP. There's a new version (0.19) greater than this one.

Grab it here (http://forum.doom9.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=461865).

[jdobbs]

Originally posted by trebor
Still get that runtime error 9
subscript out of range

Is there anything we can do to help you solve it? Like sending you the ifo that's causing this or something?
I've tried it on 3 dvd's so far. 2 worked perfectly but on the 3'rd i get this right away :( Is this the one that is happening in the last phase of the "ReBuild"? If so I've been able to repeat it (it's related to stills) and I'm working it.

[hypo20]

Man!!! You're so faaaast. God bless you.

I'm installing my Exchange server so I don't know what to do while installing. :D

[trebor]

Originally posted by jdobbs
Is this the one that is happening in the last phase of the "ReBuild"? If so I've been able to repeat it (it's related to stills) and I'm working it.

Nope, it happens right away just after pressing prepare

[DMagic1]

Great to see the new version out.

Give me a few to do a project, burn it, and I'll let you know how it works on the problem players.

[DDogg]

jdobbs, great work and thanks. I am wondering if you later plan to introduce a conditional that will use rejig if under a user set X% of reduction and CCE if over that X%?

[jdobbs]

Originally posted by DDogg
jdobbs, great work and thanks. I am wondering if you later plan to introduce a conditional that will use rejig if under a user set X% of reduction and CCE if over that X%? Not a bad idea, but the problem is -- at the point at which I actually know what the percentage is I will have already created either a set of .MPV files or .AVS files for one or the other to use. I'm counting sectors while creating them.

Probably the best way to do it is to choose CCE and use the 3-step method, it only takes about 4 minutes for the first (Prepare) phase to complete. If the percentage looks reasonable, you can just start over with ReJig and will have only wasted 4 minutes.

[DMagic1]

The problems are still there. I also noticed that IFOEdit DVDplayer will give problems much the same as the standalones I've tried. The original movie can be fastforwared with IFOEdit. The DVD Rebuilder output movie can't.

[jdobbs]

Originally posted by DMagic1
The problems are still there. I also noticed that IFOEdit DVDplayer will give problems much the same as the standalones I've tried. The original movie can be fastforwared with IFOEdit. The DVD Rebuilder output movie can't. Are you NTSC or PAL?

[auszeus]

Hi,

Great tool in the making here.

I just grabbed release 0.18 and decided to give QuEnc (0.41). When i tgot to the encode stage it just repeatedly brought up error messages from QuEnc about "Bad Parameter!". And didn't actually encode anything.

[r6d2]

v0.18, after ripping and click prepare, it processes the first VTS and then crashes with Run-time error 63: bad record number. :(

[jdobbs]

Originally posted by auszeus
Hi,

Great tool in the making here.

I just grabbed release 0.18 and decided to give QuEnc (0.41). When i tgot to the encode stage it just repeatedly brought up error messages from QuEnc about "Bad Parameter!". And didn't actually encode anything. Not sure... I just went and tried it again with both a 16:9 and a 4:3 source. Seemed to work fine for me. Here is the command line that DVD-RB is sending, try and enter is manually (with your paths etc.) and see what happens:

"\path\to\exe\QuEnc" -i \path\to\source\inname.avs -o \path\to\dest\outname.m2v -b nnnn -aspectratio aaaa -2 -auto -close

nnnn = numeric value of bitrate in Kbs
aaaa = "16:9" or "4:3" depending upon source.

Hmmmm... One possible error I can see is that I didn't put quotes around the in and out paths -- I'll do a test and see if that makes it fail on my system when I add spaces to a path.

[jdobbs]

Originally posted by r6d2
v0.18, after ripping and click prepare, it processes the first VTS and then crashes with Run-time error 63: bad record number. :( Using CCE, ReJig, or QuEnc?

[jdobbs]

Originally posted by auszeus
Hi,

Great tool in the making here.

I just grabbed release 0.18 and decided to give QuEnc (0.41). When i tgot to the encode stage it just repeatedly brought up error messages from QuEnc about "Bad Parameter!". And didn't actually encode anything. Yeah. The problem was the fact that I wasn't putting quotation marks around the paths... I was just able to repeat it on my computer. Another silly mistake. It's fixed. Look for a posted fix shortly. I want to see if I can find what caused r6d2's "Bad Record" error... if it looks like it will take to long I'll post an interim.

[auszeus]

Originally posted by jdobbs
Yeah. The problem was the fact that I wasn't putting quotation marks around the paths... I was just able to repeat it on my computer. Another silly mistake. It's fixed. Look for a posted fix shortly. I want to see if I can find what caused r6d2's "Bad Record" error... if it looks like it will take to long I'll post an interim.

Yes, just tried it myself and I was using folders with spaces, removed the spaces and it works just fine.

[jdobbs]

Originally posted by r6d2
v0.18, after ripping and click prepare, it processes the first VTS and then crashes with Run-time error 63: bad record number. :( Could you try that rip with v0.17 for me? That way I'll know to look only at the changes I made in 0.18.

[StifflerStealth]

While we're on the topic of bugs. I noticed in version 0.16+ that if you start an encode with CCE, let CCE start to do it's thing, and then press the Abort button, DVD-RB will freeze with "Not Responding" in the title bar. I like to let CCE finish one cell so I can check the quality of the encode in a player to see if I need toraise the number of passes/bitrate.

Quite frankly, I don't know anyone else but me that would even want to abort a CCE encode considering the time it takes :).

Stiff

[SteveV]

Dunno if its a bug or that it is supposed to do it but here is what i found.
i just started a process on spike lee`s do the right thing pal, i am using CCE 2.50 and selected 4 passes.After it was done i opened rebuilder.ecl to see what it actually did and found it got vbr_pass=3 in all the files.After that i started another process but now with 5 passes in CCE and rebuilder.ecl shows now vbr_pass=4.
Is it supposed to do this ?

[2COOL]

Just wanted to try out DRB 0.18 this weekend and I guess I'm back down to being a born again newbie. :( Anyways, I have CCE SP Trial 2.67.00.23 and EclCCE 1.7b. All I have set in my setup is my EclCCE.exe in Path to CCE Pro (new}. When one click processing, I'm at a stoppage when CCE pops up when it's time to encode and there's nothing in it. I tried reading the whole thread but i feel like I'm missing something. :(

If someone has the same proggies like I have, can you come up with a cheat sheet for me? I don't often ask for help so any assistance is well appreciated.

[jdobbs]

Originally posted by SteveV
Dunno if its a bug or that it is supposed to do it but here is what i found.
i just started a process on spike lee`s do the right thing pal, i am using CCE 2.50 and selected 4 passes.After it was done i opened rebuilder.ecl to see what it actually did and found it got vbr_pass=3 in all the files.After that i started another process but now with 5 passes in CCE and rebuilder.ecl shows now vbr_pass=4.
Is it supposed to do this ? That's purposeful. In true 2 pass encoding there is a scan (pass 1) followed by an encode (pass2). In CCE the scan isn't counted as a pass -- so I set it to what I thought was more correct. I just hated to see people waiting 50% longer for an additional pass that doesn't give that much improvement.

[SteveV]

Ok thx for your quick response

[NobbyNobbs]

@2cool

There is a post on page 19, that tells a bit about what you need.

There are others, but the tread is so long, that it is hard to find something again.

I actualy did what I usualy do with your cheatsheets, I printed the whole tread, but just being away some hours, it is hard to see what is happening:)

[jdobbs]

Originally posted by r6d2
v0.18, after ripping and click prepare, it processes the first VTS and then crashes with Run-time error 63: bad record number. :( Has anyone else gotten this error? I haven't been able to repeat it.

[Oldeman]

I just did NTSC Memento with DVD-RB .17 and ReJig. No problems. Movie looks great. Fast forward works ok on my APEX 1500 after burning. Menus work ok.

I love it.
Thanks :) :) :)

[jdobbs]

Okay, I don't want to leave a post on too long that has a really obvious bug (the QuEnc "Bad Parameter" error). So I'm replacing v0.18 with v0.19 (attached). Hope I'm not driving people crazy with too many versions... Changes:

- Fixed error that resulted in "bad parameter" message with QuEnc when the source or destination path had a space in it.

- Added option to copy status box to clipboard -- meant to help with collecting and posting information (mainly for debugging)

ATTACHMENT REMOVED AFTER 758 DOWNLOADS.

To get the most current version -- go to the first post of this thread

[NobbyNobbs]

@jdobbs

This tread have gotten so big, it is hard to follow.

As you also are a mod on this forum, I suggest that you close it, and open one tread, where people can post bug reports ( with instructions for what they should include for you to trace the possible bug).

You could also have another tread, for general discussions about DVD Rebuilder, as I guess that reports on things that work as it is supposed also can be helpful (and comforting?):D :D

[hypo20]

Still don't have audio output in my SONY standalone DVD player.

On PC everything works fine. Fast FWD and Fast RWD is working good.

Has anyone this problem???? Or know anyone a solution???

[r6d2]

Originally posted by jdobbs
Using CCE, ReJig, or QuEnc? CCE I think. It happened again at the same point on a re-run with 1-click mode. I'll try 0.19. Movie is Taxi Driver.

[StifflerStealth]

@Hypo: What type of audio was it? I know I have problems with the Big three method and DTS audio. I haven't tried a Movie with DTS audio on DVD-RB yet.

Stiff