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Trahald
21st March 2004, 02:09
Since people were saying they were experiencing problems on Episodic DVDs, in particular i have heard Sopranos Season 4 mentioned. I figured after completing it I would throw together a cheat sheet.

So here goes.

1. Start DIF4u. Point it to your drive with the DVD in it. On VTS one, I would recommend just keeping the 5.1 track. The 2.0 english , 2.0 french and spanish I didnt keep since i dont speak the other languages and the 2.0 is just a lesser version of the 5.1. I also only kept the english subs. Hit Do It!

2. I use BatchCCEWS. Load up the cce_data.txt and hit encode. wait...

3. Load scenaid. Point it to your work directory. Generate the script. load script into scenarist and compile.

4. Follow Eyes'Only's Ifoupdate method and burn it

Navigation works perfectly.
I was sorta disappointed as the hardest thing i found was deciding which audios to keep. Bitrate was 2675 (I shoot for 2500 min) The menu was huge (~600mb) but i didnt touch it (although compressing it would have brought the bitrate a bit higher.) Anyways, the end result looks outstanding.

RebelBZ
27th April 2004, 06:31
I'm currently doing some tests in backing up XFiles Season 1 R1 dvds.
Followed the new Big 3 guide using the latest DoItFast4U, BatchCCE4U,
Scenaid, CCE 2.66.

Everything seems to be working, and video quality looks good. However, I notice in some scenes that the background color seems
to be shifting from a light color to a somewhat darker color & back
again to a lighter color.

I've read that episodic dvds are interlaced. However, DIF4U tags them
as progressive, with the occasional I-BFF tag for 1 or 2 episodes.

If I uncheck Progressive in BatchCCE4U before encoding, will that fix the color shift problem ? Also, do I need to check Alternate Scan ?

Thanks in advance.

Matthew
27th April 2004, 07:11
Out of curiosity, what happens if select one of the DD 2.0 tracks? DVD player crashes?

@RebelBZ, episodic discs are not always interlaced, depends on whether series was shot on video or film. Some are a mix of interlaced and progressive, because series is shot on both video and film.

RebelBZ
28th April 2004, 02:30
Any ideas what I did wrong with these color shifting problem ?

I've captured the frames but I can't upload attachments.

D3s7
28th April 2004, 21:08
Well i don't think it be an interlace issue... more likely a lumenance issue in the d2v file.

I know one version of DoItFast4u! had a problem when "fixing" the .d2v to allow RA to be happy w/ new dvd2avidg file format

RebelBZ
29th April 2004, 05:33
@D3s7

I'm using the latest beta version of DoItFast4u. Any way around this ?