Avi2dvd

[jkavalon]

When converting avi2dvd i'm getting iso images too large to fit on a 4.7 gb dvd-r. I'm also using d2sroba, but i've done it w/o that plug-in and i'm getting the same results. I think it's because I'm keeping the source audio (ac3). Because the ending iso image is roughly that much larger than what the iso image is supposed to be.

[r6d2]

Hi, @jkavalon, and welcome to the forum. Maybe the default media size is a bit too large. This has happened to me some times also.

Please :logfile: and read the stickies. you will also find useful to rephrase your post so other people can see more info and help you better.

[pelle412]

While on the topic on AVI2DVD I'd like to ask a question (or maybe it's a feature enhancement request for DVD2SVCD software). I normally do significant preprocessing of my source video in avisynth, and it takes so much time that I prefer to generate a huffyuv AVI from the result. I'd like to take this AVI and run it through AVI2DVD using D2SRoba but the problem is that I don't have any audio in my AVI file. I haven't found a way to specify the audio file separately in AVI2DVD and it won't process my AVI without audio in it. I could mux audio in it but it's already some 35GB large and I don't have unlimited disk space.

Any tips?

[Nick]

There is no way to specify an external audio file in DVD2SVCD.
There is a workaround you could try. It's a year or two since I did this so bear with me if I'm a little rusty.

Open Notepad and create the following script.

v = AviSource("full path to your huffy.avi",audio=false)
a = DirectShowSource("full path to your audio file")
Return AudioDub(v,a)

and save as whatever.avs.

Open VFAPI (DVD2SVCD installation folder -> VFAPI -> Reader ->VFAPIconv-EN.exe).

Drag and drop the AVS file you just created into it and when prompted select an output filepath. Then click Convert. When it's finished, launch D2SRoBa/DVD2SVCD and use the output file from VFAPI as your input AVI file.

This should do the trick without using inordinate amounts of disc space, although it will significantly slow down conversion.

However, since you use Avisynth for your preprocessing, depending on the nature of your source video and preprocessing script, it may be possible to use VFAPI to negate the need to make a Huffy AVI altogether. It could be worth looking into.

Cheers
Nick

[pelle412]

Thanks Nick.

Doing it with VF-API like you described will result in my audio being demuxed as a WAV file instead of AC3. I did try another way though and it will only work if your original source is DVD. I start a DVD2DVD session going but I tell it that I want to edit my AVS after DVD2AVI is done. When it gets to this point I can start processing the VOBs using my own scripts and get a huffyuv AVI. I can then change DVD2DVD's avisynth script to use my AVI source instead of the standard mpeg source. It gave me the result I wanted.

Thanks