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XiOUS
10th September 2004, 12:43
I have followed all steps in Getting the best out of CCE (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/cce-advanced.htm)

My sorce shows up as 29.970fps, FILM >95% (NTSC) in DVD2AVI so I activate "Forced FILM" in "Video"->"Field Operation" menu as said in DVD2AVI guide (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/dvd2avi.htm).
I create a .AVS file like this:
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG2Dec.dll")
mpeg2source("D:\rmd\rmd.d2v")
ResampleAudio(44100)

and add it to CCE (2.67.00.23) but then the movie length shows up too short, for example if the movie on the DVD is 1:32:00 (h:m:s) it will in CCE show up as 1:15:00 (h:m:s) (values are approx.) I'm refering to the Duration field in below image:
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/images/cce-main.gif
Of course the amount of Frames (field in above image) is lower as well.

This is most annoying as when I add chapters I can't use chapters extracted from Ifoedit or chapterextractor as they are wrong. So I manually have to set chapters in CCE, for example taking 0.8 and multiplying with chapter (from ifoedit) to get around where the chapter should be.
Then when the encoding in CCE is finished and I run pulldown.exe on my resulting "movie.mpv"-file and then author a new DVD in ifoedit with "output.m2v" (output from pulldown.exe) and "movie.ac3" (from dvd2avi) the movie length is 1:15:00 and not the supposed 1:32:00 (again approx.).

What am I doing wrong?

I should say that it doesn't cut the movie, if you watch the original DVD and the re-encoded one they take the same time to watch (in real time) but in the re-encoded one the time-display moves slower then real time.

Cyberia
10th September 2004, 14:27
Two suggestions:

Are you sure it says FILM 95%? or does it say NTSC 95%? You post was confusing.

Second, try using DGIndex (in the DGMPGDec package) which is newer than DVD2AVI.

XiOUS
10th September 2004, 14:54
Thx for your answer Cyberia!

I meant that it shows FILM at a percentage higher then 95%

I think it's this one you mean: DVD2AVIdg/MPEG2DECdg Decoding Fix (http://neuron2.net/fixd2v/decodefix.html)
I downloaded it (DGMPGDec Version 1.0.12 Executables (http://neuron2.net/fixd2v/dgmpgdec1012.zip)) and installed and tested, it shows correct time in CCE now, thank you!

In the .AVS file I should now use the included "DGDecode.dll" file(in the DGMPGDec package) right? Instead of my old "MPEG2Dec.dll"?
So my .AVS file should now look something like this:
LoadPlugin("C:\DGDecode.dll")
mpeg2source("D:\rmd\rmd.d2v")
ResampleAudio(44100)
Taking into consideration that I have copied "DGDecode.dll" to C:\ of course.

One thing that I can't choose in DGIndex (compared to DVD2AVI) is:
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/images/d2a-colorspace.gif
The menu "Color Space" isn't there at all. Is it set to default YUV?

Cyberia
10th September 2004, 21:04
Originally posted by XiOUS
Thx for your answer Cyberia!

I meant that it shows FILM at a percentage higher then 95%

I think it's this one you mean: DVD2AVIdg/MPEG2DECdg Decoding Fix (http://neuron2.net/fixd2v/decodefix.html)
I downloaded it (DGMPGDec Version 1.0.12 Executables (http://neuron2.net/fixd2v/dgmpgdec1012.zip)) and installed and tested, it shows correct time in CCE now, thank you!
Good!
In the .AVS file I should now use the included "DGDecode.dll" file(in the DGMPGDec package) right? Instead of my old "MPEG2Dec.dll"?
So my .AVS file should now look something like this:
LoadPlugin("C:\DGDecode.dll")
mpeg2source("D:\rmd\rmd.d2v")
ResampleAudio(44100)Correct. This is important because d2v files made by DGIndex are not compatible with previous versions.
One thing that I can't choose in DGIndex (compared to DVD2AVI) is:
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/images/d2a-colorspace.gif
The menu "Color Space" isn't there at all. Is it set to default YUV?
Colorspace is set automatically in DGIndex. Acutually the only time you ever needed to set RBG was to save to a BMP. YUV was used otherwise. So now that is done internally automatically.