Packaging Suggestion

[Blackout]

Hi jdobbs,

you recently wrote this :

What version of MPEG2DEC3DG.DLL are you guys using? Is it the one from decodefix110mod.zip dated 4/24/2004? I've gotten reports from others that the ones from decodefix.zip and decodefix100.zip caused the problem and it went away with this one

Can i suggest you contact the maker of this file and avisynth to include them as part of your release package? You are really making trouble for yourself, for all you know the sound dropout issue is a version of one of these files that ppl are using. Its a hair in a hay stack to try and track down problems like this with ppl all over the place using different versions...if they all came from you then it would be one less variable...to make it more professional it should really come as an "all in one install"...plus the fact that your text file incorrectly lists where "MPEG2DEC3DG.DLL" is! its not on doom9 any more, it took me about 2 hours to find it....

Regards,
Blackout

[glassvial]

I was thinking the same thing, myself.

[eriksen76]

The link is at the stick (install guide)

http://forum.doom9.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=517471

But I still agree, that a package would be preffered.

/Julius

[Blackout]

yes erisken i just noticed that the link has been updated since i tried to get it several months ago when it was dead which is good news.

I still say the file should be distributed in the RB zip updates to be sure...its a free file, surely this would not be too hard to organise? This way RB could also automatically link to the file in its own root directory instead of searching everywhere on the PC system in other folders for it as it does currently, and it would know its using the right vers...its quite messy currently, but thats just me :)

Cheers,
Blackout

[wmansir]

DVD-RB is just under the size limit for a forum attachment as it is. The additional size of Mpeg2Dec3.dll would put it well over the limit, which would mean finding an alternate way of posting new versions or waiting until Doom9 posts it on the front page.

I've come up with a fully installable DVD-RB package, but hosting has been tricky.

[pg55555]

wmansir

Maybe a combined solution can be arranged:

- Your fully installable DVD-RB package can be posted in the Doom9 front page, even when it does not have the last DVD-RB version, allowing a clean working first installation

- The current system for updates (just DVD-RB code) is maintained.

Another suggestion, to help in debbuging:

- Maybe one of the excellent programmers that participate in this forum can develop a kind of "test" application, that, using the path information contained in the REBUILDER.INI file, can check the versions of the different programs been used with RB (CCE Basic or SP, 2.50, 2.66, 2.67.00.23, 2.67.00.27, retail or trial QuEnc, Mpeg2Dec3.dll , Avisync, Rejig, Pulldown, EclCCE, Decomb.dll, ...) and produce an output with this information.

So, any time someone report a problem, you can ask to run this little aplication (RB-Test?)and report back the results.

After been following this forum for some time now, I think it could help a lot.

[Blackout]

great idea pg, i imagine the little code could be added into RB at some stage too, so that it could test itself to see the components it is using when loading...

[pg55555]

From the changelog of v0.62 it seems jdoobs added a button in the Help window to check and report the auxilliary soft RB is using:)

[wmansir]

It's helpful, the only problem is Mpeg2Dec3 has about 5 builds out with the same version number (1.0.1.0) and together they use 3 different, incompatible, .d2v formats.

[pg55555]

Why do it simple if it can be done complicated?:D

Maybe there is other part of the code that can be checked: the build date, the code at offset 1000000 from the header of the file, ... .

I have really not knowledge of programing, but I imagine that if you need to verify just a certain unique piece of software there are other methods apart from the version number (the CRC?)

[Blackout]

id say the date of the mpeg2decdg file is what u should check for...

[GlenC]

Hi,

Why not just MD5 the exe of the compatible versions.

Glen.

[goc]

or CRC ? j/k

i put all of needed soft into one directory including rebuilder.exe and manually edited the *.ini.
... my directory looks like this :

dvd-rb
======

avcodec.dll
cct2.exe
Decomb521.dll
dvd-rb.ico
EclCCE.dll
EclCCE.exe
EclCCE.ini
MPEG2Dec3dg.dll
QuEnc.exe
QuEnc54.exe
Rebuilder.exe
rebuilder.ini

and everything works fine ... :-)

[brashquido]

Originally posted by wmansir
DVD-RB is just under the size limit for a forum attachment as it is. The additional size of Mpeg2Dec3.dll would put it well over the limit, which would mean finding an alternate way of posting new versions or waiting until Doom9 posts it on the front page.

I've come up with a fully installable DVD-RB package, but hosting has been tricky.

I'd be willing to host it on my server. Not as quick as Doom9, but the file size restrictions would be no where near as tight.