AVI to DVD Problem.

[falcon04]

I'm trying to convert a 700mb AVI to DVD, I'm using dvd2svcd 1.22b3 with ds2roba plugin & CCE 2.5. After everything is complete the final outputfile is 2,294,756 in size excluding the audio which is aprox 150meg. As this is the first time I have used DVD2SVCD to convert AVI, I was expecting the output to be around the 4gb mark. But then on the other hand with the source being 700mb i'm not no sure.

Any help on this matter would be appreciated,

Thanks..

[influenza]

I'm afraid you'll get more response in the encoding section. So maybe a mod of this forum can move your thread. It has nothing to do with dvd authoring for sure.

[Nick]

Hi.
In order to see why your video was undersized it would be helpful if you could post the contents of the file dvd2svcd_log.txt from your project folder.

Please cut and paste the contents into a reply to this thread rather than adding the text file as a file attachment.

Cheers
Nick

[Trahald]

I think i'll send this over to basic dvd2svcd

[falcon04]

SEASON GREETING

Thanks for the fast reply Nick,

Heres the dvd2svcd log that you requested hope it helps solve this possible problem.


WNASPI32.DLL 4.71.2.0
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- 20/12/2004 17:23:00
- AVI to SVCD Conversion
- AVI2DVD ver. 1.2.2 build 3
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Initializing
- C:\Documents and Settings\Paul\Desktop\MPGS&AVIS\AVIS\AVI1.avi
Initializing finished.

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- 20/12/2004 17:23:02
- Free on drive E: 14609.59 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
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Undoing Nandubs 1152 BlockAlign value to 1
Redoing Nandubs 1152 BlockAlign value
Audio extraction finished.

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- 20/12/2004 17:23:40
- Free on drive E: 14530.27 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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- 20/12/2004 17:23:42
- Free on drive E: 14530.27 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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Converting MP2 to WAV. Filename: E:\DVD2SVCD OUTPUT 2\Extracted_audio_1.mpa
Executing MADPlay (mp2 to wav). Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\MADPlay\madplay.exe" --quiet --output=wave:"E:\DVD2SVCD OUTPUT 2\Encoded_audio_1.mp2.wav" "E:\DVD2SVCD OUTPUT 2\Extracted_audio_1.mpa"
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- 20/12/2004 20:04:17
- AVI to SVCD Conversion
- AVI2DVD ver. 1.2.2 build 3
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Initializing
-
Initializing finished.

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- 20/12/2004 20:04:17
- Free on drive C: 21978.21 mb
- Restarting from: Pulldown
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- 20/12/2004 20:04:20
- Free on drive C: 21978.21 mb
- Video Pulldown
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Executing Pulldown. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\pulldown\pulldown.exe" "C:\DVD2SVCD OUTPUT\Encoded_Video_CCE_NTSC.mpv" "C:\DVD2SVCD OUTPUT\Pulldown_Encoded_Video_NTSC.mpv" -prog_frames p
Video pulldown finished.

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- 20/12/2004 20:10:34
- Free on drive C: 19737.24 mb
- Converting Pictures from ES to PS
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini
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- 20/12/2004 20:10:37
- Free on drive C: 19737.23 mb
- Converting Pictures from ES to PS
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini
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- 20/12/2004 20:10:40
- Free on drive C: 19737.23 mb
- Converting Pictures from ES to PS
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini
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- 20/12/2004 20:10:42
- Free on drive C: 19737.23 mb
- Multiplexing and cutting
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini
Offset in Seconds: 5
Executing bbMPEG.
Variable Settings:
Movie offset: 5 seconds
Cut point: 4436 mb

Executing RunbbMPEG. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe" "C:\DVD2SVCD OUTPUT\bbMPEG_Muxed_File.mpg"
Multiplexing and cutting finished.

Image creation finished.

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- 20/12/2004 20:25:05
- Free on drive C: 17301.35 mb
- Conversion done!
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- 20/12/2004 23:36:27
- AVI to SVCD Conversion
- AVI2DVD ver. 1.2.2 build 3
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Initializing
-
Initializing finished.

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- 20/12/2004 23:36:28
- Free on drive E: 11292.52 mb
- Restarting from: Pulldown
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- 20/12/2004 23:36:30
- Free on drive E: 11292.52 mb
- Video Pulldown
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Executing Pulldown. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\pulldown\pulldown.exe" "E:\DVD2SVCD OUTPUT 2\Encoded_Video_CCE_NTSC.mpv" "E:\DVD2SVCD OUTPUT 2\Pulldown_Encoded_Video_NTSC.mpv" -prog_frames p
Video pulldown finished.

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- 20/12/2004 23:53:57
- Free on drive E: 9368.49 mb
- Converting Pictures from ES to PS
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini
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- 20/12/2004 23:54:00
- Free on drive E: 9368.49 mb
- Converting Pictures from ES to PS
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini
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- 20/12/2004 23:54:02
- Free on drive E: 9368.49 mb
- Converting Pictures from ES to PS
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini
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- 20/12/2004 23:54:05
- Free on drive E: 9368.49 mb
- Multiplexing and cutting
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini
Offset in Seconds: 5
Executing bbMPEG.
Variable Settings:
Movie offset: 5 seconds
Cut point: 4436 mb

Executing RunbbMPEG. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe" "E:\DVD2SVCD OUTPUT 2\bbMPEG_Muxed_File.mpg"
Multiplexing and cutting finished.

Image creation finished.

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- 21/12/2004 00:30:21
- Free on drive E: 7242.29 mb
- Conversion done!
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Cheers..

[Nick]

Sorry. Only just read the bit about you using D2SRoBa.
Can we have your D2SRoBa log as well please?

[falcon04]

Here Ya go..


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D2SRoBa v3.60, by Tylo
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- WIN_XP - AutoIt 3.0.101.0
- 2004-12-20 17:27:43
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Settings (C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Tylo\D2SRoBa.ini):
- Output type : DVD
- CD size : 4440
- Threshold Q : 36
- Sample size : 1.0%
- Adjust estimated : 1.2%
- Cond. sizing pass : Yes (Encode if opv sz < -2.0%, or > 0.5% oversize, or Q > 40)
- Cond. filtering : If configured, and estim. Q reaches above Threshold Q
- Run mode : Batch execute
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- Restarting C:\DVD2SVCD OUTPUT\dvd2svcd project file.d2s
- Waiting for CCE window ...
- Detected a CCE encode window
- Detected the movie encode window - shutting down
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- 2004-12-20 17:37:41
- Project dir: \
- Avisynth setup: LanczosResize
- Configured cond. filter: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Tylo\RoBaConditional.avs
- D2S ver. 1.2.2.3, CCE ver. 2.50.1.0
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- Movie length : 01:31:06 (131075 frames, 23.976 fps)
- D2S audio select : 224 + 0 kbps
- D2S video calc. : 6441 kbps, 1 CDs
- Select ranges : every 1200, select 12 frames
- Sample frames : 1320
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Calculations:
- 1 CD: video_br=6441 (6441) audio_br=224+0 video_sz=4401558198 fill=100% cbr=0
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- Using num CDs : 1
- Target mpv br : 6441 (max 9000) kbps, size=4401558198 bytes
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Search for Q:
- Sample enc. Q=36 : 1170 kbps, err=-81.8%, size=800097688, sample sz=8057440
- Sample enc. Q=6 : 3314 kbps, err=-48.5%, size=2264697168, sample sz=22806792
- Sample enc. Q=1 : 3467 kbps, err=-46.2%, size=2369314083, sample sz=23860344
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- Determined Q : 1 = Round(1 + (-46.2 - 1.2)/0.5)
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- 2004-12-20 17:43:26
- Start movie OPV encoding (Q 1)
- OPV pass result: 53.4% on target, 3437 kbps (2349292468 / 4401558198) Speed: 1.3
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- 2004-12-20 18:53:44
- Start VBR sizing pass (6441 kbps)
- Sizing pass result: 53.4% on target, 3438 kbps (2349829936 / 4401558198) Speed: 1.29
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- 2004-12-20 20:04:12
- Recover DVD2SVCD: Pulldown
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- 2004-12-20 20:25:11
- D2SRoBa successfully finished
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[bobwillis]

Hi,

Q=1 is the best quality you can get. It would also seem that the VBR sizing pass although instructed to use 6441kbps has only used 3438kbps. This is presumably because CCE is providing maximum quality and therefore there is no point in wasting bitrate. I didn't know VBR could max out like this; you learn something new everyday :)

Regards,
Bob

[falcon04]

Thanks for your help Bob, I was thinking along the same lines regarding the size of the output. It seams pointless tryin to encode the file to anything bigger as it was only 700mb to begin with.

Thanks again,

All the Best...

[grumpyoldfart]

This is a short tut on how I converted an AVI to DVD in under 2 hours.

First I loaded all the codecs from the ACE Mega pack.

Then I took the AVI called Zebra Lounge (Wife Swapping movie) and used WinAVI to convert it to DVD format (1hr 20 minutes).

Now I used Copy2DVD to burn it. (since the files that winavi made are on the hard drive in DVD format.

Then I burnt it onto a DVDrw (15 minutes at 4x).

Tested it in my Mintec and Apex Players to verify that it encoded correctly.
(it did).

Now I burn it onto a regular DVD-R and put a Label on and I am done. (another 15 minutes).

Total time= 1hr 50 minutes.

he following is a list of software that you will need to convert the movies on the server to DVD:

VCDGear-www.vcdgear.com

AVI MPEG RM WMV Joiner-www.boilsoft.com

Copy to DVD-www.vso-software.fr

WinAVI Video Converter-www.winavi.com

1. Take VCDGear and convert the cue/bins to mpg.
(you can actually use the rar to bin/cue to mpg batch built in and it will uncompress the rars and then convert the bin to mpg.) (under 4 mintes for both files)

2. Now take the avi-mpeg joiner and join the two mpg files together. (about 2 minutes)

3. This step is what takes the time WinAVI Converter. Take the large mpg file that you made with the AVI-Mpeg joiner and convert it to DVD format. (usually under 3 hours). I let it convert while I am asleep.

4. Now you can use Copy to DVD or whatever you want to burn the files onto a dvd that can be played in most players.

I have found in some cases that a VCD when converted looks better on DVD than it did on CD.

(c)2004 Grumpy Old Fart