Avi 2 Dvd

[anth6000]

Dear Group: A couple of settings I would like help with are as follows. I want to take my AVI files & make them into DVD's. Now I understand the AVI files of course are recorded interlaced. In the deinterlacing tab do I leave it as "No deinterlacing" and if not which choice should I select? In addition my AVI files are from a DBS unit from Hi Definition that has been downconverted supposedly to 480i; however when I did some test recordings in MPEG2 leaving it as interlaced it had jagged edges as though I had changed the material from progressive to interlaced. Sure enough when I made a second test MPEG2 recording I selected progressive & the recording came out perfect; furthermore when I load my AVI file in AVI2DVD it says 29.998, so it is still being sent via the s-video cable in progressive. Well to get to my question do I want to make sure and select anamorphic in the aspcet ratio tab? And my last question is how should I record the audio when I am capturing for AVI I have been using 48.000KHZ 16Bit Stereo, but BBMPEG won't accept that, so should I allow AVI2DVD to re-convert the audio or change my audio settings on capture? If any one knows or has heard of any future capture cards that will allow for component, DVI/HDMI input please let me know.

Thanks In Advance,
William Forster

[ralphthedog]

There are some real guru's floating around these forums when it comes to capture, AVI's and especially Interlaced material.......unfortunately I am not one of them:) ........To the search button!!!

From A AVI2DVD point of view, the conversion tab start button menu has a "still picture preview" option which will clearly show up the combing effect of true interlaced source material. If you have interlaced material, choose "keep interlaced" and use an interlaced template in CCE (assuming you use CCE). If you don't have an interlaced source, "no deinterlacing" and a progressive template.

If your source is 16:9, select anamorphic, if it's 4:3 select 4:3. The other option will add black borders to your 16:9 source and encode it as 4:3.

Uncompressed (PCM?) 48Khz audio should be OK. BBMpeg is not used for DVD output. If you convert audio on AVI2DVD's audio tab, you will get mp2 audio, which should work fine, but is not really within standard for a NTSC DVD.

[anth6000]

Ralphthedog: Your help is much appreciated. Unfortunately no matter what I do when it gets to the BBMPEG part of AVI2SVCD it says "is not an ac3 or MPEG Audio". So I selected another audio in MMC 9.03 I tried Mpeg Layer 3 which didn't work the same error when it got to BBMPEG & I alos tried PCM 44.100 stereo. I am using CCE & while capturing I am using Huffyuv. Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Sincerely,
William Forster

P.S. mp2 audio will work fine as you said if the error didn't pop up with BBMPEG.

[ralphthedog]

I was talking DVD audio......SVCD is a different beast really.

If you're making SVCD's you have to let AVI2SVCD convert your audio to mp2 (uncompressed audio is the way to go for your AVI capturing though) that's the audio format they have, no getting around it really.

48Khz is OK even though not really to the SVCD standard, no need to resample it.

[anth6000]

ralphthedog: No I wont be doing any AVI2SVCD only AVI2DVD. I just referred to to the program as dvd2svcd as it is normally called even though I will be configuring it as AVI2DVD. Any help on this BBMPEG prob. would greatly be appreciated.

[ralphthedog]

Hmmm....I don't know why BBMpeg would be used at all(let alone cause an error) for DVD output, it only muxes the streams and does a bit of disc 1 disc 2 type cutting in AVI2SVCD?

AVI2DVD uses DVDAuthor for all those parts of the DVD making process?

Maybe it's been a bit too long since I encoded those VHS captures?!

Post (copy and paste) the contents of a logfile (dvd2svcd_log.txt), maybe someone (smarter:p ) can spot what's going on....

[anth6000]

DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.10.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: Locale=C
INFO: Converting filenames to US-ASCII
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg...
ERR: Error opening C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg: No such file or directory



WNASPI32.DLL 4.6.0.1021
The original video framerate of 29.973 is not supported. The framerate will be adjusted!
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- 2/9/2005 3:00:21 AM
- AVI to SVCD Conversion
- AVI2DVD ver. 1.2.2 build 3
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Initializing
- D:\stars _ bars.avi
Initializing finished.

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- 2/9/2005 3:00:24 AM
- Free on drive C: 21939.25 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
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Audio extraction finished.

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- 2/9/2005 3:00:44 AM
- Free on drive C: 21939.29 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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- 2/9/2005 3:00:46 AM
- Free on drive C: 21939.27 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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Encoding Audio. Filename: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.wav
Executing BeSweet. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.wav" -output "C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.wav" -payload -logfile "C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -ota( -r 29973 29970 )
Audio conversion of C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.wav finished.

Audio conversion finished.

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- 2/9/2005 3:00:55 AM
- Free on drive C: 21939.27 mb
- Video Encoding using Cinema Craft
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Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.
StreamSectors: 4546875788
AudioSectors: 2324
VideoPAPO: 70433496
ScanOffsetBytes: 21455
SeqAligningBytes: 1363553
DVDBytes: 0
VideoEndHeader: 4
SubtitleSectors: 0
EmptySectors: 238.00
PictureSectors: 0.00
PureMPEGStream: 4475054956.83
Seconds: 479.24
CalcMPEGStream: 4475054956.83
Frames: 14303
CDSize: 4350.00
Number of CDs: 1
Cut point 4346.00
Variable Settings:
Frames: 14303
Anti Noise Filter: Off
Passes: 3
Image Quality: 17
VAF file creation: On
Video Encoding Mode: Multipass VBR
Min. bitrate: 800
Max. bitrate: 8000
Avg. Bitrate: 7200
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic (no borders, encoded as 16:9)

---AVS Begin---
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\AVISYN~1.5PL\Mpeg2dec\MPEG2D~1.DLL")
AVISource("D:\STARS_~1.AVI",audio=false)
ConvertToYUY2()
AssumeFPS(29.970,True)
LanczosResize(540,480)
AddBorders(90,0,90,0)
Import("C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\ResampleAudio.avs")
ResampleAudio(44100)
----AVS End----

Closing program
CCE Max Speed: 0.570
Video Encoding finished.

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- 2/9/2005 3:56:37 AM
- Free on drive C: 21931.74 mb
- Multiplexing Audio and Video
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Executing MPlex. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\mplex.exe" -f 8 -o "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_Video_CCE_NTSC.mpv" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.wav"
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- 2/9/2005 3:56:40 AM
- Free on drive C: 21931.74 mb
- Determining length of audio
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Analyzing finished.

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- 2/9/2005 3:56:45 AM
- Free on drive C: 21931.73 mb
- Authoring DVD
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Executing DVDAuthor. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\dvdauthor.exe" -x "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVDAuthor.xml"
DVDAuthor failed for unknown reasons!
For details open: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVDAuthor_log.txt"

[Manngo]

Is it possible, that U have 'Do not convert audio' checked on the audio tab?
The problem is, that the audio is not converted to mp2. The source audio (wav) is not DVD compliant.
So, just permit audio conversion, thats all.

[anth6000]

Yes I have tried both ways allowing it to convert as recommended & not to convert "use source audio" neither work unfortunately.

[Manngo]

Can you paste the logfile, when you allow audio conversion? The one before did not convert the audio, however you should.

[SallyDog]

Try deleting the default.ini file in the BBMpeg folder. I don't know why this works, but I had similar problems to yours and this worked for me.

[anth6000]

Actually I am not getting the BBMPEG error now I am getting this.....
"STAT: Processing C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg...
ERR: Error opening C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg: No such file or directory Executing DVDAuthor. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\dvdauthor.exe" -x "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVDAuthor.xml"
DVDAuthor failed for unknown reasons!
For details open: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVDAuthor_log.txt"

I will try deleting the default.ini file in the BBMpeg folder & see what happnes. Maybe there is bug in this latest version of avi2dvd?

[Manngo]

There is no such bug.
It is not clear for me, what you are doing. BBMpeg is used when you create SVCDs. MPlex is an other program. So you has a very different error.
That mplex doesn't create MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg is an error in the process. If you want further assistance post the whole logfile, when you enable audio conversion.

Manngo

PS:
I've just spotted. Audio extraction seems not takeing any disk space. In the project dir do you have a file 'Extracted_audio_1.wav'? Does it play well?

[anth6000]

well it does show the sound at 46 bytes, but Windows Media Player 10 doesn't play it & mentions it may not have the correct audio codec.

[anth6000]

Manngo I forgot to mention this is the 'Extracted_audio_1.wav' as you reffered to it will not play. I seem to have all of the codecs too required to play wav audio.

[Manngo]

46 bytes? That is the problem. It should be at least 50 Mb.
Problem found: audio can not be extracted.

Possible reason: I met this error, when audio stream was broken.

The source avi file plays well?
Have you run the .avi through VDub? <See FAQ>
Can VDub extract the audio?

[anth6000]

No I do have Vdub on my D drive I can install it & try that. Keep in mind I have just been testing avi video clips that are only a few minutes, so I attributed that to the small wav audio file.

[anth6000]

could not get it to play with vdub. Tried again still getting this error

DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.10.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: Locale=C
INFO: Converting filenames to US-ASCII
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg...
ERR: Error opening C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg: No such file or directory