digitaltoast
22nd March 2005, 10:29
After several perfect AutoGK Xvid rips, done by using the "single file, re-author movie only" mode of DvDShrink, I've come across a couple of problems:
In Ice Age, I get the first Fox drumroll, then silence for the rest of the film. I ripped it twice, once in cartoon mode for 700Mb (looks excellent, btw!).
I've got the latest AC3filter and the latest xvid binary (which cured quiet audio and "washed out" pictures, respectively). And the strange thing is that it works OK on my laptop (albeit badly out of synch, but the tweak in MplayerC audio offset +600ms cures that).
I've looked with Gspot and Mplayer and it appears to have the correct audio channels. I've checked the CMedia output settings. Weird.
In the same session, Shrek looked perfect, Ice Age has no sound after the Fox drumroll and Incredibles is 600ms out!
Here's the info from the 2 Ice Age files:
Video: XVID 720x384 25.00fps 1954Kbps
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 384Kbps
Video: XVID 720x384 25.00fps 1236Kbps
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 113Kbps
Tried it with:
Zoomplayer
Media Player
MPC
Realplayer
Nero Player - interesting point about Nero Media PLayer - while playing the bit of sound that works, the framerate drops and CPU is 100% on a 3Ghz P4.
Attached is the output that happens when I run Zoomplayer.
How can I "flush" all the codecs and start again? Is the the answer?
I'd rather not recode, as there's no guarantee that it works and it takes all day, and it DOES work on the laptop!
BTW - respec to the developers!
In Ice Age, I get the first Fox drumroll, then silence for the rest of the film. I ripped it twice, once in cartoon mode for 700Mb (looks excellent, btw!).
I've got the latest AC3filter and the latest xvid binary (which cured quiet audio and "washed out" pictures, respectively). And the strange thing is that it works OK on my laptop (albeit badly out of synch, but the tweak in MplayerC audio offset +600ms cures that).
I've looked with Gspot and Mplayer and it appears to have the correct audio channels. I've checked the CMedia output settings. Weird.
In the same session, Shrek looked perfect, Ice Age has no sound after the Fox drumroll and Incredibles is 600ms out!
Here's the info from the 2 Ice Age files:
Video: XVID 720x384 25.00fps 1954Kbps
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 384Kbps
Video: XVID 720x384 25.00fps 1236Kbps
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 113Kbps
Tried it with:
Zoomplayer
Media Player
MPC
Realplayer
Nero Player - interesting point about Nero Media PLayer - while playing the bit of sound that works, the framerate drops and CPU is 100% on a 3Ghz P4.
Attached is the output that happens when I run Zoomplayer.
How can I "flush" all the codecs and start again? Is the the answer?
I'd rather not recode, as there's no guarantee that it works and it takes all day, and it DOES work on the laptop!
BTW - respec to the developers!