raddygast
5th May 2005, 21:22
I am just (finally) doing backups of my Lord of the Rings Extended Editions. Spent a lot of time polishing up the source so that only minimal "compression" needs to be done (MenuShrink, etc.)
However, I just noticed something new. Normally, I first use DVD Shrink to strip out audio titles I don't want, but I leave the subtitles alone because it's not worth it for the space savings.
I've always done it like this, but I notice when I give RB the source dir it shows the VTS's and pretty much every audio stream and subtitle stream is "selected" (i.e. in "keep" mode). At first I thought it was a bug but that was just the way RB worked. So if I had stripped out AC3 2-ch French in DVD-Shrink, in RB's interface it would show up as if it was a "keeper" but the final output was just fine obviously.
But today I noticed, when setting up the project, that the audio tracks I had stripped out in DVD Shrink now actually LOOK stripped in DVD-RB. For example, I took out tracks: 2 (DTS 6-ch English), 3 (AC3 2-ch French), 5 (AC3 2-ch English), 6 (AC3 2-ch English). But I left in track 1 (AC3 6-ch English), and 4 and 7 (AC3 2-ch English).
Now RB shows checkmarks only beside the tracks that still exist -- the removed tracks are now referred to as "unreferenced" language and are UNchecked/unselected.
Maybe this is the way it should have been all along. But is this a new feature? And is it just cosmetic in the interface, or will it change the output? I don't want it to completely take out all references to the streams, i.e. to renumber them and so forth. But I like it how (in the past) any removed streams will show up in PowerDVD (right click, audio languages) but in Grey and therefore unselectable. Will this change that?
Also, I noticed that even though I removed no subtitles, MANY of the subpictures have been deleted (at the bottom of the list). These are listed as "unreferenced" or "unknown" (can't remember which). Is this a new thing, too -- or has RB always been removing (unchecking) wonky subpicture streams? (maybe these streams are never referenced anywhere? I would hate to lose forced subtitles or anything like that)
Would really appreciate just a quick note from jdobbs to tell me that all is well and it's just an interface thing (or if not, to explain the difference between removing something in DVD Shrink vs. DVD-RB).
Thanks!
However, I just noticed something new. Normally, I first use DVD Shrink to strip out audio titles I don't want, but I leave the subtitles alone because it's not worth it for the space savings.
I've always done it like this, but I notice when I give RB the source dir it shows the VTS's and pretty much every audio stream and subtitle stream is "selected" (i.e. in "keep" mode). At first I thought it was a bug but that was just the way RB worked. So if I had stripped out AC3 2-ch French in DVD-Shrink, in RB's interface it would show up as if it was a "keeper" but the final output was just fine obviously.
But today I noticed, when setting up the project, that the audio tracks I had stripped out in DVD Shrink now actually LOOK stripped in DVD-RB. For example, I took out tracks: 2 (DTS 6-ch English), 3 (AC3 2-ch French), 5 (AC3 2-ch English), 6 (AC3 2-ch English). But I left in track 1 (AC3 6-ch English), and 4 and 7 (AC3 2-ch English).
Now RB shows checkmarks only beside the tracks that still exist -- the removed tracks are now referred to as "unreferenced" language and are UNchecked/unselected.
Maybe this is the way it should have been all along. But is this a new feature? And is it just cosmetic in the interface, or will it change the output? I don't want it to completely take out all references to the streams, i.e. to renumber them and so forth. But I like it how (in the past) any removed streams will show up in PowerDVD (right click, audio languages) but in Grey and therefore unselectable. Will this change that?
Also, I noticed that even though I removed no subtitles, MANY of the subpictures have been deleted (at the bottom of the list). These are listed as "unreferenced" or "unknown" (can't remember which). Is this a new thing, too -- or has RB always been removing (unchecking) wonky subpicture streams? (maybe these streams are never referenced anywhere? I would hate to lose forced subtitles or anything like that)
Would really appreciate just a quick note from jdobbs to tell me that all is well and it's just an interface thing (or if not, to explain the difference between removing something in DVD Shrink vs. DVD-RB).
Thanks!