DVD Rebuilder Pro: 2 small tech questions

[TECK]

I'm a licensed DVD-RB Pro user. I have 2 small questions to the author as well the expert guys...
I was looking at the software processing steps... it encodes each cell separatelly, instead of the hole movie at once.

(1) Is this method more efficient? I don't like the idea that the bitrates are set for each cell, instead of the overall movie.
However, the software comes out with great movie outputs... I'm really impressed.
If you tweak a bit the software and your movie with an avisynth script, the results are amazing.

(2) Are there any plans for the "embelishment" of the interface? Like for example, instead of the menu navigation to have a new window of settings with different tabs for each major option, similar to DVD Decrypter.
I know is not at all my place to comment, especially that I'm new here... but it's all in constructive manner. A look similar to DVD Decrypter will be extremly apealing, IMO...
Please let me know if the final 1.00 version will keep the skin look or it will be a "clean" look.

Thanks for reading this post.

[Fishman0919]

Originally posted by TECK
(1) Is this method more efficient? I don't like the idea that the bitrates are set for each cell, instead of the overall movie.

Well more efficient??? not sure what you mean... really can't see doing whole movie vs doing per cell... one better quality wise but per cell allows you to stop the encoding process and restart later... can't do that when encoding the whole movie.

If you have an overall bitrate for a movie of say 4500k not every cell is not going to have that bitrate, one cell may have a overall bitrate of 1500k and another 6000k but all the cells make up an avg bitrate of 4500k. DVD-RB reduces the bitrate of each cell by a overall %... if the org movies was 6.53g and you need to reduce it to 4.32 (dvd-rb default) that a 66.156% reduction, so that cell that was 1500k now needs to be reduced to 992.34k and th cell that was 6000k now is 3969.37k... both are being reduced the same amount (66.156%) and the overall bitrate is now gone from 4500k to 2977.02 all reduced 66.156%.

[alfixdvd]

@ fishman0919

both are being reduced the same amount (66.156%) and the overall bitrate is now gone from 4500k to 2977.02 all reduced 66.156%.



Dvd Rebuilder really apply the same ratio to all cells ?

Or the tweak to adjust the bitrate it is a little more sophisticated ?

[jdobbs]

DVD-RB scans the entire MPEG stream during the PREPARE phase as it it creating the D2V file. In this scan it examines the stream and makes determinations as to how the bitrate should be allocated across the cells. It essentially acts as a "first pass". I would disagree that doing the entire stream at once would result in better quality, and it would definitely reduce the capabilities of the package.

I may change the method for option selections -- but not in Version 1.00. The skin concept, though, is here to stay.

[TECK]

Thanks guys for the information provided. I wanted to make sure if I should start working on a skin. :)
I think the best way for me is to open a visual c file to get the exact position of each component and apply from there the skin...
I wonder if is ok with jdobbs if I also create some options panel, he will have to integrate them into his software, it might help for future development.
Basically the panel will look close to the DVD Shrink one...
You can select there with check marks or dropdowns the CCE options, etc.

[jdobbs]

Sure... not sure if/when it would be used, though.

[TECK]

jdobbs, I'm going to build from scratch a full interface, including the main application as well the menus, etc. I will create a manifest file to bind your application to Comctl32.dll v6.0, with XP themes support. I'm sure you will be impressed. :)
All you have to do is link the actual commands.
Let me know in what language you want it, Basic or C#.

I believe that we can do something that will smoke any similar tool out there, in efficiency, as well looks.
I will post some screenshots here, once I complete the main window.

[archaeo]

Are there any plans for the "embelishment" of the interface?

I'm for simplicity myself, and RB's Windows Standard is great in that way. I've always felt it's whats under the hood that counts . :cool: