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Old 5th November 2003, 03:40   #81  |  Link
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I have just compressed Matrix Reloaded with this tool. 1CD and MP3 VBR. Worked very well and the quallity was excellent

Yor new software really rocks

I wonder why you made a completelly separate tool from GKnot and you didn't add this new automated features to it (with a button that could say "Show/Hide" advanced options, for example). You are not planing to make this tool commecial, are you?
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how do you get the number of frames? by opening the same d2v file as was created by gkif4u ? the number of frames i report is the number of frames that i count in d2v file taking into account ivtc or FF. Are you dealing with NTSC source ? if yes, what percentage of FILM is reported in the logs ?
Sorry I was in a rush this morning and neglected to include that information.

These were all PAL source, and progressive. Yes opening the d2v file created by gkif4u shows the correct number of frames, just the log reports it differently.

That movie I'd already encoded about 3 times in the past week so I knew the number of frames by heart, probably why it stood out to me being so far off what I would expect.


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Your calculations would be absolutely correct if it was NTSC, but it was a PAL source.


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YUVRGB_Scale=1 (0:TVScale 1:PCScale)
Luminance_Filter=0,0 (Gamma, Offset)
Picture_Size=0,0,0,0,0,0 (ClipLeft, ClipRight, ClipTop, ClipBottom)
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I encoded two movies last night and they both look great. This is the app i've been waiting for.

Pal/2 x CD with AC3 sound/704x288
PAL/2 x CD with mp3 vpr 128 sound/subtitles ( Portugues )/ 608x320

Size is bang on, quality superb. Couple of clicks and I woke up with two lovely looking movies......

One idea.... I don't really intend to ever cut my movies to cd/dvd but store them on a media server and stream them over my house network. I think more and more people are doing this. I normally go for 2 x CD size because I think it gives good quality + ac3 sound.

What I think would be really useful is allow the user to specify the percentage they would like to use after the compressibilty test has been performed, instead of a maximum file size. You already have the 'Maximum Quality - unlimited size' option.

For example I could specify I would like my movie to encode to 70% of the 'maximum' value found in by the compression test. Both my movies are close to this value anyway but it would be really great to know you are going to get a 70% quality movie from the outset. ( ignoring the final size )

Predicted comptest value is: 62.37
Predicted comptest value is: 74.91

So we go for a quality based setting instead of a final size based setting. Please don't say 'go and use GK' because this is SO much easier to use. You could add it in the 'custom size' dialogue and specify a % in stead of Mb.

I am going to check out the 'maximum quality' option tonight. What codec settings does it use ?

Thanks again for all you hard work.

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well i tried to encode the nicet&a clip with gki4fu again, but the outcome was rather strange again:
unlike the other clip it doesn't resize at all, but encodes at a faar too high bitrate.
the end result:
an avi twice the size of the original vob
no 'finished version' (muxed version) of the video,although it says muxing audio... and finished encoding in the log file
I need full log file for this one. It looks to me that actual target size was messed up. I think it's probably the same problem other ppl had, i.e. when you edit custom size gkif4u still thinks that target size is 1400Mb...
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Re: new bug?

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mm, I don't know what is wrong but I hope you can fix it:

This is the error I've got. I get the main movie to the HD with DVDDecrypter 3.1.5.0 In the map: D:\DVD\Unbreakable\VIDEO_TS
But, when I select that map I get the error.
Can you post the content of "VTS_01 - Stream Information.txt" (or something like that) created by DVDDecrypter here, please.
I tested gkif4u on 3.1.6 and 3.1.7 only, may be 3.1.5 had different format of that stream info file.
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You're right, Jeffster-

And here I did all those NTSC ForcedFilm calculations for nothing. Sounds like a small, easily fixed, bug.
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i´ll try to replicate the error an edit here
EDIT: error occuring: editing the edit-field (340 mb for example)
error disappers: when using the arrows -->341 mb, then 340 again

just update the variable used for the custom mb size "onKeyPress" when the focus is on the editfield and it should be gone.
hm... I'm catching another event - "OnExit", which is working fine on my system (I've spent 15 min trying to replicate this). But I can trap "onChange" or "onKeyPress" events as well...
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You're right, Jeffster-

And here I did all those NTSC ForcedFilm calculations for nothing. Sounds like a small, easily fixed, bug.
I wish I knew what was that bug all about

*Edit* And btw, your calculations were wrong - gkif4u's supposed to give only smaller number of frames that actual. (30fps -> 24fps). What jeffster experienced was something like 24fps -> 30fps, which is beyong my understanding of how this could happened

@Jeffster - can you please send me that D2V file to tonylen0x@yahoo.co.uk so that I could have a look at it. (the only guess is that parsing of it went wrong somewhere)
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I wonder why you made a completelly separate tool from GKnot and you didn't add this new automated features to it (with a button that could say "Show/Hide" advanced options, for example).
the reason is simple: current GK have such somplicated source code, that it was simpler for me to write something from scratch than modify existing source code Flexibility never comes for free...

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You are not planing to make this tool commecial, are you?
As in sell for money ? Noo, it'll stay freeware Even if I wanted to, then there was a question of all other tools I'm using...
But I do have some interesting plans for it (will be announced later).
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Blind me! I found that all PAL based sources were handled not properly by inceasing number of frames by 25%
So in the end you get 90-95% of comp test which made video with much lower resolution that it could do... I'm gonna release 0.22 almost straight away!
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0.22 alpha is out

The problem with frame count for PAL sources should be solved as well as target size should always be picked up correctly.

For PAL sources 0.22 should make a large difference in resolution (you should see increase of width by 64 pixels at least). So comp test value is not above 90% anymore

My to do list for 0.30 (still alpha):

- delete "tmp" dir on job run
- check for "[" and "]" symbols in output path (to avoid confusion with DVD2AVI parameters)
- solve the problem when output is in the root of the drive
- calculate and display percentage of first pass size
- split final video if its more than one CD
- Change "Misc" advanced options to remove confusion to first time users (will do a simple TV/FILM switch and remove "4:3 perfect ratio" setting )
- change default deinterlacer

after that I will concentrate on doing installers and docs and then beta (0.4) will be released.
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I am going to check out the 'maximum quality' option tonight. What codec settings does it use ?
Sharp matrix and resizer, no bframes, width of 720 pixels (even if it crops some it'll resize back to 720, basically preserving DVD quality).

Yes, I was wondering why nobody tried that before...
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Yes, I was wondering why nobody tried that before...
I did, but my disk filled and couldn't mux
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I did, but my disk filled and couldn't mux
which reminds me that I also wanted to check free space
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results are in on the maximum quality run

movie is PAL and about 1.5 hours

1) 2 cd/AC3 size is 1.4Gb ( resolution 704x288)
2) Maximum quality/AC3 size is 1.9Gb( resolution 720x288)

quality is really good as there is no compression test/first pass so it's very quick to encode. Not sure if it justifies the extra 0.5Gb. Are the 'maximum quality' settings the same as you use for the compression test ? Can you please please please allow the user to set the % quality they require ie instead of 'maximum quality' you could specify 60/70/80/90% quality. I would normally go for about 70% and store the movie on harddrive.

Do I need to run these tests again with version 0.22 as this is a PAL movie ? I've seen the posts about frame count.

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Are the 'maximum quality' settings the same as you use for the compression test ?
Not exactly. Comp test always uses b-frames. Maximum quality mode doesn't.

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Can you please please please allow the user to set the % quality they require ie instead of 'maximum quality' you could specify 60/70/80/90% quality. I would normally go for about 70% and store the movie on harddrive.
I will not put this on the main widnow - that's for sure, but I can put small edit box on advanced options... Let me think about it...

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Do I need to run these tests again with version 0.22 as this is a PAL movie ? I've seen the posts about frame count.
If you had resolution below 704 in width then you might want to rerun those ones as you will benefit from larger resolution. If it's already 704 then it's not gonna be increased anyway...
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Here he comes:
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0x20 - Subtitle - English / Normal Captions / LBA: 21395 / PTS: 00:01:04.967 / Delay: 64600ms
0x21 - Subtitle - English / Normal Closed Captions / LBA: 21402 / PTS: 00:01:04.967 / Delay: 64600ms
0x22 - Subtitle - Français / Normal Captions / LBA: 21404 / PTS: 00:01:04.967 / Delay: 64600ms
0x23 - Subtitle - Español / Normal Captions / LBA: 21406 / PTS: 00:01:04.967 / Delay: 64600ms
0x24 - Subtitle - Portugues / Normal Captions / LBA: 6824 / PTS: 00:00:25.287 / Delay: 24920ms
0x25 - Subtitle - Nederlands / Normal Captions / LBA: 6827 / PTS: 00:00:25.287 / Delay: 24920ms
0x26 - Subtitle - Polish / Normal Captions / LBA: 6967 / PTS: 00:00:25.767 / Delay: 25400ms
0x27 - Subtitle - Czech(Ceske) / Normal Captions / LBA: 6969 / PTS: 00:00:25.767 / Delay: 25400ms
0x28 - Subtitle - Magyar / Normal Captions / LBA: 6840 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x29 - Subtitle - Bulgarian / Normal Captions / LBA: 6843 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x2A - Subtitle - Slovak / Normal Captions / LBA: 6846 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x2B - Subtitle - Arabic / Normal Captions / LBA: 6852 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x2C - Subtitle - Français / Forced / LBA: 6854 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x2D - Subtitle - Español / Forced / LBA: 6856 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x2E - Subtitle - Czech(Ceske) / Forced / LBA: 6858 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x2F - Subtitle - Magyar / Forced / LBA: 6860 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x30 - Subtitle / LBA: 6862 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x31 - Subtitle / LBA: 6865 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x32 - Subtitle / LBA: 6868 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x33 - Subtitle / LBA: 6876 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x34 - Subtitle / LBA: 6879 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x35 - Subtitle / LBA: 6882 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x36 - Subtitle / LBA: 6885 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x37 - Subtitle / LBA: 6887 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x38 - Subtitle / LBA: 6892 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x39 - Subtitle / LBA: 6894 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x3A - Subtitle / LBA: 6896 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x3B - Subtitle / LBA: 6898 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x3C - Subtitle / LBA: 6900 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x3D - Subtitle / LBA: 6902 / PTS: 00:00:25.487 / Delay: 25120ms
0x3E - Subtitle / LBA: 371672 / PTS: 00:14:23.527 / Delay: 863160ms
0x3F - Subtitle / LBA: 371675 / PTS: 00:14:23.527 / Delay: 863160ms
0x80 - Audio - AC3 / 6ch / 48kHz / DRC / English / LBA: 13 / PTS: 00:00:00.287 / Delay: -80ms
0x81 - Audio - AC3 / 6ch / 48kHz / DRC / Français / LBA: 14 / PTS: 00:00:00.287 / Delay: -80ms
0x82 - Audio - AC3 / 6ch / 48kHz / DRC / Español / LBA: 15 / PTS: 00:00:00.287 / Delay: -80ms
0x83 - Audio - AC3 / 2ch / 48kHz / DRC / Czech(Ceske) / LBA: 16 / PTS: 00:00:00.287 / Delay: -80ms
0x84 - Audio - AC3 / 2ch / 48kHz / DRC / Magyar / LBA: 17 / PTS: 00:00:00.287 / Delay: -80ms
0xE0 - Video - MPEG-2 / 720x576 (PAL) / 16:9 / Letterboxed / LBA: 1 / PTS: 00:00:00.367 / Delay: 0ms

I used DVD Decrypter 3.1.5.0 (I know, I should update to 3.1.7.0)
and for manono: I used IFO mode, not file

I hope you can fix it, thnx

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extremely minor point

In the title menu, it says THE tool for DVD-2-XviD/XviD conversion. Did you mean XviD/DivX ?

Also any thoughts on what kind of icon you want, since you mentioned you wanted to change it?

EDIT: Just realized maybe you left both as XviD since DivX is not supported yet. Oops!

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