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5th February 2008, 00:50 | #181 | Link |
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Hi Bradskey and welcome to the Doom9 forum!
Thanks for the info, i dont have the laptop anymore, i was testing it out as i want to buy a dual core pc/laptop and wanted to see how much time a typical conversion would take. On my pc i normally get 25fps but on that laptop i got 90fps, wow, that was fast using divx. Once again thanks for the tip |
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There is a 'PLAY' button, well sort of, right-click the movie whilst playing/previewing, you will see PLAY/PAUSE. |
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Sorry to have not replied before. I thought that I had subscribed to this thread, but the subscription failed.
This post is just to say that version 2.5.7.0 of avi.NET solves my installation problem on Vista (see my post from Jan. 10th). Thanks ! |
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First off, let me say "thank you so much!" for all of your hard work on avi.NET and pgc.NET .. I use them so much that I have shortcuts to them on my quick launch menu.
My only thoughts: 1. A fair number of the DVDs I rip/encode end up having a serious audio sync issue (I think one movie was 2.5 seconds off). While it's certainly not something I'd stop using avi.NET over, it certainly makes things a pain (by pain I mean using yet another app to sync things up). Earlier in this thread, someone mentioned the root cause of this sync issue. Is there anything I can do on my end to help prevent this sync issue? 2. I'm running Vista 32-bit and while I don't remember the exact behavior (it's been a while), so I know I have to run avi.NET as the administator (Compatability Mode --> Run as Administrator) otherwise UAC screws things up a bit. This one I don't even really care about all that much (this is just one of many apps I have to grant admin permissions to).. but it is something I thought was worth mentioning (forgive me if it's already been mentioned in this thread). |
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Fraschetti: Many times Audio Sync problems are caused by the way the content is ripped. Can you give us some details on what tools you are using? If you are using pgc.Net you might want to try DVDFab Decrypter and see if that helps.
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Didn't know about this, don't use UAC, it's the first thing I get rid of, I find it bizarre. I noticed in the new Visual Studio 2008 there are now some UAC options so hopefully a new build of avi.NET will help. |
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Hi. Even using DVDFab (which you should be) you will occasionally have ripped disks that still present audio sync problems when encoded. My limited understanding is that this is caused by errors in the MPEG stream, which MPEG format is able to compensate for, but AVI cannot. I generally encountered these particular types of problem disks from one notoriously paranoid big studio in particular, but occasionally from others. I think maybe they are introducing deliberate errors into the MPEG streams as part of some kind of content protection, and the errors remain after DVDFab rips the disk. My solution (and it has worked very well) is to use the commercial VideoRedo application. It has a tool called QuickStream Fix, which corrects missing sync frames in the MPEG stream and outputs a file that will encode with audio in sync. If I have a problem disk or if I suspect it will give me problems, I extract all the program chains with pgc.NET and run them through this process to fix them, then encode the output mpg files. Haven't found anything I couldn't fix this way yet. I don't know if there is a similar tool available elsewhere or for free, but VideoRedo works like a champ and has other uses too. |
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About a year ago I made a new pgc.NET where you are able to select multiple PGC's at a time and add them to a batch, like avi.NET, and even have the option to index the file after ripping....... I never finished it, you think it's worth me having another look at it and finishing it? or maybe release a beta or something?
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Once you select the correct chain (Title) you now can use a MPlayer statement like this to Rip the chain to a *.vob or *.mpg file. This even works on "modern" dvds.
mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile dvd.mpg This is the command for Linux, not sure what it should use for dvd://1 in Windows but the "1" is for the Title. This effectively plays the DVD to the hard drive, so if mplayer can play the movie it can be ripped. This might help you with the next version of pgc.Net. BTW: It must be MPlayer version MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1 or later. |
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Yay to batch processing.
And this reminds me of some batch suggestions I made some months back which i'll quote here just as a reminder Thanks for avi.NET it's brilliant. As for audio sync issues. It doesn't happen to me very often, but when it does, I just use Media Player Classic to figure out the required delay, then virtualdubmod to fix it. Also a vague bug report. These are from memory, and next time they happen i'll try and record more details. First one is pgc.NET sometimes won't rip an entire pgc. As it is ripping I see the xxxxx of yyyyy bytes ripped progress meter. Sometimes it just stops and goes back to the stream selection window before reaching the end. If you're not watching, then you have no idea it didn't rip the entire thing until you've encoded your video (unless you try and play the vob). The only way i've found to fix this is to use nero recode to recode the dvd, then do the rip and that usually works. pgc.NET shoud be able to tell if it didn't reach the end for whatever reason and pop up a dialog warning the user. Thanks again J Quote:
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i must be lucky, cant remember the last time i had problems with avi/index/pgc.net...for episodic dvds i use dvdfab decrypter to rip each episode to its own folder, even without using pgc.net never had any problems.
i have a request, since the hddvd-bluray "war is over" have you thought of upgrading avi.net to convert to bluray standalone players very much linke divx standalone players now? |
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