AVStoDVD Support Thread

[Mr. Monte]

Can someone assist me please. Something has changed on my PC where AVStoDVD (231 or 232 alpha) fails when starting the encode (with HC0.24 or 0.25). Here is the log file

<9/24/2010 4:15:57 PM>
START PROCESS
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<9/24/2010 4:15:57 PM>
PROJECT SETTINGS

DVD Video Standard: NTSC
DVD Titles number: 1
DVD Size: 4450/4450 MB (100%)
DVD Output Setup: DVD Folder
DVD Label: DVD
DVD Menu: No Menu
Output Folder: C:\Users\Doug\Videos
Delete Temp Process Files: Yes
Delete Working Files: Yes
Edit Command Parameters: No
Post Process Task: Show Progress Status window

PREFERENCES

MultiThread: 1
AVS Source Filter: DirectShowSource
AVS UpSize/DownSize Filter: Lanczos4Resize/Spline64Resize
Video Resolution: 0
Video BitRate Min: 2500
Video BitRate Level 1: 6500
Video Profile Level 2: 6500
Video BitRate Max: 9000
Keep DVD Compliant Video: 1
AC3 Audio Encoder: 0
PAL SpeedUp: 0
Force FFmpeg for Long Audio: True
DVD Audio Format: 0
DVD Audio BitRate: 448
Keep DVD Compliant Audio: 1
Normalize Audio: 0
DVD Audio Language: EN - English
DVD Subs Language: EN - English
DVD Subs Font: Tahoma 18pt Bold
Chapters Interval: 5
Use Source Chapters: 1
DVD Burning Drive: G: MATSHITA BD-MLT UJ240AS 1.10
DVD Burning Speed: 4x
Auto Erase DVD RW: 1
Save Log file: 1
Save General Settings: 0
Unload ActiveMovie library: 0
Adjust ffdshow mixer: 1
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<9/24/2010 4:15:57 PM>
TITLE 1 SOURCE FILES
Video: D:\Flash Gordon 1980 720p BluRay\Flash.Gordon.1980.720p.BluRay.mkv
Info: AVC - 4105 kbps - 1280x544 - DAR 2.353 - 24 fps (CFR) - Progressive - 1:51:27 hours - 160508 frames
Audio 1: D:\Flash Gordon 1980 720p BluRay\Flash.Gordon.1980.720p.BluRay.mkv
Info: DTS - 1536 kbps - CBR - 6ch - 48000Hz - 24bit - 1:51:27 hours - Internal
Subs:
[MediaInfoLib - v0.7.35]
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<9/24/2010 4:15:57 PM>
AVISYNTH SCRIPT
Video = DirectShowSource("D:\Flash Gordon 1980 720p BluRay\Flash.Gordon.1980.720p.BluRay.mkv", fps=24, audio=false)
Audio = DirectShowSource("D:\Flash Gordon 1980 720p BluRay\Flash.Gordon.1980.720p.BluRay.mkv", video=false)

Video = Video.ConvertToYV12
#Using DGPulldown/HCenc to upsize FPS
Video = Video.AddBorders(0,88,0,88)
Video = Video.Spline64Resize(720,480)

AudioDub(Video, Audio)
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<9/24/2010 4:15:57 PM>
START VIDEO ENCODING OPERATIONS
Encoding Profile: HCenc VBR 2-pass
Target Video FileSize: 3988 MB
HCenc Parameters: -ini "C:\Users\Doug\AppData\Local\Temp\DVD_5_Flash.Gordon.1980.720p.BluRay.HCenc.ini"
HCenc ini file:
*INFILE C:\Users\Doug\AppData\Local\Temp\DVD_5_Flash.Gordon.1980.720p.BluRay_1.avs
*AVSRELOAD
*OUTFILE C:\Users\Doug\Videos\DVD_5_Flash.Gordon.1980.720p.BluRay.m2v
*LOGFILE C:\Users\Doug\AppData\Local\Temp\DVD_5_Flash.Gordon.1980.720p.BluRay.HCenc.log
*MAXBITRATE 9000
*BITRATE 5002
*PROFILE BEST
*ASPECT 16:9
*PROGRESSIVE
*TFF
*BIAS 50
*DC_PREC 9
*MATRIX MPEG
*AQ 1
*LUMGAIN 1
*SMP
*PRIORITY IDLE
*WAIT 2
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<9/24/2010 4:18:33 PM>
PROCESS ABORTED DURING TITLE 1 VIDEO ENCODING OPERATIONS.

CHECK LOG FILE <C:\USERS\DOUG\VIDEOS\DVD_5.LOG> FOR MORE INFO.
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<9/24/2010 4:18:33 PM>
Log file created by AVStoDVD Release 2.3.2 Alpha build 100910
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TIA

[AirZonk!]

Try the hotfix Version from 13.09.2010 (only exe)... I had the same Problem, this Version fixed it.

https://sites.google.com/site/avstod...13_exe_only.7z

[MrC]

@Mr. Monte

what do you get if you use the 'Title'/'AviSynth FrameServing Check' command?



Bye

P.S. Queens rock forever!

[Mr. Monte]

Originally Posted by MrC

@Mr. Monte

what do you get if you use the 'Title'/'AviSynth FrameServing Check' command?



Bye

P.S. Queens rock forever!

All three attempts failed
Error 70 Permission Denied

Also when I try to encode HCEnc GUI pops up and in the info line:

Can't process AVS
FFAudio Source, can't decompress

[tom942]

Hello MrC,

First of all, thank you for your software .

I've been searching through the whole thread, but I haven´t found anything related to it. Excuse me if this has been reported before.

I started to use your software (2.3.1) to convert NTSC avi's to PAL with the speedup option.

The video is converted without problems to 25 fps (outstanding HC ), but the sound sometimes work and others, doesn´t.

So I have uninstalled AVStoDVD, FFDshow anda AC3Filter. Then I have installed FFDshow and AVStoDVD again. And everything was the same, without working properly .
So I was looking at what could be wrong, and finally I saw on the title info that the audio was marked just as a "Direct Stream Copy" instead of being re-encoded to 25 fps. I "fixed" it by unticking "Keep DVD compliant audio".

Could you look how to fix it?.

I've got the log with the encode that works properly, but if you want I can repeat the encode with the "bug".

Also I've seen in the log in "Preferences" sectionthis: "PAL Speedup: -1" when I also seen "PAL Speedup: True". Is this just a comestic bug?.

Regards and thank you in advance .

[MrC]

@ Mr. Monte

there's something wrong in your decoding chain. Please check your codecs. Moreover the project avs script you have posted have a DirectShowSource call, instead the error you are now reporting is from FFMpegSource: please do not change AVS Source Filter while trying to understand what's wrong. Do not forget to download the 2.3.3 Alpha hotfix.


@tom942

first of all welcome there and thanks for using AVStoDVD and reporting back your experience.
I assume that your source title has a AC3 audio track, right? By default AVStoDVD keeps DVD compliant AC3 track. So far I have left to the user the duty to check if a audio track must be kept or not: of course if you are using the 'PAL SpeedUp' feat, the audio source track must be re-encoded and not kept. I can add a msg warning about that in title load routine.

'-1' or 'true' values are boolean variables not converted to integer in the log routine. In the latest 2.3.2 alpha the cosmetic bug has been fixed.



Bye

[Mr. Monte]

Mr. C,

Where do you get 233 Alpha hotfix? i went to your homepage and it's not there. I went back in this thread and only saw 2.3.2 hotfix on page 77. How do I fix my decoding chain? What would be the best way? i have nothing but FFDSHOW and Halli loaded. No codec packs and using Win7Tweaker all are set to FFDSHOW. Is there a program or script to reset all to default?

[Mr. Monte]

O.k..using graphedit, I was able to find out that on MKV's with AC3 or DTS, FFDSHOW was NOT decoding audio (video was fine). However, MKV's were associated with Windows Media Player, so they played fine.

I was able to correct the issue by REINSTALLING AC3Filter. however, why was FFDSHOW unable to decode? I looked at the FFDSHOW decoder setup and AC3 and DTS were set to libdts and lib52?

TIA

[MrC]

@Mr. Monte

of course I was referring to 2.3.2 alpha hotfix. Sorry for the typo.

If ffdshow was not able to decode AC3/DTS audio, you have made the right choice to reinstall AC3Filter. To understand why ffdshow is not working with AC3 and DTS you should address the question to the authors.



Bye

[Mr. Monte]

Thanks..I posted a assistance post over at clsid FFDSHOW thread.

[tom942]

Yes, it was an AC3 stream. It is the tipical AVI with an XviD and one or two AC3 streams. I forgot to write it down. Sorry .

I thought that if I tick "Pal speedup" in "Preferences", both, audio and video, were reencoded without user interaction. The warning, as you said, would be useful , or even do the change the soft itself, without user interaction, what do you think?.
A thing that I don´t understand was that I tried an AVI with a length over 2 hours 30 minutes, and the video and audio were enconded without me doing anything .

Greetings .

[MrC]

Originally Posted by tom942

I thought that if I tick "Pal speedup" in "Preferences", both, audio and video, were reencoded without user interaction. The warning, as you said, would be useful , or even do the change the soft itself, without user interaction, what do you think?

I think that a couple of msg boxes will be added

Originally Posted by tom942

A thing that I don´t understand was that I tried an AVI with a length over 2 hours 30 minutes, and the video and audio were enconded without me doing anything

Please elaborate a little bit more...



Bye

[tom942]

Originally Posted by MrC

Please elaborate a little bit more...

Ok. I tried a movie with exactly a 2:46:30 length. I added the AVI (with an XviD stream and a AC3 stream), and the soft, automatically speed up the video and the audio to PAL, without modifying anything by me, I mean without unticking "Keep DVD Compliant audio".

Why this time the audio was not marked "Direct Stream Copy" and was properly re-encoded?. That's what I don´t understand .

Greetings .

[MrC]

@tom942

oh, my dear, I have already made that change in latest 2.3.2 alpha release... I'm becoming old... please be patient.



Bye

[tom942]

Originally Posted by MrC

@tom942

oh, my dear, I have already made that change in latest 2.3.2 alpha release... I'm becoming old... please be patient.



Bye

Young padawan, hahaha .

Ok, I'll try the alpha. It seems that I'm asking you things that seem to be already fixed in it .

Thank you and greetings .

[shreeit]

Hi

I am using latest alpha-beta version to convert mkv to DVD. The latest version solved 6 ch. audio encoding problem but it takes long time to encode. Please check following log. I have WinXP Pro as my OS

Thanks,

Shreeit
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<9/26/2010 10:29:47 PM>
START PROCESS
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<9/26/2010 10:29:47 PM>
PROJECT SETTINGS

DVD Video Standard: NTSC
DVD Titles number: 1
DVD Size: 4450/4450 MB (100%)
DVD Output Setup: DVD Folder
DVD Label: abc
DVD Menu: No Menu
Output Folder: F:
Delete Temp Process Files: Yes
Delete Working Files: Yes
Edit Command Parameters: No
Post Process Task: Show Progress Status window

PREFERENCES

AVS Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS UpSize/DownSize Filter: Lanczos4Resize/Spline64Resize
Video Resolution: 0
Video BitRate Min: 2500
Video BitRate Level 1: 6500
Video Profile Level 2: 4500
Video BitRate Max: 8500
Keep DVD Compliant Video: 1
AC3 Audio Encoder: 0
PAL SpeedUp: False
Force FFmpeg for Long Audio: True
DVD Audio Format: 0
DVD Audio BitRate: 192
Keep DVD Compliant Audio: 1
Normalize Audio: 0
DVD Audio Language: EN - English
DVD Subs Language: EN - English
DVD Subs Font: Tahoma 18pt Bold
Chapters Interval: 5
Use Source Chapters: 1
DVD Burning Drive: D: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203B SB00
DVD Burning Speed: 4x
Auto Erase DVD RW: 1
Save Log file: 1
Save General Settings: 0
Unload ActiveMovie library: 0
Adjust ffdshow mixer: 1
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<9/26/2010 10:29:47 PM>
TITLE 1 SOURCE FILES
Video: G:\tmg-abc.mkv
Info: AVC - 2869 kbps - 1280x532 - DAR 2.406 - 24 fps (CFR) - Progressive - 2:49:29 hours - 244057 frames
Audio 1: G:\tmg-abc.mkv
Info: DTS - 768 kbps - CBR - 6ch - 48000Hz - 24bit - 2:49:29 hours - Internal
Subs:
[MediaInfoLib - v0.7.32]
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<9/26/2010 10:29:47 PM>
AVISYNTH SCRIPT
Import("C:\Program Files\AVStoDVD\Lib\A2DSource.avsi")

Video = A2DVideoSource("G:\tmg-abc.mkv", CacheFolder="C:\Temp", VFR=false)
Audio = A2DAudioSource("G:\tmg-abc.mkv", CacheFolder="C:\Temp")

Video = Video.ConvertToYV12
#Using DGPulldown/HCenc to upsize FPS
Video = Video.AddBorders(0,94,0,94)
Video = Video.Spline64Resize(720,480)

AudioDub(Video, Audio)
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<9/26/2010 10:29:54 PM>
TITLE 1 AVISYNTH FRAMESERVING CHECK
Check passed successfully.
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<9/26/2010 10:29:54 PM>
START VIDEO ENCODING OPERATIONS
Encoding Profile: HCenc VBR 2-pass
Target Video FileSize: 3759.2 MB
HCenc Parameters: -ini "C:\Temp\abc_0_tmg-abc.HCenc.ini"
HCenc ini file:
*INFILE C:\Temp\abc_0_tmg-abc_1.avs
*AVSRELOAD
*OUTFILE F:\abc_0_tmg-abc.m2v
*LOGFILE C:\Temp\abc_0_tmg-abc.HCenc.log
*MAXBITRATE 9000
*BITRATE 3101
*PROFILE BEST
*ASPECT 16:9
*PROGRESSIVE
*TFF
*BIAS 30
*DC_PREC 8
*MATRIX MPEG
*AQ 1
*LUMGAIN 1
*SMP
*PRIORITY IDLE
*WAIT 2
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<9/27/2010 3:46:23 AM>
END VIDEO ENCODING OPERATIONS
Created File: F:\abc_0_tmg-abc.m2v (3738.4 MB)
OUTPUT VIDEO INFO: MPEG-2 Video - 3121 kbps - 720x480 - DAR 1.778 - 24 fps (CFR) - Progressive (TFF) - 2:48:28 hours - 242594 frames
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<9/27/2010 3:46:23 AM>
START PULLDOWN OPERATIONS
DGPulldown Parameters: "F:\abc_0_tmg-abc.m2v" -srcfps 24.000 -destfps 29.97 -inplace -tff
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<9/27/2010 3:54:38 AM>
END PULLDOWN OPERATIONS
DGPulldown executed on File: F:\abc_0_tmg-abc.m2v (3738.4 MB)
OUTPUT VIDEO INFO: MPEG-2 Video - 3121 kbps - 720x480 - DAR 1.778 - 23.976 fps (CFR) - Progressive (2:3 Pulldown) - 2:48:28 hours - 242350 frames
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<9/27/2010 3:54:38 AM>
START AUDIO ENCODING OPERATIONS FOR LARGE AUDIO TRACKS (Track 1)
FFmpeg Parameters: -i "C:\Temp\abc_0_tmg-abc_1.avs" -y -vn -acodec ac3 -ac 6 -ar 48000 -ab 448k "F:\abc_0_tmg-abc_1.ac3"
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<9/27/2010 6:37:48 AM>
END AUDIO ENCODING OPERATIONS (Track 1)
Created File: F:\abc_0_tmg-abc_1.ac3 (539.6 MB)
OUTPUT AUDIO INFO: AC3 - 448 kbps - CBR - 6ch - 48000Hz - 2:48:23 hours
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<9/27/2010 6:37:48 AM>
START DVD AUTHORING OPERATIONS
BatchMux Parameters: -arglist "C:\Temp\abc_0_BatchMux.ini"
BatchMux ini file:
-d "F:\abc_0\VIDEO_TS"
-mxp "C:\Temp\abc_0_MuxMan.mxp"
-l "C:\Temp\abc_0_MuxMan.log"
-muxman "C:\Program Files\AVStoDVD\MuxMan"
-prio LOW
-v "F:\abc_0_tmg-abc.m2v"
-vidmode LB
-a1 "F:\abc_0_tmg-abc_1.ac3"
-a1lang en
-cellfr "F:\abc_0_tmg-abc_Chapters.txt"
-progfr "F:\abc_0_tmg-abc_Chapters.txt"
-chapfr "F:\abc_0_tmg-abc_Chapters.txt"

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<9/27/2010 6:46:01 AM>
CHECK DVD SIZE
DVD Folder (actual) Size: 4378.3 MB
vs Estimated Size: 4450 MB -> 1.6% undersize
vs Assets Size: 4277.9 MB -> OK
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<9/27/2010 6:46:01 AM>
END DVD AUTHORING OPERATIONS
Created Folder: F:\abc_0 (4378.3 MB)
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<9/27/2010 6:46:01 AM>
Log file created by AVStoDVD Release 2.3.2 Alpha build 100826
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[MrC]

@shreeit

I suppose you are referring to audio encoding time: about 2h40min. Surely ffmpeg (encoder for large 5+1 audio tracks) is not a lightning bolt... Some improvement could be achieved by adding the "-thread n" command option (to be tested).

BTW, what is your configuration (CPU, RAM, etc.)?



Bye

[shreeit]

Pentium D 2.8 GHz
2 GB RAM
WinXP Pro SP3

[MrC]

Thus a multithread approach could save you some time. Next release will include that improvement in ffmpeg audio encoding.



Bye

[shreeit]

Thanks