AVStoDVD Support Thread

[SuLyMaN]

Hi guys. I'm getting this error.
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5...vd%20error.jpg
I tried 2 times with different vids, same outcome.

[SuLyMaN]

Solved my issue. My firewall blocked the process :S

[SuLyMaN]

I converted some files and the resulting DVD has stuttering audio on an LG DVD player . I will test on another player and on PC.

edit: Plays fine on PC.
edit2: Works fine on my 8 year old DVD no brand player from China....

[manolito]

Originally Posted by SuLyMaN

I converted some files and the resulting DVD has stuttering audio on an LG DVD player . I will test on another player and on PC.

edit: Plays fine on PC.
edit2: Works fine on my 8 year old DVD no brand player from China....

Sounds like your LG player needs a lens cleaning (or get a repair job)...

Unless configured differently AVStoDVD uses MuxMan for DVD authoring and IMGBurn for burning. Both tools are extremely reliable in my experience. MuxMan can even be considered as a compliance checker for the elementary streams, because it is so picky. If authoring with MuxMan succeeds without any error message then you can be 99.9% sure that the resulting DVD structure is flawless.



Cheers
manolito

[manolito]

I have been meaning to post this for some time, but never got to it...

It only happens when FFMpeg is used as the encoder AND audio normalization is activated. It does not happen with HCenc, also the source filters do not matter (I used DSS with LAVfilters, but ffdshow/Haali behaves the same way). This error was introduced some time ago when QuEnc was replaced by FFMpeg.

With audio normalization on as soon as FFMpeg is invoked, it just shows the opening screen with version information and compiler settings, and then it just sits there for several minutes without starting the encode. CPU is at 100%, and there is some HDD activity. This sure looks like the normalizing pass.

But after video encoding is done and Wavi / Aften is started, it again just sits there for the same amount of time as before displaying "Writing WAV file". Also 100% CPU again plus HDD activity. Normalizing taking place for a second time it seems.

This behavior does not do any harm except wasting time. But since it does not happen with HCenc (and it did not happen with QuEnc in the past) I think that something can probably be done about it...



Cheers
manolito

[SuLyMaN]

I'm actually pleasantly surprised by AVS2DVD. The black nothrills menu works fine for me! However, a minor irritation is that it will create menu titles horizontally instead of vertically and long file names are 'cut out' unless adjusted. Any way to change the default menu to vertical titles and longer file names support?

@manolito: The LG player is not fine It is a work player/recorder and it can continue to stutter

[MrC]

@manolito

you are right, let me see if I can add any switch to FFMpeg to ignore the audio delivered by the AVS script.

@SuLyMaN

I am pleasantly surprised you are pleasantly surprised!

What do you mean by long file names 'cut out'? A screenshot would help.

About vertical titles, unfortunately it is not possible, because VB6 does not give many graphical options to developers. For fancy DVD menu you should try DVD Styler. Just output elementary DVD compliant streams with AVStoDVD and then author with DVD Styler.



Bye

[SuLyMaN]

Originally Posted by MrC

What do you mean by long file names 'cut out'? A screenshot would help.

About vertical titles, unfortunately it is not possible, because VB6 does not give many graphical options to developers. For fancy DVD menu you should try DVD Styler. Just output elementary DVD compliant streams with AVStoDVD and then author with DVD Styler.



Bye

Hi. I just reformatted my PC. I will get a screenshot asap. What I mean is that the full file name will not show (adjusted to 200 I think in default and you have to change it to 350).
About the vertical menu, same can be done, but I have to go in the menu and move the generated thumbnails of videos manually. Else it will be horizontally displayed.
As I said, I don't need fancy menus and want to cut out on time badly spent (aka dvd menus!)
I'll try to make a screenshot of this too and post soon.

[manolito]

I only create menus with text based titles in AVStoDVD, and they are always aligned vertically by default.

But if you need thumbnails, there is a setting in the menu wizard under "Options" called "Max thumbs per row". Set this value to 1 instead of the default 4, and your thumbnails will be aligned vertically.


Cheers
manolito

[manolito]

Originally Posted by MrC

you are right, let me see if I can add any switch to FFMpeg to ignore the audio delivered by the AVS script.

@MrC

So it is FFMpeg itself...
Weird why it treats AVS input differently from other encoders. I browsed the FFMpeg docs and the web a little bit, but I could not find any switch to make it behave differently.

Maybe audio manipulation (at least the normalizing, maybe also resampling and delay) should be moved from AviSynth to SoX. The SoX command could be easily added to the WAVI -> Aften (or FFMpeg -> Aften) batch file, piping it right in between WAVI and Aften.



Cheers
manolito

[Mister XY]

Hello, i'm using your software avs2dvd since 2 or 3 years. It is a great software. for me better than convertxtodvd. But i have problem with pulldown. If i using 23,976 fps movies, it's convert to 25 fps via asumefps. But if i using 24 fps movies, it did not convert to 25 fps and the movies stutter.

[manolito]

Hi Mister XY, and welcome to the forum...

You are right, AVStoDVD only uses PAL speedup (assumepfs(25)) only for 23.976fps sources and not for 24fps. I brought this up a while ago, see this post:

And at last one (probably stupid) question:
PAL Speedup only works for 23.976 fps sources. Why doesn't it also work for 24 fps sources?

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...36#post1624536


Cheers
manolito

[Mister XY]

Ok thanks, but i dont really find a solution.

[manolito]

Oh, that's pretty easy, AVStoDVD is a lot more versatile than one might see on the first looks...

1. Load your 24fps source into AVStoDVD
2. In the "Title" menue select "Edit Source Title Info" and click on "Video Frame Rate".
3. Change the value from 24 to 23.976
4. Click on "View/Edit Title Settings" and go to the "AviSynth" tab.
5. Uncheck "Auto AviSynth Script" and in the line for the video source filter (second from above) change the frame rate back to the "real" value of 24.


Steps #4 and #5 are probably not even necessary, in a couple of tests I got perfect audio sync even without specifying the correct source frame rate in the source filter.


Cheers
manolito

[MrC]

@manolito

very good suggestion, that's exactly the workaround I would have suggested to Mr XY.

Step 4 and 5 are necessary if the source is VFR and DSS needs some more hints about the avg framerate.

Have you tried using MotionProtectedFPS for direct 23.976 / 24 fps to 25 fps conversions? Without DGPulldown, I mean.



Bye

[manolito]

Originally Posted by MrC

Have you tried using MotionProtectedFPS for direct 23.976 / 24 fps to 25 fps conversions? Without DGPulldown, I mean.

Hi MrC,

thanks for giving my workaround your official blessings...

And yes, I have done a lot more tests with fps conversions based on motion compensation.

23.976 / 24 fps to 25 fps using MotionProtectedFPS works nicely. For natural content I have a hard time detecting any warped edges, even looking at stills. I also tried both of the MVTools based fps converters (MVFlowFPS and MVFlowFPS2), but I did not see any advantage compared to MotionProtectedFPS. Both MVTools based methods are way slower, and they had a tendency to produce more artifacts. And these artifacts were more visible when watching clips (not stills). The same goes for salFPS3. IMO MotionProtectedFPS is the best compromise if you want to use motion-compensated fps conversion.

The real torture test I ran with MotionProtectedFPS was using an NTSC DVD which is true interlaced 29.97 (not telecined). The DVD is Prince - The Hits Collection, the different videos are quite demanding. Converting it to PAL in the usual way (bob deinterlace, use changefps for fps conversion, resize and reinterlace) results in a very acceptable PAL DVD, but of course the dropped fields are visible if you concentrate on it.

What I did next was a conversion where I first applied a fast same rate deinterlacer (Yadif) and then used MotionProtectedFPS to get a progressive 25fps file. Very smooth motion, a few artifacts but not terrible at all, and the speed was quite fast. Only the vertically scrolling end credits did not look too good.


Cheers
manolito

[SuLyMaN]

Originally Posted by SuLyMaN

About the vertical menu, same can be done, but I have to go in the menu and move the generated thumbnails of videos manually. Else it will be horizontally displayed.
.

Newb post. The menu renders well and no clipping of text whatsoever. I was clicking 'edit' and this is why I was seeing issues when there was none!

Works well. Enjoy the simple plain black menu!

[MrC]

AVStoDVD release 2.7.5 Alpha 140714 is available

Change log:

- Some bugs fixed
- Added MotionProtectedFPS, Motion_12Dec05 and MaskTools libraries to implement Motion Compensation FPS change
- Replaced ChangeFPS/ConvertFPS with MotionProtectedFPS in AviSynth script generation routine
- MediaInfo updated to release 0.7.69



Bye

[SuLyMaN]

One thing, Should I always uninstall before installing or can I install on the old version?

[MrC]

Originally Posted by SuLyMaN

One thing, Should I always uninstall before installing or can I install on the old version?

Yes, as explained in Help/FAQ/General/Q1.7



Bye