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Do you have a license to Windows 7 or Vista? Perhaps you can install it as virtual machine
under Windows 8.1:
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That's a good idea, davexnet! At work, some of the machines use some kind of virtual machine to run an essential old DOS program on Windows 7. I was thinking that might be a possible solution, but had my hopes set on the latest beta of HCenc. To be honest, if MrC implements FFmpeg 2-Pass VBR encoding, I might go with that and just call it a day. After all, the DVD conversions are not for me but for friends and relatives and, to be honest, they're not very picky about quality. It's just been bugging me that the old system that used to work so well (HCenc 2-Pass) isn't working any longer.
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Take a look at this add-on to AVStoDVD (courtesy from manolito @ Doom9):
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1662458&postcount=2402
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1663423&postcount=2421
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Aha! Excellent! That's what I get for not checking both forums! That's great work from Manolito. I made a slight change to his ff_vbr.bat file to raise the threshold for triggering 2-Pass and to fix DC Precision to 10. I just ran a test encode and it worked great!
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Hi _MrC_,
Some titles recently were rendered by AVS as rather squished letterbox, whereas they don't normally play that way by default on the computer, or a media player into a tv. I presume there must be a setting for AVS jobs to force rendering as fullscreen, 4:3. (If I ever knew this once I seem to have forgotten, so please remind me.)When in Las Vegas, don't miss the Pinball Hall of Fame Museum http://www.pinballmuseum.org/ -- with over 150 tables from 6+ decades of this quintessentially American art form. -
I have one suggestion for a small feature that would be very nice: The ability to move titles around in the "Source Titles" window. Right now, changing the order of titles means we have to delete everything from the top one involved in the move to the very end and reload everything.
Also, the ability to resize the program window at least vertically, and as a bonus, the "Source Titles" and "Operations" windows, would be very welcome.
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Have you tried with (right-click) Move Up/Down Title (CTRL+U / CTRL+D)?
Good suggestion. Do you think it is more convenient to auto enlarge the Source Titles section or the Operations section?
You are welcome! And thanks to you for the continuous feedbacks.
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Thanks for the reply, MrC. I did forget to mention that I'm using the current version 2.7.3, FWIW.
That just moves the highlight among the titles; it doesn't move the titles themselves.
My thinking, not knowing the effort involved, is that the Source Titles and Operations sections would automatically scale when the program windows is resized, but being able to resize them individually for convenience (for example, when creating a DVD that has a lot of short titles, like music videos) would also be nice. -
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Here's the MediaInfo report. The video you can download here
Code:General Unique ID : 241136491331996938695059329396436282255 (0xB56932ED57F91378A9320771D20EAB8F) Complete name : I:\Dublados\Power Stone\PS01.mkv Format : Matroska Format version : Version 2 File size : 322 MiB Duration : 22mn 30s Overall bit rate : 1 999 Kbps Movie name : R1 DVDRIP by FMA1394 and The_Profileth (#copycat-anime@irc.hoshinet.org) Encoded date : UTC 2012-04-10 18:10:24 Writing application : mkvmerge v4.9.1 ('Ich will') built on Jul 11 2011 23:53:15 Writing library : libebml v1.2.1 + libmatroska v1.1.1 Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High@L4.0 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 16 frames Muxing mode : Header stripping Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Bit rate : 1 831 Kbps Width : 704 pixels Height : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4:3 Original display aspect ratio : 3:2 Frame rate mode : Variable Original frame rate : 26.192 fps Standard : NTSC Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Writing library : x264 core 104 r1713 c276662 Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=16 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=64 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=16 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=16.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00 Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Audio ID : 2 Format : MPEG Audio Format version : Version 1 Format profile : Layer 3 Muxing mode : Header stripping Codec ID : A_MPEG/L3 Codec ID/Hint : MP3 Duration : 22mn 30s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 128 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 20.6 MiB (6%) Writing library : LAME3.99.5 Default : Yes Forced : No
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Thanks, _MrC_,
I'll make a note of that. Original AR on those was definitely 4:3. Not sure if I still have the project logs.
I think I might have found some other way of forcing the AR retention (?) I know I did another run, de-checking the Video auto-default and choosing some other setting from the drop-down box, and that seemed to work.
[I've not changed any VH settings, but for some reason, I have stopped receiving any email notification of further postings to threads I have participated in, such as this one.]When in Las Vegas, don't miss the Pinball Hall of Fame Museum http://www.pinballmuseum.org/ -- with over 150 tables from 6+ decades of this quintessentially American art form. -
@Evilkyo
the MediaInfo release included by AVStoDVD (0.7.61) is detecting the source title frame rate mode as CFR (Constant Frame Rate) instead of VFR (Variable). What release have you used to make that report?
As workaround in AVStoDVD you can go to 'Edit Title'/'AviSynth', toggle off 'Auto AviSynth Setup', search the 'A2DVideoSource' call and replace the 'VFR=false' flag with 'VFR=true'. Use 23.976 fps as input framerate.
@Seeker
thanks for the feedback
ByeLast edited by _MrC_; 16th Mar 2014 at 16:03. Reason: typo
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@KevinSartori
High Kevin,
glad you like my little VBR plugin...
If HCenc is broken on your computer, you might be interested in a small modification I made for a Doom9 user. Look here:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1674245#post1674245
Cheers
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@manolito
I do like your plugin! With HCenc not working on either of my Windows 8.1 x64 computers, I thought my days of using VBR encoding were over. Manolito to the rescue!
Thanks for the modification link. I prefer two-pass encoding all the time, so I had changed
Code:IF %bitrate% LSS 3500 IF %hq%==1 GOTO 2pass
Code:IF %bitrate% LSS 7500 IF %hq%==1 GOTO 2pass
Code:IF %bitrate% LSS 3500 IF %hq%==1 GOTO 2pass IF %bitrate% GTR %threshold% GOTO dont_touch
Code:IF %hq%==1 GOTO 2pass
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Yes, this is exactly how it works. That's the nice thing about using a simple batch file: Anyone with just a very basic understanding about batch scripting can adjust the plugin according to her/his needs.
There would be just one disadvantage to your approach:
If you have a bunch of files in your source window, you would have to click the HQ option for each of the files individually. But for the next version MrC promised to add another checkbox so you can make the ffmpeg HQ option the default.
I am very glad that the plugin works on your Win 8.1 64bit system because I could only test it on my old WinXP machine. I tried to be careful and let the plugin only write to the output folder (not to the "program files\AVStoDVD\ffmpeg" folder), but with the current Windows versions you never know where M$ decides that the user (even if he is the admin) has no right to modify anything in a folder.
Cheers
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After rereading your post, the corresponding lines in the batch file should be a little different, because you also want to specify what should happen if the HQ option is not checked.
Assuming you want 2-pass VBR whenever HQ is checked regardless of the bitrate, and if HQ is not checked you want the original AVStoDVD CBR mode for bitrates above 7500 and 1-pass VBR mode for bitrates below 7500, then your :doit section should look like this:
Code::doit IF %hq%==1 GOTO 2pass IF %bitrate% GTR 7500 GOTO dont_touch _ffmpeg.exe%CMDLINE% GOTO :EOF
Cheers
manolito -
Aha, thanks manolito! Actually, though, I really want to use 2-pass all the time, so I'll leave it and just remember to check the box for each file.
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Your choice, but keep in mind that Fishman has tuned the 2-pass parameters for best results at lower bitrates up to 3500k. You should keep special attention to the average bitrate because max bitrarate is set to 7500k for 2-pass in the script. This means that average bitrate should never exceed 7000k in 2-pass mode unless you tune the script first.
In VBR mode the encoder needs some breathing room, a minimum difference of 500k between avg and max bitrates is required.
Cheers
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New 2.7.4 Alpha release is out. Changes:
- Some bugs fixed
- Added NTSC SlowDown routine for progressive PAL to NTSC conversions ('Preferences'/'AviSynth')
- Added support to LAV Filters (detection and preferred codecs selection)
- Added support to MPEG-4 Part 14 (mp4 and m4a) audio files as input
- Added AVSMeter 1.7.7 to NoInstall and Installer packages
- Added new routine ('ReadAVSInfoF') to read AviSynth scripts and DGIndex projects
- Replaced FFmpeg with AVSMeter to run 'ReadAVSInfo' routine (A2DInfo.avsi)
- Moved FFmpeg HQ option from 'Edit Title' to 'Preferences'
- Added possibility to customize the FFmpeg HQ command line flags
- Improved handling of DGIndex projects sources
- Improved 'Preview Title Output' avs script for better compatibility with Raw Video directshow codecs
- DGIndex updated to release 1.5.8
- MediaInfo updated to release 0.7.67
This release is meant only for advanced AVStoDVD users. If you are a newbie, just use latest stable release (2.7.3).
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Thanks MrC, I'll check it out.
you did a lot of work - lots of new things.
Dave -
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