AVStoDVD Support Thread

[_MrC_]

@dave

thanks for the link, I will give it a look to better understand. So far I do not assure the full support of AviSynth 2.6 (at least while it is in alpha stage). Good to know that there are some issues with AddBorders function.

@Pretty Random

for some reason the source d2v file has been recognized to have a DAR (Display Aspect Ratio) of 2.37. Just tweak it to 1.778 ('Title'/'Edit Source Title Info'/'Video Display Aspect Ratio') and you will not get the letterboxing effect anymore.



Bye

[davexnet]

@dave

thanks for the link, I will give it a look to better understand. So far I do not assure the full support of AviSynth 2.6 (at least while it is in alpha stage). Good to know that there are some issues with AddBorders function.




Bye

MrC,
I read it a little myself, somebody pointed out that they were able to use odd sizes before, and the reply was that
under the covers Avisynth was altering it to fit the needs of the source format. For example,
addborders(0,51,0,51) was being changed (internally) to
addborders(0,50,0,52)
(Gavino October 26 2010)

Now they going to flag it as an error. I wonder what the status is of 2.60? It's been in alpha for a long time now.
The reason I installed 2.60 was because I was playing around with AvsPmod, and had some strange error messages
with the old 2.58, it cleared them up when using the alpha release.

[Pretty Random]

@Pretty Random

for some reason the source d2v file has been recognized to have a DAR (Display Aspect Ratio) of 2.37. Just tweak it to 1.778 ('Title'/'Edit Source Title Info'/'Video Display Aspect Ratio') and you will not get the letterboxing effect anymore.



Bye

Thank you. It worked.

[_MrC_]

I read it a little myself, somebody pointed out that they were able to use odd sizes before, and the reply was that
under the covers Avisynth was altering it to fit the needs of the source format. For example,
addborders(0,51,0,51) was being changed (internally) to
addborders(0,50,0,52)
(Gavino October 26 2010)

Very interesting. And not documented! I can easily adjust the AviSynth script generation routine to include that "internal fix", so that AviSynth 2.6 will not complain anymore.

Thanks again for your support



Bye

[n0name]

wowww

thanks it worked when i added 29.97

you so genius

appreciated ......

i love your application so much, and been using for 2 years

hope to see updated on next version

[stalkishi]

Hi There,

Fairly new to video but have had great success with AVStoDVD previously.

Recently I have stumbled into a problem and wonder if anyone can help?

I have been capturing my old VHSs and now plan to put them on DVD.

Problem

I am having trouble encoding anything longer than about 2hours 5mins. When I try to HCenc opens and an error appears in the info panel - "ERROR, can't open dbs file, invalid path?"

I have tried different combinations of avi files but the only pattern I can see is when the total run time goes over abot 2hours 5 mins the error occurs.

Example
Single avi file 2 hours - OK
Single avi file 2 hours 30 mins - ERROR
Multiple avi files (total length) 2 hours 2 mins OK
Multiple avi files (total length) 2 hours 10 mins ERROR

I have attached the log file and a screen dump of the error.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thank you

[davexnet]

Thanks again for your support



Bye

You're welcome, looking forward to the new alpha -

Dave

[_MrC_]

@stalkishi

do you have the possibility to set the output destination in a different hard drive than "D:" ?



Bye

[stalkishi]

Sure... I will give it a try on my C: (system) drive when I get home and see if that helps.

(I take it there is no maximum length that AVStoDVD/HCenc supports then?)

Thanks for your help.

[wingfan]

Just wanted to say this software is fantastic tried pretty much everything out there and this worked in every way I expected... Including hardcoding subtitles in mkv and converting to DVD. Just amazing work!! Thank you

[stalkishi]

@stalkishi

do you have the possibility to set the output destination in a different hard drive than "D:" ?



Bye

MrC,

As suggested I tried putting the output folder onto a different drive but I still had the same problem.

I fiddled around with a few things, did a new clean install and still got the same error. I then discovered everything works fine if I run AVStoDVD as an administrator. No Error, everything works perfectly now when I run as administrator (except I cannot drag and drop files into AVStoDVD only use the 'Add Title button').
If I don't run as an administrator I still get the aforementioned "ERROR, can't open dbs file, invalid path?" error.

As far as I am concerned the issue is fully resolved for me but I thought I'd share this FYI and for anyone else who may run into the problem.

Again thanks for an excellent program and reply.

Cheers.

[Seeker47]

Using the current Alpha most of the time lately.
I had a strong feeling this project was going to bomb out, probably on the audio, and sure enough it did. This .Mkv file had the following characteristics: 1920 x 1080 Res., AVC, a DTS track, and a FLAC track, plus 4 IDX tracks. (Probably could have skipped the latter entirely, since this was in English. It's just one more known point of failure, and could easily have bombed out also at that later part of the processing.) I'm going to do what I usually do in this case now -- extract the audio manually with Audio Extractor.

[EDIT: Well, that doesn't seem to have worked out so well. In the assets, AVS yielded a 201 Mb. .Ac3 file for this. If that was a complete track, it may have balked at the 2nd. (FLAC) track . . . which, when I listen to it from the original .Mkv file in VLC Player seems to be the same contents. Audio Extractor at first did not seem to recognize the .Mkv as an accepted file type, but when I forced the issue, it produced a 57 Mb. .Ac3 file -- presumably from just that first track. Given the size differential, I think I'd go with the AVS version. If this now does not work, or proves to be a royal pain, I may just try this file from the WD Live. I bought another of those, some two years later. It seems to have different firmware and a new UI, plus the ability to handle some file types that were a 'No Go' on the earlier version.]


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<5/12/2013 9:46:13 AM>
START PROCESS
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<5/12/2013 9:46:13 AM>
PROJECT SETTINGS

DVD Video Standard: NTSC
DVD Titles number: 1
DVD Size: 3927/7700 MB (51%)
DVD Output Setup: DVD Folder
DVD Label: PF -- Making of 'Wish You Were Here'
DVD Menu: No Menu
Output Folder: L:\Cache\AVS_Output
Delete Temp Assets Files: Yes
Delete Temp Working Files: Yes
Edit Command Parameters: No
Post Process Task: Show Progress Status window

PREFERENCES

MultiThread: 1
AVS Video Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS Audio Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS UpSize/DownSize Filter: Lanczos4Resize/Spline16Resize
Frame Adjust Strategy: 1
PAL SpeedUp: 1
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: 2
Force FFmpeg for Long Audio: 1
DVD Audio Format: 0
DVD Audio BitRate: 192
Keep DVD Compliant Audio: 1
Normalize Audio: 0
Auto Delay Audio: 1
DVD Audio Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Audio Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Font: Tahoma 18pt (255,255,255)
Chapters Interval: 5
Use Source Chapters: 1
DVD Burning Drive: D: ATAPI DVD A DH20A4P NP53
DVD Burning Speed: 4x
Auto Erase DVD RW: 1
Unload ActiveMovie library: 0
Adjust ffdshow at runtime: 1
Save General Settings: 0
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<5/12/2013 9:46:17 AM>
TITLE 1 SOURCE FILES
Video: C:\Users\GDVX2\Downloads\Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.W ish.You.Were.Here.2012.1080p.part01\Pink.Floyd.The .Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here.2012.1080p.mkv
Info: AVC - 0 kbps - 1920x1080 - DAR 1.778 - 23.976 fps (CFR) - Progressive - 1:00:00 hours - 86314 frames
Audio 1: C:\Users\GDVX2\Downloads\Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.W ish.You.Were.Here.2012.1080p.part01\Pink.Floyd.The .Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here.2012.1080p.mkv
Info: DTS - 768 kbps - CBR - 6 ch - 48000 Hz - 24 bit - 1:00:00 hours (0 ms delay) - EN
Audio 2: C:\Users\GDVX2\Downloads\Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.W ish.You.Were.Here.2012.1080p.part01\Pink.Floyd.The .Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here.2012.1080p.mkv
Info: FLAC - 0 kbps - VBR - 2 ch - 48000 Hz - 16 bit - 1:00:00 hours (0 ms delay) - EN
Subs 1: C:\Users\GDVX2\Downloads\Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.W ish.You.Were.Here.2012.1080p.part01\Pink.Floyd.The .Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here.2012.1080p.mkv
Info: VobSub (IDX) - EN
[MediaInfoLib - v0.7.61]
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<5/12/2013 9:46:17 AM>
AVISYNTH SCRIPT
Import("C:\Portable SW\AVStoDVD_270Alpha130416_NoInstall\Lib\A2DSource .avsi")

Video = A2DVideoSource("C:\Users\GDVX2\Downloads\Pink.Floy d.The.Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here.2012.1080p.part0 1\Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here.2012. 1080p.mkv", CacheFolder="L:\Tmp", FrameRate=23.976, VFR=false)
Audio = A2DAudioSource("C:\Users\GDVX2\Downloads\Pink.Floy d.The.Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here.2012.1080p.part0 1\Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here.2012. 1080p.mkv", CacheFolder="L:\Tmp")

Video = Video.ConvertToYV12()
Video = Video.Spline16Resize(720,480)
#Using DGPulldown/HCenc to upsize FPS

AudioDub(Video, Audio)
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<5/12/2013 9:46:17 AM>
START VIDEO ENCODING OPERATIONS
Encoding Profile: FFmpeg CBR 1-pass
Target Video FileSize: 3587.7 MB
Encoding Parameters: -i "L:\Tmp\PF -- Making of 'Wish You Were Here'_0_Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here .2012.1080p_1.avs" -threads 4 -aspect 16:9 -c:v mpeg2video -b:v 8360k -minrate 8360k -maxrate 8360k -bufsize 2000k -dc 10 -y "L:\Cache\AVS_assets\PF -- Making of 'Wish You Were Here'_0_Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here .2012.1080p.m2v"
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<5/12/2013 10:24:08 AM>
END VIDEO ENCODING OPERATIONS
Video Source Filter: A2DSource (DirectShowSource)
Created File: L:\Cache\AVS_assets\PF -- Making of 'Wish You Were Here'_0_Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here .2012.1080p.m2v (3587.7 MB)
OUTPUT VIDEO INFO: MPEG-2 Video - 8360 kbps - 720x480 - DAR 1.778 - 23.976 fps (CFR) - Progressive - 59:56 minutes - 86228 frames
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<5/12/2013 10:24:08 AM>
START PULLDOWN OPERATIONS
DGPulldown Parameters: "L:\Cache\AVS_assets\PF -- Making of 'Wish You Were Here'_0_Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here .2012.1080p.m2v" -srcfps 23.976 -destfps 29.97 -inplace -tff
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<5/12/2013 10:25:03 AM>
END PULLDOWN OPERATIONS
DGPulldown executed on File: L:\Cache\AVS_assets\PF -- Making of 'Wish You Were Here'_0_Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here .2012.1080p.m2v (3587.7 MB)
OUTPUT VIDEO INFO: MPEG-2 Video - 8360 kbps - 720x480 - DAR 1.778 - 23.976 fps (CFR) - Progressive (2:3 Pulldown) - 59:59 minutes - 86312 frames
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<5/12/2013 10:25:03 AM>
START AUDIO ENCODING OPERATIONS (Track 1)
FFmpeg Parameters: -i "L:\Tmp\PF -- Making of 'Wish You Were Here'_0_Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here .2012.1080p_1.avs" -threads 4 -map 0:1 -y -vn -acodec ac3 -ab 448k "L:\Cache\AVS_assets\PF -- Making of 'Wish You Were Here'_0_Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here .2012.1080p_1.ac3"
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<5/12/2013 10:29:13 AM>
END AUDIO ENCODING OPERATIONS (Track 1)
Audio Source Filter: A2DSource (DirectShowSource)
Created File: L:\Cache\AVS_assets\PF -- Making of 'Wish You Were Here'_0_Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here .2012.1080p_1.ac3 (192.3 MB)
OUTPUT AUDIO INFO: AC3 - 448 kbps - CBR - 6 ch - 48000 Hz - 16 bit - 1:00:00 hours (0 ms delay)
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<5/12/2013 10:29:13 AM>
START AUDIO ENCODING OPERATIONS (Track 2)
FFmpeg Parameters: -i "L:\Tmp\PF -- Making of 'Wish You Were Here'_0_Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here .2012.1080p_2.avs" -threads 4 -map 0:2 -y -vn -acodec ac3 -ab 192k "L:\Cache\AVS_assets\PF -- Making of 'Wish You Were Here'_0_Pink.Floyd.The.Story.Of.Wish.You.Were.Here .2012.1080p_2.ac3"
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<5/12/2013 11:04:25 AM>
Process aborted during Title 1 AUDIO (Track 2) encoding operations.

For Audio issues troubleshooting see Help/FAQ/Audio section.
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<5/12/2013 11:04:30 AM>
Log file created by AVStoDVD Release 2.7.0 Alpha build 130416
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[_MrC_]

@Seeker

there's a bug: '-map 0:2' must not be used during audio encoding when using an AviSynth script as source. Thanks for the report.

Waiting for the bug fix, what about using Wavi+Aften for this project?



Bye

[Seeker47]

@Seeker

there's a bug: '-map 0:2' must not be used during audio encoding when using an AviSynth script as source. Thanks for the report.

Waiting for the bug fix, what about using Wavi+Aften for this project?



Bye

Hi _MrC_,

I used the .ac3 + .m2v asset files that AVS generated, before it crashed. (Before I got your reply, and without changing any settings.) This yielded a dvd. What remains to be seen is how it may compare to the 8Gb. source .Mkv, if I can play that from the WD Live. Might not have the chance to check that for several days.

[EDIT: An odd result. The original .Mkv file kept freezing at around the 2 min. mark, when I tried to play it via the WD Live. The AVS-rendered dvd looked good, sounded good, and played fine start to finish. VG docu too, unreleased here near as I can tell.]

[theewizard]

i love avs2dvd
but i think i will keep using the old versdion with Quenc until ,the new version has less bugs
al though i am using 2 pass Henc more often

[_MrC_]

AVStoDVD 2.7.0 Alpha 130518 is available to download.

Change log (+ are from previous alpha):

- Some bugs fixed
- Added possibility to customize authored Subtitles position ('Preferences'/'Authoring')
- Added 'AVS Audio Source Filter' in 'Preferences'/'AviSynth'
- Renamed 'AVS Source Filter' to 'AVS Video Source Filter' in 'Preferences'/'AviSynth'
- Replaced 'QuEnc CBR 1-pass' Video Encoding Profile with 'FFmpeg CBR 1-pass'
- Replaced QuEnc with FFmpeg for AC3 and MP2 encoding (QuEnc has been actually removed from AVStoDVD package)
- Added 'Use FFmpeg HQ Options' in 'Title Edit'/'Video'
- Added possibility to resize Jobs List window
+ Added Jobs List save and load routines
+ Added support of OpenType fonts for labels in 'DVD Menu Editor'
+ Added possibility to customize Normalization peak level in 'Preferences'/'Audio'
+ Added *DBPATH command to HCenc ini file
- Improved titles media properties info management
- Improved SRT subtitles parsing routine
- Improved ASS to SRT conversion routine
- Improved log activity (reference to Help/FAQs section)
+ Improved AviSynth Script generation routine (AddBorders now uses only mod 2 values)
- Removed 'Save Log file in Output Folder at runtime' option in 'Preferences'/'Misc' (now it always saved)

Comments and suggestions are welcome.



Bye