Technical assistance required

[Towbar]

Hi To All;
I have searched this site and found a lot of the information I needed. I am a bit of a newbie to this. As previously I have only ripped DVD’s then used instant copy X to author them and then burn on to DVD (The Easy Stuff) Now I seem to have stepped in the deep water with the big boys, so I have a few questions which I need answers to if you could assist.

I’ll apologise now for the long post, but this will hope explain things properly.

I have downloaded a film from the Net, which I couldn’t play. From reading the posts I discovered it was a DIVx and located the drivers, problem solved so I thought.

I would now like to burn this on to a dvd, having read a lot of the post I gathered I need TMPGE. Which I down loaded and ran I selected Pal 16.9 and CBR MPEG-1 Layer II audio (MP2) and then followed the wizard, however when I got to the bitrate settings I received a message saying the file was too big, did I wish to proceed clicking NO I set about finding more information and found a post explaining about not using automatic settings, I then went to advanced and changed both the Audio bitrate to 192 and the Video bitrate to 2900 this removed the redline and put the file under 4GB

I then discovered a post explaining about the bit rate calculator, which I used (excellent Tool) and found that, for the length of film and the audio bitrate the video bitrate should be higher 3065. Will have to see how it turns out. I have also downloaded TMPG DVD author, which I will use to author this film if it isn’t too big!

“Okay what your point I hear you say” this film has Japanese Subtitles on the screen, I having seen that if I download VOBEDIT (which i have done) I can remove subtitles, This being the case and should I be successful in doing this is there anyway to reduce the file further so that I may increase the video bitrate or have I got the wrong idea all together. If you guide me in the direction of a Tutorial fine I will sort it my self.

Many Thanks in advance Towbar

[reboot]

Well done! Nice to see someone that's done their own research.
About the only way you are going to increase the video bitrate, is to reduce the audio bitrate.
Check your original in GSpot, and see what it's bitrates are.
Downloads are usually quite low, and reducing the audio bitrate to 128 may give you just enough room to get the video bitrate over 3000.
You have a couple of options, you could increase the bitrate substantially, and span the movie over two dvdr's, or you could create an (S)VCD, and burn it to 2 or 3 CDRs (if your player supports it).
Downloads are usually of questionable quality to begin with, and SVCD is probably going to be as good as it gets. Seems almost a waste to spend time authoring a nice dvdr.
Your last option may be to edit the source video in virtualdub, and cut out any preludes and delete the credits.

[Capmaster]

Towbar,
Great newbie post. If only all newbies were this thorough and patient

[Supreme2k]

My suggestionabout any downloaded material is to check if it is available commercially and buy it. Often times videos that can be downloaded are available cheaply, and you save the time and frustration of trying to convert a shoddily made video.

[Towbar]

Thought I just let you know, I have now transferred the above film on to a DVD and played it in my stand alone, the picture quality wasn't that bad and the sound seemed okay not exactly 5.1 but still okay to watch, and it does last 3 hours so there will be a drop in quality anyway. However I have still not been able to remove the Chinese/Japanese subtitles. I have tried pressing the subtitles button on the remote but this has no effect

Can someone explain what Demux does in vobedit and how I can remove the subtitles using this programme?

I should also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their posts and I would have been stuffed had it not been for this forum Cheers

Towbar
:P :P :P

[jimmalenko]

Demux simple separates the movie into its elementary streams (video and audio as separate files).

BTW, congrats on an excellent first post. You will go far and get lots of help showing the initiative you have so far.

[jimmalenko]

My suggestionabout any downloaded material is to check if it is available commercially and buy it. Often times videos that can be downloaded are available cheaply, and you save the time and frustration of trying to convert a shoddily made video.

...it also prevents a few warez flame wars

[makntraks]

My suggestionabout any downloaded material is to check if it is available commercially and buy it. Often times videos that can be downloaded are available cheaply, and you save the time and frustration of trying to convert a shoddily made video.

...it also prevents a few warez flame wars

/me/ still playing nice.... 8)
and agrees w/ Capmaster - nicely documented question....

makntraks

[babyboo]

Please corrct me if I am wrong...but if the source is a downloaded DivX avi file I do not believe that any tool available is going to be able to remove the subtitles. You can crop them off and loose the whole bottom of the movie. Other than that I am not sure that there is anything that can be done. If the source you are working with was a DVD then you would be able to do it.

[digitalReality]

I agree with BabyBoo; subtitles cannot be removed from any AVI source, DivX or otherwise as the subtitles are generally encoded into the actual video source; not simply layered on top of the video.

[teegee420]

I agree with BabyBoo; subtitles cannot be removed from any AVI source, DivX or otherwise as the subtitles are generally encoded into the actual video source; not simply layered on top of the video.

Unless there's a seperate .srt or .sub file. The OGM container can hold video, audio and sub streams. AVI can only hold audio and video. If the avi is displaying subs without a seperate stream file the subs have been hard encoded into the video.