AVIdemux to creat vobs ?

[theewizard]

I used avidemux to extract the audio from an avi file and save the it in various formats & extensions wav, ac3, mp2, mp3 , I also used CCE to produce a mpv file at 720*480 from the same avi

I have done this to several different files

on one occasion I sucessfuly use gui4dvdauthor produce a DVD folder and then burn to DVD

BUT on several other occasions, gui4dvd either quit on me, or was still runing 9 hrs later with out having completed the project and i terminated the program and deleted the incomplete files

I understand quality takes time, but there seems to be no consistancy gui4dvd ,

i'm trying to learn to use more of the features built into avidemux which i never see being mentioned here, maybe i'm I am misinterpeating the menus, or maybe the quality is so low nobody uses them

but from what I see I should be able to mux the mpv file from cce and the saved audio either ac3, wav, mp2, mp3 and create mpeg file or even VOB files

my try at vob failed the program shut down, I sucessfully created an mpeg ts file but couldn't play it , video inspector said in was not valid and gave me no info, gspot choked on it

i have managed to remux the avi stream with a converted audio stream creating an avi with ac3 audio and it played on the computer, and i managed to successfully manually correct an audio sync problem in one avi
is there a program that will report the value/time of a time sync problem ?

if gui4dvd won't complete work in a reasonable time, i am forced to seek other alternatives which is why i'm trying to use more functions of avidemux

which may or may not meet my needs

so far on efficiency vs quality , my best results have been to use cce to create an mpeg file with mp3 audio, then feed that file to convertX

it is slower than using convertX alone, but produce better results than just using only convertX

the one DVD sucessfully produce in all three different ways

convertx alone, cce to convetX and avidemux cce mpv combine & author with gui4dvd

gui4dvdauthr did produce the best visual results, but only one DVD has been successfully completed this way

the final step 'authoring' which is reportly done with minamun delay because the input files are dvd compliant is actually taking many hours to complete or does not complete

sorry i did not mean to make this long winded or combine extra issues into this post , just thought a good explanation gets better responses

basically what can avidemux do ? besides extracting the audio and does it do these other functions well or poorly

[steveryan]

No, AVIdemux will not author a DVD. If you don't want menu's try Rejig in DVD author mode, it's very easy to use.

[Soopafresh]

Actually, I'd appreciate it if you checked out a simple script I wrote to test for A/V sync delay on Xvid/Divx files.

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=324576

Just a few comments regarding some of your questions/experiences -

Sounds like you're interested in good quality output. Avisynth --> ConvertXtoDVD is fast and quite decent. Tons of example scripts out there to use as templates to enhance your AVIs before you encode.

Creating Mpeg2 transport streams isn't easy to do without commercial software. Fortunately, VideoRedo ($50) will do it, same with all Womble apps. Unless you have a specific need to create TS files (your media player or hardware card requires it), there's no reason to do this.

If you wish to ensure your m2v and ac3 files are DVD compliant, try a test run with Muxman . It will immediately fail if your sources don't adhere to DVD specs.

Btw, Avidemux2 (I assume that's the app you're refering to) is frequently updated. Check often for updates.

[theewizard]

i'm downloading your file

I did correct one avi finding the audio to be -190 milli seconds off from the video, is did this pluging numbers into the time shift of avidemux2 and then playing the file

I then saved the file using the video copy and audio copy with the time shift on

I also saved it again with ac3 audio

it plays in sync although i have not watched it all the way thru

I'm not actually looking for ts streams, its just that the program actually completed a file save/conversion in about 35 minutes , instead of failing to run & shutting down

i am using fitcd to create a script for cce to encode that way

I was chastised for feeding that output to convertX, instead of gui4dvdauthor, so i have tried that program, but my success rate is only 25% using gui4dvd

how would I go about using Avisynth to convertX , i have avisyth installed, but my version of convertx does not accept scripts , it only gives me errors if I dry to open a script file

i tried use the script from fitcd in convertX ... no go, although it works very well with cce , now that i have the hang of it

[manono]

I second Soopafresh's suggestion of doing a trial run using Muxman. If it fails, GUIFor DVDAuthor probably won't be able to handle it either. There is no better muxer than Muxman, although for menus you have to use the Pro version, or whatever it's called. The basic version is free.

With your computer specs, I'd guess authoring a full length movie shouldn't take more than 20-30 minutes. And since I'm one of the ones that said reencoding a CCE MPV in ConvertXToDVD was a lousy idea, if GUIForDVDAuthor isn't working for you, I'd first suspect the video or audio somehow isn't DVD compliant, and if it is and Muxman muxes it, that maybe you should consider using a different authoring app if you need menus.

[borax]

The new version of GfD (1.XX) can use MuxMan as muxer/authoring engine. There is no difference compared to using MuxMan itself except for the menus (which can be used/created with the free version of MuxMan too). If GfD takes a long time, you should check your video and audio files carefully, as I think the error is there. If Gfd doesn't show any progress after 20 minutes, I think you can kill the task (mplex or MuxMan)...

BTW Is there any error in the GfD log file?

[theewizard]

in most cases, menus are not a necessity for me
I do want chapters/markers for FF and the ability to watch the movie in 16:9 boxed or in pan&scan

this way when i get my new TV i'll be able to watch wide screen correctly with out re-authoring all my discs, yes i now some of them get padded on the top & bottom, a little bit, this does not bother me, i don't want to crop some of the movie so i can watch the rest of the scene edge to edge of the display

I just want the good encoding such as cce gives me.

i still have the ac3 & the mpv/m2v files from my last aborted 10hr run, i'll try muxman and see what it makes of the situation

I have already downloaded it, i will give it a test run

[theewizard]

borax, i will check the log, and let you know, if there was/is an audio problem then I think it was created when avidemux2 extracted the audio and created the ac3 file. as the source file played fine and showed no errors, if it is a video error then that occured during the cce encoding to mpv

[manono]

(which can be used/created with the free version of MuxMan too)

I know that, but it's far from easy, for me anyway. If I want menus, and want a free authoring app to use to make them, I use one of the DVDAuthor offspring.

I do want chapters/markers for FF

Add them in Muxman in File->Import Chapters. The chapters are in 29.97fps frame count inside a text file, like this:

15067
26689
36699
44954
76700
117143
173563
187655
200135
208507
221767

...and the ability to watch the movie in 16:9 boxed or in pan&scan

i don't want to crop some of the movie so i can watch the rest of the scene edge to edge of the display

Is there a contradiction there, or are you saying it's OK to crop a widescreen movie when watching on a 4:3 TV set, but not OK when watching a widescreen movie on a 16:9 TV set? Anyway, although Automatic Letterbox is the default, you can make it Automatic Pan & Scan if you like. Not that you'll ever be getting a Pan & Scan anyway, but just a crop.

[theewizard]

i want the movies in 16:9 , the whole movie, some people complain if there is some padding top & bottom to main the correct aspect, thats OK, how i view something, depends on what it is and where i'm viewing it.

muxman rejected my video mpv video file from cce, changed settings and run it again, this time muxman accepted it, but the final m2v/mpv has the jaggies for every movement of every object, this is video only being run in mpc or vlc, ran muxman, fast run 35 minutes to create the dvd video_ts folder & vobs,, butthe audio was way out of sync and the picture was still full of jaggies from the interlacing

the over all picture is sharp, until any movement occurs , even a close up of some one talking as the jaggies on their facil features

the source file is of course xvid avi 25fps the 640*256 the cce output mpv 720*480 29.976

at this point its easier to watch the final product of convertX

it converts to DVD with out the interlace jaggies or audio sync problems

borax

gfd log a big list of audio sector errors, maybe this is the slow down problem

and i have the newest version, that was the one i downloaded, since i only recently DL and tried it out

[manono]

at this point its easier to watch the final product of convertX

I guess so, since you set up the CCE encode entirely wrong.

First, uncheck the "For DVD" checkbox at the top of the CCE main screen. Encode for progressive 25fps and 720x480, no pulldown. When done, you'll have a 720x480 25fps MPV. Open that in DGPulldown, tick the 25->29.97 box, and "Convert". When done you'll have an NTSC DVD compliant M2V, ready to author. The audio and any subs will still be in synch. No interlacing and better than anything ConvertXToDVD can produce.

And I hope you're feeding CCE with an AviSynth script file.

[theewizard]

I have the DVD box UN-checked

and yes i'm using fitcd to produce avisyth script for cce

and no i'm not encoding to 23.?? in most cases i'm dong 25 fps to 25fps

I don't recall anybody mentioning 'encode for progrssive 25 fps' in any other thread

and I don't recall dgppulldown being mention in my other thread either, but i will certainly try it

but if i have an MPV file that will elementry with NO audio

dgpulldown is going to make the 29,97 ntsc m2v in sync with extracted audio file ?

in this case which file should i use AC3, wav lpcm, mp2, mp3 ?

or do i have to process the audio file before I can mux it/author it

[Soopafresh]

Hey, thanks for the Avidemux tip regarding TS transcodes. It actually outputs good Mpeg2-TS files! The only free app out there that does it....

Post a Gspot screen cap of one of your source AVI files. It'll help us all out to determine the settings to encode to NTSC DVD compliant Mpeg2.

[borax]

So it is a frame rate conversion problem...
Just search the forum, there are hundreds of posts for that matter.
If you use CCE + dgpulldown, you should use an AC3 file (best quality and 100% NTSC compliant).

@manono
MuxMan + Menus: I know that, but it's far from easy, for me anyway.

Have you ever tried the new GfD version? Creating menus with it (using the MuxMan engine) is really simple...

[manono]

I don't recall anybody mentioning 'encode for progrssive 25 fps' in any other thread

and I don't recall dgppulldown being mention in my other thread either, but i will certainly try it

but if i have an MPV file that will elementry with NO audio

dgpulldown is going to make the 29,97 ntsc m2v in sync with extracted audio file ?

in this case which file should i use AC3, wav lpcm, mp2, mp3 ?

or do i have to process the audio file before I can mux it/author it

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DGPulldown has been mentioned in lots of threads. Here's just one:

We have a video file that is a hybrid. The frame size is NTSC compliant (720x480) but the frames per second is PAL compliant (25fps). So we need to run the M2V file through the DGPulldown program. In DGPulldown there are various options and we want to select or checkmark the option, "25 --> 29.970"

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=300144

And pulldown - any pulldown - can only be applied to a progressive stream. I already said the video will synch with the audio when done. Your problem (one of them, anyway) was that you slowed the video down to 23.976fps, but kept the original audio unchanged at 25fps. Not only did you get out-of-synch audio, but progressively out-of-synch audio. It got worse as the movie went along. Encoding for the same framerate (in this case 25fps) keeps everything the same length as originally. This assumes you do the MP3->AC3 conversion correctly. If your audio in the AVI is VBR MP3, it's easy to go wrong if you're not careful.

borax-

Oh, I thought you meant to create the menu using Muxman alone, like this:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=99306

I read that once and thought to myself, "No thanks".

[borax]

...No thanks!
I can imagine...

For 'standard' projects (1 Main menu + several chapter menus) there is no difference if you use GfD in 'dvdauthor' or 'MuxMan' mode. It's only for complex scripts (which are possible!) that you need to bother with the MuxMan syntax.

[theewizard]

update

extract audio saved as AC3

convert avi source file 696meg to mpv using cce with script from fitCD , output 740*480 25fps 3.48 gig ,

run DGpulldown 150 min output file m2v 3.48 gig

use muxman to create video_Ts & vobs 40 minutes

burn & test , no chapters, plays good, looks good, boxed but not squished, aspect looks good

use GFD same m2v same ac3 , runtime 130min ( what did it do re-encode ? )

burn & test, plays goods, NOT enough height, looks like extra wide screen , uses maybe 1/3 height of the 4:3 display, have too zoom to enjoy watching the movie

total conversion time for this way almost 7 hrs

visual quality muxman just as good a GFD and almost 4x faster and a more pleasing DAR

i'm really not interested in complex menus right now !

or even chapter menus

I would like having chapter markers for fast jumping fwd or back

I'm guessing for chapters in muxman you need a text file that is a list of frame numbers, every number being a place to put a marker ?

I prefer chapters between 5-10 min that would be roughly every 9000 frames which would actually be a hair over 5 min, but easier to count and setup

I got it figured out, I got it working, ( except for sticking the chapter list into muxman ) thanks for the help, things are not perfect, but they are good, BUT some things that seem obvious to you are not so obvious to me or others , when there are no descriptors in the menu or help sections.

fitCD and cce both have 25 fps settings, but nothing in those programs refer to those settings as progressive, I can only assume choosing 25 makes OR keeps it as progressive because it worked,

I know the avi is progresive, but how was i to know that 25 fps mpeg is still progressive when 29.97 mpeg nstc is interlaced

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For 'standard' projects (1 Main menu + several chapter menus) there is no difference if you use GfD in 'dvdauthor' or 'MuxMan' mode. It's only for complex scripts (which are possible!) that you need to bother with the MuxMan syntax.

you can use GFD in a muxman mode ?, does this make the process faster ?

if i can get the muxman speed plus chapter markers, then i'm good , HOW do i get GFD to use muxman instead of mplex ?

And pulldown - any pulldown - can only be applied to a progressive stream. I already said the video will synch with the audio when done. Your problem (one of them, anyway) was that you slowed the video down to 23.976fps, but kept the original audio unchanged at 25fps. Not only did you get out-of-synch audio, but progressively out-of-synch audio. It got worse as the movie went along. Encoding for the same framerate (in this case 25fps) keeps everything the same length as originally. This assumes you do the MP3->AC3 conversion correctly. If your audio in the AVI is VBR MP3, it's easy to go wrong if you're not careful.

I fixed that when you told me to correct the script, and that script had come straight from fitCD, and was used unaltered

you told me about it, and i corrected it , and put 'assume 25' in the script, to make sure.

that has not been an issue since then

[manono]

Hi-

I can't help with the GFD problem, but something's wrong if it takes 7 hours to complete and your picture is squashed. There's probably a DAR set wrong, but borax will have to help, I think. If you're content with Muxman, and just want to have chapters where you want them, here's how to do it:

Modify your .avs that you fed into CCE. Just below the AVISource line add this:

ChangeFPS(29.97)#and remove the AssumeFPS(25) you have in there

Don't you dare encode with that. We're just going to use it to find out the chapter points. Open that script in VDub(Mod). Go File->File Information to confirm it's 29.97fps and that it's the exact same length as the source 25fps AVI. If there's any problem, post the script here. Now, scroll through the AVI. Holding the "Shift" bar on the keyboard while moving the slider will make sliding easier. However far apart you want chapter points, stop near there and find a fadeout or a major scene change and type that frame number into the Celltimes.txt file you made. When done, you'll have a bunch of 29.97fps frame numbers in the format I showed earlier, inside of a Celltimes.txt. When authoring, to load the Celltimes.txt file, go File->Import Chapter, and as soon as you do so, you'll see the chapter count near the bottom of Muxman, to the left of the "Start" button. There will be one more than you have in your Celltimes.txt file as frame 0 is also chapter point.

When I said it would take 20-30 minutes earlier, I didn't realize this was a 150 minute movie. I was assuming an average movie length of maybe 100 minutes.

fitCD and cce both have 25 fps settings, but nothing in those programs refer to those settings as progressive, I can only assume choosing 25 makes OR keeps it as progressive because it worked

I don't know which CCE you're using, but in mine (ver 2.70.02.12), in the Picture Quality screen, there's a "Progressive frame" box that should be checked. If you have other problems, just let us know. Anything so you don't have to use ConvertXToDVD.

[theewizard]

the movie is 90min 41 sec,

aprox 7 hrs was the total computing time plus burning not counting all the in between stuff changing programs and extractind audio files

79 minutes to create the mpv using cce

150 minutes to create the pulled down m2v

130 minutes for GDF to author the DVD

total computing 359 minutes = 5hr 59 minutes

now add extracting the audio, and the time checking files and scripts and burning

in fact 130 minutes is the fastest time GFD has run,

i watched the 'task mgr' and mplex is NOT using very much resource going up and down between 9% and 27% of CPU power with the avg at 15-18%

I assume this is why it is so slow, I checked and the priority setting is normal,

if i have to look for cell times, to find frame numbers & go thru all that to get chapters, never mind, ill just fast forward the movie

yes thats the same version of CCE I have, I found the progressive box, bottom center of the PQ page

ill make sure its checked next time

the GFD log file from this run is 56K which part do you want to see, I see no errors on a scan of it, but i didn't read every line

i'll see about getting a screen capture of cce to show you..OOPS screen cap of Gspot

[AlanHK]

the movie is 90min 41 sec,
130 minutes for GDF to author the DVD

I've been using GfD for about a year, done a few dozen discs; on average it takes me about 25 minutes to create the VIDEO_TS folder from m2v and ac3 files.

I've done up to 20 short titles, and 6 or 7 hours video running time; PAL and NTSC; MPEG1 and MPEG2; one or two audio tracks; subtitles both as SRT and SUP.

I then burn that with Nero or ImgBurn.

It's failed a few times but then it just stopped with an error message, never slowed down as you report.

I tried the new version with the Muxman option, but found it rejected some of my files that worked otherwise, so I stay with the DVDAuthor setting.

You can have it to "Create Batch", which makes a bunch of batchfiles you can run yourself to step through the process.

[theewizard]

I do create batch, then press create DVD,

am I doing something wrong,

at this point, the batch file starts running, that what took 130 minutes, most of that the time ( a 100 minutes or a little more ) the widow display does not scroll and it is in the mplex mode ( that task is visible in task mgr ) when mplex is done it starts creating vobs, the GFD.log reads and seems to me, to be a copy of everything that was displayed in the batch RUN window

[manono]

run DGpulldown 150 min output file m2v 3.48 gig

That's where I got what I thought was a 150 minute long movie. But you're saying it takes 150 minutes just to apply DGPulldown and create the M2V? Something is seriously wrong with your computer. And as AlanHK says, nor should it take 130 Minutes to author a DVD using GUIForDVDAuthor. If I were forced to guess, I'd say your drives were operating in PIO Mode. Just a guess, though.

[theewizard]

here is part of the gfd log

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

f:\Movie Intermediate Processing Storage>Time: 3/15/2007 1:32:07 PM

(shrink and) mux video and audio files
INFO: [???] mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [???] File c:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\My Videos\New Folder\test-1.avi.mpv.pulldown.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [???] File C:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\My Videos\New Folder\test-1.ac3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
INFO: [???] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [???] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [???] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [???] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (c:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\My Videos\New Folder\test-1.avi.mpv.pulldown.m2v)
INFO: [???] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [???] Frame width : 720
INFO: [???] Frame height : 480
INFO: [???] Aspect ratio : 16:9 display
INFO: [???] Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 5500000 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [???] CSPF : 0
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (C:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\My Videos\New Folder\test-1.ac3)
INFO: [???] AC3 frame size = 512

INFO: [???] AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 16384 bytes/sec (128 kbit/sec)
INFO: [???] Frequency : 48000 Hz
INFO: [???] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [???] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 5747744
INFO: [???] target data-rate specified : 10080000
INFO: [???] Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
INFO: [???] Run-in Sectors = 89 Video delay = 13019 Audio delay = 0
INFO: [???] New sequence commences...
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [???] Audio bd: buf= 16384 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [???] STREAM bd completed @ frame 170006.
INFO: [???] Scanned to end AU 136016
INFO: [???] STREAM e0 completed @ frame 136016.
INFO: [???] Multiplex completion at SCR=489646665.
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 22384 frame=136016 sector=01849937
INFO: [???] Audio bd: buf= 16384 frame=170006 sector=00043177
INFO: [???] VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
INFO: [???] Video Stream length: 3740467504 bytes
INFO: [???] Sequence headers: 9158
INFO: [???] Sequence ends : 1
INFO: [???] No. Pictures : 136016
INFO: [???] No. Groups : 9158
INFO: [???] No. I Frames : 9158 avg. size 53206 bytes
INFO: [???] No. P Frames : 46556 avg. size 32498 bytes
INFO: [???] No. B Frames : 80303 avg. size 21670 bytes
INFO: [???] Average bit-rate : 5499600 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Peak bit-rate : 5683200 bits/sec
INFO: [???] BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 134306
INFO: [???] AUDIO_STATISTICS: bd
INFO: [???] Audio stream length 87043584 bytes.
INFO: [???] Frames : 1185311183
INFO: [???] BUFFERING min 35 Buf max 3267
INFO: [???] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.

f:\Movie Intermediate Processing Storage>Time: 3/15/2007 3:09:10 PM
*creating MMback.m2v

notice the time for the MUX 97 min from 1:32 to 3:09

if muxman does it 40 minutes on the same PC and the same with the same m2v & AC3 , same drives, why do you think its a drive problem, what can be done about it , and why is GFD & mplex using so little CPU cycles and going so slow

DGpulldown was very slow slower than realtime play of the file, any ideas on that, there were no errors displayed

the test-1.avi-mpv and the pulldown m2v version both exsisted on my 'C' drive,

[borax]

HOW do i get GFD to use muxman instead of mplex ?

Just open Default Settings, go to the last tab: Permanent and select the authoring engine: MuxMan.
Link to the help (which is also available if you choose help in the GfD menu):
http://download.videohelp.com/gfd/Help/DefaultPermSettings.html
http://download.videohelp.com/gfd/Help/MuxMan.html

For the 'slow down' problem, I have no idea. In principal, using (physically!) different source and target drives is always a good idea...

[AlanHK]

HOW do i get GFD to use muxman instead of mplex ?

Just open Default Settings, go to the last tab: Permanent and select the authoring engine: MuxMan..

However, you can't change that setting in an existing project, once you've imported any titles.

I found Muxman only a little faster.
But it does use less intermediate storage. If the problem is related to storage, it may work better. Perhaps you have a massively fragmented disk?

[manono]

DGpulldown was very slow slower than realtime play of the file, any ideas on that, there were no errors displayed the test-1.avi-mpv and the pulldown m2v version both exsisted on my 'C' drive,

Yeah, DGPulldown doesn't give you the choice of saving to a different drive. To check for PIO Mode. Go Start->Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager->IDE Controller.

1. Open Device Manager.
2. Double-click IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers to display the list of controllers and channels.
3. Right-click the icon for the channel to which the device is connected, select Properties, and then click the Advanced Settings tab.
4. In the Current Transfer Mode drop-down box, select DMA if Available if the current setting is "PIO Only."
If the drop-down box already shows "DMA if Available" but the current transfer mode is PIO, then the user must toggle the settings. That is:

• Change the selection from "DMA if available" to PIO only, and click OK.

• Then repeat the steps above to change the selection to DMA if Available.

"For repeated DMA errors. Windows XP will turn off DMA mode for a device after encountering certain errors during data transfer operations. If more that six DMA transfer timeouts occur, Windows will turn off DMA and use only PIO mode on that device.

In this case, the user cannot turn on DMA for this device. The only option for the user who wants to enable DMA mode is to uninstall and reinstall the device.

Windows XP downgrades the Ultra DMA transfer mode after receiving more than six CRC errors. Whenever possible, the operating system will step down one UDMA mode at a time (from UDMA mode 4 to UDMA mode 3, and so on).

If the mini-IDE driver for the device does not support stepping down transfer modes, or if the device is running UDMA mode 0, Windows XP will step down to PIO mode after encountering six or more CRC errors. In this case, a system reboot should restore the original DMA mode settings.

All CRC and timeout errors are logged in the system event log. These types of errors could be caused by improper mounting or improper cabling (for example, 40-pin instead of 80-pin cable). Or such errors could indicate imminent hardware failure, for example, in a hard drive or chipset.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/IDE-DMA.mspx

If you're in PIO Mode and successfully switch back to Ultra DMA Mode, everything will speed up dramatically. If you're already in UDMA, then I can only echo AlanHK and suggest a defrag.

[theewizard]

Quote:
1. Open Device Manager.
2. Double-click IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers to display the list of controllers and channels.
3. Right-click the icon for the channel to which the device is connected, select Properties, and then click the Advanced Settings tab.
4. In the Current Transfer Mode drop-down box, select DMA if Available if the current setting is "PIO Only."
If the drop-down box already shows "DMA if Available" but the current transfer mode is PIO, then the user must toggle the settings. That is:

• Change the selection from "DMA if available" to PIO only, and click OK.

• Then repeat the steps above to change the selection to DMA if Available.

yep it it says transfer mode dma avilable

and current mode ULTRA DMA 5

I'll check the HD and try a defrag

i'll try gfd with muxman on another project

a 42 min, 3xx meg, TV episode and see how that works out

Hey, thanks for the Avidemux tip regarding TS transcodes. It actually outputs good Mpeg2-TS files! The only free app out there that does it....

your welcome, I was just trying out various things in avidemux2 .. try to find a faster/better way to complete my conversion projects

it was an accidental find , a feature that made me think 'whats this ? '

glad to contribute, now you can thank the author, he deserves the credit

[theewizard]

I defrag 'C' drive twice, ( it was pretty bad) and that appears to be a big help, I have run a test with a smaller file 351 megs 42min runtime AVI Xvid codec


CCE covert to mpv 32minutes

DGpulldown to m2v at 29.97 913 seconds =15 min 13sec

thats only 35% of the video run time instead of 150% aprox 5 times faster, ( percent wise )

i have to try CCE & DGpulldown on test-1 to see if I get the same type of increase

here is the rest of the info on this trial test2

GFDauthor log

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>Time: 3/17/2007 2:02:34 PM

(shrink and) mux video and audio files
INFO: [???] mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [???] File c:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\My Videos\New Folder\test-2.avi.mpv.pulldown.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [???] File C:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\My Videos\New Folder\test-2.avi.ac3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
INFO: [???] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [???] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [???] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [???] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (c:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\My Videos\New Folder\test-2.avi.mpv.pulldown.m2v)
INFO: [???] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [???] Frame width : 720
INFO: [???] Frame height : 480
INFO: [???] Aspect ratio : 16:9 display
INFO: [???] Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 6000000 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [???] CSPF : 0
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (C:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\My Videos\New Folder\test-2.avi.ac3)
INFO: [???] AC3 frame size = 512

INFO: [???] AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 16384 bytes/sec (128 kbit/sec)
INFO: [???] Frequency : 48000 Hz
INFO: [???] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [???] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 6258000
INFO: [???] target data-rate specified : 10080000
INFO: [???] Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
INFO: [???] Run-in Sectors = 89 Video delay = 13019 Audio delay = 0
INFO: [???] New sequence commences...
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [???] Audio bd: buf= 16384 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [???] STREAM bd completed @ frame 78131.
INFO: [???] Scanned to end AU 62524
INFO: [???] STREAM e0 completed @ frame 62524.
INFO: [???] Multiplex completion at SCR=225076370.
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 4884 frame=062524 sector=00929241
INFO: [???] Audio bd: buf= 16384 frame=078131 sector=00019844
INFO: [???] VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
INFO: [???] Video Stream length: 1875750004 bytes
INFO: [???] Sequence headers: 4342
INFO: [???] Sequence ends : 1
INFO: [???] No. Pictures : 62524
INFO: [???] No. Groups : 4342
INFO: [???] No. I Frames : 4342 avg. size 51262 bytes
INFO: [???] No. P Frames : 18563 avg. size 33176 bytes
INFO: [???] No. B Frames : 39620 avg. size 26181 bytes
INFO: [???] Average bit-rate : 5999600 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Peak bit-rate : 8048000 bits/sec
INFO: [???] BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 150208
INFO: [???] AUDIO_STATISTICS: bd
INFO: [???] Audio stream length 40003584 bytes.
INFO: [???] Frames : 455931036
INFO: [???] BUFFERING min 35 Buf max 4611
INFO: [???] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.

C:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>Time: 3/17/2007 2:18:49 PM

C:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\GFDOutDir\DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
INFO: Creating menu for TOC

STAT: Processing C:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp\MMMenu.mpg...

INFO: Video pts = 0.183 .. 0.223
INFO: Audio[32] pts = 0.183 .. 0.183
STAT: VOBU 1 at 0MB, 1 PGCS
INFO: Generating VMGM with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: pal
INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3
INFO: Resolution: 720x576

STAT: fixed 1 VOBUS

C:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>Time: 3/17/2007 2:36:21 PM

Batchrun finished

C:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>

16 minutes to mux, 34 minutes total

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

GFD muxman

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>Time: 3/17/2007 12:52:31 PM

shrink video files...

C:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>Time: 3/17/2007 12:52:32 PM

author DVD
MuxMan version 0.15Q
Opened script file C:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp\muxman.mxp
Accepted video c:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\My Videos\New Folder\test-2.avi.mpv.pulldown.m2v size = 1875750004
Accepted audio C:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\My Videos\New Folder\test-2.avi.ac3
Accepted image C:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp\MMBackg.bmp
No useable audio found for PGC "MainMenu"

12:52:33 Begin multiplex VTS01.
Title Segment List
Segment_1
Maximum audio duration 125012 fields.
Starting scene Segment_1_scn1 at 00:00:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn2 at 00:04:00:06, requested for 00:04:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn3 at 00:08:00:03, requested for 00:08:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn4 at 00:12:00:15, requested for 00:12:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn5 at 00:16:00:09, requested for 00:16:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn6 at 00:20:00:06, requested for 00:20:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn7 at 00:24:00:01, requested for 00:24:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn8 at 00:28:00:13, requested for 00:28:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn9 at 00:32:00:11, requested for 00:32:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn10 at 00:36:00:15, requested for 00:36:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn11 at 00:40:00:13, requested for 00:40:00:00
SeqEnd at 6FCDAC70.
Bytes remaining in buffer = 0.
Bitrate - avg: 5209993, min: 3841765 (lba 940868), max: 6865676 (lba 859498).
Shortest GOP has 16 fields, longest GOP has 36 fields.
Fields: 149910, VOBU: 4322, Sectors: 953406.
Largest GOP of 36 fields exceeds DVD specification of 30, resulting DVD is non-standard.

13:15:26 Begin multiplex VMG.
Menu Segment List
Segment_MainMenu
Encoded stream 20 is script stream 1.
Maximum audio duration 0 fields.
new graphics buffer size 414720.
SPU buffer size 8192.
graphics buffer size 1244160.
Starting scene MainMenu_scn1 at 00:00:00:00
SeqEnd at 55C8.
Bytes remaining in buffer = 0.
Bitrate - avg: 477866, min: 477866 (lba 0), max: 477866 (lba 0).
Shortest GOP has 2 fields, longest GOP has 2 fields.
Fields: 24, Still fields: 22, VOBU: 1, Sectors: 14.
13:15:28 End multiplex.
1 oddities detected, resulting DVD is non-standard. Check log for details
C:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>Time: 3/17/2007 1:15:40 PM

Batch run finished

C:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>

23 minutes total process time

I have not yet repeated the procedures using the test-1 file since the defrag, it was almost 69x meg and 91 minutes run time

so test-1 is 216% the run time of test2 and 195% the size of test2

but I will try again with that or a similar file and post the results

here is a screen shot of DGpulldown





here is the gspot screen shot of the first AVI file, NOT the CCE output mpv of this file sorry forgot to get one of those

gspot-1.jpg

thanks to all who helped, i still want to play around with AVIdemux2 some more and what it will and will not do

[theewizard]

OK i burned (3) authored versions of test2 to DVD+RW for quailty evuations

GFDauthor, GFDmuxman, and Muxman free 'as is' ( no chapters )

GFDauthor plays perfectly and displays at 16:9

GFD with muxman the audio is way out of sync running several seconds ahead of the video , displays at 16:9

Muxman by it self plays perfectly , displays at 4:3 in perfect aspect , crops the left & right edges of and fills the screen
available settings were PS, LB, both i selected both, next time i'll try PS or LB

muxman running alone 22 minutes to process the files

the same (2) elementry streams m2v & AC3 were use for all three trials

[borax]

GFD with muxman the audio is way out of sync running several seconds ahead of the video , displays at 16:9 + Muxman by it self plays perfectly

That's interesting. So for NTSC MuxMan expects some more info for the video and audio files, which it gathers obviously itself in GUI mode, but not in 'command line' mode...
Could you do me a favor?
Run MuxMan by it self, save the mxp file from the MuxMan GUI and send it to me together with the muxman.mxp file which was created by GfD in MuxMan mode. You don't need to reauthor everything, in the MuxMan GUI just save as project and in GfD use the 'create batch' button.
I am curious for the differences...