AVStoDVD Support Thread

[_MrC_]

@mjcoon

currently AVStoDVD does not support 'DVB Subtitle' format. Supported formats are:

- SubRip (.srt)
- IfoEdit (.sup)
- Scenarist (.sst)
- Vobsub (.idx/.sub)
- SubStation Alpha (.ssa/.ass)

you have to extract your subs, convert them to a supported format, then add the subs file to AVStoDVD



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[mjcoon]

currently AVStoDVD does not support 'DVB Subtitle' format. Supported formats are:

- SubRip (.srt)
- IfoEdit (.sup)
- Scenarist (.sst)
- Vobsub (.idx/.sub)
- SubStation Alpha (.ssa/.ass)

you have to extract your subs, convert them to a supported format, then add the subs file to AVStoDVD

Oh, dear; just when I thought I had found a tool capable of doing the conversion I wanted one-shot.

Any idea of a separate tool that does the conversion I want and/or chance of its being incorporated into AVStoDVD?

Mike.

[_MrC_]

chance of its being incorporated into AVStoDVD?

If you are able to extract the DVB subtitles as a file, please send it to me, I will try to understand if its support is feasibile.



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[mjcoon]

chance of its being incorporated into AVStoDVD?

If you are able to extract the DVB subtitles as a file, please send it to me, I will try to understand if its support is feasibile.

Thank you MrC, that is much more encouraging - but just as baffling! I guess what is wanted is a demux that preserves the original format, as if it were just unzip. Is there one?

For instance ProjectX outputs a .sup file (even though I put ".srt" in "PreSettings") which will already have changed the format (I gather to a rendered one in chosen font) which is of no use to you.

How about if I send a complete *.ts file? The smallest one I have so far is 27Mb (~1.5 minutes running time). But I could try recordingan even shorter one...

Mike.

[_MrC_]

How about if I send a complete *.ts file? The smallest one I have so far is 27Mb (~1.5 minutes running time). But I could try recordingan even shorter one...

27mb is ok, you can upload it using mediafire.com



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[mjcoon]

How about if I send a complete *.ts file? The smallest one I have so far is 27Mb (~1.5 minutes running time). But I could try recording an even shorter one...

27mb is ok, you can upload it using mediafire.com

OK, I've done that and the file is in http://www.mediafire.com/?bczeiiikil8fd

(It's quite amusing/interesting in its own right: a whale smashing a yacht, complete with subtitles.)

TIA, Mike.

[dad2]

Thanks for all your advice. I did download and install GraphEdit, and GSpot. Both indicated broken or missing filters, as far as I can understand what they displayed. My knowledge of both is dismal but will try to learn to use them a bit better in time.

Some one had asked about using Tweaker in regard to something they were working working on. I installed both 32 and 64-bit versions, tried converting the file to .iso again and it came out perfectly!

After installing Tweaker I tried the original clip in GraphEdit, all the wee boxes were connected. When installing Tweaker it said some of the software used in AVStoDVD was 'broken' and asked to replace these parts, I let it do this, perhaps this is what got things working properly?

A lot still to learn, well I suppose that's part of the fun!

Thank you again MrC

D2.
http://www.codecguide.com/windows7_preferred_filter_tweaker.htm


@dad2

just encoded the sample clip. Output sound is clear. I suspect a codecs issue. What does GraphEdit say about the directshow filters chain if you render the avi?



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[_MrC_]

@mjcoon

thanks for the TS file upload. Unfortunately it seems that there is no cmd line tool that extract DVB subs from TS containers. The only (GUI) tool that convert DVB subs to SUP/SRT seems to be ProjectX, as you have already discovered. AVStoDVD accepts both standards. Just be sure that SUP is correctly formatted (font, colors, etc.).

Some useful links:
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/283129-Does-anyone-know-how-to-extract-subtitles-from-ts
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/333392-Extract-subtitles-from-ts


@dad2

nice to hear that you have fixed it. And remember that you will never stop to learn, mainly in the A/V world.




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[Seeker47]

@FulciLives
that's really a pity. Do you have the possibility to use another PC, maybe with a clean Windows install?

_MrC_,

Should I take this to mean that AVStoDVD has been tested on 64-bit Win-7, and these codec support or compatibility issues do not necessarily arise ? That is to say, they may occur in some cases, but not in others ? If so, there must be some as yet unidentified variable . . . .

I have recently installed AVS into a fairly fresh W7 Ultimate 64, though I haven't gotten as far as trying to use it there yet. When I do, I'll report back.

[_MrC_]

Should I take this to mean that AVStoDVD has been tested on 64-bit Win-7, and these codec support or compatibility issues do not necessarily arise ? That is to say, they may occur in some cases, but not in others ? If so, there must be some as yet unidentified variable . . . .

No, you should not. As stated in the ReadMe.txt file:

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
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· Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 32bit

I know that many AVStoDVD users have a 64bit system, but I have not. Thus I cannot guarantee AVStoDVD functionalities under a 64bit system.

I have recently installed AVS into a fairly fresh W7 Ultimate 64, though I haven't gotten as far as trying to use it there yet. When I do, I'll report back.

Thanks, your feedback is very appreciated!



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[kjohnson28]

I get this error after installing Latest version: runtime error 383 text property is read only. any ideas?

[Kerry56]

^ The latest version, 2.5.1 solved this error for me. It only showed up on 2.5.0.

[kjohnson28]

Thanks for the info I will give it a try. I love this program.


Thanks, Insatalled perfectly...

[_MrC_]

^ The latest version, 2.5.1 solved this error for me. It only showed up on 2.5.0.

I apologize for the 2.5.0 bug. I have basically forgot to add the new 'Lang' folder to the Installer package. Oddly enough I had included it in the NoInstall package. I'm becoming old...



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[kjohnson28]

Thanks, I think your doing a great job with AVStoDVD this the firt time I have had any problem with it at all. To me AVSto DVD it the BEST program out there. for me anyway and I appreciate all your hard work with it. many thanks.

[_MrC_]

Thanks for you kind words. Very appreciated.



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[Seeker47]

I know that many AVStoDVD users have a 64bit system, but I have not. Thus I cannot guarantee AVStoDVD functionalities under a 64bit system.

O.K., but I suspect this is pretty much the way everything is going, over time and in the not very distant future. Most of the newer (non-tablet) computers I've seen being sold for the last year or two have 6 or more gigs of RAM, and need the 64-bit in order to be able to use it. I'm still mainly using older hardware than that, but thought it was high time to give 64-bit a try.

So far, I have only run one AVS job with it, using ver. 2.4.2. Prior to doing this, I'd made the adjustments recommended in the recent Tools Section review. It all went fine -- did not encounter the issue that Fulci ran into. But one job is a miniscule sample: I'll keep at it -- and shortly with the latest 2.5.1 -- and we'll see how it goes.

[_MrC_]

So far, I have only run one AVS job with it, using ver. 2.4.2. Prior to doing this, I'd made the adjustments recommended in the recent Tools Section review. It all went fine -- did not encounter the issue that Fulci ran into. But one job is a miniscule sample: I'll keep at it -- and shortly with the latest 2.5.1 -- and we'll see how it goes.

Thanks, every report about 64bit systems will be appreciated!



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[zendebra]

Just upgraded by version of AVStoDVD to the latest version 2.5.1 now when I start the application I get pop-up error
"Cannot load 'KO - Korean' language
Check pathname c:\Program Files\AVDtoDVD\Lang\Ko - Korean.lang.ini"

Checking for this file in the listed path and it is not there any suggestions where to get this file?

Stupid me didn't back-up the previous install folder first!!!

Thanks

[_MrC_]

Just upgraded by version of AVStoDVD to the latest version 2.5.1 now when I start the application I get pop-up error
"Cannot load 'KO - Korean' language
Check pathname c:\Program Files\AVDtoDVD\Lang\Ko - Korean.lang.ini"

Checking for this file in the listed path and it is not there any suggestions where to get this file?

Stupid me didn't back-up the previous install folder first!!!

Thanks

Probably registry key is messed up. Do a complete unistall of AVStoDVD, removing settings from windows registry, and then re-install.



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[AllenM]

Last night I installed AVStoDVD 2.51 and loaded a 650 MB mp4 file that I wanted to burn to DVD. The progress bar and the timer indicated it would take a while, so I went to bed. When I checked this morning, pass 1 of the encoding was only at 61%!
I was quite shocked since I've used AVS2DVD for quite a while and never had anything like this occur. Thinking there might be a bug in 2.51, I loaded the same file into 2.42 this afternoon with the same results. Can't figure out what's going on. In both cases everything stopped at about 60% progress. With 2.42 this afternoon, I watched it for an hour after it reached 61% of pass 1. Nothing happened after that. No movement in the progress bar and no change in time remaining or time used. I'm wondering if I missed some setting in the program. But as I said, I've used it for quite a while and have never encountered such a long delay in converting/encoding any file.

The CPU is an AMD Athlon 64 quadcore running at 2.8 GHz, 3.6 GB RAM and 28 GB of free disc space on the drive to which the file would have been output. Later in the afternoon I loaded the same file into VideoRedoTVSuite and it converted and encoded the file and burned it to DVD with no problem in a relatively short time. What could I have missed in the setup to produce this kind of results? I've attached the log file in the hope that that may be helpful.

[_MrC_]

I guess an issue in decoding the mp4 file using the directshow approach.

Do you get same error with all mp4 files or only with that one?

I would suggest to try the FFMpegSource approach, which does not involves directshow: go to 'Preferences'/'AviSynth' and select 'FFMpegSource' as AVS Source Filter. Then add your mp4.

Let me know



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[jagreenfield]

I'm trying to convert a video downloaded from YouTube to DVD. I've had good success with a variety of MP4 files with various properties, but one has defied me, even after very extensive perusal of help files, searches on the web, videohelp.com, and doom9.org, and some trial and error.


I downloaded a video as MP4, with the following title info:

Time: 25:56 minutes
Compression: AVC
Resolution: 640x360
FrameRate Mode: VFR
FrameRate: 24 fps
Frame Count: 37367
Scan Type: Progressive

When I encode to DVD, the AviSynth video script is:

Video = A2DVideoSource("file.mp4", FrameRate=24, VFR=true)
Video = Video.ConvertToYV12()
Video = Video.ConvertFPS("ntsc_video")
Video = Video.Lanczos4Resize(720,480)

Conversion is very slow - I aborted after 4 hours at 40% completion on HcEnc pass 1 of 2.


I downloaded the same video as FLV, with the following title info:

Time: 25:56 minutes
Compression: AVC
Resolution: 640x360
FrameRate Mode: CFR
FrameRate: 24 fps
Frame Count: 37367
Scan Type: Progressive

When I encode to DVD, the AviSynth video script is:

Video = A2DVideoSource("filet.flv", FrameRate=24, VFR=false)
Video = Video.ConvertToYV12()
#Using DGPulldown/HCenc to upsize FPS
Video = Video.Lanczos4Resize(720,480)

Conversion is relatively fast - similar to other videos with various frame rates. I needed to use QuEnc and had some issues with audio encoding. The output time was slightly increased to 25:58


After reading about frame rate conversion in the AviSynth docs, I suspected that the problem might be caused by slow frame conversion using ConvertFPS. It seemed that using DGPulldown could be a great choice for converting 24 fps to 29.97 fps. It worked for the FLV file and that conversion is one of the standard choices in DGPulldown. However, I couldn't see any way to force use of DGPulldown.

Instead, I changed the AviSynth script from "ConvertFPS" to "ChangeFPS" for the MP4 file. Conversion was relatively fast, but the frame insertion increased the time to 26:09.


Both files contain varying timecodes - sequences of 3 frames (41 msec, 42 msec, 42 msec) yielding an average of 41.67 msec for 24 fps.

Questions:
1. why is the MP4 interpreted as VFR, but the FLV is interpreted as CFR
2. why is conversion of the MP4 so slow using ConvertFPS (maybe 30-40x)
3. is there a way to force use of DGPulldown instead of ConvertFPS
4. is there an alternative filter in AviSynth that would work like DGPulldown

Any other suggestions on how I might improve this encoding process are welcomed.

Thanks for a great tool.

[ganymede]

MrC, thanks for your reply to my post. No, this problem seems to be unique to this particular file. I've used AVStoDVD to convert and burn other MP4 files to DVD without a problem. As a matter of fact, I converted another MP4 file this evening without a problem. I tried your suggestion of using FFMpeg Source as the AVS Source Filter but it didn't help with that file. Same thing happened. Pass 1 got to 60% and stopped same as the other two times. If there's a problem with the file, I wonder why I had no problem converting, authoring, and then burning it with VideoRedoTVSuite. Anyway, thanks for your continued development of AVStoDVD. I've used it for more than a year now and have been very pleased with the results.

[_MrC_]

@jagreenfield

Questions:
1. why is the MP4 interpreted as VFR, but the FLV is interpreted as CFR
2. why is conversion of the MP4 so slow using ConvertFPS (maybe 30-40x)
3. is there a way to force use of DGPulldown instead of ConvertFPS
4. is there an alternative filter in AviSynth that would work like DGPulldown

1. eventually the MP4 has been encoded in VFR (variable frame rate) and the FLV in CFR (constant frame rate)
2. that's not normal, the speed impact of ConvertFPS should not be so heavy. Have you installed Haali Media Splitter? Does the Haali icons pops out in the traybar when you are encoding the mp4?
3. DGPulldown works on MPEG2 streams and MPEG2 streams MUST not be VFR. ConvertFPS is just used to do VFR->CFR conversion
4. AFAIK no, there is not

@jagreenfield and ganymede

since your issues seem to be the same, is it possible for either of you send me the mp4 file to test it?

Meanwhile, as tentative workaround, I would suggest you to open the mp4 with Avidemux and then save it (no encoding, just copy video and audio) to mkv container. Then feed AVStoDVD with the mkv container.



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[Seeker47]

MrC, thanks for your reply to my post. No, this problem seems to be unique to this particular file. I've used AVStoDVD to convert and burn other MP4 files to DVD without a problem. As a matter of fact, I converted another MP4 file this evening without a problem. I tried your suggestion of using FFMpeg Source as the AVS Source Filter but it didn't help with that file. Same thing happened. Pass 1 got to 60% and stopped same as the other two times. If there's a problem with the file, I wonder why I had no problem converting, authoring, and then burning it with VideoRedoTVSuite. Anyway, thanks for your continued development of AVStoDVD. I've used it for more than a year now and have been very pleased with the results.

Yes, I have occasionally run into likely-bad files that cause the encoder to choke and stall, or run so slowly the job bogs down and would take days, if it even ran to completion. (For example, I've seen files where the internal time info shows it at 00:00 length, or 16 hours running time, either of which is ridiculous, because I know the video is somewhere in the half-hour to one-hour range.) What _MrC_ suggested may re-index or repair the file, or it may not.

In cases where a fix approach did not seem to work, or simply lacking time or where the material was not that important, I've often turned the problem file over to CX2D. It's an inferior program (compared to AVS), with inferior encoding, but it seems to have lower standards for the quality of source files and to render pretty quickly. I'd always rather go with AVS, but I think we need to keep more than one arrow in the quiver. VideoRedo has its own way of working (my older version only does MPG format, though), and includes its own repair functions.

[jagreenfield]

@jagreenfield

1. eventually the MP4 has been encoded in VFR (variable frame rate) and the FLV in CFR (constant frame rate)
2. that's not normal, the speed impact of ConvertFPS should not be so heavy. Have you installed Haali Media Splitter? Does the Haali icons pops out in the traybar when you are encoding the mp4?
3. DGPulldown works on MPEG2 streams and MPEG2 streams MUST not be VFR. ConvertFPS is just used to do VFR->CFR conversion
4. AFAIK no, there is not

@jagreenfield and ganymede

since your issues seem to be the same, is it possible for either of you send me the mp4 file to test it?

Meanwhile, as tentative workaround, I would suggest you to open the mp4 with Avidemux and then save it (no encoding, just copy video and audio) to mkv container. Then feed AVStoDVD with the mkv container.

MrC - thanks for your quick response to my post.

A standard AVStoDVD install was done, including the Haali Media Splitter.

I "think" that the Haali icon appears in the Task Bar. Before encoding starts, an icon containing what might be the outline of a head appears very briefly. If you could post an image of the Haali icon, I could probably verify whether that's what I'm seeing.

I could provide both the MP4 and FLV files, but they're each about 120MB. Do you have a suggestion for how to make those available to you ?

Otherwise, you could follow the procedure I used to download these files from YouTube:
go to savevid.com
enter this URL and click Download:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c64NRaNBdY&list=PLBIfbu9OBpU3dKxH3D9dUzXUCyM-rRqec&ind...ure=plpp_video
click "MP4" to download the MP4 file
click "FLV Normal Quality" to get the FLV file

I encoded these using:
Preferences->Video: Lower Avg BitRate: 2000 kbps
Preferences->Audio: DVD Audio BitRate: 96 kbps
Output->Muxed MPEG2 File
Edit Title Settings->Video:
Video Encoding Profile: HCenc VPB 2-pass
Video Avg BitRate: 2000 kbps

The low bitrates were used because the original files are fairly low quality and I wanted to fit ~ 3 hours of videos on a single DVD. The resulting quality actually seems better than the originals, probably due to some filtering cleanup.

Both the MP4 and FLV files come from the same YouTube source and contain identical timecodes. The timecodes were obtained by changing the AviSynth script to the following and aborting the encode:

Video = FFVideoSource("name.mp4", timecodes="timecodes.txt")

The timecodes look like the following. They are all integer, with deltas sequencing through 41, 42, 42, 41, ... msec for an average of 41.67 (24 fps).

# timecode format v2
0.000000
42.000000
83.000000
125.000000
167.000000
208.000000
250.000000
292.000000
333.000000
...
1556750.000000
1556792.000000
1556833.000000
1556875.000000
1556917.000000

I've analyzed the timecodes in detail and there are only deltas of exactly 41 and 42 msec (twice as many).
The same timecode sequence is identified as VFR for the MP4 and CFR for the FLV.

Is this determination made by AVStoDVD or one of the other tools ?
Is there a way to force the MP4 to be identified as CFR ?
If that is possible, would that result in use of DGPulldown instead of ConvertFPS ?

I understand that DGPulldown should only be applied to CFR, but that's what is used and worked for the FLV, which has the same timecodes as the MP4. It seems that the MP4 is essentially CFR, with timecodes that should probably be floats with deltas of 41.67 msec instead of integers with alternating deltas of 41 and 42 msec.

Couldn't the MP4 be treated as CFR so that DGPulldown could be used ?

I think I've seen discussion in the AviSynth docs about replacing the timecodes file. It seemed like a complicated process that I'd like to avoid if there's an easier approach.

[jedison]

Hi Mr C,

I am having horrible problems getting AVStoDVD (2.5.1) to work at all. I am on a basic WinXP machine, used default install settings when installing AVStoDVD, and I am trying to create a DVD from several MP4 files.

I have tried to make a DVD with the same MP4 files using FAVC but the menu structure was corrupted and therefore the DVD not usable. So I am pretty sure that the MP4 files are OK.
(Yes, I need a DVD so that I can play it back on a DVD player of a beemer projector for small groups.)

Each time after starting AVStoDVD, HCEnc will successfully convert the first film I have defined for the DVD, then HCEnc booms out and says "Error cannot process ERROR, can't process AVS file, wait for Avisynth error message" (and then a number of access violoations.

The log files are terse and unhelpful: CHECK LOG FILE <E:\xx.LOG> FOR MORE INFO. which is the log file that I read this from.

Checking the .ini and .avs files does not indicate any obvious problems.

1) Could long file names (like 50 characters not 5000) cause a problem?
2) Underscores in the file name? (Avisynth searching for a _ and adding a 1 after it in the middle of the name rather than the end, or something odd like that)

Suspecting an issue with Avisynch (the AVStoDVD install upgraded my Avisynth 2.5.7 to Avisynth 2.5.8), I uninstalled and re-installed Avisynth. Same results.

Any advice would be welcome as I would really like to switch from other tools to AVStoDVD.

Jeffrey

[davexnet]

regarding the VFR video mentioned above - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c64N...ure=plpp_video
I was able to get a reasonable encode, took about 20 minutes on my modest AMD box.
However, I did modify the script like so:
LoadPlugin("F:\Program Files\AVStoDVD\Lib\ffms2.dll")

Audio = directshowsource("F:\Documents and Settings\Dave Xnet\Desktop\bellicon advanced 25 minute workout.mp4", video=no)
Video = FFVideoSource("F:\Documents and Settings\Dave Xnet\Desktop\bellicon advanced 25 minute workout.mp4", track=-1, seekmode=0,fpsnum=25000,fpsden=1000)

#Video = Video.ConvertToYV12()
#Video = Video.ConvertFPS("pal_video")
Video = Video.AddBorders(0,60,0,60)
Video = Video.Lanczos4Resize(720,576)

Audio = Audio.SSRC(48000)

AudioDub(Video, Audio)

I've had good luck with that method for stubborn VFR video files.

[_MrC_]

@jagreenfield

about the haali icons, see an example here.

About the mp4 sample on Youtube, I was able to encode it as well, both with ConvertFPS active (see log here) and removed from AviSynth script (see log here).

On the second attempt, DGPulldown was able to process the m2v file converted w/o ConvertFPS, meaning that the mp4 was actually CFR. I would suggest to inform Zenitram, the creator of MediaInfo, used by AVStoDVD to read files info, about that inaccuracy.


@jedison

do you still have the project log file? Could you please report it here?




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