AVStoDVD Support Thread

[thumb]

OK, it's not letting me change over to LAV filters for some reason. The LAV button is there but when I click on it an error screen comes up and says "H.264/AVC Preferred Codec NOT updated.

[manolito]

How do interlaced dvd's perform on playback ?

There should be no difference to a progressive DVD. It also depends on your playback chain...
Modern viewing devices (LCD, Plasma, Projector) all display whole frames (as opposed to old CRTs which display one field after the other). This means that interlaced sources have to be deinterlaced at some point before they are sent to the screen. This can be done by the TV itself or by the hardware player (if it upscales the DVD to HD and sends it out via HDMI). These hardware deinterlacers are pretty good these days, you have to judge for yourself. BTW most sports events are broadcast interlaced (at least in Germany), and if those look good on your TV then you should be fine.


Cheers
manolito

[manolito]

OK, it's not letting me change over to LAV filters for some reason. The LAV button is there but when I click on it an error screen comes up and says "H.264/AVC Preferred Codec NOT updated.

Yes, this happened to other users before. Are you logged in as the Admin? Whatever, you must download the DS Filter Tweaker tool and change your filter settings there. A link to this tool is at the bottom of the AVStoDVD preferred codecs window.


Cheers
manolito

[thumb]

OK, finally got a working DVD to watch! Thank you so much for your help.

Here's the log file just in case you want to see it.

[manolito]

My pleasure...

[mike252]

The downside is that the result will be interlaced. The difference to ChangeFPS is that ChangeFPS drops whole frames, and this other method only drops fields. This spreads the drops more evenly. Let me know if you are interested to try this method..


Cheers
manolito

I would like to give this a shot, if you don't mind sending me instructions.

[manolito]

No problem, here we go:


Convert 30fps (or 29.97fps) progressive clips to 25fps interlaced in AVStoDVD

This method provides smoother motion than just using ChangeFPS() because it drops fields instead of whole frames.


Load your source file into AVStoDVD, edit the source title info (rightclick on the title). Change the Video Scan Type from Progressive to Interlaced.







Click "View/Edit Title Settings" and select the "AviSynth" tab. Uncheck "Auto AviSynth Script" and edit the script according to these screen shots:

Before:


After::




Notes:
1. Deactivating the "LoadPlugin()" command is optional, you can also leave it as it is.
2. For the color conversion changing "interlaced=true" to "interlaced=false" has the same effect.
3. You can speed up the script by putting the resizer command before the "Interleave(Video, Video)" command.



Cheers
manolito

[manono]

If it were I, I'd want to see a short 10-second sample from the 'source' of this dvd1.mkv of mike252. I can think of several scenarios where frame interpolation or reinterlacing while converting to PAL wouldn't be necessary. One with steady movement, preferably cut from the DVD and not the MKV. That can be done using DGIndex (File->Save Project and Demux Video).

And since almost all PAL DVD players also play NTSC DVDs, is this conversion even necessary?

[manolito]

Hi manono,

you are absolutely right if this dvd1.mkv really originates from a DVD (and mike252 still has access to it). In the old days (before YouTube) 29.97fps sources were either true interlaced or telecined (hard or soft). That was easy.

But today many downloaded files from YouTube or similar sites are 29.97fps (or 30fps) progressive. I checked many of those files, all were REALLY progressive, no repeated frames or fields. And if you need to convert them to PAL you only have the choice between different levels of evil.

And just converting to NTSC is not always an option. I live in PAL land, and even if my hardware is pretty ancient, my CRT TV is MultiStandard, and my DVD player can output NTSC content to a PAL TV. The MultiStandard feature of my TV simply does not work, it does not sync to an NTSC signal. And the conversion which the DVD player does looks visibly worse than a software standards conversion. So sometimes this 30fps > 25fps frame rate conversion cannot be avoided.



Cheers
manolito

[mike252]

The technical side of things are a little over my head. I did try this and yes it takes nearly twice as long to encode. the result did not offer much change. Some fast motion scenes had slight judder effect.

I tried changefps to 25 with interlaced ticked in the edit video window with a reasonable result.

Sorry I think I made a mistake in the first one will try again.



When I followed your instructions the time of encode was about the same as before, I did notice that I left changefps on in preferences, was that ok.

I was surprised how good the result was though.

Thanks again Manolito.

[manolito]

The technical side of things are a little over my head.

This is not so hard once you understand the principles of frames, fields and interlaced.

Basically this method treats the source as if it was interlaced. You cannot resize interlaced content vertically, so you have to deinterlace it first. In the "Before" screen shot you see that a bob deinterlacer (produces double the original frame rate) is used for this. In our case using a deinterlacer is not necessary because the source is progressive, so we double the frame rate by repeating every frame (the Interleave command does this).

Now our clip has 60fps. We convert it to 50fps, and yes, using ChangeFPS is OK to do this (ChangeFPS drops frames, ConvertFPS blends frames). Next we separate the fields, the result will be a clip with 100fps where every frame has only half the original height. The SelectEvery command selects frames with a step width of 4 and offsets 1 and 2. The result will be frames 1,2,5,6,9,10... and it will be 50fps. And as the last step the Weave command combines every 2 frames into a new frame with twice the height and half the frame rate. So we end up with the desired 25fps, and the result will be interlaced because the Weave command combines frames from different points in time to another frame where the two fields originate from different points in time (well, not all of them, there is a sequence pattern of progressive and interlaced frames).



Any clearer now?

Cheers
manolito

[mike252]

As mud lol. You certainly know your stuff. This is beyond my intellect, but appreciate you taking the time to
explain.

Cheers Mike

[thumb]

Well I tried burning another video to DVD after getting all the help from here and got everything to work and saved my settings as default but I just burned another DVD but this time the source file was avi unlike the first one I did that was a wmv file.

Is there different settings depending on what type the source file is? The DVD burned once again with audio but no video on my stand alone player. It plays fine on my other player and the computer.

The only different thing I did was use a RW DVD just so I wouldn't waste any more.

Any suggestions? Here's the log for it.

[sum_guy]

I doubt it will play in anything but what you created it on, your pc. Stand alone players need a finalized disk, probably, your DVD-RW isn't finalized. Try a regular DVD-R or DVD+R

[thumb]

I must have got the logs mixed up, the one I did with the RW disc would not load at all. The first one I did was on a regular DVD-R which played the audio but no video. I think this is the log for the DVD-R.

[_MrC_]

The DVD burned once again with audio but no video on my stand alone player. It plays fine on my other player and the computer.

Well, the culprit is within the question itself.

The 2 project log files are OK.



Bye

[thumb]

OK, maybe I'm not following here but what did I do wrong? Different settings for different source types or is it something else? I
m not using the RW discs any more.

[zing269]

Both of those log files show you creating a PAL DVD. Probably your stand alone player is NTSC only.

[thumb]

You are right. I just realized that even though I chose NTSC when I started the process it asked me if I wanted a better video to make it PAL. I didn't notice that before. I'll keep a closer eye on it next time.

[hurricane1951]

I have a problem that began with the upgrade to Windows 10. AVStoDVD 2.8.1 was working fine prior to the upgrade.

After I launch AVStoDVD, I go about common tasks, like clicking New Project, etc. After a bit of time, maybe a minute or so, I get the following error:

Icaros terminated unexpectedly. A minidump has been written to disc. Explorer needs to restart. Would you like to copy the minidump path to your clipboard?

I've uninstalled AVStoDVD and installed the latest version with all defaults.

Any ideas what the source of the problem might be?

[steptoe]

Maybe permissions, I had this aggravation along with other permission related issues with Windows 8.1 which is why I went back to Windows 7

Try this suggestion on another forum

http://www.tenforums.com/general-discussion/11394-windows-10-says-i-dont-have-permissi...-anything.html



Reading a bit more about Icaros, its possibly falling over when AVStoDVD is creating its temporary files or short term files so Icaros creates the icons, then suddenly finds the files have been deleted or keep changing and can't cope with sudden changes in the video files and falls over .....

Do you need Icaros or can you disable it to see if that works

[digicube]

Muxman error. How can i fix this?

Segment memory resources --> RELEASED
Local Stack memory --> RELEASED
File i/o structures --> DEALLOCATED

Log files attached.

[manolito]

Hi digicube,

MuxMan is very picky when it encounters bitrate overshoots. Do you still have the muxman.log file? It should be here: "S:\TEMP\Salerno_1_MuxMan.log".

The first thing I would try is lower the bitrate to 8000 kbps or less for the source files which go higher.


Cheers
manolito

[kangarooster]

Hello!

I encoded my video using HCencoder and audio using TMPGenc prior to finding this software.
Since it is already encoded I just want to use the software for the authoring.

How should I configure AVS2DVD to respect the encoding already done so I don't end up with everting encoded twice? Should I choose "Direct Copy" as video enconder? (I can't find anything similar in audio settings tab, but I guess it doesn't matter because I can choose a original wav file and encode it again using this software instead).

Thank you

[theewizard]

direct copy will work
as long as file is dvd compatible resolution and fps

[kangarooster]

Just read the manual and apparently direct copy only show up if the file is already compatible for DVD. This is strange because my audio file (mp2) is compatible but it still won't show up. I think it might have to do with the fact that it is compressed with a higher bit rate (still DVD compatible though), 384 kbps, than the supported maximum in AVS2DVD (which is 256 kbps).

[digicube]

Hi digicube,

MuxMan is very picky when it encounters bitrate overshoots. Do you still have the muxman.log file? It should be here: "S:\TEMP\Salerno_1_MuxMan.log".

The first thing I would try is lower the bitrate to 8000 kbps or less for the source files which go higher.


Cheers
manolito

It's no longer there. I assume it automatically deletes it. Is there a way to tell AVStoDVD to keep all log files in the temp folder?

[manolito]

It's no longer there. I assume it automatically deletes it. Is there a way to tell AVStoDVD to keep all log files in the temp folder?

Yes, this option is right on the main screen, it becomes visible after you enable "+Settings".

[digicube]

Yes, this option is right on the main screen, it becomes visible after you enable "+Settings".

I enabled that option and it kept the temp files but MuxMan.log is not there so I assume it was never created which probably means MuxMan was never executed. I think the software crashed at BatchMux.

[imhh1]

Hi, everytime the Width resolution in a HD file is not BD compliant (1916X1080), this happen (the green line)