forty-two download.

[KaiCherry]

When encoding an SVCD what is the final result? two MPG files? a handful of IMG files to burn?

Let me know,

Thanks...

mpeg files.

-K

[KaiCherry]

Getting closer to getting results. Finally have a few of the files in the correct folder, and I dont get the missing mpegenc any longer. But I do get the following: (This DVD wont work under the super video option), only divx.

I am not getting any results. What do I need to do??, at least it goes to the terminal now..

Last login: Thu Jan 23 15:30:11 on ttyp2
/tmp/.wd
Welcome to Darwin!
[My-Name-Computer:~] myname% /tmp/.wd

THANKS, for any help

First off, you guys need to stop posting all the output

NO SPACES ANYWHERE.

Not in the filename, not in the temp path, not anywhere. Make sure there are no spaces in any paths and you should be fine.

-K

[KaiCherry]

I'd like to retract my statement about things being fixed...

I still get this stuff...

*sigh*

That is normal output. Its fine. Its all being taken care of, however. You won't be seeing it in the next version...

-K

[rockinsage]

Kai,

When selecting a user-bitrate VCD, you're not using VBR, are you?

::rockinsage::

[Eug]

Hmmm... Finished at 2.3 GB. Very good quality for MPEG-2 considering the small size of the file. I was expecting something like 4 GB or something.

However, the process stopped at the mux process. The AC3 file seemed to be empty.

It's too bad the program deletes the avi in the process. I would have just demuxed from there and hopefully got a sync'd audio track.

[bilestyle]

Kai,

When selecting a user-bitrate VCD, you're not using VBR, are you?

::rockinsage::

VCD is NEVER encoded in vbr, its just not a smart thing to do. vbr is only turned on for svcd and dvd

[pants]

so i can't take a pal dvd and choose dvd and get a pal dvd as the result? i'll only get an ntsc dvd?

also i'm trying to rip the region 3 ntsc korean dvd of my sassy girl, and the dvd has dts, which i know won't work , but then it also has a ac3 stereo track, but when it tries to give me the test clip, it can't find the ac3 file and quits? is this cause in the language section there is no korean option? i choose the english subtitle but left the language blank.

i'm now trying the reg. 1 miramax chungking express dvd, to see if selecting the english subs and language blank will work, cause that dvd needs the chinese track. should i be getting a chinese and korean option in the languages?? did i screw somehting up then on install?

cause i tried to do the kiki's delivery service dvd again and i select english subs, which are on the dvd, and then japanese language, but it will only give me japanese subs. and on regular dvd players the subs are off as default, not forced.

any thoughts, cause i really want to make this gret ap work.

thanks

[pmcd]

First off, you guys need to stop posting all the output

NO SPACES ANYWHERE.

Not in the filename, not in the temp path, not anywhere. Make sure there are no spaces in any paths and you should be fine.

-K

I have no spaces anywhere (except in Application Support ) . But I keep getting thi smDVD not found error and then the error which seems to end everything

"syntax error: Expected end of line, etc. but found ?end tell?. (-2741)"

Then it stops and one is back at the prompt. This is right after

"STATUS: Ok...Encoding DVD to DivX...ZZZZzz
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt) "


----

I am truly at a loss. Everything is installed properly as far as I can tell. I am only using NTSC svcd files, etc...

philip

[KaiCherry]

so i can't take a pal dvd and choose dvd and get a pal dvd as the result? i'll only get an ntsc dvd?

Yes. The current tools all support PAL just fine from what I understand, so PAL wasn't really even considered until 2 days ago.

Note I said consider, not supported I also understand that most PAL DVD players and such support our inferior NTSC 'standard" anyway.

also i'm trying to rip the region 3 ntsc korean dvd of my sassy girl, and the dvd has dts, which i know won't work , but then it also has a ac3 stereo track, but when it tries to give me the test clip, it can't find the ac3 file and quits? is this cause in the language section there is no korean option? i choose the english subtitle but left the language blank.

You would not BELIEVE how complex this is. DVDs are supposed to use specific codes for specific languages, but they don't have to. I've seen DVDS with several languages, but all of them are marked English in the DVD data.

We have made changes to forty-two to help cope with this, but there is only so much we can do.

As I've said many times now...DVDs Lie

cause i tried to do the kiki's delivery service dvd again and i select english subs, which are on the dvd, and then japanese language, but it will only give me japanese subs. and on regular dvd players the subs are off as default, not forced.

This is most likely because the japanese language version of the audio is also flag as English as well, but uses a different numerical audio language id. Its totally arbitrary, I'm afraid.

My Blood: The Last Vampire DVD does this.

any thoughts, cause i really want to make this gret ap work.

thanks

Don't know if I have anything to add to help in your plight, sorry

-K

[Flip Flop Frog]

Few small questions...

1. What is the easiest way to take the two MPG files created by 42, in SVCD format, and burn them to two SVCDs?

2. 42, how does it decide where to split movies? It's been rather convient for file sizes for the one I made, but what I'm wondering what if I was doing a 3 hour movie rather than the 2 hour movie I just finished? Does it automatically make a new "chunk" once the file reaches 700ish MBs or does it just fit them into two? what is the process?

Because I do have a 3 hour and about 20 minute movie I want to give a try.

Thanks,

Flip

[Eug]

So who else has empty AC3 files?

[KaiCherry]

So who else has empty AC3 files?

This is obviously a dvd, or dvd-type specific issue and not an overall failing on the part of forty-two.

What would be helpful would be if people would post the name/make of dvd in question, and what they were trying to do...strait transcode, subs, atlernate audio...what?


Thanks,

-K

[Eug]

So who else has empty AC3 files?

This is obviously a dvd, or dvd-type specific issue and not an overall failing on the part of forty-two.

What would be helpful would be if people would post the name/make of dvd in question, and what they were trying to do...strait transcode, subs, atlernate audio...what?


Thanks,

-K

Hmmm... Maybe just this DVD?

OK, straight conversion from DVD-9 to DVD. I got a 24 fps 2.3 GB MPEG-2 file with good quality video, but 42 hung when trying to start the mux, saying it couldn't find the Ghostworld.mpg.ac3 file. The file was there, but was an empty file (0 bytes). Are there any settings I may have missed? (I didn't set anything at all actually, not even the bitrate. None of the options checked. )

The disc is Ghost World. It does have an AC3 track (if that matters), and is about 7.6 GB. I didn't choose this disc for any particular reason, other than because I knew it was dual layer and it was handy.

Somebody over at MacNN got the same problem, but I dunno which disc was used.

By the way, has anyone converted the resultant MPEG-2 files and .ac3 files for use in DVD Studio Pro? It wants 29.97 fps MPEG-2 files. And obviously I don't have an .ac3 file to test yet.

I'll do more testing on the w/e, with a different disc.

P.S. I was surprised at the default 2.3 GB size for the MPEG-2 file. The quality was pretty good, but I would have guessed the default would have been closer to 4 GB or something. Next time I try it I'll manually set the bit rate.

[pants]

chungking express, region 1 ntsc, by miramax/rolling thunder
my sassy girl, region 3 ntsc, by starmax (korean)
spirited away, region 2 ntsc by studio ghibli (japanese)
kiki's delivery service, region 2 ntsc by studio ghibli (japanese)

these are the only dvd's i've tried so far going dvd to dvd.
i choose subs as english, and if they have a japanese track i choose language jap., i left the language unchecked for the my sassy girl (korean lang.) and for the chungking express (chinese lang.)

the audio i was trying to use on all of these was the default, original audio. all have a stereo ac3 track, one also had a dts track, and then 5.1 tracks. for all of them, except my sassy girl, the audo in the temp files was fine too, my sassy girl couldn't find the audio for the temp file, that's the dvd that also had dts.

and all of them end with this type of terminal.

i also tried these straight from the dvd, and straight from disc images, same results.

the program has worked for me though going dvd to vcd, no subs with english lang. for chris rock, bring the pain dvd.

just wondering, instead of choosing by specific language/subs, would it ever be possible to choose by language track, 1,2, ect or sub track, 1,2 etc?

hope this helps and thanks again.


A:7471.6 V:7471.6 A-V: 0.029 ct:746.487 179139/179139 45% 385% 5.4% 96033 0 EOF code: 1

Uninit audio filters...
[libaf] Removing filter dummy
uninit audio: liba52
uninit video: libmpeg2
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x2cb5a30

Exiting... (End of file)
10:52AM up 10:11, 3 users, load averages: 2.51, 2.27, 2.18
STATUS: Fixing up AC3...
Input #0, avi, from '/Users/superpants/Spirit_Temp/Spirited.mpg.avi':
Stream #0.0: Video: , 720x480, 23.98 fps, 800 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
Output #0, ac3, to '/Users/superpants/Spirit_Temp/Spirited.mpg.ac3':
Stream #0.0: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.1 -> #0.0
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
Warning, allocating 0 bytes
Press [q] to stop encoding
size= 0kB time=10000000000.0 bitrate= 0.0kbits/s
rm: /Users/superpants/Spirit_Temp/audiodump.wav: No such file or directory
STATUS: Multiplexing...
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.1 ($Date: 2002/04/20 19:08:30 $)
[patrick-tulipanos-Computer:~] superpants% eam.
**ERROR: [mplex] Unable to read from file /Users/superpants/Spirit_Temp/Spirited.mpg.ac3.

[pants]

By the way, has anyone converted the resultant MPEG-2 files and .ac3 files for use in DVD Studio Pro? It wants 29.97 fps MPEG-2 files. And obviously I don't have an .ac3 file to test yet.

I'll do more testing on the w/e, with a different disc.

hey eug,

i tried to bring in one of my mpv files to dsp , but it was 23.97 and dsp would'nt except it, i think i've heard that ap mpeg append or something from that dud who made tha ap might do something to the file so dsp will read but haven't looked into it yet. so then i put the dvd in ripped the ac3, took that and the mpv file 42 made, and used ffmpegx to mux and output a dvd. it seemed like it worked, but in dsp there was no audio, so then i played it in mplayer osx, and it played fine and had audio and from what i could tell was in sync, it was a japanese language film so not too easy to tell for me i wanted to test it on a regular tv though, so then i burned it to dvd-rw to test on my set top player and no audio, no matter what settings i did, but when i hit the audio button on the remote it said the audio was mpeg not ac3, so i guess ffmpegx converted the audio from ac3. to mp2 maybe?? i was going to try mmt to try this process again but wasn't sure it the same thing would happen.

any one else try anyhting like this?

thanks

[lessthanbake]

idk if this has been addressed but whenever i choose a quality setting for Divx i get the same size file either way. For instance i chose to copy a movie with the mid setting and came out with a 780 MB movie and then when i did 1 CD quality, it spat out 780 MB. But the weird thing is, is when i check get info for the mid quality movie it tells me 780 MB but when i open it in QT and i get the movie info, the info tells me that the data size is 711 MB. This goes with the 1 CD movie too. IT tells me 780 in the get info but in the QT movie info window it tells me 688 MB. Does anybody kno why it is doing this?

Thanks

[kaneda006]

Hey,
I hit 'start' seriously, over a day ago, and i've gone from 90 to 91% in 8 hours. I'm doing lawrence of arabia (224 min) on an iBook (700 G3, 384 ram)...how long should i expect this to take? And how many mpeg files are there going to be? Thanks.

jeremy

[jbcandkc]

OK, I'm getting close, but still no cigar.

I'm making vcd of 45 min TV show off DVD and I get all the way up to seeing the 60 sec preview (in perfect sync, btw :P ) then I get the following in the terminal

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

Exiting... (End of file)
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
658
STATUS: Ok...Encoding DVD to VCD...Cop a walk or something. I'll let you know if there is a problem, or when we are done...
STATUS: Ripping and encoding video...Zzzzz
STATUS: Here is your DVD...we are done with it...
Disk /dev/disk2 ejected
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler

MPlayer CVS-030118-18:03-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

AltiVec found
Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /Users/myhome/.mplayer/config
Reading /Users/myhome/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/Users/myhome/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf
ation Support47, 0.09, 0.05t/font.desc' '-fp34.5% user, 8.6% sys, 56.9% idle nts/movietemp/mov.mpg.avi'
Font /Library/Application Support/forty-two/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (233 chars)
Using Unoptimized On83reenDisplay 6 4
Using uslee5.2 timing 2 4 5
get_path('input.conf') -> '/Users/myhome/.mplayer/input.conf'
Can't open input config file /Users/myhome/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Falling back on def7.7t (har1.03ed) input config
get_path('mov.mpg.avi.conf') -> '/Users/myhome/.mplayer/mov.mpg.avi.conf'

Playing /Users/myhome/Documents/movietemp/mov.mpg.avi
Not an URL!
File not found: '/Users/myhome/Documents/movietemp/mov.mpg.avi'


Exiting... (End of file)

-----------

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

jbcandkc

[SCB]

Hey,
I hit 'start' seriously, over a day ago, and i've gone from 90 to 91% in 8 hours. I'm doing lawrence of arabia (224 min) on an iBook (700 G3, 384 ram)...how long should i expect this to take? And how many mpeg files are there going to be? Thanks.

jeremy

What are you converting to, SVCD (MPEG-2)? If so, that's why it's taking so long. MPEG-2 encoding takes forever on a G3, even a fast one.

[Lolsmurf]

Kaicherry,

Is there any change you're gonna put an extra option in the program to add Dutch subtitles to SVCD and DivX.

thanks

[pants]

i'm wondering if anyone might have any tips or thoughts on why this isn't working or what i'm doing wrong.

since the dvd's i've tried so far will only produce a m2v file and no ac3 audio (see a few posts above), i just ripped the ac3 audio from the dvd on it's own. the m2v file i got from 42 is at 23.97 NTSC. dsp won't accept this. so i tried the latest version of sizzle. it will take it, so i took the video encoded out of 42 and the ac3 file straight from the dvd and authored the dvd using sizzle. i previewed the dvd in apple's dvd player and every seemed cool i spot checked here and there and the audio seemed to be in sync. a little hard to tell cause it's in japanese and i don't speak japanese, but it doesn't seem off. so i burn a dvd-rw to test. but on none of my 3 dvd's will it play with sound. it gives me like noise or silence.

these players are totally capable of playing dvd-rw's and have many times before.

in my post above, i also mentioned how i tried authoring it with ffmpegx and mmt before, and there it seemed to work but i wouldn't get sound when previewing in apple's dvd player, but i would get sound in mplayer .

does this have anything to do with the video being encoded at 23.97?? i'm just trying to find a way to salvage these mpeg videos, cause they look great and have english subs. i just can't find a working way to get the audio on them.

anythoughts would be much appreicated.

thanks

[Paragon]

I would also like to have the PAL supported on forty-two. Also will there be any info added to the readme file about the quality of the different selections.

I ripped the matrix PAL (DivX) and it came out just fine, but like so many of the other I also get the fonts error message and the "expected eol but found end tell".

Nice job...looking forward to the next version.

[KaiCherry]

I would also like to have the PAL supported on forty-two. Also will there be any info added to the readme file about the quality of the different selections.

I ripped the matrix PAL (DivX) and it came out just fine, but like so many of the other I also get the fonts error message and the "expected eol but found end tell".

Nice job...looking forward to the next version.

The fonts error message Really. The font is someplace else, thats all.

As for PAL...it is now officially under consideration. But:

I erm...

Well. I don't have a PAL dvd I can't write logic to support it



-K

[pants]

[quote="KaiCherry
As for PAL...it is now officially under consideration. But:

I erm...

Well. I don't have a PAL dvd I can't write logic to support it

-K[/quote]


great news on the pal stuff. i only have a few pal dvd's right now and they are all dvd-9's, but if i can get a dvd-5 from a buddy and just do a straight copy, then send it to you, would that be cool??? i don't know if any of my friends have a dvd-5 pal but i'll put the word out. if they do, should i look for one with certain things to it?? various audio tracks, subs, what ever. does it matter? or just any pal dvd will do?? let me know and then if things work out, just give me your address or somewhere to send it for you. or if it doesn't matter and you just need anything, i can try just ripping the movie off one of my pal dvd's and reauthoring it in dsp and then send that, as a total bare bones no subs or anything dvd. let me know.

thanks

[KaiCherry]

great news on the pal stuff. i only have a few pal dvd's right now and they are all dvd-9's, but if i can get a dvd-5 from a buddy and just do a straight copy, then send it to you, would that be cool???

ermm. I'm not going to ask you to pirate anything, lol

If you can send a PAL dvd with subs, etc that would be a BIG help in getting the code started. PM me for my address, etc.

-K

[pants]

with 42, when doing dvd to dvd, what is the output? audio/video ts folders? or an ac3 file and a m2v file? just wondering.

pants

[WiseWeasel]

it's supposed to be muxed ac3 and m2v in an mpg container (same as vob). The ac3 bug was kind of a blessing in disguise since it prevented that final muxing step, which is totally useless to me, since I want to import the ac3 and m2v streams into DVDSP. The streams are still left intact, however, so you can still do that. It's just a wasted step tacked onto the end of the process. You can kill it while it's running mplex, though, and just stick with the audio and video streams.

[pants]

so it give you a vob? or a muxed mpeg file? then how are people making the actual video ts folder to be burned to dvd?

wiseweasel,

have any of the dvd encodings you've done in 42 been to 23.97 ntsc film rate? and if so have you been able to bring those into dsp? did you need to do anyhting to the file before you brought it in?

thanks

[WiseWeasel]

so it give you a vob? or a muxed mpeg file? then how are people making the actual video ts folder to be burned to dvd?

You get a muxed mpeg file, that you import into Sizzle to make a dvd out of, or you throw it in the trash, and just use the biles.mpv (which is really an m2v stream) and an ac3 stream with DVDSP to master a DVD.

have any of the dvd encodings you've done in 42 been to 23.97 ntsc film rate? and if so have you been able to bring those into dsp? did you need to do anyhting to the file before you brought it in?

I just finished doing akira, which is NTSC film rate. The before last encoding i did with the January 18th build of mencoder did not work with DVDSP. The last one I did using the release build of 42 and the January 7th build of mencoder worked perfectly with DVDSP, but unfortunately was slightly too big to be able to fit both the video and audio track (even downsampled to 128 kbit stereo ac3) on a DVD-5 disk. The latest 'fixed' build of 42 seems to work fine along with the Jan 7th build of mencoder and DVDSP. My guess is that your problem comes from using one of the more recent versions of mencoder.

[Microman]

In the process of "zzzzzz" and I dont understand why I cant find the preview movie. I can see it says in the terminal, that it was copying the file, but then I read NO SUCH FILE, etc.... but this is another step, I will leave the computer on, tonight, and see if I come up with any results.


No such file or directory

AltiVec found
Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory

Playing movie.mpg
File not found: 'movie.mpg'

Will see in the morning. Thanks for any more help.