New DVD2MPEG and Video Archiver Plugins

[jwells]

What I was refering to earlier regarding DVD playback on the 350 was something like feed the video from DVD directly to the 350 board like you can now, but in order to get sound have a decoder for the audio and decode and feed the audio directly through the computer audio board (I feed the 350 audio back through the computers audio now. Some people may not want to do this ). No need to re-encode or multiplex anything back together and it seems the DVD can be played directly without ripping it to the harddrive. Some buffering may be required to get the timing down.

[colin]

Quote[/b] ]According to the mplex help, -f 8 is for creating a DVD output, which may be the way to go for someone using a PVR 350 but I think may be a problem for people that want to use a MVP where you need an MPEG 2 stream. The help says -f 3 creates a "generic mpeg".

I tried -f 3 originally as well, but have had better luck on the MVP with using -f 8 - like you say, people are better to try this out themselves and see what works best for them.

Quote[/b] ]When I run (mplex -f 3 -o "D:\Rips\Dieanotherday D1 Ps.mpg" "C:\Temp\audio.mp2" "C:\Temp\video.m2v&quot from a command window it says:

INFO: [] mplex version 2.2.2 ($Date: 2003/05/13 20:27:15 $
**ERROR: [] File C:\Temp\audio.mp2 unrecogniseable!
INFO [] File C:\Temp\video.m2v looks like an MPEG Video Stream.
**ERROR: [] Unrecogniseable file(s)... exiting

I verified the files are there. Any ideas?

Add in the -v flag with "-v 2" - debug output and it may give more information as to what it does not like.

Colin.

[jwells]

Well it looks like it's working. The only way it worked is when I deleted the old temp files. If someone pointed this out in thisforum I must have missed it.

Only problem is I ended up wth a 9.8 gig file.  This can't be right. Anyone know why a 4.4 gig movie ends up at 9.8 gig???

[Jeff]

That's something I wish I knew too. If someone has any ideas I'd love to add them. One thing I have done is shrink files using rejig, which will compress the mpeg stream. I'v gotten them down to under 3 meg. The only problem is that I haven't found a way to do what I want to do from the command line. I have tried to find a way to email the author of rejig but haven't located him yet.

Jeff

[colin]

the author of rejig is "nic" over at doom9.org forums. You may want to contact jdobbs over there who writes DVD-RB as he uses rejig as well though a CLI,

Actually i have just pm'ed jdobbs so we'll see if he comes back with anything,

Cheers,
Colin.

**EDIT**
Should have this info later today, will post as soon as i get it,

[mhatten]

I haven't seen any other posts talking about audio sync, so I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem and what they did to solve it. On 3 DVDs that I ripped, the sound seems to be behind by about 2 or 3 seconds. Any ideas as to how to fix it?

[tuvok]

@jeff

Great plugin! If not the best so far!

After some problems like others had too, I got it working.
But I still have one problem: The resulting MPEG File seems to be hardcoded to english language without subtitles. At least this line in the log tells me this:

Quote[/b] ]26.11.2004 23:03:20: Start Process: args are: /MODE IFO /SRC E:\ /VTS 1 /DEMUX 0xE0 0x80 0xA0 /DEST "G:\WUTemp\" /SPLIT NONE /START /OVERWRITE YES /CLOSE

0xE0 is the main movie, and 0x80 is english AC3. I like to have 0x81 wich is German AC3. Or add subtitles. Is there a way to change the command line argument that the plugin will use? Maybe they can be included in the config.xml or in a extra INI File.

BTW: I did not find a logfile where everything went ok. Please have look at the attachment. Is this how it should be?
I ask becouse the temp files are not cleaned up, but the MPEG files seems to be ok. Especially this line is suspected to be wrong:

Quote[/b] ]26.11.2004 23:33:19: CleanupStep skipped -- debug build

/regards
tuvok

[tuvok]

Quote[/b] (tuvok @ Nov. 27 2004,09:49)]BTW: I did not find a logfile where everything went ok. Please have look at the attachment. Is this how it should be?
I ask becouse the temp files are not cleaned up, but the MPEG files seems to be ok. Especially this line is suspected to be wrong:

Quote[/b] ]26.11.2004 23:33:19: CleanupStep skipped -- debug build

Well, I try it again with the attachment...

/regards
tuvok

[Stimpy]

For those of you wondering why a 4 GB movie produces a 9 GB file, it's because most DVDs are encoded with VBR encoding while the default in MPLEX.EXE is to output a CBR stream. So MPLEX has to use the peak bitrate for the entire file.

However if you add the -V option to the command line in MPLEX, the resulting file will be much smaller, even half the size in some cases. It also takes much less time to process.

Hopefully the next version of the plugin will allow us to add the -V switch to the MPLEX step.

But even with this limitation it is still a great plugin!

[Jeff]

Yes, in the next version all the command lines are configurable. I've also added a UI so that you can configue the setings like other GBPVR plug-ins through the plug-in tab of the config program. I also am now using an option of besweet to add the audio delay so delayac3.exe is no longer needed. I've also fixed some things like working with DVDs that do not have a volume name set. I have seen some posts of people who have run into these and I've now run into a few myself. I was waiting for sub to post the next version of gbpvr so that I can verify that the plug-in works with it before sending sub my update. If anyone wants a beta sooner, drop me an email.

Jeff