ebc's MPG/VOB to AVI encoding guide using Gordian Knot

[SacredCultivator]

Well with L-San's help I just went with the output they gave me but int he script changed it to 720x480... and later on today will try out another method... As yeah when I previewed things with MPC/Vdub it turned out to look okay but after encoding the audio was out of sync.

@Tiny: Trying your method, as hmm learned something new from it.. Except one thing confused me (Encoding at the moment) but when it said you can load the Audio witht he Encode... I tried to load it into VDub and it said it didn't know what 'Video' at the line 'audio=wavsource("d:\matrix\audio.wav")
audiodub(video,audio)'

I guess the 'Audiodub' is what I don't have or something....

Will post up the news when it finishes hoping it will by the tiem I get home from class... Also... Not too sure but yeah for Vdub anyone have any settigns/configurations that can be used ona  daily basis without having to tweak accordingly to like PV's/Drama/Movies/etc... As posted before lost mine ><

[cool_kickin_dude]

are there any other programs that will let me do it? I have some dvd's that are .vob's that won't play on my dvd player. is this the easiest program to do? I want to make sure it is so it won't screw up a concert that I've been wanting to see

[SacredCultivator]

well how many .vob's are there? I mean with 1 you can use Vdub and get it to sync easily... as I have never worked with multiple (4) I ad to resort to this guide but bleh didn't work for me =X

[cool_kickin_dude]

I have a two-part concert and I have a few episodes of H!M that are .vob's. any ideas?

[SacredCultivator]

Hmmm yeah I best let others tackle that one as I am having trouble myself getting this to work in terms of you know what =P. Just awaiting for other possible fixes/ other people who might be able to help as L-San + tiny's references didn't work for me.

[daigong]

What's the procedure to do subtitles?

I got a DVD and wanna hard encode some english subs onto a rip.


TIA!

[~Dan~]

Download and install a subtitle filter for virtualdub
http://www.virtualdub.org/virtualdub_filters.html

Then video - filters - add - subtitler - click the "..." button and find which folder your subtitle file is in (.ass or .ssa) and select it, then click ok

Then after you've set your other filters, audio and video encoding rates etc, start your video encoding and it'll be encoded with subtitles.

If your subtitle file is an .srt file you can convert it to an .ssa file with a prog called Subcreator.

[daigong]

Props brother!! Extracted the programs now. Been tinkering with the the subtitle file and let's see how this shit rolls. (I used VobSub and got me a sub)

[WingZero84]

 This topic is very usefull for me. Thank you very much.

[orac]

Nice tutorial, but, I keep getting an error at the encoding stage, and nothing happen after this shows in log:

00:21:49: Audio Done.
00:21:49: Audio 1, determined:     34421 kb
00:21:49: Audio 1, calc:           53062 kb
00:21:49: New Bitrate for Movie = 2469 k(=1000)Bits/s
00:21:49: *************************************
00:21:49: EXCEPTION: Range check error
00:21:49: EXCEPTION: Encoder Thread Terminated.
00:21:49: *************************************
Total Encoding Time: 11 minutes, 36 seconds.
06/02/2010 00:21:49: Job " 1 - VTS_01_1.avi" finished.

[orac]

nvm, problem solved.  had to install the gordian knot codec pack.

[Saburo]

Tried to encode a short 15-second VOB clip and I got a big fat error box for my efforts:



This comes at the very end of the process; two times for both passes.  Never happened before: is the program just dead to me now?

[maliciel]

Seems it's one of those problems that doesn't really have a real solution, according to google, but do check this out:

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/201121-virtualdub-problem-source-image-format-is-not-acceptable

Turns out the real problem is DivX won't let you use 480X640 in most of the profiles. So switch to unconstrained and you'll be able to encode just fine.

[Saburo]

Thanks mal, will try that out in the future!