Video Recording/Playback/Editing/Converting/etc.

Yeah, you could be right. beem is trying it out now anyhow I believe ;)

Anime Dad wrote:Yeah, you could be right. beem is trying it out now anyhow I believe ;)

I see. Damn, that guy is fast when it comes to finding the hack for this kind of stuff :hehe:

Actually I found it ;)

Anime Dad wrote:Actually I found it ;)

Cool! Did you enter the danger zone (astalavista hack site) to find the hack for it?

Nope.... but I forget where I found it.

Anime Dad wrote:Nope.... but I forget where I found it.

I see. I'll just wait for the reviews from you guys about this tool before I get my hands on it. :mrgreen:

You should hear something tomorrow I would say ;)

Anime Dad wrote:You should hear something tomorrow I would say ;)

Hope I'll see good reviews about it.

ralphm1999 wrote:Have not found a way yet to incorporate subs. But haven't had much time to spend on it either. :fingerscrossed:

Using the Nyokei Kazoku DVDs as a test subject, I found a way to re-author the DVDs with English menus and incorporate the subs, even though I used TMPGEnc DVD Author.

And boy, is it complicated: extracting, demuxing, muxing, PGC editing... :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Using the Nyokei Kazoku DVDs as a test subject, I found a way to re-author the DVDs with English menus and incorporate the subs, even though I used TMPGEnc DVD Author.

And boy, is it complicated: extracting, demuxing, muxing, PGC editing... :sweat:

I second that. :shakehead:

DVD Lab Pro supports subtitle integration, but I was in the middle of the other (convoluted) process, so I battled on.

Maybe I'll try to use DVD Lab Pro tonight, if I don't get too carried away with the Mets-Cardinals game. ;)

bmwracer wrote:
Using the Nyokei Kazoku DVDs as a test subject, I found a way to re-author the DVDs with English menus and incorporate the subs, even though I used TMPGEnc DVD Author.

And boy, is it complicated: extracting, demuxing, muxing, PGC editing... :sweat:

So far the Puma software holds my no 1 spot. It's simply mpeg 2 in mpeg 2 out with the subs integrated. When I take the output mpeg file into tmpgenc DVD author it complains the bit rate is too high. So far I just ignore the complaint. I notice my free standing Samsung DVDR recorder also elicits the same complaint from tmpgenc dvd author. Nowhere can I find anything on reducing the bit rate.... and I have no problem playing any burned DVD with the high bit rate on any of my numrous DVD palyers. So is tmpgenc dvd author just a whinner behind the times in acceptable bit rates? :muack:

ralphm1999 wrote:So far the Puma software holds my no 1 spot. It's simply mpeg 2 in mpeg 2 out with the subs integrated. When I take the output mpeg file into tmpgenc DVD author it complains the bit rate is too high. So far I just ignore the complaint. I notice my free standing Samsung DVDR recorder also elicits the same complaint from tmpgenc dvd author. Nowhere can I find anything on reducing the bit rate.... and I have no problem playing any burned DVD with the high bit rate on any of my numrous DVD palyers. So is tmpgenc dvd author just a whinner behind the times in acceptable bit rates? :muack:

Sounds like you have to back off on your bitrate to be compatible. :sweat:

Also, by doing the MPEG2-to-MPEG2 conversion (transcoding, actually), you're degrading the source which is what you're trying to avoid... Additionally, transcoding to a bitrate higher than your original source doesn't buy you anything except wasting file space... Making a silk purse out of a sow's ear comes to mind. ;)

What I'm doing is re-authoring the DVD such that I don't require any transcoding of the source and forces the subtitles to always be on, sort of a pseudo-hardsub. :)

Just reading the Help file for DVDLabPro (Highly recommended BTW) it seems to be a fairly comprehensive DVD authoring package. It's probably a bit of overkill for some, but you guys might like it. I like the idea of multi-level menus, which Nero doesn't do. Even things as simple as having "Play Movie" and "Scene Selection" buttons, which you can't do with Nero either. Now I just need a movie with soft subs to play with ;)

bmwracer wrote:
Sounds like you have to back off on your bitrate to be compatible. :sweat:

Also, by doing the MPEG2-to-MPEG2 conversion (transcoding, actually), you're degrading the source which is what you're trying to avoid... Additionally, transcoding to a bitrate higher than your original source doesn't buy you anything except wasting file space... Making a silk purse out of a sow's ear comes to mind. ;)

What I'm doing is re-authoring the DVD such that I don't require any transcoding of the source and forces the subtitles to always be on, sort of a pseudo-hardsub. :)

I cannot find any setting to lower the bit rate.... This gives a hard sub output. I played the output on my DVDR to TV and it looks pretty good...
Besides what choice do I have since tmpgenc in conjunction with virtualdubmod wont let me convert anything with it's divide by zero error and quits... no nice little explanation where or why.... :banghead:

Anime Dad wrote:Just reading the Help file for DVDLabPro (Highly recommended BTW) it seems to be a fairly comprehensive DVD authoring package.

I've been looking over the docs and stuff and it's quite versatile.

And daunting.

I gotta print out more of the user guides and read things over before attempting to leap. ;)

ralphm1999 wrote:I cannot find any setting to lower the bit rate....

That's weird.

Does that mean the bitrate is always set to the max? Seems rather odd.

bmwracer wrote:

What I'm doing is re-authoring the DVD such that I don't require any transcoding of the source and forces the subtitles to always be on, sort of a pseudo-hardsub. :)

Like the insert subtitle option in most dvd authoring tools, except that it isn't switachble subtitles, ne? Any luck on that?

ralphm1999 wrote:Besides what choice do I have since tmpgenc in conjunction with virtualdubmod wont let me convert anything with it's divide by zero error and quits... no nice little explanation where or why.... :banghead:

Have you tried doing the solutions in this website?
http://www.videohelp.com/virtualdubframeserve.htm#problems

About the divide by zero error, it is either a run time error or the software must have come across that integer with wrong representation of the result, therefore resulting to terminate the program

from wiki:

Division by zero in computer arithmetic

The IEEE floating-point standard, supported by almost all modern processors, specifies that every floating point arithmetic operation, including division by zero, has a well-defined result. In IEEE 754 arithmetic, is positive infinity when a is positive, negative infinity when a is negative, and NaN (not a number) when a = 0. The infinity signs change when dividing by − 0 instead. This is possible because in IEEE 754 there are two zero values, plus zero and minus zero, and thus no ambiguity.

Integer division by zero is usually handled differently from floating point since there is no integer representation for the result. Some processors generate an exception when an attempt is made to divide an integer by zero, although others will simply continue and generate an incorrect result for the division. (That result is often zero.)

Because of the improper algebraic results of assigning any value to division by zero, many computer programming languages (including those used by calculators) explicitly forbid the execution of the operation and may prematurely halt a program that attempts it, sometimes reporting a "Divide by zero" error. Some programs (especially those that use fixed-point arithmetic where no dedicated floating-point hardware is available) will use behavior similar to the IEEE standard, using large positive and negative numbers to approximate infinities. In some programming languages, an attempt to divide by zero results in undefined behavior.

In two's complement arithmetic, attempts to divide the smallest signed integer by − 1 are attended by similar problems, and are handled with the same range of solutions, from explicit error conditions to undefined behavior

bmwracer wrote:
That's weird.

Does that mean the bitrate is always set to the max? Seems rather odd.

I just sent their support an email asking them if they have a fix for it before I buy it.

Saito_Hajime wrote:Have you tried doing the solutions in this website?
http://www.videohelp.com/virtualdubframeserve.htm#problems

About the divide by zero error, it is either a run time error or the software must have come across that integer with wrong representation of the result, therefore resulting to terminate the program

I tried all their solutions... no dice. divide by zero error.

I'm very much aware of divide by zero faults from my own bal programming days..... but I never left the user in a fog by not telling him exactly why and where the error occured. Today's programmer's don't seem to have that passion for giving information that we old timers had... I think they are on a thin edge of almost being virus writers and gloat when an error occurs that they purposely left off the resolution. :beatyou: