Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:18:24 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
From: Jose Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Haven't yet run into subtitles. They don't affect the rate of playback,
or
> slow it down at all, do they? You're just saying you can convert to
mono to
> shrink file size a bit, right?
not to shrink the file but to decrease the throughput necessary to play
the stream..
Ah.... okay. So subtitles eat up some system resources during playback on
their own eh? I'll have to start transcoding some of my foreign films and
see how my 110 deals with them.
> What was involved with that? Did you use VDub, or VDubMod? And where
other
> apps involved in frame serving?
VDub.. It does frame serving by itself .. TMPGEnc can use VDub's frame
server .. Worked great for me ..
VDub right into TMPGEnc... cool!
> Which filters did you use, and for what specifically?
for 6600, I had to touch the brightness/contrast because it's screen is
a little bit dark for playing these dark divx I found ..
let me load my saved setup here ..
for 6600 (output is xvid), I had crop, rotate, fill and resize ..
for converting to (s)vcd, I had just resize, fill and crop ..
you can save your convertion settings ..
Wow... you really had to tweak things for that Nokia, huh?
> I've been using vsoDivxToDVD to convert XVid files to MPEG-2 .vob files
for
> burning them right to DVD-Rs that comply with the home DVD playback
> standard. As I've been merging DVD .vob files on one single one, and
then
> processing through the .avs script procedure I've described successfully
> without having to convert them to fully complient MPEG-2 files... I
assume I
> could do the same for XVid/DivX files converted to .vob files.
I have no idea about what you are talking .. :) I just use virtualdub
for almost everything I do..
From what you're saying below, everything but ripping DVDs to VCDs. On a
DVD, movies are contained in a series of MPEG-2 complient .vob files. Each
is a little over 1GB, I guess to comply with some file system requirements.
So to rip an entire movie, the main movie .vob files have to be merged
together. VDub could probably process a .vob file via frame server to
TMPGEnc or some other MPEG encoder for making (S)VCDs. But somewhere along
the way the mulitple .vob files would have to be joined top produce a
complete movie.
Guess that's why you're using something else for that job.
I've never played with .vob files.. I use
some kind of app to create VCD on windows that makes the convertion..
VCDHelp, I think...
Hmm can't find much on VCDHelp. www.vcdhelp.com seems to have been merged
into www.videohelp.com.. about all I can find quickly.
So you're making VCDs right from DVDs with another piece of software? But
you say below that you've got a L70, huh? So you probably wouldn't know
whether or not the VCDs it creates from widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) DVDs
playback the full 800 pixel width of a L100/110 system.
I haven't really shopped around to see if there's software out there that
would make that task a bit easier than what I've been doing with TMPGEnc,
DGINdex and AVISynth. The folks over there on the Doom9 forums seem to like
as many little apps as they possibly can. I'd sure prefer to have an
'all-in-one' application to create VCDs from DVDs that would play the full
800 pixel width of the 100/110s.
I really hate windows and avoid it.. My w2k install in one of my
machines is just returning lots of errors of wrong memory addresses
being accessed and I'm not in the mood for reinstalling it.. The problem
is the for I more that 3 months.. :)
Windows can be a real pain... that's for sure.
> Those
> are encoded directly to 706x480 MPEG-2 DVD complient .mpgs, and from
there
> get transcoded to VCDs in TMPGEnc that play fine on the 110 .
110 has an infinitely better HW for playing video when compared to
70CT :)
Oh wow... I should try copying over some of these custom VCDs onto my 70
running W98SE, and see how they play there. But you did say that sample
played the full 600 pixel width of your 70. See... I had no problem making
VCDs from 16:9 DVDs that played 600 pixes wide. But it was a struggle
getting them to play 800 pixes wide in Windows Media Player v6 on the
100/110s.
> You're running Linux eh? Did that sample file of mine play properly for
> you?
sure.. I can even extract some stream information from the file, if you
want .. :)
Well... since you've only got a 600x480 screen, I don't think it would be
useful.
on my U105, wide screen too, I play vcd (standard) with 2 black borders
on the sides of the video but I configured mplayer to maintain the
aspect ratio by specifying the 16:10 screen aspect ratio.
when I play a wide screen movie, it fits the entire screen maintaining
the aspect ratio too ..
There's a free, 'advanced' WMP clone, Media Player Classic that allows you
to force widescreen playback in a similar manner as mplayer. But it takes
too much from the system resources, and even with the 110's 233MHz CPU,
frames end up playing at about 1-2fps.
in my opinion, librettos are the best machines to play with linux and
linux is the best OS to fit them.. :) No one will change my mind..
I'd probably agree with you from my short experience with the copy of
Mandrake Neil Barnes help me set up on my 50 years back. But I was never
able to get my head fully wrapped around what it takes to understand
configuring Linux and its software after i got it set up. Windows is
relatively mindless... which is probably why it's such a pain in the butt!
Matt
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