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[The_Mask]

If you would be so kind to suggest what encoders you can implement, I would test them all.The TMPGenc and the MAINCONCEPT ones also suck, neither does the WinAvi one support quad core...neither does CUCUSOFT, DVD FLICK and other pieces of junk...What other encoders would u suggest me to test?I will have special threads for the purpose.I tried to convert a HD MkV with Procoder 3, as it simply blows CCE and HCE out of its way, in terms of quality, but it would refuse to keep the DTS source...The programs show 768 or 1536 kbits option, but it wouldn`t let me choose anything over 448 kbits, even with the old version I could select 640kbits, for maximum quality...Here is my .log file:

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- 30.6.2008 г. 17:06:42
- MKV to DVD conversion
- The FilmMachine version 1.6.0.11 beta
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Initializing.

Computer Info
CPU name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Available memory: 2,00 GB
Windows version : Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Initializing finished.

Saving Project File

DirectX Version = 9.0c

AC3Filter installed = True
MPEG Layer-3 Decoder installed = True
ffdshow Audio Decoder installed = True
RealMedia Splitter installed = True

Saving MKV-Info files
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- 30.6.2008 г. 17:06:56
- Free on drive C: 32,15 GB
- Creating Subtitles
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Creating Subtitle 1 Files
Writing C:\O U T P U T\TFM_Subtitle_File1.ssa
Saving Subtitle File C:\O U T P U T\TFM_Subtitle_File1.ssa
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- 30.6.2008 г. 17:06:57
- Free on drive C: 32,15 GB
- Audio Conversion with BASS and AC3 encoding with Aften
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Executing Audio Conversion:
BASS.DLL version 2.4
Setting Audio Tempo: 4,27094
Libaften.dll is set to handle 32-bit float samples.
Encoding AC3 with libaften.dll version SVN

Converting audiostream 1 of MKV file no 1 of 1


DirectShow Filters used:
NullRenderer1
NullRenderer
SampleGrabber
Ac3filter
Avisynth Source Filter


Audiostream 1 conversion of H:\Movies\HDTV\x264\Rambo.Trilogy.720p.HDDVD.x264\ Rambo.First.Blood.1982.HDDVDRiP.720p.DTS-ES.x264-DEFiNiTiON\Rambo.First.Blood.1982.HDDVDRiP.720p.DT S-ES.x264-DEFiNiTiON.mkv finished.

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- 30.6.2008 г. 17:15:53
- Free on drive C: 31,87 GB
- Video Encoding using Canopus Procoder 3.01
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Executing Canopus Procoder.

Encoding finished


Total Video size in bytes: 4254326703
Total Audio size in bytes: 300088320
Total Audio + Video size in bytes: 4554415023
Total Audio + Video size in MB: 4343

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- 30.6.2008 г. 19:02:44
- Free on drive C: 27,90 GB
- Creating DVD compliant files
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Mplex is multiplexing the video and audio stream of file 1 .....
mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
File C:\OUTPUT~1\TFM_EN~1.M2V looks like an MPEG Video stream.
File C:\OUTPUT~1\TFM_EN~1.AC3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
Multiplexing video program stream!
Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (C:\OUTPUT~1\TFM_EN~1.M2V)
VIDEO STREAM: e0
Frame width : 720
Frame height : 576
Aspect ratio : 16:9 display
Picture rate : 25.000 frames/sec
Bit rate : 8552000 bits/sec
Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
CSPF : 0
Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (C:\OUTPUT~1\TFM_EN~1.AC3)
AC3 frame size = 1792
AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
Bit rate : 57344 bytes/sec (448 kbit/sec)
Frequency : 48000 Hz
SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 9196696
target data-rate specified : 12000000
Setting specified specified data rate: 12000000
Run-in Sectors = 89 Video delay = 10936 Audio delay = 0
New sequence commences...
Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
Audio bd: buf= 16384 frame=000000 sector=00000000
Scanned to end AU 133996
STREAM e0 completed @ frame 133996.
Multiplex completion at SCR=482377482.
Video e0: buf= 33754 frame=133996 sector=02105495
Audio bd: buf= 16384 frame=167459 sector=00148854
VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
Video Stream length: 4254326703 bytes
Sequence headers: 9023
Sequence ends : 1
No. Pictures : 133996
No. Groups : 9023
No. I Frames : 9050 avg. size 92175 bytes
No. P Frames : 35841 avg. size 59392 bytes
No. B Frames : 89106 avg. size 14493 bytes
Average bit-rate : 6349600 bits/sec
Peak bit-rate : 12523600 bits/sec
BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 187840
AUDIO_STATISTICS: bd
Audio stream length 300088320 bytes.
Frames : 1378922697
BUFFERING min 35 Buf max 8771
MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
Multiplexing finished.

DVDAuthor is writing the VOB files.....
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14-TFM-1.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi
Send bugs to <thefilmmachine@home.nl>


Locale=C
Converting filenames to US-ASCII
dvdauthor creating VTS


Video pts = 0.161 .. 5360.041
Audio[0] pts = 0.161 .. 5358.881
Generating VTS with the following video attributes:
MPEG version: mpeg2
TV standard: pal
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Stream Attrib: nopanscan
Resolution: 720x576
Audio ch 0 format: ac3/6ch, 48khz drc, 'en'


dvdauthor creating table of contents

Scanning C:\OUTPUT~1\DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO

Writing VOB files finished.

Finished authoring DVD

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- 30.6.2008 г. 19:17:30
- Free on drive C: 27,82 GB
- DVD creation finished!
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1) I don't see any error about the ffdshow value!!
2) You are right about the quality of Procoder but the problem is that Procoder has a bug in it when there are action scenes. Also it has a big problem under Vista with recognizing framerates in Avisynth scripts.
3) Like I said I don't know any encoder yet that supports quadcore.
4) The standard for DTS audio on DVD is either 768 kbit or 1536 kbit and not another kbit. I don't really understand your problem here.

[The_Mask]

I've a problem with the mkv files 1080p & 720p when I encode them I can't get the correct aspect ratio of 2:40:1 they only encode too 1:85:1 so the picture is missing the black bars on the top & bottom of the picture leaving it squashed up any idea what I might be doing wrong.

Many Thanks.

Can you give me the width and height of the source files so that I can show you the aspect calculations that are made by TFM.

[Fixt00L]

I meant that, on the previous TFM versions, the program would let me choose more than 640 kbits, to take advantage of the higher DTS bitrate.When I saw the changelog, I thought that it would be possible to keep the DTS...Or choose 640 kbits, and now I receive standard DD 5.1@448 kbits...Can u provide more info about the Provoder bugs, what exactly are they?

[The_Mask]

I meant that, on the previous TFM versions, the program would let me choose more than 640 kbits, to take advantage of the higher DTS bitrate.When I saw the changelog, I thought that it would be possible to keep the DTS...Or choose 640 kbits, and now I receive standard DD 5.1@448 kbits...Can u provide more info about the Provoder bugs, what exactly are they?

Why don't you keep the DTS source then or encode it to DTS to keep the hight DTS bitrate. Why do you want to encode it to AC3 when TFM has the option to encode it to DTS or keep the DTS.

I only know the bugs that I have mentioned to you, I normally always use CCE for encoding (because it always works).

[Fixt00L]

This exactly what I am asking for, how can I keep the DTS with TFM?And, about Procoder, when encoding x264 to DVD, it beats the retail DVD in terms of quality, I have many retails, and I tried some comparison...

[The_Mask]

When your source has DTS audio and you don't do a framerate conversion then the DTS audio is only extracted. When you want to do a framerate conversion then you can choose Surcode DVD DTS Encoder to encode to DTS audio. You only have to install Surcode DVD DTS Encoder and give TFM the path to the executable (is not installed with TFM because this is commercial software).

Under Windows XP x264 will convert correctly to dvd with procoder but in some cases (don't ask me which) under Vista Procoder can't handle avisynth scripts correctly.

[mick79]

RELEASE.NAME...: Transformers.2007.HD DVD.RE.a1080.X264.DD51.F@Silu
RELEASE.DATE...: 10.28.2007
iMDB.LiNK......:
USER.RATiNG....:
RUN.TiME.......: 2 H 24 Min
GENRE..........:
SiZE...........: 2D5
ViDEO.CODEC....: x264@2-passes
FRAMERATE......: 23.976
BiTRATE........: 7600 Kbps
D.RESOLUTiON...: 1440x798 (display at 1920x798)
ASPECT RATiO...: 2.35:1
AUDiO1.........: 448K English dd51 (FROM DVD9)
RIP.SOURCE.....:Transformers HD DVD.H264.1080p
Ripper.........: Fanxy@silu

This is the file I had problem with the aspect ratio & some others that all had the ratio of 2.35:1

Many Thanks

[The_Mask]

RELEASE.NAME...: Transformers.2007.HD DVD.RE.a1080.X264.DD51.F@Silu
RELEASE.DATE...: 10.28.2007
iMDB.LiNK......:
USER.RATiNG....:
RUN.TiME.......: 2 H 24 Min
GENRE..........:
SiZE...........: 2D5
ViDEO.CODEC....: x264@2-passes
FRAMERATE......: 23.976
BiTRATE........: 7600 Kbps
D.RESOLUTiON...: 1440x798 (display at 1920x798)
ASPECT RATiO...: 2.35:1
AUDiO1.........: 448K English dd51 (FROM DVD9)
RIP.SOURCE.....:Transformers HD DVD.H264.1080p
Ripper.........: Fanxy@silu

This is the file I had problem with the aspect ratio & some others that all had the ratio of 2.35:1

Many Thanks

Can you also post the *_Movie_Info.log from the TFM output directory so I can see the sizes TFM uses.

[mick79]

Since posting I've tried encoding with canopus procoder 3 and it works fine, thanks for the reply's.

[The_Mask]

In your case the width = 1440 and height is 798. This gives a aspect ratio of : 1440/798 = 1.80 and not 2.35 (don't know where it gets that from, that is why I want to see what TFM detects).

When the aspect ratio is 1.80 TFM automatically sets the aspect ratio to 16:9 and then encodes in Fullscreen. You can change that if you want.

TFM will encode the source movie with no borders (Fullscreen) and resizes the source movie to the DVD standard (PAL: 720 x 576 or NTSC: 720 x 480)

[Fixt00L]

After 2 sleepless nights in a row I found that the Mainconcept Reference Encoder would hit 85% load on a quad core cpu.It looks like its quakity is poor and is no match to Canopus Procoder 3...Mask, will you take a look at it, and see if it is worthy to implement it?

[The_Mask]

After 2 sleepless nights in a row I found that the Mainconcept Reference Encoder would hit 85% load on a quad core cpu.It looks like its quakity is poor and is no match to Canopus Procoder 3...Mask, will you take a look at it, and see if it is worthy to implement it?

I will check it out (I saw that it can handle commandlines, that's a pro). Thanks.

[Fixt00L]

What should this mean, and what is the good about this, you said that is a pro...CCE and Procoder, can they handle commandlines?And try to see if I am right, compare the quality, please.I try to be supportive with what I can do and push TFM versability forward and forward.

[The_Mask]

What should this mean, and what is the good about this, you said that is a pro...CCE and Procoder, can they handle commandlines?And try to see if I am right, compare the quality, please.I try to be supportive with what I can do and push TFM versability forward and forward.

The good thing about is that TFM can automate it. CCE and Procoder als accept commandlines.

I will test it and thanks for the tip.

[The_Mask]

Cool!! My CCE crashes everytime I try to use MKV 1080p file

I just tried in 3 diferent pcs and with diferent versions of TFM and CCE 2.67, 2.70

I tried your movie and it works fine on my pc, even with the subtitles still in the mkv. I used CCE 2.67.0.27.

If it still doesn't work please post your *.log file.