After having a frustrating start with vidomi 0.469: It ALWAYS said "encoder failed to initialize", I went into Vidomi forums and saw that there was a lot of folks with the same problem. They recommended so much things that could be that I was confused.
I uninstalled Vidomi and before installing it again I installed the DiVX 3.11a codec that I had for playing DiVX before. After this I preceeded to install Vidomi again and this time it worked for the Chikenman tutorial.
I have riped and encoded ""Nightmare on ELM Street" dvd and the quality is not bad. Could not find a way to load subtitles because Vidomi does't give me any choices under subtitle track.
But I wonder if this is the best quality that I can get (not that is bad at all). This DVD is NTSC buyed on the USA. I am in Europe. I have read in Chikenman's tutorial that "it works for PAL, there may be some tweaking needed for NTSC or FILM" What exactly I have to tweak for NTSC movies? Is it that Vidome is made just for PAL ones? As I told you, this rip looks ok, but I have read that DiVX can look even better than SVCD. Maybe if I "tweak" I can get the best results.
I have to say that this Vidomi is very easy to work with, I had made some incursions in riping and in thet time I found it litle difficult.
Some more questions to the experts here:
1. If I use the audio track "AC3 audio track x (5 channels)" does Vidomi downmixes the content to stereo? It says down: "Playback of video files with multimple audio channels requires the use of Vidomi Player or a Video Player capable of multiple audio channel playback". After reading this does it mean that you have to choose always an AC3 stereo 2 channel track for compatibility with players like Windows Media Player or BSPlayer?
2. Is it not beter for the quality to use "variable LAME encode mode" instead of constant? Could be nice to have sound quality like the one produced with the switch -r3mix in LAME at VBR. I would like to has litle less "hiss" on the sound output. What the #@$% is "average bitrate"?
3. Related a lot to #2: I asume that if you chose a better sound quality, and looking that I have chosen 699MB in "output size options" you are loosing video quality for it produce a file of the size that you want? It's unbelieveble that the program can be so presice on the output size file!
At this same moment I am at the Vidomi website reading about the program. If I find answers I sure will post them here. It will be nice if anyone knows about these issues.
I uninstalled Vidomi and before installing it again I installed the DiVX 3.11a codec that I had for playing DiVX before. After this I preceeded to install Vidomi again and this time it worked for the Chikenman tutorial.
I have riped and encoded ""Nightmare on ELM Street" dvd and the quality is not bad. Could not find a way to load subtitles because Vidomi does't give me any choices under subtitle track.
But I wonder if this is the best quality that I can get (not that is bad at all). This DVD is NTSC buyed on the USA. I am in Europe. I have read in Chikenman's tutorial that "it works for PAL, there may be some tweaking needed for NTSC or FILM" What exactly I have to tweak for NTSC movies? Is it that Vidome is made just for PAL ones? As I told you, this rip looks ok, but I have read that DiVX can look even better than SVCD. Maybe if I "tweak" I can get the best results.
I have to say that this Vidomi is very easy to work with, I had made some incursions in riping and in thet time I found it litle difficult.
Some more questions to the experts here:
1. If I use the audio track "AC3 audio track x (5 channels)" does Vidomi downmixes the content to stereo? It says down: "Playback of video files with multimple audio channels requires the use of Vidomi Player or a Video Player capable of multiple audio channel playback". After reading this does it mean that you have to choose always an AC3 stereo 2 channel track for compatibility with players like Windows Media Player or BSPlayer?
2. Is it not beter for the quality to use "variable LAME encode mode" instead of constant? Could be nice to have sound quality like the one produced with the switch -r3mix in LAME at VBR. I would like to has litle less "hiss" on the sound output. What the #@$% is "average bitrate"?
3. Related a lot to #2: I asume that if you chose a better sound quality, and looking that I have chosen 699MB in "output size options" you are loosing video quality for it produce a file of the size that you want? It's unbelieveble that the program can be so presice on the output size file!
At this same moment I am at the Vidomi website reading about the program. If I find answers I sure will post them here. It will be nice if anyone knows about these issues.
