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Keeping subtitles in DVD conversion

July 18, 2016, 8:59 am
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Pardon me for posting this in two different locations, but I thought someone here might have some answers to a problem I'm having. I'm converting a PAL DVD version of "The Saboteurs" to NTSC using AVStoDVD. That part works ok and I get the NTSC VIDEO_TS output I need to burn a disc. My problem is that the subtitles (which are important since this is an English language disc which uses the native language of different countries in different scenes), don't carry over to the NTSC version.

I can view the feature in PAL on my computer (with the subtitles), but I would like a disc for my stand-alone player so I can watch the feature on my home theater.

Am I looking at something fairly complicated here where I have to extract, and reinsert and synchronize the subtitles in order to burn the feature to disc or am I missing something in AVStoDVD which would copy that information to the converted version?
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Comcast bitrates. Live, DVR, VOD?

July 18, 2016, 9:52 am
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I'm curious if anyone has insight as to Comcast's bitrates. I don't mean actual bitrate but more-so whether their bitrate differs when comparing live transmission vs DVR recorded content vs VOD. I seem to be getting much softer captures from VOD and DVR content than I do from live transmission. Have to think this is just perception to some extent as I would expect DVR content has received no transcoding during the process of being recorded to disk. On the other hand, I highly suspect VOD content is being served at a much reduced bitrate.

Sadly it seems Comcast's effort to add more and more channels (most not wanted) to justify continually rising rates is taking its toll across the board as TS bitrates have taken a nose-dive over the past year or so.

Insight much appreciated.
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Can't get Interframe to work to convert PAL to NTSC

July 18, 2016, 10:29 am
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I'm trying to see if Interframe gives better results than using ConvertFPS to convert a 1080i 25fps video to 720p 59.94fps. Here's my script:

Code:
Spline36Resize(1280,1080)
QTGMC(Preset="Super Fast")
Spline36Resize(1280,720)
InterFrame(Cores=1, Tuning="Smooth", GPU=true)
Doesn't seem to matter if I specify more cores or not as I get the same speed since I'm not running in MT mode. The video finishes encoding but the resulting video only has video for the first several minutes. When I try to go further the video just stays paused but I can hear the audio carry on playing.

How can I get this working correctly?
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VCR not playing tapes from beginning

July 18, 2016, 3:04 pm
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Hi,

Today I picked up an old VCR. It's a Matsui VP9409, and it plays most tapes fine. However, if I rewind a tape to the beginning (where you can see both the magnetic tape and the small amount of clear tape that comes before the magnetic tape at the beginning) and try and play that, the player does not work. I insert it into the VCR, and almost immediately it ejects the tape and powers itself off. I opened up the VCR and discovered that it does not even pull the tape around the head. It just hums for around two seconds, then ejects the tape. This does not happen if the tape is mid-way through.

Additionally, if the player finds a section of the tape where the recording is poor (e.g: the static at the beginning of a home-recorded tape) it also stops playing, ejects the tape, and powers itself off. It seems to me like it detects that the signal it is outputting is not perfect, and is not happy with this.

Has anyone else experienced this problem and knows a way to fix it?

Kind regards,
Andrew
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Rip DVDs to x265?

July 18, 2016, 4:34 pm
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Anyone know an easy way to do this?
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Keep original DVD/BD disc formats?

July 18, 2016, 6:35 pm
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Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum and wanted the input from those who have been at this longer than I.

I have a NAS full of my backup copies of my DVD & BD movies in their original formats that I've ripped over the years. I am finally building a Plex system and need to convert them to a usable container. I want to keep them Lossless and my understanding is *.mkv is a lossless format and I think that is the format I am going to use. My question is, once my conversion is complete is there any reason to keep the original disc file formats or can I delete them and save the disc space in my NAS?

Thanks!
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converting .mkv to .avi/.mp4 for a complete beginner

July 18, 2016, 6:51 pm
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I'm putting this in "newbies" instead of "coversion" because I feel like this is something really really simple that I just can't figure out. Heck, I don't even usually join forums, but I'm desperate!
I have never done any sort of work with MKV files, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do this- and I've been researching this for the past month! I just need to remove a subtitle track and convert to something Movie Maker can use... If anyone would be willing to walk me through this process, I'd really appreciate it! I have no idea what I'm doing orz

Thus far, I've installed mkvtoolnix 8.3.0, after reading what little I could find on these forums that applied to my situation. Removing the subtitle track and remuxing with mmg.exe works, but from there I have no way to covert.
As far as I can understand, I need to "extract the tracks" and then... do something with those? I downloaded "gMKVExtractGUI" into my MKVToolnix folder and extracted the audio and video tracks just fine, but uh... what do I do from there? i tried merging them again, but it defaulted to a .mkv file. Am I supposed to use the actual mkvtoolnix gui? Because I opened that once, and, uh..... that thing kinda scares me.

It's worth noting that I've gotten one thing to work- but it's by no means reliable (meaning it only works about 10% of the time). Cloudconvert has successfully converted the subtitle-free .mkvs to .mp4s (and .avi, if memory serves) before, but it takes forever and most of the time it doesn't work... There's gotta be an easier way, right?
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Convert DVD main feature to video file without transcoding/losing quality?

July 18, 2016, 7:04 pm
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Is this possible?

Is it as simple as changing a file extension?
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Subtitle positioning - no positioning in the forst 10 boxes

July 19, 2016, 12:29 am
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Hi everybody!

I have the following situation - I made subtitles for a cleint in srt, pac and stl formats.
When sending files to client I received the following comment:

Everything seems good, there is italics and positioning. My only issue that I found was that the positioning is not in the first ten boxes.

Could anybody explain to me what exactly the client means?
Thank you
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[SOLVED] Need help adding ancient Duck Truemotion S

July 18, 2016, 7:07 am
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This is what the install folder contains:

DK4BIT.ACM
DKAVIFIX.EXE
INSTALL.EXE
DUCK.INI
DUCK.HLP
DUCK.DRV
CODUCK.DLL

after running the installer it creates a dir in c:\DUCK containing:
DK4BIT.ACM
DUCK.HLP
DUCK.INI

I'm running Windows 98

Nothing appears under external encoders in Virtualdub and i'm clueless as what to do, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: Edit @ topic, it's a Encoder, not a Codec.
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Audio problem after upload to Youtube/Facebook

July 19, 2016, 8:51 am
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Hi

As topic, I can hear the sound of the video without problem in my computer. But after upload to Youtube/Facebook, it will has problem (only can hear zizizizizizizizi sound).
I think it has something to do with "fake stereo from a mono track by inverting one channel is the problem."
But I dont know how to solve it with ffmpeg.
Any expert here can teach me to correct command?
Thanks !


General
Complete name : C:\a.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/mp41)
File size : 583 KiB
Duration : 36s 826ms
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 130 Kbps
Writing application : Lavf56.30.100

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 36s 826ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Frame rate : 46.875 fps (1024 spf)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 576 KiB (99%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Alternate group : 1
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HE-AAC version 2 to wav

July 19, 2016, 3:36 pm
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I have an .aac file that I would like to decode to a wav file.

This is what MediInfo shows:

Audio
ID: 2
Format: AAC
Format/Info: Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile: HE-AAC / LC
Codec ID: A_AAC
Duration: 44mn 50s
Channel(s): 2 channels
Channel positions: Front: L R
Sampling rate: 88.2 KHz / 44.1 KHz
Compression mode: Lossy
Default: Yes
Forced: No

I noticed the 2 different sampling rates and it's HE-AAC.
How can I decode this to a wav file?
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Frame by frame editing - Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas, or ???

July 20, 2016, 1:30 am
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An old VHS tape has been digitized into mpeg files, and there are 4 captures. The VCR player and digitzer were not the top quality and there is no possibility to recapture with a better equipment (no access to the VHS tape anymore). The quality is quite bad and needs a lot of work to fix it. There are static lines popping in and out on some frames; this is the first thing I have to fix. Since there are 4 captures, if I align them on 4 tracks it is possible to replace a bad frame on track 1 with a good frame from the other 3 alternative tracks.

This requires a lot of work (like making grass grow molecule by molecule), but there is no way around it, because the video is irreplaceable, extremely important and unique. I have started to do the job in Sony Vegas 10 and using a wacom tablet succeed to reduce the copy-paste operation to 3 clicks, which is quite good. Unfortunately not all bad frames can be replaced with a good one; in some cases all 4 frames contain static lines. So finally I will have to retouch those frames which can not be replaced in Photoshop using content aware healing tools. My dilemma is that if I have to use Photoshop, then why not do the frame copy-paste operation as well in Premiere Pro or After Effects? Unfortunately I am not familiar with these two programs, therefore here is my question:

Is it possible to do the above described copy-paste operation of single frames from one track to another in Adobe editors as efficiently as in Sony Vegas? Even if it is not possible, then what is the quickest way to do it in the Adobe products? Is it possible at all?

The reason I consider moving the job completely to Adobe products is that the original video quality is already bad enough to motivate me not to make it even worse by repeated unnecessary renderings, accumulating compression losses. Since besides replacing bad frames, a Photshop retouch, and other filtering, straightening etc. operations will also be needed, then the best would be to do them all in a software package which can do them all, and only one single final compression would be needed when the complete job is finished and rendered.

I know there is a separate forum category for restoration, and probably I will ask for some advises there as well about the restoration part of the work. This is posted here simply to get some input on the feasibility of the copy-paste operation on the Adobe products, which is an editing question.

Thanks for any advice in advance.
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Unable to play encrypted videos with file format .plc

July 20, 2016, 4:33 am
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Why this subtitle file .srt does not work?

July 20, 2016, 6:54 am
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I have an .srt file but it does not work . Can anyone help me? thanks. it is in chinese but my other .srt files also in chinese works fine.

1
00：00：15056 - > 00：00：

16391
让我们开始上课

2
00：00：16808 - > 00：00：

18351
在将最后一个单元

3
00：00：18393 - > 00：00：

19686
我已经介绍

4
00：00：19686 - > 00：00：

21146
中国本草概念
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What is the best setting for ripping blu-ray to mkv?

July 20, 2016, 11:06 am
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Hi, I'm trying to rip a bunch of blu-ray discs to MKV but I don't have a whole lot of space on my PC. Can someone tell me what the best setting would be to convert blu-ray to MKV with little to no quality loss? I know I can do MKVpassthrough using DVDfab but that takes a lot of disc space. what's the best way to retain quality and get a smaller MKV? thanks in advance.
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How to add this type of "glow" effect? (example, the ki attacks in DBZ)

July 20, 2016, 4:20 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKlT_fUcq-Q

Here you can see it several times



As you can see the thing is white but its not plain, it has a glow effect which makes it look like light. Those cartoons are really old so im guessing modern video editors can do this easily? But I don't know how.

I use Sony Vegas for editing so im interested in learning this trick on there if possible.
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Avisynth nnedi3_rpow2 Color Shift Problem

July 20, 2016, 4:49 pm
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I have searched the web but haven't found an answer. When I load some NTSC color bars in Avisynth, there is no color shift:

Code:
LWLibavVideoSource(bars, fpsnum=30000, fpsden=1001, format="YUV411P8", dominance=2)
ConvertToYUY2(matrix="Rec601", interlaced=true, chromaresample="Point")
However, when I add the following line after Convert, there is a color shift:

Code:
nnedi3_rpow2(2, cshift="PointResize", fwidth=960, fheight=720)
Looking at the Avisynth wiki, there doesn't seem to be any arguments to specify the colorspace. My guess is that the filter is doing some sort of transformation to BT.709 since the upscale is to HD dimensions. But when I try changing the matrix to Rec709 in Convert, the color shift still remains. Is there a solution to this problem or is the filter buggy? TIA

EDIT: The wiki says that the above line is equivalent to:

Code:
nnedi3_rpow2(rfactor=2)
PointResize(960, 720, src_left=-0.5, src_top=-0.5)
So I tried running just nnedi3_rpow2(rfactor=2) to see if the problem resided in the Resizer() filter. And the color shift still occurs. So the problem seems to be in the nnedi3_rpow2 filter.
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Joining m2ts files

July 20, 2016, 9:31 pm
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Hi,

I have 3 m2ts files, all 1080i, variable bitrate. Each of them play fine in media player. I'd want to join them into one.

tsMuxer can join them. However, the middle segment became corrupted, with mosaic and jittery frame.

SolveigMM can join them. The result is playable but Adobe Encore consider the codec incompatible and force me to transcode it during authoring.

Is there any other tools that I can use to merge them?

Thanks
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Convert and optimize mp4 y mkv files to be steaming with VLC over LAN

July 21, 2016, 1:03 am
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Hi, i want convert-optimize my podcasts mp4 o mvk files downloaded with Miro Player or Youtube-dl to mp4 files to be streaming with VLC Player without Activate Transcoding within VLC Player to save RAM, bandwitdth an playback quality and speed on playing.

The VLC default streaming settings are:
Code:
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,scale=0.75,acodec=mpga,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:rtp{dst=192.168.1.100,port=5004,mux=ts} :sout-keep
I tried match these settings with ffmpmpeg, but the streaming via UDP or RTP hangs. I have some other good files that have good streaming.

Code:
ffmpeg -hide_banner -i linuxactionshowep397-432p.mp4 -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 18 -c:a copy -pix_fmt yuv420p linuxactionshowep397-432p-002.mp4
and after, I tried

Code:
ffmpeg -hide_banner -i linuxactionshowep397-432p-002.mp4 -movflags faststart -acodec copy -vcodec copy linuxactionshowep397-432p-003.mp4
Result = Bad Streaming, VLC Instance acts as server hangs after beggining playing.

End of question.
Other info collected from tests sample files:

Streaming-No-OK-Lavf56h264High(avc1)-aac(mp4a)-VLCHangs
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'linuxactionshowep397-432p.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 512
compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
encoder : Lavf56.40.101
Duration: 01:31:15.84, start: 0.042667, bitrate: 466 kb/s
Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 768x432 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 330 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 15360 tbn, 60 tbc (default)
Metadata:
handler_name : VideoHandler
Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
handler_name : SoundHandler
At least one output file must be specified


Streaming-No-OK-Lavf56h264High(____)-opus(____)-VideoOK-AudioNoOK
Input #0, matroska,webm, from '001-youtube-137_-_1080p_DASH_video.mkv':
Metadata:
COMPATIBLE_BRANDS: iso6avc1mp41
MAJOR_BRAND : dash
MINOR_VERSION : 0
ENCODER : Lavf56.36.100
Duration: 00:00:35.06, start: 0.007000, bitrate: 2065 kb/s
Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 59.94 tbc (default)
Metadata:
CREATION_TIME : 2016-02-13 13:16:10
LANGUAGE : und
HANDLER_NAME : VideoHandler
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp (default)
At least one output file must be specified


Streaming-OK-Lavf56h264Constrained Baseline(avc1)-aac(mp4a)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'ud_092815_449470_440.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 512
compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
encoder : Lavf56.15.102
Duration: 00:02:38.50, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 461 kb/s
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 400x224 [SAR 1:1 DAR 25:14], 388 kb/s, 59.94 fps, 59.94 tbr, 11988 tbn, 119.88 tbc (default)
Metadata:
handler_name : VideoHandler
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 22050 Hz, stereo, fltp, 39 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
handler_name : SoundHandler
Stream #0:2(und): Data: none (rtp / 0x20707472), 20 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2015-09-28 20:33:11Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '01_01-Introduction To AutoCAD Electrical 2015.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : mp42
minor_version : 0
compatible_brands: mp42isomavc1
creation_time : 2014-03-31 14:12:12
compilation : 0
encoder : Sorenson Squeeze
comment : Encoded by
Duration: 00:01:31.60, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 289 kb/s
Stream #0:0(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, mono, fltp, 64 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2014-03-31 14:12:12
handler_name : soun
Stream #0:1(und): Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1280x720, 220 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 600 tbn, 30 tbc (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2014-03-31 14:12:12
handler_name : vide
encoder : AVC Coding
Stream #0:2(und): Data: none (mp4s / 0x7334706D), 0 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2014-03-31 14:12:13
handler_name : sdsm
Stream #0:3(und): Data: none (mp4s / 0x7334706D), 0 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2014-03-31 14:12:13
handler_name : odsm
At least one output file must be specified


Streaming-OK-Sorenson Squeezeh264(Main)-aac(mp4a)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '01_01-Introduction To AutoCAD.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : mp42
minor_version : 0
compatible_brands: mp42isomavc1
creation_time : 2014-03-31 14:12:12
compilation : 0
encoder : Sorenson Squeeze
comment : Encoded by
Duration: 00:01:31.60, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 289 kb/s
Stream #0:0(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, mono, fltp, 64 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2014-03-31 14:12:12
handler_name : soun
Stream #0:1(und): Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1280x720, 220 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 600 tbn, 30 tbc (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2014-03-31 14:12:12
handler_name : vide
encoder : AVC Coding
Stream #0:2(und): Data: none (mp4s / 0x7334706D), 0 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2014-03-31 14:12:13
handler_name : sdsm
Stream #0:3(und): Data: none (mp4s / 0x7334706D), 0 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2014-03-31 14:12:13
handler_name : odsm
At least one output file must be specified

Thanks,
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