<br><br>On Saturday, December 11, 2021, Terje J. Hanssen <<a href="mailto:terjejhanssen@gmail.com">terjejhanssen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Den 10.12.2021 04:53, skrev Andrew Randrianasulu via Cin:<br>
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I send my findings with this link directly to Phyllis in Julu, but I guess Terje may try this method on his sources too<br>
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Well, thanks - this is also really new stuff for me, so I have to take it carefully from scratch this month ;)<br>
Before my delayed BD50-RE discs arrives later this month, I can possibly start learning using DVD-video/iso (DVD-5) and/or BDMV/udf structure (BD-5) on DVD+RW media, although the latter seemed not to be supported on my hardware UBD player.<br>
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I have had dvdauthor installed the last 5 years, but I never really got started with using it<br>
<a href="https://lists.cinelerra-cv.org/pipermail/cinelerra/2016q2/004844.html" target="_blank">https://lists.cinelerra-cv.org<wbr>/pipermail/cinelerra/2016q2/<wbr>004844.html</a><br>
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But at least now I have found and hopefylly got installed the DVDStyler gui frontend and dependices for dvdauthor on my Leap 15.3/15.4a and TW:<br>
<a href="https://software.opensuse.org/package/DVDStyler?search_term=dvdstyler" target="_blank">https://software.opensuse.org/<wbr>package/DVDStyler?search_term=<wbr>dvdstyler</a><br>
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Reading installed packages...<br>
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S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository<br>
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i+ | DVDStyler | package | 3.1.2-lp153.37.3 | x86_64 | home:plater<br>
i+ | DVDStyler-lang | package | 3.1.2-lp153.37.3 | noarch | home:plater</blockquote><div><br></div><div>latest version seems to be 3.2.1 - check changelog... </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/news">https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/news</a></div><div><br></div><div>DVDStyler 3.2.1 Released!</div><div>Published: 02 November 2021</div><div>Changes:</div><div><br></div><div>added support of font attribute 'underline' and "line-through"</div><div>win64: fixed audio normalize</div><div>DVDStyler 3.2 Released!</div><div>Published: 22 June 2021</div><div>Changes:</div><div><br></div><div>video properties: added possiblity to add video filters before pad/scale filters</div><div>some improvements of PCM support (experemental)</div><div>added initial support of transparent highlighted colors</div><div>disabled format selection for mjpeg streams (preview images)</div><div>disabled "Copy" option for MP3 and PCM (because PCM need to be repacked to big endian)</div><div>ignore mjpeg streams (preview images)</div><div>fixed creation of dvd with more than 100 hours</div><div>fixed generation of DVD if some video streams are omitted</div><div>fixed setting shadow if multiple objects are selected</div><div>fixed slow loading of project files</div><div>added some new buttons (thanks to ecodrv)</div><div>win32/win64: updated Manolito's VBR plug-in</div><div>win32/win64: updated ffmpeg to version 4.2.1</div><div><br></div><div>===</div><div>so, ping packager? </div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
i+ | dvd+rw-tools | package | 7.1-1.26 | x86_64 | Main Repository<br>
i+ | dvdauthor | package | 0.7.2-bp153.1.21 | x86_64 | openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP3<br>
i+ | dvdauthor | package | 0.7.2-bp153.1.21 | x86_64 | Main Repository<br>
i | dvdisaster | package | 0.79.6-lp153.27.3 | x86_64 | home:plater<br>
i | dvdisaster-docs | package | 0.79.6-lp153.27.3 | noarch | home:plater<br>
i+ | libdvdcss2 | package | 1.4.2-lp153.2.1 | x86_64 | dvd<br>
i+ | libdvdnav4 | package | 6.1.0-bp153.1.21 | x86_64 | openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP3<br>
i+ | libdvdnav4 | package | 6.1.0-bp153.1.21 | x86_64 | Main Repository<br>
i+ | libdvdread4 | package | 6.0.0-1.16 | x86_64 | Main Repository<br>
i | libdvdread8 | package | 6.1.2-lp153.46.2 | x86_64 | (System Packages)<br>
i+ | lsdvd | package | 0.17-bp153.1.14 | x86_64 | openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP3<br>
i+ | lsdvd | package | 0.17-bp153.1.14 | x86_64 | Main Repository<br>
i+ | openSUSE-release-dvd | package | 15.3-lp1532.157.1 | x86_64 | Hovedpakkebrønn for oppdateringer<br>
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More addon documentation and references in this street:<br>
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Several DVD and BD5 related guides:<br>
<a href="http://renomath.org/video/linux/" target="_blank">http://renomath.org/video/linu<wbr>x/</a><br>
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Creating DVD Video with Linux:<br>
<a href="https://radagast.ca/linux/dvd_authoring/dvd_authoring.html" target="_blank">https://radagast.ca/linux/dvd_<wbr>authoring/dvd_authoring.html</a><br>
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beandog's mostly dvds multimedia wiki<br>
<a href="https://dvds.beandog.org/" target="_blank">https://dvds.beandog.org/</a><br>
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Some thoughts on DVD authoring<br>
<a href="http://www.tappin.me.uk/Linux/dvd.html" target="_blank">http://www.tappin.me.uk/Linux/<wbr>dvd.html</a><br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>thanks, will look into them! </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<a href="https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=182529" target="_blank">https://forum.doom9.org/showth<wbr>read.php?t=182529</a> <<a href="https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=182529" target="_blank">https://forum.doom9.org/showt<wbr>hread.php?t=182529</a>><br>
Authoring a working HD-DVD using DVDAuthor?<br>
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main feature seems to be menu!<br>
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[..] forum, and many users are interested in creating DVD menus (which DVDStyler does at high quality), but the videos should be HD. DVDStyler has an experimental HD feature which builds on the deprecated HD-DVD standard. The results of course do not play on hardware DVD players, but most player software and even hardware BD players can play them.<br>
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The problem is DVDAuthor. FFmpeg encodes and muxes just fine in HD, but DVDAuthor limits the size of the result to the DVD limit which means that a maximum of 9 VOB files at 1024 MB each is supported. DVDAuthor does not throw any error message if the result is bigger, but it will not continue playback once this limit is reached. The VOBs in the VIDEO_TS folder all play fine, even the ones with a higher number than 9. But for the IFOs these VOBs are out of range.<br>
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Originally Posted by Emulgator View Post<br>
Manolito, maybe you can try to pre-concatenate those .VOBs to >1GiB to keep their number below or equal 9 ?<br>
Binary concatenation is all the filesystem does anyway while mounting any group of _<a href="http://1.to" target="_blank">1.to</a> <<a href="http://1.to" target="_blank">http://1.to</a>> _9.VOBs.<br>
BIG SUCCESS...<br>
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This suggestion does exactly what I was after. My current test:<br>
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I used a 2hour 5min project with 4 source clips. Full HD at an average bitrate of 27000 kbps and a max bitrate of 28000 kbps (wanted to preserve a little headroom compared to the HD-DVD specs because ffmpeg tends to overshoot the specified bitrates). Very basic VMG menu which just lets me select the clip I want to play.<br>
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Result came out at 25 VOBs, size about 24 GB. I used a binary file joiner to concatenate the VOBs so I had only 9 VOBs after joining. It also worked when joining all the 25 VOBs to just one.<br>
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The resulting 3xHD-DVD Structure worked perfectly in MPC-HC and in VLC. The menu did what it was supposed to do, even the chapters were preserved accurately. Quality was excellent, the average quantizer was below 4. And there was no need to use PgcEdit or VOBBlanker to repair the structure or fix the IFOs.<br>
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In this test I used only 1 VTS for all the 4 titles. This is alright because for HD output you only want to use an AR of 16:9. Just now I am running a second test conversion where only 1 title per VTS is used. Of course I will also have to concatenate the VOBs in every VTS which has more than 9 VOBs. I am quite confident that this will work, too.<br>
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So it looks like this poor man's method to create high quality HD results with elaborate menus has been established now. Big thanks to Emulgator and Sir Didymus for your very helpful suggestions...<br>
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Cheers<br>
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Yes, like I expected using only 1 title per VTS works well, too. Just make sure that no VTS holds more than 9 VOBs, if it does you need to concatenate the VOBs so a maximum of 9 VOBs is present.<br>
Another thing I tried does not work, at least not with my hardware. I tried to convert the 3xHD-DVD structure to a BD structure using DVDtoBD Express. No errors, but the resulting BDMV folder would not play correctly, neither under MCP-HC or VLC, and my old Xtreamer streaming box also had problems. None of these players could play the menu which DVDStyler had created and which was then converted by DVDtoBD Express. I suspect that DVDtoBD Express is to blame, but there might be other reasons.<br>
Last edited by manolito; 17th March 2021 at 19:32.<br>
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