Arksofts Crunchie Release (v1.1)

[arkay]

Take a read of this thread. You may also have luck with a newer version of DVRMSToolbox.

Cheers,

Arkay.

[actprime]

Multiple audio tracks.

I am having problems with Crunchie selecting the wrong audio track .
Anyone know how to cure this - even if I have to spoecify which track.

[arkay]

Not sure how you ended up with multiple audio track but mencoder (the crunchie uses) can be told which track to select.

In the crunchie.ini file in the install folder you will need to change these two lines:

PASS1==vhq=1:max_bframes=2 -nosound -noodml
PASS2==vhq=1:max_bframes=2 -oac copy -noodml

to

PASS1==vhq=1:max_bframes=2 -nosound -noodml -aid 128
PASS2==vhq=1:max_bframes=2 -oac copy -noodml -aid 128

wher -aid selects the audio id number. 128 is standard for the English Dolby Digital track on a DVD. You might have to experiment to find out what value to use there.

You can do that by running mplayer (in the same folder), with the same switch.

i.e. use dvrmstompeggui.exe to convert one of these dvrms files to mpeg then use:

mplayer <filename>.mpg -aid 128

and see if it plays the right audio. If not then try 129 etc etc until you find what audio track you need. Then you can add that to the crunchie.ini file.

Cheers,

Arkay.

[her34]

incomplete encodes?

hi, recently i've been getting incomplete encodings from crunchie (ex: 1 hour show will encode to 27 minute show. sometimes even 4 minutes). i'm using latest dvrms-toolbox and haven't changed any software or hardware on htpc. the conversion from dvr to mpg is complete (1 hour mpg file) it's just the encoding to avi that ends short.

any ideas on how to fix?

[arkay]

Hi,

The only reason that I've ever seen for that happening is if the mpeg file is corrupt in some way. the only way I know to check it is to run it through something like projectx or videoredo that can fix errors in the mpeg file. You can then run that file through crunchie and it should convert.

Cheers,

Arkay.