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lichtgestalt · 31-01-2003

Ho all!

Initially, I wanted to send this as an email to Erwin, but since there's this forum now...
I'd like to quickly summerize the feature requests we arrived at in a little brain storming we had in another forum (thread http://www.movie2digital.de/forum/th...adid=3503&sid= Achtung! It's German

Here it goes:

1. An option to specify a target size. This makes it possible to reserve some space for extras/menus etc.

2. The possibility to exclude cells/chapters. Thus you could easily strip off the credits at the end to save space/bitrate.

3. Could you display the bitrate of the audio streams (192, 384, 448 kbits) in the list of the available audio tracks? That's useful information.

4. It'd be nice to be able to change the displayed language of a stream. There are DVDs around (Kate&Leopold e.g.) where for example the subtitle for the commentary track was displayed as "German" when in fact it is "English". These little mistakes in the original DVD could be easily corrected.

5. An option to have a "scanning pass" before the transcoding to determine a sensible bitrate distribution. There's an excellent review of DVD2one by the famous mb1 at http://www.dvd-svcd-hilfe.de/forum/m...ne/dvd2one.htm (Again German, but there are some meaningful screenshots and it may be worthwhile to try a translation service like babelfish for the text). He found out that the bitrate distribution looks quite chaotic...
I don't know what would be the best approach to it during the "scanning pass". Maybe analyse the original's bitrate distribution and just model the lower bitrate after it...
Later versions could provide an editor (like the "Bit Allocation" of CCE) where you could manually manipulate the bitrate distribution gained from the "scanning pass".

6. An option to use different matrices as it is done today with TMPEG and CinemaCraftEncoder as plug-ins.

7. Since DVD2one is so blazingly fast, how about a preview function? Let the user choose the video, audio and subtitles he wants. Then let him enter the timecode from where he wants his 1-minute preview, transcode and maybe automatically open the preview file in the default player.
This feature is even more useful when you have different matrices to choose from, but even when deciding if to include another audio stream or not a preview will be extremely nice!

8. Back up a DVD with any extras and menus you want to 1 or 2 DVD-R.

9. Compress a film spanning 2 DVDs onto 1 DVD-R.

I'd be thrilled if anyone of the DVD2One Team could quickly comment on every suggestion.
Thanks very much!

[Edited for typos]

31-01-2003	#8 (permalink)
lichtgestalt CD Freaks Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 65	Ho all! Initially, I wanted to send this as an email to Erwin, but since there's this forum now... I'd like to quickly summerize the feature requests we arrived at in a little brain storming we had in another forum (thread http://www.movie2digital.de/forum/th...adid=3503&sid= Achtung! It's German Here it goes: 1. An option to specify a target size. This makes it possible to reserve some space for extras/menus etc. 2. The possibility to exclude cells/chapters. Thus you could easily strip off the credits at the end to save space/bitrate. 3. Could you display the bitrate of the audio streams (192, 384, 448 kbits) in the list of the available audio tracks? That's useful information. 4. It'd be nice to be able to change the displayed language of a stream. There are DVDs around (Kate&Leopold e.g.) where for example the subtitle for the commentary track was displayed as "German" when in fact it is "English". These little mistakes in the original DVD could be easily corrected. 5. An option to have a "scanning pass" before the transcoding to determine a sensible bitrate distribution. There's an excellent review of DVD2one by the famous mb1 at http://www.dvd-svcd-hilfe.de/forum/m...ne/dvd2one.htm (Again German, but there are some meaningful screenshots and it may be worthwhile to try a translation service like babelfish for the text). He found out that the bitrate distribution looks quite chaotic... I don't know what would be the best approach to it during the "scanning pass". Maybe analyse the original's bitrate distribution and just model the lower bitrate after it... Later versions could provide an editor (like the "Bit Allocation" of CCE) where you could manually manipulate the bitrate distribution gained from the "scanning pass". 6. An option to use different matrices as it is done today with TMPEG and CinemaCraftEncoder as plug-ins. 7. Since DVD2one is so blazingly fast, how about a preview function? Let the user choose the video, audio and subtitles he wants. Then let him enter the timecode from where he wants his 1-minute preview, transcode and maybe automatically open the preview file in the default player. This feature is even more useful when you have different matrices to choose from, but even when deciding if to include another audio stream or not a preview will be extremely nice! 8. Back up a DVD with any extras and menus you want to 1 or 2 DVD-R. 9. Compress a film spanning 2 DVDs onto 1 DVD-R. I'd be thrilled if anyone of the DVD2One Team could quickly comment on every suggestion. Thanks very much! [Edited for typos] __________________ cu lichtgestalt -- Go OBOS at http://www.openbeos.org and listen to BeOS Radio! Last edited by lichtgestalt; 31-01-2003 at 17:51.