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Experiencing Difficulty Using DVD RB and CCE? If So, Then Ask Your Questions Here.
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Gnomex
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23. September 2004 @ 17:24 |
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Double post removed.
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23. September 2004 @ 17:38 |
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Gnomex...
Your setup is certainly a good approach ... and is a less expensive approach than what I opted for. Thanks for sharing it. I finally went to Norton SystemWorks, removable drives/trays, and a couple of towers. One computer is used only for DVD/Video work. Norton lets me clone the drives...so I always have a solid backup. Still, things get messed up every few months, but I can usually clone my way out of it painlessly.
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Gnomex
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23. September 2004 @ 18:08 |
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Doc409,
Thanks for the positive feedback on the DVD-RB system setup. A lack of deskttop space was my main motivator.
Symantec Ghost is a tool everyone should have. Ghost has been one of my oldest and dearest tools for several years.
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spamlover
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23. September 2004 @ 21:01 |
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Bite the bullet eh?? Well, before Ghosting the hard drive, I'm going to try out DVD-RB/CCE on my second partition... a partition with games on it that I rarely use. I'll let you know how it goes. Am I right in assuming that you guys get DVD-RB/CCE to work most of the time? If so, what steps do you use?? If you make changes to the CCE settings, then at what step does CCE come into play since DVD-RB dictates the settings anyway? Vurbal was saying something about creating an ecl file:
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Within CCE you have an option that allows you to save a project file. If you do that, you'll end up with a file called whatever.ecl. That file contains all the instructions required for CCE to do the encoding. You can either open that file in CCE and click the encode button or you can run CCE from the command line, specifying that ECL file for the settings. DVD-RB creates the ECL file itself and then uses the command line to have it encoded by CCE.
OK, what does this mean in laymans terms? Do you guys do this? If so, what steps do you take? If someone is willing to e'mail me to run thru the steps, that would totally help so I don't take up all this space asking what might be stupid questions.
Cheers!
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23. September 2004 @ 21:19 |
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spamlover...
You have the retail Basic 2.69, and you are over-complicating things. All you need to do is follow the instructions in the setup guide. Don't do anything else in the way of settings...other than what is required of the RB settings. Definitely leave CCE alone. Run an unedited Decrypter file through to test the integrity of the setup.
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23. September 2004 @ 21:29 |
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OK, what does this mean in laymans terms? Do you guys do this? If so, what steps do you take? If someone is willing to e'mail me to run thru the steps, that would totally help so I don't take up all this space asking what might be stupid questions.
My point was that DVD-RB sets those things itself. It doesn't ever get settings from CCE. The bottom line is that if you want to change DVD-RB's CCE settings you have to alter the file it creates to store them. There's no other way. You can alter the ECL files with a text editor, but it's unlikely you're going to fix any rebuild errors that way. It's not impossible - but it's pretty close. I definitely wouldn't set it up to do CBR encoding because you'll end up with terrible looking DVDs.
If you're really intent on changing the CCE settings, here's how you can do it. First you need to load an AVS file (you can use one created by DVD-RB) in CCE. Then you can adjust any settings you want and save the project. After that, you'd need to edit the REBUILDER.ECL file in DVD-RB's working folder to use those settings by changing the values to match what's in the ECL file you created. There are 2 hurdles to get past if you do this. First, you have to make sure you don't change any settings that have to do with the input or output file information, meaning you need to identify those lines in the ECL. Second, there are settings in that file for each segment (AVS file) DVD-RB has to encode. That means you'll need to understand using the Find and Replace feature in Notepad (or whatever text editor you use).
I can't stress enough. If you don't know what you're doing it's easier to screw things up than to make them better. Plus, there's almost no chance that different encoder settings will solve your problems. Additionally, you should expect to get no support whatsoever from jdobbs if you change the settings and things don't work. Or at least you should expect the help to be something along the lines of "don't do that". You can also expect approximately the same thing from me (and others here). If you want to learn how to use the settings in CCE that's great, but within the context of DVD-RB there isn't much place for it, and if you don't already know what you're doing you shouldn't expect better results from it.
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24. September 2004 @ 00:10 |
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spamlover,
I will have to chime in with Doc and vurbal by saying you are trying to make things waaaay too complicated. Most of the problems occur when using trial versions of CCE SP.
Since you have the paid for CCE basic there is no need to do half the stuff I think you're confusing with CCE SP trial steps.
If you follow vurbal's guide it sets up fairly easy and once set up it is truly a one click operation. You browse to the source files in RB and hit transcode. DONE.
All that's left is to burn to disc. :>)
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Gnomex
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24. September 2004 @ 05:57 |
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spamlover
The others are correct, you are over-analysing the problem. Just use the DVD-RB guide found on AD. I was a newbie with this setup a while back and the guide works. There are no ommissions or errors in the guide.
Second, you said you had a second hard drive that contained nothing but games. How-everr, you are still running the same old version of windows. You need a clean slate to avoid potential problems. There are several ways to complete this task, but it comes down to whats available for you.
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24. September 2004 @ 13:11 |
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spamlover
What I think everyone is essentially say is start over and make certain that you follow Vurbal's guide verbatim. The setup portion of the guide involves only a few paragraphs and if you hate reading then the pictures are enough by themeselves.
" Please Read!!! Post your questions only in This Thread or they will go unanswered:
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spamlover
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24. September 2004 @ 15:31 |
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OMG! You guys are just awesome! OK, I realized thru this whole experience that my approach to the DVD-RB/CCE project is how I approach life... I make it waaaaaaay more difficult than it has to be. You guys are right. I went to the second partition on the same drive, followed vurbal's guide exactly and "voila", I'm happy to say it worked!! Before I installed CCE Basic 2.69, I had tried out the other versions of CCE SP. I think that this probably screwed it up...maybe left some unwanted files in the registry. No more #0003 or #09 script errors! Woo hoo! Time to Paypal Jdobbs!!
Time flies like an arrow...fruit flies like a banana!
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24. September 2004 @ 16:04 |
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Congrats! ;>)
GO VOLS !
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24. September 2004 @ 16:17 |
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Time to Paypal Jdobbs!!
Glad to hear you feel that way :) I wish more people did.
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24. September 2004 @ 16:50 |
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Agree 100% vurbal, it's a small club. :)
GO VOLS !
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24. September 2004 @ 16:56 |
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Yes bigo it is, but with you on a continuos software payment plan (avoided the word binge) it was inevitable that it got to its right destination eventually.
" Please Read!!! Post your questions only in This Thread or they will go unanswered:
Help with development of BD RB: Donations at: http://www.jdobbs.com/. |
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Gnomex
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24. September 2004 @ 17:17 |
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Sophocles,
DVD-RB is a great product and worth donating too. And to date its the only such product to receive a donation from me. Grandted it was not a huge amount but its a start.
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24. September 2004 @ 17:32 |
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It just seemed right to say thanks with a little financial support.
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Help with development of BD RB: Donations at: http://www.jdobbs.com/. |
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24. September 2004 @ 17:44 |
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Soph, I pay up front I'll have you know. It's why I'm going hungry tonite. ;>)
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Gnomex
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24. September 2004 @ 17:59 |
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Sophocles
Lets face it, there is not a application out there 10 times its price range that can do what DVD-RB can. And it just gets better and better.
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64026402
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24. September 2004 @ 18:13 |
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When it does angles it will be heaven.
I just did Star Wars IV. I couldn't resist. It has angles but it took just a few seconds to strip with Remake. The back up looks great.
I had tried DVDshrink to keep the angles but the quality ended up being disappointing. I don't think I'll do that again.
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64026402
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24. September 2004 @ 18:21 |
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I just donated $20. What is a reasonable amount:-)
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bornblind
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24. September 2004 @ 18:32 |
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Speaking of ReMake and angles, this may be a dumb question, but won't DVD Decrypter do the same same thing? There seems to be something in there under Settings==>File mode. Just curious if anyone knows what that is.
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24. September 2004 @ 19:10 |
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I just donated $20. What is a reasonable amount:-)
Well that puts you $10 ahead of me, but since I have more money coming in now I expect that will change as soon as we have our savings built back up. I think $20 is about the average donation.
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Speaking of ReMake and angles, this may be a dumb question, but won't DVD Decrypter do the same same thing? There seems to be something in there under Settings==>File mode. Just curious if anyone knows what that is.
It can strip the extra angles, but it won't fix the IFO files like DRM does. You can strip with Decrypter and fix the IFOs with IFOEdit, but that's not always a reliable solution.
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25. September 2004 @ 10:26 |
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I also gave $20 and I 'm not sure that it's enough.
Vurbal your contributions go beyond that of monetary value.
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Help with development of BD RB: Donations at: http://www.jdobbs.com/. |
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jdobbs
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27. September 2004 @ 06:27 |
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Vurbal your contributions go beyond that of monetary value.
Absolutely. Same for you Soph, and several others here at afterdawn.
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27. September 2004 @ 11:58 |
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jdobbs
A highly appreciated compliment.
" Please Read!!! Post your questions only in This Thread or they will go unanswered:
Help with development of BD RB: Donations at: http://www.jdobbs.com/. |
