Fit2Disc v1.2.8 ========================= by shh email: shh(at)shildebrand.de homepage: http://shildebrand.de License Agreement: =================== USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IS SUBJECT TO THE SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS SET FORTH BELOW. USING THE SOFTWARE INDICATES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS, YOU MUST DELETE THE SOFTWARE IMMEDIATELY. "Use" means storing, loading, installing, executing or displaying the software. You may not modify the software or disable any licensing or control features of the software or reverse engineer the software. Fit2Disc is released with NO WARRANTY and is NOT freely distributable. Every version of Fit2Disc is WATERMARKED for the use with ONE specific donator. CHANGING the program-code will BREAK the program. SHARING the program IN ANY KIND is a license infringement and will explicitly show who has violated the software licence. That person will be made RESPOSIBLE for ANY COSTS and DONATION-LOSSES that may have occurred due to the license infringement. Additional Info: ================= This is a tool that helps with many steps you need for creating a SVCD or DVD. Fit2Disc is released as a bonus-version for people who have donated for the work on freeware-tools. This is the readme with additional information about the professional version of FitCD, Fit2Disc. For the main features, please read the readme of FitCD. Overview over the extra features: ================================== - Accurate imaging- & bitrates-calculation calculations for (mini/c)DVD-authoring and multiplexing including: + now also with multiplexing for DVDMaestro & Scenarist + new, bigger disc sizes, like DVD±R/RW + overhead-calculation for AC3- and DTS-audio + a 3rd audio-track + DVD-subtitles overhead + special min/max-rates according to the DVD-players capabilities - A preview and small player of the source-file - Support for mpegdecoder.dll (with automatic D2V-project creation) - Intelligent detection of the film-area from one picture, or the whole film - Manual cropping adjusting like in VirtualDub - Manual destination frame sizes (useful for AVI encoding) - Entering Extra Data and the number of subtitles by browsing a directory - Usage of a custom denoiser of the video before or after resizing - Small analysing-box about the source-compression - Editable default lines for the avisynth-script Options: ========= For DVD-Authoring, choose DVD-sizes for your destination discs, and choose DVD-VOBs multiplexing and DVD-Authoring. Then the multiplexing- overhead is calculated correctly for VOBs. If you want to use AC3 or DTS as audio-stream (instead of MPEG-audio) you can also change the audio type besides the bitrate. If you want to use subtitles, you can click on [Subtitle BMPs] to choose the directory where your subtitle bitmaps are located. The number is calculated and entered in the according field. If you want to add some extra data to your discs, you can click on [Extra Data] to choose the directory which contains all your extra stuff. All files are added up, and the value is entered in the according field. To play the source-file and/or detect edges and the film-pixels, first open your source-file via the [Source]-button, then open the video clicking the Camera-Button, below the [Source]-button. Then a player-window pops up, where you can analyze the source. To detect the film-borders, move the positioning-slider to a bright picture with good edges. Then click on [Detect film-pixel]. The detected area is then visualized on the picture. If you want to crop more manually adjust the borders by the up/down-buttons. For a quicker approach, you can analyze the whole film by clicking on [Scan]. Then the smallest ever detected border for each side are taken. Note, that some DV-AVIs cannot be opened correctly. That's because of a bug(?) in avisynth or faulty headers of the AVIs. Please also ensure, that your AVI doesn't have broken frames, because that can crash the underlying decoder. To analyze the compression of the source-file, enter the average video- bitrate of your source in the [4500]kbps-box. The quick-hint then shows some info about the compression. That info can help you to decide what bitrate your transcodings will need. On the right of the destination-box you can see a %-value what shows the ratio of bitrate per block between source & destination. If you want to denoise, check the according box. Choose, if you want to denoise the input-video (slower, high-quality), or the output-video after resizing (faster, but quality is not so good). You can edit the default denoiser-strength values in line, it is saved automatically to the ini-file. Additional Options not covered by the GUI: =========================================== Some options are not covered by the GUI, because they need to be adjusted only once or very seldom, and would just overload the GUI. For changing this options just edit the Fit2Disc.ini with a text-editor. - To customize the edge-detection, you can adjust the color limit-values under [Global] The default values R_Limit=50 G_Limit=50 B_Limit=50 are fine, but you may want to decrease the values to make the detection more sensitive. - You can also adjust the ScanInc value under [Global]. Lower values make the edge-detection slower, but more accurate, higher values check less lines of the video, so the edge-detection might be more inaccurate. Default value is ScanInc=4 (every 4th line is checked). - To adjust the maximum streamrates to the capabilities of your DVD-Player under [Global] change the values PlayerRateDVDMin, PlayerRateDVDMax, PlayerRateMiniDVDMin, PlayerRateMiniDVDMax (and of course also PlayerRateSVCDMin and PlayerRateSVCDMax). - To add additional custom lines to the avisynth-script, edit the values of WorkingDir LoadPlugin* StartLine AfterLoadVideoLine* EndLine* under [AVSscript]. So you can add you favourite plugin, do some spectial avisynth commands, and so on. Changes: (besides all changes of FitCD) =============================== v1.2.8: September, 8th 2005 - Added: Some src-preview optimizations for high resolutions - Added: Hack for proper HDTV1080 border detection - Fixed: Combined start/stop button staying at stop at the end v1.2.7: September, 4th 2005 - Added: Edit/Reload of the preview window source file - Added: Restart the preview-video, when it is at the end - Changed: Clean up avi/avs decoding - Changed: Combined stop- and play-button - Changed: Preview-window v1.2.6: February, 26th 2005 - Added: Minimim height for the preview-window - Fixed: Opening new files while preview window is open v1.2.5.1: November, 22nd 2004 - Added: 8.5 DVD+R(W) disc-sizes v1.2.5: November, 22nd 2004 v1.2.4: August, 3rd 2004 - Fixed: Cropping wasn't recalculated on changes in the preview-window v1.2.3: July, 3rd 2004 - Added: Border-snapping of the preview - Changed: Default maximum rate for DVDs is the max. streamrate - Changed: Removed usage of AVIStream*Streaming() - Fixed: A PGetFrame was sometimes allocated twice - Fixed: Cut/Copy/Paste didn't work with number-fields in the preview-window v1.2.2: March, 19th 2004 - Fixed: Better loading of AVIs in the preview-window - Fixed: AVIs with unknown audio didn't load correctly - Fixed: Exception on closing Fit2Disc v1.2.1: March, 12th 2004 - Added: Do some default-stuff (an avisynth-line) before video-loading - Added: Do some default-stuff (avisynth-lines) after video-loading - Changed: Directory-chooser for subtitle-pics & extra data v1.2.0: March, 10th 2004 - Changed: Look of preview window - Added: DVD+R and DVD+RW disc-sizes - Added: manual cropping in the preview-window - Added: Detection/Support of Mpegdecoder.dll - Added: DTS-bitrates & -overhead calculation - Added: preview of the temp. avs-file to load the preview - Added: Editing of the Denoiser-string - Added: Manual destination-resolutions - Added: DVD-multiplexing for MP2 with DVDMaestro & Scenarist - Added: Subtitle calculations for DVDMaestro & Scenarist - Added: Browse-button for counting subtitle BMPs in a directory - Added: Browse-button to enter Extra Data by directory-size - Fixed: Denoise output wasn't done field-wise with interlaced material - Fixed: Preview didn't show videos with one frame - Fixed: DVD-subtitle overhead calculation should be more accurate now v1.1.2: December, 5th 2002 - Added: Player-streamrate editing for DVD-authoring - Added: Default avisynth-lines editable by the ini-file - Added: Extra-cropping of some pixels after pixel-detection v1.1.1: November, 16th 2002 - Added: DVD-rates are now also bound to DVD-disc sizes - Fixed: Min/max DVD-rates v1.1.0: November, 12th 2002 - Initial release Disclaimer: ============ Fit2Disc is copyright © 2002 - 2005 by shh, All Rights Reserved. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Any trademarks mentioned here are the properties of their owners. To the author's knowledge no trademark or patent infringement exists in this document or in the program distribution; any such infringement is purely unintentional.