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"Maybe it is too obvious to be mentioned, but I would give the suggestion to apply cuts and stripping of unwanted material as a POSTPROCESSING to every ppl having troubles in preprocessing material to feed to DVD-RB...

Steps could be as follow:

1. Evaluate the size (in byte) of the materials to be stripped. This could be eventually carried out doing a backup, performing the preprocessing, taking note of the difference respect to the backup and restoring the original material from the backup..

2. This size, in sectors, is obtained by dividing the size in bytes for 2048 (better being conservative on this value, cause this computation is not taking into account the fact that the stripped material MAY be involved into the encoding, resulting in an overestimated value)...

3. Perform a "standard" DVD-RB session on the original title, tuning the TargetSectors item in the [OPTIONS] section of the Rebuilder.ini file; at the TargetSectors item, if present, should be added a value in the order of the size, in sectors, obtained in point 2...

4. When DVD-RB has completed his work, strip the unwanted material...

Cheers,"

Sir Didymus

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"To combine the previous ideas:

3b. Use RBOpt to set the compression ratio of the material to be stripped to 100% (no compression) so their size after processing with RB is similar to the original.

Other:

As the menus are not processed by RB, if they are too big, use Shrink to preprocess them (other parts od the DVD set to "No Compression" in full backup mode)"

pg55555

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Installation tip

"The most common mistake I've read is not making sure you point the CCE path to the eclcce executable and not the cce executable itself. This is the most common cause of avs scrip errors "frame size not supported".

Also include to make sure the latest versions of eclcce v1.81, AviSynth (v. 2.55) and DGMPGDec v1.012. or mpeg2decdg from the decodefix110mod.zip kit is used.

Making sure the latest properly installed software is being used would solve 90% of the new install error problems."

dannyv

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note:

Thanks to all the author's of these tips... if you noticed something wrong just use the error reporting form below on contact section.

I didn't tested all of this tips personally.