[Roger Andersson]

I see,
I stand corrected.
Thanks Ed

Roger

Roger Andersson / Innobits AB Sweden

[Roger Andersson]

Hi Ed,

Pleased that you like BitVice.

I must say am a bit puzzled why you say: “but it really makes lousy QTs and WMVs”

That is because BitVice does not do any QTs or WMVs, AT ALL, only MPEG-2 video files, so you have to find the lousiness somewhere else. Did you use an MPEG-2 compliant decoder/player?
Maybe I could help if I knew what you used for viewing the .m2v files from BitVice.

Roger Andersson / Innobits AB Sweden

[Roger Andersson]

Oh yes, BitVice is alive!

We are still developing BitVice ( and other related products)
It is a big misunderstanding that BitVice should not support Intel Macs
If your Intel Mac has 8-cores, though, you should read this:
https://www.innobits.com/f/index.php?topic=1244.msg5610#msg5610

Well it may well be worth reading that information even if you have a less powerful machine;-)

Kindest
Roger

Roger Andersson / Innobits AB Sweden

[Roger Andersson]

This happens when BitVice for some reason is not allowed, by the OS, to create a new .m2v file in the folder you selected. Check that your user has write permissions for the folder.

Since BitVice is denied to open a new file, there is no point in starting an encoding session, because there is no way to save the result.

Roger Andersson / Innobits AB Sweden

[Roger Andersson]

I am sure that I already answered this question, but since I cannot find it here I’ll try again. Maybe a bit shorter this time.
Since the 24p footage gets slowed down by 0.1% when going to DVD (24 fps becomes 23.976 fps) the audio needs to be slowed down by the same amount, making it longer by 1001/1000 ( = 30/29.97 = 24/ 23.976). BitVice does not do anything with the audio track, except possibly extracting it from the QT file, on the user’s request, and saving it in a separate file for further processing (streching, compression et.c.)

Roger

Roger Andersson / Innobits AB Sweden

[Roger Andersson]

I have no idea about KING KONG, but the Iron Maiden DVD “Death on the Road” was indeed encoded with BitVice.
If you want to examine the excellent results, be sure to get the new version of the DVD, about to be released any day now from what I hear, because some disks from the the old release had some production problems associated with them.
Read more at http://www.innobits.com

Roger

Roger Andersson / Innobits AB Sweden

[Roger Andersson]

BitVice Helper is NOT a product from Innobits AB. It is a free tool that you can use for MPEG Layer II audio encoding and for multiplexing audio and video. The latest version of BitVice Helper is available here
https://homepage.mac.com/rnc/
or via
https://www.bobhudson.com/BitViceHelper.html
where you also can see and hear Bob Hudson’s video tutorial for BitVice Helper

MPEG Layer II audio is always CBR, never VBR.

BitVice MPEG-2 video Encoder, which is a product from Innobits AB, is an alternative to Compressor and makes VBR or CBR video. BitVice does NOT do any multiplexing or audio encoding.

Roger Andersson / Innobits AB Sweden