Problems, Problems, Problems... Please Help!!!

[bhm]

:confused:
I have installed the software bundle, 1.04. On completion of audio conversion the bundle begins to convert the pictures. The following message appears, which halts the process.:( "An exception error has occured in the image.dll. we recommend to exit the application and to restart it by clicking its icon."
Pressing ok just takes it to the next picture and the same happens!"!! Any Ideas???

Also, whilst reading the forums, i have noticed that people have stated that increasing the ram in your machine speeds up the process. One person stated how the svcd creation time was reduced to five and a half hours. I have an athlon 1ghz processor and now have 512mb ram, yet the entire process is still taking 37 hours. any idea's.

Lots of people are reading this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please, please, please, give me some idea's.
There are lots of you that can help, so please do!!!!!!!!!!!!!:confused: HELP!!!

[markrb]

Post your DVD2SVCD log file. Something is definately wrong.
Did you shut off audio downsampling? That can save a few hours and if you play it on your computer or DVD player is no needed.
It still shouldn't take 37 hours though.
On my old P3 750 I could do an enitire encode in less then 20 hours.
What is CCE showing as your encode speed?

Mark

[bhm]

as requested mark, here is the log file for a small dvd i copied. the cce speed got to 0.700 on average.

Cheers for the help

brian

[markrb]

You need to cut and past the log file.
.70 CCE speed is not that bad.
My P3 750 would average .5 for a CCE encode.
Drop the number of VBR passes from 5 to 3.
That will drop about 30% off the encode time.
Shut off Audio Downsampling.

Mark

[bhm]

OOPS!!!!!
Sorry about the log file, i was in a bit of a hurry getting back to work. Tried to cut and paste, will not work!!! What am i doing wrong???
The passes were set at 3 on my last attempt, what will happen if i shut off audio downsampling, and how do i do it ?????

Cheers for all your help mark

Brian.

[bhm]

OK i'm an idiot!!!
Here is the log file, now that my brain has eventually clicked into gear.


--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 07:09:09
- DVD to SVCD Conversion
- DVD2SVCD ver. 1.0.4 build 2
--------------------------------------------------------
Initializing
Initializing finished.

--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 07:09:11
- Free on drive C: 35396.13 mb
- Internal rip
--------------------------------------------------------
Preparing vobfiles to be ripped:
- D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.vob
- D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.vob
- D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.vob
- D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.vob

Ripping: D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.vob
Ripping: D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.vob
Ripping: D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.vob
Ripping: D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.vob
Ripping finished. Speed: 6862

--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 07:16:53
- DVD2AVI
--------------------------------------------------------
Creating DVD2AVI INI file:
- C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVD2AVI.INI

Variable settings:
iDCT_Algorithm: 32-bit SSE MMX

Executing DVD2AVI.
Creating DVD2AVI project file.
Closing program
Framerate: 25000
DVD2AVI processing done.

--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 07:21:21
- Free on drive C: 32300.72 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
--------------------------------------------------------
Found AC3 stream id: 0x80
Filename: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Extracted_audio_stream_1.ac3
Audio extraction finished.

--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 07:27:12
- Free on drive C: 32204.88 mb
- AUDIO conversion
--------------------------------------------------------

Downmixing AC3 Stream. Filename: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Extracted_audio_stream_1.ac3
Autodetecting Azid dB Gain offset
Executing Azid. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Azid\Azid.exe" -c normal -g30db -N -L -3db "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Extracted_audio_stream_1.ac3" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DownmixedAudioSt1-48KHz.wav" >"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Azid.log"
Autodetection of dB offset finished
Gain offset: 7.60dB
Executing Azid. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Azid\Azid.exe" -c normal -g7.60db -L -3db "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Extracted_audio_stream_1.ac3" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DownmixedAudioSt1-48KHz.wav"
Downmixing of C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Extracted_audio_stream_1.ac3 finished.

Wav downsampling. Quality: Ultra high
Audio delay: -80 ms
Downsampling 48000 -> 44100 and adjusting audio delay.
Wav Conversion Finished

Encoding wav file to mp2.
Executing tooLame. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\tooLame\tooLame.exe" -m s -b 224 -e "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\FinalAudioSt1.wav" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_audio_stream_1.mp2"
Audio conversion finished.

--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 09:28:55
- Free on drive C: 30338.63 mb
- Converting Pictures
--------------------------------------------------------
Converting: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DefaultTitlepicture.bmp
Converting: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DefaultChangeCD.bmp
Finished converting pictures
--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 09:29:24
- Free on drive C: 30334.56 mb
- Video Encoding
--------------------------------------------------------
OK
Closing program
StreamSectors: 1541681176
AudioSectors: 138710264
VideoPAPO: 21732768
ScanOffsetBytes: 183219
SeqAligningBytes: 11644585
VideoEndHeader: 8
SubtitleSectors: 0
EmptySectors: 238.00
PictureSectors: 300.00
PureMPEGStream: 1369410331.67
Seconds: 4887.84
CDSize: 740.00
Cut point 736.00
Variable Settings:
Frames: 122146
Anti Noise Filter: 2
Passes: 3
Image Quality: 17
VAF file creation: On
Video Encoding Mode: Multipass VBR
Min. bitrate: 300
Max. bitrate: 2498
Avg. Bitrate: 2241

Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.
OK

Closing program
Video Encoding finished.

--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 17:26:50
- Free on drive C: 28815.44 mb
- Converting Pictures from ES to PS
--------------------------------------------------------
Closing program
--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 17:27:33
- Free on drive C: 28815.25 mb
- Converting Pictures from ES to PS
--------------------------------------------------------
Closing program
--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 17:28:10
- Free on drive C: 28815.06 mb
- Multiplexing and cutting
--------------------------------------------------------
Offset in Seconds: 0
Executing bbMPEG.
Variable Settings:
Movie offset: 0 seconds
Cut point: 736 mb
Closing program
Length of C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00.mpg
1496 Seconds
Offset in Seconds: 1496
Executing bbMPEG.
Variable Settings:
Movie offset: 0 seconds
Cut point: 736 mb
Closing program
Length of C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File01.mpg
1533 Seconds
Offset in Seconds: 3029
Executing bbMPEG.
Variable Settings:
Movie offset: 0 seconds
Cut point: 736 mb
Closing program
Multiplexing and cutting finished.

--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 17:54:21
- Free on drive C: 27118.97 mb
- Determining length of audio
--------------------------------------------------------
Analyzing: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00.mpg
1498.469 seconds C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00.mpg
Analyzing: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File01.mpg
1535.436 seconds C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File01.mpg
Analyzing: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File02.mpg
1083.413 seconds C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File02.mpg
Analyzing finished.

--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 17:57:13
- Free on drive C: 27126.94 mb
- Creating CD-Images using VCDXBuild
--------------------------------------------------------

CD image #1: CD_Image_File_CD0.bin

Executing VCDXBuild. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\VCDImager\VCDXBuild.exe" --cue-file="C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\CD_Image_File_CD0.cue" --bin-file="C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\CD_Image_File_CD0.bin" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\VCDXBuild_Script_0.xml"
--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 18:01:42
- Free on drive C: 26376.81 mb
- Creating CD-Images using VCDXBuild
--------------------------------------------------------

CD image #2: CD_Image_File_CD1.bin

Executing VCDXBuild. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\VCDImager\VCDXBuild.exe" --cue-file="C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\CD_Image_File_CD1.cue" --bin-file="C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\CD_Image_File_CD1.bin" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\VCDXBuild_Script_1.xml"
--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 18:06:10
- Free on drive C: 25630.91 mb
- Creating CD-Images using VCDXBuild
--------------------------------------------------------

CD image #3: CD_Image_File_CD2.bin

Executing VCDXBuild. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\VCDImager\VCDXBuild.exe" --cue-file="C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\CD_Image_File_CD2.cue" --bin-file="C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\CD_Image_File_CD2.bin" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\VCDXBuild_Script_2.xml"
CD-Image creation finished.

--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 18:09:17
- Free on drive C: 25115.34 mb
- SVCD Creation finished!
--------------------------------------------------------

[JulCat]

Where are the 36 hours?????

--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 07:09:09
- DVD to SVCD Conversion
- DVD2SVCD ver. 1.0.4 build 2
--------------------------------------------------------
Initializing
Initializing finished.

--------------------------------------------------------
- 10/12/2001 18:09:17
- Free on drive C: 25115.34 mb
- SVCD Creation finished!
--------------------------------------------------------

These times are Ok.

[markrb]

That is only 11 hours and that is not that bad at all.

To speed up a little go to the audio tab and select the drop down that says Ultrahigh currently. One of the selections is NONE. Use NONE, if you are using a DVD player or your computer to view the finished product. Keep it at Ultrahigh if you are using a stand alone SVCD player.

This will save about 30 minutes to an hour or more of audio encode time.


My P3 750 could take up to 20 hours to do an encode.
I say your speed is Normal.

Mark

[bhm]

The 36 hours, have been for most movies copied over 2 hours in length! The log i used was for a movie only just over an hour long. Since then i have totally reconfigured my computer and am now achieving better times. Cheers to all...

Thanks mark for the advice about the audio, i will try that next time i encode. Many thanks again for all the help!!!

Still have the converting pictures problem though!!!!! Cannot call this a go to sleep and it does it for you program if it stops in the middle and waits for me to click on ok.
Has anyone got any ideas on how to solve this little gem.

Cheers

Brian