DVD-RB + CCE + Vista Ultimate = no go! :(

[AnitaPeterson]

Hi there,

Long time no see, everyone.
It seems that I've hit a brick wall with my favorite application set.

A long time ago, someone from a DVD forum had made a nice installer of the free version of DVDRebuilder, with CCE SP 2.66 and AviSynth included...

I've been faithfully using that for the last couple of years - no complaints.

However, my newest computer has Windows Vista on it, and the damned thing can't seem to like using DVD-RB + CCE.

I keep getting this strange error message that ccspt.exe has stopped working... If I try the eclcc.exe, I get a pop-up saying "AVIfileOpen (xxxxx.avs): error 0x80040154"

No matter what I do, no matter how I try to fiddle with the settings (I even tried CCE 2.70, but to no avail!0 I can't get the program to work.

I get the following log (as you can see, multiple attempts to make it work...):

[15:31:28] One Click encoding activated...
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[15:31:28] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP UNKNOWN encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
-- Processed 183,314 frames.
-- Building .AVS and .ECL files
- Reduction Level for DVD-5: 60.4%
- Overall Bitrate : 5,249/4,200Kbs
- Space for Video : 3,919,526KB
- HIGH/LOW/TYPICAL Bitrates: 4,765/3,683/4,200 Kbs
[15:35:02] Phase I, PREPARATION completed in 4 minutes.
[15:35:02] Phase II ENCODING started
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
Aborted.
[15:38:12] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[15:38:12] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP UNKNOWN encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
- PREPARE aborted.
Aborted.
[15:38:35] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[15:38:35] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP ECLCCE encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
- PREPARE aborted.
Aborted.
[15:39:08] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[15:39:08] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP ECLCCE encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
-- Processed 183,314 frames.
-- Building .AVS and .ECL files
- Reduction Level for DVD-5: 60.4%
- Overall Bitrate : 5,249/4,200Kbs
- Space for Video : 3,919,526KB
- HIGH/LOW/TYPICAL Bitrates: 4,765/3,683/4,200 Kbs
[15:42:32] Phase I, PREPARATION completed in 3 minutes.
[15:42:32] Phase II ENCODING started
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
Aborted.
[16:43:49] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[16:43:49] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP ECLCCE encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
- PREPARE aborted.
Aborted.
[16:44:06] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[16:44:06] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP UNKNOWN encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
- PREPARE aborted.
Aborted.
[16:44:22] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[16:44:22] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP UNKNOWN encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
-- Processed 183,314 frames.
-- Building .AVS and .ECL files
- Reduction Level for DVD-5: 60.4%
- Overall Bitrate : 5,249/4,200Kbs
- Space for Video : 3,919,526KB
- HIGH/LOW/TYPICAL Bitrates: 4,765/3,683/4,200 Kbs
[16:47:38] Phase I, PREPARATION completed in 3 minutes.
[16:47:38] Phase II ENCODING started
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
-- Encoding resulted in no .M2V, retrying.
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
-- Encoding resulted in no .M2V, retrying.
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
Aborted.
[16:54:40] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[16:54:42] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP UNKNOWN encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
-- Processed 183,314 frames.
-- Building .AVS and .ECL files
- Reduction Level for DVD-5: 60.4%
- Overall Bitrate : 5,249/4,200Kbs
- Space for Video : 3,919,526KB
- HIGH/LOW/TYPICAL Bitrates: 4,765/3,683/4,200 Kbs
[16:58:57] Phase I, PREPARATION completed in 4 minutes.
[16:58:57] Phase II ENCODING started
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
-- Encoding resulted in no .M2V, retrying.
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
-- Encoding resulted in no .M2V, retrying.
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
Aborted.


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If anyone could help, I'd be very grateful... this is driving me nuts - just when I finally got a nice rig (AMD 64x2 4400+, 2 GB RAM), after using a Barton 2500 for the last four years...

[JohnGalt]

A long time ago, someone from a DVD forum had made a nice installer of the free version of DVDRebuilder, with CCE SP 2.66 and AviSynth included...

CCE SP costs something on the order of USD 2000, I believe. Doesn't seem like it should be "bundled"? At any rate, I'd give HC a try. It is free and is included in the RB installer.

[AnitaPeterson]

I don't know about HC... until I see well-documented and exhaustive encoding tests made with all the available freeware, I'm a bit skeptical. The scene also seems dead set on CCE (six pass standard), probably for good reason.

I'm reading conflicting reports on various sites concerning CCE and DVD-RB and Vista... some people say the newer CinemaCraft Encoder (strangely named version 1 something) is supposed to be working well with Vista, but it seems to me it would take a different programming approach, so I have no idea how and if I would instruct DVD-RB to use it, anyway.

[Fishman0919]

CCE SP 2.66 trial needs to be used with eclcce (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=266080#post266080)


if I remember correctly only cce sp 2.70 and cce sp2 work with Vista

[jdobbs]

The version of CCE you are using is not registering... which means there is something wrong with the executable because the operating system can't get the version -- and all CCE versions release return it properly.

I would suggest you post your REBUILDER.INI file so we can see where you are pointing...

CCE v2.66 is way out of date -- it was released almost 6 years ago. I believe it does require ECLCCE in order to handle command line interfacing... but it's been a long time since I've see it.

CCE is a commercial program and it has NEVER BEEN BUNDLED with a legitimate copy of DVD-RB. Saying you downloaded it also implies a violation of Rule #6.

There are thousands of people using DVD-RB with CCE v2.70... if it isn't working in your case it is very obviously a configuration error. I'd suggest you uninstall DVD-RB, uninstall AVISYNTH, and then run the DVD-RB full installer. It will install AVISYNTH if it isn't already installed and it will locate CCE automatically (if it is correctly registered via its installer).

[neuron2]

A long time ago, someone from a DVD forum had made a nice installer of the free version of DVDRebuilder, with CCE SP 2.66 and AviSynth included...

I've been faithfully using that for the last couple of years - no complaints.

Struck for rule 6. And stop talking about "the scene". It's not allowed here.

[AnitaPeterson]

Thank you for the suggestion, jdobbs, it seems that AviSynth was messed up... deleting everything and installing CCE 2.70 trial before giving DVD-RB another go seems to be working correctly now, under Vista.