PC hanging after 7 hours of ripping?

[aqik1]

After many attempts to encode a DVD I have to ask what is it that I’m doing wrong! I have read and set DVD2SVCD as in the newbie reference guide and the DVD2SVCD guide. My system is win98, 1ghz PIII with 384ram, 13ghz & 60ghz HDD’s. Using ‘The Exorcist’ DVD as my source disc, 117 minutes in length to copy to 2 x 80min CD’s. The program rips to the vob files, encodes the audio and completes the vaf file and starts the CCE encoding process but hangs the PC after about 7/8 hours of running. If I have MS System Monitor running at the same time as ripping then Unused Physical memory is at zero % Processor Usage is 100% and Allocated Memory is 100% which indicate that the PC is ruuning at full load! I can complete the process if I only convert half the DVD disc, by only picking half the chapters and running the process twice. I have run DVD2SVCD using Idle, Normal and High on the Misc. tab and with and without ‘Safe mode (VAFPI slow)’ on the Encoder tab but all with the same result of the PC hanging after 7/8 hours. I can rip DVD’s using ‘cladMdec, DVD2AVI and TMPGEnc but as you know the end result is not what can be got with DVD2SVCD. I did manage to complete the disc by using the crash recovery but the end result was not good with pixelation of some of the chapters. Log text file is also given below. This time crash recovery did not work, it reported a missmatch error. Any ideas?

Key found: E169073199
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- 04/04/02 16:38:38
- DVD to SVCD Conversion
- DVD2SVCD ver. 1.0.7 build 4
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Initializing
Initializing finished.

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- 04/04/02 16:38:41
- Free on drive D: 35655.44 mb
- Internal rip
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Preparing vobfiles to be ripped:
- I:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.vob
- I:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.vob
- I:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.vob
- I:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.vob
- I:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_5.vob

Ripping: I:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.vob
Ripping: I:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.vob
Ripping: I:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.vob
Ripping: I:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.vob
Ripping: I:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_5.vob
Ripping finished. Speed: 7727

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- 04/04/02 16:47:50
- DVD2AVI
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Creating DVD2AVI INI file:
- C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.INI

Variable settings:
iDCT_Algorithm: 32-bit SSE MMX

Executing DVD2AVI.
Executing DVD2AVI. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.exe" -IA=1 -CS=2 -YR=1 -EXIT -OF=[D:\DVD Image\exorcist_all\DVD2AVI_Project_file] -IF=[D:\DVD Image\exorcist_all\VTS_01_1.vob,D:\DVD Image\exorcist_all\VTS_01_2.vob,D:\DVD Image\exorcist_all\VTS_01_3.vob,D:\DVD Image\exorcist_all\VTS_01_4.vob,D:\DVD Image\exorcist_all\VTS_01_5.vob]
Framerate: 25000
DVD2AVI processing done.

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- 04/04/02 16:52:00
- Free on drive D: 31527.13 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
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Found AC3 stream id: 0x80
Filename: D:\DVD Image\exorcist_all\Extracted_audio_1.ac3
Audio1 delay: -80 ms
Audio extraction finished.

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- 04/04/02 16:58:31
- Free on drive D: 31206.38 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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Converting Audio to MP2. Filename: D:\DVD Image\exorcist_all\Extracted_audio_1.ac3
Executing BeSweet. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "D:\DVD Image\exorcist_all\Extracted_audio_1.ac3" -output "D:\DVDIMA~1\EXORCI~2\Encoded_audio_1.mp2" -logfile "D:\DVDIMA~1\EXORCI~2\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -azid( -L -3db -c normal ) -ota( -g max -d -80 ) -2lame( -e -b 192 -m s )
Audio conversion of D:\DVD Image\exorcist_all\Extracted_audio_1.ac3 finished.

Audio conversion finished.

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- 04/04/02 17:28:11
- Free on drive D: 31045.94 mb
- Converting Pictures
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Converting: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DefaultTitlepicture.bmp
Converting: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DefaultChangeCD.bmp
Finished converting pictures
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- 04/04/02 17:28:19
- Free on drive D: 31044.88 mb
- Video Encoding using Cinema Craft
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Executing VFAPI.
Closing program

Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.
StreamSectors: 1665085576
AudioSectors: 170665264
VideoPAPO: 23149368
ScanOffsetBytes: 262731
SeqAligningBytes: 16698015
VideoEndHeader: 8
SubtitleSectors: 0
EmptySectors: 238.00
PictureSectors: 600.00
PureMPEGStream: 1454310190.33
Seconds: 7016.16
CalcMPEGStream: 1454310190.33
Frames: 175154
CDSize: 800.00
Cut point 795.00
Variable Settings:
Frames: 175154
Anti Noise Filter: 2
Passes: 3
Image Quality: 17
VAF file creation: On
Video Encoding Mode: Multipass VBR
Min. bitrate: 0
Max. bitrate: 2530
Avg. Bitrate: 1658
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- 05/04/02 09:25:42
- DVD to SVCD Conversion
- DVD2SVCD ver. 1.0.7 build 4
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Initializing
Initializing finished.

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- 05/04/02 09:26:24
- Free on drive D: 23439.78 mb
- Crash Recovery
- Restarting from: Video encoding
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- 05/04/02 09:26:39
- Free on drive D: 23439.78 mb
- Video Encoding using Cinema Craft
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Executing VFAPI.
Closing program

Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.
StreamSectors: 1665085576
AudioSectors: 170665264
VideoPAPO: 23149368
ScanOffsetBytes: 262731
SeqAligningBytes: 16698015
VideoEndHeader: 8
SubtitleSectors: 0
EmptySectors: 238.00
PictureSectors: 600.00
PureMPEGStream: 1454310190.33
Seconds: 7016.16
CalcMPEGStream: 1454310190.33
Frames: 175154
CDSize: 800.00
Cut point 795.00
Variable Settings:
Frames: 175154
Anti Noise Filter: 2
Passes: 3
Image Quality: 17
VAF file creation: On
Video Encoding Mode: Multipass VBR
Min. bitrate: 0
Max. bitrate: 2530
Avg. Bitrate: 1658
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- 05/04/02 15:45:01
- DVD to SVCD Conversion
- DVD2SVCD ver. 1.0.7 build 4
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Initializing
Initializing finished.

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- 05/04/02 15:45:03
- Free on drive D: 22074.50 mb
- Crash Recovery
- Restarting from: Video encoding
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- 05/04/02 15:45:06
- Free on drive D: 22074.50 mb
- Video Encoding using Cinema Craft
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Executing VFAPI.
Closing program

Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.
StreamSectors: 1665085576
AudioSectors: 170665264
VideoPAPO: 23149368
ScanOffsetBytes: 262731
SeqAligningBytes: 16698015
VideoEndHeader: 8
SubtitleSectors: 0
EmptySectors: 238.00
PictureSectors: 600.00
PureMPEGStream: 1454310190.33
Seconds: 7016.16
CalcMPEGStream: 1454310190.33
Frames: 175154
CDSize: 800.00
Cut point 795.00
Variable Settings:
Frames: 175154
Anti Noise Filter: 2
Passes: 3
Image Quality: 17
VAF file creation: On
Video Encoding Mode: Multipass VBR
Min. bitrate: 0
Max. bitrate: 2530
Avg. Bitrate: 1658

[markrb]

The CCE freeze issue is known and not uncommon. Here is a link to a search I did for CCE freeze:
http://forum.doom9.org/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=78216&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

Didn't try to search for CCE crash yet.
Have you tried the CCE stress test yet from the advanced forum?
Have you run the Prime95 Torture test?

CCE freezing is an indication there is a problem with the computer. It very well maybe minor and most programs do not have issues with these minor errors, but CCE does. Your computer could seem 100% perfect and CCE can still freeze/crash. Some people are just not able to use CCE. This is the main reason support for TMPG was added.

Have you tried using CCE 2.62 under safe mode?
Have you tried other DVD's? Sometimes the movie has been known to be the problem.

My advice to you is try the stuff I mentioned and search and read the forum for the tons of info and things to try already posted.

Mark

[mrbass]

384MB RAM. you have a 256 and 128 chip installed? Take out the 128MB chip and do the Indian Rain Dance.

[Jason28]

If you go to the Advanced forum you can find some settings in there for the TMPGEnc that give very good results. I cant really tell the diff from a TMPG and a CCE encode, other then the encoded by CCE thing on the bottom. Give that a try and see if you can encode the whole movie.