Strange problem when ripping Alegria DVD

[Quidam]

I tried at least 10 times with this DVD with various avisynth settings, and all sort of settings I found regarding Hybrid film.
The DVD plays fine in my standalone player, so it is not a bad disc. I did re-ripped the DVD several times as well. I also tried mpeg2dec2.dll. No go.

No matter what I do, it just stop right after it creates the .vaf file. I even waited overnight, but nothing seem to happen, I checked CPU utilization, 0% for DVD2SVCD, I have an AMD 1700 XP, 768mb RAM.

Does anyone know why?
Thanks for any suggestion you may have.


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- 7/5/2002 7:21:07 PM
- DVD to SVCD Conversion
- DVD2SVCD ver. 1.0.9 build 3
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Initializing
No subtitles found, skipping subtitle analyze
Initializing finished.

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- 7/5/2002 7:21:09 PM
- DVD2AVI
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Creating DVD2AVI INI file:
- G:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.INI

Variable settings:
iDCT_Algorithm: 32-bit SSE MMX

Executing DVD2AVI.
Executing DVD2AVI. Commandline:
"G:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.exe" -CS=2 -YR=1 -EXIT -OF=[i:\noman\DVD2AVI_Project_file] -IF=[I:\noman\VTS_02_1.vob,I:\noman\VTS_02_2.vob,I:\noman\VTS_02_3.vob,I:\noman\VTS_02_4.vob]
Analyzing DVD2AVI Project file
Hybrid Film activated. IVTC will be applied and will slow down the entire process!
Framerate: 29970
DVD2AVI processing done.

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- 7/5/2002 7:23:23 PM
- Free on drive i: 32274.19 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
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Found AC3 stream id: 0x80
Filename: i:\noman\Extracted_audio_1.ac3
Found AC3 stream id: 0x82
Filename: i:\noman\Extracted_audio_2.ac3
Audio1 delay: -67 ms
Audio2 delay: -41 ms
Audio extraction finished.

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- 7/5/2002 7:27:36 PM
- Free on drive i: 31889.28 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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Converting Audio to MP2. Filename: i:\noman\Extracted_audio_1.ac3
Executing BeSweet. Commandline:
"G:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "i:\noman\Extracted_audio_1.ac3" -output "i:\noman\Encoded_audio_1.mp2" -logfile "i:\noman\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -azid( -L -3db -c normal -g max ) -ota( -d -67 ) -2lame( -e -b 192 -m s )
Audio conversion of i:\noman\Extracted_audio_1.ac3 finished.


Converting Audio to MP2. Filename: i:\noman\Extracted_audio_2.ac3
Executing BeSweet. Commandline:
"G:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "i:\noman\Extracted_audio_2.ac3" -output "i:\noman\Encoded_audio_2.mp2" -logfile "i:\noman\Encoded_audio_2.log" ) -azid( -L -3db -c normal -g max ) -ota( -d -41 ) -ssrc( --rate 44100 ) -2lame( -e -b 128 -m s )
Audio conversion of i:\noman\Extracted_audio_2.ac3 finished.

Audio conversion finished.

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- 7/5/2002 7:52:59 PM
- Free on drive i: 31690.75 mb
- Video Encoding using Cinema Craft
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Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.
StreamSectors: 1659503328
AudioSectors: 197881628
VideoPAPO: 22641300
ScanOffsetBytes: 140231
SeqAligningBytes: 8912446
DVDBytes: 0
VideoEndHeader: 8
SubtitleSectors: 0
EmptySectors: 238.00
PictureSectors: 1.00
PureMPEGStream: 1429927714.80
Seconds: 4881.00
CalcMPEGStream: 1429927714.80
Frames: 116859
CDSize: 796.00
Cut point 791.00
Variable Settings:
Frames: 116859
Anti Noise Filter: 2
Passes: 4
Image Quality: 17
VAF file creation: On
Video Encoding Mode: Multipass VBR
Min. bitrate: 300
Max. bitrate: 2530
Avg. Bitrate: 2230
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 (No borders, encoded as 4:3)

---AVS Begin---
LoadPlugin("G:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2Dec\MPEG2D~1.DLL")
LoadPlugin("G:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\INVERS~1\DONALD~1\decomb.dll")
mpeg2source("i:\noman\DVD2AV~1.D2V")
Telecide()
Decimate(5)
BicubicResize(480,480,0,0.75)
ResampleAudio(44100)
----AVS End----

[gerti67]

Hi Quidam,

and welcome to the forum. :)

I did re-ripped the DVD several times as well.Ripped with what? - Internal Routines, vStip?

Don't use any external rippers like Smartripper because they can cause audio desync and other problems with DVD2SVCD conversions.

Hope this helps,
Gerti

[pepsimaxx]

It could also be CCE. Which version do u use? U should try using CCE 2.50 (if ur not using that already) as newer versions of CCE seems to have a tendency to crash in conjuntion with DVD2SVCD.

[UltimateDBZ]

What version of avisynth do you use?
Does the movie you're trying to convert have a lot of dark scenes?

[Quidam]

I have avisynth 1.06 beta6 which came with DVD2SVCD 1.0.9 build 3.
My version of CCE is 2.50, and I used DVD2SVCD internal rip routine.

Alegria have a lot of dark scene, I increased luminance as one thread suggested, but no luck there. I'm just really frustrated as to why Alegria can't be ripped because I was able to successfully rip movies like Shrek and at least 20 others without any problem.

[UltimateDBZ]

A few things to try:

First get the latest version of avisynth, no matter what. The latest is 1.0 beta 7e.

Next, try setting the luminance property to 5, and attempt a short encode.

Also try without the anti-noise filter on, see what results that brings.

If you do all 3 of the above things, you should be able to encode properly.

[Quidam]

Thanks for the help UltimateDBZ.

I'll give those settings a try.