CCE crashing with no errors

[FreQi]

Is there some log file for CCE that might help me determine why it's crashing? I have set up a job list of several avisynth scripts. Often times I have found that CCE will crash at no particular point in time on any of the items in queue (meaning it's not always on the first pass, nor is it on load, or any other particular event). It just disappears and there's no error message from CCE, Avisynth or Windows. Whenever it happens I just delete the incomplete .mpv that it made, reload the .ecl and start the encode again. Most the time it will encode just fine the second time, other times it might crash again, but at a different point in the encode, but again, no error messages.

Here is what I am using:

Windows 2000 (using NTFS on all drives)
CCE SP 2.66.01.07
EclCCE 1.5b
Avisynth 2.51 beta (12 mar 2003)

My .avs script
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Decomb.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Convolution3DYV12.dll")

# 0 (0:00:00.000)
# 3052 (0:02:07.294)
# 15811 (0:10:59.451)
# 29840 (0:20:44.578)

AVISource("cap_0.00.avi")++AVISource("cap_0.01.avi")++AVISource("cap_0.02.avi")

ConvertToYV12()

Telecide().Decimate(cycle=5)

Crop(2,4,-2,-2)
Convolution3D (0, 6, 10, 6, 8, 2.8, 0)
LanczosResize(720,480)

ConvertToYUY2()
ResampleAudio(48000)

My .ecl file
[item]
title=TGaaG_s3e12.avs
vid_out=1
vaf_out=1
aud_out=0
aud_mode=0
vid_file0=D:\TGaaG_DVD6\MPVs\TGaaG_s3e12.mpv
vid_file1=D:\TGaaG_DVD6\MPVs\TGaaG_s3e12.mpv
vaf_file=D:\TGaaG_DVD6\MPVs\TGaaG_s3e12.vaf
aud_file=D:\TGaaG_DVD6\MPVs\TGaaG_s3e12.mpa
file_focused=0
video_type=4
width=720
height=480
timecode=0x0000000
tc_ref_frm=0
drop_frame=0
cbr_brate=6000
opv_q_factor=60
opv_brate_min=2000
opv_brate_max=9000
vbr_brate_avg=2780
vbr_brate_min=0
vbr_brate_max=9400
vbr_bias=30
vbr_pass=5
create_new_vaf=1
pulldown_detect=0
letter_box=0
panscan=0
aspect_ratio=2
credits_tweak=0
credits_start=0x00000
credits_brate=1000
h_filter=0
h_filter_idx=8
use_filter=0
filter_val=4
dither=0
dither_max=8
quality_prec=16
intra_dc_prec=2
alternate_scan=0
non_linear=1
progressive=1
gop_m=3
gop_nm=4
gop_hdr=12
seq_hdr=1
seq_endcode=1
dvd=0
all_closed_gop=0
fix_gop_length=0
fix_vbv_delay=0
top_first=1
half_width=0
half_height=0
lum_level=0
packet_size=2048
frame_rate_idx=1
qmat_idx=0
mpeg1=0
mpeg1_cps=1
brate_idx=7
stereo=2
samples_per_sec=48000
crc=1

[file]
name=F:\TGaaG_s3e12 A Moving Script\TGaaG_s3e12.avs
type=0
frame_first=0
frame_last=30961
encode_first=0
encode_last=30961
chapter=0:
chapter=3052:
chapter=15811:
chapter=29840:

I see there is a newer version of Avisynth available. Perhaps I should try upgrading...

Thanks for any help you can offer.

[RB]

This is very likely the "memory leak" issue with CCE and AVISynth. See the CCE FAQ in this forum, Q14.3. Note your ResampleAudio() won't work, this was changed starting with AVISynth 2.08. And yes, you should update AVISynth, the official v2.52 is out.

[FreQi]

Originally posted by RB
Note your ResampleAudio() won't work, this was changed starting with AVISynth 2.08.

I'm not using CCE to encode audio, and the AVI's I am feeding through the avs script does have interleaved audio, so I wasn't trying to use the fake audio trick. I used that to direct stream copy the wav in virtual dub. Then used wav booster on it, and encoded that with scenarist's "AC3Enc". The sample rate is 48kHz like I wanted (converted from 44.1).

Should I still expect this memory leak problem even tho the script does have audio and I have CCE set not to encode it?

I'll install the newer avisynth and see what happens. I've got pleanty more to encode for testing.

Thanks ;]

[FreQi]

I upgraded to avisynth 2.52 and got Decomb v4.10b4. Unfortunately, I still got a crash on one of the encodes. I reloaded the .ecl and made it use the existing vaf rather than make a new one, and the encode went fine. So I don't suspect the vaf being the culprit.

Incidently, when I installed avisynth 2.52, it has me install "ffvfw lite", and my computer -hated- it. After installing virtualdub (of any flavor) would not open. When I rebooted, windows would not fully load (it logged onto the network and sat there with a blank screen, no task bar, no icons, just the desktop color). I had to boot into safe mode and uninstall ffvfw.

[RB]

It could be a hardware issue or a problem in one of the plugins. Try loading the AVIs directly into CCE. Does it still crash?

[digitalman]

I also had issues with ffvfw lite. Once I installed it, DVD Workshop would not open, it would crash at startup. Uninstalled ffvfw and it started working again.