problem with Decomb.dll and CCE in big 3 backup

[emistral]

Hi All,

I am using the big 3 to backup titanic since I was to keep a decent picture quality.
I must mentioned that I am backing up a PAL movie and therefore after following the Doom9 guide on how to use the big 3, I have to modify the AVS files to insert a load decomb.dll

I did that, then run reauthorist, press encode and this is where the problem appears.
CCE is crashing and therefore can not encode anything
It's crashing on the vaf file generation and then if I press ok, CCE reopens and tries to reencode the movie but since there is no vaf files, it closes itself straight away.
I am running CCE 2.5, the latest DoCCE4U but not the beta 5, and an early version of DoItFast4u.
I tried the other alternative solution offered in the guide using DoCCE4U (using Bitrate viewer and encoding the movie as it is - interlaced) but it does not work
I meant it encodes fine but once the vob have been generated and the IFO updated, the video is jerky on the screen

For info, bitrate viewer tells me the movie is interlaced, top field first and alternate scan

I would appreciate any help

[Kedirekin]

You are modifying the avs manually, so you should check it to make sure it is okay. Just open the avs in VirtualDub and see if the video is there or if you get an error. It may simply be that the avs doesn't work, which might cause the behavior you're seeing in CCE.

In your alternate approach, it sounds like the field order is off. Just a suggestion: you can use pulldown.exe to fix the field order without having to re-encode everything. I don't remember the syntax off the top of my head (and my other PC is burning a DVD right now, so I can't check). It's something like

pulldown src.mpv dest.mpv -nopulldown -tff true

If you do pulldown.exe with no arguments in a command prompt window, it should give you syntax help, and you should be able to figure it out from there.

Oh, and I'm not sure which field order will give you smooth playback. You may need to try both -tff true and -tff false (or whatever the syntax is).