CCE can't begin encoding. WinXP never-seen before error

[SupaCoopa]

This is the second installation of WinXP on a new P4.
When I had my old PC, CCE would do the job nice - if somewhat slow. But ever since I upgraded and re-installed everything, CCE won't start encoding. It complains when first trying to write to the disk, to be exact:

ICDecompressGetFormat() Failed: -2

System is normal, all codecs needed for the .avi I try to encode (720x576 PAL MJPEG) are installed and other MPEG-2 encoders can encode this file fine.
Cheers for any tip.

[SupaCoopa]

Sorry, I'm using CCE SP Trial 2.67.00.19 on WinXP Pro.

[DDogg]

Please post details of the process and source you are trying to use. Using Avisynth? If so, the script? If avi will it play in VDub?

[SupaCoopa]

Sorry, mod
It's really a straight AVI that plays fine in MediaPlayer. It's 4:3 exported from Premiere as AVI with MJPEG compression (codecs are installed and working). Dimensions are 720x576 and I'm "adding" it to the CCE window but when I hit encode it gives the aforementioned error message. No scripts or "tricks" whatsover

Now, if I go to the templates, I can change options. But if I try to, say, change the save position for the .vaf file or the .m2v itself, CCE again gives a (hard disk related?) error
Hope this can give you an idea, I had CCE up and running on my previous installation and never had any problems.

System is WinXP Pro (NTFS) on a P4 with S/ATA (double controllers). I'm booting from and saving to a S/ATA disk, but I have also tryed saving (and openning from) other disks on P-ATA and still the same. No other program has disk access or identification problems...

Cheers

[SupaCoopa]

Also if I try to save the encoding list, no matter the disk I pick I get a "Can't save ecl file" error.

Tried and older version too, SP 2.66.01.06 Trial but nothing changes a bit

[auenf]

Originally posted by SupaCoopa
System is normal, all codecs needed for the .avi I try to encode (720x576 PAL MJPEG) are installed and other MPEG-2 encoders can encode this file fine.

did you install a specific codec for mjpeg? or are you just relying on the built in Windows DirectShow codec?

CCE wont use a directshow codec for an input avi, it requires a vfw codec.

Enf...

[DDogg]

ICDecompressGetFormat() Failed: -2 There is a feature buried in CCE that a lot of folks don't know about that will allow you to check CCE's ability to read the source without trying an encode. To the right of "input files" is a settings button. Click the settings button, and then double click the filename you will see highlighted. If you see video you should be OK to encode. I suspect you will see an error message. Have you tried installing the Morgan mjpeg Codec (http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/)? I think that will fix you up. ... I get a "Can't save ecl file" error. Are you using RB's eclcce to run CCE? It enables the ecl saving with the trial version.

[SupaCoopa]

Did you install a specific codec for mjpeg?
Or are you just relying on the built in Windows DirectShow codec?
I'm using PicVideo MJPEG codecs, but I'm also having trouble with MS MPEG4 and even uncompressed video files.


To the right of "input files" is a settings button
I will have to check out what happens when I click this mystery button, as I'm on a different PC right now. Suppose the video shows OK there, what's next? And what should I do if it doesn't? :(


RB's eclcce enables the ecl saving with the trial version
Silly me, I never read the "readme" files...


Further on the subject, there is a certain program that changes a byte or two on the CCE executable. You have to point it to the location of the executable, but when I do so it says "Invalid directory" or something very similar... Isn't that strange? On other PCs it does its job with no errors whatsoever.

The above situation leads me to think that there is some problem with the way Windows XP handles the hard disks. But then again, how come all other programs work fine? I have also tried both Norton's and Microsoft Scan Disk and everything comes out to be clear...

[digitalman]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
Go to that key in the registry, and make sure there are no blank vidc. entries. Also make sure there are entries called vidc.yuy2 and vidc.yv12. Add them if there are not. You can then type in the correct .dll for whatever encoder you want to use. Like you could use divx.dll if you wanted. Although I believe those entries are not necessary, because they are not there on another system, and everything works fine, adding them has fixed a decompression error on my system before.

[SupaCoopa]

Thanks for the suggestions, Digitalman. Will try them to see what happens.

Just to clarify things a little bit since I'm confused myself too, CCE can't begin encoding any file that has any sort of compression, being it MJPEG, MPEG4, DivX et al. These files produce an error when I try to "preview" them using the input file settings button in CCE. I found out that it can encode uncompressed files, though. These can be previewed OK within CCE.

However other MPEG encoders, like MainConcept and Ligos LSX, encode all files (heavily or lightly compressed with MJPEG or MPEG4 etc) with no problems at all...