Second pass is less than the first pass

[videocheez]

I have been playing with GK for a few months here and have had intermittent success. I must be missing something.
In this conversion GK says that it encoded all of the files successfully during the first pass but the final movies turns out to have a file size of 60% of the projected file size. The movie just stops at around 1 hours length. Its a perfectly good quality movie its just not fininshed.
It appears that the second pass only a portion of the movie in converted.
Does any one see any thing in my GK log that indicates a problem. Also is there a way to make gk save the second pass as a different filename than the first pass so that way if the second pass encoding fails i will not overwrite the first pass movie?
The last question is can i eliminate the second pass all together and just do single pass XviD encoding?

Thanks in advance,

VC

7:08:31 AM: Started Xvid - First Pass: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avs
9:24:49 AM: Finished Xvid - First Pass: Duration: 2 hours, 16 minutes, 17 seconds.
9:24:49 AM: Trying to open Log-file.
9:24:49 AM: Success: Log-file open.
9:24:49 AM: Encoded: 137678 Frames.
9:24:49 AM: Speed: 16.837 Frames per Second.
9:24:49 AM: New target size = 636588 Kb

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\VirtualDubMod\LastJob.vcf :

// $job "XviD Second Pass"
// $input "C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avs"
// $output "C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu_Movie.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("C:\\1movie encoding\\gknot rip\\ringu\\ringu.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(1);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression(0x64697678,0,10000,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompData(1208,"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");
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("C:\\1movie encoding\\gknot rip\\ringu\\ringu_Movie.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

9:24:52 AM: Started Xvid - Second Pass: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avs
10:49:43 AM: Finished Xvid - Second Pass: Duration: 1 hour, 24 minutes, 51 seconds.
10:49:43 AM: Speed: 27.043 Frames per Second.

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\VirtualDubMod\LastJob.vcf :

// $job "DivX5 Append"
// $input "C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu_Movie.avi"
// $output "C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("C:\\1movie encoding\\gknot rip\\ringu\\ringu_Movie.avi",0,0);
VirtualDub.RemoveInputStreams();
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetSource("C:\\1movie encoding\\gknot rip\\ringu\\ringu.mp3",0x00000202,1);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetInterleave(1,500,1,0,0);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetVolume();
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("C:\\1movie encoding\\gknot rip\\ringu\\ringu.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

10:49:43 AM: Started Muxing Audio.: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu_Movie.avi
10:55:27 AM: Finished Muxing Audio.: Duration: 5 minutes, 43 seconds.

10:55:27 AM: Done.
10:55:27 AM: Movie = C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avi
Total Encoding Time: 3 hours, 46 minutes, 58 seconds.
7/21/2004 10:55:27 AM: Job "ringu - ringu.avi" finished.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

[jggimi]

The first pass .avi file is a dummy. There won't be anything useful in it, so file name changes are not necessary. The first pass is used to analyze your video, the second (or any subsequent passes) is used to create your encoding based upon that analysis. It produces a variable bitrate video, and is how you get a video with peak quality for a specific file size.

Single passes are useful only when using either a constant quality or a constant bitrate. GK isn't set up to automate single pass encodings, but AutoGK has that capability.

All that aside: when an encoding ends early, I always suspect hardware trouble, typically due to heat. Video encoding stresses CPUs. Are you overclocking your PC? If you're using WXP or W2K, you could check to see if any errors appeared in your Event Log near 10:49:43 AM when your second pass "finished." I also recommend posting the complete _GKnot.log file, that way we'll see all of your settings as well.

[videocheez]

This is interesting. I have never considered hardware problems. I have doen hundreds of mpeg2 encodes using cce and have never had this problem. I relly think its time for the yearly hardrive cleaning. I hate to do it but I do have some errors when viewing the event viewer. In fact i cant even look back to this morning because it basically says that i have errors contiuously.

An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation.

Here is the rest of my gk file since you mentioned it but I think its time to clean the comp.

thanks for the time.

VC

7/21/2004 7:08:28 AM: Job "ringu - ringu.avi" started.

o Xvid - First Pass: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avs
o Xvid - Second Pass: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avs
o Mux Audio.
End of Job 1 (ringu - ringu.avi).
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Gordian Knot
Encoding Job Data:

Type: EncXvid_All
Container: Audio-Video Interleave (AVI)
Number: 1
Name: ringu - ringu.avi
Platform: WinXP (5.1.2600).2

Files:
VirtualDubModExe: C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\VirtualDubMod\VirtualDubMod.exe
NandubExe: C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\nandub\Nandub.exe
AviFinal: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avi
AviMovie: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu_Movie.avi
AviCredits: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu_Credits.avi
MovieFS: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avs
CreditsFS:
Log : C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.log
Stats: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.stats
Ecf : C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.ecf

Options:
Quality/DRF: 0
CreditsStart: 0
UseEcf: 1
CreditsIVTC: 0
CreditsAppend: 0
DeleteInterm.: 0
EnforceBitrate: 0
AntiShit: 0

Calculator:
VideoSize: 636587 kbyte.
Audio1Size: 74834 kbyte.
Audio2Size: 0 kbyte.
Overhead: 5378 kbyte.
AviSize: 716800 kbyte (700 mbyte).
FilesSize: 0 kbyte.
TotalSize: 716800 kbyte (700 mbyte).
Interleaving: vbrmp3
Bitrate: 908 k(=1000)Bits/s
Frames: 137678
FPS: 23.976
Duration: 135:42
Quality: 0.181 bits/(pixel*frame).
CompCheck3: 0.000 bits/(pixel*frame).
CompCheck5: 0.136 bits/(pixel*frame).
Resolution: 544 x 384

Audio 1:
Mode: Just Mux Source File.
SourceFile: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.mp3
WavFile: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.wav
Mp3File: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu_1.mp3
OggFile: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.ogg
OggQuality: 0.200
OggLanguage: English
Azid:
Lame:
Delay: 0
Interval: 1
Preload: 500
Mux: 1
Recalc: 1
DeleteWav: 1

Audio 2:
none.

7:08:28 AM: Audio 1, determined: 74834 kb
7:08:28 AM: Audio 1, calc: 74834 kb
7:08:28 AM: New Bitrate for Movie = 908 k(=1000)Bits/s

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\VirtualDubMod\LastJob.vcf :

// $job "XviD First Pass"
// $input "C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avs"
// $output "C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu_Movie.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("C:\\1movie encoding\\gknot rip\\ringu\\ringu.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(1);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression(0x64697678,0,10000,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompData(1208,"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");
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("C:\\1movie encoding\\gknot rip\\ringu\\ringu_Movie.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

7:08:31 AM: Started Xvid - First Pass: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avs
9:24:49 AM: Finished Xvid - First Pass: Duration: 2 hours, 16 minutes, 17 seconds.
9:24:49 AM: Trying to open Log-file.
9:24:49 AM: Success: Log-file open.
9:24:49 AM: Encoded: 137678 Frames.
9:24:49 AM: Speed: 16.837 Frames per Second.
9:24:49 AM: New target size = 636588 Kb

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\VirtualDubMod\LastJob.vcf :

// $job "XviD Second Pass"
// $input "C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avs"
// $output "C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu_Movie.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("C:\\1movie encoding\\gknot rip\\ringu\\ringu.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(1);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression(0x64697678,0,10000,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompData(1208,"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");
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("C:\\1movie encoding\\gknot rip\\ringu\\ringu_Movie.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

9:24:52 AM: Started Xvid - Second Pass: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avs
10:49:43 AM: Finished Xvid - Second Pass: Duration: 1 hour, 24 minutes, 51 seconds.
10:49:43 AM: Speed: 27.043 Frames per Second.

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\VirtualDubMod\LastJob.vcf :

// $job "DivX5 Append"
// $input "C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu_Movie.avi"
// $output "C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("C:\\1movie encoding\\gknot rip\\ringu\\ringu_Movie.avi",0,0);
VirtualDub.RemoveInputStreams();
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetSource("C:\\1movie encoding\\gknot rip\\ringu\\ringu.mp3",0x00000202,1);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetInterleave(1,500,1,0,0);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetVolume();
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("C:\\1movie encoding\\gknot rip\\ringu\\ringu.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

10:49:43 AM: Started Muxing Audio.: C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu_Movie.avi
10:55:27 AM: Finished Muxing Audio.: Duration: 5 minutes, 43 seconds.

10:55:27 AM: Done.
10:55:27 AM: Movie = C:\1movie encoding\gknot rip\ringu\ringu.avi
Total Encoding Time: 3 hours, 46 minutes, 58 seconds.
7/21/2004 10:55:27 AM: Job "ringu - ringu.avi" finished.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

[piscator]

Originally posted by videocheez
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation.


:scared: :scared: Still having nightmares myself about this specific event message. Soon after, I got the message 'S.M.A.R.T. technology detects harddisk crash is imminent'. But since I'm unlucky with hardisks and every year one seems to break down, I'm kinda used to it by now (5 disks the last 7 year :angry: ).

Not to make you scared or so :D, but I would suggest you backup your essential data from that drive. After that, do a chkdsk that checks for bad sectors as well. From command prompt: 'chkdsk /f /r D:' I suggest only using the microsoft tool for that and not some Norton Tools or other 3rd party thing (bad experience for me).

Since it is your D-Drive, I assume you have two harddisks in your computer and they are probably sitting on top of each other? For current harddrives that is the formula to break the disk because of the heat. If you can rearrange your system such that there is some space between them, do so. But wait till your system is cooled down or you'll burn your hand ;)

Also you might want to install some motherboard monitor software and check the temperatures during a 100% load (i.e. while encoding). And while you are at it make sure all the fans work or are not too dusty.

Have had plenty of experience with these things myself...

greetz,
Piscator

[videocheez]

Thanks for the info, picator. I will try some of your suggestions. I have two hardrives but they have RAID configuration such that two drives = one big drive. Do you think that error means that one of the drives is going bad? These hardrives get a good work out so youmaybe right.

Thanks,

VC

[piscator]

It is a possibility. Do a "chkdsk" as I mentioned, if there are no bad blocks, there probably is not so much to fear. But two harddisks on top of each other can cause quite some overheating. At least, it doesn't improve the lifetime of the disks. If you have space in your casing (more than two 3.5 slots), make sure to put some space between the disks. If you don't have the space, it might be a good idea to buy a harddisk cooler for one of the disks.

greetz,
Piscator

[eli2k]

New hard drives should have an internal thermal sensor inside. You can try running this: http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm - it is supposed to load up all the SMART data.

I had a hard drive running consistently above 50 C, and I got angry and put an 80mm fan on top of it with about 1 cm separation, so it's sitting at 32 C.

[piscator]

Just 50 degrees? I can't even cook an egg on that :D! But the passmark tools are nice to check out if your system has problems.

greetz,
Piscator