QuEnc question for Nick...

[Burning Fury]

Hello Nick,i'm trying to encode with QuEnc (.59 beta 4 version) since my TMPGEnc expired but i seem to run into some problems when i use it.
Well to start maybe you can tell me the "standard" settings so it runs ok when you encode a movie,i have read that Trellis is very buggy,also i have read that you have to turn Mux Audio off...where is that?,and also i have read that i have to turn "Pictures" and "Detect Scene" and "Extra slow" settings off...now what does all that mean...?
Also maybe you can explain what 1 pass and 2 pass mean,can the movie be encoded in just 1 pass? or do i need to have 2 passes?...
I tried it to the best of my knowledge and it went ok but when it encoded the video it only encoded 3 minutes of it,the funny thing is that it gave me an ISO to burn...plus the video seemed "slow"...lol
Now, i notice that QuEnc .60 is out...is that better than what i have?
should i upgrade?...
Finally i'll let you see the log for D2S so you can see what happened and the
Mplex log where the problem happened...something at the end that says:
"Too many frame drops"...please help us out like you always do...thanks (^_^)/

WNASPI32.DLL 4.7.0.0
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- 6/12/2005 10:17:50 PM
- AVI to SVCD Conversion
- AVI2DVD ver. 1.2.2 build 3
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Initializing
- D:\saint seiya\[SpA-AznA] Saint Seiya Heaven Chapter ~Overture~ [DVD] [06D66A86] [XviD].avi
Initializing finished.

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- 6/12/2005 10:17:53 PM
- Free on drive D: 91480.33 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
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Undoing Nandubs 1152 BlockAlign value to 1
Redoing Nandubs 1152 BlockAlign value
Audio extraction finished.

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- 6/12/2005 10:18:33 PM
- Free on drive D: 91404.12 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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- 6/12/2005 10:18:37 PM
- Free on drive D: 91404.12 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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Converting MP2 to WAV. Filename: D:\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.mpa
Executing MADPlay (mp2 to wav). Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\MADPlay\madplay.exe" --quiet --output=wave:"D:\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2.wav" "D:\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.mpa"
Conversion (mp2 to wav) of D:\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.mpa finished.


Encoding Audio. Filename: D:\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.mpa
Executing BeSweet. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "D:\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2.wav" -output "D:\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2" -logfile "D:\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -ota( -g max ) -shibatch( --rate 48000 ) -2lame( -e -b 192 -m s )
Audio conversion of D:\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.mpa finished.

Audio conversion finished.

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- 6/12/2005 10:25:06 PM
- Free on drive D: 90369.03 mb
- Video Encoding using QuEnc
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StreamSectors: 4546875788
AudioSectors: 122277260
VideoPAPO: 68539392
ScanOffsetBytes: 180716
SeqAligningBytes: 11485474
DVDBytes: 0
VideoEndHeader: 4
SubtitleSectors: 0
EmptySectors: 238.00
PictureSectors: 0.00
PureMPEGStream: 4344392942.50
Seconds: 5026.90
CalcMPEGStream: 4344392942.50
Frames: 120477
CDSize: 4350.00
Number of CDs: 1
Cut point 4346.00

Executing QuEnc. Commandline:
"C:\My eBooks\QuEnc\QuEnc.exe" -i "D:\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file.avs" -o "D:\Movie\Encoded_Video_QuEnc_NTSC.mpv" -b 6913 -maxbitrate 8000 -2 -gopsize 12 -maxbframes 2 -dc 10 -auto -close -mpeg2 -notrell -nocgop -nointerlaced -extreme -hq -scene -noqlb -aspectratio 16:9
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- 6/13/2005 2:33:06 AM
- Free on drive D: 88365.76 mb
- Video Pulldown
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Executing Pulldown. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\pulldown\pulldown.exe" "D:\Movie\Encoded_Video_QuEnc_NTSC.mpv" "D:\Movie\Pulldown_Encoded_Video_NTSC.mpv" -prog_frames p
Video pulldown finished.

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- 6/13/2005 2:40:39 AM
- Free on drive D: 85255.76 mb
- Multiplexing Audio and Video
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Executing MPlex. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\mplex.exe" -f 8 -o "D:\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg" "D:\Movie\Pulldown_Encoded_Video_NTSC.mpv" "D:\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2"
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- 6/13/2005 2:40:56 AM
- Free on drive D: 85203.23 mb
- Determining length of audio
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Analyzing: D:\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg
83.409 seconds D:\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg
Analyzing finished.

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- 6/13/2005 2:41:02 AM
- Free on drive D: 85203.23 mb
- Authoring DVD
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Executing DVDAuthor. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\dvdauthor.exe" -x "D:\Movie\DVDAuthor.xml"
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- 6/13/2005 2:41:08 AM
- Free on drive D: 85150.68 mb
- Creating DVD ISO Image
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Executing MkIsoFs. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\mkisofs.exe" -o "D:\Movie\DVDImage.iso" -publisher "DVD2SVCD" -volid "" -dvd-video "D:\Movie\DVD-Files"
Image creation finished.

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- 6/13/2005 2:41:12 AM
- Free on drive D: 85097.29 mb
- Conversion done!
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And here is the Mplex log:

INFO: [???] mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [???] File D:\Movie\Pulldown_Encoded_Video_NTSC.mpv looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [???] File D:\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2 looks like an MPEG Audio stream.
INFO: [???] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [???] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [???] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [???] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (D:\Movie\Pulldown_Encoded_Video_NTSC.mpv)
INFO: [???] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [???] Frame width : 720
INFO: [???] Frame height : 480
INFO: [???] Aspect ratio : 16:9 display
INFO: [???] Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 8000000 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [???] CSPF : 0
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: Audio stream c0 (D:\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2)
INFO: [???] MPEG AUDIO STREAM: c0
INFO: [???] Audio version : 1.0
INFO: [???] Layer : 2
INFO: [???] CRC checksums : yes
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 24576 bytes/sec (192 kbit/sec)
INFO: [???] Frequency : 48000 Hz
INFO: [???] Mode : 0 stereo
INFO: [???] Mode extension : 0
INFO: [???] Copyright bit : 0 no copyright
INFO: [???] Original/Copy : 0 copy
INFO: [???] Emphasis : 0 none
INFO: [???] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [???] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 8365848
INFO: [???] target data-rate specified : 10080000
INFO: [???] Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
INFO: [???] Run-in Sectors = 89 Video delay = 13019 Audio delay = 0
INFO: [???] New sequence commences...
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [???] Audio c0: buf= 4096 frame=000000 sector=00000000
++ WARN: [???] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=1920000 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [???] Video e0: buf= 191538 frame=000508 sector=00006562
++ WARN: [???] Audio c0: buf= 3091 frame=000883 sector=00000252
++ WARN: [???] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=1964032 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [???] Video e0: buf= 235543 frame=000516 sector=00006858
++ WARN: [???] Audio c0: buf= 4096 frame=000897 sector=00000256
++ WARN: [???] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=2007917 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [???] Video e0: buf= 235543 frame=000524 sector=00007154
++ WARN: [???] Audio c0: buf= 4096 frame=000911 sector=00000260
++ WARN: [???] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=7245824 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [???] Video e0: buf= 154432 frame=001927 sector=00023659
++ WARN: [???] Audio c0: buf= 3447 frame=003349 sector=00000955
++ WARN: [???] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=7289856 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [???] Video e0: buf= 235543 frame=001936 sector=00023954
++ WARN: [???] Audio c0: buf= 4096 frame=003366 sector=00000960
++ WARN: [???] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=7333741 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [???] Video e0: buf= 235543 frame=001944 sector=00024251
++ WARN: [???] Audio c0: buf= 4096 frame=003377 sector=00000963
++ WARN: [???] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=7377773 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [???] Video e0: buf= 235543 frame=001953 sector=00024546
++ WARN: [???] Audio c0: buf= 4096 frame=003394 sector=00000968
++ WARN: [???] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=7421805 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [???] Video e0: buf= 235543 frame=001963 sector=00024841
++ WARN: [???] Audio c0: buf= 4096 frame=003412 sector=00000973
++ WARN: [???] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=7465837 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [???] Video e0: buf= 235543 frame=001972 sector=00025137
++ WARN: [???] Audio c0: buf= 4096 frame=003426 sector=00000977
++ WARN: [???] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=7509869 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [???] Video e0: buf= 236967 frame=001990 sector=00025428
++ WARN: [???] Audio c0: buf= 4096 frame=003457 sector=00000986
++ WARN: [???] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=7554048 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [???] Video e0: buf= 235543 frame=002006 sector=00025720
++ WARN: [???] Audio c0: buf= 4096 frame=003485 sector=00000994
**ERROR: [???] Too many frame drops -exiting

[Nick]

OK, A couple of points.

Firstly, there are two users at Doom9 with similar handles.
There is Nic , the guy who wrote the program QuEnc
And there is Nick , who struggles to program a VCR.

Unfortunately you are dealing with the latter :rolleyes:
As for your error, I got the same one too on a project I was doing at the weekend. I have not yet got to the bottom of what caused it but if/when I do, I will let you know how I fixed it.

As for this project, if you heven't had your 30-day free trial of TMPGEnc DVD Author, now could be a good time to download, as I used it to author from the QuEnc-created MPV and the Encoded_Audio_1.mp2 files in my project folder and it went without hitch.

This workaround should keep you going in the meantime.

[Burning Fury]

Oh i see,well it helps to know who you're dealing with anyways...lol
But,i believe you have helped me b4 so you should be fine...
Well Nick,i had used my TMPGEnc trial version so that is not an option (T o T)
QuEnc seems pretty straight forward but if you could tell me the "standard" settings for it to encode an avi it should work fine,i mean as far as how to configure QuEnc properly,if not,can you get a hold of (Nic)...LOL. Ok, let me know something please,thank you (^-^)

[Burning Fury]

Hello Nick,i'm glad to inform you that i figured out...^^ (claps)
Ok...first of all,i got rid of the QuEnc .59 beta since i read is not very stable.
and i have the newer version (.61 QuEnc)

Second:Make sure that your avi file is correct.
This is a crucial step,you might load a damaged file (wrong audio or video frame errors,etc.) and therefore D2S nor QuEnc can't accept such.I recommend using VDubmod for this...(^-^)

Third: i did plenty of tests with the settings and here's what i had the last time i encoded the movie and it came out perfect.
Under D2S QuEnc settings mode you choose:
1- Scene detection = checked
2-High Quality= checked
3-Trellis= checked
(note: some people have problems with trellis so it is up to you to check the box or not but i strongly recommend doing it since Trellis helps to keep the pace in the encode)
4-Extreme settings- checked
5-2 pass encoding= highly recommended

You can leave the rest of the settings untouched.
Ok,so i encoded my avi which was about roughly 1 hr. 22 min, or 700 mb long.
It only took me 4 hours and a half for the whole movie to encode!!!!,ISO and the works...(^_^)
That is WAY better than TMPGEnc which takes literally "hours and hours" to do the job.And the quality was SUPERB i mean it...sharp as a knife...lol

I thought i let you know though...since it could help others too...
Well thanks for all and take care... (^-^)b