Prepare phase stuck

raddygast · 10th March 2005, 11:55

What could be the cause of this type of problem?

I am using Prepare, and it's stuck basically at the end (after preparing through the two main titles). Program becomes unresponsive, but does not abort itself and I have to end task. It just doesn't finish preparing.

Anything I can look into to fix this problem?

pg55555 · 10th March 2005, 13:40

With so little infor is very little what we can do.

Suggestion:
- It is an un-pre-processed source?, if not, run RB in an un-preprocessed one
- It is your first try with RB? or you have been successful before?
- Open the source in Shrink to check if it report any problem.
- Do a mock strip with IfoEdit

raddygast · 10th March 2005, 19:42

It is not unpreprocessed. I will try RB on the un-pre-processed source later today.

If it's the preprocessing that's screwing it up, doesn't that mean that DVD Shrink (which I'm using) is somehow screwing up the IFOs or DVD structure in general? Otherwise I don't see why RB wouldn't be able to parse it.

This is a bit disappointing -- I know it's probably not RB's fault, but I had really looked forward to doing really user-friendly stripping and substitution with shrink and leaving the "compression" up to RB with CCE. I wish RB would give an error message or something.

After the hung prepare phase, I killed RB, restarted it, and just hit encode anyway. It went for a while but eventually crashed with some error dialog box involving the number "9" and something being out of range.

raddygast · 10th March 2005, 19:43

And yes I did use RB already on an un-preprocessed DVD (it was a superbit edition, so there was no extra crap to manipulate). I just stripped out DTS and subtitles through RB and let it go ahead and that was that. So it's probably something in Shrink's preprocessing.

I did try opening the processed files in DVD Shrink afterwards, and it worked just fine. Except instead of having all the subtitles and audio streams ripped out like I had done, it shows them all (but as 0 MB). But it doesn't seem to have a problem with the structure.

Could it be that I am replacing many of the extras with a still image (that gets looped). Maybe RB doesn't like that.

I realize it isn't much to go on, but here is my log -- it never gets to the actual calculation of high-low-avg bitrates etc.

-----------------
[05:26:08] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- "Steal Space from Extras" mode is enabled.
- VTS_01: 2,666,496 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V file
-- Processed 176,968 frames.
-- Building .AVS and .ECL files
- VTS_03: 646,403 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V file
-- Processed 67,998 frames.
-- Building .AVS and .ECL files
- Reduction Level for DVD-5: 62.0%
- Overall Bitrate : 2,953Kbs
- Space for Video : 3,682,534KB
-----------------

****** HERE IS WHERE IT HANGS, SO I RETRIED IT A FEW TIMES *******
****** DIDN'T HELP, SO I TRIED ENCODING ANYWAY ******

[06:05:34] Phase II ENCODING started
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 1
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 2
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 3
<many lines removed>
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 754
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 755
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 756
*** HANGS HERE, NOT SURPRISING IF THE PREPARATION WAS SCREWY *****

pg55555 · 10th March 2005, 21:46

Man!, you posted so many threads I do not know if this is the same DVD or different

Anyway, try the answers to your other posts and if they do not work, post again

raddygast · 11th March 2005, 07:19

I think I figured this out!!

I had the "combine shared streams" option ticked off in DVD Shrink. Because of that, I was blanking out (with a still frame) about 5 "titles" under extras that included shared cells with the main film title.

I think somehow that was causing some massive confusion, but I'm not sure. This time I did not blank those bits out, and the prepare phase seemed to work.

I'm off to try and figure out how best to use RB-Opt!

10th March 2005, 11:55	#1 \| Link
raddygast Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 134	Prepare phase stuck What could be the cause of this type of problem? I am using Prepare, and it's stuck basically at the end (after preparing through the two main titles). Program becomes unresponsive, but does not abort itself and I have to end task. It just doesn't finish preparing. Anything I can look into to fix this problem?

10th March 2005, 19:43	#4 \| Link
raddygast Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 134	And yes I did use RB already on an un-preprocessed DVD (it was a superbit edition, so there was no extra crap to manipulate). I just stripped out DTS and subtitles through RB and let it go ahead and that was that. So it's probably something in Shrink's preprocessing. I did try opening the processed files in DVD Shrink afterwards, and it worked just fine. Except instead of having all the subtitles and audio streams ripped out like I had done, it shows them all (but as 0 MB). But it doesn't seem to have a problem with the structure. Could it be that I am replacing many of the extras with a still image (that gets looped). Maybe RB doesn't like that. I realize it isn't much to go on, but here is my log -- it never gets to the actual calculation of high-low-avg bitrates etc. ----------------- [05:26:08] Phase I, PREPARATION started. - "Steal Space from Extras" mode is enabled. - VTS_01: 2,666,496 sectors. -- Scanning and writing .D2V file -- Processed 176,968 frames. -- Building .AVS and .ECL files - VTS_03: 646,403 sectors. -- Scanning and writing .D2V file -- Processed 67,998 frames. -- Building .AVS and .ECL files - Reduction Level for DVD-5: 62.0% - Overall Bitrate : 2,953Kbs - Space for Video : 3,682,534KB ----------------- **** HERE IS WHERE IT HANGS, SO I RETRIED IT A FEW TIMES *** ** DIDN'T HELP, SO I TRIED ENCODING ANYWAY ** [06:05:34] Phase II ENCODING started - Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0 - Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 1 - Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 2 - Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 3 <many lines removed> - Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 754 - Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 755 - Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 756 * HANGS HERE, NOT SURPRISING IF THE PREPARATION WAS SCREWY ***** Last edited by raddygast; 10th March 2005 at 20:54.

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10th March 2005, 13:40	#2 \| Link
pg55555 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Argentina Posts: 335	With so little infor is very little what we can do. Suggestion: - It is an un-pre-processed source?, if not, run RB in an un-preprocessed one - It is your first try with RB? or you have been successful before? - Open the source in Shrink to check if it report any problem. - Do a mock strip with IfoEdit

10th March 2005, 19:42	#3 \| Link
raddygast Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 134	It is not unpreprocessed. I will try RB on the un-pre-processed source later today. If it's the preprocessing that's screwing it up, doesn't that mean that DVD Shrink (which I'm using) is somehow screwing up the IFOs or DVD structure in general? Otherwise I don't see why RB wouldn't be able to parse it. This is a bit disappointing -- I know it's probably not RB's fault, but I had really looked forward to doing really user-friendly stripping and substitution with shrink and leaving the "compression" up to RB with CCE. I wish RB would give an error message or something. After the hung prepare phase, I killed RB, restarted it, and just hit encode anyway. It went for a while but eventually crashed with some error dialog box involving the number "9" and something being out of range.

10th March 2005, 21:46	#5 \| Link
pg55555 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Argentina Posts: 335	Man!, you posted so many threads I do not know if this is the same DVD or different Anyway, try the answers to your other posts and if they do not work, post again

11th March 2005, 07:19	#6 \| Link
raddygast Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 134	I think I figured this out!! I had the "combine shared streams" option ticked off in DVD Shrink. Because of that, I was blanking out (with a still frame) about 5 "titles" under extras that included shared cells with the main film title. I think somehow that was causing some massive confusion, but I'm not sure. This time I did not blank those bits out, and the prepare phase seemed to work. I'm off to try and figure out how best to use RB-Opt!