MrWizard
1st March 2006, 00:33
I'm pretty new to all of this so please be patient with me. I started with two transport streams - PAL 25 FPS 1080. One is just under 2 hours long and the other is about 3 hours and 15 minutes long. My script for both is as follows:
MPEG2Source("D:\input.d2v")
tfm(d2v="input.d2v")
tdecimate(cycle=25)
crop(0,148,-0,-156)
I encoded at HQ-Slower, 5525 Kbps, with x264 build 408 and MeGUI 0.2.3.2063. Outputing to an MP4 container. I did a test run with a 3-minute long clip. Worked great.
However, I ran into a problem with both movies when I was done. I ran through and it played perfectly, no noticable macroblocking, no sync issues (after muxing), perfect. But when it got to around 1 hour and 43 minutes, my player crashed. This happened for both files. They were slightly different times (1:42:00 versus 1:45:00 I think) but essentially the same. My guess was that the problem (whatever it is) occurs in the encoding process when the file reaches a certain size (?) and since I'm working with a variable bitrate, this would happen at slightly different times. This is complete conjecture though, I really have absolutely no idea.
I tried playback with the alpha CoreAVC decoder (MPC), ffdshow (MPC), VLC and MPlayer. I had the same problem with all of them. I tried just skipping past that part and viewing later in the file. No luck - it would think for a minute and then crash. I tried splitting the file just after the point where the problem happens (at 1:50:00, for example) and viewing the second clip. Still no luck - it would crash right off the bat.
I am now retrying with the newest MeGUI and x264 builds (and output MKV). But I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on this, since I'd rather not let 5 more days of encoding go by and end up with same problem again.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Edit: Well it seems this discussion is already going on. I feel stupid now... Sorry, feel free to close/delete this thread.
MPEG2Source("D:\input.d2v")
tfm(d2v="input.d2v")
tdecimate(cycle=25)
crop(0,148,-0,-156)
I encoded at HQ-Slower, 5525 Kbps, with x264 build 408 and MeGUI 0.2.3.2063. Outputing to an MP4 container. I did a test run with a 3-minute long clip. Worked great.
However, I ran into a problem with both movies when I was done. I ran through and it played perfectly, no noticable macroblocking, no sync issues (after muxing), perfect. But when it got to around 1 hour and 43 minutes, my player crashed. This happened for both files. They were slightly different times (1:42:00 versus 1:45:00 I think) but essentially the same. My guess was that the problem (whatever it is) occurs in the encoding process when the file reaches a certain size (?) and since I'm working with a variable bitrate, this would happen at slightly different times. This is complete conjecture though, I really have absolutely no idea.
I tried playback with the alpha CoreAVC decoder (MPC), ffdshow (MPC), VLC and MPlayer. I had the same problem with all of them. I tried just skipping past that part and viewing later in the file. No luck - it would think for a minute and then crash. I tried splitting the file just after the point where the problem happens (at 1:50:00, for example) and viewing the second clip. Still no luck - it would crash right off the bat.
I am now retrying with the newest MeGUI and x264 builds (and output MKV). But I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on this, since I'd rather not let 5 more days of encoding go by and end up with same problem again.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Edit: Well it seems this discussion is already going on. I feel stupid now... Sorry, feel free to close/delete this thread.