HC encoder error?

[Lester Burnham]

Using the freeware 0.97 version, and the version of HC (0.17, although I've also tried 0.18 and got exactly the same problem) that's distributed with it, during the encode, the status line of the encoder shows this error, with a countdown of a few seconds for each error:-

ERROR, *** INTERNAL ERROR *** | routine putmv1 - invalid motion vector

I've not yet let one of these rebuilds complete, so haven't had chance to actually view the output - nor sure I'd have time to watch all of the DVD (it's an episodic DVD, PAL, region 2) to view whether it causes a problem that's detectable through viewing.

Is this error likely to cause issues with the output, and is there any obvious reason why I should get it, or any way of resolving it?

I'm currently redoing the backup using quenc (latest version) and get no such errors.

[hank315]

Is this error likely to cause issues with the output, and is there any obvious reason why I should get it, or any way of resolving it?
At this point the motion vector is written into the bitstream after a final check, and that failed...
A player will probably have trouble decoding the MV.
This routine is called about 100000 times every second and this is the first time I see this one reported.
Most probable cause is an I/O error while writing/reading the database file, memory errors etc.
Is your system overclocked?

[Lester Burnham]

At this point the motion vector is written into the bitstream after a final check, and that failed...
A player will probably have trouble decoding the MV.
This routine is called about 100000 times every second and this is the first time I see this one reported.
Most probable cause is an I/O error while writing/reading the database file, memory errors etc.
Is your system overclocked?

Thanks for the reply - impressive given you're the author (of HC) aren't you?

As to the question, no the PC in question isn't overclocked, it's just a fairly standard, albeit quite old and slow, PIII 1Ghz (not a lot of RAM, either - 256M).