Frozen encoder

[moshnik]

Hello,

I'm having a wierd problem trying to encode a movie from avi (DivX) to mpeg2. The weird thing is that it happens both in HCenc (Ver 0.18) and in TMPGenc (Ver 3.0). The encoding is getting stuck on a random point in the process, without giving any error message. I'm sure it's not a corrupted file since I tried few films and because the freezing point is never the same. The freezing point in TMPGenc is usually toward the final part of pass 2, but in HCenc the freezing point is totally random. If I use CBR in TMPGenc it never freezes which made think it has to do with the temprature of the computer or some broken memory. So I had memtest and CPU burn-in work all night long but I got no error. I also thought that it had to do with my installation of Windows, so I installed a fresh version (XP SP2) with only the video drivers, but again this same freezing on a random point with out any error message.

Any ideas? :scared:

[setarip_old]

Hi!

1) How much RAM do you have?

2) How much free space do you have on your hard drive?

[moshnik]

1) 1.5 GB
2) Around 20GB, but I can free up to 150GB.

[Mug Funky]

what's being used to decode the avi? you might want to try ffdshow for decoding divx and see if that helps matters. or xvid for that matter.

at the very least it'll increase speed slightly and eliminate a variable in your search for what's causing the problem. there may be an access violation or similar problem (i find those come at random times when they happen in avisynth).

[moshnik]

Will try it now. Thanks for the idea.

[moshnik]

I tried using ffdshow with Avisynth and HCenc but again I got this weird error. Frozen encoder at a random position (usually pass 2) with no error message. Any more ideas?

[check]

perhaps a sector on disk is corrupted and the encode is stopping every time it gets there. Have you run scandisk?

[moshnik]

perhaps a sector on disk is corrupted and the encode is stopping every time it gets there. Have you run scandisk?

I doubt if it will help, since the problem occurs with many films. Nevertheless, I will copy the file to my other HD and try from there. Thanks.

[foxyshadis]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=54130
Did you check the suggestions in this thread, since the error is rather random? Also, which avisynth version? 2.5.7 seems to have occasional hiccups where 2.5.6 didn't.

[moshnik]

I'd like to thanks everyone for their help. Anyway, surprisingly enough and even though I thought it would not make any difference, copying the .avi to my other HD solved the problem. So the prize goes to check! I still cannot understand it, since chkdsk didn't show any problem, but tonight I'm going to try SeaTools (it's a seagate HD) and let it crunch the HD for the whole night. I'll let you know if there's any errors, since nothing is wrong with normal operation.

Thanks again,
Mosh.

[fabrice]

Hi,

Did you check file fragmentation?
It seems that when filesystem is (very) fragmented, you will have this kind of problems... (it happened to me before)

CU,
Fabrice