Blanking function bug?

[J-Wo]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but I seem to be having problems with the blanking feature (via the Preview/Edit tab). Every time RB reaches the cell that is blanked out, it reports this error:

- Creating M2V for VTS_03 segment 28
I/O error attempting to open ITEM.ECL file.
Aborted.

If I deselect One-Click Mode and press Encode so I can resume encoding from this problem cell, I get the following error:

[20:14:53] Phase II ENCODING started
- Creating M2V for VTS_03 segment 28
-- V03002800003012 no .M2V, retrying.
- Creating M2V for VTS_03 segment 28
-- V03002800003012 no .M2V, retrying.
- Creating M2V for VTS_03 segment 28
- Failed to create M2V: V03002800003012
- The encoder doesn't appear functional.
- Aborting...

It really doesn't seem to matter which DVD I am encoding, in this case I am only blanking one cell that represents the trailer for the movie (Honey, R1). However if I use PgcEdit or CloneDVD2 to blank the cell *before* I use RB, then it handles it no problem.

I'm currently using DVD-RB Pro v1.10.7, but I've noticed this problem since at least two releases before this one. Jdobbs, thoughts?

[jdobbs]

Are you using AutoQMatEnc? I had that reported with the use of AQE before... not sure why.

[J-Wo]

no, I'm using CCE 2.70. I change matrices using RB-Opt and often include avs filters such as SetMTMode() - for dual processor mode; and DegrainMediam() - for light filtering. I thought it might be the filters that were the problem but even if I remove all filters in the Filter Editor, I still get this error message. Occurs on ripped sources both non-modified and modified (e.g. blanking cells using PGCEdit or CloneDVD2)

[Bond007]

Have you changed the min bitrate in the ini file to 0? If so it could be that, I noticed that if you set it to 0 and then blank a section, CCE will go through all the passes as if it was encoding and then not output any file. I found that this is because the average bitrate needs to be 500kbps for a file to appear and if you blank and have the min bitrate set to 0, the average will also be 0 as its displaying nothing. So you will have to go into the .elc and change all the blanked sections to min 500kbps. I dont know if it still does this havent tried in a while. If this is the problem, maybe jdobbs, you should included blanked .m2v pre-encoded for use in blanking instead of relying on the encoder to do it, or for blanking set it so the manual min bitrate is ignored and set to the default.
All of this was noticed a while back and I havent tested it recently so may not be the problem.

[jdobbs]

@Bond007

Interesting. I'll do some testing and see if I can repeat that.

@J-Wo

Have you overridden the default minimum bitrate value?

I'm really scratching my head over the "I/O error attempting to open ITEM.ECL file" error. I've looked at the code over-and-over and I can't see why that file would ever be locked when that open attempt is made. Is there any chance some other app may be opening it?

[jdobbs]

@Bond007

Tried to repeat your scenario several times... couldn't get it to do it.

[J-Wo]

I have changed the minimum bitrate to 0. I'll do a test without changing the min bitrate and see if blanking works.

[jdobbs]

Cool. :cool: