MKV Container Issue w/ MeGUI?

[kartman_canada]

I'm not an expert or anything but I've been playing for a while...

I've used eac3to to process an EVO VC-1 stream into an MKV container... I've created an AVS file and setup MeGUI with a preset to convert the VC-1 into AVC and output as a raw .264 file which I then plan to remux into an M2TS with the AC3 audio for PS3 playback...

All is good except that, when I tell MeGUI to go, the progress dialog comes up for the 1st pass but never starts... I just tried a different AVS file that is drawing from an M2TS and the 1st and 2nd pass processed fine...

Do I have to do something special in order to use an MKV as a source for conversion from VC-1 to AVC?

I'm using MeGUI 0.3.0.3011 fully upgraded to the latest and greatest....

any ideas?

[Adub]

How long are you waiting? Are you receiving any errors? What does the log of your output look like?

Post your script. Avisynth version, and operating system.

[kartman_canada]

How long are you waiting? Are you receiving any errors? What does the log of your output look like?

Post your script. Avisynth version, and operating system.

DirectShowSource("E:\Video_Encoding\eac3to\output\1_3_video.mkv",fps=23.9759856527702,audio=false)
#deinterlace
#crop
#resize
#denoise

I let it sit for 2 hours and it never started processing frames after the 1st pass dialog comes up. All of the info in the dialog is populated
(i.e. frames, position in clip, etc) but that's it...

The version of Avisynth is 2.5.7, I believe. The OS is WinXP SP3.

Out of interest, I've done 2 things: I remuxed the VC-1 stream into an M2TS and everything worked fine. And I took a smaller AVC clip and muxed it into an MVK and it worked fine.

I don't have a smaller EVO on hand to try so the best guess that I can make is that there is an issue with this size of the MKV (~16Gb) or the issue is VC-1 in MKV container (AVC in MVK worked).

Below is the log output after I canceled the job:

[Warning] Log
-[Information] Versions
--[NoImage] MeGUI Version : 0.3.0.3011
--[NoImage] OS : Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (5.1.196608.2600)
--[NoImage] Framework used : 2.0 SP1 (2.0.50727.1433)
-[Information] Hardware
--[NoImage] CPU : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHz
-[Warning] Log for job5 (video, 1_3_video.avs -> )
--[Information] [12/1/2008 2:23:13 PM] Started handling job
--[Information] [12/1/2008 2:23:13 PM] Preprocessing
--[NoImage] Job commandline: "C:\Program Files\megui\tools\x264\x264.exe" --pass 1 --bitrate 18500 --stats "E:\Video_Encoding\eac3to\output\1_3_video.stats" --level 4.1 --keyint 24 --min-keyint 1 --bframes 3 --weightb --direct auto --subme 2 --partitions none --ipratio 1.1 --pbratio 1.1 --vbv-bufsize 30000 --vbv-maxrate 38000 --qcomp 0.5 --me dia --threads auto --thread-input --sar 1:1 --progress --no-psnr --no-ssim --output NUL "E:\Video_Encoding\eac3to\output\1_3_video.avs" --mvrange 511 --aud --nal-hrd --sar 1:1
--[Information] [12/1/2008 2:23:13 PM] Encoding started
--[NoImage] Standard output stream
--[Warning] Deleting aborted output
---[NoImage] Delete aborted ouptut set: True
---[NoImage] File to delete
---[Warning] Error deleting file
----[NoImage] Exception message: The path is not of a legal form.
----[NoImage] Stacktrace
-----[NoImage] at System.IO.Path.NormalizePathFast(String path, Boolean fullCheck)
-----[NoImage] at System.IO.Path.GetFullPathInternal(String path)
-----[NoImage] at System.IO.File.Delete(String path)
-----[NoImage] at MeGUI.core.gui.JobWorker.markJobAborted()
----[NoImage] Inner exception: null
--[NoImage] Standard error stream
--[Information] [12/1/2008 4:42:12 PM] Job completed
--[Information] [12/1/2008 4:42:12 PM] Current job was aborted