Failed video encode

[thghgv]

Not doing movie only. I want all menus/selected video & audio intact. Keep getting failed video encodes for this backup. everything is installed correctly according to the error msg.
I have done larger source before without a problem. what gives here? By the way, the system actually has WMP10 installed not WMP9 if that means anything at all...

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[14:48:22] BD Rebuilder v0.37.03 (beta)
- Source: KINGDOM
- Input BD size: 38.33 GB
- Approximate total content: [03:40:36.413]
- Target BD size: 22.95 GB
- Windows Version: 5.1 [2600]
- Auto Quality: Good (Very Fast), ABR
- Audio Settings: AC3=0 DTS=0 HD=1 Kbs=640
[14:48:22] PHASE ONE, Encoding
- [14:48:22] Extracting A/V streams [VID_00166]
- [14:48:25] Reencoding: VID_00166 (1 of 96)
- [14:48:25] Collecting video information
- Source Video: VC-1, 1920x1080
- Rate/Length: 23.976fps, 1,465 frames
- Bitrate: 4,091 Kbs
- [14:48:25] Reencoding: VID_00166, Pass 1 of 1
- Encode failed. Retrying.
- Encode failed. Retrying.
- Reached retry limit. Aborting.
- BD-Rebuilder v0.37.03 (beta)
- Windows Version: 5.1 [2600]
- AVISYNTH Version: 2.5.7.0, Ok
- HAALI Splitter: Ok
- FFDSHOW: 3326, Ok
- FFDSHOW VC-1 set to "wmv9", Ok
- FFDSHOW MPEG2 set to "libavcodec": Ok
- FFDSHOW AVC set to "libavcodec": Ok
- X264: Ok
- AFTEN: Ok
- FAAC: Ok
- MP4BOX: Ok
- WAVI: Ok
- TSMUXER: Ok
[14:48:29] - Failed video encode, aborted

[thghgv]

OK.

Updating the system with WMPlayer 11 and setting FFDshow Video Decoder config parameter "VC-1" to "disabled" seems to have gotten around the Video Encode Failure.

But why ???

Is it for certain that the "fix" above will ensure that the same thing wont occur again with the backup of some other disc?

Previous to this one TWO other backups went flawlessly with the way the system was, i.e. (WMPlayer 10, FFDSHOW, "VC-1" setting to WMP9)...

[Ch3vr0n]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=143716 step 8

[jdobbs]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=143716 step 8It's amazing what following the instructions can do, isn't it? ;)

[Ch3vr0n]

QFT JD :) If only all ppl did that before doing a bug report :p

[Ch3vr0n]

If it wasnt usefull to set those WMV settings for to avoid problems with BDRB, Jdobbs wouldnt have posted that item saying it was. Don't set those specific wmv settings, well enjoy your problems with encoding down the road.

[thghgv]

well for one thing wmp 11 sucks. so not much of an upgrade in player-ware im afraid.

NOW, if I could just get some sort of app that would allow me to edit BD menus like I can with DVD I'll be all set. The freeware "solutions" are crap at this point i'm afraid. Probably by the time something like that comes along BD will have been surpassed by another disc format and we can start the parade all over again...

[setarip_old]

@thghgv

Hi! The freeware "solutions" are crap at this point i'm afraid.I'm sure the authors who have striven and continue to strive to create good, usable tools will really "appreciate" your comment - especially at the price(s) their products are made available to users such as yourself...

[jdobbs]

Especially when some of the best software in the world is freeware. X264, for example, is free -- and it's the best H264 encoder on the planet. It's one thing to decide to use or not use something -- it's worse to look a gift horse in the mouth...

[wolverine3n8]

Is there a way to reencode a movie that is 1920 x 816 to 1280 x 544 with BD-RB? I would like to keep it movie only AVCHD.

[jdobbs]

Is there a way to reencode a movie that is 1920 x 816 to 1280 x 544 with BD-RB? I would like to keep it movie only AVCHD. Neither of those two sizes are legal for AVCHD or Blu-Ray. Sorry, but BD-RB only accepts legal input and output sizes.

Legal sizes are:

1920x1080
1440x1080
1280x720
720x480 (NTSC)
720x576 (PAL)

With a 1920x816 source you'd have to put a 132 pixel black border at the top and bottom. You may be able to do that by using the filter editor and adding:

AddBorders(0,132,0,132)

But I don't know how you could possibly be getting the sizes you are quoting from a BD or AVCHD input... so I'm not certain what the MPLS and CLPI of the source will say and that might just make the whole thing fail.

[wolverine3n8]

Thank You. I'll try and see what happens.