bbmpeg not splitting

[UK_The1_]

I am using latest version of dvd2svcd, and all goes well untill bbmpeg starts splitting and muxing.
It does the first 795 meg file perfect, starts on the second one, but doesnt split it at the 795 meg limit ???
Because of this the next stage, vxdimager cant make the 2nd cd cause the split file is too big. How can I recover from this, I dont want to try rip whole thing from the start again, and the crash recovery only gives the same error every time.
Can I run bbmpeg on its own then import the files into a svcd imager or something ? Please help.....

[dvd2svcd]

Lemme guess, your either using TMPGEnc CQ, or CCE 1 pass VBR to encode your movie?

[UK_The1_]

Yes, thats right, I am using tmpg to code the video, I cant use cce cause my poor old cellerno is not compatible with it, but I have ripped a dozen movies or so now, and not had a problem like this before.
I have now finally ripped it, but it took me all day :(
I had to edit the bbmpeg config files, insert the startup delay in seconds, (After working out that it was actually in seconds!) rip each of the 3 cd's separatley, rename them to the standard file names that dvd2svcd uses, then edit the config for dvd2svcd, and insert 46 into the program process line and it started the authouring stage !
I did read in the readme for dvd2svcd that there was a problem with bbmpeg not splitting in 109 build 1, so I downloaded build 2.
I have now uninstalled everything, and re-installed build 2, do you think this will cure the problem ?
Sorry if I sound thick, but I am not a programmer by any means, so I thought I did pretty well to get it sorted even if it did take me all day hehehe.
As always, your help is appreciated.

[dvd2svcd]

No, you're not thick. The problem is that TMPGEnc CQ calculation sometimes fails terribly. But, use recover to load the dvd2svcd project file, then in the encoder tab set the CQ offset value to 90 or 95 go back to the misc. tab and restart it from Video Encoding.

[1loser]

Originally posted by dvd2svcd
No, you're not thick. The problem is that TMPGEnc CQ calculation sometimes fails terribly. But, use recover to load the dvd2svcd project file, then in the encoder tab set the CQ offset value to 90 or 95 go back to the misc. tab and restart it from Video Encoding.
I realize you're the expert here. When I need to do a recover I always save my settings to the (DVD2SVCD.INI) file located at the misc tab. Especially when I need to change the CD size, otherwise it just uses the previous value. Infact the settings can be changed before DVD2SVCD starts that process as long as you save the (DVD2SVCD.INI) file. I hope I'm right. :) Because if not than I'm wrong :(.

[UK_The1_]

OK Doom9 God, many thanx for your suggestions, and they have been noted and will be used in the future. After a 12 or so rips, I suppose I am bound to get one that fails !
But, given that you are a God, and have a machine that can encode, even as slow as tmpg does, in maybe 4 hours or so, I cant run CCE, cause I only have a Celleron 400, and TMPG alone took over 65 hours to code a 131 minute movie, let alone the 10 hours or so to do the audio, and the 4 passes at the test CQ value, so to speak of starting the process from the video encoding stage again was unthinkable for me !
However......... The 75 hours of encoding and maybe, say, 7 hours of my time today to rescue it, even with the dodgy methods I had to use were merely a drop in the ocean, compared to the time that you Gods have spent giving us this program......... Credit to you guys, and still not an advert in sight.........
What can I say....... I bow at your feet oh worthy one :)

[dvd2svcd]

Originally posted by 1loser

I realize you're the expert here. When I need to do a recover I always save my settings to the (DVD2SVCD.INI) file located at the misc tab. Especially when I need to change the CD size, otherwise it just uses the previous value. Infact the settings can be changed before DVD2SVCD starts that process as long as you save the (DVD2SVCD.INI) file. I hope I'm right. :) Because if not than I'm wrong :(. That is why I say he must load the Project file first, then change the settings. Done in that order it will use the new settings.

Originally posted by UK_The1_
OK Doom9 God, many thanx for your suggestions, and they have been noted and will be used in the future. After a 12 or so rips, I suppose I am bound to get one that fails !
But, given that you are a God, and have a machine that can encode, even as slow as tmpg does, in maybe 4 hours or so, I cant run CCE, cause I only have a Celleron 400, and TMPG alone took over 65 hours to code a 131 minute movie, let alone the 10 hours or so to do the audio, and the 4 passes at the test CQ value, so to speak of starting the process from the video encoding stage again was unthinkable for me !
However......... The 75 hours of encoding and maybe, say, 7 hours of my time today to rescue it, even with the dodgy methods I had to use were merely a drop in the ocean, compared to the time that you Gods have spent giving us this program......... Credit to you guys, and still not an advert in sight.........
What can I say....... I bow at your feet oh worthy one :) Ok, ok, no need to go overboard :D Btw, I am not Doom9.

[blackandblue]

I too get this same problem with CCE 2.5 I've tried to recover twice already, and the problem still exists. 2'nd file is always past the the limited size usually over a gig, and there VCDXbuild can't create a bin file. ;o(

Here is my output file with recovery. I've tried to do a search on the forum couldn't seem to hit the sweet spot. Any ideas?

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- 6/9/2002 12:51:59 PM
- DVD to SVCD Conversion
- DVD2SVCD ver. 1.0.9 build 2
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Initializing
Initializing finished.

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- 6/9/2002 12:52:02 PM
- Analyzing subtitles
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Subtitle found: StreamID: 0x22 Language: Chinese
Subtitle found: StreamID: 0x21 Language: English
Subtitle found: StreamID: 0x20 Language: Chinese

Executing subtitle selection/verification.
Subtitle selection/verification accepted.
1 subtitle streams selected.
Saving Subtitles ini file
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- 6/9/2002 12:52:49 PM
- Free on drive D: 30886.79 mb
- Internal rip
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Preparing vobfiles to be ripped:
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.vob

Ripping: E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.vob
Ripping: E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.vob
Ripping: E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.vob
Ripping: E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.vob
Ripping finished. Speed: 4495

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- 6/9/2002 1:07:40 PM
- DVD2AVI
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Creating DVD2AVI INI file:
- C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.INI

Variable settings:
iDCT_Algorithm: 32-bit SSE MMX

Executing DVD2AVI.
Executing DVD2AVI. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.exe" -CS=2 -YR=1 -EXIT -OF=[D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Source\DVD2AVI_Project_file] -IF=[D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Source\VTS_01_1.vob,D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Source\VTS_01_2.vob,D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Source\VTS_01_3.vob,D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Source\VTS_01_4.vob]
Analyzing DVD2AVI Project file
Force Film NOT activated!
Framerate: 29970
DVD2AVI processing done.

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- 6/9/2002 1:10:32 PM
- Free on drive D: 26983.55 mb
- Extracting the subtitles.
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Subtitle extraction finished. Extracted these subtitles:
SVCD Stream no: 1 Language: English Num. of subs: 1554

Saving Subtitle Timecodes.
Permanent subtitles.
Saving Subtitles ini file
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- 6/9/2002 1:16:54 PM
- Free on drive D: 26935.57 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
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Found AC3 stream id: 0x80
Filename: D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Audio\Extracted_audio_1.ac3
Audio1 delay: 0 ms
Audio extraction finished.

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- 6/9/2002 1:23:38 PM
- Free on drive D: 26616.14 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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Converting Audio to MP2. Filename: D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Audio\Extracted_audio_1.ac3
Executing BeSweet. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Audio\Extracted_audio_1.ac3" -output "D:\DVD2SV~1\Audio\Encoded_audio_1.mp2" -logfile "D:\DVD2SV~1\Audio\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -azid( -L -3db -c normal -g max ) -2lame( -e -b 128 -m s )
Audio conversion of D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Audio\Extracted_audio_1.ac3 finished.

Audio conversion finished.

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- 6/9/2002 1:41:40 PM
- Free on drive D: 26509.66 mb
- Converting Pictures
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Converting: D:\CD Labels\borntobeking.jpg
Converting: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DefaultChangeCD.bmp
Finished converting pictures
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- 6/9/2002 1:41:50 PM
- Free on drive D: 26507.54 mb
- Video Encoding using Cinema Craft
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Cannot find registry entries for CCE, running CCE once....
Closing program

Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.
StreamSectors: 1656719176
AudioSectors: 113269436
VideoPAPO: 23908860
ScanOffsetBytes: 250952
SeqAligningBytes: 15949419
DVDBytes: 0
VideoEndHeader: 8
SubtitleSectors: 0
EmptySectors: 238.00
PictureSectors: 600.00
PureMPEGStream: 1503340500.40
Seconds: 6984.88
CalcMPEGStream: 1503340500.40
Frames: 209127
CDSize: 796.00
Cut point 791.00
Variable Settings:
Frames: 209127
Anti Noise Filter: 2
Passes: 4
Image Quality: 5
VAF file creation: On
Video Encoding Mode: One Pass VBR
Q. Factor: 5
Min. bitrate: 1900
Max. bitrate: 1721
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 (No borders, encoded as 4:3)

---AVS Begin---
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2Dec\mpeg2dec.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\AVISYN~1.DLL")
mpeg2source("D:\DVD2SV~1\Source\DVD2AV~1.D2V")
TemporalSmoother(2,1)
BicubicResize(480,480,0.00,0.75)
AvisynthSubtitler("D:\DVD2SV~1\Subs\","permsubs.txt")
----AVS End----

Closing program
CCE Max Speed: 0.870
Video Encoding finished.

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- 6/9/2002 4:57:49 PM
- Free on drive D: 22987.18 mb
- Converting Pictures from ES to PS
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini

Executing RunbbMPEG. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe" "D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Video\TitlePicture.bmp.mpg"
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- 6/9/2002 4:57:56 PM
- Free on drive D: 22987.14 mb
- Converting Pictures from ES to PS
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini

Executing RunbbMPEG. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe" "D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Video\ChangeCDPicture.bmp.mpg"
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- 6/9/2002 4:58:00 PM
- Free on drive D: 22987.11 mb
- Multiplexing and cutting
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini
Offset in Seconds: 2
Executing bbMPEG.
Variable Settings:
Movie offset: 2 seconds
Cut point: 791 mb

Executing RunbbMPEG. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe" "D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Muxed\bbMPEG_Muxed_File.mpg"
Length of D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Muxed\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00.mpg
3464 Seconds
Offset in Seconds: 3466
Executing bbMPEG.
Variable Settings:
Movie offset: 2 seconds
Cut point: 791 mb

Executing RunbbMPEG. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe" "D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Muxed\bbMPEG_Muxed_File.mpg"
Multiplexing and cutting finished.

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- 6/9/2002 5:37:59 PM
- Free on drive D: 19335.32 mb
- Determining length of audio
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Analyzing: D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Muxed\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00.mpg
3466.752 seconds D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Muxed\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00.mpg
Analyzing: D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Muxed\bbMPEG_Muxed_File01.mpg
3511.752 seconds D:\DVD2SVCD Output\Muxed\bbMPEG_Muxed_File01.mpg
Analyzing finished.

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- 6/9/2002 5:41:00 PM
- Free on drive D: 19335.32 mb
- Creating CD-Images using VCDXBuild
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- No. of chapters to create: 5

CD image #1: CD_Image_File_CD1.bin

Executing VCDXBuild. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\VCDImager\VCDXBuild.exe" --verbose --cue-file="D:\DVD2SVCD Output\CD_Image_File_CD1.cue" --bin-file="D:\DVD2SVCD Output\CD_Image_File_CD1.bin" "D:\DVD2SVCD Output\VCDXBuild_Script_1.xml"
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- 6/9/2002 5:45:46 PM
- Free on drive D: 18535.19 mb
- Creating CD-Images using VCDXBuild
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- No. of chapters to create: 4

CD image #2: CD_Image_File_CD2.bin

Executing VCDXBuild. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\VCDImager\VCDXBuild.exe" --verbose --cue-file="D:\DVD2SVCD Output\CD_Image_File_CD2.cue" --bin-file="D:\DVD2SVCD Output\CD_Image_File_CD2.bin" "D:\DVD2SVCD Output\VCDXBuild_Script_2.xml"
VCDXBuild failed to create a bin/cue file!