Orange County DVD

[ramutan]

I had some trouble trying to encode this movie, Only thing I got after 9 hours of work with DVD2SVCD was a blank screen and some red letter that can't be read, also some audio but it was bad and disorted. I used the same settings for this Movies as all the previous I did before.
I didn't get any messages with DVD2SVCD, can't post the log because I was piss and deleted the whole thing.

Any coments??

[JLR2000]

I was able to convert Orange County, but not a 4 pass, a single pass. I find that some movies have no problem with the 4 pass, but those that do always work for me on singe pass. Just wanted to let you know, it's not the movie. Check you settings, I'm using the basic settings described here in the forum. Nothing "special" like luminace, changing the matrix, or 5.1 stereo (tried this and the process hung, and since I can't even take advantage of this feature, decided to leave it off). Good luck.

JLR2000

[Jason28]

I would try to encode 1 chpater 1st and see if you get the same error. I have never heard of anyone getting this error when they are using a DVD source. Is it a divx file? I have gotten this type of error when I am trying to encode a divx file that D2S cant understand.

[chainsaw135]

yeah jason28 i've done around 100 movies now, and i haven't found 1 either i know shrek used 2 give problems and such but that was then. If its a divx source that maybe thats the problem in the first place.

[ramutan]

I actually did that already, encoded one chapter and still just a blank screen; same for the DVD " A beautiful Mind".
I did the first and last chapter and that was it, black screen and choppy sound.
While is doing the Tmpgenc procces on the progress bar for "whole" I notice that any other movie display the # of frame and source position, for this two movies the frame # is "0" and the sorce position is "0" too.
If any one got any idea how to fix this let me know..... :confused:

[Jason28]

Post your log file and we can take a look at it. Have you tried re-riping these files? What program are you using to rip them?

[chainsaw135]

@jlr200 have you tried the primal torture test? or have you tried other tests seeing if you have a hardware issue?

[JLR2000]

Honestly, I haven't tried any tests. I did a quick forum and google search on the Primal Torture Test with no results....what is it? Any tests you recommend I'd appreciate.

Thanks.

[Jason28]

I think that its linked in the Q and A. Try question 53. :P

[JLR2000]

Tried the torture test for 8+ hours....no problems found. I've pretty much just settled on the fact that some work with a 4 pass, some don't and have to be a single pass. No biggie though! Still very pleased with the results....:D

[chainsaw135]

@jlr2000 dont give up just yet, were not done testing:). Do you have 2 sticks of ram in? if so take a stick of ram out and try your encode that way. Also make sure your system has the latest updates for windows and everything else you can think of. Then report back here ok? Oh before i forget are you using the latest version of dvd2svcd? ..

[JLR2000]

Okay, I won't be able to do any testing until this weekend, but Here's my setup:

AMD Duron 950mhz
2 IDE HDs, 1 24 gig partitioned to 2 12 gig drives just for rips.
Something interesting: I never thought about it before, but I have 2
sticks of memory in. 1 was 128 DIMM100, the other 128 - 133. The system reported "248" of memory installed? Maybe a problem with the 100 vs. 133 memory?
I will investigate further and report back. I know it is better to have more memory for DVD2SVCD based on the Q&A, so I may have to rob some of my other machines or buy a single stick of 256 or better to replace this. Have to test first tho....

[chainsaw135]

reason why your ram is reporting less is prolly because you have a video card that takes from the ram onboard. So that should not be any problem for you. Also on most motherboards made last year and older having more then 1 stick of ram regardless of amount causes a bit of slow down and some problems. I even noticed it on my ecs motherboard with boot times and benchmark tests.

Best thing i could say is try and use 1 stick of 256 or if you use windows 2000 or xp try and get a stick of 512... i'm not even kidding you'll love the difference of either formula i stated.

[nish]

I have a divx file of this film which I want to convert to svcd, as the framerate is 23.976 I can only convert it to vcd as Im using TMPGEnc Plus.

I have scanned the video stream for errors- and there is none. The file has vbr mp3 audio which, using virtuadub I have extracted and saved to wav.

I then used the usual multiplexing method using TMPG but still the synch goes out!

Here is some file info:

Filelength : 366,583,808 Bytes ~ 349 MB
Resolution : 640 x 352 px
Time-Delay : 41708
Frames-Total : 49993
Keyframes : 636
Min Keyframe-Distance : 1
Max Keyframe-Distance : 234
Time-Total : [00:34:45:108]
FPS : 23.9762155941306
FOURCC : div3
FOURCC2 : DIV3
Number of Datastreams : 2
movi-pos : 10248
idx1-pos : 364393170
junk-pos : 366583130
rawdata-length : 364359874

Im wondering if that time delay has something to do with the issue?

Can anyone help??

Thanks

[hoozdapimp]

congratulations you resurrected a thread that's been dead for almost a year! if you have problems associated with DVD2SVCD and this file then please start a new thread. As far as I can tell you're trying to convert to VCD with TMPG, which really has nothing to do with DVD2SVCD.