DVD-9 to DVD-5; problem with CCE 2.5 under XP?

[pnag]

Hi folks,
this is my first post, so be gentle! I've been mucking around with this kind of thing for a while, and then Trilight's guide showed up. I was motoring through the steps when I hit a problem - the little .avs file I wrote to "add" to CCE causes it to crash in XP Pro evey single time. Anyone fixed this? Could I be doing something wrong? Please help!

Regards,
PnaG.

PS I have a prop .d2v file and everything - even my path names are all under 8 characters long...

[auenf]

officially CCE 2.62 and higher are XP compatible.

Enf...

[denfert]

did you add this line in your AVS script?

ResampleAudio(44100)

[Bodman]

Yup I had loads of problems as well with Xp and 2.50. Which was fixed with 2.64. Download the trial of 2.64 and install it as well as your 2.50 and see if this fixes your problem (of course 2.64 will have the logo in the corner unless you buy the full version ;) )


You can get the trial from
http://www.visiblelight.com/downloads/scripts/download.asp?sku=CCESP

//Bodman

[Mosaic]

if u using an athlon processor u must patch CCE 2.5 with the tsunami patch.

Otherwise ...cce2.5 works just fine in XP Pro. I am using it 2 months now....never crashed a single encode. Its doing ID4 as I speak ....3 pass VBR. Getting a 1.45 realtime on my XP PRO on an XP1800 on an Asus Nforce dolby digital mobo.

[pnag]

Okay, now that I got hold of 2.64 everything's okay for CCE, well, kind of. The .avs I'm using definitely has the correct paths, but when I open it, it says "MovieFromFile() failed" or something like that (I'm in work, and forgot to take note of the error msg at home!) Anyhow, sorry to be a complete newbie as well, but what settings should I be using for DVD2AVI to use in this method? Trilight's guide says he shouldn't have to explain the basics, and I don't blame him, but can someone please help!! Thanks, you guys are great,
PnaG.

[Pauly]

I too am using CCE 2.5 with WinXP without any problems. The only time I have experienced a problem with the same symptoms as you I had miss-spelt the path to my d2v file, so it's worth double checking your avs script.
Cheers Paul

[pnag]

Will check it this evening. But can someone point me to a DVD2AVI guide, just to check that what I'm doing is correct? Please help, anyone!

[klona]

XP and CCE 2.5 works fine, np :
Here is an example of AVS script (working on P3 at least), but check you correclty installed Avisynth by opening the avs in media player.
You need to add MPEG2DEC.dll in the avisynth directory after install.

And in case you ask were you can find it, check the downloas section..

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth\MPEG2DEC.dll")
mpeg2source("E:\projet.d2v")
resampleaudio(44100)


CCE 2.6x works also fine on XP but do not accept AVS. YOu need there to use VFAPI which is slower.

Hope this helps.

[pnag]

Aha! I see. Dumb question, then, but how do I use the VFAPI plugin? I have it downloaded already...

[denfert]

or you can use link2 faster than VFAPI

[klona]

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/vfapi_reader_codec.htm
http://www.doom9.org/sbc-basicsetup.htm

Please search a bit before asking (and it's not only to you this message)

[pnag]

Good advice Klona, but I've just been searching, and have discovered that AviSynth 1.06 WILL work with CCE 2.64. So, now the question is, as CCE 2.64 will not take .avs files, how do you get it to work with AviSynth? And I still haven't got an answer to the DVD2AVI settings I should be using with Trilight's DVD 9 to DVD 5 method. I know how to use it, I'm just unsure of the settings I should use! Please advise, anyone! :)

[klona]

in DVD2AVI, no real special settings, just check frame type, no audio as you are going to use ac3 streams directly.

And well, again, :
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/d2a-mpeg2dec.htm
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvd2avi.htm

Everythinh is there, with details, screen cap...

[pnag]

Thanks Klona, sorry for being a pain. :(