I have a DVD that refuses to encode without corrupted video in some scenes using GK

[Ronstang]

I am quite frustrated in my endeavor to encode the DVD entitled "Captured". When I encode it there are places in the video that play back choppy with corrupted video that usually consists of large macroblock pixelation....it kind of reminds me of when a satellite looses a partial signal and the video looks corrupted some but still continues to be visible.

I have encoded this DVD on 3 different machines with a completely different compliment of instaleed software (non-encoding related that is), except that on all machines I use Gordian Knot with the Divx 5.02 Pro codec. Each time the results are the same with the resulted Divx file containing corrupted video in some areas.

I can't tell if the corruption is identical but it seems to happen n the same general area of the film. I even tried using V-Strip instead of Smart Ripper and encoded twice on one machine and the results were the same.

I am fairly new to the whole encoding scene and am rather stumped byt this problem. Usually my results are very good using GK and this is the first DVD that has continually stumped me.

Any help on this matter would be greatly apprecialted.

Thanks in advance.....

[manono]

Hi and welcome to the forums.

1. Are you sure it's not on the DVD? Have you played it at the corrupt sections and not noticed anything amiss?

2. If the DVD plays OK, have you played the vob files on your hard drive at those same places to confirm it's not on them? There's a fair chance that the DVD is scratched or otherwise damaged and that the vob files already have the corruption on them.

3. If the DVD and the vob files are OK, have you opened the .avs in VDub to confirm that the corruption isn't in it because, perhaps, of some incorrect parameters or filter settings?

If I had to guess, I'd say it's 2, but if 1 and 2 are OK but not 3, then post the .avs without the lines beginning with "#".

If 1,2,and 3 are all OK, then it has to be a codec problem, and you might start by posting the log file.

[Ronstang]

The DVD shows no signs of corruption at all.....it plays fine.

The vob files play equally as well.

The DVD was brand new out of the package when I ripped it to the HD and there are no scratches, I checked.

I will have to re-rip it to the HD and follow your instructions for the rest....I will have to wait until tomorrow for that though.

The baffling part is that the movie screws up the same way each time on different machines....and I don't think it is a codec porblem because other movies give me absoulutely no problems on the same machines.

Thanks for the speedy reply

[Ronstang]

I'm not sure which log file you want.....there are several and they seem pretty big. I could save a one minute or even 30 second section of the movie if I had somewhere to send it for someone to see what I am talking about.

This is the 5th time I have encoded this movie. This time was on a brand new machine I just built to encode movies on and the results were the same as the others.

I am baffled....

[jggimi]

The "..._Gknot.log" file is the one to copy and paste here. You may also want to do the same thing with your .avs file, as well, but for that file, please leave out any line beginning with "#", as those are comments.

[Ronstang]

Here is the Gordian Knot log file:

11/2/2002 10:10:52 PM: Job "Captured" started.

o Transcode AC3 -> MP3: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured AC3 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 23ms.ac3
o DivX5-Single, Quality 20%: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured_Credits.avs
o DivX5-First Pass: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured.avs
o DivX5-Second Pass: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured.avs
o Append Credits.
o Delete Intermediate Files.
End of Job 1 (Captured).
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Gordian Knot 0.26.0.6
Encoding Job Data:

Type: EncD5_Both_CreditsSep
Number: 1
Name: Captured
Platform: WinXP (5.1.2600).2

Files:
VirtualDubExe: C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\virtualdub\Virtualdub.exe
NandubExe: C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\nandub\Nandub.exe
AviFinal: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured.avi
AviMovie: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured_Movie.avi
AviCredits: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured_Credits.avi
MovieFS: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured.avs
CreditsFS: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured_Credits.avs
Log : C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured.log
Stats: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured.stats
Ecf : C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured.ecf

Options:
Quality/DRF: 20
CreditsStart: 162487
UseEcf: 1
CreditsIVTC: 1
CreditsAppend: 1
DeleteInterm.: 1
EnforceBitrate:0
AntiShit: 0

Calculator:
VideoSize: 617902 kbyte.
Audio1Size: 88234 kbyte.
Audio2Size: 0 kbyte.
Overhead: 10662 kbyte.
AviSize: 716800 kbyte (700 mbyte).
FilesSize: 0 kbyte.
TotalSize: 716800 kbyte (700 mbyte).
Interleaving: vbrmp3
Bitrate: 896 k(=1000)Bits/s
Frames: 169239
FPS: 29.970
Duration: 1:34:7
Quality: 0.137 bits/(pixel*frame).
CompCheck3: 0.000 bits/(pixel*frame).
CompCheck5: 0.231 bits/(pixel*frame).
DivX5BiDirect: 1
DivX5GMC: 1
DivX5QuartPel: 0
DivX5PsyVis: 0
Resolution: 544 x 400

Audio 1:
mode: ac3 -> mp3
sourceFile: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured AC3 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 23ms.ac3
wavFile: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured AC3 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 23ms.wav
mp3File: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured AC3 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 23ms.mp3
azid: "-L -3db -c normal"
lame: "--alt-preset 128"
delay: 23
interval: 2
preload: 500
mux: 1
recalc: 1
deleteWav: 1

Audio 2:
none.

10:10:52 PM: IVTC: Re-Calculating Frame Count.
10:10:52 PM: IVTC: FrameRate was 29.970 fps
10:10:52 PM: IVTC: FrameRate now is 23.976 fps
10:10:52 PM: IVTC: 135392 Frames.

10:10:52 PM: Started Transcoding Audio.

10:10:52 PM: Using BeSweet to transcode C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured AC3 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 23ms.ac3
Commandline: C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\besweet.exe -core( -input "C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured AC3 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 23ms.ac3" -output "C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured AC3 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 23ms.mp3" -logfile "C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured AC3 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 23ms.log" ) -ota( -G max ) -azid( -L -3db -c normal ) -lame( --alt-preset 128 --scale 1 ) -profile( Gordian Knot 0.26 )
10:36:31 PM: Finished. Duration: 25 minutes, 38 seconds.

10:36:31 PM: Audio Done.
10:36:31 PM: MP3-File-Size is 84982 kb.
10:36:31 PM: Audio 1, determined: 84982 kb
10:36:31 PM: Audio 1, calc: 88234 kb
10:36:31 PM: New Bitrate for Movie = 904 k(=1000)Bits/s

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\virtualdub\VirtualDub.jobs:

// $job "DivX4 Single Pass"
// $input "C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured_Credits.avs"
// $output "C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured_Credits.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("C:\\DivxRips\\Captured\\Captured_Credits.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetSource(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetInterleave(1,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetVolume();
VirtualDub.audio.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(1);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression(0x78766964,0,10000,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompData(308,"GAEAAACgDwDQBwAACgAAABQAAAAsAQAADAAAAAIAAAAFAAAAAQAAAMgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB4AAABkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAyAAAAAAAAAAAQAACamZmZmZnJP5qZmZmZmck/QAAAAAEAAACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIACAADgAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOA/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAQAAAAEAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAEAAAD/////BAAAAGVtcHR5AGM6XHRlc3QuZGl2eABlbXB0eS5tdgBt");
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("C:\\DivxRips\\Captured\\Captured_Credits.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

10:36:31 PM: Started DivX5-Single, Quality 20%: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured_Credits.avs
10:44:48 PM: Finished DivX5-Single, Quality 20%. Duration: 8 minutes, 16 seconds.
10:44:48 PM: Assumed: Main Movie has 129990 Frames.
10:44:48 PM: Assumed: Credits Part has 5402 Frames.
10:44:48 PM: Credits Size = 3246Kb
10:44:48 PM: New Bitrate for Movie = 937 k(=1000)Bits/s

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\virtualdub\VirtualDub.jobs:

// $job "DivX4 First Pass"
// $input "C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured.avs"
// $output "C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured_Movie.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("C:\\DivxRips\\Captured\\Captured.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetSource(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetInterleave(1,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetVolume();
VirtualDub.audio.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(1);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression(0x78766964,0,10000,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompData(360,"GAEAAChMDgDQBwAACgAAABQAAAAsAQAADAAAAAIAAAAFAAAAAgAAAJABAAAAAAAAAAAAAB4AAABkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAyAAAAAAAAAAAQAACamZmZmZnJP5qZmZmZmck/QAAAAAEAAACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIACAADgAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOA/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAQAAAAEAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAEAAAD/////BAAAAEM6XERpdnhSaXBzXENhcHR1cmVkXENhcHR1cmVkLmxvZwBjOlx0ZXN0LmRpdngAQzpcRGl2eFJpcHNcQ2FwdHVyZWRcQ2FwdHVyZWQubXYAbQ==");
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("C:\\DivxRips\\Captured\\Captured_Movie.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

10:44:48 PM: Started DivX5-First Pass: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured.avs
2:17:54 AM: Finished DivX5-First Pass. Duration: 3 hours, 33 minutes, 5 seconds.
2:17:54 AM: Trying to open Log-file.
2:17:57 AM: Success: Log-file open.
2:17:57 AM: Encoded: 129988 Frames.
2:17:57 AM: Speed: 10.167 Frames per Second.

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\virtualdub\VirtualDub.jobs:

// $job "DivX4 Second Pass"
// $input "C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured.avs"
// $output "C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured_Movie.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("C:\\DivxRips\\Captured\\Captured.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetSource(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetInterleave(1,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetVolume();
VirtualDub.audio.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(1);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression(0x78766964,0,10000,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompData(360,"GAEAAChMDgDQBwAACgAAABQAAAAsAQAADAAAAAIAAAAFAAAAAwAAAJABAAAAAAAAAAAAAB4AAABkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAyAAAAAAAAAAAQAACamZmZmZnJP5qZmZmZmck/QAAAAAEAAACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIACAADgAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOA/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAQAAAAEAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAEAAAD/////BAAAAEM6XERpdnhSaXBzXENhcHR1cmVkXENhcHR1cmVkLmxvZwBjOlx0ZXN0LmRpdngAQzpcRGl2eFJpcHNcQ2FwdHVyZWRcQ2FwdHVyZWQubXYAbQ==");
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("C:\\DivxRips\\Captured\\Captured_Movie.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

2:17:57 AM: Started DivX5-Second Pass: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured.avs
5:11:04 AM: Finished DivX5-Second Pass. Duration: 2 hours, 53 minutes, 7 seconds.
5:11:04 AM: Speed: 12.514 Frames per Second.

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\nandub\VirtualDub.jobs:

// $job "DivX3 Append"
// $input "C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured_Movie.avi"
// $output "C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("C:\\DivxRips\\Captured\\Captured_Movie.avi",0,0);
VirtualDub.Append("C:\\DivxRips\\Captured\\Captured_Credits.avi");
VirtualDub.audio.SetSource("C:\\DivxRips\\Captured\\Captured AC3 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 23ms.mp3");
VirtualDub.audio.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetInterleave(1,500,2,0,23);
VirtualDub.audio.SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetVolume();
VirtualDub.audio.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.audio2.SetSource(0);
VirtualDub.audio2.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.audio2.SetInterleave(1,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio2.SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.audio2.SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio2.SetVolume();
VirtualDub.audio2.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("C:\\DivxRips\\Captured\\Captured.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

5:11:04 AM: Started Appending Credits and Muxing Audio.: C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured_Movie.avi
5:13:42 AM: Finished Appending Credits and Muxing Audio.. Duration: 2 minutes, 37 seconds.
5:13:42 AM: Deleting Intermediate Files.

5:13:42 AM: Done.
5:13:42 AM: Movie = C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured.avi
Total Encoding Time: 7 hours, 2 minutes, 49 seconds.
11/3/2002 5:13:42 AM: Job "Captured" finished.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Here is the .avs file:

LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\mpeg2dec.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\decomb.dll")

mpeg2source("C:\DivxRips\Captured\Captured.d2v")

trim(0,162486)

Telecide()
Decimate(cycle=5)

crop(7,0,704,478)

I can also make a short sample of what I am talking about with NanDub if I can send it to someone.....

Thanks

[Ronstang]

Well...I have posted the requested info, does anyone have any ideas now?

[manono]

Hi-

I sent you a PM a week ago saying I'd take a look at a bad section.

Did you open the .avs and scroll to a place where there's corruption in the final .avi? And was there any when viewing the .avs in VDub?

If not, it's either a codec problem, or a hardware issue. You say that you've encoded the movie 5 times on different machines. Is the corruption at the same places everytime, or in different places? Are you sure your new computer is absolutely stable? Are you overclocked, for example? If so, try and encode with the system at default settings. Have you encoded any movies since then with similar problems?

But both the log file and the .avs seem OK, and I haven't a clue. You notice anything unusual, jggimi?

[jggimi]

No, I didn't see anything unusual. I'd also want to know if the .avs appears to have the corruption when thoses scenes are viewed in an .avi player.