DVD2AVI Hanging

[itimpi]

I seem to be having a problem with DVD2AVI hanging. I have got this symptom on 4 different machines now. The only thing that I can think might be relevant is that I think I have upgraded my W2K installations to SP2 since I last did a valid conversion.

The following is a representative log file. Note that the point at which is says the DVD2AVI processing is done is when I forcibly closed it down. Also in case you think that is not long enough in earlier runs it was in this state for up to 6 hours when I left it overnight.

I have also got the same results with 1.0.9 Build 3.

Any thoughts would be very welcome.

Thanks,

Dave

WNASPI32.DLL 4.6.0.1021
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- 07/11/2002 08:01:53
- DVD to SVCD Conversion
- DVD2SVCD ver. 1.1.0 build 1
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Initializing
Initializing finished.

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- 07/11/2002 08:02:18
- Free on drive Q: 8843.40 mb
- Internal rip
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Preparing vobfiles to be ripped:
- Q:\Hell\VTS_01_1.vob
- Q:\Hell\VTS_01_2.vob
- Q:\Hell\VTS_01_3.vob
- Q:\Hell\VTS_01_4.vob
- Q:\Hell\VTS_01_5.vob

Ripping: Q:\Hell\VTS_01_1.vob
Ripping: Q:\Hell\VTS_01_2.vob
Ripping: Q:\Hell\VTS_01_3.vob
Ripping: Q:\Hell\VTS_01_4.vob
Ripping: Q:\Hell\VTS_01_5.vob
Ripping finished. Speed: 3704

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- 07/11/2002 08:19:41
- DVD2AVI
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Creating DVD2AVI INI file:
- f:\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.INI

Variable settings:
iDCT_Algorithm: 32-bit SSE MMX

Executing DVD2AVI.
Executing DVD2AVI. Commandline:
"f:\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.exe" -CS=2 -YR=1 -EXIT -OF=[Q:\Hell\SVCD\DVD2AVI_Project_file] -IF=[Q:\Hell\SVCD\VTS_01_1.vob,Q:\Hell\SVCD\VTS_01_2.vob,Q:\Hell\SVCD\VTS_01_3.vob,Q:\Hell\SVCD\VTS_01_4.vob,Q:\Hell\SVCD\VTS_01_5.vob]
Framerate: 25000
DVD2AVI processing done.

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- 07/11/2002 09:04:11
- Free on drive Q: 7762.25 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
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Found AC3 stream id: 0x80
Filename: Q:\Hell\SVCD\Extracted_audio_1.ac3
Audio1 delay: -80 ms
Audio extraction finished.

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- 07/11/2002 09:08:09
- Free on drive Q: 7646.19 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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[markrb]

Have you changed the version of DVD2AVI or is the bundle completely as it was?

Have you tried to play the ripped VOB files to see if they are damaged at all?

Have you tried to manually run DVD2AVI to see if it freezes then too?

Mark

[itimpi]

As a result of your questions I did some more investigation. Everything appeared to work fine when done manually via the DVD2AVI interactive user interface, so I then looked for ways to make it go wrong from the command line. I have found a couple of ways to get the symptoms I had:

- Use a very long path name. I guess this blows some command line limit.
- Have a comma in the path name. I guess this blows up the DVD2AVI parameter parsing.

Anyway, I have moved all my files to a top level folder which does not clash with the above points and it has all started working.

Thanks for the questions - I guess just the fact that you could not see any reason for it not to work spurred me to look further.

[dvd2svcd]

I don't quite understand it, looking at your path in the above log:

Q:\Hell\SVCD\

There's neither a , nor is the path that long. I'm a bit confused.

[itimpi]

That is because I had done a global edit on the path name (which was very long) to make the file easier to read when I was trying to look for a possible problem - and then forgot to post the original unedited file. Sorry about that - the problem might have been spotted immediately otherwise?

Just to let you know I sent the details of what I found in to your bug report address (I was not sure you would see my postings here).

[dvd2svcd]

Let this be a lesson to everybody. Do _not_ edit the log file before posting it here, it kind of defeats the purpose of the log if you do.