Only first bin file of 180 min movie created

[headless chicken]

I am trying to encode DVD to SVCD with DVD2SVCD for a standalone player that only recognizes SVCDs with VCD Header (I used MPEGAV instead MPEG-2 to solve this problem). Anyway, the only error the log reported was the very last step : VCDXBuild failed to create a bin/cue file.

When I looked at the VCDXBuild log, I saw (**ERROR: image too big (553044 sectors > 449850 sectors) This might be because I'm ripping an incredibly long movie on only 2 (99) minute CDs. The program created only 1 bin/cue file instead of 2, and also created bbMPEGs (muxed) which played fine--the ony problem was that the second one was too large (over 1GB) so they were not split evenly. I'm not sure if they'd fit the 99 min CD even if they were split evenly.

I've read other posts and it's recommended to change the CQ value from 80, but how do I know what to change it to? Will increasing it/decreasing the CQ change the quality?

I also read that the frames per spread, spread and offset values might need to be changed, but I can't find these options anywhere.

Bin #1 was made while bin #2 failed (bin #2 was the larger of the two

[headless chicken]

WNASPI32.DLL 4.6.0.1021
Key found: E40F3BFD42
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- 1/24/2003 12:32:55 AM
- DVD to SVCD Conversion
- DVD2SVCD ver. 1.1.0 build 1c
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Initializing
Initializing finished.

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- 1/24/2003 12:32:59 AM
- Free on drive C: 75615.55 mb
- vStrip
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Preparing vobfiles to be ripped:
- D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.vob
- D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.vob
- D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.vob
- D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.vob
- D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_5.vob
- D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_6.vob
- D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_7.vob
- D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_8.vob

Saving the vStrip filelist:
- C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\vStrip.lst

Executing vStrip. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\vStrip\vStrip.exe" @"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\vStrip.lst" -i"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\VTS_01_0.IFO" -j1 -$1024 -p0 -o"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\VTS_01.vob"
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- 1/24/2003 1:25:15 AM
- 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=[C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\DVD2AVI_Project_file] -IF=[C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\VTS_01_1.vob,C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\VTS_01_2.vob,C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\VTS_01_3.vob,C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\VTS_01_4.vob,C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\VTS_01_5.vob,C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\VTS_01_6.vob,C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\VTS_01_7.vob]
Analyzing DVD2AVI Project file
Force Film activated!
Framerate: 23976
DVD2AVI processing done.

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- 1/24/2003 1:29:10 AM
- Free on drive C: 68702.40 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
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Found AC3 stream id: 0x80
Filename: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\Extracted_audio_1.ac3
Audio1 delay: -67 ms
Audio extraction finished.

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- 1/24/2003 1:33:14 AM
- Free on drive C: 68454.54 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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Encoding Audio. Filename: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\Extracted_audio_1.ac3
Executing BeSweet. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\Extracted_audio_1.ac3" -output "C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\Encoded_audio_1.mp2" -logfile "C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -azid( -L -3db -c normal -s surround -g max ) -ota( -d -67 ) -shibatch( --rate 44100 ) -2lame( -e -b 192 -m s )
Audio conversion of C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Merlin\Extracted_audio_1.ac3 finished.

Audio conversion finished.

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- 1/24/2003 1:59:45 AM
- Free on drive C: 68207.16 mb
- Video Encoding using TMPGEnc
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- Encoding C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\ChangeCDPicture.bmp.avs
Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

- Encoding Test Clip C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file_CQ_TEST.avs
Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

- Encoding Test Clip C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file_CQ_TEST.avs
Wanted: 1756655164 (1715484kb) Predicted: 2712896995 (2649313kb) Using CQ Value: 80.00
Calculated next CQ Value: 53.87
Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

- Encoding Test Clip C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file_CQ_TEST.avs
Wanted: 1756655164 (1715484kb) Predicted: 1839600133 (1796485kb) Using CQ Value: 53.87
Calculated next CQ Value: 52.34
Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

- Encoding Test Clip C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file_CQ_TEST.avs
Wanted: 1756655164 (1715484kb) Predicted: 1817197420 (1774607kb) Using CQ Value: 52.34
Calculated next CQ Value: 51.26
Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

- Encoding Test Clip C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file_CQ_TEST.avs
Wanted: 1756655164 (1715484kb) Predicted: 1807162550 (1764807kb) Using CQ Value: 51.26
Calculated next CQ Value: 50.38
Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

- Encoding Test Clip C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file_CQ_TEST.avs
Wanted: 1756655164 (1715484kb) Predicted: 1794248565 (1752196kb) Using CQ Value: 50.38
Calculated next CQ Value: 49.73
Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

- Encoding Test Clip C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file_CQ_TEST.avs
Wanted: 1756655164 (1715484kb) Predicted: 1790323414 (1748363kb) Using CQ Value: 49.73
Calculated next CQ Value: 49.16
Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

- Encoding Test Clip C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file_CQ_TEST.avs
Wanted: 1756655164 (1715484kb) Predicted: 1787496919 (1745602kb) Using CQ Value: 49.16
Calculated next CQ Value: 48.64
Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

- Encoding Test Clip C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file_CQ_TEST.avs
Wanted: 1756655164 (1715484kb) Predicted: 1779377760 (1737674kb) Using CQ Value: 48.64
Calculated next CQ Value: 48.26
Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

- Encoding Test Clip C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file_CQ_TEST.avs
Wanted: 1756655164 (1715484kb) Predicted: 1774390027 (1732803kb) Using CQ Value: 48.26
Calculated next CQ Value: 47.97
Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

- Encoding Test Clip C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file_CQ_TEST.avs
Wanted: 1756655164 (1715484kb) Predicted: 1774237407 (1732654kb) Using CQ Value: 47.97
Calculated next CQ Value: 47.68
Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

- Encoding Test Clip C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file_CQ_TEST.avs
Wanted: 1756655164 (1715484kb) Predicted: 1774049330 (1732470kb) Using CQ Value: 47.68
Final CQ Value: 47.68
- Encoding C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file.avs
StreamSectors: 2063883976
AudioSectors: 264266688
VideoPAPO: 27877032
ScanOffsetBytes: 233676
SeqAligningBytes: 14851408
DVDBytes: 0
VideoEndHeader: 8
SubtitleSectors: 0
EmptySectors: 238.00
PictureSectors: 300.00
PureMPEGStream: 1756655164.00
Seconds: 10864.16
CalcMPEGStream: 1756655164.00
Frames: 259640
CDSize: 990.00
Number of CDs: 2
Cut point 985.00
Using CQ Value: 47.64
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 (No borders, encoded as 4:3)

---AVS Begin---
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2Dec\mpeg2dec.dll")
mpeg2source("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVD2AV~1.D2V")
BicubicResize(480,480,0.0,0.6)
----AVS End----

Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\TMPGEnc\TMPGEnc.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

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- 1/27/2003 5:27:01 PM
- Free on drive C: 66369.08 mb
- Converting Pictures from ES to PS
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini
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- 1/27/2003 5:27:05 PM
- Free on drive C: 66369.07 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" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\ChangeCDPicture.bmp.mpg"
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- 1/27/2003 5:27:12 PM
- Free on drive C: 66369.08 mb
- Converting Pictures from ES to PS
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini
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- 1/27/2003 5:27:17 PM
- Free on drive C: 66369.58 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: 985 mb

Executing RunbbMPEG. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File.mpg"
Length of C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00.mpg
5116 Seconds
Offset in Seconds: 5118
Executing bbMPEG.
Variable Settings:
Movie offset: 2 seconds
Cut point: 985 mb

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

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- 1/27/2003 5:56:23 PM
- Free on drive C: 64300.42 mb
- Determining length of audio
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Analyzing: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00.mpg
5146.723 seconds C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00.mpg
Analyzing: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File01.mpg
5710.629 seconds C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File01.mpg
Analyzing finished.

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- 1/27/2003 5:59:42 PM
- Free on drive C: 64299.89 mb
- Creating CD-Images using VCDXBuild
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- No. of chapters to create: 19

CD image #1: CD_Image_File_CD1.bin

Executing VCDXBuild. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\VCDImager\VCDXBuild.exe" --verbose --cue-file="C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\CD_Image_File_CD1.cue" --bin-file="C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\CD_Image_File_CD1.bin" "C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\VCDXBU~1.XML"
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- 1/27/2003 6:03:02 PM
- Free on drive C: 64208.78 mb
- Creating CD-Images using VCDXBuild
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- No. of chapters to create: 18

CD image #2: CD_Image_File_CD2.bin

Executing VCDXBuild. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\VCDImager\VCDXBuild.exe" --verbose --cue-file="C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\CD_Image_File_CD2.cue" --bin-file="C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\CD_Image_File_CD2.bin" "C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\VCDXBU~2.XML"
VCDXBuild failed to create a bin/cue file!

[headless chicken]

Can anyone help me? I had to wait five days after registering before I could post, and now there are no replies.

[markrb]

My guess is that the file is too large. In my experience VCDXBuild will not make an image larger then 1gb. From so quick and dirty calculations it seems that your files will be larger then what you want.

I am not an expert on TMPG, I use CCE myself. I do know that CQ calculation is not perfect. If you want to assure a filesize try using CBR instead or switch to CCE.

In the end though I don't know about you, but I could never stand to watch a movie that long on only 2 discs. It will look aweful.
If you really want to have it crushed this much switch to doing a VCD. It will look much better at such low bitrates.

Mark