Can't get D2SCCD to work

[MNale]

This plugin did not attach it's output to my movie. I'm probably doing something incorrect. Please help.

What path should be in DVD2SVCD's "Change CD pic." field, or does it not matter since D2SCCD should bypass this value? At present my original -

E:\DVD2SVCD\Movie\ChangeCDPicture.bmp

is the path in this field after D2SCCD is installed.

My path in the VCDXBuild field is...

E:\DVD2SVCD\D2SCCD\d2sccd.exe

The plugin built the a "new" change CD picture correctly...

E:\DVD2SVCD\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00_ChangeCD.jpg

but did not attach it to the final movie. I still have my original "hand holding disc". Why? Do I need to change/remove the entry in the "Change CD pic." field?

Also, please explain the "preview" mode. Are you supposed to see text superimposed over a frame, because all I see is the text previewed.

[UltimateDBZ]

D9: Moved

Problem posts belong in the Basic forum.

[winxi]

High MNale!

It would be even better to post in this (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44445&perpage=20&pagenumber=4) thread. It´s a own small 'forum', where the plugins from RB are discussed. I bet, there you will get your answer much faster. If you want, you can post the same in the mentioned thread again, and i will delete this thread.

winxi

[markrb]

Also please be much more specific with your title.
It must reflect the problem you are having.

Mark

[RB]

There should be a file D2SCCD_MJPEGTools_log.txt in the folder for your encode, please post it's contents. The path to the change CD picture in DVD2SVCD doesn't matter, D2SCCD will provide it's own picture anyway. And you are not supposed to see an actual picture in preview, just the text.

Did you actually burn the movie to CD or mount it in Daemon Tools to verify the change CD picture?

[MNale]

I burned the CD (I haven't installed Daemon Tools) to verify. Here's the log...


Saving JPEG file e:\dvd2svcd\movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00_ChangeCD.jpg

Creating "Change CD" SVCD MPEG still with command lines:

jpeg2yuv -f29.97 -Ip -L0 -n1 -j e:\dvd2svcd\movie\BBMPEG~1.JPG | mpeg2enc -a2 -f7 -nn -o e:\dvd2svcd\movie\CHANGE~1.MPV -T200
mplex -f7 -o e:\dvd2svcd\movie\change~1.mpg e:\dvd2svcd\movie\CHANGE~1.MPV

E:\DVD2SVCD\D2SCCD\mpeg2enc.exe: *** unable to allocate heap, heap_chunk_size 0, Win32 error 0
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Parsing & checking input files.
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Image dimensions are 704x480
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Movie frame rate is: 29.970030 frames/second
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Non-interlaced/progressive frames.
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Frame size: 704 x 480
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Now generating YUV4MPEG stream.
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.1 ($Date: 2002/02/04 19:06:14 $)
INFO: [mplex] File e:\dvd2svcd\movie\CHANGE~1.MPV looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [mplex] Found 1 video streams 0 MPEG audio streams and 0 AC3 streams
INFO: [mplex] Multiplexing stills stream!
INFO: [mplex] Selecting SVCD output profile
INFO: [mplex] Stills Stream e1: normal-resolution SVCD stills.
INFO: [mplex] VIDEO STREAM: e1
INFO: [mplex] Frame width : 480
INFO: [mplex] Frame height : 480
INFO: [mplex] Aspect ratio : 4:3 display
INFO: [mplex] Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 2400000 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [mplex] CSPF : 0
INFO: [mplex] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [mplex] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 2445600
INFO: [mplex] target data-rate specified : 2788800
INFO: [mplex] Setting specified specified data rate: 2788800
INFO: [mplex] Sectors = 106 Video delay = 63600 Audio delay = 63600
INFO: [mplex] Scanned to end AU 1
INFO: [mplex] New sequence commences...
INFO: [mplex] Video e1: buf= 235520 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [mplex] STREAM e1 completed @ 1.
INFO: [mplex] Multiplex completion at SCR=136200.
INFO: [mplex] Video e1: buf= 224388 frame=000001 sector=00000009
INFO: [mplex] VIDEO_STATISTICS: e1
INFO: [mplex] Video Stream length: 1111 bytes
INFO: [mplex] Sequence headers: 1
INFO: [mplex] Sequence ends : 1
INFO: [mplex] No. Pictures : 2
INFO: [mplex] No. Groups : 1
INFO: [mplex] No. I Frames : 1 avg. size 8892 bytes
INFO: [mplex] No. P Frames : 1 avg. size 11132 bytes
INFO: [mplex] No. B Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
INFO: [mplex] No. D Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
INFO: [mplex] Average bit-rate : 0 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] Peak bit-rate : 0 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] BUFFERING stream too short for useful statistics
INFO: [mplex]
INFO: [mplex] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.



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[RB]

Originally posted by MNale
E:\DVD2SVCD\D2SCCD\mpeg2enc.exe: *** unable to allocate heap, heap_chunk_size 0, Win32 error 0


That's the error, unfortunately out of my control. Obviously the command line MPEG2 compressor from the MJPEGTools ran out of memory. Does this happen consistently? How much memory do you have installed, what OS?

Get an older version of the MJPEGTools at ftp://ftp.vcdimager.org/pub/mjpegtools/mjpegtools-1.6.0-rc2.win32.exe_only.zip , unzip jpeg2yuv.exe, mpeg2enc.exe and
mplex.exe to the D2SCCD directory. Also get ftp://ftp.vcdimager.org/pub/mjpegtools/cygjpeg6b.dll and ftp://ftp.vcdimager.org/pub/mjpegtools/cygwin1.dll and place them in the D2SCCD directory, overwrite existing files. Does this fix it?

[MNale]

Athlon 2200, Windows XP , 512MB Memory. Never a memory problem - have been using DVD2SVCD successfully for over a year. I'll try the alternate files and let you know.

[RB]

OK. You shouldn't have to start from scratch, just recover from muxing and cutting.

[MNale]

Good news! Those alternate files made the difference and all is well. There must be some incompatability with the newer stuff and XP. Is there a D2SCCD zip/installer that contains all these older files?

[RB]

It works fine for me here in XP. It's more likely that there is some bug in the newer Cygwin environment. No, there's no old installer, but I should probably upload a new installer that gives you the choice between the two versions of the MJPEGTools.