DVD2DVD-R/CCE method bombs out. Why?

[snidely]

Hi everyone,

I dropped this note to mrbass yesterday:

Hello mrbass,

I have read your excellent guide on your site on using DVD2DVD-R with CCE Basic. I am tring to duplicate your success but I keep running into a problem at the same point. I am using the EXACT same version of CCE SP as displayed in your guide, and have installed DVD2DVD-R 1.4.9. I matched all of your settings exactly except for "Shutdown computer when finished". Everything goes well including the 3 passes with CCE and then the program bails out on me when it tries to run pulldown.exe. The log reports that it is starting to pull down, but a few seconds later it bails and reports "file not found" though I have no idea what file it is not finding. I noticed that there is a .m2v file created early in the process, but when I look at the files in the working directory, it is no longer there when pulldown tries to start. Could this be my rpoblem, and if so, why is the .m2v being deleted? Or do you think I have another problem?

Here is a list of the files that I have in my working directory when DVD2DVD-R bombs:

Checked_Audio_0x80_English_Normal captions. AC3
Info.txt
New Volume.ECL
SCENARIST_SCRIPT.SCP
Video_0xE0.AVS
Video_0xE0.d2v
Video_0xE0_NEW.VAF

Any help you could offer would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

and then he replied:

don't use spaces nor any funky characters in your path. see the dvd2svcd q&a and it's in their. the pulldown is a modified version by dvd2svcd.

But unfortunately that is not the problem unless it is a problem from within DVD2DVD-R. In my d:\==dvd2dvdr== directory the program creates a subdir of its own called "New Volume_11.06.2003_12.58" which I seem to have no control of its labeling, and as you can see, there is a space between "New" and "Volume". Has anyone else run into this, and/or does anyone know of a solution?

[mrbass]

rip in .iso then it'll use the label of the dvd which will be blah_blah_blah. I believe the space is the cause of the problem. There was a thread about this on dvd2dvd-r forums but it got nuked accidentally a month ago.

[snidely]

I believe the space is the cause of the problem.

Thanks again, mrbass!

Is the author of DVD2DVD-R aware of this problem? In your guide you printed:

Source: choose the drive letter of the virtual DVD mounted with daemon tools and point it to the VIDEO_TS directory. Or if you ripped in File mode choose the directory that containing the video files..usually VIDEO_TS.

So I naturally thought that DVD2DVD-R would allow processing of rips that were done in the file mode. Since I have a ton of rips already on my media server, it would be very nice to be able to reduce the size of them without having to rerip them, and all that would be needed, from what I can see, is to have the space removed from the default directory name, which I assume can only be done by the author. For now I'll try ripping the DVD directly using DVD2DVD-R, though I have been led to believe that it rips very slowly.

Thanks again!

[SplinterMgs]

Hi all

I'm a newbie to this dvd2dvdr1.4.9/CCE method and followed the excellent guide by mrbass (much appreciated). I managed to complete the process setting a 2 pass VBR but when I tried it with 3 pass VBR (leaving all other options same), CCE SP 2.50 complained about "vinfo_open() failed: Bad data <Video_0xE0_NEW.VAF>", so the process bombed out!

From the files generated, I deleted the .VAF file. I then manually loaded the .ECL file (vbr_pass=3), hit Encode and CCE seems happy to create the .VAF file and continue.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Could someone please help explain what's causing this and have a solution to this problem.

Any feedback most welcomed, many thanks in advance.