CCE hanging at Various percentages

[MarkP]

Hi There one and all

I have been browsing these Forums for a while now and have been using DVD2SVCD mostly successfully,and any problems I have had have been solved by using the fabled "Search" button.

Now here comes the but, recently was trying to convert K19 The Widowmaker from DVD, and CCE 2.50 was hanging at various stages, once at 24% then 75% with no errors and nothing in the CCE logfile, I searched around the Forums for an answer I found a reference to the Avisynth.dll found in the system32 folder but this was well over a year old for an older Version of Avisynth ( I am using 2.08 ) also a lot of references to Hardware problem so ran the recommended Prime95 torture test and the Mem86 memory test all of which passed OK.

I then tried again this time using TMPGEnc using the same IFO and VOB's and encoded no problem, so any help in solving this hang would be great in case happens again, i will paste the DVD2SVCD log at the bottom.

Thank you in advance

Keep up the great work you are all doing
Mark

WNASPI32.DLL 4.5.7.1008
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- 07/11/2003 13:25:37
- DVD to SVCD Conversion
- DVD2SVCD ver. 1.2.1 build 3
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Initializing
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_0.IFO
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_1.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_2.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_3.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_4.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_5.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_6.vob
Initializing finished.

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- 07/11/2003 13:25:52
- Free on drive F: 56504.02 mb
- Internal rip
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Preparing vobfiles to be ripped:
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_1.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_2.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_3.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_4.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_5.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_6.vob

Ripping: E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_1.vob
Ripping: E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_2.vob
Ripping: E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_3.vob
Ripping: E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_4.vob
Ripping: E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_5.vob
Ripping: E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_6.vob
Framerate: 25000
Ripping finished. Speed: 2037

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- 07/11/2003 14:12:42
- 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=[F:\K 19 The Widowmaker\DVD2AVI_Project_file] -IF=[F:\K 19 The Widowmaker\VTS_04_1.vob,F:\K 19 The Widowmaker\VTS_04_2.vob,F:\K 19 The Widowmaker\VTS_04_3.vob,F:\K 19 The Widowmaker\VTS_04_4.vob,F:\K 19 The Widowmaker\VTS_04_5.vob,F:\K 19 The Widowmaker\VTS_04_6.vob]
Framerate: 25000
DVD2AVI processing done.

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- 07/11/2003 14:14:51
- Free on drive F: 50914.94 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
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Found AC3 stream id: 0x80
Filename: F:\K 19 The Widowmaker\Extracted_audio_1.ac3
Audio1 delay: 0 ms
Framerate: 25000
Audio extraction finished.

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- 07/11/2003 14:17:36
- Free on drive F: 50490.07 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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Encoding Audio. Filename: F:\K 19 The Widowmaker\Extracted_audio_1.ac3
Executing BeSweet. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "F:\K 19 The Widowmaker\Extracted_audio_1.ac3" -output "F:\K19THE~1\Encoded_audio_1.mp2" -logfile "F:\K19THE~1\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -azid( -L -3db -C 0db -S 0db -c normal -s surround -g max ) -2lame( -e -b 192 -m s )
Audio conversion of F:\K 19 The Widowmaker\Extracted_audio_1.ac3 finished.

Audio conversion finished.

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- 07/11/2003 14:29:08
- Free on drive F: 50308.21 mb
- Video Encoding using Cinema Craft
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Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.
StreamSectors: 2501804592
AudioSectors: 193454408
VideoPAPO: 35757576
ScanOffsetBytes: 238350
SeqAligningBytes: 15148467
DVDBytes: 0
VideoEndHeader: 12
SubtitleSectors: 0
EmptySectors: 238.00
PictureSectors: 1.00
PureMPEGStream: 2257205779.33
Seconds: 7953.00
CalcMPEGStream: 2257205779.33
Frames: 198625
CDSize: 800.00
Number of CDs: 3
Cut point 795.00
Variable Settings:
Frames: 198625
Anti Noise Filter: Off
Passes: 3
Image Quality: 17
VAF file creation: On
Video Encoding Mode: Multipass VBR
Min. bitrate: 300
Max. bitrate: 2530
Avg. Bitrate: 2230
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic (no borders, encoded as 16:9)

---AVS Begin---
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\AVISYN~1\Mpeg2dec\Mpeg2dec.dll")
mpeg2source("F:\K19THE~1\DVD2AV~2.D2V")
BicubicResize(480,576,0.0,0.6)
Import("F:\K 19 The Widowmaker\ResampleAudio.avs")
ResampleAudio(44100)
----AVS End----

[r6d2]

:goodpost:
Originally posted by MarkP
Now here comes the but, recently was trying to convert K19 The Widowmaker from DVD, and CCE 2.50 was hanging at various stages, once at 24% then 75% with no errors and nothing in the CCE logfile
Your AVG bitrate is perhaps too high for CCE 2.5, according to Q8 in the CCE FAQ.

The K19 movie is extremely compressible too. I made it fit in 1 CD with good quality. It maxed out at 2 CDs.

If you already discarded a hardware problem, try lowering the CD number to get away from the high BR.

Also, I see you're encoding anamorphic. Does you player support that? AFAIK, few players do.

CCE VBR with 3 passes is actually 4 passes and that much passes are not needed. You might want to try the D2Sroba plugin and get it in 1 or 2 passes.

[MarkP]

I did read the CCE Q&A and assumed as it was on the money at 300 would be ok, but I have learnt that CCE is very picky so will go with your suggestion of lowering the number of CD's to lower the AVG Bitrate, and will let you know how it goes..

As to the Anamorphic question, to be honest it was about my 5th go at encoding this movie and I just plain forgot to change it....

I will also ammend to 3 pass as you suggest, I have read a bit about D2Sroba but as yet haven't tried it but will give it a go, what are the advantages of using it?

Anyway thanks for your help and appreciate the Good Post smiley :)

Mark

[r6d2]

Originally posted by MarkP
I did read the CCE Q&A and assumed as it was on the money at 300 would be ok, but I have learnt that CCE is very picky
2.6x is less picky AFAIK.
I will also ammend to 3 pass as you suggest
Did I suggest that? :confused: 3 is still too much. 2 is enough. (Remember CCE VBR does n+1 passes).
I have read a bit about D2Sroba but as yet haven't tried it but will give it a go, what are the advantages of using it?
Read this. (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64886)

Anyway thanks for your help and appreciate the Good Post smiley :)
Time for your second smiley: :readfaq: :)

[MarkP]

Time for your second smiley:

Ok Point taken :) I will read

Thank you

Mark

[MarkP]

r6d2

Just thought I would let you know i did what you suggested and K-19 now encoded perfectly, better quality than the TMPGEnc version too...

Now having similar problems encoding an AVI, but will fiddle and see what happens.

Thanks for the info much appreciated :)

Mark