cce idles after one pass

[midnitekiz]

Does anyone know or have any ideas why it idles usually after the 1st pass? Actually, after the 1st pass, it slows down, and then it just idles...not doing anything?? I've tried like 3 versions and they're all doing the same thing.

[Kedirekin]

I had this happen a couple of times. In my experience it's pretty rare - maybe three times in several hundred sessions.

I decided it was a race condition (if that's the right term) - CCE asks for some frames from AviSynth, but AviSynth is busy doing something else and loses the request, so CCE waits forever for AviSynth to respond, and AviSynth waits forever for CCE to make another request. In other words, there's a bug, but it's not a bug that causes an error message, just a permanent stalemate.

Of course I have no real evidence, but it does explain the behavior nicely.

I was able to work around it the few times it happened by either lowering the average bitrate by about 50 kbps or by using a different frame server (vDub or VFAPI in my case).