SansGrip
21st July 2004, 16:08
I'm backing up The Station Agent, 5.79gb originally, to DVD-5. I first blanked FBI warnings, studio logos, trailers etc. (this might be the cause of the problem) to reduce to 5.29gb.
Prepare stage was fine, but the very first segment caused a QuEnc error ("Could not open Video Codec") upon encoding. Phase 2 is still running, but every segment since has encoded okay. VirtualDub reports the problem AVS is only 1 frame long. Here it is:
mpeg2source("...",idct=7)
trim(0,-1)
LanczosResize(704, 480)
Letterbox(8, 8, 8, 8)
FieldDeinterlace(full=false)
FluxSmooth(5, -1)
ConvertToYV12()
(The resize to 704x480 is experimental. I'm not sure if DVD-RB will notice I've changed the dimensions. If not, I'm hoping I can just use IfoEdit to correct things. I guess I'll find out ;). Also I should probably have put the FieldDeinterlace before the resize, but I did this at about 2:45am last night and wasn't thinking all that clearly... Edit: I now realise FieldDeinterlace shouldn't be in there at all.)
Here's the relevant section of REBUIDER.INI:
[V01000000001001]
SCR=.000
PTS=29707.000
Frame_Rate_Code=1
Pulldown=0
Structure=3
Frames=1
Last_Sector=45
Reduction=83.0
Aspect_Ratio=3
HalfD1=0
EndPTM=83761.000
Looking through it, I can see there are 3 other segments, not yet encoded, which have a frame count of 1...
I figure this almost certainly results from me blanking some cells before running it through DVD-RB, but it would be nice to be able to do that without producing a phase 2 error. This also might be considered a problem with QuEnc rather than DVD-RB but if so could perhaps be worked around in DVD-RB by not encoding very short segments and using the original video packs when rebuilding.
For this particular backup I'm going to try using a different encoder for the problem segments, but I'd rather that weren't necessary.
Wonderful tool. I've been investigating multiplexing myself recently and can only imagine the headaches implementation caused you. Donation coming once I've transferred some money from my back account to my PayPal account :).
Versions: DVD-RB 0.55b, QuEnc 0.51, Avisynth 2.54
Prepare stage was fine, but the very first segment caused a QuEnc error ("Could not open Video Codec") upon encoding. Phase 2 is still running, but every segment since has encoded okay. VirtualDub reports the problem AVS is only 1 frame long. Here it is:
mpeg2source("...",idct=7)
trim(0,-1)
LanczosResize(704, 480)
Letterbox(8, 8, 8, 8)
FieldDeinterlace(full=false)
FluxSmooth(5, -1)
ConvertToYV12()
(The resize to 704x480 is experimental. I'm not sure if DVD-RB will notice I've changed the dimensions. If not, I'm hoping I can just use IfoEdit to correct things. I guess I'll find out ;). Also I should probably have put the FieldDeinterlace before the resize, but I did this at about 2:45am last night and wasn't thinking all that clearly... Edit: I now realise FieldDeinterlace shouldn't be in there at all.)
Here's the relevant section of REBUIDER.INI:
[V01000000001001]
SCR=.000
PTS=29707.000
Frame_Rate_Code=1
Pulldown=0
Structure=3
Frames=1
Last_Sector=45
Reduction=83.0
Aspect_Ratio=3
HalfD1=0
EndPTM=83761.000
Looking through it, I can see there are 3 other segments, not yet encoded, which have a frame count of 1...
I figure this almost certainly results from me blanking some cells before running it through DVD-RB, but it would be nice to be able to do that without producing a phase 2 error. This also might be considered a problem with QuEnc rather than DVD-RB but if so could perhaps be worked around in DVD-RB by not encoding very short segments and using the original video packs when rebuilding.
For this particular backup I'm going to try using a different encoder for the problem segments, but I'd rather that weren't necessary.
Wonderful tool. I've been investigating multiplexing myself recently and can only imagine the headaches implementation caused you. Donation coming once I've transferred some money from my back account to my PayPal account :).
Versions: DVD-RB 0.55b, QuEnc 0.51, Avisynth 2.54