Error on AVI->DVD

[Rebos]

Not sure why I get this error. But its an error at the end of it when it reaches dvdauthor. Here is what it says in my log.

TAT: Processing C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg...
ERR: Error opening C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg: No such file or directory


I have sufficient space on my hard drive. I have installed and reinstalled the DVD2SVCD B3 and it still does it. It makes the .mpv and the .wav files just gets the error above after that.

[Nick]

Hmmm, looking into my crystal ball...
I'm seeing an AVI with MP3 audio...and a checkbox in the DVD2SVCD Audio tab...something to do with "Do not convert audio"...


Only kidding :)
Though I'm surprised a search didn't find the answer for you.
Chances are you are using an AVI file with audio which is not DVD compliant. If this is the case, you must UNcheck the Use Source Audio checkbox so that DVD2SVCD converts it into a compliant format. Otherwise the process fails at the authoring stage.

HTH
Nick

[Rebos]

The audio file with the avi used to be .ogg which I converted to a pcm/.wav file. Then loading up Vdubmod I added the .wav file to the soundless .avi file. I have tried this multible times now and am pretty clueless to what I could be doing wrong. Even with that error it splits the avi file into a the ntscfile.mpv and a ntsc.wav file. I am trying to get this into a format (bin/cue/ect) for a dvd burning program such as nero. Then look into dvd authoring program from there. I did have a post going from noob section but since its more of a DVD2SVCD problem I figured this would be the best place to continue.

I will check this again and see if it is indeed a .wav or still another file. I noticed the other person with the same problem did fix this by unchecking. Then again I am pretty sure it is a .wav file.

Thanks in advance.

[Rebos]

ok I went to the audio tab and unchecked the Do Not Convert Audio(use source audio) and it worked except now I have no audio on the burned .iso file when on dvd.

[Nick]

Is this when played back on your PC or is it on your standalone that it has no sound.

If it works with a software player on your PC, it could be that your standalone will not play discs converted by DVD2SVCD. This is very rare but does occur.

If there's no audio when you play on your PC, you'll have post the full logfile for us to look at.

Cheers
Nick

[Rebos]

Ok I do not have sound when playing on my pc. I first used a dvd-rw for I didn't make coasters so not sure on my dvd player. But I assume no. And Yes I do relize I got rather low on hdd space =).

dvd2svcd.log

WNASPI32.DLL 4.6.0.1021
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- 10/15/2014 1:12:54 AM
- AVI to SVCD Conversion
- AVI2DVD ver. 1.2.2 build 3
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Initializing
- C:\filename.avi
Initializing finished.

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- 10/15/2014 1:12:56 AM
- Free on drive C: 10028.73 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
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Audio extraction finished.

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- 10/15/2014 1:13:30 AM
- Free on drive C: 9781.83 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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- 10/15/2014 1:13:33 AM
- Free on drive C: 9781.83 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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Encoding Audio. Filename: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.wav
Executing BeSweet. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.wav" -output "C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2" -logfile "C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -ota( -g max ) -shibatch( --rate 48000 ) -2lame( -e -b 192 -m s )
Audio conversion of C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.wav finished.

Audio conversion finished.

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- 10/15/2014 1:16:21 AM
- Free on drive C: 9734.45 mb
- Video Encoding using TMPGEnc
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- Encoding C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\AviSynth_Script_file.avs
StreamSectors: 4546875788
AudioSectors: 35459592
VideoPAPO: 69884244
ScanOffsetBytes: 31413
SeqAligningBytes: 1996452
DVDBytes: 0
VideoEndHeader: 4
SubtitleSectors: 0
EmptySectors: 238.00
PictureSectors: 0.00
PureMPEGStream: 4439504083.70
Seconds: 1457.74
CalcMPEGStream: 4439504083.70
Frames: 34903
CDSize: 4350.00
Number of CDs: 1
Cut point 4346.00
Max. Bitrate: 8000
Avg. Bitrate: 7200.00
Min. Bitrate: 800
Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\Media Software\TMPGEnc Plus 2.5\TMPGEnc Plus 2.5\TMPGEnc.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

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- 10/15/2014 5:55:17 AM
- Free on drive C: 8154.49 mb
- Multiplexing Audio and Video
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Executing MPlex. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\mplex.exe" -f 8 -o "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_NTSC.mpv" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2"
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- 10/15/2014 5:57:20 AM
- Free on drive C: 7080.05 mb
- Determining length of audio
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Analyzing: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg
1454.400 seconds C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg
Analyzing finished.

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- 10/15/2014 5:57:58 AM
- Free on drive C: 7080.05 mb
- Authoring DVD
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Executing DVDAuthor. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\dvdauthor.exe" -x "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVDAuthor.xml"
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- 10/15/2014 6:00:57 AM
- Free on drive C: 6005.50 mb
- Creating DVD ISO Image
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Executing MkIsoFs. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\mkisofs.exe" -o "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVDImage.iso" -publisher "DVD2SVCD" -volid "" -dvd-video "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVD-Files"
Image creation finished.

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- 10/15/2014 6:04:13 AM
- Free on drive C: 4930.14 mb
- Conversion done!
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[Nick]

OK, the next step is to track back through the conversion process.

Does the multiplexed .mpg file (MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg)in your output folder have audio?

Do the Extracted_Audio_1.wav and Encoded_Audio_1.mp2 have audio?

Once we know where the process failed, I'm sure we can solve this.

Cheers
Nick

EDIT - both Mplex and BeSweet (audio converter) produce logs of their own. Check these for errors as well.

[Rebos]

Yes I have both of them files and they have audio. Hope these logs help.

Mplex_log.txt

INFO: [???] mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [???] File C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_NTSC.mpv looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [???] File C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2 looks like an MPEG Audio stream.
INFO: [???] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [???] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [???] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [???] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_NTSC.mpv)
INFO: [???] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [???] Frame width : 720
INFO: [???] Frame height : 480
INFO: [???] Aspect ratio : 4:3 display
INFO: [???] Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 8000000 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [???] CSPF : 0
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: Audio stream c0 (C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2)
INFO: [???] MPEG AUDIO STREAM: c0
INFO: [???] Audio version : 1.0
INFO: [???] Layer : 2
INFO: [???] CRC checksums : yes
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 24576 bytes/sec (192 kbit/sec)
INFO: [???] Frequency : 48000 Hz
INFO: [???] Mode : 0 stereo
INFO: [???] Mode extension : 0
INFO: [???] Copyright bit : 0 no copyright
INFO: [???] Original/Copy : 0 copy
INFO: [???] Emphasis : 0 none
INFO: [???] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [???] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 8365848
INFO: [???] target data-rate specified : 10080000
INFO: [???] Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
INFO: [???] Run-in Sectors = 89 Video delay = 13019 Audio delay = 0
INFO: [???] New sequence commences...
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [???] Audio c0: buf= 4096 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [???] Scanned to end AU 34902
INFO: [???] STREAM e0 completed @ frame 34902.
INFO: [???] STREAM c0 completed @ frame 60654.
INFO: [???] Multiplex completion at SCR=131018020.
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 235222 frame=034902 sector=00528433
INFO: [???] Audio c0: buf= 1216 frame=060654 sector=00017296
INFO: [???] VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
INFO: [???] Video Stream length: 1065545658 bytes
INFO: [???] Sequence headers: 4382
INFO: [???] Sequence ends : 1
INFO: [???] No. Pictures : 34902
INFO: [???] No. Groups : 4382
INFO: [???] No. I Frames : 4382 avg. size 71825 bytes
INFO: [???] No. P Frames : 4608 avg. size 50797 bytes
INFO: [???] No. B Frames : 25913 avg. size 19941 bytes
INFO: [???] Average bit-rate : 5855600 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Peak bit-rate : 10294800 bits/sec
INFO: [???] BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 174420
INFO: [???] AUDIO_STATISTICS: c0
INFO: [???] Audio stream length 34937280 bytes.
INFO: [???] Syncwords : 60655
INFO: [???] Frames : 60655 padded
INFO: [???] Frames : 0 unpadded
INFO: [???] BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 755
INFO: [???] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.

Encoded_audio_1.log

eSweet v1.5b26 by DSPguru.
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Using Shibatch.dll v0.24 by Naoki Shibata & DSPguru (shibatch.sourceforge.net).
Using MP2enc.dll v1.129 (23/5/2002), Engine 1.129 <http://www.cdex.n3.net>.

Logging start : 10/15/14 , 01:13:36.

C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe -core( -input C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.wav -output C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2 -logfile C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.log ) -ota( -g max ) -shibatch( --rate 48000 ) -2lame( -e -b 192 -m s )

[00:00:00:000] +------- BeSweet -----
[00:00:00:000] | Input : C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.wav
[00:00:00:000] | Output: C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2
[00:00:00:000] | Floating-Point Process: Yes
[00:00:00:000] | Overall Track Gain: 0.000dB
[00:00:00:000] +------ Shibatch -----
[00:00:00:000] | Source Sample-Rate: 44.1KHz
[00:00:00:000] | Dest. Sample-Rate: 48.0KHz
[00:00:00:000] | Attenuation : 0.0db
[00:00:00:000] +------- MP2ENC ------
[00:00:00:000] | Bitrate method : CBR
[00:00:00:000] | MP2 bitrate : 192
[00:00:00:000] | Channels Mode : Stereo
[00:00:00:000] | Error Protection: Yes
[00:00:00:000] +---------------------
[00:24:15:669] Conversion Completed !
[00:24:15:669] Actual Avg. Bitrate : 192kbps
[00:02:41:000] <-- Transcoding Duration

Logging ends : 10/15/14 , 01:16:17.






Thanks for the help in advance.

[Rebos]

Still no luck with this. Does anyone see anything in my log above that would give an explanation of whats wrong?


Thanks

[jsoto]

I'm not able to see anything wrong in your log, but it will be useful to know:
Does the multiplexed .mpg file (MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg)in your output folder have audio?

Do the Extracted_Audio_1.wav and Encoded_Audio_1.mp2 have audio?

Simply try to play these three files in Windows Media Player and check if they play.

jsoto

[Rebos]

Yes all three work. 2 audio files have audio and the .mpg has audio and video. But the problem is the dvdimage.iso file that is created when burned to a dvd contains no sound.

I am unsure what I need really since I will be using a dvd author software to link multible files together. Not sure if I need .iso files for that or ect... Just know the .iso file when burnt to a dvd isn't working(no sound anyhow).

Also not to mention my file sizes have started with 200mb file then demuxing and readding a sound file, convert to .avi ends up 400ish then after using dvd2svcd the Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_NTSC.mpv=1gb, dvdimage.iso=1gb, Extracted_audio_1.wav=200mb, then the folder DVD Files contains another 1gb in the Video_TS folder and contains nothing at all in the Audio_TS(Which seems about right since there is no sound in my .iso file, but I am unsure). So basically its gotten to the point I am unsure which files I am going to need and which are ok to delete. :confused:


Thanks again I am learning more and more everyday from this forum. :)

[jsoto]

This is the dvd2svcd workflow
A) Elementary streams production:
- Audio files (in your case a mp2)
- video file
B) Muxing audio/video
- Done by Mplex : MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg
C) Authoring
- A file structure produced by dvdauthor. One DVD usually has two folders, called AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. The first one is for Audio-DVDs, and not used (no files inside) in Video-DVDs, as yours. In fact, there are a lot of Video-DVDs without this folder.
Dvdauthor will produce these two folders and the files inside VIDEO_TS under "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVD-Files"
D) Image creation (optional) using mkisofts an iso image of the DVD will be created: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVDImage.iso"

In short:
- No files under AUDIO_TS are expected.
- Not clear to me, are you using the iso file produced by dvdauthor+mkisofts?
- How are you testing your iso file?. You need to "mount" it in a virtual_DVD SW like Daemon-tools. After mounting the image, you will find the folders VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS in the Virtual DVD, with the same files than the ones under "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVD-Files\VIDEO_TS"

And, the last point: You are using a mp2 without an ac3 file. This is not fully standard, and although it usually plays in a PAL settop, I'm not absolutely sure it will play in a NTSC one. Do you test your compilation in a SW player?

jsoto

[Rebos]

In my directory DVD2SVCD/movies/ is a file dvdimage.iso which was created. I simply burnt that to a dvdrw to test and it plays perfect just no sound. Then I also tried burning the video_ts folder files to the video_ts folder using nero and then I just added my encoded.wav file to see if that would work. But it did the same. Just played the video and no sound once again.

[jsoto]

Do you test your compilation in a SW player (WinDVD, PowerDVD) or directly in your settop?.
jsoto

[Rebos]

Ok I got the dvd to run with sound now. The files are still much larger after converted from the ogm-avi-adding the extracted audio from(vdubmod and changing it to a pcm .wav)-then from that to dvdsvcd it gets about 1.2gb.

So the file sizes sorta goe like this 200mb-450-1gbish. Is this just standard to keep the quality or am I doing something that isn't needed to cause this.

Thanks so far guys I have finally gotten something accomplished. Just need to get a few more things to finish.

[jsoto]

You can also try to convert your audio to dolby digital (ac3). Assuming it is a stereo track, this is BeSweet command line:

"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.wav" -output "C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.ac3" -logfile "C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -ota( -g max ) -shibatch( --rate 48000 ) -ac3enc( -b 192 )

Final size will be the same than mp2 (bitrate is the same)

And, just curious, the problem was your settop? Is it unable to reproduce mp2 audio in a DVD?

jsoto

[Rebos]

Actually it was just winamp and media player not playing the sound from the dvd+rw. I used an rw for i didn't make coasters, so I installed PowerDvD and it worked perfect.

[Rebos]

When using BeSweet I keep getting this error. So I went ahead and did what it says and I install the .dll file to the Gknot dir where besweet is and it still don't work.

Log File

BeSweet v1.5b26 by DSPguru.
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Error 75: Unable to get VOBinput.dll interfaces
Get it from http://DSPguru.doom9.org/effects.html
Quiting...
[00:00:00:000] Conversion Completed !

Logging ends : 10/09/04 , 01:38:53.