DVD Author failed for unknown reason ... again..

[Raider89]

First off I've already searched the other threads on this error, but I haven't managed to find a solution!
I've tried Ticking and Not Ticking the "Do Not Convert Audio" button in the Audio tab in DVD2SVCD, but it makes no difference.

Basically I'm trying to convert a Div-X avi into DVD, using TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 (I've also tried CCE SP 2.67 but the same error occurs).
Here's my DVD2SVCD log:

WNASPI32.DLL 0.0.0.0
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- 13/12/2004 23:10:24
- AVI to SVCD Conversion
- AVI2DVD ver. 1.2.2 build 3
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Initializing
- D:\DVD2DVD\FH.avi
Initializing finished.

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- 13/12/2004 23:10:26
- Free on drive D: 15842.60 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
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Audio extraction finished.

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- 13/12/2004 23:10:30
- Free on drive D: 15786.66 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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- 13/12/2004 23:10:33
- Free on drive D: 15786.66 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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Converting MP2 to WAV. Filename: D:\DVD2DVD\Extracted_audio_1.mpa
Executing MADPlay (mp2 to wav). Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\MADPlay\madplay.exe" --quiet --output=wave:"D:\DVD2DVD\Encoded_audio_1.mp2.wav" "D:\DVD2DVD\Extracted_audio_1.mpa"
Conversion (mp2 to wav) of D:\DVD2DVD\Extracted_audio_1.mpa finished.


Encoding Audio. Filename: D:\DVD2DVD\Extracted_audio_1.mpa
Executing BeSweet. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "D:\DVD2DVD\Encoded_audio_1.mp2.wav" -output "D:\DVD2DVD\Encoded_audio_1.mp2" -logfile "D:\DVD2DVD\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -ota( -g max ) -shibatch( --rate 48000 ) -2lame( -e -b 192 -m s )
Audio conversion of D:\DVD2DVD\Extracted_audio_1.mpa finished.

Audio conversion finished.

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- 13/12/2004 23:11:59
- Free on drive D: 15019.60 mb
- Video Encoding using TMPGEnc
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- Encoding D:\DVD2DVD\AviSynth_Script_file.avs
StreamSectors: 4546875788
AudioSectors: 203845012
VideoPAPO: 67275864
ScanOffsetBytes: 180788
SeqAligningBytes: 11490107
DVDBytes: 0
VideoEndHeader: 4
SubtitleSectors: 0
EmptySectors: 238.00
PictureSectors: 0.00
PureMPEGStream: 4264084012.40
Seconds: 8380.20
CalcMPEGStream: 4264084012.40
Frames: 200876
CDSize: 4350.00
Number of CDs: 1
Cut point 4346.00
Max. Bitrate: 8000
Avg. Bitrate: 4070.63
Min. Bitrate: 800
Executing TMPGEnc. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\Pegasys Inc\TMPGEnc Plus 2.5\TMPGEnc.exe" "D:\DVD2DVD\TMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close
Video Encoding finished.

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- 14/12/2004 08:20:16
- Free on drive D: 10954.09 mb
- Multiplexing Audio and Video
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Executing MPlex. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\mplex.exe" -f 8 -o "D:\DVD2DVD\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg" "D:\DVD2DVD\Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_NTSC.mpv" "D:\DVD2DVD\Encoded_audio_1.mp2"
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- 14/12/2004 08:20:19
- Free on drive D: 10954.09 mb
- Determining length of audio
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Analyzing finished.

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- 14/12/2004 08:20:23
- Free on drive D: 10954.09 mb
- Authoring DVD
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Executing DVDAuthor. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\dvdauthor.exe" -x "D:\DVD2DVD\DVDAuthor.xml"
DVDAuthor failed for unknown reasons!
For details open: "D:\DVD2DVD\DVDAuthor_log.txt"



And here's the DVD author log:
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.10.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: Locale=C
INFO: Converting filenames to US-ASCII
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing D:\DVD2DVD\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg...
ERR: Error opening D:\DVD2DVD\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg: No such file or directory


What seems strange is that it's looking for MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg, where I'm guessing the file it wants is Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_NTSC.mpv (Which TMPG kicked out).
So any ideas?
Thanks :(

[Raider89]

I think the problem is to do with the audio. I noticed that the file:
Encoded_audio_1.mp2 is 0 bytes.

However I managed to get the whole process to work when converting a little 60Mb Div-X Movie Trailer to DVD.
However the Div-X movie that I want to encode just won't go..

G-Spot says this about the movie:

Video: DivX 5.0
Audio: mpeglayer3 (mp3) (0x0055) ISO/MPEG
56 kb/s (28/ch, stereo)
24000 Hz

Where as the little trailer that worked:

Video: DivX 5.0
Audio: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
159 kb/s (79/ch, stereo) VBR LAME3.90.´
48000 Hz

Any ideas?
By the way I reinstalled DVD2SVCD 1.22 Build 1 to see if that would help, no luck


:(

EDIT: I just tried pushing the Movie avi file through VirtualDub (in Direct Stream copy as stated in the AVI2xxx sticky). It changed the audio description to 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3, but DVD2SVCD still produces a file Encoded_audio_1.mp2 of 0bytes. I'm leaving CCE encoding just in case, but I'm guessing this is going to fail too :(

[Raider89]

Hazaa! Looks like I may have fixed the problem..

From the FAQ of course:

1> Open avi in VDub and verify plays in sync.
2> In Video select Direct Stream Copy
3> In Audio:
--a> Select Full Processing Mode
--b> Select Compression><No compression (PCM)>
--c> Select Conversion and make sure 48k/16bit, Check High Quality
--d> Boost volume if you need to
4> Save new Avi off to HD (PCM audio will make it much bigger so make sure you have the HD space).
5> Load saved avi back into VDub and play. Check if audio is in sync. If so goto next (6), if not stop and go to interleaving tab in audio and try to make adjustments in the delay section until in sync and then re-save as in (4)
6> Encode this new Avi as normal in Avi2SVCD.

My Div-X was 24Khz, so that was what was causing the problem I guess. The remixed 48k/16bit Div-x was 2Gb large, but Besweet has processed it this time! Fingers crossed the audio is in sync at the end!