What's wrong with my CCEFront Syntax

[n8n]

Hi Everyone,
Been lurking for a while on Doom9, and am continually impressed by the good people who both use and administer this site. Well done!

Now down to business. I have a stack of video tapes that I'm trying, slowly, to convert to DVD format. I'm now trying to use CCEfront and cce 2.70 to transcode the video, but so far all I'm able to do is have CCEfront launch cce. CCEfront will appear in the system tray with a checkmark beside "script paused", and cce doesn't load a file.

I'm using a partitioned hdd, and using D:\capa for my capture file location, I have ccefront and cce installed in their default locations. I've added (I'm pretty sure) all the right path information to my system path. Also below is the text that I type into the command prompt line.

ccefront.exe -roba -roba_szpass_mode 5 -t standard_1 -noaudio -size_mb 4440 "D:\capa\AviSynth_file.avs"

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance,
Nathan

[buzzqw]

is existing template "standard_1" ?

BHH

[n8n]

The template does show in the list of templates when cce opens.
I can not say where the template is stored, but I will look for it when I get home from work.

I have also tried removing one parameter at a time all the way down to only ccefront d:\capa\avisynth_file.avs with no change to how ccefront acts.

[Amnon82]

You missed the -batch command. This will start and end CCE.

A standard syntax will look like this for CCE:

CCE.exe -ecl "Path to the ECL-File" -batch

Example for CCEFont:

ccefront -t DVD -total_mb 4000 scene*.avi -batch

So I think Your syntax must be:

ccefront.exe -roba -roba_szpass_mode 5 -t standard_1 -noaudio -size_mb 4440 D:\capa\AviSynth_file.avs -batch

Always :readfaq:

[cw_uk]

Could someone tell me what i am doing wrong here im trying to get a sizing pass to occur if over or undersized the ini file is set up as, (these are just test files before i waste a day creating oversized files with the wrong syntax)


[Settings]
cce_exe=C:\Program Files\Custom Technology\CCE SP Trial Version\EclCCE.exe
cce_title=CCE SP Trial Version
data_dir=C:\Documents and Settings\cw_uk\Application Data\CCEFront
priority=0
nocancel=0
run_mode=normal
gui_x=252
gui_y=219

[RoBa]
rejig_exe=
sample_percent=10.0
adjust_percent=0.0
prediction_tweak=1
min_q=1
szpass_mode=1
szpass_per_under=0.1
szpass_per_over=0.1
szpass_q_over=40

my command line is

ccefront.exe -roba -roba_szpass_mode 1 -minimize -total_mb 60 -extra_br 384 -extra_br 384 -qmat KVCD_Notch.txt -t KDVD2 "C:\Documents and Settings\cw_uk\Desktop\Bad Boys Test Files\Bad Boys Test File A.avs" "C:\Documents and Settings\cw_uk\Desktop\Bad Boys Test Files\Bad Boys Test File B.avs"

and this is what my results are,

--------------------------------------------------------
ccefront v1.0 RC2, by Tylo (c) 2005
--------------------------------------------------------
- 2005-07-12 12:33:20
- WIN_XP
--------------------------------------------------------
- Input video : 0:03:17 (4944 frames, 25 fps)
- Input ecl file : C:\Documents and Settings\cw_uk\Application Data\CCEFront\work_dir\v001.ecl
- Input avs file : C:\Documents and Settings\cw_uk\Desktop\Bad Boys Test Files\Bad Boys Test File A.avs
- Output mpv file : C:\Documents and Settings\cw_uk\Desktop\Bad Boys Test Files\Bad Boys Test File A.mpv
- Sample percent : 10.0
- Adjust % : 0.0 (accuracy tweak: yes)
- Sizing pass : Encode
- Select ranges : every 150, select 15 frames
- Sample frames : 495
- Using CCE SP version : 2.67.0.27
--------------------------------------------------------
- Target mpv BR : 889 (300-9000) kbps, 21976080 bytes
--------------------------------------------------------
Search for Q:
- Sample encode : Q=32: 2766 kbps, err=211.1%, size=68391441, sample sz=6847444
- Sample encode : Q=140: 1245 kbps, err=40%, size=30791032, sample sz=3082840
- Sample encode : Q=165: 1171 kbps, err=31.7%, size=28949467, sample sz=2898460
- Sample encode : Q=200: 1099 kbps, err=23.6%, size=27176299, sample sz=2720928
--------------------------------------------------------
- Determined Q : 200 = Round(200 + (23.6/0.2)) with 0.0% adjustment.
--------------------------------------------------------
- 2005-07-12 12:36:08
- Start movie OPV encoding (Q 200)
- OPV pass result: 119.5% on target (26256180 / 21976080) Speed factor: 0.77
- Oversized image
--------------------------------------------------------
- 2005-07-12 12:40:27
- ccefront successfully finished
--------------------------------------------------------



--------------------------------------------------------
ccefront v1.0 RC2, by Tylo (c) 2005
--------------------------------------------------------
- 2005-07-12 12:40:27
- WIN_XP
--------------------------------------------------------
- Input video : 0:03:17 (4944 frames, 25 fps)
- Input ecl file : C:\Documents and Settings\cw_uk\Application Data\CCEFront\work_dir\v002.ecl
- Input avs file : C:\Documents and Settings\cw_uk\Desktop\Bad Boys Test Files\Bad Boys Test File B.avs
- Output mpv file : C:\Documents and Settings\cw_uk\Desktop\Bad Boys Test Files\Bad Boys Test File B.mpv
- Sample percent : 10.0
- Adjust % : 0.0 (accuracy tweak: yes)
- Sizing pass : Encode
- Select ranges : every 150, select 15 frames
- Sample frames : 495
- Using CCE SP version : 2.67.0.27
--------------------------------------------------------
- Target mpv BR : 889 (300-9000) kbps, 21976080 bytes
--------------------------------------------------------
Search for Q:
- Sample encode : Q=32: 2766 kbps, err=211.1%, size=68391441, sample sz=6847444
- Sample encode : Q=140: 1245 kbps, err=40%, size=30791032, sample sz=3082840
- Sample encode : Q=165: 1171 kbps, err=31.7%, size=28949467, sample sz=2898460
- Sample encode : Q=200: 1099 kbps, err=23.6%, size=27176299, sample sz=2720928
--------------------------------------------------------
- Determined Q : 200 = Round(200 + (23.6/0.2)) with 0.0% adjustment.
--------------------------------------------------------
- 2005-07-12 12:43:12
- Start movie OPV encoding (Q 200)
- OPV pass result: 119.5% on target (26256180 / 21976080) Speed factor: 0.75
- Oversized image
--------------------------------------------------------
- 2005-07-12 12:47:38
- ccefront successfully finished
--------------------------------------------------------

[Chaddy]

"roba_szpass_mode 1" should be "roba_szpass_mode 4" if you want to use CCE to encode the second time if oversized or undersized.

[RoBa]
rejig_exe=
sample_percent=1.0
adjust_percent=1.4
prediction_tweak=1
min_q=1
szpass_mode=4
szpass_per_under=2.5
szpass_per_over=0.0
szpass_q_over=40

[cw_uk]

i'll tell ya its always the silly little things that trip us up when i set it up i scanned through and set it to always encode. *slaps self* thxs Chaddy now i can get these movies encoded. :)