v0.94 Free, The Great Dictator, empty m2v file

[Boulder]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to process The Great Dictator R2 disc 1, of The Chaplin Collection with DVD-RB+CCE 2.70.02.

I have the irritating problem in which the encoding doesn't result in an m2v file. I tried encoding the troublesome segment manually but noticed that CCE actually crashes at the end of each pass, that is, when the vaf file creation gets done, CCE closes itself. I tried to create the m2v file with the existing vaf file, but in the rebuilding phase I got errors saying that there are dropped frames.

I have tried several Avisynth versions and different matrices as well. I really don't see why CCE wouldn't like that one particular segment.

Any ideas?

[Rockas]

Can you post the script?
Have you tried with another CCE version?

[Boulder]

Can you post the script?


#------------------
# AVS File Created by DVD Rebuilder
# VOBID:02, CELLID:02
#------------------
LoadPlugin("C:\Utils\DVD Rebuilder\DGDecode.dll")
mpeg2source("D:\TEMP\DVD-RIP\REBUILDER\D2VAVS\V01.D2V",idct=7)
trim(122473,128736)
import("c:\progra~1\avisynth 2.5\plugins\rebuilder_p.avs")
ConverttoYUY2()

rebuilder_p.avs contains

RemoveGrain(mode=5,modeU=-1)
GreyScale()
TemporalSoften(2,3,3,6,2)
Limiter()

The script cannot be the problem as it doesn't change between the segments and it's very basic stuff anyway.

Have you tried with another CCE version?
Not yet, it is something I need to do unless something else turns out to be the cause.

[Boulder]

I quickly tried encoding the problemous segment manually with CCE v2.50 for the hell of it. As soon as the vaf file creation finished, the encoder crashed. This version gives the error reporting box, v2.70 simply vanished.

My guess is that there's something in the decoding department which causes this. I recall having a problem with A Woman Of Paris (another movie in the Chaplin Collection) and the DGIndex-DGDecode combo which Don fixed after I reported it to him.

Perhaps it would be time for jdobbs to update the d2v creation-decoding part? Version 1.10 is quite old and there have been fixes which affect error resilience.