TFM problem

[NikosK.]

I am trying very hard to find a sooution to my problem,but without any result until now. I encode my video (avi) files with TFM but in the end I have an empty DVD file with 0 bytes.After that Nero aborts the files which must burn and the programme close.Could you help me please?Thanks!
Nikos

[psychodadbr]

I have the same problem. I explained that in AVisynth problem Topic ... But I'm not received yet a good answer.

[The_Mask]

Please post the following files:

• TFM.log
• TFM_Avi_Info.log

[NikosK.]

sorry my friend,what do you mean by "post the files"?

[The_Mask]

Paste the text of the two files in this thread.

[NikosK.]

I just want to know please why at the end the TFM makes an emty DVD file which of cource can t de burned with Nero.Thanks!

[The_Mask]

That is why you have to let me see the logfiles, something went wrong and without those log files I can't help you.

[NikosK.]

Now I understand what you mean,but I have deleted the files.I ll try once again and I will post the files.Thank you.

[NikosK.]

The FilmMachine Avi-Info Logfile

AVI Information
Filename: lost.avi
Filesize: 736796672 Bytes (702,66 MB)
Streams (i.e. Video, Audio): 2
Video Stream
Compression Codec: xvid - XVID MPEG-4
Avg. Bitrate: 808,27 kbit/s
Resolution: 576x320 (1.800:1)
Color Depth: 24 bits
Duration: 6105,44 s (1h 41m 45s)
Frame Rate: 23,9760 fps
Microseconds Per Frame: 41708 ms
Frames: 146384
Keyframes: 1157 (Every 126)
Audio Stream
Wave Codec: 85 - MPEG Layer 3
Avg. Bitrate: 144,45 kbit/s
Sampling Rate: 48000 Hz
Bit Depth: 0 Bits
Channels: 2
Audio Delay: 0,00 s

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[NikosK.]

25/8/2004 12:23:47 μμ
- AVI to DVD conversion
- The FilmMachine version 1.2
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Initializing.
Initializing finished.

Recordable media (DVD+R)
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- 25/8/2004 12:23:50 μμ
- Free on drive C: 13,78 GB
- Creating and Merging Subtitles
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Writing C:\Documents and Settings\Nikos\Τα έγγραφά μου\My_videos\TFM_Subtitle_File.ssa
Saving Subtitle File

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- 25/8/2004 12:23:51 μμ
- Free on drive C: 13,78 GB
- Audio Extraction
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Extracting audio from AVI file
Audio extraction finished.

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- 25/8/2004 12:27:27 μμ
- Free on drive C: 13,78 GB
- Audio Conversion
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Executing BeSweet DLL. Commandline:
-azid( -L -3db -c normal -s surround2 -g max ) -ota( -fs 48000 ) -shibatch( --rate 48000 ) -ac3enc( -b 224 )
Audio conversion finished.


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- 25/8/2004 12:35:37 μμ
- Free on drive C: 13,77 GB
- Video Encoding using QuEnc by Nic version 0.53
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Executing QuEnc.

Encoding finished

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- 25/8/2004 2:54:04 μμ
- Free on drive C: 10,44 GB
- Video PullDown
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PullDown is working in the background.....
Video PullDown finished.

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- 25/8/2004 3:10:08 μμ
- Free on drive C: 10,44 GB
- Creating DVD compliant files
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Mplex is multiplexing the video and audio stream.....
mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
File C:\Documents and Settings\Nikos\Τα έγγραφά μου\My_videos\TFM_Pull_Enc_Video.mpv looks like an MPEG Video stream.
File C:\Documents and Settings\Nikos\Τα έγγραφά μου\My_videos\TFM_Encoded_Audio.ac3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
Multiplexing video program stream!
Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (C:\Documents and Settings\Nikos\Τα έγγραφά μου\My_videos\TFM_Pull_Enc_Video.mpv)
VIDEO STREAM: e0
Frame width : 720
Frame height : 480
Aspect ratio : 16:9 display
Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
Bit rate : 9384000 bits/sec
Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
CSPF : 0
Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (C:\Documents and Settings\Nikos\Τα έγγραφά μου\My_videos\TFM_Encoded_Audio.ac3)
AC3 frame size = 896
AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
Bit rate : 28672 bytes/sec (224 kbit/sec)
Frequency : 48000 Hz
SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 9811696
target data-rate specified : 10080000
Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
Run-in Sectors = 89 Video delay = 13019 Audio delay = 0
New sequence commences...
Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
Audio bd: buf= 16384 frame=000000 sector=00000000
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=7989101 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 166956 frame=002125 sector=00014344
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 7651 frame=002778 sector=00001235
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=8068681 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 130253 frame=002146 sector=00014877
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 14595 frame=002798 sector=00001244
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=8817956 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 174328 frame=002346 sector=00019218
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 3619 frame=003071 sector=00001365
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=8861988 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 235543 frame=002356 sector=00019518
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 16384 frame=003071 sector=00001365
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=8906020 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 235543 frame=002369 sector=00019810
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 14371 frame=003089 sector=00001373
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=8952978 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 187749 frame=002382 sector=00020123
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 15491 frame=003104 sector=00001380
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=9020562 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 161943 frame=002400 sector=00020573
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 15939 frame=003127 sector=00001390
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=10073088 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 189128 frame=002680 sector=00025523
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 6307 frame=003503 sector=00001557
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=10118144 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 199217 frame=002692 sector=00025827
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 14595 frame=003509 sector=00001560
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=10185728 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 174803 frame=002710 sector=00026277
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 15939 frame=003532 sector=00001570
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=10230784 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 150503 frame=002722 sector=00026577
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 15267 frame=003548 sector=00001577
Multiplexing finished.

Encoding Background jpeg.
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Parsing & checking input files.
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Image dimensions are 720x480
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Movie frame rate is: 29.970030 frames/second
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Interlaced frames, top field first.
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Frame size: 720 x 480
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Now generating YUV4MPEG stream.
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Processing non-interlaced/interleaved C:/DOCUME~1/Nikos/BCA3~1/MY_VID~1/TFM_Background.jpg, size 100234l.
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Selecting DVD output profile
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming norm NTSC
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Encoding MPEG-2 video to C:/DOCUME~1/Nikos/BCA3~1/MY_VID~1/TFM_Background.m2v
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Horizontal size: 720 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Vertical size: 480 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Aspect ratio code: 3 = 16:9 display
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame rate code: 4 = 30000.0/1001.0 (NTSC VIDEO)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Bitrate: 7500 KBit/s
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Quality factor: 8 (1=best, 31=worst)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Field order for input: top-field-first
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Sequence unlimited length
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Search radius: 16
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP SIZE RANGE 9 TO 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting colour/gamma parameters to "NTSC"
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Progressive format frames = 0
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Buffering 39 frames
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING MMX and EXTENDED MMX for QUANTIZER!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for MOTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING MMX for TRANSFORM!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for PREDICTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP LENGTH = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame start 0 I 0 0
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame end 0 257.24 257.24 11.1 11.14
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP LENGTH = 0
Encoding Background jpeg finished.

Multiplexing Background jpeg.
mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
File C:\Documents and Settings\Nikos\Τα έγγραφά μου\My_videos\TFM_Background.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
Found 0 audio streams and 1 video streams
Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
Multiplexing video program stream!
Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (C:\Documents and Settings\Nikos\Τα έγγραφά μου\My_videos\TFM_Background.m2v)
VIDEO STREAM: e0
Frame width : 720
Frame height : 480
Aspect ratio : 16:9 display
Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
Bit rate : 7500000 bits/sec
Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
CSPF : 0
SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 7655000
target data-rate specified : 10080000
Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
Scanned to end AU 0
Run-in Sectors = 88 Video delay = 12873 Audio delay = 0
New sequence commences...
Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
STREAM e0 completed @ frame 0.
Multiplex completion at SCR=3803.
Video e0: buf= 188249 frame=000000 sector=00000025
VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
Video Stream length: 49319 bytes
Sequence headers: 1
Sequence ends : 1
No. Pictures : 0
No. Groups : 1
No. I Frames : 1 avg. size 49319 bytes
No. P Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
No. B Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
Average bit-rate : 11824400 bits/sec
Peak bit-rate : 0 bits/sec
BUFFERING stream too short for useful statistics
MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
Multiplexing Background jpeg finished.

Spumux is creating the DVD menu.....
Creating DVD menu finished.

DVDAuthor is writing the VOB files.....
Writing VOB files finished.

Finished authoring DVD

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- 25/8/2004 3:11:19 μμ
- Free on drive C: 10,39 GB
- Burning DVD
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NeroApi version = 6.3.1.6

Set burning parameters


No tracks given.
[#] User abort

User aborted!
NeroAPI reports: User abort.
Finished Burning DVD.

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- 25/8/2004 3:11:37 μμ
- Free on drive C: 10,39 GB
- DVD creation finished!
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[NikosK.]

Finally,as you see, I found the files you asked for.Please help us to be able to use your excellent programme!thank you very much.

[The_Mask]

Thanks for the log-files.

I found where it went wrong. In the log-file I found:

++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=7989101 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 166956 frame=002125 sector=00014344
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 7651 frame=002778 sector=00001235
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=8068681 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 130253 frame=002146 sector=00014877
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 14595 frame=002798 sector=00001244
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=8817956 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 174328 frame=002346 sector=00019218
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 3619 frame=003071 sector=00001365
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=8861988 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 235543 frame=002356 sector=00019518
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 16384 frame=003071 sector=00001365
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=8906020 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 235543 frame=002369 sector=00019810
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 14371 frame=003089 sector=00001373
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=8952978 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 187749 frame=002382 sector=00020123
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 15491 frame=003104 sector=00001380
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=9020562 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 161943 frame=002400 sector=00020573
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 15939 frame=003127 sector=00001390
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=10073088 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 189128 frame=002680 sector=00025523
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 6307 frame=003503 sector=00001557
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=10118144 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 199217 frame=002692 sector=00025827
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 14595 frame=003509 sector=00001560
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=10185728 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 174803 frame=002710 sector=00026277
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 15939 frame=003532 sector=00001570
++ WARN: Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=10230784 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 150503 frame=002722 sector=00026577
++ WARN: Audio bd: buf= 15267 frame=003548 sector=00001577

This error is caused by QuEnc. It seems that QuEnc drops some frames during encoding on some computers (At first also on my computer but I changed a setting in my BIOS, and now it works for me). Because of the dropped frames the multiplexing of the audio and video gives some warnings. If there are too many frame drops the multiplexing stops and that is why your DVD is not complete.

Try using Cinema Craft Encoder, and you will see that there will be no frame drops. QuEnc is still in Beta testing.

Good luck.