Strange DVD creating problem

[kawasabi]

i made a dvd last night, it took about 10 hours.
but there was no VIDEO_TS folder like there should be,only a big .MPG file that was 4.4GB.
i tryed some samples and they created the VIDEO_TS like they should, whats wrong?
anyone else with this problem?

thnx

[kawasabi]

hmm guess i'm the only one with this problem then.
bummer.

[The_Mask]

Please post your log files.

[kawasabi]

hmm i think i know what the problem was.
when i use the feature "shutdown the computer" after encoding this happens.

[The_Mask]

That is strange?

[kawasabi]

yes it sure is.
when i have some time i will try to convert a movie without shutting down the computer to make sure.
only happend with DVD conversion not SVCD.
maybe one of those SP2 bugs.

[stereolaber]

I just encountered this problem. I was converting a movie during the night, and when I woke up, I had no files in the VIDEO_TS folder. There was however - among other temp files in my working folder - a 4.13 GB file named TFM_Subbed_Video.mpg.

I'm posting my log, hoping that someone (The Mask) can figure out what happened

cheers / stereo


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- 10-10-2004 23:42:25
- AVI to DVD conversion
- The FilmMachine version 1.4
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Initializing.
Initializing finished.

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- 10-10-2004 23:42:26
- Free on drive C: 17,93 GB
- Creating and Merging Subtitles
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Writing C:\Programmer\The FilmMachine\Output\TFM_Subtitle_File.srt
Merging Subtitles Files
Saving Subtitle File

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- 10-10-2004 23:42:28
- Free on drive C: 17,93 GB
- Merging Avi Files with VirtualDubMod
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Merging AVI files with VirtualDubMod
Creating VirtualDubMod job file
VirtualDubMod is working in the background.....
Avi merging finished.

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- 10-10-2004 23:44:31
- Free on drive C: 16,56 GB
- Audio Extraction
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Extracting audio from AVI file
Audio extraction finished.

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- 10-10-2004 23:46:50
- Free on drive C: 16,18 GB
- Audio Conversion
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Executing BeSweet DLL. Commandline:
-azid( -g max ) -ota( -fs 48000 ) -shibatch( --rate 48000 ) -ac3enc( -b 448 -6ch )
Audio conversion finished.


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- 11-10-2004 00:04:22
- Free on drive C: 15,80 GB
- Video Encoding using Cinema Craft Encoder SP 2.67
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Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.

TFM_Project_File.ecl found
TFM_Project_File.ecl encoding started at 00:04:26
Creating TFM_Video_Info_File.vaf
Creating TFM_Enc_Video.mpv
TFM_Project_File.ecl encoded at 05:21:01
Encoding finished

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- 11-10-2004 05:21:05
- Free on drive C: 11,96 GB
- Video PullDown
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PullDown is working in the background.....
Video PullDown finished.

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- 11-10-2004 05:29:04
- Free on drive C: 8,16 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:\PROGRA~1\THEFIL~1\Output\TFM_PU~1.MPV looks like an MPEG Video stream.
File C:\PROGRA~1\THEFIL~1\Output\TFM_EN~1.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:\PROGRA~1\THEFIL~1\Output\TFM_PU~1.MPV)
VIDEO STREAM: e0
Frame width : 720
Frame height : 480
Aspect ratio : 16:9 display
Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
Bit rate : 9800000 bits/sec
Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
CSPF : 0
Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (C:\PROGRA~1\THEFIL~1\Output\TFM_EN~1.AC3)
AC3 frame size = 1792
AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
Bit rate : 57344 bytes/sec (448 kbit/sec)
Frequency : 48000 Hz
SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 10470296
target data-rate specified : 10080000
++ WARN: Target data rate lower than computed requirement!
++ WARN: N.b. a 20% or so discrepancy in variable bit-rate
++ WARN: streams is common and harmless provided no time-outs will occur
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
Scanned to end AU 176015
STREAM e0 completed @ frame 176015.
STREAM bd completed @ frame 229413.
Multiplex completion at SCR=660702646.
Video e0: buf= 234492 frame=176015 sector=02018602
Audio bd: buf= 2048 frame=229413 sector=00203924
VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
Video Stream length: 4075252628 bytes
Sequence headers: 12283
Sequence ends : 1
No. Pictures : 176015
No. Groups : 12283
No. I Frames : 12283 avg. size 64977 bytes
No. P Frames : 49022 avg. size 34135 bytes
No. B Frames : 114711 avg. size 13980 bytes
Average bit-rate : 4440800 bits/sec
Peak bit-rate : 9586400 bits/sec
BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 221684
AUDIO_STATISTICS: bd
Audio stream length 411109888 bytes.
Frames : 2697232654
BUFFERING min 35 Buf max 12355
MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
Multiplexing finished.

Spumux is inserting subtitles in the videostream.....
Inserting subtitle into DVD stream 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:/PROGRA~1/THEFIL~1/Output/TFM_Background.jpg, size 100022l.
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Selecting DVD output profile
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming norm NTSC
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Encoding MPEG-2 video to C:/PROGRA~1/THEFIL~1/Output/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 3DNOW 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 0 258.80 258.80 11.1 11.15
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:\PROGRA~1\THEFIL~1\Output\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:\PROGRA~1\THEFIL~1\Output\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
Multiplexing Background jpeg finished.

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

DVDAuthor is writing the VOB files.....
Locale=C
Converting filenames to US-ASCII
dvdauthor creating VTS
Writing VOB files finished.

Finished authoring DVD

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- 11-10-2004 05:50:00
- Free on drive C: 3,80 GB
- DVD creation finished!
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[The_Mask]

I think something went wrong with Spumux (inserting the Subtitles into the Videostream). Normally Spumux wil show this in the log file:

Spumux is inserting subtitles in the videostream.....
Processed 1335 subtitles.
The longest display line had 52 characters.
The maximum number of displayed lines was 4.
The normal display height of the font arial.ttf was 32.
The bottom display height of the font arial.ttf was 45.
The biggest subtitle box had 5326 bytes.
Inserting subtitle into DVD stream finished.

And it shows this with yours:

Spumux is inserting subtitles in the videostream.....
Inserting subtitle into DVD stream finished.

[stereolaber]

Thanks for your answer! I think you're probably right about Spumux.

However, I managed to 'save' the project: I took the 4.13 GB file (TFM_Subbed_Video.mpg) and played it using WinDVD - and it was perfect, except it contained no subs. I then de-multiplexed it using TMPGenc, and encoded it to VOB using DVDAuthorGUI (making sure to include the subs).

Naturally, the result is pretty much what it would have been, had I succeeded using The Filmmachine for the job. The obvious downside is all the extra trouble... but hey: it's a work in progress. In any case, I appreciate your spending your time on developing TFM.

cheers / stereo

[stereolaber]

AH!!! By some freak accident, I suddenly remembered that DVDAuthor (including Spumux) doesn't recognize paths containing the (Danish) letters "Æ", "Ø", and "Å". As soon as I had changed my paths to the root of my C-drive (thereby omitting "Æ", "Ø", and "Å") everything worked again.

This solution probably applies to those of you, who have encountered the problem (including Spanish, Portuguese, and German etc. - ie. languages containing less common, 'strange' letters...).

Cheers / Stereo

[kawasabi]

well it did not work with english subtitles for me so...
guess it's another problem for me

[stereolaber]

it has nothing to do with subtitles - I'm talking about the paths to your working directories / folders during the encoding process