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[TomaySOFT]

Thank for your answer, but free space on HDD is not a problem...
TFM works solely on a 15 GB HDD. There is nothing more. When problem occurs there is over 5 gigs free.
Of course I use an option for deleting temporary files.
I have to say that I worked with TFM with less free space (about 9 GB) and there were no problem.

Greetings

[The_Mask]

Thanks for the quick tests The_Mask,yeah i was pretty sure it was something to do with the 64bit version of XP.

I never had any CPU high usage problem on my 32bit version of XP,so thats got to be it,also the memory usage is far too high in x64 when TFM waits for CCE to finish and when its done and idle on my screen it still uses more then 200MB of memory.

I hope you will get a chance to check it out on x64 as soon as you can,and maybe even be the first convertion program that will BE a pure 64bit

That will be a problem at the moment because my programming language Delphi doesn't have a 64 bit compiler yet. I hope that this will come soon.

[blah666]

Just a little update,i tried that epsiode i was talking about 3 times,and on all 3 i got it with none sync'd audio (tried 4 pass,6 and 8)....on the other hand when i tried DVD2SVCD i had no problem and it took half the time on 8 pass to encode there.

I really hope that this will be fixed as soon as possible,i love TFM!

[The_Mask]

Will try to install XP 64 soon to look at it.

[rmcrys]

Why can we set up to 15 passes but not to choose just 1 CBR? (because like it is "1" means one to test quality and another to real encode after that)

If possible:

- CCE with 1 pass CBR
- Maintain original AC3 track from AVI without processing

In some home-made movies (XVID video, MP3 audio) everything goes ok but CCE autoshuts off.

[The_Mask]

1) in the next version

2) I had implemented this but I switched over too DirectX and can't implement that there. So no.

[Teebee]

I have 2 problems with TFM, and it has never been resolved by a new version.
First problem, it takes about 1 minute and 30 seconds to load TFM, after the startuplogo has disappeared

I just did a format and that seemed to do the trick. Now it loads after 1-2 seconds after the logo disappears. (y)

[The_Mask]

Glad this worked.

[hilpeers]

I am in general very happy with TFM. Using the latest update I encountered the following problem: After completion the conversion the following message is displayed: "WARNING! The final result is only 0 MB. Maybe something went wrong with the conversion, do you still want to burn the DVD. YES/NO. While choosing the "NO", the final TFM.log is generated, which became an enormous file of 7195 KB!. I include an abreviated version at the end of this message.

I had enabled the RoBaOPV mode in CCE.

When checking the output folder, I found a TMF-DVD-Image.iso folder of 3,936,584 KB. I burned this image with Alcohol 120% and the result is a perfect DVD!!

What has gone wrong?

Here the log file:

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- 01/08/2005 00:14:19
- AVI to DVD conversion
- The FilmMachine version 1.5.0.10 beta
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Initializing.

Computer Info
CPU name : Pentium 4
Available memory: 640 MB
Windows version : Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Initializing finished.

DirectX Version = 9.0c

Saving Avi-Info files
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- 01/08/2005 00:14:41
- Free on drive D: 24.27 GB
- Creating and Merging Subtitles
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Writing D:\VIDEO-90\TFM_Subtitle_File.ssa
Saving Subtitle File
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- 01/08/2005 00:14:43
- Free on drive D: 24.27 GB
- Audio Conversion
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Executing BeSweet DLL. Commandline:
-boost( /b2=5 ) -ota( -fs 48000 ) -ssrc( --rate 44100 ) -ac3enc( -b 128 )

Converting audio of file 1: D:\AA DATA\DOWNLOADS\Veiviseren.avi

DirectShow messages:

DirectShow Filters used:
NullRenderer1
NullRenderer
SampleGrabber
Morgan Stream Switcher
AC3Filter
ffdshow Audio Decoder
AVI Splitter
D:\AA DATA\DOWNLOADS\Veiviseren.avi
Audio conversion finished.

Starting CCE 2.67 for getting the CCE title.
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- 01/08/2005 00:41:38
- Free on drive D: 24.20 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 00:41:38
TFM_Project_File.ecl encoded at 02:46:21
Encoding finished

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- 01/08/2005 02:46:24
- Free on drive D: 20.47 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 D:\VIDEO-90\TFM_EN~1.MPV looks like an MPEG Video stream.
File D:\VIDEO-90\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 (D:\VIDEO-90\TFM_EN~1.MPV)
VIDEO STREAM: e0
Frame width : 720
Frame height : 576
Aspect ratio : 16:9 display
Picture rate : 25.000 frames/sec
Bit rate : 9800000 bits/sec
Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
CSPF : 0
Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (D:\VIDEO-90\TFM_EN~1.AC3)
AC3 frame size = 556
AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
Bit rate : 16384 bytes/sec (128 kbit/sec)
Frequency : 44100 Hz
SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 10135896
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 124189
STREAM bd completed @ frame 142622.
STREAM e0 completed @ frame 124189.
Multiplex completion at SCR=447009499.
Video e0: buf= 172400 frame=124189 sector=01919850
Audio bd: buf= 1372 frame=142622 sector=00039335
VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
Video Stream length: 3878848232 bytes
Sequence headers: 8624
Sequence ends : 1
No. Pictures : 124189
No. Groups : 8624
No. I Frames : 8624 avg. size 76920 bytes
No. P Frames : 34265 avg. size 46634 bytes
No. B Frames : 81301 avg. size 19895 bytes
Average bit-rate : 6246400 bits/sec
Peak bit-rate : 10447200 bits/sec
BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 217708
AUDIO_STATISTICS: bd
Audio stream length 79298388 bytes.
Frames : 2254659897
BUFFERING min 19 Buf max 10475
MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
Multiplexing finished.

DVDAuthor is writing the VOB files.....
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

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

WARN: Unknown AC3 sample rate: 1
WARN: Unknown AC3 sample rate: 1
WARN: Discontinuity in audio channel 0; please remultiplex input.
WARN: Previous sector: 0.184 - 0.312
WARN: Current sector: 0.323 - 0.451
WARN: Unknown AC3 sample rate: 1

!!!!! Here a zilion repetition of this "WARN:" one
for each sector slice..........

WARN: Unknown AC3 sample rate: 1
WARN: Discontinuity in audio channel 0; please remultiplex input.
WARN: Previous sector: 4967.420 - 4967.548
WARN: Current sector: 4967.559 - 4967.687
WARN: Unknown AC3 sample rate: 1
WARN: Discontinuity in audio channel 0; please remultiplex input.
WARN: Previous sector: 4967.559 - 4967.687
WARN: Current sector: 4967.699 - 4967.731

INFO: Video pts = 0.184 .. 4967.784
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.184 .. 4967.731
INFO: Generating VTS with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: pal
INFO: Aspect ratio: 16:9
INFO: Resolution: 720x576
INFO: Audio ch 0 format: ac3/2ch, 48khz drc, 'en'

INFO: dvdauthor creating table of contents
INFO: Scanning D:\VIDEO-90\DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
Writing VOB files finished.

Finished authoring DVD

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- 01/08/2005 04:13:42
- Free on drive D: 20.39 GB
- Creating DVD Image
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MKISofs is writing the DVD Image file.....
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 4248
Path table size(bytes): 42
Max brk space used 4000
1968292 extents written (3844 Mb)
Writing DVD Image finished.

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- 01/08/2005 06:12:09
- Free on drive D: 20.39 GB
- DVD creation finished!
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Thanks for any help!

[TomaySOFT]

Hello again.
I found the real reason of my problems.
It wasn't free space on HDD - it was free space in... memory.
This computer had very small swapfile. After changes I made (permanent file of 800 MB in size) TFM works, but... there is something more I found.
Muxing video and audio need lot of RAM - after this process is started computer use ~115 MB of memory and its usage gets higher coming up to 1 GB! Unfortunately next stage of preparing my DVD is inserting the subtitles and memory usage ... still gets higher. Could it be possible to... free some memory in-between?
And I have 2 more ideas for future release of TFM:
- could you create a text file with full list of commands you run in this process? This could be helpful when the process stops for unknown reasons - CCE works for me about 14 hours and I think there's no need to running it all again when you get complete TFM_Muxed_Video.mpg. But I don't now which commands should I use...
- does TFM need to wait until I press "no" button when CCE asks me to save my project? (version 1.4 didn't wait for it).

Greetings

TomaySOFT

[The_Mask]

@Hilpeers: this is the problem with your file:

WARN: Unknown AC3 sample rate: 1
WARN: Unknown AC3 sample rate: 1
WARN: Discontinuity in audio channel 0; please remultiplex input.
WARN: Previous sector: 0.184 - 0.312
WARN: Current sector: 0.323 - 0.451
WARN: Unknown AC3 sample rate: 1

Did you perhaps checked the downsample option?

Can you post your TFM_Encoded_Audio.log file.

[The_Mask]

Hello again.
I found the real reason of my problems.
It wasn't free space on HDD - it was free space in... memory.
This computer had very small swapfile. After changes I made (permanent file of 800 MB in size) TFM works, but... there is something more I found.
Muxing video and audio need lot of RAM - after this process is started computer use ~115 MB of memory and its usage gets higher coming up to 1 GB! Unfortunately next stage of preparing my DVD is inserting the subtitles and memory usage ... still gets higher. Could it be possible to... free some memory in-between?
And I have 2 more ideas for future release of TFM:
- could you create a text file with full list of commands you run in this process? This could be helpful when the process stops for unknown reasons - CCE works for me about 14 hours and I think there's no need to running it all again when you get complete TFM_Muxed_Video.mpg. But I don't now which commands should I use...
- does TFM need to wait until I press "no" button when CCE asks me to save my project? (version 1.4 didn't wait for it).

Greetings

TomaySOFT

What kind of system have you running, because on my system it takes not that much of memory.

About your ideas:

I am working on a project file and the possibility to restore it.

What do you mean with this:

- does TFM need to wait until I press "no" button when CCE asks me to save my project? (version 1.4 didn't wait for it).

I think you have a buggy version of CCE.

[TomaySOFT]

@ The Mask:

My system is Windows XP Pro SP1 + hotfixes (Polish edition) running on P IV 1,5 GHz + 256 MB RAM (I know it's an old machine...) and CCE SP 2.67.00.27. After video encoding (4-pass) CCE shows a dialog box asking for saving .ecl file.
This meassured memory usage took place when I try to prepare a DVD SL with The Lord Of The Rings - Return of the King. It was lower with Kingdom of Heaven (about 850 MB).

Greetings

[The_Mask]

You should get CCE 2.67.0.23.

[mouthpiec]

hi
is there any application that reads the image file before burning?