Problems using CCE freezing using either FILM MACHINE or DVD2SVCD read in ....

[VIPER_1069]

OK i decided to make this a sticky here that a lot of people recently have had trouble with CCE locking up and freezing when encoding ...

A recent discovery by myself was that it was caused in my case and a few others found to be problematic ATI CATALYST™ drivers to be at fault

A change/upgrade or rollback/downgrade of these drivers has resolved the CCE freeze problems in several cases

So to sum up IF you have an ATI RADEON SERIES of card in your system and are having lockups with CCE then try downgrading or upgrading the CATALYST™ drivers and see if this resolves the LOCKUPS

hope this helps some people with their encoding problems


note that its also come to my attention that NVIDIA drivers have caused some issues with various programs too so if you have updated them recently this could also be your problem

[The_Mask]

Thanks VIPER_1069 for finding out.

[jorgeluispena]

Thanks VIPER_1069 por the info. I have the same problem and an nVidia video card... but I have not updated my drivers

Any other idea? Have you heard of anything else?

[Duracell]

Any other idea?

an "instable" CCE release, instable system, running background applications, not rebooted before starting video encoding;

Greetings from
Duracell

[jorgeluispena]

Thanks Duracell.

I've never had any problem with TFM or CCE 2.66.01.07. I tried your suggestions with no success: clean system, no background applications, rebooted, etc. I also tried reinstalling CCE... followed your suggestions again... no success.

As I said before... never had such a problem like this... I used TFM right away with no rebooting of any kind and with applications running in the background.

If this helps, my VCDs have no video (obviously) but a still image that says: "AVISource: coludn't locate a decompressor for fourcc DIV4 (D:\Temp\TFM Avisynth Script File.avs, line 3)". This is strange as I can correctly play my AVI in Windows Media Player or Winamp. This is the same for all AVI I tried, even the ones I successfully converted to VCD some time ago.

There are the log files of my last attempt:

---(TFM.log)

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- 25/01/2005 08:42:44 a.m.
- AVI to VCD conversion
- The FilmMachine version 1.4
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Initializing.

Computer Info
CPU name : AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1600+
Available memory: 224 MB
Windows version : Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1
Initializing finished.

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- 25/01/2005 08:42:46 a.m.
- Free on drive D: 11,35 GB
- Audio Extraction
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Extracting audio from AVI file
Audio extraction finished.

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- 25/01/2005 08:42:55 a.m.
- Free on drive D: 11,33 GB
- Audio Conversion
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Executing BeSweet DLL. Commandline:
-ota( -fs 48000 -g max ) -ota( -fs 48000 -g max ) -toolame( -e -b 224 -m s )
Audio conversion finished.


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- 25/01/2005 08:44:51 a.m.
- Free on drive D: 11,35 GB
- Video Encoding using Cinema Craft Encoder SP 2.66
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Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.

TFM_Project_File.ecl found
TFM_Project_File.ecl encoding started at 08:44:59 a.m.
Could not find first encoding window, checking again...
Still could not find first encoding window, checking again...
TFM_Project_File.ecl encoded at 08:46:54 a.m.
Encoding finished
Encoding failed

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- 25/01/2005 08:46:57 a.m.
- Free on drive D: 11,35 GB
- Muxing video and audio
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Writing bbMpeg default.ini file.

Executing RunbbMPEG. Commandline:
"C:\Archivos de programa\The FilmMachine\bbMpeg\RunbbMpeg.exe" "D:\Temp\TFM_Muxed_File.mpg"
bbMpeg is working in the background.....
Muxing finished.

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- 25/01/2005 08:47:24 a.m.
- Free on drive D: 11,60 GB
- VCD creation finished!
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---(TFM_Avi_Info.log)

The FilmMachine Avi-Info Logfile

AVI Information
Filename: TokyoUnderground - 01.avi
Filesize: 184162304 Bytes (175,63 MB)
Streams (i.e. Video, Audio): 2
Video Stream
Compression Codec: DIV4 - DivX ;-) MPEG-4 Fast-Motio
Avg. Bitrate: 946,12 kbit/s
Resolution: 640x480 (4:3)
Color Depth: 24 bits
Duration: 1359,62 s (22m 39s)
Frame Rate: 23,9743 fps
Microseconds Per Frame: 41711 ms
Frames: 32596
Keyframes: 522 (Every 62)
Audio Stream
Wave Codec: 85 - MPEG Layer 3
Avg. Bitrate: 128,00 kbit/s
Sampling Rate: 48000 Hz
Bit Depth: 0 Bits
Channels: 2
Audio Delay: 0,00 s

visit http://members.home.nl/thefilmmachine for more information

---(TFM_Encoded_Audio.log)

BeSweet v1.5b23 by DSPguru.
--------------------------
Using hip.dll v1.19 by Myers Carpenter <myers@users.sf.net>
Using tooLame.dll v0.2l (Apr 24 2003) by Mike Cheng <http://tooLame.sf.net>

Logging start : 01/25/05 , 08:42:57.

BeSweet.dll -core( -input mpainput -output D:\Temp\TFM_Encoded_Audio.mp2 -logfile D:\Temp\TFM_Encoded_Audio.log ) -ota( -fs 48000 -g max ) -ota( -fs 48000 -g max ) -toolame( -e -b 224 -m s )

[00:00:00:000] +------- BeSweet -----
[00:00:00:000] | Input : mpainput
[00:00:00:000] | Output: D:\Temp\TFM_Encoded_Audio.mp2
[00:00:00:000] | Floating-Point Process: No
[00:00:00:000] | Source Sample-Rate: 48.0KHz
[00:00:00:000] +------ tooLame ------
[00:00:00:000] | Bitrate method : CBR
[00:00:00:000] | MP2 bitrate : 224
[00:00:00:000] | Channels Mode : Stereo
[00:00:00:000] | Error Protection: Yes
[00:00:00:000] +---------------------
[00:00:00:024] Stream error : Sync found after 250 bytes
[00:22:39:648] Conversion Completed !
[00:22:39:648] Actual Avg. Bitrate : 223kbps
[00:01:53:000] <-- Transcoding Duration

Logging ends : 01/25/05 , 08:44:50.

---(TFM_Project_File.ecl)

; Cinema Craft Encoder SP -- Encoder Control List

[item]
title=TFM_Avisynth_Script_File.avs
vid_out=1
vaf_out=0
aud_out=0
vid_file0=D:\Temp\TFM_Enc_Video.mpv
vid_file1=D:\Temp\TFM_Enc_Video.mpv
vaf_file=D:\Temp\TFM_Video_Info_file.vaf
aud_file=D:\Temp\TFM_Enc_Video.mpv.mp2
file_focused=0
video_type=16
encode_mode=0
packet_size=4096
timecode=0x1000000
width=352
height=240
vmode=1
frame_rate_idx=1
cbr_brate=1150
opv_q_factor=60
opv_brate_min=2000
opv_brate_max=9000
vbr_brate_avg=1150
vbr_brate_min=300
vbr_brate_max=2530
vbr_bias=20
vbr_pass=4
quality_prec=17
use_filter=0
filter_val=2
seq_endcode=1
dvd=0
half_width=0
half_height=0
fast_mode=0
progressive=1
alternate_scan=0
non_linear=0
top_first=0
lum_level=1
intra_dc_prec=-1
aspect_ratio=2
gop_m=3
gop_nm=5
gop_hdr=15
seq_hdr=1
all_closed_gop=0
fix_gop_length=0
mpeg1=1
mpeg1_cps=1
samples_per_sec=44100
stereo=2
brate_idx=7
crc=1

[file]
name=D:\Temp\TFM_Avisynth_Script_File.avs
type=0
frame_first=0
frame_last=32596
encode_first=0
encode_last=32596

---(TFM_Avisynth_Script_File.avs)

# 4:3 encoding
Import("C:\Archivos de programa\The FilmMachine\AviSynth\ResampleAudio.avs")
AviSource("D:\Temp\ToDo\TokyoUnderground - 01.avi", false)
ConvertToYUY2()
LanczosResize(352,240)
ResampleAudio(44100)

---


And again... thank you.

[The_Mask]

Hi,

The stillimage you get is because you don't have the right codec installed. I seems that you have a DivX decoder but no Encoder. Please install the latest codecs and try again. Use GSpot to find out wich codec you need.

[Duracell]

... This is the same for all AVI I tried, even the ones I successfully converted to VCD some time ago.

this brings a new perspective in your problem; as The_Mask says, it is a codec problem, something is messed up in your system;
GSpot: http://gspot.headbands.com/

[jorgeluispena]

The_Mask... Duracell...

After my last post I realised a codec could be the problem. I tried uninstall/install DivX codecs again with no success. I tried some codec pack with the same luck.

I got tired so I went more radical... I used XP security system and restore my system to a previous "restauration point" (about a month ago when I returned from my vacations because I was sure my system worked smoothly at that time). AND IT WORKED... partially...

Codecs are fine and I can see AVIs correctly... TFM works converting to SVCD... but CCE (ver. 2.66.01.07) freezes when converting to VCD. I tried uninstall/install CCE with no luck. I have another (and comercial) AVI to (S)VCD/DVD program (that I used before finding TFM) that can do the trick (don't know why). The fact is that I like TFM very much and wolud like to keep using it... any ideas? Why can it be that CCE freezes when converting to VCD and not to SVCD?

Now I have the "old" nVidia video card drivers, sholud I update or keep them? I'm totally lost!

Thanks again for you help...

[VIPER_1069]

CCE works best with version 2.50

thats what most of us still use maby this is the source of your problem !?

[jorgeluispena]

VIPER_1069, I use CCE 2.66. Do you suggest uninstalling 2.66 and installing 2.50?

[jorgeluispena]

OK, I did this: install CCE 2.50... problems soved!

Any idea what could have happened to CCE 2.66? Is it better to use CCE 2.50 than 2.66 with TFM?

[The_Mask]

Best versions are CCE 2.50 and 2.67.0.23.

[meszrum]

Athlon XP 2500+ (fsb 166)
512 mb, dual channel @nForce 2
GF 4 Ti 4400 (drvs 56.72)
WindowsXP pro sp1 (system in good condition)
ffdshow
AC3Filter v. 1.01a
Nic's XviD 14/12/04
The Film Machine 1.4
Cinema Craft Encoder 2.50 (full version)
-----------------------------------------

my problem is that the CCE freezes (all the values stop, there is no encoding progress) when encoding .avi files with frame rate 25.0000 during the second pass. the problem does not exist with the .avi with different frame rate than 25.0000 (23.9760)... what's more funny CCE freezes even on .avi's copy made under VirtualDubMod (direct stream copy), but IT DOES NOT FREEZE on the extracted part (for example 80mb) of the whole .avi...
the .avi files are fine (indexes and frames), it freezes when encoding big avi files (app. 700mb), it does not freeze with reference to extracted parts of the .avi...

[+]
ok, I upgraded CCE 2.50 > 2.67 and the error pops up intsead of freezing... here is the log:


--------------------------------------------------------
- 2005-02-10 10:19:17
- AVI to SVCD conversion
- The FilmMachine version 1.4
--------------------------------------------------------
Initializing.

Computer Info
CPU name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Available memory: 512 MB
Windows version : Microsoft Windows XP Dodatek Service Pack. 1
Initializing finished.

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- 2005-02-10 10:19:19
- Free on drive F: 8,30 GB
- Audio Extraction
--------------------------------------------------------
Extracting audio from AVI file
Audio extraction finished.

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- 2005-02-10 10:20:23
- Free on drive F: 8,22 GB
- Audio Conversion
--------------------------------------------------------
Executing BeSweet DLL. Commandline:
-azid( -L -3db -c normal -s surround2 -g max ) -ota( -fs 48000 ) -toolame( -e -b 224 -m s )
Audio conversion finished.


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- 2005-02-10 10:25:38
- Free on drive F: 8,18 GB
- Video Encoding using Cinema Craft Encoder SP 2.67
--------------------------------------------------------
Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.

TFM_Project_File.ecl found
TFM_Project_File.ecl encoding started at 10:25:42
Creating TFM_Video_Info_File.vaf
Creating TFM_Enc_Video.mpv
Could not find second encoding window, checking again...
Still could not find second encoding window, checking again...
TFM_Project_File.ecl encoded at 11:18:42
Encoding finished

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- 2005-02-10 11:18:46
- Free on drive F: 7,93 GB
- Making still image of Title Picture
--------------------------------------------------------
Resizing and encoding TFM_Title.jpg.
Resizing and encoding finished.

Converting picture TFM_Title.jpg from ES to PS.
Converting picture TFM_Title.jpg finished.

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- 2005-02-10 11:19:58
- Free on drive F: 7,90 GB
- Making still image of Change Cd Picture
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Resizing and encoding TFM_ChangeCd.jpg.
Resizing and encoding finished.

Converting picture TFM_ChangeCd.jpg from ES to PS.
Converting picture TFM_ChangeCd.jpg finished.

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- 2005-02-10 11:21:17
- Free on drive F: 7,85 GB
- Making still image of The End Picture
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Resizing and encoding TFM_TheEnd.jpg.
Resizing and encoding finished.

Converting picture TFM_TheEnd.jpg from ES to PS.
Converting picture TFM_TheEnd.jpg finished.

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- 2005-02-10 11:23:01
- Free on drive F: 7,80 GB
- Muxing video and audio
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Writing bbMpeg default.ini file.

Executing RunbbMPEG. Commandline:
"CProgram Files\The FilmMachine\bbMpeg\RunbbMpeg.exe" "FMoje dokumenty\meszrum - filmy\TFM_Muxed_File.mpg"
bbMpeg is working in the background.....
Muxing finished.

Analyzing MPEG files....


it seems that RunbbMpeg.exe begins to execute its commands too early.


[+]
It seems that I solved the problem downgrading to TFM 1.3...

[The_Mask]

Can you try with the new betaversion (also on this forum).

[sofiavgoustinou]

any idea whats the problem????


- 6/9/2005 8:37:44 πμ
- AVI to DVD conversion
- The FilmMachine version 1.5.0.11 beta
--------------------------------------------------------
Initializing.

Computer Info
CPU name : Pentium 4
Available memory: 511 MB
Windows version : Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Initializing finished.

DirectX Version = 9.0c

Saving Avi-Info files
--------------------------------------------------------
- 6/9/2005 8:37:46 πμ
- Free on drive D: 42.06 GB
- Creating and Merging Subtitles
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Writing D:\TFM\Output\TFM_Subtitle_File.srt
Saving D:\TFM\Output\TFM_Subtitle_File.srt
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- 6/9/2005 8:37:47 πμ
- Free on drive D: 42.06 GB
- Audio Conversion
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Executing BeSweet DLL. Commandline:
-boost( /b2=5 ) -ota( -fs 48000 -r 23976 25000 ) -ac3enc( -b 224 )

Converting audio of AVI file no 1 - 1

DirectShow messages:


DirectShow Filters used:
NullRenderer1
NullRenderer
SampleGrabber
AC3Filter
MPEG Layer-3 Decoder
AVI Splitter
Avisynth Source Filter


Audio conversion finished.


Starting CCE 2.70 for getting the CCE title.
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- 6/9/2005 8:55:22 πμ
- Free on drive D: 41.92 GB
- Video Encoding using Cinema Craft Encoder SP 2.70
--------------------------------------------------------
Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.

TFM_Project_File.ecl found
TFM_Project_File.ecl encoding started at 8:55:22 πμ
TFM_Project_File.ecl encoded at 9:09:28 πμ
Encoding finished

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- 6/9/2005 9:09:31 πμ
- Free on drive D: 41.73 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:\TFM\Output\TFM_EN~1.MPV looks like an MPEG Video stream.
File D:\TFM\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 (D:\TFM\Output\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:\TFM\Output\TFM_EN~1.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 : 10236200
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
STREAM e0 completed @ frame 4855.
STREAM bd completed @ frame 169231.
Multiplex completion at SCR=487355977.
Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=004855 sector=00057768
Audio bd: buf= 2048 frame=169231 sector=00075215
VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
Video Stream length: 116654080 bytes
Sequence headers: 343
Sequence ends : 0
No. Pictures : 4856
No. Groups : 343
No. I Frames : 343 avg. size 60975 bytes
No. P Frames : 1389 avg. size 32402 bytes
No. B Frames : 3125 avg. size 16230 bytes
Average bit-rate : 4803200 bits/sec
Peak bit-rate : 9630400 bits/sec
BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 217892
AUDIO_STATISTICS: bd
Audio stream length 151631872 bytes.
Frames : 886883740
BUFFERING min 35 Buf max 6083
MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
Multiplexing finished.

Spumux is inserting subtitles in the videostream.....
DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

WARN: Read 0, expected 4

Statistics:
- Processed 1194 subtitles.
- The longest display line had 36 characters.
- The maximum number of displayed lines was 2.
- 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 3658 bytes.
Inserting subtitle into DVD stream 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


INFO: Video pts = 0.184 .. 194.424
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.184 .. 5415.608
INFO: Audio[32] pts = 69.424 .. 5377.984
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:\TFM\Output\DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
Writing VOB files finished.

Finished authoring DVD

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- 6/9/2005 9:18:01 πμ
- Free on drive D: 41.57 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
135174 extents written (264 Mb)
Writing DVD Image finished.

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- 6/9/2005 9:18:39 πμ
- Free on drive D: 41.29 GB
- DVD creation finished!
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thanks sofia