Hi all, I am new at this, so bare with me. I have an avi file (715mb), and am trying to convert it to SVCD to play in my DVD player. I am using CCE and DVDSVCD. But when I start to encode; I get an error when it trys to open CCE. I am using WinXP, and have version 2.50. Can someone help me. TIA.
AbMone - The error says "Cinema Craft Encoder has encountered a problem and needs to close" the error signature says " AppName: cctsp.exe AppVer: 2.50.1.0 ModName: unknown ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 0601016a I have specified the path for CCE in the DVDSVD ecoder. Dela - CCE SP opens fine by itself. I copied the text with the program is running, it is as follows; WNASPI32.DLL 0.0.0.0 -------------------------------------------------------- - 7/26/2003 11:30:56 AM - AVI to SVCD Conversion - AVI2SVCD ver. 1.1.3 build 2 -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Initializing finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 7/26/2003 11:30:58 AM - Free on drive C: 10128.83 mb - AUDIO Extraction -------------------------------------------------------- Audio extraction finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 7/26/2003 11:31:43 AM - Free on drive C: 10128.83 mb - AUDIO conversion -------------------------------------------------------- Converting MP2 to WAV. Filename: C:\Extracted_audio_1.mpa Executing MADPlay (mp2 to wav). Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\MADPlay\madplay.exe" --quiet --output=wave:"C:\Encoded_audio_1.mp2.wav" "C:\Extracted_audio_1.mpa" Conversion (mp2 to wav) of C:\Extracted_audio_1.mpa finished. Encoding Audio. Filename: C:\Extracted_audio_1.mpa Executing BeSweet. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "C:\Encoded_audio_1.mp2.wav" -output "C:\Encoded_audio_1.mp2" -logfile "C:\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -ota( -g max ) -2lame( -e -b 160 -m s ) WNASPI32.DLL 0.0.0.0 -------------------------------------------------------- - 7/26/2003 11:30:56 AM - AVI to SVCD Conversion - AVI2SVCD ver. 1.1.3 build 2 -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Initializing finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 7/26/2003 11:30:58 AM - Free on drive C: 10128.83 mb - AUDIO Extraction -------------------------------------------------------- Audio extraction finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 7/26/2003 11:31:43 AM - Free on drive C: 10128.83 mb - AUDIO conversion -------------------------------------------------------- Converting MP2 to WAV. Filename: C:\Extracted_audio_1.mpa Executing MADPlay (mp2 to wav). Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\MADPlay\madplay.exe" --quiet --output=wave:"C:\Encoded_audio_1.mp2.wav" "C:\Extracted_audio_1.mpa" Conversion (mp2 to wav) of C:\Extracted_audio_1.mpa finished. Encoding Audio. Filename: C:\Extracted_audio_1.mpa Executing BeSweet. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "C:\Encoded_audio_1.mp2.wav" -output "C:\Encoded_audio_1.mp2" -logfile "C:\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -ota( -g max ) -2lame( -e -b 160 -m s ) -------------------------------------------------------- - 7/26/2003 11:49:22 AM - Free on drive C: 10127.49 mb - Video Encoding using Cinema Craft -------------------------------------------------------- Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.
"maybe its the AviSynth?" When I installed it I chose the 2.0, over the 2.5, thought it might be more stable.
Install DivX 3x& 4x. Open DVD2SVCD and go to the Misc. tab folder and enable conv. divx 3x and 4x (may solve CCE problems). Now go to the Encoder tab folder and enable Safe mode frameserving and try again. =============================================== NOTE 1. If the AVI your encoding has a widescreen Aspect Ratio of 2.3:1, DVD2SVCD does not have this as a setting to automate the encoding and it has to be adjusted manually, though it does get it right sometimes! a. In the Conversion tab, change the aspect ratio set to 16:9. b. Click on the Frameserver tab and change the Edit the Avisynth Script file to Edit as part of Video encoding. c. Now start the conversion as usual. d. Stay with the encoding and after the Audio has been extracted & converted and just before the actual encoding start, an AviSynth script window will pop up. In here we have to modify the numbers, this example will explain. Once the correct numbers have been entered, the AddBoarders statement added, then hit the Save button and then the OK button. The encoding will now continue as usual and result in the correct aspect ratio for the movie. eg: Our AVI had dimensions of, say, 512 x 224 ( X x Y ) as found above. This needs to be resized for a SVCD to 480 x 576 for PAL or 480 x 480 for NTSC. But the pixel aspect ratios of a PC monitor and a PAL or NTSC TV are not the same. PC Monitor pixels have a square pixel aspect ratio of 1:1 but pixel aspect ratio for PAL TV is 54:59 and for an NTSC TV is 11:10. So the correct resizing parameters for our AVI in this example would be: For PAL AVI: Calculated height = ((720 / X) x Y) / (54 / 59) =((720 / 512) x 224) / (54 / 59) = 344.16 So the correct "Resize" statement in the AviSynth script would be: ... BiCubicResize(480,344,0.00,0.60) ... where the Calculated height of 344.16 has been rounded to 344 to be divisible by 4 (even better if divisible by 16). Then we add borders on top and bottom to fill the height up to 576 pixels. Correct borders = (576 - Calculated height) / 2 = (576 - 344) / 2 = 116 So the correct "AddBorders" statement in the AviSynth script would be: ... BiCubicResize(480,344,0.00,0.60) AddBorders(0,116,0,116) ... For NTSC AVI: Calculated height = ((720 / X) x Y) / (11 / 10) = ((720 / 512) x 224) / (11 / 10) = 286.36 So the correct "Resize" statement in the AviSynth script would be: ... BiCubicResize(480,288,0.00,0.60) ... where the Calculated height of 286.36 has been rounded up to 288 to be divisible by 4 (even better if divisible by 16). Then you have to add borders on top and bottom to fill the height up to 480 pixels. Correct borders = (480 - Calculated height) / 2 = (480 - 288) / 2 = 96 So the correct "AddBorders" statement in the AviSynth script would be: ... BiCubicResize(480,288,0.00,0.60) AddBorders(0,96,0,96) ... NOTE 2. I would strongly suggest not to convert widescreen 2.3:1 acpect ratio AVI's to 16:9 SVCD's. You are struggling to maintain SVCD quality from a DivX, and chopping off any part of the pic is only going to make things worse, not better. Shoey _X_X_X_X_X_[small]Certified Computer Technician http://www.afterdawn.com/general/legal.cfm Forum Rules^ Mobo: KT4VL MSI-6712 CPU: AthlonXP Barton 2.5 Ram: 512 SD-DDR (PC-2700) nVidia GeForce4 MX440-8x Maxtor ATA\133 80 gig hd [/small]
