Problems using CCE (Cinemacraft Encoder) encoder..

[seekninfo]

When I try to use the trial version of CCE (Cinemacraft Encoder) to encode to Mpeg2 I get the following error " acmStreamOpen() failed error 512. The wave format is 85". I have searched the site for guides on CCE and I get the impression that to use CCE ( I could be very wrong) one has to demux the video, save the audio as wav, encode the video without the audio, convert tthe audio to the appropriate format and put them multiplex them. Is the only way to go with CCE or the error is because the version I am using is a trial one.

Incidentally can someone please explain what that error means and also can CCE be used to encode to mpeg2 directly ( with audio) without going through all steps sated above

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

[ozymango]

I don't know what the error message means but I can confirm that I have not needed to demux any avi files I've dropped into CCE (I've also only used the trial version, as well). So this may depend on your source, I've had a couple of avi files that gave me all sorts of "cannot convert audio" problems when using various mpeg converters (mostly running trials, just to see what kind of quality and speed I could expect before springing $$$).

So what is your source file? We can help more if we know as much as you can tell us about the orginal file type, and can you view it normally (in Media Player or whatever) to start with?

[SLK001]

What version are you using? CCE2.50 had an issue with video w/o audio and would crash (or, it had to have audio).

Try just feeding it an .AVI file - maybe you honked up the .WAV file.

CCE accepts .AVI, .MOV and some other (maybe more by now), so you might have to frameserve your video to it.

[seekninfo]

Thanks for the reply guys. I think that the problem is with the encoded audio. I used avicodec to open the file and it says that the quality of the audio is 15% sampled at 32000 Khz and and encoded at 96Kbps. I used virtualdub to save it as wav and played it back. It sounded like the chipmunks..... I think as SLK001 says, the audio is honked.

Thanks guys for your suggestions