YUV ERROR??

[DreamStatic]

Hello,

First and foremost, thanks for a great piece of software. I have had good luck with it so far. But I have an error, I am encountering and cannot get around it. I am trying to transcode a .VOB file to a VCD mpeg1. I am using the preset VCD (NTSC). Not an expert at any of this by no means so here is the full terminal copy:

Encoding started on Thu Jul 17 17:02:23 CDT 2003
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
usage:   movtoy4m -w width -h height -F a:b -a a:b [-s] [-f] [-o ppm/y4m] movie.mov

example: movtoy4m -w 352 -h 288 -F 25:1 -a 4:3 pal_normal.mov
example: movtoy4m -w 352 -h 240 -F 30000:1001 -a 16:9 ntsc_wide.mov

**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: system error (failed read/write)!

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

[DreamStatic]

I am trying to encode other types of files now with no avail, i.e. .mov, .avi, etc. I am getting the same type of component error. I reinstalled everything and it still isn't working. I did a search again and again here looking for an answer, but I cannot seem to find a solution. I did find something about a new version for support for a new build of mpeg2enc or something. Could this be the trouble?

[major]

I am trying to transcode a .VOB file to a VCD mpeg1...
ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: system error (failed read/write)![/code]

Typically this means you're using "Use quicktime to decode", and that you don't have the Quicktime mpeg-2 component needed to read the VOB.

[DreamStatic]

That is what I thought also, so I reinstalled my mpeg2 component and tested some mpgs in Quicktime to be sure it was working and it was. So I don't know what else to test.

What happens if I choose "Decode with mplayer?"

[DreamStatic]

Okay, I tried to select the VCD (NTSC) preset and then change to decode with mplayer and here is the results:

Encoding started on Sun Jul 20 23:33:36 CDT 2003
mpeg2dec-0.2.1 - by Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org> and Aaron Holtzman
Using altivec for IDCT transform
Using altivec for motion compensation
Frame rate code = 103823
MPEG in libvo = 82224 aspect_code=83496
   INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
   INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
   INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
a52dec-0.7.4 - by Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org> and Aaron Holtzman
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
   INFO: Opened WAV file, freq = 48000 Hz, channels = 2, bits = 16
   INFO: format = 0x1, audio length = 4294967256 bytes
   INFO: slots/frame = 731
   INFO: frac SpF=0.429, tot bitrate=224 kbps, s freq=44.1 kHz
   INFO: Fractional number of slots, padding required
   INFO: System is big endian
18004 frames in 680.19 sec (26.47 fps), 32 last 1.00 sec (32.00 fps)
18008 frames decoded in 680.20 seconds (26.47 fps)
   INFO: Avg slots/frame = Inf; b/smp = Inf; br = Inf kbps
   INFO: Encoding with psychoacoustic model 2 is finished
   INFO: The MPEG encoded output file name is "/Users/dreamstatic/Desktop/Video/ANIMATRIX/FLIGHTOFTHEOSIRIS.mp2"
   INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.1 ($Date: 2002/04/20 19:08:30 $)
**ERROR: [mplex] File /Users/dreamstatic/Desktop/Video/ANIMATRIX/FLIGHTOFTHEOSIRIS.m1v unrecogniseable!
   INFO: [mplex] File /Users/dreamstatic/Desktop/Video/ANIMATRIX/FLIGHTOFTHEOSIRIS.mp2 looks like an MPEG Audio stream.
**ERROR: [mplex] Unrecogniseable file(s)... exiting.

It does create an appropiate mp2 audio file, but the m1v file is only 4 kb and of course not usable. What gives? Thanks for your help with all of this!

[major]

The "Decode with mplayer" option works only when encoding to mpeg-2 (CVD, SVCD, DVD). Try disable both "Decode with mplayer" and "Decode with Quicktime". Are you encoding on a G3 or G4?

[DreamStatic]

I am using a Pismo G3 laptop.

[DreamStatic]

I unchecked both decode with quicktime and mplayer and then tried again. This is the result:

Encoding started on Mon Jul 21 04:06:30 CDT 2003
mpeg2dec-0.2.1 - by Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org> and Aaron Holtzman
Using altivec for IDCT transform
Using altivec for motion compensation
Frame rate code = 103823
MPEG in libvo = 82224 aspect_code=83496
   INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
   INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
   INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
a52dec-0.7.4 - by Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org> and Aaron Holtzman
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
   INFO: Opened WAV file, freq = 48000 Hz, channels = 2, bits = 16
   INFO: format = 0x1, audio length = 4294967256 bytes
   INFO: slots/frame = 731
   INFO: frac SpF=0.429, tot bitrate=224 kbps, s freq=44.1 kHz
   INFO: Fractional number of slots, padding required
   INFO: System is big endian
18004 frames in 820.36 sec (21.95 fps), 32 last 0.82 sec (39.02 fps)
18008 frames decoded in 820.37 seconds (21.95 fps)
   INFO: Avg slots/frame = Inf; b/smp = Inf; br = Inf kbps
   INFO: Encoding with psychoacoustic model 2 is finished
   INFO: The MPEG encoded output file name is "/Users/dreamstatic/Desktop/Video/ANIMATRIX/FLIGHTOFTHEOSIRIS.mp2"
   INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.1 ($Date: 2002/04/20 19:08:30 $)
**ERROR: [mplex] File /Users/dreamstatic/Desktop/Video/ANIMATRIX/FLIGHTOFTHEOSIRIS.m1v unrecogniseable!
   INFO: [mplex] File /Users/dreamstatic/Desktop/Video/ANIMATRIX/FLIGHTOFTHEOSIRIS.mp2 looks like an MPEG Audio stream.
**ERROR: [mplex] Unrecogniseable file(s)... exiting.

Everything was working, The only thing I can think of that might have caused it was another video editing program downloading the latest build of mpeg2enc and causing errors?? But I am just guessing, I don't know, cause I don't have a backup of the build before the last release to try! Thanks for your help on this!

[major]

I am using a Pismo G3 laptop.

With a G3 you must also uncheck the "Altivec" option.

[DreamStatic]

Okay, again thanks for your help!

I unchecked the "altivec" option and it looked like it was going to work perfectly, but after building a .m1v and .mp2 file, it then gave me a lot of ++warn [mplex] errors. The fatal one stated "too many dropped frames: exiting"

I didn't know what to do, so I tried to use the Tools tab and "mux" them together, which worked but the audio is about 2 seconds behind, but the sound is great and the video looks great also, if I could only get them to sync.

I played the .vob file and it played perfectly. So it appears the source is good.

[DreamStatic]

Here is the exact terminal output:

Encoding started on Mon Jul 21 16:02:25 CDT 2003
mpeg2dec-0.2.1 - by Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org> and Aaron Holtzman
No accelerated IDCT transform found
No accelerated motion compensation found
Frame rate code = 103823
MPEG in libvo = 82224 aspect_code=83496
   INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
   INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
   INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
13815 frames in 3636.43 sec (3.79 fps), 12 last 1.88 sec (6.38 fps)
13823 frames decoded in 3636.90 seconds (3.80 fps)
a52dec-0.7.4 - by Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org> and Aaron Holtzman
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
   INFO: Opened WAV file, freq = 48000 Hz, channels = 2, bits = 16
   INFO: format = 0x1, audio length = 4294967256 bytes
   INFO: slots/frame = 731
   INFO: frac SpF=0.429, tot bitrate=224 kbps, s freq=44.1 kHz
   INFO: Fractional number of slots, padding required
   INFO: System is big endian
18004 frames in 459.00 sec (39.22 fps), 32 last 0.67 sec (47.76 fps)
18008 frames decoded in 459.00 seconds (39.23 fps)
   INFO: Avg slots/frame = Inf; b/smp = Inf; br = Inf kbps
   INFO: Encoding with psychoacoustic model 2 is finished
   INFO: The MPEG encoded output file name is "/Users/dreamstatic/Desktop/Video/ANIMATRIX/Converted/FLIGHTOFTHEOSIRIS.mp2"
   INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.1 ($Date: 2002/04/20 19:08:30 $)
   INFO: [mplex] File /Users/dreamstatic/Desktop/Video/ANIMATRIX/Converted/FLIGHTOFTHEOSIRIS.m1v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
   INFO: [mplex] File /Users/dreamstatic/Desktop/Video/ANIMATRIX/Converted/FLIGHTOFTHEOSIRIS.mp2 looks like an MPEG Audio stream.
   INFO: [mplex] Found 1 video streams 1 MPEG audio streams and 0 AC3 streams
   INFO: [mplex] Selecting VCD output profile
   INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (/Users/dreamstatic/Desktop/Video/ANIMATRIX/Converted/FLIGHTOFTHEOSIRIS.m1v) 
   INFO: [mplex] VIDEO STREAM: e0
   INFO: [mplex] Frame width     : 352
   INFO: [mplex] Frame height    : 240
   INFO: [mplex] Aspect ratio    : 1:1 (square pixels)
   INFO: [mplex] Picture rate    : 29.970 frames/sec
   INFO: [mplex] Bit rate        : 1137200 bits/sec
   INFO: [mplex] Vbv buffer size : 38912 bytes
   INFO: [mplex] CSPF            : 1
   INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Audio stream c0 (/Users/dreamstatic/Desktop/Video/ANIMATRIX/Converted/FLIGHTOFTHEOSIRIS.mp2)
   INFO: [mplex] AUDIO STREAM:
   INFO: [mplex] Audio version  : 1.0
   INFO: [mplex] Layer          :        2
   INFO: [mplex] CRC checksums  :       no
   INFO: [mplex] Bit rate       :    28672 bytes/sec (224 kbit/sec)
   INFO: [mplex] Frequency      :     44100 Hz
   INFO: [mplex] Mode           :        0 stereo
   INFO: [mplex] Mode extension :        0
   INFO: [mplex] Copyright bit  :        0 no copyright
   INFO: [mplex] Original/Copy  :        0 copy
   INFO: [mplex] Emphasis       :        0 none
   INFO: [mplex] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
   INFO: [mplex] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate    : 1396800
   INFO: [mplex] target data-rate specified               : 1361200
++ WARN: [mplex] Target data rate lower than computed requirement!
++ WARN: [mplex] N.b. a 20% or so discrepancy in variable bit-rate
++ WARN: [mplex] streams is common and harmless provided no time-outs will occur
   INFO: [mplex] Sectors = 35 Video delay = 43542 Audio delay = 43542
   INFO: [mplex] New sequence commences...
   INFO: [mplex] Video e0: buf=  94208 frame=000000 sector=00000000
   INFO: [mplex] Audio c0: buf=   4096 frame=000000 sector=00000000
   INFO: [mplex] Padding : sector=00000000
++ WARN: [mplex] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=2897459 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [mplex] Video e0: buf=  88384 frame=000938 sector=00001885
++ WARN: [mplex] Audio c0: buf=   2201 frame=001199 sector=00000385
++ WARN: [mplex] Padding : sector=00000027
++ WARN: [mplex] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=3270683 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [mplex] Video e0: buf=  91903 frame=001059 sector=00002135
++ WARN: [mplex] Audio c0: buf=   4096 frame=001355 sector=00000435
++ WARN: [mplex] Padding : sector=00000027
++ WARN: [mplex] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=3643906 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [mplex] Video e0: buf=  91912 frame=001182 sector=00002385
++ WARN: [mplex] Audio c0: buf=   4096 frame=001511 sector=00000485
++ WARN: [mplex] Padding : sector=00000027
++ WARN: [mplex] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=4017130 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [mplex] Video e0: buf=  91907 frame=001303 sector=00002635
++ WARN: [mplex] Audio c0: buf=   4096 frame=001666 sector=00000535
++ WARN: [mplex] Padding : sector=00000027
++ WARN: [mplex] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=4390353 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [mplex] Video e0: buf=  91912 frame=001425 sector=00002886
++ WARN: [mplex] Audio c0: buf=   4096 frame=001819 sector=00000584
++ WARN: [mplex] Padding : sector=00000027
++ WARN: [mplex] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=4763577 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [mplex] Video e0: buf=  91903 frame=001545 sector=00003136
++ WARN: [mplex] Audio c0: buf=   4096 frame=001975 sector=00000634
++ WARN: [mplex] Padding : sector=00000027
++ WARN: [mplex] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=5136801 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [mplex] Video e0: buf=  91907 frame=001667 sector=00003386
++ WARN: [mplex] Audio c0: buf=   4096 frame=002131 sector=00000684
++ WARN: [mplex] Padding : sector=00000027
++ WARN: [mplex] Stream c0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=5510024 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [mplex] Video e0: buf=  94208 frame=001788 sector=00003636
++ WARN: [mplex] Audio c0: buf=   1817 frame=002287 sector=00000734
++ WARN: [mplex] Padding : sector=00000027
++ WARN: [mplex] Stream c0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=5883248 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [mplex] Video e0: buf=  94208 frame=001910 sector=00003886
++ WARN: [mplex] Audio c0: buf=   1817 frame=002442 sector=00000784
++ WARN: [mplex] Padding : sector=00000027
++ WARN: [mplex] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=6256472 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [mplex] Video e0: buf=  91903 frame=002036 sector=00004135
++ WARN: [mplex] Audio c0: buf=   4096 frame=002601 sector=00000835
++ WARN: [mplex] Padding : sector=00000027
++ WARN: [mplex] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=6629695 required(DTS)=0
++ WARN: [mplex] Video e0: buf=  91907 frame=002159 sector=00004385
++ WARN: [mplex] Audio c0: buf=   4096 frame=002757 sector=00000885
++ WARN: [mplex] Padding : sector=00000027
**ERROR: [mplex] Too many frame drops -exiting

Maybe that will help some, forgot to include it before, so I tried a second time so I could get the output. Thanks again for all of your help! I really appreciate you and your software.