handbrake produces file of 0kb; program offs before 2nd pass

[tab75-13]

sorry for starting a new thread, but i wasn't getting a response for this symptom under my previous thread for handbrake.

anyways, i have been successful once with handbrake in ripping a video_ts folder down to 1 gb. that was before i checked that the target size should be 700 mb and that the folder should undergo two passes. since i've done that, the file that is produced ends up having nothing in it; it is 0kb. also the computer goes to sleep before the period indicated for the program to finish its job. finally, if the file being produced is checked for its info during the process, it shows itself to have zero kb, the size it finally has at the end.
Initially I thought this was a marvelous application. Now i'm lost.

someone help here, please.

thanks

[deadsierra]

change the settings in your energy saver control panel. Having your machine go to sleep to early can't be good for the results.

[tab75-13]

But the machine stays on when the program is running. It seems to me that it goes to sleep only after the program is done doing its stuff. I mean the machine is on for like 5-6 hrs, well past the usual time it takes for it to go to sleep. so at least to my mind, the machine's falling asleep is a sign that the program has quit, not the machine's having quit before the program does. sorry for the lack of clarity in my original description of what's been happening.

thanks

[galactica]

no
the machine falls asleep with no mouse or keyboard activity upon a set time in the energy pannel

867 G4 will take a good 4-6 hours to process a movie. If you have your "sleep" set to anything before that you will keep getting errors because it can be sleepig the HD etc and you stop the conversion

i would just turn the sleep off if i were you. I run my machine 24/7 and just have the monitor sleep after 15 min of inactivity. this way the processing etc still stays active but your monitor is spared some.

just my 2 cents

[tab75-13]

I don't know why but with the download of 0.6.2 version of handbrake I was able to get the file to be produced. You may be right galactica, but today there was something different. In the past three attempts that I've attempted to compress my video_ts folder of 21 grams, when the interim file appears, before the program having finished, it had been zero kb in size. with the latest attempt that was successful when the interim file being produced appeared, prior to the rip's completion, it was initially 200 +mb, then 400+, and finally a little over the 700mb target when the program finished. before the file never appeared larger than zero kb from beginning of its appearence during the program's processing to the time the program quit.
it is true that I was on the computer most of the time today, but i was also off it through stretches of two hours at a time during the approximately 8-9 hrs it took to rip the movie, the folder. It seemed to me that the computer wasn't falling asleep because it was actually building something, whereas the file it had been producing before was an empty shell. dunno. hence it kept falling asleep as the program quit on it.
well, now I've got this file that I can play in quicktime, on my computer, but not on my standalone dvd player, as a vcd. so i'm not sure what good it is other than any extremely small file for my enjoyment without needing a dvd or a video-ts folder viewable on my computer. Any ideas? Can this avi file play as a vcd somehow? how about through a conversion of some sort?

Thanks all for your help,

Tab