Problem exporting with SpruceUp

[dwisniski]

Hello everyone,
I am having a problem burning with SpruceUp. I am authoring a home movie captured from VHS, everything works fine up until the export process. I have followed the guide correctly, when I get to the write part of it, it compiles up until 99%, and then I get the "error while reading video input file" message. SpruceUp has still saved the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS files to my C: drive, so I tried burning with Nero 5.5.7.8, as the guides instructed, and it burned properly (Pioneer DVR-104), but won't play back on my PC or standalone.

My system: Intel Celeron 1.2 gig
256 MB RAM
60 gig HD...blah blah blah.

I checked out all the guides and went through the posts, but can't figure out what's wrong. The video is fully DVD compliant, 720x480, MPEG-2, MPEG layer II 48 khz, and the total size comes out to 3 gig. Please don't tell me I have to recaptue the video or anything, it took me a week to capture, encode (TMPGE) and merge it from several smaller ones.

By the way, the simulate option worked fine in SpruceUp. Thanks for any help that can be offered.

[alkieman]

The only thing I can think of is that your coming up against Windows 2Gb (for 95 and 98) or 4Gb (for Win98SE and WinME) maximum filesize limitations.

[dwisniski]

Thanks for the reply, I believe I may have found out what it is.
I went to the SpruceUp users forum and found other peole have had this problem also, it seems when TMPGE encoded the video, it glitched on the audio for the last frame or two, which gave SpruceUp a problem compiling 100%. I followed their advice, which was to either

1) Load the MPEG-2 file back into TMPGE and edit it, cutting off the last couple of frames, or
2) De-Multiplex the video and load the m2v. file into SpruceUp, which is supposed to automatically load the mpa. file with it, which it didn't.

Neither of these worked, TMPGE kept giving me error problems, so scraped it and am starting from scratch. Plus, I realized when I captured the AVI with VirtualDub, I captured the audio at 8-bit, 48khz, and Spruce says it only accepts 16-bit. so I'm not sure if that played a factor.
By the way, I'm using Windows XP, and my HD is NTFS, so no problems there. Thanks again, hopefully this might be useful to someone else!
John 3:16

[sashka]

hi
sometimes i get the same problem, so i just reencode mpeg file again and spruseup works after that. the reason you can burn but cannot watch your bad compiled ts folder- there is no .ifo files
regards
alex

[dwisniski]

Hello Alex and everyone,
OK, here's what's happening as of Sunday night;
I recaptured the entire video, (16 bit, 48khz audio), encoded it in TMPGE at 4 Mps, and the size came out to 3.2 GB. Ran it through SpruceUp, authored, simulated, and exported it, and it compiled 100%
I then burned it with Nero, and it works on my PC and my standalone!

Now, there's only one weird problem:
During certain parts of the video, the picture gets slightly jerky, almost like a weird film-like effect, it will stay like that for 10 minutes, then go back to normal for a few minutes, and then switch back again! Now, when
I double-checked it on my PC, the picture looks normal throughout, but the audio has this subtle almost backward message-ish sounding thing
happening with it. Again, could it be the audio? Was it because I used MPEG-1 layer II instead of PCM, although in TMPGE thats all they have.
Any thoughts or ideas? Again, thank you all for the help.
John 3:3

[pacoreguenga]

Try using branded media, and check your audio before encoding to mpeg. Make sure is 48000 Hz all the time. If you cant capture properly at 48000 capture at 44100 and resample with an antialias filter in soundforge.

[Smd]

I had the same problem all I did was re-encoded the video to a VCD MPEG-1, and followed the instructions for converting the VCD .DAT file to a DVD: http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcddvdr.htm. And it worked.