CCE problems

[MCD]

I just got CCE 2.5 and I am have some problems using it. First off, I can't seem to figure out why it won't do a multipass encode for me. I read through all the guides, set all the proper settings to multipass and it only appears to run through it once. I have been testing on a 20 sec clip. Am I missing something. Secondly, I just tried a 65 min avi and CCE keeps crashing 7 mins into the process. I get a "disc read error" and the encoding stops. Any idea what that is all about? All I have heard about is how great this program is. Granted the speed is remarkable. It looks like I will be able to encode a cbr 65 min avi in about 49 mins (if I can keep the thing running that is). By the way Im running xp 2.8 1556 ram dual 120 harddrives. Plenty of horsepower for this program. Please help.

[Poplar]

CCE SP 2.50 is not known for its stability. You have to patch it up properly. Go to Doom9's site (www.doom9.org) and find the patch to disable CRC check. That should do it. You need some trials and errors to get the hang of CCE SP.

[MCD]

I tried the patch and still no luck. It constantly errors out at about 7 mins into the encoding, regardless of the avi I try. The error reads “ CCE encoding failed: aviStreamRead( ) Failed (0x8004406d):A Disk Error Occurred While Reading this File”
Please help!! Somebody out there must know the reason for this. I got version 2.5 sp. Is there a different version that is better?

[tumbar]

it might be you avi, try another.

[Psycho_Dad_Rules]

Hi,

About the VBR encoding. CCE does NOT show which pass it is encoding. Instead it just starts and show 1 simple status bar for the total duration of the process. You can check this bij encoding the same clip using 2 pass vbr and then 6 pass vbr. The complete process looks the same, it's just that 6 pass vbr takes about 3 times as much time.

Hope this helps.

greetz,

pSyChO dAd

[MCD]

Thanks psycho. That makes sense. Now I just got to figure out why it keeps crashing everytime. Its not the avi that is the problem. It crashes with EVERY avi Ive thrown at it.(ofcourse unless it was just a small clip that could be encoded faster then 6 mins) I don't get it, everytime around that 6-7 mins, bang- it crashes I scanned the avi's with virtual dub for bad frames and came up with nothing. I extracted just the video so there is no audio in the avi and still no luck. I assume cce is compatible with xp right? Unless I need to uninstall/reinstall the dang program but Im sure it won't help. I like the speed aspect of it but so far I'm really dissapointed with this p.o.s. Any other suggestions?

[MCD]

I have a simple and stupid question. I just read in another thread that you cannot simply import the avi directly into cce, you must frameserve for cce to work. Is this correct? If that is true then that is my problem since I am loading the whole avi.

[banjazzer]

Try running it through FitCD. That will produce an Avisynth script which will frameserve to CCE.

[ricardo2]

If you select multi pass in CCE,let's say 4 passes,it first makes video information file(vaf),and after that starts passes.If your file has for example 10 000 frames,CCE tells you 4 x 10 000= 40 000 frames.After a pass the file size turns to zero, and starts again.That's multipassing in CCE.

And right,use avisynth scripts to run CCE stable.Though it should be possible with avi's too,if you don't have to resize.

[HillJack]

This is just my experience with CCE, but I use VirtualDub and frameserve my video to CCE 2.50 SP using 4-pass VBR, and have never had a problem... I always include audio with the frameserver, I just uncheck the Audio option in CCE so only the first 3 of the 4 output files are checked (I'm just lazy). I've never touched Avisynth or FitCD and use HuffYUV for compression.

However, CCE will crash repeatedly for me after a fresh installation of Win2K -- It would go through the inital .vaf creation phase no problem, but immediately upon starting pass-1 of X-passes, it crashes. I fixed that by installing PowerDVD XP 4.0, to essentially give my computer an MPEG2 codec to use.

My theory, is that CCE will create it's .vaf file, then being to encode the MPEG2 video. Without an MPEG2 codec to read an MPEG2 file, CCE doesn't know what its looking at with each pass, so it crashes.

Does your system have an MPEG2 codec installed? I mean a real MPEG2 codec, like the one that comes with PowerDVD or whatnot. Simply installing PowerDVD has solved all my CCE crashing problems (atleast that's what I keep telling myself), and it has yet to crash again!

Just my 2 cents

[MCD]

Well I just got this cpu about a month ago and it came with WINDVD. I assume that is good enough since it always plays all my mpeg2 vids. I guess I don't understand why I should have to frameserve since I got xp and don't have to worry about file size. And what gets me is it encodes just fine until it gets 6 mins into it. It would be a different story if it didn't work at all. Is the 2.6 versions better. Maybe I just need to try a differnt version. I also been researching cce lite?? From what I gather, it only will do cbr. Is the output quality the same as the sp versions(set at cbr)?

[banjazzer]

I could never get 2.5 to work. 2.64 works perfectly for me. PM me if you want more info.

[hsetty]

Hi,

I use XP Pro on a dual PIII-1.4 Ghz Poweredge w/384 Physical RAM. I am having trouble getting this system up and running for frameserving. I installed a Mega codec pack so I know that codecs are not the problem.

I take the avi stream from my DV camcorder, but Vdub currently does not handle DV-1 streams so I only extract the video. Then I start up the frameserver as stated on the vcdhelp.com tutorial. However, when I try to start up CCE and open the .vaf file the program freezes. I was wondering if anyone ran into this problem, and if so, what did you do to fix it?

Harsha
hs2@duke.edu

[banjazzer]

You can convert losslessly between DV formats using Canopus DV File Converter. One will load into Virtualdub.

I'm not sure which guide you are following, but I wonder why you are trying to open up a .vaf file. Unless you are specifically wanting to use some filters, I would suggest loading the .avi first into FitCD to create an Avisynth script which can be VCD/SVCD/DVD compatible, and will load directly into CCE.

[Mr Grumpy]

I had a smiliar problem recently with both 2.5 and 2.64 using Avisynth.

I found that by adding "ConverttoYUY2()" into the script before the resizing filter, and using VFAPI-conv has made both versions run reliably.

I didn't have any problems frameserving from Vdub, but it was slow, and I wanted to get AviSynth working.

Dunno if it's a coincidence or not, but it worked for me.

[pt-1]

I have a Problem after using the CRC-Patch. I then have the CCE Logo back in the picture.
Any Hints?
Cheers

PT-1

[SLK001]

You are not overclocking, are you? If so, you may be overheating your processor. Also, AVI's import directly into the program.