odd problems with diko

[shadow13]

hey. I'm reletively new to encoding and such. I have used diko before and never had any problems. but I recently had my hard drive formatted and I reinstalled everything and I finally have some episodes I want to convert and burn. but each time I try to encode these episodes with diko, my computer goes all haywire. the screen shuts off as if it went to sleep mode and it won't come back on when I move the mouse. I have turned off the screen saver and the sleep mode but it still keeps doing that. I'm just wondering if there is any way that this can be fixed. is it a glitch in diko? or something wrong with my computer that I forgot to reinstall?

any help would be greatly appreciated

[Cuchulainn]

Go into your power managemnet setttings in Control Panel, and set turn off monitor to Never. Also installing the drivers that came with your monitor might fix it. I usualy don't bother to install them, but on about 1 out of 4 computers with the default drivers once Windows turns off your monitor, it won't come back on.

FYI probably shouldn't mention what exactly your encoding. This forum specificly prohibits any mention of WAREZ (pirated tv episodes). Always nice to respect the local rules when your in someone elses house.

[shadow13]

I'll give that a try and let you know what happens.

BTW I'm sorry about what I mentioned in my previous post. The ironic thing is, I did skim through the rules but I was half asleep. thanks for pointing that out for me

[shadow13]

I haven't had any success with that. this time diko caused my computer to freeze at about 1 hour into the conversion. I used to do this on this computer with no problems, but I recently formatted the hard drive. could I be missing a file that would be causing this problem? any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance

[Cuchulainn]

Ok guess the first thing we need to do is try to narrow down the source of the problem.

Does this only happen when Diko is running? Have you tried letting your PC just sit idle for more than an hour with nothing running?

If yes, what encoder is Diko useing? Try launching the ecoder seperately and running a job. If you don't know the encoder well I wouldn't play around too much with the settings as we don't care about the end product. Just load it with the default setting and hit go, so we can see if it locks up the PC.

[shadow13]

ok....I opened up the free enc that came with it, but when I browsed for the file to encode they don't show up on the open screen. I also tried to drag and drop it into it and I got this error: "you must specify a source avs script."

I have no clue as to what to do about this so any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've also tried to uninstall and reinstall it but I get the same error

[redwudz]

When the screen goes off, do you have to restart the computer to get it working again? It sounds more like a overheating problem or some failing memory than a software problem. If it's just the screen blanking, may be a video card problem, but it would happen even without encoding.

Cuchulainn may be on the right track. You need something to stress your computer other than DIKO to see if it is overheating or a problem with DIKO. Try VSO DivxToDVD to encode with. It works similar to DIKO. Or even Virtualdub, anything that takes an hour or so to finish. You should be using 100% CPU the whole time. If it fails about the same, then it's probably overheating or even a bad RAM module.

[Cuchulainn]

You need to load an AviSynth script instead of the video file itself. Lots of guides out there for AviSynth scripts, but for testing purposes you should be able to just type AviSource ("c:\thedirectory\myfile.avi") in notepade, save as something.avs Make sure you set Save as type to All Files in notepad, not to Text File.

If the problem only started when you reinstalled Windows I tend to lean away from a hardware problem. But did you install any new hardware when you reformatted. Did you reformat becuase of weird errors. You could try isnalling a CPU temp monitor in windows and watching it well you encode, if it is a heat issue that will tell you.