CCE 2.50 freezes encoding on 4GB (NTFS drive)

[PushPullXX]

First of all, I have no size-issues with my drive. Before I started
converting this file, it was digitized to the same drive, and ended up
being 10.5 GB.

Here's what I've done:
Dazzle II DVC > mpeg2 file
mpeg2 file > DVD2AVI
DVD2AVI project > VFAPI
VFAPI "avi" > CCE 2.50

Everything looks fine, and it starts encoding. Then it simply freezes once
the file reaches 4 GB. I've tried with and without audio, and tried
redirecting the files to different disks.

Here's what's really weird..
I used a bitrate calculator, and put the lenght of the video (130 min).
This gave me an average bitrate on around 4300, and I went down
300 on both average and max bitrate to make room for menues etc.
Anyway, when I try to play back the file which freezed at 4 GB it's only
53 minutes. Why the hell would it be 4 GB, and only 53 minutes in the
first place ?
Encoded 4 times, and it froze at 4 GB all 4 times.

This is not an issue with Windows Media Player not showing the correct
lenght or anything like that, sinze I still have another 6-7 hours left of
encoding when the CCE encoding window freezes.
I have more than enough diskspace left.

Would very much appreciate some ideas or feedback. I'm currently
lending a large amount of VHs-tapes I need to digitize asap.
This is driving me insane.

Thanks,
Paul T. Breie

[Dragonsf]

You didn't tell, if you're capturing into type-1 or type-2 DV avi or if you are using multiple files (for type-2).Please specify!

[PushPullXX]

I captured to mpeg2, not AVI.
I'm only frameserving with VFAPI, and it should produce
uncompressed AVI-files.. right ?

[Dragonsf]

DV is mpeg2.So why are you doing this the "complicated" way?Why not use CCE directly on the captured avi?
BTW avi is only the name of the container.
As the DVC II produces (as I understand) mpeg files with compression up to 1250 KB/s you should end up at 9.2 GB at max Bitrate.If Vdub can read this file to the end, everything could be fine (vdub-wise).
Next step you are converting this to uncompressed avi (no warnings from vdub?)=228GByte at 30MByte/s.I don't if Vdubs frameserver can handle such amount of data, but I really wonder, why you are doing this?
If you want to convert the footage to VCD/SVCD/DVD you should be able to capture this format directly with the Dazzle, if I understand the specs correctly.Only steps required are editing/cutting and then authoring / burning. Or am I completely on the wrong track.
BTW, I'm using the Dazzle DV Brigde, which captures into DV avi and the conversion tom SVCD mpeg is necessary.

[bill55]

He has no AVI file.

If you read his post he captured to mpeg2, not dvavi. That is why he is doing it that "complicated" way I believe. CCE will not take a mpeg2 file directly. You need to do it the way he is in order to be able to encode a mpeg2 file with CCE. I have never had a problem doing it that way.

I don't know about that 4 gig problem. Makes no sense since he has ntfs and has larger than 4 gb files already on the drive.

Bill

[PushPullXX]

Again, dazzle DVC II digitizes directly to mpeg2. Even if I wanted to,
I cannot record directly to AVI.
Yes, I could in general digitize directly to the mpeg2 format I wanted,
even VBR. But no matter what I do, this will NOT give me the same
quality 4-pass VBR on Cinemacraft will.

If I could convert my mpeg2 file, with Cinemacraft, in any easier way -
and still get the same result.. of course I would do so.

What I need to figure out is why the damn program keeps freezing on 4 GB.

[SLK001]

This is basically what I have been doing, but I use AVIsynth instead of VFAPI. Maybe the problem is with the VFAPI frameserving? Also, how large is the HD that you are encoding to? Check (and empty) your RECYCLE bin - Windows will report free space that really isn't free, because it is still saving this space in the recycle bin.

You don't mention how you are encoding, but I'm assuming that you are using multipass VBR. I'm not sure that the time (53 minutes) is correct (you probably will have to view the entire clip to find this out) since the file wasn't completed.

[PushPullXX]

I don't see why VFAPI should cause this problem, but I might aswell
try AVIsynth.

I have around 30-40 GB of free space. Don't mean to sound like an *******, but I work with computers, and know the basic stuff.

I'm encoding with 4-pass VBR. The time might not be correct, but
considering the % it reaches 53 minutes sounds pretty correct.
Why 53 minutes of video, with the bitrate I used, would reach 4 GB..
That, on the other hand, is a really, really good question.

It always stops on 4GB, which MIGHT sound like a stupid FAT issue..
But my system IS strictly NTFS. And again, I was able do digitize the
mpeg2 source file to the same HD, which is 10.5 GB.

[Dragonsf]

Does only CCE crash when encoding or have you tried the same with tmpgenc and get also crashes?
If only CCE crashs, I'd think, it's a 32Bit Pointer prob within CCE.