DVD Workshop "Cannot Create File"

[Pronto71]

I have read all the posts to date and noted the various DVDWS problems, although I have not had any of those (yet).

Anyway, I have 2 problems with DVDWS:

1. Despite setting the project bitrate to higher than the bitrate of the files (as suggested), the prog still *has* to reencode everything (6 hrs!)

2. At the end of this reencoding time, I now get the message "Cannot Create File" - and that is it! No other reason or help offered. I can get bits of the file (3.4GB MPEG2) to work and have successfully made disks with longer files. I also have heaps of HDD space.

Any suggestions?

[jim s]

I'm having the same kind of trouble. I get the error "failed to convert video file" 13006:1:12 I get this about 4 hours in to compressing.

And ideas?
Thanks,
Jim

[seanc2]

I had a similar error when I had DWS splice into the mpg a bit (to cut off color bars or black up front).

also, is it possible this is where the 2 gig or 4 gig barrier rests for your operating system? I found out after 2.? gigs (I believe), it would always fail on my fat32 drive. NTFS was fine for larger.


Sean

[jim s]

I don't think the 2 gig limit was the problem. After the image file crashed. I checked the directory and there were 3, 650 meg files there. I'm trying it again right now. Also anything I captured in Workshop will not play back in Abode premiere or after effects. Any thought whys?

Thanks,
Jim

[Pronto71]

I had initially thought that the file size might be a problem - I can't copy it to another disk drive because it is too big - but I had already created a DVD which had a larger initial file size.

[mikerios]

fat32 limit is 4gb on a given file, NTFS can go bigger, AVIs max out at 2Gb under Fat32. I have rendered 4gb AVI files under ntfs but have not pushed beyond that. Personally I give DVDWS a pre-rendered mpeg2 movie file and then menu and then let it create file structure, I then burn the files Nero.

[Pronto71]

Sorry, forgot to mention that these are already 3GB MPEG2 compliant files made in TMPG that get the "Cannot create file" error.

[mikerios]

is the area where DVDWS is making the folders too a fat32 drive ? if so you'll hit the 4gb wall, make sure temp area is on a ntfs drive/partition and not a fat32 drive/partion, also DVD movie factory and DVD Workshop are greedy bastards with hardrive space, make sure you got a lot of space, I usally reserve 13gb for the temp files and what not DVD MF uses, and I think DVDWS is no better at being a space hog.

[Augustijns]

I got similar errors. They stopped when I created final output (create DVD directory) in same folder where I put my project file.

Hope this will help.

[Pronto71]

With further investigation, I tried some demuxing in TMPG. It occurred to me that the audio might be problem. I realised that it was 44KHz instead of 48KHz. Anyway, a quick conversion of the audio, then putting it back with the video solved that part of the problem.

But the file still did not work in DVWS, even though it alerted me to the fact that the file had changed. On a hunch, I deleted the video file and its thumbnail from the project and the list of available videos, then reinserted it.

Guess, what? DVWS now treated it as a new file and was happy to VOB it with no re-rendering. Evidently, even updating a file does not affect some kind of "internal database" which stored a fixed set of info about the video file.

From my point of view both of these problems are now solved!