dvd2svcd freezes after hour and a half- noooo

[dick bininya]

well,
this blows. im encoding a movie that is about 2 hours long maybe a bit longer. after an hour and a half or so during the cce process, it freezes. i tried rebooting and emptying my trash. started the process over, and it still freezes up in the relatively same spot. i dont know wtf is going on. ive never encoded a movie this long before with dvd2svcd.
everything else has worked like a charm.
i have no idea......
does anyone else?
im running win2k by the way, and my cce version is 2.5
thanks-

[Operationz]

didn't I see your post under mine at doom9?? haha
anyways, ditch win2k. it's the anti-christ when it comes to video encoding (I can sense all the M$ win2k advocates getting angry) Try this in win98se: create a .d2v project file using dvd2avi of course, then run it through VFAPI to create a .avi file. Then drag the .avi into CCE and click file, save project. Now you can edit your .ecl file to your liking. Then encode using CCE and it should work! It worked for me last night, for a nearly 3 hour movie. Hope this helps

[dick bininya]

yeah guy,
its me.
i only hear the opposite, that win2k is the best!
but anywayz, thats all i have to do? can i just do the dvd2avi shit and then just do the rest in dvd2svcd?
the reason im asking is i like how dvd2svcd cuts it for me..
i just cant see why its Loveing up in dvd2svcd, but it will work manually?

[Operationz]

dick, yeah man that's all you gotta do. I didn't use vdub or any other frameserver besides dvd2avi and VFAPI 3. I'm not sure if you can go ahead and do what you're saying first(the dvd2avi part) and then continue with dvd2svcd. but I can understand why you would wanna. it's a great program and seems to be well-structered, but I just couldn't get it to work for me! One more thing: I ALWAYS do the audio ahead of time, that way I get it done and it shaves precious time off the video encoding. Specifically, I use ac3dec (easy to find) like so:
ac3dec.exe whatever.vob -allvobs -whatever.wav
it decodes quite fast on my box and never any errors. Then it's just a quick 15-20 minute Tmpgenc session to convert to 224mp2. Also, when you go to edit your encoding process in CCE, I NEVER check the box for "audio file". We both know the kinda shit CCE has with audio! Any problems, you know where to reach

[dick bininya]

cool man,
lets say i didnt want to worry about the audio and just
encode it to get it working.
would i just use dvd2avi then make sure that the vfapi is checked?
then with the the files that are created, open them in cce and just encode it?

thanks for the help guy.
i just dont get why dvd2svcd wont encode my 2 hour movie but the hour and half ones are fine?

[Operationz]

yeah, just use DVD2AVI and do a save project. be sure to configure it to not process audio. I'd get specific but I don't have a copy of it here @work so I can't tell you exactly how to do it. Ok after that, you'll have your .d2v project as you know. Then take that and run it through VFAPI reader/codec and you'll end up with a pseudo-AVI file about a few MBs in size. Then, start up CCE 2.5 and drag the new AVI into the shell. Then do a file, save as and you can save the .ecl and edit it however you wish. Then do the encoding and you're set!