CCE 2.5 and TMPGenc

[Feanor1]

I am trying to convert AVI's I have captured (using PICVideo's Codex) to sVCDs and am having a problem.. I have TMPGe working very well.. takes forever, but Frameserving it to TMPGe and doing a 2-pass vbr gives pretty good quality. But at certain points, its not very good, like fast motion scenes (and I have motion est. on high).
So.. I am looking into CCE which I understand from reading posts is much faster. 2 problems tho..

1) Gotta create that Info file before you can do a 2+ pass encoding.

2) When I try frameserving from Virtualdub, every time it trys to end i get an error. I mean that when I do manually create the info file (cbr ) and then do a vbr multi-pass, if i set it to 3 passes, when its 33% done, I get an error.. hit OK and then it goes ok till 66%, then the same till 100% and then its ok.. File looks good too..

SO here are my questions..
Is there a way to script it so it will do the CBR and create the info file and then do the multi-pass with me just hitting start 1x?

2nd.. Has anyone had this problem with the 33%, blah blah.. etc.. is it because CCE doesnt handle frame serving well from VirtualDub?

I would use DVD2SVCD and have it do the work there (I"m guessing it would do it well) but DVD2SVCD cant seem to load a frameserve file from Virtual dub (when I try, it wont let me hit the button to start encoding),

Any ideas guys and gals?

[mrbass]

did you convert your avi file to type 2 vfw for DVD2SVCD?

[Feanor1]

Can I do that and still be frameserving it? if so.. how (to answer your question, no I didnt).

Whenever I use VirtualDub to make a new AVI out of the one I captured, somethign goes wrong usually after the first edit there is an error and it cant be played, i am not sure why.. should I be editing on the I frames? But thats a different topic.

How would I convert it to type 2?

[mrbass]

read the AVI hints tab and check it to have it auto convert for you in the misc. tab.

read the crappy avi2svcd reference here for more info

[dirk67]

Hi,

there's a patch for CCE2.5 which solves this checksum error problem. Works well for me. Search for cce and patch and you will find a link in the forum.

Dirk