CCE crashes when I try multipass encoding

[videocheez]

I have been fooling around with CCE for the fast few weeks converting divx to dvd and have had some success but now I am trying to increase the quality of the final MPEG2 and have had troubles trying to do multipass encoding. It seems that the second pass has trouble overwriting the mpv file. I'm looking for some suggestions on how to achieve success using multipass encoding with CCE.

Thanks in advance,

[marvel2020]

I can think of three things to try.

1. Are you using CCE to encode the audio as well, if you are, then don't, CCE well known to crash if use to do audio as well.

2. What version of CCE are you using???, if your using 2.50 then run WindowsXP compatablity mode and set it up for WIndows 95.

3. If your framserving to CCE, then don't forget to add the audio in your AVS script.

[videocheez]

I'm using 2.5. Whats Windows compatability mode and what does this have to do with running CCE?

thanks in advance,

[bbb]

I've encountered the same problem with CCE 2.5 on XP (which worked marvelous in Windows 98 ) even after installing the CRC Patch.

Using compatibility setting, does NOTHING to solve the problem.

In XP (at least with SP1), CCE 2.5 no longer accepts VirtualDub frameserver files. It will work with AVISynth scripts (with the audio downsampling line included). CCE will not finish encoding an AVI file > 4 GB. It has problem finishing multipass without quitting/erroring out/resetting computer (happens 80-90% of the time unless I use the procedure described below).

What works for me (about 90-100% success rate):
1. If you filter with VirtualDub, save your finished result as a real AVI file not as a frameserver file. Working with a real AVI file will save lots of time in multipass encoding if you've got the HD space.
2. Always use a Avisynth (version 2.0X) script with the audio downsample line (regardless of whether there's audio in the AVI file) to point to your AVI file and feed the Avisynth file (*.avs) into CCE.
3. Once you start CCE, open an Internet Explorer window set to a webpage in the foreground (CCE in the background) and leave your computer alone (don't websurf or don't touch anything). After the Vaf, it should pop a CCE progress window into the foreground. Don't touch anything. Let it finish. It will finish.

[videocheez]

What's the significance of opening a web page in the foreground and why can't I surf? I have a 2.5GHz processor with 1GBof RAM.

Thanks in advance,

VC