mpg encoding terminates after 8 min

[Ti-maniac]

I have been trying to get ffmpegX v0.0.7d to operate on a large VOB file created both with VLC and OSeX and in both cases it only generates the first 8 minutes or so of the mpg file, regardless of the movie, video bitrate, codec, and video parameter. The audio, however, is generated for the entire movie. Before I purchase the software (for $15) I would love to be successful in generating a VCD. Any ideas what the problem might be.

Thanks

[major]

Is it the video frozen to the same still or just non existing after 8 minutes? Does it work if you disable the "Use quicktime to decode" checkbox?

[Ti-maniac]

major,
Thanks for your answer.
1. The video was frozen.
2. I re-ran the encoding turning off 'quicktime to decode'. (I might add that QuickTimeMPEG2.component had been installed and active although initial runs with MPEG1 [.MPG] (mpeg2enc) selected produce the same 8 minute problem with 'quicktime to decode' enabled.

After the rerun, a complete movie was encoded! Thank you. However, this run generated more questions. Please note the following parameters where chosen:

ffmpeg parameters

Movie: DIEANOTHERDAY
VOB data- TITLE01-ANGLE1.VOB
Size: 4.33 GB
Origin: OSeX

Video tab:
Quick preset SVCD (NTSC)
T: 1:32.25 (93 min)
2 CDs of 80m mode-1 1400 MB
Rate 1857 kbits/sec
Best 1996 kbits/s (green)
Video paameters 480x480
Autosize SVCD NSC
Framerate NTSC FILM
Title 1
Chap (blank) angle (blank)

Audio:
.AC3 (recorded only on the VOB) encode audio ?
audio bitrate: 224 kbit/s
sampling: 44100 Hz

Options:
Letterbox ?
Set 3:2 (default turned off)
Altivec ?
no Set 3:2 (default turned off)
no Decode with Quicktime (default turned off)
Profile: XSVCD
Interlace: Not interlaced
Thread: Normal
VBV size: 230 KB
Sync: 0 ms
Constant bitrate off

Tools:
Mpeg -1/2 post-processing -
Author as SVCD ?
Split in 2 chunks ?
Keep elementary streams ?


Please note the files that were in the attached file titled DIEANOTHERDAY.jpg.

My question is now regarding resulting file sizes. As you can see, two 700MB files were not generated for subsequent SVCD burning. Could you now shed some light on this. And also, back to the original question, why does disabling the Apple quicktimeMPEG2.component fix the 8 minute problem?

Thank you

[Ti-maniac]

Sorry the .jpg didn't attach. It was 120K and there is apparently a 60K limit. The following filestructure was obtained:

drwxr-xr-x 15 plasma admin 510 Jul 16 05:01 .
drwxrwxrwx 9 plasma admin 306 Jul 16 07:48 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 plasma admin 6148 Jul 15 20:23 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 plasma admin 917050467 Jul 16 04:57 Bond-1.mpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 plasma admin 437 Jul 16 04:58 Bond-1.toc
-rw-r--r-- 1 plasma admin 705600 Jul 16 04:58 Bond-1_01.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 plasma admin 928454352 Jul 16 04:59 Bond-1_02.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 plasma admin 916903987 Jul 16 04:58 Bond-2.mpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 plasma admin 437 Jul 16 04:59 Bond-2.toc
-rw-r--r-- 1 plasma admin 705600 Jul 16 04:59 Bond-2_01.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 plasma admin 928303824 Jul 16 05:01 Bond-2_02.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 plasma admin 1576594556 Jul 16 03:50 Bond.m2v
-rw-r--r-- 1 plasma admin 222314790 Jul 16 04:52 Bond.mp2
-rw-r--r-- 1 plasma admin 1833952064 Jul 16 04:56 Bond.mpg

Also, in my post above converted check marks into question marks.
Thanks,