Max# passes in CCE when using AVIWrapper?

[supercrew]

I have been trying to use the newest versions

of xmpeg, video server plugin, aviwrapper,
and CCE 2.6.2

on a WindowsMe machine with 1.3athlon
and 256meg ram.

I know that the plugin allow you to set dualpass,
but what does this correlate to in CCE.
(1)pass, (2)pass, or (3)pass.

Everytime I try to encode it seems that
CCE is looking for more frames and the plugin
has quit send.

Also, all of the guides say you have to tell flask
the number of seconds to encode. But I don't see how
you can get the exact seconds if create a new
job that has different start & end points other than
the very beginning and ending of the movie.

There seems to be know easy way to tell in the gui.

Thanks in advance for the help.
Supercrew

[RaleighNC]

That's one of the features I'm waiting for, # of seconds.

Here's an example of what I do (I new to this) and I'm using cce 2.5.

1. Mark the begin job.
2. Mark the end job.
3. Press the play button and look for the file time (ex. 5:25 min)
4. Save the new job.
5. Clear the original job (source file).
6. Click the new job and the track pointer will move to the beginning of the new job. (ex. 1:20 min)
7. Subtract the end time with begin time (5:25 - 1:20 = 4:05 = 4*60sec+5sec = 245sec then add +-.5sec
8. Enter time in Compile Time.


In your case, move the track pointer almost to the end and watch the file time as the video ends. That should give you the end time and your begin time is 0sec.

Hope this helps. How is cce 2.6.2

[supercrew]

CCE 2.6.2 is great.

I have been using for all of my XVCD created
from my analog camcorder.

Then thought I would try with Flask.

I have never been able to get all of this frameserving
stuff to work.

Plain old flask 6.x with the lsx plugin give me
viewable svcd's on my 46" projection tv with very
little effort to set up and kickoff.

With the number of DVD's that I convert, I don't have
the 15 to 25min just to setup all the parameters to do
the frameservering.

This last VideoServerPlugin with AVIWrapper seems like
a good try, but until I can get it working I'll pass.

Supercrew

[RaleighNC]

Frame serving is pretty easy. The big misunderstanding (for me because I don't like to read instructions) is copying the dll to the \systems dir, updating the registry with the version of frame-serve dll, and copying the same version for the plug-in. Onces that is done, it's almost effortless. I feel like a MR. video server pitchman rightnow.

Xmpeg4 is a little pain to use because of missing begin/end job control buttons which is present in flask 6.