Is this Normal?

[willynopals]

Am Multiplexing in avi2mpg2 ver1.24 beta and the file has got to 52% and stopped moving for around 30 minutes or more, the cpu is still hammering away at 100% approx 96% of which is being used by avi2mpg2, this happened on my first attempt and I assumed the program had locked, as such I rebooted and started again, now its happened again I dont want to halt the process again in case this is normal, an mpg file has been created of approx 720 mb, the last time it happened and I viewed this file sound stopped after a few seconds if this helps. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks

[willynopals]

Cant believe eleven of you have looked at this and none of you have more experience than I have with this program, but if it happens to you, Its not normal
Anyway now i've played the finished mpeg and the sound stops after a few minutes yet its complete in the mp2 file anyone any ideas? Please!!!

[vitualis]

Firstly, don't complain about people not replying to your post in less than a day. This is a bulletin board, not a chat room. People don't have to answer anything if they don't want to and no one is obligated to reply to you.

As for your problem, are both your video and audio compliant for VCD?

Regards.

[willynopals]

I wasnt complaining just passing a comment, but anyway can see how it could have been missintepreted, so have slapped my own wrists.
With regard to your question I am trying to prepare for svcd, the video was created opening vobs in dvd2avi, then used gknot and cropped it (although preview of the video now ion PC iseems more of a 4.3 than 16:9 and has loads of black space above and below but am told that will look ok on tv. Then selected svcd under resizing and then used cce, the instructions were supplied by kieren so I assume that bits ok.

The audio was taken from ac3 file by using Azid Gui with lfe to lr set to -3db and output to stereo surround, afterwards it was run through scmpx then boost and finally toolame at bitrate of 192 so I think everything is okay, the file haas just crashed again I'm wondering if its a disk space issue as am getting short on this drive due to having 3 lots of VOBs queued, does this process take a lot of space for temp files?, I had 2gb free before I started the muxing.

Once again thanks for the help, it is appreciated.

[willynopals]

If it helps here is the message printout from avi2mpeg2

Video: none

Audio: none

Output MPEG information
Video: none

Audio: none

Multiplexing: video and one audio stream
program stream type: SVCD with pulldown auto-detection
video file: k:\vob files\space cowboys\spacecowboys.mpv
audio 1 file: k:\space.mp2
program file: k:\space.mpg


Multiplexing video and audio:

Scanning video stream for a sequence header and pulldown type ...
no pulldown detected ...

Scanning video stream for pictures ...
Found 187656 picture headers.
Video stream information
Stream length : 1451326508
Total time (seconds) : 7506
Sequence start : 12764
Sequence end : 1
No. Pictures : 187656
No. Groups : 12764
No. I Frames : 12764 avg. size 28452 bytes
No. P Frames : 50516 avg. size 10703 bytes
No. B Frames : 124376 avg. size 4403 bytes
No. D Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
Horizontal size : 480
Vertical size : 576
Aspect ratio : 0.6735
Picture rate : 25.000 frames/sec
Bit rate : 316000 bytes/sec (2528000 bits/sec)
Computed avg rate : 193750 bytes/sec (1550000 bits/sec)
Computed max rate : 370950 bytes/sec (2967600 bits/sec)
Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
CSPF : 0

Scanning audio stream for access units information
Found 7881 audio frame headers.
MPEG audio stream information
Stream length : 4940904
Syncwords : 7881
Frames : 483 size 626 bytes
Frames : 7398 size 627 bytes
Layer : 2
CRC checksums : no
Bit rate : 24000 bytes/sec (192 kbit/sec)
Frequency : 44.1 kHz
Mode : 0 stereo
Mode extension : 0
Copyright bit : 0 no copyright
Original/Copy : 0 copy
Emphasis : 0 none
NOTE: Mux rate may be too low for data rate, watch for PTS/DTS underflows.

Multiplexing information
Video stream data rate : 370950 bytes/sec (2967600 bits/sec)
Audio stream 1 data rate : 24000 bytes/sec (192000 bits/sec)
Total data rate : 350000 bytes/sec (2800000 bits/sec)

Multiplexing file k:\space00.mpg
Finished multiplexing k:\space00.mpg
Calculating 4060 SVCD user data scan offsets for file k:\space00.mpg
Finished calculating SVCD scan offsets for file k:\space00.mpg

Multiplexing file k:\space01.mpg

[vitualis]

I don't see anything wrong from what you've written...

You mentioned that you only had 2 Gb free HDD space... I am uncertain whether or not this is significant though this could explain the HDD churning away while nothing was happening...

If you could free up some space (e.g., delete the vob files if you haven't already) you could try again to see if this is the issue.

Regards.

[willynopals]

Looks as though space could be the problem, now got it creating on another drive which I thought would have enough room, but its created 1 file called space00.mpg which is just under 40 mins long then it has started on a second onespace01.mpg which is already 2.5gb large, the audio still stops after approx 3.5 minutes on the first one and doesnt even start on the second one, perhaps I'll try it without putting any settings in file size and see what happens, If the 2nd file is already 2.5gb i've cocked up somewhere because it was all supposed to fit on two disks according to the bitrate calc. oh well, back to the drawing board, I think it took less time to make this film than it is for me to rip it