CCE Basic Encoding Stops Short

[rkr1958]

I'm converting my son's Disney VHS tapes to DVD. My encoder of choice, up to a month or so ago, was TMPGEnc Plus. I purchased CCE-Basic, primarily to use with DVD-Rebuilder, to back up DVD-9s to DVD-5s. I've been very please and found that DVD-RB w/CCE is actually faster than Instant Copy 7 (IC-7). I was surprised to find that using a two-pass VBR was FASTER than a transcoder.

Anyway ... back to converting my son's Disney VHS tapes to DVD. I capture the tape by VCR ==> RCA-cable ==> Sony DV Camera ==> Firewire to my PC. I used Ulead 6 (which I got off of ebay for $20) to capture. I then extract the audio using Goldwave, convert it to 48-KHz, and use the timewarp function to strech it to the same lenght as the video. I've found that, in general, the audio runs about 0.5-seconds per hour faster the the video. Next I use CCE-Basic (previously TMPGEnc-Plus) to encode the video using 2-pass VBR (max 9000, ave 6000, min 2000 kpbs). I then author using TMPGEnc DVD Author. I done this numerous times, with the last 6 or 7 using CCE-Basic as my encoder, without problems except for the very last one. Now my problem ...

The AVI capture was 1:21:38 long. CCE-Basic appeared to terminate without error but the video was only 1:12:00+ in length. So I did it again and got it stopping at the same point. Next I tried encodeing it with CCE-Basic using 6000 kbps CBR and it stoped near, but not exactly at the same point. So I then check the AVI for error using Virtual Dub ... no error. Finally, I encoded the video using TMPGEnc Plus CQ (100%) and it encoded just fine. I did, however, had to used DVDShrink to Shrink the DVD after authoring because it was oversized.

Anyway, ... I'm not sure why CCE-Basic just stopped (without any error messages). Any thoughts? Also, any suggestions for other tests / checks that I might could run for errors ... even though TMPGEnc Plus had not problems with the AVI file?

Thanks.

[rkr1958]

I did find a workaround. I used VirtualDub to frameserve to CCE-Basic. The video encoded correctly.

Previously, I've used VirtualDub to frameserve to TMPGEnc-Plus. I had a little trouble getting it to frameserve to VirtualDub. I did a search and found that the video compression had to be set to RBG uncompressed. After that no problems.

Just thought I'd pass this along.

However, I'm still interesting what caused CCE-Basic to stop short on the encode with working with the AVI file as opposed to the frameserved from VirtualDub.

[pijetro]

What version of CCE are you using??

I believe 2.5 had a limit of 4 gigs or something like that...
Therefore forcing many to frameserve...

[rkr1958]

What version of CCE are you using??

I believe 2.5 had a limit of 4 gigs or something like that...
Therefore forcing many to frameserve...

Version 2.69. I don't believe it's a 4-GB limit. The AVI file is over 16-GB, but the MPEG-2 file is around 3.2-GB. I've used CCE on several AVI files this large to produce MPEG-2 files around 3.5-GB.

[BJ_M]

What version of CCE are you using??

I believe 2.5 had a limit of 4 gigs or something like that...
Therefore forcing many to frameserve...

there was no 2.5 version cce basic

[pijetro]

Oops, i was thinking CCE SP ver. 2.50.01.00