CCE automatically shuts down while Encoding

[sandeshk]

Hi people.
I am having another P-4 m/c with 1GB DDR Memory. I tried to convert an avi movie into MPEG-2 format for DVD-Authoring using CCE. I was trying for 4 Pass encoding. Initially CCE took nearly 2 hrs and created "vaf" file. But after that when the first pass started the CCE suddenly shut down. I started CCE back again and this time selected option Use Existing "vaf" rather than creating new vaf file. But the same thing happened. I was able to convert movies this way on my old machine. But since I am having Motherboard problem with my old machine and can at the moment only using 256MB in old machine, I can't try to encode in old machine.
Any suggestions and inputs are welcome.
Thanks

[guns1inger]

I would suggest the issue is either missing codecs, or VBR mp3. I never let CCE encode audio for me because I prefer AC3 audio to mp2, and CCE isn't a great audio encoder. I load the video into CCE through avisynth, and do not pass it any audio at all, because even with the audio encoding turned off CCE will choke on VBR mp3.

[sandeshk]

Thanks guns1inger for immediate reply.
I have seperated Video and Audio using VirtualDub and me too doing the same thing. I am only encoding the Video and kept Audio option unchecked in CCE. I am also loading the video into CCE using AVS script file.
So still you think it could be a problem of missing audio Codecs? How do I know which codec is missing? And will there be any log generated when CCE shuts down automatically...?

[guns1inger]

In your script, set audio to false in the AVISource statement, otherwise CCE will get the audio and choke, even though you have said not to encode it. Not encoding doesn't stop it being read.

The best way to see if it is codec related is to check the avi with g-spot or avicodec and see what it says. My money is on it being VBR mp3, and stopping it reaching CCE from your avisynth script will probably cure the problem.