Problem while encoding

[drsimp12]

I am using some MPEG2 files, pictures, and VideoWave Professional 7 to create an ISO file on my computer. (Which I am going to later shrink and burn on a DVD.) While the encdoing is going on all of the sudden the computer will just up and reboot. Say the file I am buring is an expected size of 6 gig. After the computer reboots I look in to the location where I was saving the file and they are always around 2-3 gig in size. Does this make sense to anyone?

[Baldrick]

How did you make the mpeg2 files? Captured? Downloaded?
Does it work to create an iso file with other video sources?
Does your computer reboot if you run some other tools?
Tried author and make a dvd with some other authoring tool? like Tmpgenc DVD Author if the mpeg2 files are dvd compliant.

[drsimp12]

The MPEG2 files are created by through capturing from TV using VideoWave Professional 7. I have also tried to create and ISO file using Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator 6. Which responses in the same manner.

[Baldrick]

Try something else than roxios products. If they also cause a reboot you may have some hardware problems, maybe cpu overheating or memory problems that cause the computer to reboot.

[ranchhand]

Off the top, I would first suspect overheating. Take the side off your computer and put a window fan blowing into it top speed. Try to encode again. If it completes, or even gets further, that would be a strong indication of overheating.

[drsimp12]

Man, you guys are good. I took off the side cover off of the computer and put a fan up to it and it has encoded all the way through. So is this a problem that could be fixed by finding a way to cool the PC better? Or does this indicate some other type of hardware problem?

[manono]

It's overheating, but it could be from one of several causes. Maybe a fan has failed, Check them all. Maybe it's not cooled correctly in the first place and you'll need to add more or larger fans. This might be true if you're new to video encoding, which stresses a CPU like nothing else. Maybe the fans are slowly clogging with dust and lint. This has happened to me before. Clean them of any crap that might impede the flow of air. Maybe you have a bunch of cables and wires interrupting the flow of air from bottom to top. Tie them up and out of the way. Maybe you have fans blowing in the wrong directions. In general, you suck cool air into the computer at the bottom and blow hot air out the top. Maybe the heatsink grease between the heatsink and CPU is failing, in which case you take off the heatsink and apply some fresh paste. And there may be other reasons I haven't thought of. You might get a way to monitor the temps, like Motherboard Monitor.

[MysticE]

I am using some MPEG2 files, pictures, and VideoWave Professional 7 to create an ISO file on my computer. (Which I am going to later shrink and burn on a DVD.)

Why the 2 step (encode/transcode) process? Can't your app make the resultant ISO the right size from the get go?

[drsimp12]

I am using some MPEG2 files, pictures, and VideoWave Professional 7 to create an ISO file on my computer. (Which I am going to later shrink and burn on a DVD.)

Why the 2 step (encode/transcode) process? Can't your app make the resultant ISO the right size from the get go?

No. The file sizes are usually greater than six gig. So unless I break it up and put it on two dfferent dics. I have to create the ISO file and then shirnk it so I can put it on one disk. Also, the program I am using only recognizes 4.7 gig dics. However, even if it did recognize 8.5 gig dics they are still a little pricey for me.

[MysticE]

I am using some MPEG2 files, pictures, and VideoWave Professional 7 to create an ISO file on my computer. (Which I am going to later shrink and burn on a DVD.)

Why the 2 step (encode/transcode) process? Can't your app make the resultant ISO the right size from the get go?

No. The file sizes are usually greater than six gig. So unless I break it up and put it on two dfferent dics. I have to create the ISO file and then shirnk it so I can put it on one disk. Also, the program I am using only recognizes 4.7 gig dics. However, even if it did recognize 8.5 gig dics they are still a little pricey for me.

I think you have to look harder. There has to be somewhere to adjust the bitrate to fit the project to a disc. If not directly it will be a 'Quality' setting of some sort.

[ranchhand]

Regarding your overheating: get a can of compressed air. Puff out the dust from your Northbridge heatsink, video card heatsink & fan. Don't forget the intake and exhaust of your power supply-it really gets filthy in there. Check your CPU heatsink and fan; there will be 3 or 4 small screws holding the fan to the heatsink. Back those out with a small screwdriver and the fan will dismount from the heatsink. Most likely you will find a disgusting gob of dust and garbage rammed in-between the heatsink tines. Blow that out, and even use a small, 1" soft and clean paintbrush to help get between the fins of the heatsink. Cleant the fan also and put the fan back on. You will not disturb the CPU doing this.

Finally, check that all fans are spinning up. Sometimes one or two case fans will fail and you may not be aware of it. That should solve your problem.

[InXess]

Get the CPU temp. watch utility from the web. If it gets too high you may have to reinstall the heatsink with new thermal pad. Pad is better then thermal paste for open CPU's, paste for encapsulated ones.