Intermitent Problems with Avi2DVD creating DVD's

[stefank60]

Hi all

I'm pretty new to the whole converting to DVd and burning stuff and have zero knowledge on this area so please be very patient with me and give answers/tips in "for dummies" terms.

OK I have started using Avi2DVD which I really like - takes ages but is ideal for newcomers like myself.

I alwyas leave all the settings as the software preselects.

I have approx a 50/50 success rate with the failures resulting in a window on screen which looks a little like a dos window (I will paste below the results from one that has just failed). The result tends to be that it will burn to disc **BUT** only partially.

I can tell , not only from the dos like window but also because the burning process takes much shorter than the successes and you can see only a small part of the disc has a different colour where it has been burned.

Now one of my failures I also tried putting through video DVD maker free.

In one prog it played the full 1st scene (of a three scene movie) and part way into scene 2, whereas with the other software only played for about 2/3 mins before it stopped.

This makes me wonder if it was an issue with the source file ?

Anyway please see below the screen capture from where the dos like window stopped running (when this happens one has to shut it down - whereupon another dos like window does it's bit).

Would be grateful if anyone couls help me out with what's happening here and how to solve.

thanks
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INFO: [???] mplex version 2.2.2 ($Date: 2003/05/13 20:27:15 $)
INFO: [???] File D:\My Documents\my pictures\Pics\To Sort\Avi2dvd_temp\Encode
d_Video.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [???] File D:\My Documents\my pictures\Pics\To Sort\Avi2dvd_temp\AudioS
tream 1 MP3 2CH.ac3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
INFO: [???] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard option
s!
INFO: [???] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [???] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [???] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (D:\My Documents\my pic
tures\Pics\To Sort\Avi2dvd_temp\Encoded_Video.m2v)
INFO: [???] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [???] Frame width : 720
INFO: [???] Frame height : 576
INFO: [???] Aspect ratio : 4:3 display
INFO: [???] Picture rate : 25.000 frames/sec
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 8000000 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [???] CSPF : 0
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (D:\My Documents\my
pictures\Pics\To Sort\Avi2dvd_temp\AudioStream 1 MP3 2CH.ac3)
INFO: [???] AC3 frame size = 1536

INFO: [???] AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 49152 bytes/sec (384 kbit/sec)
INFO: [???] Frequency : 48000 Hz
INFO: [???] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [???] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 8520344
INFO: [???] target data-rate specified : 10080000
INFO: [???] Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
INFO: [???] Run-in Sectors = 89 Video delay = 13019 Audio delay = 0
INFO: [???] New sequence commences...
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [???] Audio bd: buf= 16384 frame=000000 sector=00000000

[stefank60]

anyone any ideas please ?

[stefank60]

anyone please ?

[guns1inger]

Post a g-spot 2.60 screenshot of the avi file in question for comparison. This appears to be pretty late in play, after conversion and at the start of multi-plexing and authoring. Nothing in this portion of the log jumps out at me as indicating a problem.

[stefank60]

Hi and thanks for the reply.

I have deleted all the ones that wouldn't convert. Next time I get one that doesn't work I'll download that prog and post results here. Is the prog very straight forward to use ?

Thanks again

stef

[stefank60]

Well up to now no more problems - typical eh (not that I'm complaining)

If it should happen again I'll revisit this thread and post as you request.

Thanks again for replying.

Stefan