Cinema Craft Encoder (CCE) crashes every bloody time

[duck712]

Can someone solve this problem?

I'm trying to convert an AVI (Divx) to a MPEG2 (SVCD) file using CCE. For some reason it crashes every single time right after I select 'encode'.

Mostly I get the following error: set_file_pos(4212064185,1): An attempt was made to move the file pointer before the beginning of the file.(131)

I tried several versions of CCE (2.5, 2.62, lite, trial, SP) but it never works. I can play Divx-movies just fine.

My system is a Duron700@800, MSI-K7T Pro2, 320MB RAM. I'm trying to make a CBR MPEG2-file.

[Sully]

The problem is you're trying to convert a DiVX not a true AVI. You'll have to convert your file before using CCE.

[duck712]

Thanks for the reply Sully.
So first I would have to convert it to....what? Can I just load the DivX into VirtualDub and process it without compression? That would result in quite a large file I presume

[Sully]

I'm not the DiVX expert, but yes I would assume that would be the way to go.

One thing to keep in mind... No matter how you do it the quality will be less (maybe by a lot) than the quality of the DiVX. The DiVX is already encoded, so doing it even in another format again will result in quality loss.

[Darkbird]

You can try frameserving the avi into CCE, with either Tsunami-Mpeg and VFAPI or just VirtualDub. Use older version of CCE, not 2.62.

[tweakybird]

May as well use the slower Tmpgenc freeware to encode divx to mpeg2 since it certainly supports it and CCE SP only converts from AVI/DV (how can they set the retail value of cinema craft at 3000+ US dollars?).

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[duck712]

Darkbird: I tried that using 2.5, it didn't work. I received another error. I read somewhere on a forum that 2.5 might have issues with AMD-procs so I tried 2.6 also.

Tweakybird: Yes, Tmpgenc does it without complaining (I used it the first time). But I wanted to try another encoder because of a FF/RW and a time-display problem on my Philips DVD-player. I'm now giving LSX Encoder 3.5 a try.
See this thread: www.vcdhelp.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=50640&forum=1