multiAVCHD's x264 always shuts down half way during transcoding

[jones24]

I'm trying to transcode a blu ray rip that's too large to be burnt unto a dvd 9. It's around 11GB in size.

The blu ray rip should be an mkv file and i'm just simply trying to make it smaller in size so that it can be burnt unto either a dvd 9 or dvd5.

I'm using multiavchd and everytime it transcodes the file it will tell me that x264 has failed and it needs to shut down and hence the transcoding has failed.

Firstly my mulitavchd is up to date since it always checks to update everytime. 2ndly i have been to the forum and have asked for help in the forum. The maker of this program dean hasn't been of much help.



I'm using a windows 7 64 Bit OS, my cpu is a c2d E8400 which has been OC to 4.1ghz.


I have tried using the x264 64Bit but somehow i don't know why the 32bit gets utilized but i feel that's not the problem as i also have a 32bit OS win vista and the same error occurs.

I thought it might be cos my OC was unstable so i ran the program on another pc which the cpu is at stock speed and towards the end of transcoding it failed and the vid of course was not made.


Right now i have succeed in transcoding the video into a hd dvd mode which i did not want to but didn't know. I d/led powerdvd 9 to try and play it and does not play.



I'm really frustrated here. I just want to shrink my large file sizes into smaller wants to be burned unto dvds perferably dvd 5s. That's all.


If anyone knows why multiavchd doesn't work then i would appreciate it if u could explain. If not i don't mind using another program.

I own an ATI gfx card and i understand that ati has programs that use the gpu to transcode video files. Will that work? I also want it to be fairly quick. 1-3 hrs is fine with me. 12 hrs is definitely no one. Hence i cannot use that program called shift or something like that.

Thanks.

[johns0]

Try using uncropmkv and then author with multiavchd,works for me for blu-rays that multiavcd cant encode.

[jones24]

Try using uncropmkv and then author with multiavchd,works for me for blu-rays that multiavcd cant encode.

hey thanks for this, i'll give it a try.

Hopefully it'll be hassle free.

[jones24]

oh yes i'm really a noob in this, i have now used uncropmkv and it's a small program and it's now resizing the files to 1920 x 1080.

Once it's been resized is that it? I noticed there were no options to select the file size and anything. Next you mentioned after using this program you would use multiavchd which means it's a 2 step process?

the esimated time to resize all the scenes is like 3 hrs.

Do i need to do anything else after the resize?

[johns0]

You can resize to 1280x720 and select bitrate to match the size you want to fot a dvd5,for a 2 hour movie use 4225 bitrate and for a 90 minute movie use 5845 and then use eac3togui comvert the dts audio to 640 kb ac3.You dont have to mux any files together when you input them into multiavchd.

I load movie.264,movie.ac3 and movie.sup into multiavchd and author the movie that way.

[jones24]

well something bad happened.

i was using uncrop and like probably like 80% into the encoding x264 fails and has to shut down again. it finallys encodes a file but it is onlt 1hr 20 mins long so like 20 mins of the last part is cut from it.


is there any specific reason why it fails? i'm using my 32bit os for this.

the overclock has passed the torture test, could it be due to heat?

everything is only speculation.



okay i have managed to trancode similar files in the past, it's just recently such porblems have occured. i have even reinstalled programs likes avi synth etc.

[johns0]

The problem is the x264.exe is unstable in uncropmkv 1.5,download uncropmkv 1.4 and extract the x264.exe from that and replace the one in uncrop 1.5,i had major problems encoding until i did that and now all files encode all the way.

[guns1inger]

I have yet to find a file that Multi-AVCHD couldn't handle, so this is a little odd.

You say in the first post that the file "should be an mkv file". It either is or it isn't. Perhaps try Medfiainfo to confirm if you are unsure.

I have found that sometimes mkv files and file handling can be a bit hit and miss. I have only hit these problems in older files, but the fix was always the same. Demux everything with MKVExtractGUI, then rebuild with MKVMerge using only the elements I needed for the conversion. Always fixed the problem.

Finally, it might be worth giving AVCHDCoder a try. It is a big download, and doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Multi-AVCHD, but it is a lot faster, and correctly calculates disc size for the encoding, somethign Multi-AVCHD doesn't seem to be able to do.

[johns0]

Its an unstable x264.exe build that was being used in recent multiavchd and uncropmkv plus the tsmuxer was crapping out as well.The tsmuxergui 1.10.6 had no problems joining the m2ts files.

Thing i dont like about avchdcoder and other apps is it requires you have ffdshow installed but i dont need it since i have the necessary codecs installed.

[jones24]

hi johns0 so it's the newer x264 that's unstable.

Thanks for the suggestion about using an older version's x264 and replacing the newer one.

To gunsinger i am sure it's an mkv file it's not the first time i'm shrinking files like these. I have done a few in the past.


So u suggest that i use avchdcoder. Well i actually used another program called expresso which utilizes the gpu to transcode but i think the quality would be terrible.

It's okay that this avchdcoder has fewer options i just want to transcode it to fit unto dvds and keep everything else the same, if it calcualtaes everything correctly so much the better. I want something fast and something simple to do.

I actually hate transcoding but sometimes the files i download are bigger than dvd sizes.

[jones24]

okay i have downloaded and installed avchdcoder.

CUrrently using it now.

This file of mine has a couple of audio streams in 2 languages and 3 subtitle streams. I added all of them in and selected dvd 9 size.

I wonder how the finished file will be like.

Been getting disappointments with multiavchd and uncropmkv.

[obewon]

ADDING ALL THE AUDIO FILES WILL RESULT IN THE PICTURE QUAILITY BEEING REDUCED.
YOUR BETTER OFF JUST PICKING THE LANGUAGE YOU WANT,IF I REMEMBER YOU CAN PICK THE DEFAULT LANGUAGE IN THE SET UP,
I WOULD ALSO SET THE AUDIO TO AC3,ITS ALOT SMALLER THAN DTS -SO IMPROVING VIDEO QUALITY,THIS ALSO CAN BE DONE IN THE AVCHDCODER SET UP. ALSO IVE NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH MULTAVCHD ,AND FIND IT ALOT QUICKER AS YOU CAN USE " ON PASS " ENCODING, AND IF I REMEMBER RIGHT AVCHD CODER ALWAYS DOES 2PASS ENCODING

[jones24]

HI right now everytime avchdeocder seems to fail when it comes to doing the subtitles.

What's happening?

[jones24]

Seems like avchcoder always fails during the subtitle phase. I removed all the subs and then some sort of error.


I am now going to use the x264 from the earlier versions like someone suggested here.

I actually del the other files like avi syth etc.


Actually i don;t have much confidence in this cos the x264 from earlier versions appear to be the same as the new ones.



Perhaps a totally new program could help?

[jones24]

I also tried using the earlier version of x264 and it has failed with multiavchd. Any more suggestions?

[poisondeathray]

If all these different x264 versions and programs fail this suggests there might be errors in your file, or hardware issues. Try starting from the original blu-ray source

[jones24]

Hi i have already fixed this issue but a new one has cropped up.