DVD authoring failed, advice?

[Elevenius]

After the project aborting itself at 97%, it mentioned that I should "probably decrease bitrate or audio bitrate". Does anyone have any advice of where I should go from here? It asked me if I wanted to keep temporary files, and I said yes. So we still have those, for what good it does.

(Log attached)

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[Noahtuck]

So you are actually "converting" and not "authoring"......
Big difference.

Give some details on what it is you are actually doing, with what programs etc.

[davexnet]

Perhaps MrC will look at it, since it's an AVStoDVD project.

[Elevenius]

Converting? They are all .wmv files, but I was trying to straight burn them like anything else. unless AVStoDVD took it upon itself to convert them for me without me knowing. But perhaps it would be easier if I did indeed convert them to .avi. I never had a problem with that in the past.

[manono]

Converting? They are all .wmv files, but I was trying to straight burn them like anything else. unless AVStoDVD took it upon itself to convert them for me without me knowing. But perhaps it would be easier if I did indeed convert them to .avi.

Yes, converting. Your WMV files have to be converted to DVD compliant MPEG-2 video and the AC3 audio. Apparently, according to the log, during the encoding the bitrate spiked too high, causing the authoring to fail. But that's just speculation and as suggested, it might be better if MrC had a look

Unless you want to burn those WMV files to disc as-is, but I don't think that's what you want. And no, you don't want to convert them to AVI, not if you're trying to create DVDs for playing on a standalone DVD player.

[Elevenius]

I do have a converter known as Super on my computer. I have attached a picture, to my post. The option in the red box appears to be MPG. Is this the extension for the MPEG file type? (If not, is AVS Video Converter a good option? I've heard that you have to pay for it, but you can use it for free also. Does this mean that it leaves a watermark, or something else, until you pay for it? because that would not be worth it to me.)

[Noahtuck]

Converting? They are all .wmv files, but I was trying to straight burn them like anything else. unless AVStoDVD took it upon itself to convert them for me without me knowing.

Seriously, have you ever even read the description for AVStoDVD ?
The first sentence,

AVStoDVD is a flexible tool to convert various media formats to DVD compliant streams and burn them into a highly compatible single track DVD

It's soul purpose is to CONVERT files to (a) DVD compliant structure or format.

Burning, Converting, Authoring are COMPLETELY different things!

If you wanted to burn WMV directly to dvdr's all you need to do is use a burning program like ImgBurn, but then you would have to have a standalone that would play WMV files.

And to add to what manono wrote, i guess if your player will play Xvid/Divx that would be another way to go.

[davexnet]

Converting? They are all .wmv files, but I was trying to straight burn them like anything else. unless AVStoDVD took it upon itself to convert them for me without me knowing.

Seriously, have you ever even read the description for AVStoDVD ?
The first sentence,

AVStoDVD is a flexible tool to convert various media formats to DVD compliant streams and burn them into a highly compatible single track DVD

It's soul purpose is to CONVERT files to (a) DVD compliant structure or format.

Burning, Converting, Authoring are COMPLETELY different things!

If you wanted to burn WMV directly to dvdr's all you need to do is use a burning program like ImgBurn, but then you would have to have a standalone that would play WMV files.

And to add to what manono wrote, i guess if your player will play Xvid/Divx that would be another way to go.

I think the problem is, people new to the scene, they see a great all-in-one program like AVStoDVD, and
they don't understand, or separate in their mind, all the discrete steps going on behind the scenes.

On the other hand, people who have been doing it for years learned all the steps individually.

How often have you seen people refer to "burning, when they mean encoding, or similar?

[Noahtuck]

@ davexnet

Yep, i agree!!
That's why i was trying to emphasize there is a difference.

Within the first few lines of the first log he posted i knew right away he was converting and not authoring but then i closed the log as people need to learn to do some of the work themselves instead of having their hand held all the way and actually give some specific details on what they are doing, with what type of files and what their end goal is and what they are trying to accomplish.

If you read his OP he basically said nothing except what had happened.

My car blew up!!!

Well that narrows it down!!
LOL!!

[Elevenius]

Sorry, I also forget sometimes that this forum is video help in-general, not just AVStoDVD help. I was still wondering though, if anyone knows what I should do about this bitrate issue. Would any information about the files themselves help? I tried converting them to MPEG-2 directly, but it didn't work out.

[davexnet]

Hi Elevenius, best wait for MrC (the author of AVStoDVD) to review the logs . He often appears in this forum.

[Elevenius]

Thank you everyone, for your help, and patience. I eventually tried converting the videos to avi, because AVStoDVD seems to be better with those. (Before I saw the advice not to try it.) It seems to have worked, atleast the DVD is burned and works on my computer. I will test it on my DVD tomorrow.

Thanks again, and wish me luck!

[_MrC_]

Here we are!

As manono suggested, the problem is due to bitrate spiking that sometimes happens when QuEnc is used and video footage is short. Issue appened on Title 9. Two workarounds:

1. Decrease average bitrate: go to 'Edit Title'/'Video', toggle off 'Auto Video Setup', toggle off 'Auto Bitrate Calculation' and manually decrease average bitrate (i.e. from 8500 kbps to 7000 kbps).
2. Force HCenc as video encoder: go to 'Edit Title'/'Video'. toggle off 'Auto Video Setup' and select 'HCenc VBR 1-pass' instead of 'QuEnc CBR 1-pass' as 'Video Encoding Profile'.

Start again project. If the error happens with other Titles, then use same approach.

Let me know



Bye