NanDub Problems

[filefreak]

Hello all. I'm new to ripping DVD's and converting them to AVI, so bear with me. First off, I have a 40 gig HD, so I shouldn't be having these problems...

First I rip the DVD with SmartRipper, then I convert it with DVD2AVI, and last I encode it with NanDub. Everything goes fine, until about an hour through the encoding process (The first pass), NanDub gives me an error: "Not enough hard drive space to continue." I'm not quite sure what to make of this, because I have a 40 gig HD (with nothing on it except for the DVD in question), as I mentioned above, and I have 512 MB of ram. I've tried it three seperate times on three seperate DVD's, all issuing me the same error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks in advance!

[ARnet_tenRA]

filefreak,
You may want to try your encoding with the newest verion of Virtualdub standard and then later multiplex your avi and mp3 with nandub. I've noticed with my own conversions that Nandub will sometimes make extremely large files no matter what settings I choose.

[filefreak]

Really? Hmm.... Would NanDub make a file that's over about 36 gigs? I just thought it was crashing...lol. So, is there a tutorial or anything on how to do it with VirtualDub, by any chance?

Thanks a lot.

[ARnet_tenRA]

I was thinking that a file over 2 gig or maybe 4 gig would cause problems.

A good tutorial for VirtualDub is
http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com/vdub-filters.htm

[frenetic]

NanDub was designed for Divx 3.xx multipass encoding. Divx has this functionality built-in these days. Get the newest VirtualDub (1.45)and the newest divx (5.0.1) for better encoding.

[deltaboy]

hey FILEFREAK,

i hope this will solve your prob. when doing the 1st pass in nandub, all it does is collects the info (stats file) for the final encode in the 2nd pass.

under VIDEO, go to the SBC options and check both generate stats and no AVI output.

when doing a first pass, nandub encodes a fake AVI file at the highest DivX bitrates (6000 i think) and saves it as a stats file. so if you dont have no AVI output checked, it will make an extremely large AVI file.