Frameserving from VirtualDub to CCE 2.5 SP ERROR...

[Ta1eNt]

im trying to frameserve a 3hr avi that i captured with my tv tuner card. i use VirtualDub to frameserve and then do 4 pass vbr in CCE, i click encode and it takes 5hrs to transcode a .vaf file and then it trys to encode the video but it gives me an error that reads:

"cce encoding failed: Error: Video check-sum is different from that of previous pass. Souce video data or time code may be different. Please check video tape of the information file. --information-- Current: check sum = 00ca9fa1 Previous: check sum = 00ca718d"

does anyone know how i can fix this?

[Medical]

Hi !

You have to delete your *.vaf file each time you encode a new clip.
Hope this solves your problem!
Ah, and btw, don't encode audio! Select under Virtual Dub *.wav
file (Audio menu) then select any *.wav file you have on your hd (I made
a 1 second blank wav file for this reason) and uncheck the audio encode
option in CCE.

Hope this helps!
Med.

[D_Knife]

You don't have to delete the VAF each time you encode.
the VAF is only used if you select VBR bitrate encoding
if fact you must use one for multipass encoding.
When you are doing multipass encode the first pass creates the VAF file and the second and later passes reference the information from the VAF

Set all your video settings you want - you can choose to encode audio or not. once you have all the settings right. uncheck video/audio and set your multipass setting for 1
this will only create a VAF file. It's a bit faster than normal.
once this is done - reenable your video and optionaly audio checkboxes and set your multipass to the desired level. 2-3-4.
make sure you don't change any other settings.

email me for further questions.

[Ta1eNt]

i seem to have fixed the problem...when i chose multipass vbr my avg bitrate was different from my max bitrate so i guess thats why it was saying that my previous bitrate wasn't matching. im encoding the video now, 15hrs to find out if it works

[Ta1eNt]

this is wierd...i started encoding the vid and it froze so i hit cancel and then click encode again and it gives me the check-sum error again and i havent been able to get it to encode since...someone help plz.