hi i was wondering if any of you guys have encountered this before. when i rip and convert selected chapters from this DVD (Serial Experiments Lain #4, Region 4), the resulting .mpg file is only about half of the video i wanted to convert.

one irregularity that i noticed was that the .mpv file generated by CCE is messed up, the running time is read as 57 minutes eventhough the video is only 23 minutes long. also, the file size of the .mpv file is larger than the settings i chose on the Bitrate tab; it's 800Mb. i set my Bitrate settings so that the video would only fill 396Mb, half a CD-R. i want to fit 2 episodes on one CD. i think because the .mpv was 800Mb, bbMPEG could only manage half the video before hitting the file size limit.

i selected different chapters from the same DVD and converted another episode (of similar length) and the .mpg turned out fine. i noticed the .mpv file this time was 23 minutes (correct length) and about 400Mb in size.

any ideas what went wrong with the first video? i could really use the help. for some cursed reason, i've been having a horrible experience ripping this DVD series (see previous post about audio problems).

here's the DVD2SVCD log;

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- 4/08/2002 2:55:02 AM
- DVD to SVCD Conversion
- DVD2SVCD ver. 1.0.9 build 2
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Initializing
Initializing finished.

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- 4/08/2002 2:55:07 AM
- Analyzing subtitles
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Subtitle found: StreamID: 0x20 Language: English

Executing subtitle selection/verification.
Subtitle selection/verification accepted.
1 subtitle streams selected.
Saving Subtitles ini file
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- 4/08/2002 2:56:00 AM
- Free on drive C: 10508.31 mb
- Internal rip
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Preparing vobfiles to be ripped:
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_1.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_2.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_3.vob
- E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_4.vob

Ripping: E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_3.vob
Ripping: E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_4.vob
Ripping finished. Speed: 12146

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- 4/08/2002 3:22:43 PM
- DVD to SVCD Conversion
- DVD2SVCD ver. 1.0.9 build 2
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Initializing
Initializing finished.

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- 4/08/2002 3:22:43 PM
- Free on drive C: 9377.73 mb
- Restarting from: From the start
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- 4/08/2002 3:22:45 PM
- DVD2AVI
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Creating DVD2AVI INI file:
- C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.INI

Variable settings:
iDCT_Algorithm: 32-bit SSE MMX

Executing DVD2AVI.
Executing DVD2AVI. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.exe" -CS=2 -YR=1 -EXIT -OF=[C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Disc3\DVD2AVI_Project_file] -IF=[C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Disc3\VTS_04_1.vob,C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Disc3\VTS_04_2.vob]
Framerate: 25000
DVD2AVI processing done.

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- 4/08/2002 3:23:30 PM
- Free on drive C: 9377.60 mb
- Extracting the subtitles.
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Subtitle extraction finished. Extracted these subtitles:
SVCD Stream no: 1 Language: English Num. of subs: 134

Saving Subtitle Timecodes.
Permanent subtitles.
Saving Subtitles ini file
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- 4/08/2002 3:24:23 PM
- Free on drive C: 9372.94 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
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Found AC3 stream id: 0x81
Filename: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Disc3\Extracted_audio_1.ac3
Audio1 delay: -272 ms
Audio extraction finished.

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- 4/08/2002 3:25:43 PM
- Free on drive C: 9307.14 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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Converting Audio to MP2. Filename: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Disc3\Extracted_audio_1.ac3
Executing BeSweet. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Disc3\Extracted_audio_1.ac3" -output "C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Disc3\Encoded_audio_1. mp2" -logfile "C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Disc3\Encoded_audio_1. log" ) -azid( -L -3db -c normal -g max ) -ota( -d -272 ) -2lame( -e -b 192 -m s )
Audio conversion of C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Disc3\Extracted_audio_1.ac3 finished.

Audio conversion finished.

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- 4/08/2002 3:28:26 PM
- Free on drive C: 9340.04 mb
- Video Encoding using Cinema Craft
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Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.
StreamSectors: 413874188
AudioSectors: 35078456
VideoPAPO: 5867748
ScanOffsetBytes: 43111
SeqAligningBytes: 2739956
DVDBytes: 0
VideoEndHeader: 4
SubtitleSectors: 0
EmptySectors: 238.00
PictureSectors: 0.00
PureMPEGStream: 370144912.53
Seconds: 1442.04
CalcMPEGStream: 370144912.53
Frames: 35926
CDSize: 398.00
Cut point 394.00
Variable Settings:
Frames: 35926
Anti Noise Filter: 2
Passes: 4
Image Quality: 5
VAF file creation: On
Video Encoding Mode: One Pass VBR
Q. Factor: 5
Min. bitrate: 1900
Max. bitrate: 2053
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 (No borders, encoded as 4:3)

---AVS Begin---
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\SIMPLE~1\SIMPLE~1 .DLL")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2Dec\mpeg2dec .dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\AVISYN~1.DLL")
mpeg2source("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Disc3\DVD2 AV~1.D2V")
SimpleResize(480,576)
AvisynthSubtitler("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Disc 3\Subs\","permsubs.txt")
ResampleAudio(44100)
----AVS End----

Closing program
CCE Max Speed: 1.020
Video Encoding finished.

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- 4/08/2002 4:09:20 PM
- Free on drive C: 8485.23 mb
- Converting Pictures from ES to PS
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini
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- 4/08/2002 4:09:22 PM
- Free on drive C: 8485.22 mb
- Converting Pictures from ES to PS
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini
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- 4/08/2002 4:09:24 PM
- Free on drive C: 8485.22 mb
- Multiplexing and cutting
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Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini
Offset in Seconds: 2
Executing bbMPEG.
Variable Settings:
Movie offset: 2 seconds
Cut point: 394 mb

Executing RunbbMPEG. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe" "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Disc3\bbMPEG_Muxed_File.mpg"
Multiplexing and cutting finished.

CD-Image creation finished.

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- 4/08/2002 4:11:31 PM
- Free on drive C: 8094.53 mb
- SVCD Creation finished!
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