Zero Bytes m2v file with CCE or Tmpg

[madbeefcake]

Hi ,

Whenever I encode an XVID or DIVX using DVD2SVCD with one of the above encoders .. I get a 0 byte encoded video file ...

Any Ideas please ?

[dlb]

May seem a silly question but did you play the movie before you ripped it.

dlb.

[madbeefcake]

Sure did .. no problems ... Your'e thinking codecs I guess ... I have DIVX 5.02 and XVID latest installed .. no probs there ..

[BJ_M]

looking back at your posts since you stated here shows you have had a LOT of problems w/ crashing / BSOD 's / incomplete encodes /error msg's and now 0 byte file problems ..

don't know what your current problem is but i would say you have a unstable system and are overclocking and/or have bad memory or bad Motherboard or bad powersupply or bad cooling ..

non of the above is prob related to to your current problems (which is prob due to a bad installations and/or missing codecs and/or corrupted source files) but may be ..


also -- please don't double post , thanks ...................

[dcsos]

I get zero bytes when I go over the 4gb file system limit..
Is this your problem?
try a shorter chunk

[madbeefcake]

To BJ_M.. Sorry for the double posts ... wasn't sure I was in the right forum...

You obviously didn't see that the instabilities are fixed .. definately an IRQ / Memory conflict between the DSL Modem & Graphics Card .. all stable now ! (ACPI with Virtual Irq mapping has issues !)

The Zero Byte file is a completely unrelated problem to any of the previous instabilities and is directly associated to the encoding of the movie ... I have seen a couple of other people in this forum have had this problem but I haven't seen a resolution yet .. this is why I'm here .. for help.

The source XVID is fine and plays fine in Virtual dub and Media Player.
The audio stream extracts and transcodes fine .. no problems.

I am using DVD2SVCD1.10c bundle .. do I need any additional encoders/codecs other than the DIVX and XVID codecs I already have installed ?

Thanks for your patience ..

[BJ_M]

no you shouldnt - of course i assume you have tmpgenc installed AND you have correctly within dvd2svcd "pointed" to its location ... what does the log file show? where does it stop ? or does it also go on and make a 0byte bin file ? basicly at which point does it screw up ? you say you can play the files fine - so you have the correct codecs . another option is to adjust the vfapi setting in tmpgenc . or load the avi direct in tmpgenc to see what happens .. (if you go to source range in tmpgenc and can't step through your avi - for sure a problem) ..

[madbeefcake]

Yeah .. I have Tmpg installed and all the file paths are cool... I have the same problem when i use CCE as well .. weird..

I'll try loading the movie into Tmpg directly and see what happens .. in the past though .. the progress in Tmpg "progresses" but the Source position does not .. eventually Tmpg complains that it cannot find the encoded .mpv file (because it is 0 bytes) and that's the end of the road.

I have encoded many movies in the past before my HDD died without problems with the same software DVD2SVCD and CCE 2.5 and or Tmpg (cant remember the version) .. it's only since I re-installed Win Xp that I have had problems..

cheers

[madbeefcake]

to dcsos ..

I am using NTFS so the 4Gb (32bit limit) should not apply .. or is there a limit on the applications ? Tmpg etc.. ?

None of the files I encode go anywhere near the 4Gb mark anyway .. . cheers anyway ..

[DJRumpy]

I wouldn't rule out a codec problem just yet. Use GSPOT (find it in the tools section on the left). It will tell you exactly what your AVI is using for codecs, and if you have the necessary codecs installed.

[madbeefcake]

Thanks dude ... unfortunately the codecs all check out fine ... Great tool though ... This is a weird one ... I can see the disk space decreasing while the file is encoding .. but the encoded video file stays at 0 bytes ... checked all the paths and they all point to the right place.

I hate to admit it .. but right now this is the first pc prob that's beating me !

I appreciate all the suggestions ...

[BJ_M]

no wait ... often i show 0bytes also untill i refresh the dir after its done ..

since you see the disk avaliable space decrease ... the file must be being made - at least somewhere on your drive .. right click on the file AS IT'S BEING MADE and check properties ... keep checking and see if it changes .

ok a shot in the dark -- but i admit i don't see/know to many answers to your problem..

[madbeefcake]

Hi all .. It seems I might be getting close to the real problem .. Apparently if the NTFS File allocation table gets screwed up on the disk partition then under high load conditions .. (e.g. encoding) .. files can be written to unknown locations on that partition .. this would certainly explain why the file is 0 bytes and the HDD capacity is reducing.

I think some strange stuff must have occurred when I created the partition that I use for encode.. I had previously changed the drive letter assignment that for the windows partition (prior to creating the second partition, the encoding partition) ...

Windows did not like me changing the drive assignment and refused to boot ... I repaired the installation with the installation disk and thought that was the end of it .... apparently not ...

It looks like I will need to format and re-install windows from scratch ... this will rebuild the NTFS File system...

Once again .. thanks for all the suggestions .. I'll let you know if this fixes the problem ... I guess I can test it by formating the c: partition ... re-installing windows and then pointing the encode software to c: instead of d: .... if c: works and d: does not then that's definately it !

Cheers

[madbeefcake]

Still doesn't work ..

Can someone post me some links to safe stable versions of:-

Xvid Codec
Divx5 codec
DVD2SVCD

Thanks in advance ..