Need help with CCE error when ecoding captured avi

[Ninja_N]

Hi I am trying to encode mpeg2 from captured avi but CCE SP 2.5 gives me error message when its outputting the .mpv file

cce encoding failed: error: video check sum is differnet from that of previous pass. source video data or time code may be differnet. please check video tape or the information file.

Dont know what to do, any help would be appreciated.

[Truman]

You did a conversion before, right? You created at least a specialfilename.vaf. Now you are trying to convert to specialfilename.mpv, but meanwhile you changed the source or some important settings. Correct me if I am wrong.
Change the output file name to differentspecialfilename.mpv. Now CCE will create a new .vaf file (you know: diff.......name.vaf) or just save the specialfilename.vaf to a different directory (or delete it) and every thing should be fine.
Hope this helps.

[Ninja_N]

Yeh, when I click on encode, it crerates a .vaf first with no probs, then automatically goes on to the .mpv I have not touched or changed anything, its all in one go. I also specify that these files a saved to a different dir. than my captured .avi

havent had time to try out your suggestion as currently at UNI. So are you trying to say this:
change the .vaf name to somehting different to the avi's name then it will work? not quite sure from your initial explanation, thanks.

[Radioman]

Ninja_N !

You are not alone and you can find your sollution here.

http://pub28.ezboard.com/fdoom9smpegforumfrm18.showMessage?topicID=251.topic

[Truman]

Excuse me for confusing you.
I thought, the cce encodes on the base of an old .vaf.
But this case seems to be different. Forget the rubbish, that I wrote above.
Let me try to understand.
After starting encode cce creates a .vaf file without problems. When it is finished, cce starts to encode to .mpv automatically.
Do you get the error message at that point or later?

[ebaldino]

Ninja_N, if you are running W2K, I had the same problem. Try feeding the AVI file to CCE through VFAPI version 1.03b. That did it for me.

Radioman: interesting patch, I will try it out.

rgds
EBaldino