DVD2SVCD, .vob -> .mpeg...No video???HELP!!!

[SirRaven]

I'm having massive problems here...I have my dvd rip as a .ifo and .vobs happily sitting on my harddrive, and I convert them to SVCD with DVD2SVCD like i always do. But for some reason, my last batch of attempts doesn't allow me to do so....for some reason no matter what I try, when i do my conversion from .vob to mpeg using DVD2SVCD (CCE) I get a blank black screen w/ the audio. I know this has nothing to do w/ codecs cuz when u can't see due to codec failure it gives u a message and usually displays "visualizations" in Media Player...I've tried every viewer from power dvd to bsplayer to imaging the cuesheet w/ daemon and running that file w/ power dvd and still no good....I don't know why this sudden madness has occurred?
can it be a conflicting set of codecs somewhere?

these are the most recent codecs I've installed since I last SUCCESSFULLY DVD2SVCD'd something...(i've also installed DX9 since my last successful burn)

ffdshow-20030103.exe
OggDS0995.exe
SubTitDS1400.exe
XviD-04102002-1.exe

anybody got any idea why this is happening?...i'm really getting pissed off here...

[Vejita-sama]

The screen is all black? Because my first thought would be that there's a problem with AVISynth. However, normally when that happens you get a black screen with an AVISynth error message. Still you might want to try to play the AVS script file (right click on it and choose open with media player). If that doesn't play correctly there's the problem right there (fix by 're-installing' avisynth).

What do the mpv files look like? There should be two (CCE encoded and a pulldown). I would expect both of them are blank too, but double check.

The only other thing I can thing of is that the VOB files are corrpt. Can you play them from your HD (either with software DVD player or WMP)? Run DVD2AVI manually? Does that look right? Are all the VOB files numbered in seq order?

I've seen some DVDs where because of the way the PCG are setup you'll get VTS_01.vob, VTS_03.vob, VTS_08.vob. And not ALL of those VOB files contain data. So again check that all the VOB files contrain data (play with WMP) and are numbered correctly.

[SirRaven]

-"The screen is all black?"
- yes

- "AVS script file" (both of them)
- both work fine, display video

- "What do the mpv files look like? There should be two (CCE encoded and a pulldown)."
- both are blank just like output mpeg files...(ure assumption was correct)

- "The only other thing I can thing of is that the VOB files are corrpt. Can you play them from your HD (either with software DVD player or WMP)? "
- Yeah, i've tested them in in PowerDVD and all work fine...they are also sequential so no problems there

this pisses me off even more....the avs script files both display the video but my final product doesn't....what is the deal w/ this? how come it worked before and now suddenly I get this garbage happening?

[SirRaven]

now i tried running DVD2AVI manually, by trying to encode the .vobs to any other format (avi-divx, avi-xvid, avi-uncompressed)
uncompressed/ no recompression made an instant file.avi that was 0 bytes....didn't do anything in other words
and the other two, divx and xvid...just caused dvd2avi to crash ("send error report" garbage)


frustration growing......

[SirRaven]

someone help i've tried everything this is killing me...i don't know what else to do

[SirRaven]

i suppose noone has an answer to fix this?...its killin me here, any input will be appreciated