heres the deal i have a movie which is in .avi format, i used avi2dvd and successfully copied a sample clip of the movie which was about 2 minutes long without any problems. however, i went back and tried using avi2 dvd to copy the entire movie and when it created the avi2dvd temp folder the dvd-image.iso file is only 846KB, and when i open that file there is nothing under the video file. any idea why this didnt work? heres a copy of the log from avi2dvd, any ideas are welcome!!!!
[4:05:18 PM] AVI2DVD Started !
[4:05:23 PM] Type mode : Avi Input
[4:05:23 PM] Output : Dvd
[4:05:23 PM] Encoder Selected : FreeEnc
[4:05:24 PM] Start demuxing the selected audio ...
[4:05:24 PM] Demuxing of the selected audio finished successfully ! [C:\MOVIES\HOSTAGE\Avi2dvd_temp\Extracted_Audio.ac3 0 Bytes]
[4:05:24 PM] Starts Audio correction ...
[4:05:24 PM] Audio corrected successfully ! [C:\MOVIES\HOSTAGE\Avi2dvd_temp\Fixed_Audio01.ac3 0 Bytes]
[4:05:24 PM] Starts Ac3->Ac3 convertion ...
[4:05:25 PM] Ac3 generated successfully ! [C:\MOVIES\HOSTAGE\Avi2dvd_temp\AudioStream 1 AC3 5CH.ac3 0 Bytes]
[4:05:25 PM] Start creating avisynth script ...
[4:05:25 PM] Avisynth script created successfully ! [C:\MOVIES\HOSTAGE\Avi2dvd_temp\Avisynth_Script_File.avs 167 Bytes]
[4:05:25 PM] Bitrate used : 5130 Kbpps
[4:05:25 PM] Start video encoding ...
[7:06:10 PM] Video encoded successfully ! [C:\MOVIES\HOSTAGE\Avi2dvd_temp\Encoded_Video.m2v 1281257242 Bytes]
[7:06:10 PM] Muxing audio+video ...
[7:06:11 PM] M2v muxed successfully ! [C:\MOVIES\HOSTAGE\Avi2dvd_temp\Encoded_Video_Muxed.mpg -1 Bytes]
[7:06:11 PM] Zero subtitles found
[7:06:11 PM] Author script generation ...
[7:06:11 PM] Author script generated successfully !
[7:06:11 PM] Start authoring ...
[7:06:12 PM] Dvd authored successfully ! [ C:\MOVIES\HOSTAGE\Avi2dvd_temp\DVD ]
[7:06:12 PM] Generating iso ...
[7:06:13 PM] Iso generated successfully ! This is the file that you must burn --> [C:\MOVIES\HOSTAGE\Avi2dvd_temp\DVD_Image.iso 866304 Bytes]
[7:06:13 PM] Job Done !!!
rotary:
I used film machine like you suggested, and it worked. finally after all this time ive been messing around with trying to burn a .AVI with AC3 audio it finally worked!! thanks for the advice. i do have one question tho. when i first used film machine i tested it by converting the small sample video clip of the movie, and after it got done encoding everything it burned the movie onto my dvd , however, when i went back and encoded the entire full length movie it stopped at the point where it said it was creating the isotree and never burned the dvd, which is no big deal i just used Nero to burn all the files it created, but is there anyreason why it didnt burn using film machine? here is the log from film machine if you can figure anything out.
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- 5/10/2005 11:08:35 AM
- AVI to DVD conversion
- The FilmMachine version 1.4
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Initializing.
Computer Info
CPU name : Pentium 4
Available memory: 503 MB
Windows version : Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Initializing finished.
Rewriteable media (DVD+RW)
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- 5/10/2005 11:08:38 AM
- Free on drive C: 54.20 GB
- Audio Extraction
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Extracting audio from AVI file
Audio extraction finished.
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- 5/10/2005 11:12:54 AM
- Free on drive C: 53.53 GB
- Video Encoding using Cinema Craft Encoder SP 2.67
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Executing Cinema Craft Encoder.
TFM_Project_File.ecl found
TFM_Project_File.ecl encoding started at 11:13:00 AM
Creating TFM_Video_Info_File.vaf
Creating TFM_Enc_Video.mpv
TFM_Project_File.ecl encoded at 2:51:36 PM
Encoding finished
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- 5/10/2005 2:51:45 PM
- Free on drive C: 49.72 GB
- Creating DVD compliant files
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Mplex is multiplexing the video and audio stream.....
mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
File C:\PROGRA~1\THEFIL~1\Output\TFM_EN~1.MPV looks like an MPEG Video stream.
File C:\PROGRA~1\THEFIL~1\Output\TFM_EN~1.AC3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
Multiplexing video program stream!
Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (C:\PROGRA~1\THEFIL~1\Output\TFM_EN~1.MPV)
VIDEO STREAM: e0
Frame width : 720
Frame height : 576
Aspect ratio : 16:9 display
Picture rate : 25.000 frames/sec
Bit rate : 9800000 bits/sec
Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
CSPF : 0
Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (C:\PROGRA~1\THEFIL~1\Output\TFM_EN~1.AC3)
AC3 frame size = 1792
AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
Bit rate : 57344 bytes/sec (448 kbit/sec)
Frequency : 48000 Hz
SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 10470296
target data-rate specified : 10080000
++ WARN: Target data rate lower than computed requirement!
++ WARN: N.b. a 20% or so discrepancy in variable bit-rate
++ WARN: streams is common and harmless provided no time-outs will occur
Run-in Sectors = 89 Video delay = 13019 Audio delay = 0
New sequence commences...
Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
Audio bd: buf= 16384 frame=000000 sector=00000000
Scanned to end AU 162297
STREAM e0 completed @ frame 162297.
STREAM bd completed @ frame 202871.
Multiplex completion at SCR=584262217.
Video e0: buf= 178164 frame=162297 sector=02037203
Audio bd: buf= 2048 frame=202871 sector=00180331
VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
Video Stream length: 4113767168 bytes
Sequence headers: 11308
Sequence ends : 1
No. Pictures : 162297
No. Groups : 11308
No. I Frames : 11308 avg. size 66821 bytes
No. P Frames : 44412 avg. size 35783 bytes
No. B Frames : 106578 avg. size 16597 bytes
Average bit-rate : 5069200 bits/sec
Peak bit-rate : 9329200 bits/sec
BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 194665
AUDIO_STATISTICS: bd
Audio stream length 363546624 bytes.
Frames : 445692414
BUFFERING min 35 Buf max 12355
MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
Multiplexing finished.
DVDAuthor is writing the VOB files.....
Locale=C
Converting filenames to US-ASCII
dvdauthor creating VTS
Video pts = 0.184 .. 6492.104
Audio[0] pts = 0.184 .. 6492.088
Generating VTS with the following video attributes:
MPEG version: mpeg2
TV standard: pal
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Resolution: 720x576
Audio ch 0 format: ac3/6ch, 48khz drc, 'en'
dvdauthor creating table of contents
Scanning C:\Program Files\The FilmMachine\Output\DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
Writing VOB files finished.
Finished authoring DVD
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- 5/10/2005 3:12:28 PM
- Free on drive C: 41.28 GB
- Burning DVD
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NeroApi version = 6.3.1.15
i used it again and it copied it with no problem this time. just out of curiousity, is it normal to take 4 hours to do this whole process using film machine? cause when i was using dvd santa it would only take a little over an hour.
it took 4 hours using the film machine with the CCE encoder and my pc is a gateway pent.4/3ghz/hyperthreading/200gb/500mbram.and in the option setup in film machine i had it set to make 2 passes with the encoding. about how much faster would the whole process be if you only make 1 pass? and how much picture quality would you sacrifice?
