AVI to MPEG

[Fett]

I can convert AVI to MP4, but not MPEG2. As a matter of fact, I've had no success converting anything to MPEG2.

 

Anyone have an idea?

[Brendon]

Hi Fett,

 

Thanks for the log.

 

Conversion worked fine on my system, and comparing the logs shows where the crunch came in your system.

Please look at the attached log screenshot. The right half is yours, the left is mine, and the significant differences are outlined in red.

 

 

As you'll see, at the 9.00.42 point your system went to finish loading those filters. There was a 9 second wait while it tried to complete the job and then at 51 seconds it gave up and declared a connection error. Mine just carried on and re-coded the clip.

 

Everything from there was pretty much the same except mine deleted the object after writing the file. I gather that yours either writes a zero length file or else a file full of zeroes, because it hasn't created an object to write and then delete at the end.

 

This seems to be some sort of transport problem between filters, but that's about the limit of my knowledge on this subject. (I pushed the envelope to get it out this far)

 

I have some thoughts on this matter

1) Since you also have a ULEAD application installed, that might be interfering with copier 9's filters and causing this problem.

2) If that is the problem, you may need to uninstall BOTH the ULEAD application and Copy & Convert, tidy up, and then reinstall C&C to set things right. No guarantees, this is just my best suggestion.

3) Since this is a problem with Copier9, I could move this topic into an EMC9 forum for you. There is a much larger user base for EMC9, and the people up there may have already dealt with this sort of problem.

4) If the users up there can't help you (it is quite a technical issue) you might need to go to Sonic/Roxio Technical support. Please feel free to download this topic and the screenshot to show them, or point Tech Support at the forum.

 

Would you like me to move the topic upstairs? (I'll leave a redirect here for a few days so you can go where it went)

 

Regards,

Brendon

[Brendon]

Hi Fett,

 

Please describe what you're doing (step-by-step) when you try to convert AVIs to MPEG2. Can you play or preview these AVIs on your machine? (what with?)

 

Please tell us what other video files you've tried to convert, and how you tried to convert them.

 

Please tell us what errors you get with each of these when you have no success.

[Fett]

I can play the AVI's on my machine, I can also convert them to MPEG4. Additionally, I can convert the AVIs to MPEG2 with Ulead (but it takes forever and I have a lot that I want to run in batch). I receive no errors, it runs the conversion (no previews) and says conversion complete but leaves an empty MPEG2 file.

 

Here is a copy of the log:

 

9:00:00 AM :

9:00:08 AM : ********************************************************

9:00:08 AM : ********************************************************

9:00:08 AM : ********************************************************

9:00:08 AM : **************Encoding module started*******************

9:00:08 AM : ********************************************************

9:00:08 AM : ********************************************************

9:00:08 AM : ********************************************************

9:00:08 AM : Starting Thumbnail extraction with VCE

9:00:09 AM : Copying 32bit-thumbnail data down to 24bit

9:00:37 AM : ********************************************************

9:00:37 AM : ********************************************************

9:00:37 AM : ********************************************************

9:00:37 AM : **************Encoding module started*******************

9:00:37 AM : ********************************************************

9:00:37 AM : ********************************************************

9:00:37 AM : ********************************************************

9:00:37 AM : ************ Log Videodata 0x2b0b630************

9:00:37 AM : source image or folder name: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\My Movies\102_0262.AVI

9:00:37 AM : target folder or file name: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\My Movies\102_0262.mpg

9:00:37 AM : Number of Audio streams for DVD Output

9:00:37 AM : Number of Subtitle streams for DVD Output

9:00:37 AM : preferred Audio for Divx,H264 and WMV as target

9:00:37 AM : ************ Log AudioData 0x2b0cb3c************

9:00:37 AM : preferred Subtitle for Divx,H264 and WMV as target

9:00:37 AM : ************ Log AudioData 0x2b0cb8c************

9:00:37 AM : unique identifier for caching: -1

9:00:37 AM : A cacheHandle was set: false

9:00:37 AM : Selected Source Video Title(-1 for all or non DVD source): -1

9:00:37 AM : Source Angle, valid if selected title != -1: 1

9:00:37 AM : movie length in seconds: 34.1333

9:00:37 AM : start position in second: 0.0000

9:00:37 AM : stop position in seconds: 0.0000

9:00:37 AM : Will be stored on which disk? (for spanning only!): 1

9:00:37 AM : Title for Menu or VolumeLabel: 102_0262

9:00:37 AM : Has Moviethumb: true

9:00:37 AM : if temporary files are needed put it in this place: C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\

9:00:37 AM : ************ Log EncodeData 0x1374cc************

9:00:37 AM : Target width of video: 0:

9:00:37 AM : Target height of video: 0

9:00:37 AM : contains quality setting (for spanning only,other wise 5 for not used!): 5

9:00:37 AM : contains max bitrate for encoder: 3000000

9:00:37 AM : force aspect ratio (content: 0:as is 1:Letterbox 2:Stretch 3:Pan & Scan): 1

9:00:37 AM : CompatibilityFlags (for H264 and MPEG4 only)(H264: 0:Standard 1:PSP 2:iPod 4:3GP ): 0

9:00:37 AM : Framerate (not for DVD): 29.9700

9:00:37 AM : contains quality setting (for spanning only,other wise 5 for not used!):5

9:00:37 AM : Start encode to MPEG2

 

9:00:37 AM :

9:00:37 AM :

9:00:37 AM : ********************************************************

9:00:37 AM : ******************Copy to MPG***********************

9:00:37 AM : ********************************************************

9:00:37 AM :

9:00:37 AM :

9:00:37 AM : ->Init Progress

9:00:37 AM : ->Init LoadRHGraphManager

9:00:37 AM : Cleaning-up RH GraphManager

9:00:37 AM : Creating RH GraphMgr

9:00:39 AM : Calling SetSoftwareProcessing

9:00:39 AM : Setting AspectRatioWidth to 320

9:00:39 AM : Setting AspectRatioHeight to 240

9:00:39 AM : Calling CreateInstance of Production

9:00:39 AM : Calling NewProduction

9:00:39 AM : Calling AddSourcFile

9:00:39 AM : Calling SetProduction

9:00:39 AM : Getting the path to the template directory from registry

9:00:39 AM : Setting GraphContext

9:00:39 AM : Calling ProduceEx

9:00:41 AM : Calling GetGraphDuration

9:00:41 AM : ->Init Graph

9:00:41 AM : ->Load Muxer

9:00:41 AM : ->Load Data Sink

9:00:41 AM : bEncodeVideo is 'true'

9:00:41 AM : ->Load Video Encoder

9:00:41 AM : Now loading RH's Video Encoder Filter

9:00:41 AM : ->Load Smart Tee

9:00:41 AM : Load SmartTee filter

9:00:41 AM : ->Load Video Renderer

9:00:41 AM : Load Video Renderer

9:00:41 AM : bEncodeAudio is 'true'

9:00:41 AM : ->Load ACM Wrapper

9:00:41 AM : ->Load Audio Encoder

9:00:41 AM : Now loading RH's MPEG-Audio Encoder Filter

9:00:41 AM : ->Construct Graph

9:00:41 AM : ->Load Filter Set for Video Conversion

9:00:41 AM : ################## Load filter set for Video Conversion #########################

9:00:41 AM : Loading Elecard Colorspace Converter

9:00:41 AM : Locally loading: C:\Program Files\Roxio\Disc Copier 9\Filters\SonicCsc.ax

9:00:41 AM : Loading Elecard Image Scaler

9:00:41 AM : Locally loading: C:\Program Files\Roxio\Disc Copier 9\Filters\SonicIScaler.ax

9:00:42 AM : Loading Elecard Framerate Converter

9:00:42 AM : Locally loading: C:\Program Files\Roxio\Disc Copier 9\Filters\SonicFRC.ax

9:00:42 AM : ################## Load filter set finish #########################

9:00:51 AM : Could not connect Pins, hr = 0x80040217

9:00:51 AM : ->A fatal error occured

9:00:51 AM : ->Destroy Progress

9:00:51 AM : encoding progress at 100 %

9:00:51 AM : TerminateThread

9:00:52 AM : Stop Progress

9:00:52 AM : ->Destroy Graph

9:00:52 AM : --> ACM Wrapper deleted

9:00:52 AM : --> Video Encoder deleted

9:00:52 AM : --> Audio Encoder deleted

9:00:52 AM : --> Muxer deleted

9:00:52 AM : --> Filewriter deleted

9:00:52 AM : --> Video Renderer deleted

9:00:52 AM : --> Smart Tee deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->Reset Video Window deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->VideoWindow deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->Menu Bitmap Filter deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->EncoderVideo deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->EncoderAudio deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->Avi Muxer deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->Null Renderer deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->VideoDecoder deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->Video Splitter deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->Audio Splitter deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->Splitter deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->Mixer deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->MediaSeekingProgress deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->MediaSeekingAudio deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->MediaSeekingVideo deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->MediaEventEx deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->MediaControl deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->Video Reader deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->Audio Reader deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->Image Scaler deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->FrameRate Converter deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->Color Converter deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->Audio Resampler deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->Microsoft FileWriter deleted

9:00:52 AM : -->RH GraphMgr is in use: cleanup started

9:00:52 AM : Cleaning-up RH GraphManager

9:00:52 AM : -->RH GraphMgr is now cleaned up

9:00:52 AM : -->CaptureGraph deleted

9:00:55 AM : ######################################################################

9:00:55 AM : ######################################################################

9:00:55 AM : Encoding successfully completed!

9:00:55 AM : ######################################################################

9:00:55 AM : ######################################################################