80004005 Error While Encoding Movie 1

[jack63ss]

I am running Creator 2009 MyDVD and getting an error when I try to create an ISO image. The encoding process completes for movies 1, 2 & 3, and then stops with an error that says:

 

80004005 Error while Encoding Movie 1

 

I have tried both hardware and software encoding and get the same result with both. I have actually created 3 DVDs successfully, but have run into this problem with 2 different projects (different movies).

 

The .mpg video clips were created using a Happauge WinTV v6 card as an input device, connected to a VCR. I could believe that one of the mpgs is out of sort, but they all play in preview. And I am confused by it saying it successfully encoded movie 1, then saying later on that movie is the problem. If I could narrow down which movie it actually was that it failed on I could run it through my AVS VideoRemaker to create a new mpg file, but I am not sure what one to try to fix.

 

Roxio MyDVD

Roxio Creator 2009 Special Edition (Build 111B10E ENU)

 

Windows XP Pro

5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3

 

Homebuilt system - Gigabyte Mb, Intel Quad 2.4 Cpu Q6600 with 4GB Memory

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 video with 5/5/2012 driver

 

I have about 50 DVDs to create, so I really need to figure out what is going on.

Thanks

[jack63ss]

UPDATE: I deleted the first 4 movies in the project and added them back in so they show up at the end of the movie list, and this time it failed immediately with the same error. So I think that it is the 5th mpg file that is bad. I am going to investigate this a little more, so please leave this posting in place and if I figure it out I'll post the answer.

 

Also, is there some way to "validate" the mpgs so I know they will encode correctly ?

[bimicher]

UPDATE: I deleted the first 4 movies in the project and added them back in so they show up at the end of the movie list, and this time it failed immediately with the same error. So I think that it is the 5th mpg file that is bad. I am going to investigate this a little more, so please leave this posting in place and if I figure it out I'll post the answer.

 

Also, is there some way to "validate" the mpgs so I know they will encode correctly ?

 

Do the mpgs play correctly by themselves?

Have you added the "problem" movie into Videowave and try the preview there?

How long in time are the movies you are trying to put on the DVD?

[jack63ss]

Okay, figured it out, has to do with frame sync. When I first started trying to import the video I tried to use Roxio Media Import. However it has a nasty quirk that if it comes across a section of an input stream that has no sync it STOPS capturing the video. Since I had a bunch of tapes (about 20 out of 30) that had breaks, it meant having to restart the capture over and over. So I gave up on it and switched to AVS Video Recorder, which will keep recoding until there is no signal (which is different than just no sync). Then when I split up the captured video into individual movies, in some cases I left "video" in the mpg that had no picture, and it showed up as basically blue filler or jitter. It seems THAT is what MyDVD did not like. Once I took these bad frames off the front of the clip they worked fine and I have been able to successfully create the DVDs for the 2 projects that were failing.

 

Lesson learned, make sure all your video clips are "clean" before you try to encode them.

 

To answer your questions though, they all did play by themselves in MyDVD Preview mode. I think I did try one in VideoWave, and I think it played, not positive. I am sure I'll run into this probelm again (like I said, I have about 25 DVDs to make), so I'll try VideoWave and see if it picks up the problem.

 

Thanks

Jack