bbMPEG cutting Pulldown_Encoded_Video_NTSC.mpv short

Using 1.1.2 build 1. Last two attempts have produced around 30 minutes of 74 minute movies. 'Pulldown_Encoded_Video_NTSC.mpv' is full length played through media player as is 'Encoded_audio_1.mp2', 1:13:57. I believe bbMPEG uses these two files to create 'bbMPEG_Muxed_File.mpg', which is only 31:37 in length (great audio and video - and in sync, but...). Have tried removing and re-installed complete DVD2SVCD package with no effect. Why is bbMPEG truncating movie, and what can I do to fix? - Video Pulldown -------------------------------------------------------- Executing Pulldown. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\pulldown\pulldown.exe" "D:\Rip Folder CD2\Encoded_Video_CCE_NTSC.mpv" "D:\Rip Folder CD2\Pulldown_Encoded_Video_NTSC.mpv" Video pulldown finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/22/2003 11:09:59 PM - Free on drive D: 14901.94 mb - Converting Pictures from ES to PS -------------------------------------------------------- Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/22/2003 11:10:01 PM - Free on drive D: 14901.94 mb - Converting Pictures from ES to PS -------------------------------------------------------- Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini Executing RunbbMPEG. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe" "D:\Rip Folder CD2\ChangeCDPicture.bmp.mpg" -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/22/2003 11:10:06 PM - Free on drive D: 14901.88 mb - Converting Pictures from ES to PS -------------------------------------------------------- Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/22/2003 11:10:08 PM - Free on drive D: 14901.88 mb - Multiplexing and cutting -------------------------------------------------------- Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini Offset in Seconds: 2 Executing bbMPEG. Variable Settings: Movie offset: 2 seconds Cut point: 795 mb Executing RunbbMPEG. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe" "D:\Rip Folder CD2\bbMPEG_Muxed_File.mpg" Multiplexing and cutting finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/22/2003 11:16:24 PM - Free on drive D: 14109.47 mb - Determining length of audio -------------------------------------------------------- Analyzing: D:\Rip Folder CD2\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00.mpg 1897.608 seconds D:\Rip Folder CD2\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00.mpg Analyzing finished.

Please post the whole log file and not just what you think is the problem area. Mark

Log file 

Trying to save space, but you are of course correct - after all I'm not an expert (obviously). Here is last night's log file from third attempt - same results ('Encoded_audio_1.mp2'is 1:13:57 sec, 'Pulldown_Encoded_Video_NTSC.mpv' is 1:13:57 sec too). Assistance is greatly appreciated. WNASPI32.DLL 4.6.0.1021 -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/23/2003 9:54:46 PM - DVD to SVCD Conversion - DVD2SVCD ver. 1.1.2 build 1 -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Initializing finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/23/2003 9:54:49 PM - DVD2AVI -------------------------------------------------------- Creating DVD2AVI INI file: - C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.INI Variable settings: iDCT_Algorithm: 32-bit SSE MMX Executing DVD2AVI. Executing DVD2AVI. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.exe" -CS=2 -YR=1 -EXIT -OF=[D:\Rip Folder CD2\DVD2AVI_Project_file] -IF=[D:\Rip Folder CD2\VTS_01_1.vob,D:\Rip Folder CD2\VTS_01_2.vob,D:\Rip Folder CD2\VTS_01_3.vob,D:\Rip Folder CD2\VTS_01_4.vob] Analyzing DVD2AVI Project file Force Film activated! Framerate: 23976 DVD2AVI processing done. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/23/2003 9:59:18 PM - Free on drive D: 17786.44 mb - AUDIO Extraction -------------------------------------------------------- Found AC3 stream id: 0x80 Filename: D:\Rip Folder CD2\Extracted_audio_1.ac3 Audio1 delay: 0 ms Audio extraction finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/23/2003 10:05:13 PM - Free on drive D: 17786.44 mb - AUDIO conversion -------------------------------------------------------- Encoding Audio. Filename: D:\Rip Folder CD2\Extracted_audio_1.ac3 Executing BeSweet. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "D:\Rip Folder CD2\Extracted_audio_1.ac3" -output "D:\RIPFOL~2\Encoded_audio_1.mp2" -logfile "D:\RIPFOL~2\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -azid( -L -3db -c normal -s surround -g max ) -2lame( -e -b 192 -m s ) Audio conversion of D:\Rip Folder CD2\Extracted_audio_1.ac3 finished. Audio conversion finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/23/2003 10:18:14 PM - Free on drive D: 17786.44 mb - Converting Pictures -------------------------------------------------------- Converting: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DefaultChangeCD.bmp Finished converting pictures -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/23/2003 10:18:22 PM - Free on drive D: 17786.44 mb - Video Encoding using Cinema Craft -------------------------------------------------------- Executing Cinema Craft Encoder. StreamSectors: 833937188 AudioSectors: 108068324 VideoPAPO: 11244096 ScanOffsetBytes: 127680 SeqAligningBytes: 8114773 DVDBytes: 0 VideoEndHeader: 4 SubtitleSectors: 0 EmptySectors: 238.00 PictureSectors: 0.00 PureMPEGStream: 706382310.67 Seconds: 4442.77 CalcMPEGStream: 706382310.67 Frames: 106400 CDSize: 800.00 Number of CDs: 1 Cut point 795.00 Variable Settings: Frames: 106400 Anti Noise Filter: Off Passes: 4 Image Quality: 5 VAF file creation: On Video Encoding Mode: One Pass VBR Q. Factor: 5 Min. bitrate: 1900 Max. bitrate: 1271 Aspect Ratio: 4:3 (No borders, encoded as 4:3) ---AVS Begin--- LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2DEC\MPEG2DEC.DLL") mpeg2source("D:\RIPFOL~2\DVD2AV~1.D2V") BicubicResize(480,480,0.0,0.6) ResampleAudio(44100) ----AVS End---- Closing program CCE Max Speed: 1.480 Video Encoding finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/23/2003 11:58:49 PM - Free on drive D: 17760.31 mb - Video Pulldown -------------------------------------------------------- Executing Pulldown. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\pulldown\pulldown.exe" "D:\Rip Folder CD2\Encoded_Video_CCE_NTSC.mpv" "D:\Rip Folder CD2\Pulldown_Encoded_Video_NTSC.mpv" Video pulldown finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/24/2003 12:12:45 AM - Free on drive D: 14098.19 mb - Converting Pictures from ES to PS -------------------------------------------------------- Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/24/2003 12:12:47 AM - Free on drive D: 14098.19 mb - Converting Pictures from ES to PS -------------------------------------------------------- Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini Executing RunbbMPEG. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe" "D:\Rip Folder CD2\ChangeCDPicture.bmp.mpg" -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/24/2003 12:12:51 AM - Free on drive D: 14098.19 mb - Converting Pictures from ES to PS -------------------------------------------------------- Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/24/2003 12:12:53 AM - Free on drive D: 14098.19 mb - Multiplexing and cutting -------------------------------------------------------- Saving bbMPEG settings: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\default.ini Offset in Seconds: 2 Executing bbMPEG. Variable Settings: Movie offset: 2 seconds Cut point: 795 mb Executing RunbbMPEG. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe" "D:\Rip Folder CD2\bbMPEG_Muxed_File.mpg" Multiplexing and cutting finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/24/2003 12:19:18 AM - Free on drive D: 13305.81 mb - Determining length of audio -------------------------------------------------------- Analyzing: D:\Rip Folder CD2\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00.mpg 1897.608 seconds D:\Rip Folder CD2\bbMPEG_Muxed_File00.mpg Analyzing finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/24/2003 12:20:18 AM - Free on drive D: 13305.81 mb - Creating CD-Images using VCDXBuild -------------------------------------------------------- - No. of chapters to create: 21 CD image #1: CD_Image_File_CD1.bin Executing VCDXBuild. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\VCDImager\VCDXBuild.exe" --verbose --cue-file="D:\RIPFOL~2\CD_Image_File_CD1.cue" --bin-file="D:\RIPFOL~2\CD_Image_File_CD1.bin" "D:\RIPFOL~2\VCDXBU~1.XML" CD-Image creation finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/24/2003 12:22:28 AM - Free on drive D: 13305.81 mb - SVCD Creation finished! --------------------------------------------------------

I can almost be certain here is your problem: Min. bitrate: 1900 Max. bitrate: 1271 Aspect Ratio: 4:3 (No borders, encoded as 4:3) The problem is in your bitrate settings. Look how your Min is higher then your Max. This is confusing BBmpeg. Do you have Min AVG checked? If you do uncheck it. What are your bottom bitrate settings? Do I see that you have Image Quality Priority set to 5? If you do raise that to at least 17. I use 22 myself. This isn't the cause of your problem, but a sidenote on image quality. Mark

Bitrate different in setup 

Wow, good catch regaurding the bitrate. I was looking past the encoding stage. The strange thing is that I have saved my settings months ago and loaded them prior to the attempts. I just loaded the same settings file into DVD2SVCD and the bitrate is set to the following: Max 2400, Min 1900, MaxAve 2250, Min Ave unchecked (I have used these settings with CinimaCraft using sigle pass VBR, Image quality priority of 5 and Q. factor of 5 based on an old post re:settings and have been quite happy with the results, but I am willing to try something else). I will re-attempt and abort once into encoding to look at the log file and see if something weird is going on regaurding what I enter in for bitrate and what it see's, or if I just screwed up somehow.

Drop your min to 300 and let DVD2SVCD decide the bitrates for you. If you keep the Min that high then DVD2SVCD cannot do it's job and as you have seen can become confused. Mark

Bitrate is different, what now? 

OK, I set the bitrate to Max 2400, Min 1900, MaxAve 2250, Min Ave unchecked. I double checked, and am 100% sure of these settings. I ran until encoding started and aborted. This is the Log File! Why is Max Bitrate 1499?! Even stranger is that I used the same setup file and converted the same IFO files from my HD, but the Max bitrate changed from last nights 1271 to todays 1499. It would seem to be a bug? WNASPI32.DLL 4.6.0.1021 -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/25/2003 9:12:44 PM - DVD to SVCD Conversion - DVD2SVCD ver. 1.1.2 build 1 -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Initializing finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/25/2003 9:12:48 PM - DVD2AVI -------------------------------------------------------- Creating DVD2AVI INI file: - C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.INI Variable settings: iDCT_Algorithm: 32-bit SSE MMX Executing DVD2AVI. Executing DVD2AVI. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.exe" -CS=2 -YR=1 -EXIT -OF=[D:\Rip Folder CD1\DVD2AVI_Project_file] -IF=[D:\Rip Folder CD1\VTS_01_1.vob,D:\Rip Folder CD1\VTS_01_2.vob,D:\Rip Folder CD1\VTS_01_3.vob] Analyzing DVD2AVI Project file Force Film NOT activated! Framerate: 29970 DVD2AVI processing done. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/25/2003 9:16:20 PM - Free on drive D: 24174.66 mb - AUDIO Extraction -------------------------------------------------------- Found AC3 stream id: 0x80 Filename: D:\Rip Folder CD1\Extracted_audio_1.ac3 Audio1 delay: 0 ms Audio extraction finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/25/2003 9:21:03 PM - Free on drive D: 24086.81 mb - AUDIO conversion -------------------------------------------------------- Encoding Audio. Filename: D:\Rip Folder CD1\Extracted_audio_1.ac3 Executing BeSweet. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "D:\Rip Folder CD1\Extracted_audio_1.ac3" -output "D:\RIPFOL~1\Encoded_audio_1.mp2" -logfile "D:\RIPFOL~1\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -azid( -L -3db -c normal -s surround -g max ) -2lame( -e -b 192 -m s ) Audio conversion of D:\Rip Folder CD1\Extracted_audio_1.ac3 finished. Audio conversion finished. -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/25/2003 9:30:00 PM - Free on drive D: 23998.91 mb - Converting Pictures -------------------------------------------------------- Converting: C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DefaultChangeCD.bmp Finished converting pictures -------------------------------------------------------- - 2/25/2003 9:30:08 PM - Free on drive D: 23998.06 mb - Video Encoding using Cinema Craft -------------------------------------------------------- Executing Cinema Craft Encoder. StreamSectors: 833937188 AudioSectors: 93466632 VideoPAPO: 11470284 ScanOffsetBytes: 138008 SeqAligningBytes: 8771201 DVDBytes: 0 VideoEndHeader: 4 SubtitleSectors: 0 EmptySectors: 238.00 PictureSectors: 0.00 PureMPEGStream: 720091059.07 Seconds: 3842.40 CalcMPEGStream: 720091059.07 Frames: 115007 CDSize: 800.00 Number of CDs: 1 Cut point 795.00 Variable Settings: Frames: 115007 Anti Noise Filter: Off Passes: 4 Image Quality: 5 VAF file creation: On Video Encoding Mode: One Pass VBR Q. Factor: 5 Min. bitrate: 1900 Max. bitrate: 1499 Aspect Ratio: 4:3 (No borders, encoded as 4:3) ---AVS Begin--- LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2DEC\MPEG2DEC.DLL") mpeg2source("D:\RIPFOL~1\DVD2AV~1.D2V") BicubicResize(480,480,0.0,0.6) ResampleAudio(44100) ----AVS End----