More Problems... help please.

synkarius · Post by **synkarius** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:39 am

I've got two problems with my conversion.

I'm converting a .wmv to a DvD with a menu.
Using HCEnc/best. Win XP SP2.

1) I have a bunch of sections in my video that are all black and soundless. The conversion process cuts them all out. This is aggravating the life out of me.

2) The DvD files created are somehow flawed or incomplete. The .ISO image doesn't play on my virtual drive, on my DvDR drive (after burning to a physical DvD) or in my DvD player. Black screen. Nothing.

So how do I know the black sections are being cut out if the finished DvD files (the .IFO) won't play? I watch the preview during the encoding AND the .VOB files do play in Matroska.

Here's my log file if it helps. It's the same thing every time. (Though once, I did get avi2dvd to create some other files- maybe they were .BUPs? I forget the extension, unfortunately, because I deleted them when I realized my black sections were gone.) I've run the entire process about 5 times now.

[11:09:30 AM] AVI2DVD Started !
[11:09:50 AM] Type mode : Avi Input
[11:09:50 AM] Output : Dvd
[11:09:50 AM] Encoder Selected : HCEnc
[11:09:50 AM] Start demuxing the AudioStream No.1 ...
[11:09:51 AM] Demuxing of the selected audio finished
successfully ! [I:\Avi2dvd_temp\Extracted_Audio.wav
6745902 Bytes]
[11:09:51 AM] Audio extracted renamed successfully !
[I:\Avi2dvd_temp\Fixed_Audio01.wav 6745902 Bytes]
[11:09:51 AM] Starts Wav->Ac3 convertion ...
[11:09:56 AM] Audio converted in Ac3 successfully !
[I:\Avi2dvd_temp\AudioStream 1 WMA 0CH.ac3 1835520
Bytes]
[11:09:57 AM] Start creating avisynth script ...
[11:09:57 AM] Avisynth script created successfully !
[I:\Avi2dvd_temp\Avisynth_Script_File.avs 166 Bytes]
[11:10:01 AM] Bitrate used : 7616 Kbpps
[11:10:01 AM] Start video encoding ...
[12:05:15 PM] Video encoded successfully !
[I:\Avi2dvd_temp\Encoded_Video.m2v 539200773 Bytes]
[12:05:15 PM] Muxing Video+Audio(s) ...
[12:10:33 PM] M2v muxed successfully !
[I:\Avi2dvd_temp\Encoded_Video_Muxed.mpg 550346752
Bytes]
[12:10:33 PM] Zero subtitles found
[12:10:33 PM] Author script generation ...
[12:10:34 PM] Author script generated successfully !
[12:10:34 PM] Start authoring ...
[12:16:01 PM] Dvd authored successfully ! [
I:\Avi2dvd_temp\DVD ]
[12:16:01 PM] Generating iso ...
[12:21:28 PM] Iso generated successfully ! This is the file
that you must burn --> [I:\Avi2dvd_temp\DVD_Image.iso
554342400 Bytes]
[12:21:28 PM] Job Done !!!

What am I doing wrong? Is there a setting somewhere that I need to check?

Gaijin · Post by **Gaijin** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 4:45 am

sounds like you are authoring it yourself. I dont know why it happens but I have run into a similiar bug. I would recomend putting in a "blank" sound file. a wave of blank sound matching the duration of the black spaces. Encoders dont handle no sound at all very well.