tovid-suite
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9 years ago From mark2...@gmail.com on January 01, 2010 04:06:08
Specifying -discsize large enough to accommodate output solves the issue -- implying the split of files is not working properly. I think it is getting to the first split, then instead of starting a new file mpeg2enc is terminating, breaking the pipe and stopping the whole encoding process. Mplex then multiplexes the successfully ripped audio onto the incomplete video, producing output which is perfect as far as it goes but isn't the whole input.
From mark2...@gmail.com on November 04, 2009 09:25:30
I have some video sourced from a PAL DVD and am trying to convert the video to NTSC. I have frequently done this in the past by dvdbackup / dvdunauthor / select the .vob files to convert / tovid -in -ntsc -dvd -quality 8
-fit 8200 -noask -out (sometimes specifying audiotrack if there
are more than 1 and I want a specific one). Usually this works fine.
However, sometimes I find video that not all of it converts. In these
cases, usually NEARLY all of it converts but the last minute or so is not
in the output video. Synch, sound, picture quality etc of what is there is
all fine, but it stops too early.
And I have one video, where the input is a mammoth 2-hour-20-minute 6GB
input .vob (taken off a dual layer DVD) which when converted as above
converts to 1 hour and 20 minutes and just stops in the middle. Again, what
is included is high-quality, sound is good, synch fine -- but it just stops
for no apparent reason before it's finished. The resulting MPG file was
about 3.8GB in size.
I thought tovid was supposed to split the output if it's too big for a
regular DVD? But then, I am not sure that is really what's happening here
because it didn't even get to the 4300MB limit.
Tovid reported no errors while executing the conversion. I have 8GB RAM, an Intel Core i7 920 processor and a little under 1TB of free disk space on the drive being used for the conversion -- so it's nothing obvious like that. It looked for all the world like a completely successful completed conversion -- except that half the output is missing...
Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/tovid/issues/detail?id=106