Crunchie creates small, unplayable file

FredZ · **4th February 2007, 06:09 PM**

Hi
I thought I'd try Crunchie again today (slow Sunday).

Anyway, installed as per instructions. Configured it using the default bitrate setting and ran it on a 30minute dvrms video clip.

It seemed to be done after just a few minutes and created a .avi file about 140kb in size. The file is unplayable.

Tried again with a larger (40 minute) dvrms clip. Upped the bitrate and kicked it off. Same again. 140kb unplayable .avi file.

Any ideas?

TIA

bella · **4th February 2007, 06:55 PM**

Fred, I have had this a couple of times occuring. Reason: I hadn't noticed that the partition/disk were Crunchie puts the temporary file had run out of space. I use a different partition for temp file and final avi. Have a look at it.

arkay · **4th February 2007, 10:57 PM**

Either that or it's the AC3 audio problem which I'm sure you've read about before.

Have you checked the log file in the crunchie install folder?

Cheers,

Arkay.

FredZ · **5th February 2007, 09:51 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by arkay

Either that or it's the AC3 audio problem which I'm sure you've read about before.

OK, I didn't change anything, tried again and this time it got it.

Performance seems slow - six hours to process about one hour of video (xvid) on the system specs below. With AutoGK I process 90 minutes in about 2 hours, 2 pass, DivX including size calculation processing.

Or is Crunchie set to a very low priority?

Also can I specify the Divx decoder instead since it generally goes much better performance than xvid?

Thanks

arkay · **6th February 2007, 11:27 AM**

Something is wrong if it's taking that long. It should do about 1:1 (1 hour for a 1hour long show, 2 to do 2 pass).

and no, you can't choose the divx codec. In fact, Crunchie doesn't use any MS codecs. It uses mencoders embedded implementations of divx or xvid and there is comparably no difference between the two hence why I chose xvid only.

Can you post your log file (or a portion with the last encode at least), I think you may still have an issue with DVRMSToolbox taking too long to convert to mpeg. Are you getting sound in the output files?

Might be a good idea to attach your crunchie.ini file too.

Cheers,

Arkay