Hi there,

It seems that I've hit a brick wall with my favorite application set.

A long time ago, someone from a DVD forum had made a nice installer of the free version of DVDRebuilder, with CCE SP 2.66 and AviSynth included...

I've been faithfully using that for the last couple of years - no complaints.

However, my newest computer has Windows Vista on it, and the damned thing can't seem to like using DVD-RB + CCE.

I keep getting this strange error message that ccspt.exe has stopped working... If I try the eclcc.exe, I get a pop-up saying "AVIfileOpen (xxxxx.avs): error 0x80040154"

No matter what I do, no matter how I try to fiddle with the settings (I even tried CCE 2.70, but to no avail!0 I can't get the program to work.

I get the following log (as you can see, multiple attempts to make it work...):

[15:31:28] One Click encoding activated...
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[15:31:28] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP UNKNOWN encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
-- Processed 183,314 frames.
-- Building .AVS and .ECL files
- Reduction Level for DVD-5: 60.4%
- Overall Bitrate : 5,249/4,200Kbs
- Space for Video : 3,919,526KB
- HIGH/LOW/TYPICAL Bitrates: 4,765/3,683/4,200 Kbs
[15:35:02] Phase I, PREPARATION completed in 4 minutes.
[15:35:02] Phase II ENCODING started
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
Aborted.
[15:38:12] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[15:38:12] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP UNKNOWN encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
- PREPARE aborted.
Aborted.
[15:38:35] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[15:38:35] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP ECLCCE encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
- PREPARE aborted.
Aborted.
[15:39:08] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[15:39:08] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP ECLCCE encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
-- Processed 183,314 frames.
-- Building .AVS and .ECL files
- Reduction Level for DVD-5: 60.4%
- Overall Bitrate : 5,249/4,200Kbs
- Space for Video : 3,919,526KB
- HIGH/LOW/TYPICAL Bitrates: 4,765/3,683/4,200 Kbs
[15:42:32] Phase I, PREPARATION completed in 3 minutes.
[15:42:32] Phase II ENCODING started
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
Aborted.
[16:43:49] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[16:43:49] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP ECLCCE encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
- PREPARE aborted.
Aborted.
[16:44:06] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[16:44:06] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP UNKNOWN encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
- PREPARE aborted.
Aborted.
[16:44:22] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[16:44:22] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP UNKNOWN encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
-- Processed 183,314 frames.
-- Building .AVS and .ECL files
- Reduction Level for DVD-5: 60.4%
- Overall Bitrate : 5,249/4,200Kbs
- Space for Video : 3,919,526KB
- HIGH/LOW/TYPICAL Bitrates: 4,765/3,683/4,200 Kbs
[16:47:38] Phase I, PREPARATION completed in 3 minutes.
[16:47:38] Phase II ENCODING started
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
-- Encoding resulted in no .M2V, retrying.
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
-- Encoding resulted in no .M2V, retrying.
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
Aborted.
[16:54:40] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[16:54:42] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- CCE SP UNKNOWN encoder selected.
- VTS_01: 3,847,005 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
-- Processed 183,314 frames.
-- Building .AVS and .ECL files
- Reduction Level for DVD-5: 60.4%
- Overall Bitrate : 5,249/4,200Kbs
- Space for Video : 3,919,526KB
- HIGH/LOW/TYPICAL Bitrates: 4,765/3,683/4,200 Kbs
[16:58:57] Phase I, PREPARATION completed in 4 minutes.
[16:58:57] Phase II ENCODING started
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
-- Encoding resulted in no .M2V, retrying.
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
-- Encoding resulted in no .M2V, retrying.
- Creating M2V for VTS_01 segment 0
Aborted.


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If anyone could help, I'd be very grateful... this is driving me nuts - just when I finally got a nice rig (AMD 64x2 4400+, 2 GB RAM), after using a Barton 2500 for the last four years...

As a possible last resort, is there any REAL alternative to CCE? There seems to be a few "freeware" encoders out there, but I've never seen benchmarks, tests or comparisons establishing their quality - and the scene keeps using CCE (probably for good reason...)

Can't help you with the CCE errors (try searching the official DVD-RB forum) - http://dvd-rb.dvd2go.org/modules.php?name=Forums

however i can highly recommend HC encoder, now at 0.22. I used to use only CCE and for a while have switched completely to HC and it's excellent, i don't see a need to go back to CCE myself.

How did you get a $2,000.00 encoder for free?

I'm using Vista Ultimate 64 but have also used Vista Ultimate 32 bit and Vista Home Premium 32 bit and have had and still have DVD RB Pro running fine with CCE SP2.

Maybe try and remove the older version and update to CCE SP2, also have you updated the DVD RB at all? I'm on the Pro which means I get all the updates so I'm not sure what version of DVD RB free is out there from when I used the free version (I upgraded a few years backs).

tedyfx,

If your useing Vista change its compatability mode to run with XP.