During encode I get a message saying Operation aborted?!?

[Presario]

Hello,

I have some .avi files that I'm trying to put on DVD, so far I have done 5 disks worth with no problem, with 5 .avi files on the DVD.

Now however, while encoding the audio of one of the .avi files, an alert box pops up halfway through saying 'Operation Aborted' - like when you hit cancel.

Any help guys?

[skier-hughes]

Could be many things,

Check all is ok with the files, none are corrupted etc.
Check the settings you've used.
Make sure nothing is interupting the dvd making process, like screensaver, msn etc, so turn off all apps.

Have you tried remaking the project in WS?
Have you tried another disc?

[DVDDoug]

Yeah... It's probably a bad AVI file.

What type of AVI file is it? AVI is "container" format, and it can contain almost any format (DV, MPEG, DivX, etc.). What's the audio format?

Can you re-capture it?

I've had occasional problems with MPEG files ("crashing" and/or "lip-sync" errors). In most cases, the corruption did not show-up during play-back. But, the bad files caused problems with re-coding or re-multiplexing.

[Presario]

Could be many things,

Check all is ok with the files, none are corrupted etc.
Check the settings you've used.
Make sure nothing is interupting the dvd making process, like screensaver, msn etc, so turn off all apps.

Have you tried remaking the project in WS?
Have you tried another disc?

What is WS, sorry, im new to all this!

[Presario]

Ok guys, the audio is encoded with Morgan Stream Switcher

The video ffdshow MPEG-4 Video Decoder

All the other files are encoded exactly the same and they worked fine, also the .avi plays fine in windows media player and divx player...

[skier-hughes]

WS = Workshop, as in Ulead DVD workshop

As the files are odd, I'd plump for firstly recapturing them in case they are corrupted.

[DVDDoug]

also the .avi plays fine in windows media player and divx player...

Like I was trying to say, that doesn't mean that the files are perfectly encoded. A tiny bit of "garbage data" sent to your video card might not be noticable, but it can really foul-up an MPEG encoder.

Workshop really wants to be fed a clean DV file* that it can encode to MPEG-2, or a clean already-encoded MPEG-2. If you are feeding it a separate audio file, it likes WAV files (48kHz, 16-bit).

If you can't re-capture in DV, you might look for a 3rd-party tool that can convert it to DV before inserting it into Workshop.


*The AVI/DV format is only slightly compressed. This format requires 13GB of disk space per hour of video.