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Dear all:

Program does not conclude rendering but stops and shows an error-code "failed to encode audio 2000:1:1".

The source is a 36 Minute DV1-AVI File (in chapters) recorded with a Panasonic NV-GS 80, additionally provided with some music (MP3 and WAV) in the music-track and titles.

Capturing was made by fire-wire without having any problems.

The file to be exported should be:

Video-Codec MPEG2 variable - 7700 kbps
24 bits -PAL - 720 x 576 - 16:9
bottom field first
audio MPEG2 224kbps 48 khz.

I tried several things to fix the problem, like for example updating DirectX (from 9.0c to 9.24 dated August 2008), installation of X2 onto a completely clean system (where no other version of VS was installed before). Also I installed another X2 -version in other language, but every step I took regrettably hadn´t any success at all. Tried to check the Corel-database and the forum by introducing "error 2000" and "sound problems", but also no chance to obtain any informations.

Have to say also, that I first rendered the project by using my old VS 11 Plus, with the same parameters as told before. Rendering was done without having problems. Later then, I imported the project into the new X2, which was done perfectly, but rendering couldn't be concluded as program showed the known error-code 2000:1:1 "failed to encode audio".

As I thought that maybe a VS 11 project cannot be imported into the new X2 version, I captured the same video once again completely, added the same music, some MP3 and WAV-Files, but once again the same error-code "2000:1.1 audio encoding failed".

Finally, I converted all the music-tracks into WAV, but this also couldn´t fix the error, same problem as before.

Also tried to render without any sound, this worked, but video was not rendered completely, there were missing about 3 minutes of video, just the secuence of the end of the film, some music-tracks and titles (in case of importing a VS 11 Plus project). A pure X2 project was rendered without sound, but strangely enough, the exact length of the film was not show in Mediaplayer or completely missinf in other players.

I´m giving now up, as I really do not understand the problem especially since everything worked fine with VS 11 Plus. Also it seems strange, that I couldn´t get any informations to that problem in the WWW.

If anybody could help me, I would be really thankful.

Rgds

Sea bienvenido al foro!

My first thought would have been to suggest there was a problem with the MP3, since Video Studio has a problem with certain kinds of MP3 codecs, and especially the LameMP3 one. But you already tried that.

Have you tried rendering with another audio format? Instead of mpeg layer 2 audio, depending on how long the project is, you could use the standard LPCM (high quality but larger file) or else Dolby.

Gracias

I'm just rendering it once again, using LPCM instead of MPEG Layer 2. Anyway, X2 should work at least as well as VS 11, being able to encode also into MPEG Layer 2, otherwise it wouldn't make sense to change to a newer version ... I'll report what the results will be ...

By the way, CPU gets quite hotter while rendering compared with VS 11. Normal core-temperatur while using X2 and rendering into MPEG2 is 56 C., and with VS 11 only 52 C.

But this is in fact is not the problem I'm worried about, so I'll se later on if rendering into MPEG2 with LPCM-sound will have success ..

Juan wrote:......
By the way, CPU gets quite hotter while rendering compared with VS 11. Normal core-temperatur while using X2 and rendering into MPEG2 is 56 C., and with VS 11 only 52 C. ......

Just wondering if perhaps what is happening is that your computer is slightly overheating which can cause various oddities.
It might be a good idea to take the side panel off and look inside to see if there is an accumulation of fluff especially around the fans which may be starting to clog up.

Heat is no problem, computer and all its fans are o.k. The reason for having slightly more CPU-temperature is that X2 takes up more process-priority than VS 11. Porcess priority is now around 90 - 97 % (2-core AMD X2 4800), and before with VS11 it was less. Rendering now with X2 is a bit faster i think.

Regarding the audio encode problem while encoding from DV1 Avi with MP3 sound to MPEG2 2-pass variable, I found out, that X2 in my case aparently is not able to render the with option 2-pass, as passed the 1st pass and starting with the 2nd, X2 shows after a while "failed to encode audio 2000:1:1".

I tried now normal rendering, without 2nd pass, but into MPEG2 variable, and everything went fine, no audio-failure message, everything perfect.

I did not try rendering into MPEG2 2-pass with LPCM sound, as the file-size increases too much, and not all DVD-players are able to deal with it. Also I do not know any program which is able to make a direct-stream mpeg2 copy, but only re-encoding LPCM into normal mp2 sound. I thought that the great "Mpeg Video Wizard" would do this, but unfortunately not. And reencoding with X2 from LPCM into mp2 takes too much time, allthough the "smart render" option is activated.

Must say that the MPEG2 encoder in X2 is quite better than in VS11, as normal encoding (without 2nd pass) in variable mode and with 7700 kbps, shows much better results than encoding with VS11, 2-pass, also 7700 kbps. Image is nearly without artefacts, and results are satisfying.

Maybe somebody else experienced the same problem with failed 2-pass encoding into MPEG2 by using X2.

Rgds

Juan

Just on the LPCM point, it is the absolute rock standard audio for ALL players in the world, whether PAL or NTSC. It is all the other audio formats which have been gradually added later. Mpeg-1 layer 2, which is the format you are wanting to use, is in fact a part of the PAL DVD standard, but was added after LPCM, as was Dolby. Mpeg-1 layer 2 is not part of the NTSC DVD standard, and there are still apparently a few older NTSC players which cannot play it, but CAN play LPCM. It may not show up on your player with the initial 'L' but as PCM, but it is the same thing. So I am a little mystified where you got that piece of information...