Sony: V6 MPEG Render issue, I may have an answer

Mahesh wrote on 4/30/2005, 5:19 AM
I have posted here on problems rendering MPEG2 - DVD PAL - CBR with V5.0d and V6.0a.
It appears that one or more files in
shared plug-ins>file formats>MCMPEG are creating a problem when rendering CBR.
This directory for V5.0b, has 17 files and V6.0a has 20 files.
V6.0a requires its own mcplug.dll for it to render to MPEG2.
If I copy the other 16 files (excluding mcplug.dll) from V5.0b,shared plug-ins>file formats>MCMPEG to the shared plug-ins>file formats>MCMPEG for 5.0d and 6.0a both will render MPEG2 CBR.

I am sure the render issue is associated with one or more files in this folder. It would take me a long time to isolate this problem.To find out the combination of problem files is not impossible but it would take considerable time bearing in mind, each test takes 20-25 minutes.

If Sony would like to suggest which files I could test, I would be happy to do so.
My V6 Trial expires in 24 days.

I have posted this in Sony Support discussion thread but I thought I would post here for the benefit of others having this issue.

Edit: I failed to mention here that these tests were carried out on a 2 PCs with Windows 2000 with service pack 4

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 4/30/2005, 9:14 AM
Just last night, I rendered MPEG-2 CBR, using 5.0d, without the fixes you describe.
Mahesh wrote on 4/30/2005, 9:35 AM
John
Could you tell me what template and OS you are using.
Using MPEG2-PAL DVD-CBR-6Mb/s, I have not been able to render successfully using either 5.0d or 6.0a past 4 minutes (or about 200Mb).
I have now tried numerous reinstalls on 2 separate PCs. Both PCs use w2k sp4.
The above fix(!) works on both PCs.
Marco. wrote on 4/30/2005, 9:49 AM
You mentioned you are using the trial version. Trial versions do not support MPEG-rendering.

Marco
Mahesh wrote on 4/30/2005, 9:53 AM
Marco
Trial version will support MPEG2 if you have valid MC activation code for V5. Trial version of DVDA3 will not let you use MPEG2.
Wolfgang S. wrote on 4/30/2005, 2:41 PM
But maybe that does not work fine in the end? Even if you can access the customization menues?

At least I cannot confirm here any issues up to now.

Desktop: PC AMD 3960X, 24x3,8 Mhz * RTX 3080 Ti (12 GB)* Blackmagic Extreme 4K 12G * QNAP Max8 10 Gb Lan * Resolve Studio 18 * Edius X* Blackmagic Pocket 6K/6K Pro, EVA1, FS7

Laptop: ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED * internal HDR preview * i9 12900H with i-GPU Iris XE * 32 GB Ram) * Geforce RTX 3070 TI 8GB * internal HDR preview on the laptop monitor * Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K mini

HDR monitor: ProArt Monitor PA32 UCG-K 1600 nits, Atomos Sumo

Others: Edius NX (Canopus NX)-card in an old XP-System. Edius 4.6 and other systems

johnmeyer wrote on 4/30/2005, 8:21 PM
I rendered to NTSC, not PAL.
Wolfgang S. wrote on 5/1/2005, 4:37 AM
John, but I rendered to PAL and mpeg2, and did not see any issue too.

However, theoretically it is possilble that differents settings had been used - so, here we should have much more details, if we want to check that really.

Desktop: PC AMD 3960X, 24x3,8 Mhz * RTX 3080 Ti (12 GB)* Blackmagic Extreme 4K 12G * QNAP Max8 10 Gb Lan * Resolve Studio 18 * Edius X* Blackmagic Pocket 6K/6K Pro, EVA1, FS7

Laptop: ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED * internal HDR preview * i9 12900H with i-GPU Iris XE * 32 GB Ram) * Geforce RTX 3070 TI 8GB * internal HDR preview on the laptop monitor * Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K mini

HDR monitor: ProArt Monitor PA32 UCG-K 1600 nits, Atomos Sumo

Others: Edius NX (Canopus NX)-card in an old XP-System. Edius 4.6 and other systems

Mahesh wrote on 5/1/2005, 4:52 AM
Wolfgang
I may be wrong but this issue only affects rendering to DVD template (PAL or NTSC) using CBR on windows 2000 platforms