unknown error when importing mpg file?

john-beale wrote on 4/3/2008, 11:34 AM
I've been using DVD-A 4.5b for a project, I've generated several versions of it already with no problem. Watching my DVD I noticed one scene was too dark so I went back, fixed that in Vegas, exported the MPEG2 file again, and loaded the new one into DVDA. The load did not complete, I get an error message as follows:

Sony DVD Architect Pro 4.5

! An error occurred during this command (Id: 6612)
The reason for the error could not be determined.

I quit DVDA and restarted, tried it several times. I tried transferring the .mpg and .ac3 file to another drive, same result. What does this mean?

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john-beale wrote on 4/3/2008, 12:18 PM
To follow up: I tried running my MPEG2 file through Womble MPEG Video Wizard in "stream copy mode" with no edits. The output file was exactly the same length as the input file. But this time, DVDA was able to import it without error.

Note, this was not some weird mpg captured from a set-top box. It was generated by Sony Vegas 8b (using the built-in MainConcept MPEG2 encoder). And nearly-identical previous versions of the very same video loaded into DVDA OK. So, while it is working for now, I'm left wondering why I had to take the file through a third-party converter before it would work in DVDA. This seems like very flaky behavior to me.
john-beale wrote on 4/3/2008, 1:28 PM
To update this once more- I was able to generate a DVD using the MPG file that I fixed by running it through the Womble Video program. However, when playing it back (still on the hard drive, using WinDVD) I see that there are two spots where the image freezes for 1/2 second (one GOP) right in the middle of the 85-minute long program. To detect this, I have to watch every frame of the playback at normal speed. You can't see it on a fast-forward. So, obviously the encoded file from Vegas does have glitches, there are a few bad GOPs causing this error.

It's hard to express how frustrating this type of problem is when you're trying to use Vegas + DVDA as a professional tool, and you have a deadline.
johnmeyer wrote on 4/3/2008, 3:54 PM
Since you encoded in Vegas, one suspect would be that a setting got "tweaked." The next time you encode, start with one of the default "DVD Architect" templates, rather than some template you saved yourself. Then, only change the average bitrate to match what you need for your length of video. Don't let this get higher than 8,000,000. Don't change anything else. See if that works better.

I am pretty sure that Vegas will produce flawless MPEG-2 files or we would have heard a huge outcry here in these forums.

The other possibility is some sort of disk drive problem, although I think you would have problems with other programs if that was the case.