Well, I decided to finally try CloneBD (1.0.5.3 eval) after having waited around 4-5 years for the product. I must say my experiences have been frustrating to say the least. This seems very kludgy and has lots of eye candy, but where it counts - the guts of the transcoder - drone.libav.exe - leaves me cold. No matter what I do, I can't get a transcoded file.
I get one of the following crashes / errors:
1. The project "encodes" for 1-2 seconds, then says "Your movie has been transcoded." with no error, and a 0-byte file.
2. The program hard crashes immediately after starting to encode for 1-2 seconds.
3. The program aborts and reports: "Internal transcoder error." after attempting to encode for 1-2 seconds.
4. The program goes into an infinite loop, where it reports ETA: "Calculating". Then just stays there until I hard close it through task manager.
Further, I have some very important questions:
1. Why is a Direct X install required at all? Is it really necessary to simply transcode, or is it required for pretty eye-candy features such as Preview, which I wish to completely disable?
2. I'm using Windows XPsp3. It seems to not be supported in light of the above (4) errors / random roullette of crashes I get when attempting to encode. If, as you describe in the system requirements "Windows XP or above", IT SHOULD WORK!
3. No, I don't want to upgrade to bloated Win 8.1 / Win10.
4. Please in all fairness I'm willing to give your program another chance, please advise on where I could be going wrong. Is it a Direct X problem? I got a ".NET framework error" when installing, but the complete install of ClondBD succeeded.
5. The above problems manifest on both of my systems, one with a c2d e8400, the other a laptop with an Atom processor. Both 32-bit systems. Single-threaded. Is this my problem? Is there some "hidden" requirement for either 64-bit code and / or multithreaded execution being mandatory.
If you can not help, I suppose there are other programs better suited to my purposes, ie taking a ~32GB .m2ts file and simply transcoding it down to 23865 MB so it will fit on a SL BD-R. I don't need or want all the bells and whistles. I want the guts to work!
There must be a way to get this working. My demands are not much; don't need fancy menus, subtitles, chapter settings, etc, etc, just a good-quality transcoded file, which I can then use other tools to build into a proper BD-R filestructure!
I get one of the following crashes / errors:
1. The project "encodes" for 1-2 seconds, then says "Your movie has been transcoded." with no error, and a 0-byte file.
2. The program hard crashes immediately after starting to encode for 1-2 seconds.
3. The program aborts and reports: "Internal transcoder error." after attempting to encode for 1-2 seconds.
4. The program goes into an infinite loop, where it reports ETA: "Calculating". Then just stays there until I hard close it through task manager.
Further, I have some very important questions:
1. Why is a Direct X install required at all? Is it really necessary to simply transcode, or is it required for pretty eye-candy features such as Preview, which I wish to completely disable?
2. I'm using Windows XPsp3. It seems to not be supported in light of the above (4) errors / random roullette of crashes I get when attempting to encode. If, as you describe in the system requirements "Windows XP or above", IT SHOULD WORK!
3. No, I don't want to upgrade to bloated Win 8.1 / Win10.
4. Please in all fairness I'm willing to give your program another chance, please advise on where I could be going wrong. Is it a Direct X problem? I got a ".NET framework error" when installing, but the complete install of ClondBD succeeded.
5. The above problems manifest on both of my systems, one with a c2d e8400, the other a laptop with an Atom processor. Both 32-bit systems. Single-threaded. Is this my problem? Is there some "hidden" requirement for either 64-bit code and / or multithreaded execution being mandatory.
If you can not help, I suppose there are other programs better suited to my purposes, ie taking a ~32GB .m2ts file and simply transcoding it down to 23865 MB so it will fit on a SL BD-R. I don't need or want all the bells and whistles. I want the guts to work!
There must be a way to get this working. My demands are not much; don't need fancy menus, subtitles, chapter settings, etc, etc, just a good-quality transcoded file, which I can then use other tools to build into a proper BD-R filestructure!