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I have a digital cable box connected to an nVidia DualTV for analog recordings. In general, these convert (to iPod format) without issue using DVRMSToolbox, but movies never do. They always stop after about 20 seconds (but play fine for the 20) so I suspect this to be a DRM issue. I'm surprised that it's not simply handled by dTB. I've posted a log below, but wondering if there is something I should be doing (i.e. custom graph) to make this work properly.

I've tried several encoders, ffdshow and mencoder as well as ffmpeg, but all fail early on. Any advice is welcome as I can't get this to work no matter what I try. Or is this a lost-cause DRM issue?

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Start Process: 11/21/2008 : 11:58 PM
InputFile=d:\recorded tv\House_IFC_21_11_2008_23_58_02.dvr-ms
Processing actions, this may take some time!!
Testing "Processed Files"
Testing "Every Sage File"
Testing "Every File"
"Every File" is a match.
Testing "Andy's Shows (HD)"
Testing "Andy's Shows (SD)"
Testing "Andy's Movies (SD)"
"Andy's Movies (SD)" is a match.
Run Profile = nativecommdetect
ProcessId = 4236
DvrmsToolbox Version: 1.2.1.5
Throttle DVRMStoMPEG
FWThrottle: d:\recorded tv\House_IFC_21_11_2008_23_58_02.dvr-ms
WaitTime: 5 PollTime
Waiting to process file
Waiting to process file: FT = 1:33 AM WT = 1:38 AM CT=1:38 AM LN=5797105777
Queue file
Duration = 01:40:30.0364740
Waiting for available worker: 11/22/2008 1:38 AM
Worker allocated: 11/22/2008 1:38 AM
Get Video Information
720x480 : 4x3 ATSC=False
Duration = 00:00:01.6149656
Find Commercials in file
ShowAnalyzerSuite is not installed try ShowAnalyzer
Using comskip
Running comskip this may take a while.
Run C:\Program Files\DVRMSToolbox\Applications\comskip.exe "d:\recorded tv\House_IFC_21_11_2008_23_58_02.dvr-ms" "C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\CommercialsXml"
Comskip 0.79.143, made using:
comskip-0.4.1-cvs - by Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org> and Aaron Holtzman
0:00:09 - 256 frames in 1.00 sec (256.00 fps), 1.00 sec (256.00 fps), 0%
0:00:16 - 471 frames in 29.11 sec (16.18 fps), 28.12 sec (7.65 fps), 26%
0:00:16 - 472 frames in 85.35 sec (5.53 fps), 56.24 sec (0.02 fps), 72%
472 frames decoded in 420.29 seconds (1.12 fps)
Finished Commercial Detectection
Duration = 00:07:01.6563872
Write commercial spans as xml
Write Commercials: C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\CommercialsXml\House_IFC_21_11_2008_23_58_02.xml
Duration = 00:00:00.0268510
Total Duration = 01:47:33.3395598
Run Profile = iPod5GMovie
ProcessId = 4236
DvrmsToolbox Version: 1.2.1.5
Throttle DVRMStoMPEG
FWThrottle: d:\recorded tv\House_IFC_21_11_2008_23_58_02.dvr-ms
WaitTime: 5 PollTime
Waiting to process file
Queue file
Duration = 00:00:01.0056920
Waiting for available worker: 11/22/2008 1:45 AM
Worker allocated: 11/22/2008 1:45 AM
Convert file with Ffmpeg
Calling: C:\Program Files\DVRMSToolbox\Applications\ConvertFfmpeg\Ffmpeg.exe -benchmark -y -i "d:\recorded tv\House_IFC_21_11_2008_23_58_02.dvr-ms" -s 320x240 -async 1 -deinterlace -vcodec libx264 -b 384000 -maxrate 768k -bufsize 384 -coder 0 -level 13 -acodec libfaac -ab 128000 -threads 2 -v 0 "C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\Output\House_IFC_21_11_2008_23_58_02fileprocess.mp4"
Run C:\Program Files\DVRMSToolbox\Applications\ConvertFfmpeg\Ffmpeg.exe -benchmark -y -i "d:\recorded tv\House_IFC_21_11_2008_23_58_02.dvr-ms" -s 320x240 -async 1 -deinterlace -vcodec libx264 -b 384000 -maxrate 768k -bufsize 384 -coder 0 -level 13 -acodec libfaac -ab 128000 -threads 2 -v 0 "C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\Output\House_IFC_21_11_2008_23_58_02fileprocess.mp4"
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.

configuration: --enable-static --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libxvid --enable-gpl --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-libx264 --enable-pthreads --enable-liba52 --enable-ffplay --enable-swscaler
libavutil version: 49.4.1
libavcodec version: 51.40.4
libavformat version: 51.12.1
built on Aug 6 2007 22:42:48, gcc: 4.2.1
Input #0, asf, from 'd:\recorded tv\House_IFC_21_11_2008_23_58_02.dvr-ms':
Duration: 01:09:29.6, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 11122 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 256 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Invalid Codec type -1
Stream #0.2: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, 10866 kb/s, 29.97 fps(r)
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.2 -> #0.0
Stream #0.0 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]00 motion_type at 12 21
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]Warning MVs not available
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]invalid cbp at 12 25
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]00 motion_type at 5 6
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]00 motion_type at 0 5
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]00 motion_type at 2 17
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]00 motion_type at 3 24
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]00 motion_type at 0 26
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]00 motion_type at 18 1
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]invalid mb type in I Frame at 0 15
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]qscale == 0
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]ac-tex damaged at 4 0
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]invalid mb type in I Frame at 3 27
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]invalid mb type in I Frame at 0 20
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]invalid mb type in I Frame at 0 13
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]invalid mb type in I Frame at 5 17
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]invalid mb type in I Frame at 0 22
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]invalid mb type in I Frame at 0 0
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]invalid mb type in I Frame at 1 21
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]invalid mb type in I Frame at 0 19
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]invalid mb type in I Frame at 3 16
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]invalid mb type in I Frame at 0 27
[mpeg2video @ 00885A20]invalid mb type in I Frame at 2 11
frame= 596 fps= 0 q=-17195900.9 Lsize= 1672kB time=17.2 bitrate= 796.5kbits/s

video:1374kB audio:269kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 1.708526%

Duration = 00:43:23.1985916
Advanced Rename file in Context["OutputFile"]
New Path: C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\Output\House.mp4
Duration = 00:00:00.0068348
Delete files from C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp
Duration = 00:00:00.0029292
Total Duration = 00:43:24.2145358

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