I was about to purchase the PRO when my 2.53 started having an Illegal Floating Point Error. I have read articles about turning OFF the SSE & SSE2 but that causes the encoding time to double (or more). What is the point of having a nice P4 if I cannot use its full power.
What is going on here? These are NTSC DVD rips. I have successfully used 2.53 to encode non stadard VCDs based upon the KVCD templates.
IN FACT, I have encoded the same video several times and got the ERROR when I made a reduction in MAX bitrate to make the file smaller. Here is what happended:
1) 704x480 29.97fps CQ 50 300-1500 44k 128kbps.mpg WORKED! File 831MB
2) 704x480 23.976fps CQ 50 300-1440 44k 128kbps.mpg WORKED! File 731MB
3) 704x480 29.97fps CQ 50 300-1440 44k 128kbps.mpg ERROR! File ??MB
What is happening?