I have been attempting the process of mkv to dvrms. From what I can tell the process dies at todvrms. I have downloaded the todvrms gui and tried to convert using gui and debug. I get a black box for about 45 seconds and then it goes away, the log for that tells me that it can't find the file even though I am selecting the exact file. Below is the part of the log from the mkv process and what was in the log from my todvrms gui attempt.
Start Process: 5/18/2009 : 8:08 AM
File not found
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Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
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audiocodec: framecopy (format=2000 chans=2 rate=48000 bits=16 B/s=48000 sample-1)
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
[PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
videocodec: libavcodec (1280x720 fourcc=3267706d [mpg2])
Writing header...
INITV: 0.200, 0.158, fps: 23.976
BUFFER UNDEFLOW at stream 0, raising muxrate to 11088 kb/s, delta_scr: 39896
BUFFER UNDEFLOW at stream 1, raising muxrate to 12196 kb/s, delta_scr: 36269
Flushing video frames.
Writing index...
Overhead: 1.829% (46491445 / 2542471371)
Writing header...
Video stream: 5758.435 kbit/s (719804 B/s) size: 2383523883 bytes 3311.350 secs 79393 frames
Audio stream: 384.000 kbit/s (48000 B/s) size: 158952960 bytes 3311.520 secs
Duration = 00:41:53.8345580
Move the file in Context["InputFile"] to %OutputFolder%
File Operation completed
Duration = 00:00:01.0305902
Get the value of Context["OutputFile"] and set the value of Context["InputFile"]
Context["OutputFile"] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.mpg
Context["InputFile"] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.mpg
Duration = 00:00:00.0004882
Get the value of Context["OutputFile"] and set the value of Context["OutputFile"]
Context["OutputFile"] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.mpg
Context["OutputFile"] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.dvr-ms
Duration = 00:00:00.0009764
Get the value of Context["InputFile"] and set the value of Context["TvDBXMLFile"]
Context["InputFile"] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.mpg
Context["TvDBXMLFile"] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.mpg.xml
Duration = 00:00:00.0185516
Read metadata from TvDB and build Sage XML file.
Processing TvDBMetaData with 15 arguments.
Using following file as Template Metadata XML file: Template.mpg.xml
Using following file as Series Alias XML file: SeriesAlias.xml
Using following file as the target Metadata XML file: C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.mpg.xml
Using input parameter as regular expression: (?<series>.+)\.S(?<season>\d+)E(?<episodenbr>\d+)\.
Metadata provided by thetvdb.com
Found Series Name
Retreived Series Info
Retreived Episode Info
Sage XML file created: C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.mpg.xml
Duration = 00:00:00.9363676
Run todvrms.exe "C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.mpg" "C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.dvr-ms"
Run todvrms.exe "C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.mpg" "C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.dvr-ms"
No combination of intermediate filters could be found to make the connection.
arg[0] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.mpg
arg[1] = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.dvr-ms
Duration = 00:00:33.1146060
Move file specified in Context("OutputFile") to C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV\
Moving C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.dvr-ms to C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.dvr-ms
Could not find file 'C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\DTBTemp\True.Blood.S01E09.720p.HDTV.x264-aAFfileprocess.dvr-ms'.
Action did not complete successfully
Total Duration = 00:42:29.9662400