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Hello Noelix,

thanks for your help.

It is normal for command prompt windows blank, it is the background process. The video transcoding are correclty started, in log file i see

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2006 Fabrice Bellard, et al.

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]  configuration:  --prefix=/mingw --enable-memalign-hack --cc=gcc-4.1 --disable-debug --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-gpl --enable-avisynth --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --enable-mp3lame --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-faac --enable-pp

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]  libavutil version: 49.1.0

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]  libavcodec version: 51.27.0

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]  libavformat version: 51.6.0

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]  built on Dec 20 2006 23:36:00, gcc: 4.1.1 [Sherpya]

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]Input #0, asf, from 'E:\recordings\Afro Samurai SH883483x101 (1_5_2007).dvr-ms':

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]  Duration: 00:34:57.0, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 5631 kb/s

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Info.][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err] duration found 2097

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]  Stream #0.0: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]  Stream #0.1: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, 5000 kb/s, 29.97 fps(r)

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]Output #0, avi, to 'E:\recordings\Afro Samurai SH883483x101 (1_5_2007).avi':

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]  Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 720x480, q=2-31, 150 kb/s, 29.97 fps(c)

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]  Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 22050 Hz, stereo, 96 kb/s

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]Stream mapping:

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]  Stream #0.1 -> #0.0

2007-01-30 10:21:02.531250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]  Stream #0.0 -> #0.1

and three minutes , the encoding progress

2007-01-30 10:23:46.015625 [Info.][12]: ExternalTranscoder[IsFinished] is finish False

2007-01-30 10:23:46.015625 [Info.][12]: ExternalTranscoder[Percentage] return percentage 130

2007-01-30 10:23:46.031250 [Debug][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err]frame= 8245 q=31.0 size=   13876kB time=275.0 bitrate= 413.3kbits/s    

2007-01-30 10:23:46.031250 [Info.][Thread TransErrStream]: [ExternalTranscoder][Err] value found 275.0

After i suppose you close the blank commant prompt windows   and the encoding is stopped.

When you launch the encoding from the menu compression, you can see the progression in the sub-menu state , can you check this once the transcoding is launched.

I am agree currently the percentage return is wrong (because by exemple it returns 130 % then it is 13 %, it is my stupid bug of multiplication  )

For  your video of 34 min, the encoding with a bit rate 150kb/s take 20~30 minutes.

you can change the bitrate in the commande line

encoder.1pass.args=-b 150k -bt 150k -ab 96 -vcodec mpeg4 -g 300 -bf 2 -acodec mp3 -ar 22050 -f avi

For a DVD the bit rate is about 1000k - 2500k.

Can you launch the transcoding (don't close the blank prompt  windows) and check in the sub-menu state or status  in compression menu. Normally you can check also with the task manager, you can see a process ffmpeg.exe take some cpu ;-)

bye

Fabrice