stops at 50%

[ashman]

I am trying to downsize some large MKV files, resample them at lower bit rates, however of the almost 10 times I've tried with different files, I've had only one success so far, and I had to redo it because the bit rate was too low. However every time I try it, the job stalls at 50% and does not proceed.

I am doing an MKV ==> MKV h264 audio 2 pass convert

I am doing it on a system running windows 7 pro 64 bit, I have Microsoft Security Essentials installed however active scanning is disabled.

Any advice?

[IPopov50]

Any advice?

Try 1-pass. You will get same quality anyway...

[pawnslinger]

Try 1-pass. You will get same quality anyway...

I am using 1-pass. I am also doing a re-sample to a lower bitrate. And the conversion begins normally, but gets slower and slower, and never stops (or finishes)... I cancel it before it gets a chance to do the 8+ hours predicted.

I rerun with 8.0.8.5 and it finishes the job in about 15 minutes!!

The original run that failed was 8.1.2.0 Qt.