Illeagal Angle situation during simulation

I have a project that has 1 main track and 2 angles to go with it. In my main menu I have 3 buttons that have a script that sets the angle its going to play. Whenever I simualte this I get a error saying "illegal angle situation only the main track will be played" When I hit OK it starts playing and it plays the correct angle I just selected, so what gives?

First thing to check (or one of the first) is how you encoded. CBR is recommended for this to avoid illegal angle error messages. Does this do this during an actual build or just the simulator?

Similar Messages

Mixed Angle Error during simulation

I'm trying to build a mixed-angle project in DVDSP 4.2.0. I've encoded both the main V1 track as VBR with only chapter markers, closed GOP and in Compressor settings made sure the "include chapter markers only" option was checked to prevent any forced I-frames.
When importing the alternate angles into the V2-V9 streams everything goes fine, cell markers are placed both at the beginning and end of the angle and all angles are exactly the same length. However during simulation I get the "Illegal angle situation..." error message. I've gone over settings both from exporting the file from FCP and Compressor - everything checks out according to both the DVDSP4 manual and the Compressor Guide from Brian Gary - can't make heads or tails of it.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated as I'm on deadline.

I had accidentally done two things wrong:
1. I did not send out the main V1 streams from FCP with "DVD Studio Pro" markers, but Chapter Markers instead, and;
2. I manually put a chapter marker at the beginning of the very first chapter. DVDSP4 automatically puts one there called "start".
Now all my mixed angles work perfectly throughout the 2 discs - all 59 of them!
Nothing like finding your own answers!! (^_*)

Simulation error: "Warning - Illegal angle situation"

Hi there,
I've just produced a three camera edit in FCP and I'm now trying to cut to DVD in Studio Pro.
I keep getting hit with the same message when trying "simulator". I have 13 chapters..all of which come up with this error when I try to skip to them.
"Warning: Illegal angle situation. Only the Main Video Angle will be simulated".
I've gone back into FCP and deleted all references to the "angles". I've exported onto tape and then recaptured..put back on the timeline and exported again..reimported into DVD Studio and it still appears.
I'm running out of ideas. Can anyone please help me?
Thanks in advance.
Carol Ann

Hi there,
Thanks for all your efforts here guys.
I'd say the "angle" issue is resolved...but now when I import the asset into DVD SP and try to put on timeline I'm getting the following error...
"Or or more clips could not be added to stream.
Incompatible GOP Structure. Last Valid Time Code at 00:00:00:00
I have exported using compressor and opted for MPEG2 option. I chose CBR one pass and ensured GOP was set to "closed". I thought if it was "closed" then it wouldn't look for that in DVD Studio but it still seems to. I'm trying just about every setting in compressor that I can find and basically I'm going nuts trying ot work it out.
Please don't give up on me
Carol Ann

"Illegal angle situation. Only the Main Video Angle will be simulated."

Hi y'all!
Trying to export my .mov out of DVD Studio pro and getting the message 'Illegal angle situation. Only the Main Video Angle will be simulated.' when I try to simulate. There's no video in the V2 track so guessing I need to fix up the GOP or angles, but I don't know where or what to change them to.
Project is an hour long, NTSC, 16:9, 29.97fps

Check your preferences for Track - check the Fix Invalid Markers on Build box. Should do the trick, though you may need to quit DVD SP and reopen to make sure the changes to preferences "stuck." It sounds like you are using only one video track and do not have multiple angles (video), audio or other extras, just a straight m2v and audio track. There are some other things that can cause the issue, like using VBR when using multiple video tracks. But see if this takes care of it.

Advanced mixed-angle "illegal angle situation"...stumped!!

First off, I would like to thank in advance anyone who takes the time to read my detailed post and tries to help. I have read the posts on this topic before, but I have not been able to solve my problem.
In detail:
I am doing a project for a client, and part of this project involves a mixed-angle track. We shot several different camera angles of his car (two from within the car, one stable tripod shot as the car passed the camera coming towards you, one stable shot as the car passed driving away from you). There were four different angles shot, and one combined FCP shot showing all four simultaneously for a total of 5)
Step one-the angles:
Angle 1 (V1): From 01:00:00:00 to 01:01:02:22 (A FCP edited shot with all the clips sized down to about 40% of original size so all angles are visible simultaneously.)
Angle 2 (V2): From 01:00:00:00 to 01:01:02:22 (A shot of taken from the sunroof view of the car as it drives. This shot is the only one with the same length as Angle0)
Angle 3 (V3) From 01:00:03:01 to 01:00:51:25 (A shot taken from the passenger side as the car drives with the rear view mirror slightly in shot. As you see, this shot does NOT run the length of V1 or V2)
Angle 4 (V4) From 01:00:11:11 to 01:00:28:28 (A tripod shot taken from a specific spot on the road with "its back" to the car as it comes towards the camera, so the view is of the car as it is driving away)
Angle 5 (V5) From 01:00:27:17 to 01:00:50:22 (Another tripod still video shot taken from a different spot on the road facing the car as it comes towards the camera, so that the view of the car is an approaching view, and the car passes the camera.
Audio is a combined sound of all four events as they occur mixed togther to form one Dolby 2.0 ac3 stream at 192kbs.
All of these shots are synched up as they happened in real time, and in looking at the various FCP timecodes, you can see that the different video angles "weave" in and out of one another.
Some various markers were placed on the footage in synching it up (NOT chapter markers for this purpose..only timing) and those were left in the individual clips.
Step two-once the video was synched, a separate FCP sequence was created for each angle to be encoded for use in DVDSP4. I then placed Chapter markers-precisely accurate to the frame where EACH video event intersected another. (Example: Angle starts at 01:00:03:01 so I put chapter markers at this precise point on angle 1 and 2 as well) Chapter markers were placed on any and all intersections of beginnings or ends of the angles that weaved in and out of other angles. This was done so the GOP's would match for later transcoding.
Step three-transcoding with Compressor.
Exact setttings for first run..
Video-(apple preset) DVD: Best Quality 120 minutes - 4:3. The ONLY change made to the audio or video preset was checking the INCLUDE CHAPTER MARKERS ONLY box in the extras portion of the video encoders for all tracks so the encoding would ignore all markers but my chapter placements.
Audio-Dolby 2.0 preset within the blanket apple preset mentioned above.
Step four-Entry into DVDSP track for trial run.
Exact steps:
Dropped angle 1 into V1
Dropped angles 2-5 into V2-V5 in accordance to the chapter markers governing where these angles should be "sandwiched." No problems here...no error messages. Flawless. Everything going well to this point.
Step 5-Ctrl, Simulate Track...and...here it comes...
"Warning-Illegal angle situation. Only the main video angle will be simulated."
Step 6-Went to Apple Discussion boards. Saw the various posts regarding the maximum bit rate being lower than 7 just to be on the safe side, and VBR turned off to be absolutely safe.
Step 7-Re-transcode all video angles with one pass, non VBR, "include chapter markers only" checked, and max bit rate of 6.5-same audio file as orginal attempt. Dropped video angles again into the respective timing containers in DVDSP. Once again, we get "Warning-illegal angle situation. Only the main video angle will be simulated."
I am stumped. I have tried to describe my process up to this point as precisely as possible and am also on a strict deadline. The mixed-angle feature was a big selling feature for us to this client. I know and hope the answer to this issue is something simple.
Again, thank you in advance! These message boards have always been a great help because of the generosity of those in the Mac family!!
PowerMac Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2.5 Ghz Dual G5, 1GB Ram, 250GB, 400GB internal hard drives

Thank you all for your responses. Here are my several confusions, however.
As long as the GOP's line up, I was under the impression that a MIXED, (not a MULTI) angle project does NOT have to have clips of the same length. Or at least this is what I read in the Ramseier/Sitter Certified training book on DVDSP. This is pulled right from the book:
"About Alternate Angles
DVDSP lets you create two different types of alternate angle tracks:
Multi-angle tracks, in which each angle is exactly the same length as the main video stream.
Mixed-angle tracks, which include alternate video streams that are shorter in duration than the main video stream. Where there's a space in the mixed-angle stream, DVD players revert to the main video stream, which they play until the mixed angle appears again. Mixed angles save disc space for alternate angle streams that do not need to run the length of the entire track. Technically, all angles in the mixed-angle tracks must be sandwiched by markers-one marker at the front, and one marker at the back."
The frustration of this is that I have been successful with Multi-angle tracks. Because I am working with a DVD-5, I cannot afford the space to have ALL these angles run the length of the entire mixed angle clip that I mentioned above. Chapter markers were placed at all intersecting points to the frame, and "include chapter markers only" was checked so that the GOP's would line up precisely with one another.
The only thing I have not tried is compressing at the lowest possible CBR I can while trying to maintain the quality of this footage with minimal motion artifacts. As I said, this is footage of several angles of a car accelerating to the speed of 85mph...so I am also limited to how low I can compress because I will get nothing but blur after awhile. I will try to recompress with the lowest possible CBR as suggested.
This is such a small part in the perspective of the overall whole of this project for my client, but it is extremely important. Again, I appreciate all support and free-time you all have given, and any additional detailed suggestions are desperately welcomed!
Peace
PowerMac Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2.5 Ghz Dual G5, 1GB Ram, 250GB, 400GB internal hard drives
PowerMac Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2.5 Ghz Dual G5, 1GB Ram, 250GB, 400GB internal hard drives

Illegal angle situation

Searched through and found one topic on this but it didn't seem to provide a solution to my issue.
Basic stuff. Making a 4:3 SD DVD with one button to play the movie. the movie properties are "MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass.m2v". I'm taking a button from buttons palette, linking it to the movie and when I run "Simulate" and click on the button i get the "Warning. Illegal angle situation. Only the main video angle will be simulated." Every time I click the button I get this.
Been using DVD Studio Pro since the beginning and I've never seen this warning before. Any ideas? there was a fix in another thread (deleting then relinking the movie), but it didn't help.
OS 10.6.4
2 x 3.2 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
12 GB memory
Thanks,
ROB

Got another question for you. Have you seen my baseball?
Got it, Shawn. Things work fine now. That was a real rookie mistake on my part. Thanks!

Illegal angle situation without multiple angles

I have a project that worked fine last time I opened it (a few months ago). No multiple angles. It does have subtitles. Upon opening today when I simulate I get this error when clicking to open several of the video sequences: "Illegal angle situation. Only the main video angle will be simulated." Absolutely the only thing I've changed is I had to relink to some of the assets that I'd moved onto an external drive for archiving. My video tracks have stories, chapter markers, etc. so I really don't want to delete them and recreate. Any help?
PowerMac Dual G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Are you using encoded media or .mov source files? Have you tried locating and removing the PAR files that DVDSP creates when you import footage?
Are you using compatible audio files?
Any information about all of these things will help narrow it down a bit, if Drew13's suggestion doesn't help.

Stimilus profile, CSV import to modify parameter during simulation

Hello,
I need to do the following :
- import a CSV file in the stimulus profile edtior
- Assign some of the variables to channels which are model parameters. These must be modified / updated during simulation.
- The channels are typically "starter, accelerator pedal". These are "parameters" of the models, not "in ports".
I'm having this situation because of the way the simulink model is compiled. There are no / few "in ports" but mostly "parameters" which can be modified.
It works fine with the workspace, the "car" can be started and controlled through the usual veristand workspace GUI.
But the stimulus profile editor fails to modify these "parameters". I've tried the demos, I could see how the inports can be modified but when I try to do the same with parameters, the "parameters" channels are not modified as expected by the CSV from stimulus editor.
Anybody have faced similar problems ?
Is it a bug/limitation in Veristand stimulus profiled editor ? Only inports can be updated during simulation (parameters of model cannot be updated during sim ?)
I've tried Veristand 2011 and 2012, with the same results.

This is a limitation of how VeriStand treats parameters. VeriStand is designed to optimize setting parameters around the use-case of setting it from the host, not from the control loop directly.
Do you have control over the model? In some circumstances you can replace Constant blocks with VeriStand IO blocks to switch the parameters to inports.
If that is not an option, you have a few options to consider:
1. In VeriStand 2012 there is a Stimulus Profile step to apply a set of model parameters. This is not a replay-type step. You only apply one value per parameter in the file, rather than playing back a waveform of some sort.
2. You can use LabVIEW (or Python, C#, TestStand, etc.) and the VeriStand execution API to read a CSV file and call SetParameterValues in a loop to send values down to the target. Note, however, that this replay will not be deterministic, because you can't really control the timing of setting parameters very exactly. This would mimic what you are doing from the Workspace.
3. Similar to #2, you can record a Workspace Macro of the parameter manipulation you do in the Workspace and then play that back. Again, this won't have deterministic execution, but maybe it's good enough.
Jarrod S.
National Instruments

Unexpected reboot during simulation using multisim on AMD dual core processor

We are using NI-multisim 10 in a classroom environment and are experiencing sudden reboots during simulation without giving any error or warning. This happens on multiple machines, all being Dell Optiplex 740 with AMD DC 2Ghz as processor. Since these problems happen so frequently, making teaching quite impossible, we have shifted PC-room and are now using older machines. On these machines - Dell GX280 using intell P4HT-2,8 Ghz - we experience no more problems.
Is this reboot problem related to the article : Unexpected Errors with DAQ Device on AMD Dual Core Machine (http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/9CE22FE099AFB8BF862572FF007A5D45) and what do we have to do to fix this problem?

Nic
Can you verify your driver versions? Make sure that you are running the latest versions of NI drivers to ensure proper compatibility. If possible, you might try upgrading to multisim 11. If this does not solve the issue, try the single processor workaround in outlined in the following KB:
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/D0FC3BE7D9F331398625731A005D76B8?OpenDocument
Altough it is surely decreasing the performance of the system, certain cases have shown that there is no other possible workaround unfortunately.
Best Regards
Michiel
Applications Engineer
NI Belgium
http://www.ni.com/ask

"illegal angle situation" on single angle project

i'm trying to build and burn a DVD made from a TV broadcast, which only has a single angle. when i view it in the inspector i get the warning "illegal angle situation", and when i try to build i get a "track 1: missing marker for angle situation" error.
unless i have done something by accident there should only be one angle. i have only one track, though the track is made up of two mpeg files, one immediately after the other (different tv programmes).
please could someone let me know how i can fix this problem ? i'm resisting starting over again because i spent a couple of hours inserting chapter markers. (as far as i know there is no way to export these markers from Studio Pro ...)
any help or advice much appreciated. thanks !
mark

alex
thanks very much for your response - after magnifying the timeline i discovered a short clip on the V2 track at the same point i joined two assets on V1 - it must have gotten there by accident and i couldn't see it on the normal view of the track editor. now it's been deleted all seems well.
many thanks,
mark

Multisim 11 only uses one CPU core during simulation

Hi,
Just recently I've been using MultiSim again, v11 if that matters, and simulating goes slow, to my opinion that is.
Now there are two things that I've noticed:
- Multisim only uses one of two CPU cores during simulation, not both;
- I've enabled CPU throttle (AMD's Cool'n'Quiet) but corespeed remains very low even though Multisim needs CPU power while simulating.
The simulating of a NE555-based LED-flash circuit requires about 28 seconds to get to 100ms in the simulation. Now if I can get the CPU to throttle up, by for example having Prime95 stress one of the two cores, then the simulation only requires 12 seconds to get to 100ms.
So here are my two questions:
1. Is Multisim 11 capable of using more than one CPU core while simulating? If yes, how can I get it to use more than one?
2. Probably not the right forum to ask, but is there a way to force Windows 7 Ultimate x64 to throttle up the CPU when Multisim starts simulating? Since Multisim does not seem to stress the only core it uses enough to throttle it up. Using Prime95 on one core does trigger a throttle up.
With regards,
Bart Grefte
Relevant specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Multisim v11
AMD A4-3400
16GB RAM

Completely forgot this topic....
Is there a good reason why there is no multicore support? Multisim can certainly use it for simulating.
As for the CPU throttling, I found a batch that can increase/decrease the "minimum processor state"-setting and it works immediately, no reboot required.
@echo off
powercfg.exe -getactivescheme > "%userprofile%\appdata\~apo.tmp"
set /p v_currentscheme= <"%userprofile%\appdata\~apo.tmp"
set v_currentscheme=%v_currentscheme:~24,36%
del "%userprofile%\appdata\~apo.tmp"
powercfg -setacvalueindex %v_currentscheme% 54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00 893dee8e-2bef-41e0-89c6-b55d0929964c %1
powercfg -setdcvalueindex %v_currentscheme% 54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00 893dee8e-2bef-41e0-89c6-b55d0929964c %1
powercfg -s %v_currentscheme%
exit
Usage is simple:
Start -> run -> c:\pathtobatch.bat 100
for "minimum processor state"-setting at 100%
Start -> run -> c:\pathtobatch.bat 5
for "minimum processor state"-setting at 5%
Please note that "set v_currentscheme=%v_currentscheme:~24,36%" is not the same for every language. The original batch had "set v_currentscheme=%v_currentscheme:~19,36%" (most likely for the English version of Windows 7), but since my Windows install is in Dutch, I had to change it in order for it to work.
Running the batch with @echo off removed will show why.

Reference field (BKPF-XBLNR) not auto populate during simulation

Hi all,
During GL posting using t-code FB50 or FB01, I already entered value in Reference field.
After all fields keyed-in, I choose Document - Simulate to check the entries.
In this simulation screen, value which I entered in Reference field previously is gone.
Anyone knows what happened? As far as i know, the value should just carry from the initial screen I entered.
Thank you.

Hi Dev,
Apart from SAP note, I am thinking of using BKPF-BKTXT for storing UTR number & later on use for clearing BRS. Am not getting Int. algorithm for this field. Am doing Manual Reco by FF67.
Am planning to use manual Int Alg. 901. I need steps to use the same. Any idea please ?
PS: SAP note suggests us to add new field specifically for this in mother table BSEG & BSIS, which I want to avoid.
Regards
Message was edited by: raju M

Particular Perner not getting picked during simulation/ Live Run - Payroll

Hi Experts
Payroll program is not picking up a particular perner during execution when executed by payroll admin of that country . We have checked the SU53 dump and found no errors . All authorizations are in place.The payroll admin had executed the payroll for this perner last month without any issue.No org / master data changes made in last 2 month. The perner is not getting picked up in simulation and live mode. Please advice
Regards
Sriram

Dear Sriram,
Check infotype 0003 for the particular employee.
Find Weather the employee is locked.If locked do the deselection and run the payroll.
Regards,
Sairam.

Analog DC: Values will not update during simulation

Hello,
i created a simple analog DC circuit (12V) with a 100 Ohm Potentiometer, a 50 Ohm resistor and a multimeter at the potentiometer. If I start the simulation it always show me the same Value of 8V. Regardless of which value I set with the slider (0-100%) during the simulation, nothing happens.
Did I something wrong with the configuration or is that a know bug?
Thanks!!!

I am not sure of your circuit configuration, but I have tried different configuations and it seem to work fine. I will post the circuit file for you to examine. This contains 2 circuits on the same schematic with 2 different configurations for the pot.
Let me know if this is incorrect. If this isn't what your doing then try posting your file for us to examine.
Kittmaster's Component Database
http://ni.kittmaster.com
Have a Nice Day
Attachments:
Potentiometer Circuit.ms10 ‏52 KB

GL account different during simulation in MIRO

Hi,
GL account is entered manually in MIRO. But while simulation system changes the GL account automatically.
What are the possible reasons for this ? Please help.
Thanks and Regards,
Maheshwari

Total invoice amount u2013 1982.07
Line item (PO amount) u2013 1688.41
Line item (GL account u201CAu201D amount) u2013 293.66
While simulation:
Vendor account u2013 1982.07 Credited
GL account u201CBu201D u2013 1688.41 Debited
GL account u201CBu201D u2013 293.66 Debited -> Instead of GL account u201CAu201D, u201CBu201D is getting debited?
Thanks and Regards,
Maheshwari

Illeagal Angle situation during simulation

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for