Compression Problems?

[the_man_without_a_plan]

Hello,
I have a huge issue with my computer and compressing theses monster.sou files into whatever I want. i have everything needed to do it, but the program won't take off. It happens like this, I type in on the dos command line:
"compre~5 --vorbis -b 4000 -q 0 monster.sou" and get:
"Voice file found (pos = 8) Sound Data
- length = 1620
- sample rate = 11025 (a5)
- compression = 8bits (00)
Bad command or file name"
then windows pops up with illegal operation and i click details and spills this out:
"COMPRESS_SCUMM_SOU caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 017f:bff7b992.
Registers:
EAX=00000020 CS=017f EIP=bff7b992 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=0073e43c EBP=0073e478
ECX=7803b670 DS=0187 ESI=00000020 FS=1c77
EDX=8193976c ES=0187 EDI=0073eca0 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
80 3e 04 74 0f 33 c0 50 50 50 68 05 00 00 c0 e8
Stack dump:
00000000 78010504 00000020 78023b49 00000000 0073eca0 00000000 00000000 7800db11 780352b0 0073e26c 0073ff68 7800db11 78035478 ffffffff 0073f5b8"
is there anyway to work around this problem like a windows friendly version because I thought that these files were, but turns out I must be doing something wrong.

[frank_m24]

Hello,

are you sure, you copied the oggenc (or another encoder like lame) in the same directory with COMPRESS_SCUMM_SOU and the monster.sou file?

The Scumm utilities are NOT containing the encoders themselves, but they need the executables for the encoders (oggenc for ogg, lame for mp3).

best regards

Frank

[the_man_without_a_plan]

yes i have all i need, the seperate programs, i understand that i need them, found them on this site, and still the problem arises. update on the problem...... i figuerd it out and thanks for the help. i renamed the encoder file from oggenc from oggenc2.exe to oggenc.exe and its workin now. i never would've thought of the file name was that important

[frank_m24]

Hello,

oh dear, if you don't believe, that file names are important, go to c:\windows\system32 and rename all .dll files.

Or maybe it is better to do this not, if you want to boot windows successfully the next time.

regards

Frank

[the_man_without_a_plan]

oh frank your so crazy. another problem for me since im am just learning how you proporly use the scumm tools how does the compress_san work? i follow intructions and tried compressing a whole directory. im hoping that i don't have to do each individual file cuz it was quite the wait for just converting the .sou files.

[DamienD]

i renamed the encoder file from oggenc from oggenc2.exe to oggenc.exe and its workin now.

There is an actual program called oggenc.exe and oggenc2.exe (get both from http://www.rarewares.org/ogg.html). You should probably download/install the one required instead of just renaming from on to the other.

[the_man_without_a_plan]

even though just renaming files worked out wouldn't renaming the newer file have the effect of a better compression rate then?