Conversion Problem

jmlehrfeld · 08-25-2012, 08:42 PM

Hi,

I'd greatly appreciate any help on this problem. I usually have no problems converting epub to mobi in Calibre. I usually do not change any of the default options. However, I have three epub files that will not convert to mobi, and I'm not sure why. Again I am using all the default conversion options in Calibre. I'm attaching my log file from the botched conversion. Each time I try -- with each of the three epub files that will not work -- the conversion process reaches 47% and then stalls.

Spoiler:

Thank you.

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epub removed from attachment due to copyright. Do not attach copyrighted books in the future.

DoctorOhh · 08-25-2012, 09:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmlehrfeld

Each time I try -- with each of the three epub files that will not work -- the conversion process reaches 47% and then stalls.

It is not stalling it is still working. If it hasn't actually stopped with an error message have patience and let it run.

jmlehrfeld · 08-26-2012, 07:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwanthny

It is not stalling it is still working. If it hasn't actually stopped with an error message have patience and let it run.

I'm a little skeptical though... usually a book conversion takes about a minute or two. I can watch the progress bar go from 0% to 100%, and I can watch the ETA get smaller and smaller until it's done. In the case of these three books, the progress bar makes definite progress until 47% and then stops making any further progress. Additionally, the ETA actually starts to increase! The highest it's gotten before I stopped it was around 3 hours. Something is definitely wrong with these three books...

theducks · 08-26-2012, 09:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmlehrfeld

I'm a little skeptical though... usually a book conversion takes about a minute or two. I can watch the progress bar go from 0% to 100%, and I can watch the ETA get smaller and smaller until it's done. In the case of these three books, the progress bar makes definite progress until 47% and then stops making any further progress. Additionally, the ETA actually starts to increase! The highest it's gotten before I stopped it was around 3 hours. Something is definitely wrong with these three books...

I have seen books convert in a few Minutes.

quite a few take 10 to 15 Minutes.

a small selection take hours

and Some, will take over a DAY

All on the same P4 3.2GHz w/800MHz FSB and 2G RAM

(and JUST me playing Freecell or viewing MR while I wait

)

Simply wait for it to Crash (or get done

)

BTW IMHO Having Heuristics ON adds to the time. in most cases, the results are worth it.

jmlehrfeld · 08-27-2012, 08:29 AM

Alright, guess I'll just let it run til it crashes then. I'm a little curious to see how many days this will last...

jackie_w · 08-27-2012, 04:53 PM

Just a comment based on the job details you posted.

Your source epub appears to contain 6 css files. This is more than average - many only have 1. There is nothing wrong with a 6-css epub, but it may be the reason the conversion is taking a long time - lots of work to do

jmlehrfeld · 09-06-2012, 05:31 PM

Ok, so I let the conversion run for 36 hours. There is definitely something wrong, somewhere. Like I said before, it gets to 47% -- very quickly -- and then stops making any progress at all. In a few minutes each of these three books gets 47% converted, but then in 36 hours they fail to get even another 1% converted?? Something doesn't add up. Still no error message, no crashing. And only those three books. I think my solution will be simple: give up on reading those books!

Sirjamessmi · 09-17-2012, 03:55 PM

I'm having sort of the same problem converting to mobi except after the conversion to mobi starts it runs about a minute and Calibre shuts down. Below I opened three books, everything fine. Then started convert and shut down happened.
calibre Debug log
calibre 0.8.69
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
Windows
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.3
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Starting up...
Started up in 13.93 seconds with 6304 books
Worker Launch took: 0.389999866486
Worker Launch took: 0.265999794006
Worker Launch took: 0.264999866486
Worker Launch took: 0.671000003815

08-25-2012, 08:42 PM	#1
jmlehrfeld Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Kindle 4	Conversion Problem Hi, I'd greatly appreciate any help on this problem. I usually have no problems converting epub to mobi in Calibre. I usually do not change any of the default options. However, I have three epub files that will not convert to mobi, and I'm not sure why. Again I am using all the default conversion options in Calibre. I'm attaching my log file from the botched conversion. Each time I try -- with each of the three epub files that will not work -- the conversion process reaches 47% and then stalls. Spoiler: Convert book 4 of 6 (Ender's Shadow) Resolved conversion options calibre version: 0.8.62 {'asciiize': False, 'author_sort': None, 'authors': None, 'base_font_size': 0.0, 'book_producer': None, 'change_justification': u'original', 'chapter': u"//[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\\s((chapter\|book\|section\|part)\\s+)\|((prolog\|pr ologue\|epilogue)(\\s+\|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']", 'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak', 'comments': None, 'cover': u'/var/folders/fc/1_v4jhv13wxbdkllqj1nczpm0000gn/T/calibre_0.8.62_tmp_QI2KiG/2xchRb.jpeg', 'debug_pipeline': None, 'dehyphenate': True, 'delete_blank_paragraphs': True, 'disable_font_rescaling': False, 'dont_compress': False, 'duplicate_links_in_toc': False, 'enable_heuristics': False, 'extra_css': None, 'extract_to': None, 'filter_css': u'', 'fix_indents': True, 'font_size_mapping': None, 'format_scene_breaks': True, 'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4, 'input_encoding': None, 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x107258890>, 'insert_blank_line': False, 'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5, 'insert_metadata': False, 'isbn': None, 'italicize_common_cases': True, 'keep_ligatures': False, 'language': None, 'level1_toc': None, 'level2_toc': None, 'level3_toc': None, 'line_height': 0.0, 'linearize_tables': False, 'margin_bottom': 5.0, 'margin_left': 5.0, 'margin_right': 5.0, 'margin_top': 5.0, 'markup_chapter_headings': True, 'max_toc_links': 50, 'minimum_line_height': 120.0, 'mobi_ignore_margins': False, 'mobi_keep_original_images': False, 'mobi_toc_at_start': True, 'no_chapters_in_toc': False, 'no_inline_navbars': True, 'no_inline_toc': False, 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleOutput object at 0x107258f10>, 'page_breaks_before': u"//[name()='h1' or name()='h2']", 'personal_doc': u'[PDOC]', 'prefer_author_sort': False, 'prefer_metadata_cover': False, 'pretty_print': False, 'pubdate': None, 'publisher': None, 'rating': None, 'read_metadata_from_opf': u'/var/folders/fc/1_v4jhv13wxbdkllqj1nczpm0000gn/T/calibre_0.8.62_tmp_QI2KiG/ueUSRP.opf', 'remove_fake_margins': True, 'remove_first_image': False, 'remove_paragraph_spacing': False, 'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5, 'renumber_headings': True, 'replace_scene_breaks': u'', 'search_replace': '[]', 'series': None, 'series_index': None, 'share_not_sync': False, 'smarten_punctuation': False, 'sr1_replace': None, 'sr1_search': None, 'sr2_replace': None, 'sr2_search': None, 'sr3_replace': None, 'sr3_search': None, 'tags': None, 'timestamp': None, 'title': None, 'title_sort': None, 'toc_filter': None, 'toc_threshold': 6, 'toc_title': None, 'unsmarten_punctuation': False, 'unwrap_lines': True, 'use_auto_toc': False, 'verbose': 2} InputFormatPlugin: EPUB Input running on /var/folders/fc/1_v4jhv13wxbdkllqj1nczpm0000gn/T/calibre_0.8.62_tmp_QI2KiG/1HB_gi.epub Found HTML cover content/calibre_title_page.html Parsing all content... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_30.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_15.html ... Parsing content/resources/Ender%27s%20Shadow%20Preview_calibre_0.css ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_32.html ... Parsing content/calibre_title_page.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_23.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_33.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_16.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_24.html ... Parsing content/resources/Ender%27s%20Shadow_calibre_1.css ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_9.html ... Parsing content/resources/Ender%27s%20Shadow%20Preview_calibre_1.css ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_17.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_1.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_25.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_10.html ... Parsing content/resources/Ender%27s%20Shadow%20Preview_calibre_2.css ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_18.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_2.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_26.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_11.html ... Parsing content/resources/Ender%27s%20Shadow_calibre_0.css ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_19.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_3.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_7.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_27.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_12.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_22.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_20.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_4.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_31.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_28.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_13.html ... Parsing content/resources/Ender%27s%20Shadow_calibre_2.css ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_21.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_5.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_6.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_29.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_14.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow Preview.xhtml ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_8.html ... Parsing content/Ender's Shadow_split_0.html ... Reading TOC from NCX... Merging user specified metadata... Detecting structure... Thank you. Moderator Notice* epub removed from attachment due to copyright. Do not attach copyrighted books in the future. Last edited by DoctorOhh; 08-25-2012 at 09:03 PM.

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08-27-2012, 08:29 AM	#5
jmlehrfeld Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Kindle 4	Alright, guess I'll just let it run til it crashes then. I'm a little curious to see how many days this will last...

08-27-2012, 04:53 PM	#6
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,212 Karma: 16534894 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: Kobo: KA1, ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E. PocketBook: TouchHD3	Just a comment based on the job details you posted. Your source epub appears to contain 6 css files. This is more than average - many only have 1. There is nothing wrong with a 6-css epub, but it may be the reason the conversion is taking a long time - lots of work to do

09-06-2012, 05:31 PM	#7
jmlehrfeld Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Kindle 4	Ok, so I let the conversion run for 36 hours. There is definitely something wrong, somewhere. Like I said before, it gets to 47% -- very quickly -- and then stops making any progress at all. In a few minutes each of these three books gets 47% converted, but then in 36 hours they fail to get even another 1% converted?? Something doesn't add up. Still no error message, no crashing. And only those three books. I think my solution will be simple: give up on reading those books!

09-17-2012, 03:55 PM	#8
Sirjamessmi Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 23 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Kindle	I'm having sort of the same problem converting to mobi except after the conversion to mobi starts it runs about a minute and Calibre shuts down. Below I opened three books, everything fine. Then started convert and shut down happened. calibre Debug log calibre 0.8.69 Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601') Python 2.7.3 Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free') Starting up... Started up in 13.93 seconds with 6304 books Worker Launch took: 0.389999866486 Worker Launch took: 0.265999794006 Worker Launch took: 0.264999866486 Worker Launch took: 0.671000003815

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