I was encoding an AVI file using VBR using TMPGENC 2.5.7. During the 2nd phase (transcoding), the error, Bad Pointer, was displayed on the screen and TMPGENC stopped. The strange thing is that I have used the exact same settings on the same file before sucessfully and without any problems(I accidentally deleted the first output file in order to make room for another project). Does anyone have a clue what this error is, and if so, what one can do to minimize it happening again. It's a real bummer to have an error like this happen 6 hours into the transcoding process.

Thanks,
Vince

I have never heard of this error before, but maybe if you don"t use the 2-pass mode then you might not get the error, a lot of poeple have been getting wierd errors in the 2-pass mode with this version, I sugest useing the CQ encodeing method is is way faster and will produce as good or better results the only draw back is that it is hard to figure out the potential file size.....

Just got a canon a200 and shot some movie clips with it, downloaded onto my computer o.k. the file didn't have a file extension so I renamed it XYZ.avi and it opened up fine in MS media player, but when I try to open it with TMPGEnc it tells me the format isn't recognised or supported?... any help appreciated. TIA

If It doesn"t have a file extention how do you know what format it is in??? Anyway this might work, Try raiseing the priority if the "direct show file reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins" you do this by going to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" then raise the priority to "2" and if that don"t work try raiseing the "openDML file reader" in the same location.......

I tried renaming it .mov and .mpg and they wouldn't open , but it would open in .avi format... that's how I worked it out. Thanks for your ideas I'll givem a go... TA

Hello I need to know how to add a sequence header to each GOP header when making an mpeg 1 file?

It "Tmpgenc go to "settings" to "gop" and where it says "output interval for sequence header" the value should be "1"...but if you have allreadt encoded your file you can use a program called "mpeg sequence maker" that will put a sequence header before every GOP for you but you will have to "de-mux" the mpeg and load the video into it then after the header is applied you just mux the audio and video back together, you should be able to fing this program on a search engine it is freeware........

I set everything up perfectly, then when I click "start" to begin encoding i get a message saying " can't load 'P3package.dll' " can someone please tell me what i can do to fix this?!

Make sure all the "tmpgenc" files are in the same folder, then take the "p3p package.dll" file and copy and paste it into your "system and system32" folders this usually works unless there is some sort of conflict in your system..

I too was getting the "Can't load P3package.dll" error and upon reading what to do about this, seemed like I needed to download the entire program over and over again....NOPE! The problem that I was having was that I made a shortcut to the executable file. So the solution was to NOT make a shortcut. Also, Don't put the executable outside the folder, even if not a shortcut. Keep all the files in the folder in an easily accessible place and just take the extra step in opening it. Well, this is my experience, so hopefully it will help someone else, so they are not constantly downloading the program thinking it is a problem with the download.

Nycap

Your right about not moving the executable, but creating a shortcut shouldn't be a problem. I don't have one with mine.

ASHY

I'm ripping a DVD, and when I encode the mpeg-1 the output video is kinda choppy, like there are missing frames or something. I'll post a clip on my homepage, crosswinds.net/~mrspiffy/ for those of you who are willing to help me. Thanks!

This can be caused by a few things the most common is encodeing to a differant frame rate than your source file, anouther thing could be that you have the field order mixed up, or you need to the de-interlace on the file, or if you encode at to high a bitrate your dvd player will seem to skip frames cuz it can"t keep up with the high bitrate,any of these things could be the problem, you should post back with the method and the settings you are useing to encode to mpeg, and what format your ripped dvd is in, then maybe someone can give you a more detailed explanantion......

the dvd I'm working on is in NTSC format in 16:9 ratio. my settings are just loading the NTSC VCD template in TMPGENC. so the bitrate is 1150kbps and the audio is 224kbps at 4:3. nothing non-standard. I just use the "source range" option to encode half the movie at a time for 2-CD movies.

it seems that when I ripped the DVD, it ripped both the english and spanish angles into one set of VOB files. wtf?? how'd that happen and how can I fix it? I used DVD Decrypter. The movie is Down to You. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

it seems that when I ripped the DVD, it ripped both the english and spanish angles into one set of VOB files. wtf?? how'd that happen and how can I fix it? I used DVD Decrypter. The movie is Down to You. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

The best thing would be not to use DVD DEcrypter, SmartRipper is probably the fastest and most reliable and easyest to use Ripper and will only rip extra stuff if you tell it to, you might be able to remove the extra stuff with "IfoEdit" but I"m not sure, but I have no idea what could have gone wrong cuz with mpeg1 you don"t have to worry about de-interlaceing or anything, so I have no idea what could be going wrong, have you played vcd"s in your dvd player before?

Moring folks.

Given a DVIX stream that runs fine on my machine, how can it happen that it comes out of tMPG without any sound? Must be the encodning somwhow, since Nero complains on that file, too, and refuses to work on it altogether. Anyway, I can play it fine on my machine, so I guess I have the necessary codes...

Source is 640x368, Audio 146kBits, MPEG Leyer-3, Video 23 fps, 137 kBits, 24Bit, DIVIXMPG4V3

The resulting file is 1.2GB (!!!) with the regular PAL-VCD settings. And w/o the sound.



Any help apreciated! Carsti

You need to extract the audio from your divx file to a wav file with "virtual dub" the audio in your file is "VBR MP3" which is not supported in Tmpgenc....

Yo, thanx, I'll give it a try... Why do people enconde such rather rare system? eDonkey should put on warning sings on those. ;)


Carsti

It isn"t because it is a "Wierd" format it is because it is quite difficult to encode compressed formats to compressed formats, that is why Tmpgenc seems to only Fully support Wav audio files ,It will encode other formats but the chances of Tmpgenc causeing an error or just giveing bad quality are greater That is why it is allways a good idea to extract the audio to wav if the audio isn"t wav allready..

Hi, has anybody out there got a full version of the link2 tool from www.videotools.net and has used it with AVIsynth and CCE.
I'm thinking of purchasing this tool and would like to know what sort of speed to expect and any other relevant info.

ASHY

Hey Ashey, I was looking around the net for the Link2 tool and I came across a link to download site for a certain full version of a program that hasn"t even been released yet, I won"t mention it here cuz every one will be e-mailing me but it might be something that you might be Very Very interested in trying, so get back to me ASAP and I"ll tell you about it, I think you will be very interested.....

I tried to take an MPEG2 file I made with TMPGEnc 2.57 and use it with DVDit! PE 2.5. It would not load the file at all. I got the following error message: "
DVDit! could not find a suitable decoder for file
Please ensure that you have a vaild decoder installed"

What can I do to make it work? I am able to play the MPEG2 file on Windows media player.

I have used TMPEGenc 2.01 and it worked fine with DVDit!

WHat can I do?

This has popped up before. If I remember rightly the solution was to de-multiplex the MPEG and load the video and audio seperately.

ASHY

>This has popped up before. If I remember rightly the solution was to de-multiplex the MPEG and load the video and audio seperately.
>
>ASHY

Please forgive me, I'm new to this stuff. Where can I learn how to de-multiplex the MPEG?

You de-multiplex your mpeg in the "mpeg tools" go to "file" to "mpeg tools" to "simple de-multiplex" load in your file and choose your output directory and click "run" this will seperate the audio and video into 2 files a m2v video file and a "mp2" or "mpa" audio file, then in dvdit import the video and audio seperately...

And the next time you encode, choose "video only" as the stream type on the main page.

ah ha it's not only me :)

well i gave up using mydvd as i had this problem aswell (thats 1 reason i started messing around with avi files menion/ashy)

i down loaded unleaded's 30 trial of moviemaker, and since then no problems. if im correct dvdit costs a bundle of cash, you would think they would have regular patchs for it, their forums are full of little problems like this.

that why i beleive we are companies R&D teams, saves them a fortune

I have had the same problem with DVDit! SE. The file that gives this message plays in every other software DVD player I have--why doesn't DVDit like it? I have the latest v2.52.

I've tried installing bunches of codecs and still nothing. Maybe as a last resort I will ask Sonic Tech Support!!!

Oh, I should add that demuxing the file did not help...

My DVDit experience seems different from everyone elses!

It works fine with the following technique: Encode to a full program stream and load that for each "movie". Output a WAV file for each mpg file and drop that on each movie.

During processing, DVDit demuxes the mpg file and uses the WAV file as audio.

NOT using the WAV file as audio causes the project to end up MUCH larger than estimated in the project settings. (Probably a bug.)

Because of another bug (in my DIrectShow filter setup?) I load the audio as the very last step, after all menus are composed, otherwise the program complains that video files can not be read for display purposes.

I use the wizard to encode avi to mpg for SVCD-NTSC.
When I click to choose the "Source Range", the window pops up for me make the selection...it takes a very long time(about 1 min) to move the bar to set the start or end frames. I click somewhere on the line and I have to wait a long time for it to move. The rest of the steps are fine and the encoding is fine too...except if I choose to encode, for example, from the middle of the movie to the end...it takes very very very long if I choose to encode anything not from the start of the clip. Once I left it overnight and in the morning it was done 33/67547 and 0%.
Or another scenario is when I choose to encode from start to end but I cut out a few seconds in the middle...it starts out fast but when I reach the place where it cut...it practically stops.
By the way...my computer is a 1.4GHz with 40GB.

Thanks for yo time!
-Rishi-

I too have that problem... in fact, my computer is much slower than yours, but I am going slightly faster. TMPGENC has been running over 7 hours now, is still at 0% and estimates 1042 hours until completion. I am going to keep searching the board for a fix, and also will try encoding from the beginning...

Encoding from the beginning worked. It was done in < 3 hours. Just use virtualdub or whatever to clip the movie into the parts you want. What I don't understand is why no one else on the board replied. It's frustrating to be new, but even more so to be alone. I see many of the other repeat questions being answered, was this question simply very old or very unknown? Either way, you could have said what to search for or something.

When merging and cutting then play my mpg the file don't play in order, how do I get them to play play in order
I'm using Ver:2.55

Cheers
Colin

For them to play in order you need to make sure you merged them in the right order.
For example the first file you want played should be the first file loaded into the merge/cut tool.

ASHY

>For them to play in order you need to make sure you merged them in the right order.
>For example the first file you want played should be the first file loaded into the merge/cut tool.
>
>ASHY

Hi ASHY

Thanks for the reply:

That's fine but I have about 72files to merge together. the first file I double click and this will be the first file that play's in the MPG but the others are scatterd.

PS: want is the correct but do??

cheers Colin

I am having the same problem 2.57 plus stinks because it seems to totally disregard the vbr bitrate values.

Example I encoded a two hour movie with 2pass vbr 2520 max average 2100 and minimum 500 kbps. The end result was average bitrate 2160 kbps. Needed 3 discs so I decide to re-encode and lowever the average bitrate to 1600.... Tmpegenc 2.57 gave me the same filesize!!!!!!! even though i made sure i typed in 1600 average vbr and save the .tpr file and double checked it it gave me a 2160kbps average file--just ignoring my parameters (1600 average).

SO I decided to go back to tmpgenc plus 2.56 and you know what? no problem. The average was 1610 kbps (I choose 1700 kbps) and it fit on 2 cdrs...

Something needs to be fixed....

Are you saying that you put in a certain bitrate value then encode then you look at your project file and different values are there than the ones you typed in???or are you viewing the mpeg file through a bitrate viewer and the determaning the bitrate is off???I guess there could be a bug in the way it is reading the tpr project files in 2-pass mode but this is the first time I have heard of a problem like this in this version of Tmpgenc, then again Most poeple Don"t use the 2-pass method cuz I it widely known that the CQ method is superior to the 2-pass method(strange but true)when the source files are of good quality, anyway One thing you might try is see if Tmpgenc 2.57 will read the TPR files from 2.56 properly and if it does then that is probably were the problem is....good luck

I've been having the same problem. Originally I was using CQ100 but that can severely limit the video to about 37min/disc. So I decided to bite the bullet and try 2Pass. It seems like it's ignoring avg. bitrate. I had set up a bitrate of just over 1800kbps which should have resulted in a final file size of just over 700mb. I ended up with a file of 886mb. I can deal with a little variance but this is ridiculous.

Hi Guys. Got a small problem that I couldn't seem to find listed in these back pages...
I downloaded VAMPIRE HUNTER D "BLOODLUST" in avi format.When played in Windows Media Player I had good sound and video.Then I used TMPG to convert to an MPEG1 format. Picture quality good... but no sound. Since the AVI file does possess audio, I don't understand how it gets "lost" during the conversion. I have converted avi files both before and since I tried to convert "Vampire Hunter", and these others transform perfectly... I use the TMPG Wizard, so it is not a case of me "messing around" with the settings....
I am truely puzzled.

Well this is one of the most Common questions asked here , the problem is that the audio format in your avi files are probably not supported in Tmpgenc.What you need to do is extract the audio to WAV format with "Virtual Dub" and use that as your audio source,but if the audio is AC3 then you will need an AC3 decoder to extract the audio to a WAV file, you should actually do this to most every file you encode with tmpgenc cuz if the audio is compressed tmpgenc has trouble sometimes encodeing it........