Since I was experiencing so many lockups using Tmpgenc 2.57+ under WINE, I decided to give it a try under a freshly installed copy of Win2K SP2.

Same thing. It still locks up the entire machine. TMPGenc 2.56 and under work fine however. The only additional software on the system is PowerDVD 4.0, DVD2AVI and DirectX 8.1.

TMPGenc (the entire machine for that matter) locks on files whether they are DVD rips or self encoded files.

Can someone please give me a clue here?

My System is:
AMD XP1700+
256mb DDR@266mhz
4 80gb Maxtor UDMA133/7200 HDs
1 CD-R/RW
1 DVD-Rom drive

I have the same problem as you.

Anytime I start encoding with tmpgenc, after seconds, my computer reset. Anybody know why?

My computer:

AMD k7 1.3 Ghz (266MHz)
Gigabyte GA-7drx
512 DDR Ram (2x256)
SB live 5.1
Geforce MX 440 64MB
20 GB HD

Windows 2000 SP3

I try taking off one module memory and only working wiht one module memory (256MB). After that, I change de module memory and the problem continue.

It¡­s my Micro or my Motherboard problem?

My computer reset every X hours. working only with emule program.
X hours could be 8-12h, It is not at the same time. It is variable.

Anybody can help me, please?

Well Tmpgenc Was Never Made to Run On "WINE" so if you can get it to work then that is a Bonus But we Can give advice on how to do something the Program wasn"t Made to do in the First Place....

@LeXus99
I recall TMPGEnc gave me a great deal of problems when trying to run my (admittingly cheap) memory at it's rated PC2700 in fast-turbo modes on WIN98. I usually got floating point errors or locked up... Switching down to PC2100 and "normal" mode solved this issue for me.

@Vicdiz
If your machine is shutting down every so often, and when put under stress, it very well could be a heat issue. Athlon mobo's usually have a shutdown temp set in their bios to regulate this. Remember, encoding video will really put the chip under stress and create much more heat than when the machine is idle... Make sure everything is cool under the hood or you could damage your equipment!

>>@LeXus99
>>I recall TMPGEnc gave me a great deal of problems when trying to run my >>(admittingly cheap) memory at it's rated PC2700 in fast-turbo modes on WIN98. I >>usually got floating point errors or locked up... Switching down to PC2100 and >>"normal" mode solved this issue for me.

Thanks for the reply....

I am using PC2100 DDR and heat does not seem to be the issue. I suspected this a while back and ran the heat sensor software at the same time I was rendering my video just to check. I also recently ran a CPU test program that claims if used under an already overheated system, it would ultimatly fry the CPU and probably the motherboard power caps as well. It's recommended only running it for a few minutes. I let it run for several hours. It did not lock up the machine.

For that matter, would TMPG2.56 not have the same effect? It would still be processor intensive, and it works great (under both WINE and Win2k).

Are you running an XP chip? Since I originally posted, I have checked TMPGEnc 2.57 thru 2.59 on non-XP Athlons under both WINE and Win2k with no lockups
(So, it DOES indeed work great under WINE).

My conclusion, either there is a bug in TMPGEnc v2.57 and greater where XP chips are concerned, or my CPU has a bad instruction in it somewhere. If the latter, I would surely see lockups with other rendering programs, such as Lightwave 3D.

BTW, I cannot, as of so far, use the Cyberlink codec under WINE and am using the m2p.vfp codec instead under Linux. Under Win2k, I'm using the Cyberlink codec.
This has been the same for all tested CPUs, so the m2p.vfp codec DOES work.

Now what?

LeXus99

I aldready posted earlier but I really need a solution and one hasnt been offered yet. PLEASE!!!

I am in the process of trying to create a DVD Project in DVDMaestro. Up until this point, I have succesfully created and burned two DVD's made in DVDMaestro. The process I go through to make my media DVDMaestro compatible is as follows:
Using these programs:
TMPGEnc:De-Multiplex all .MPG files into seperate audio(.MP2) and video(.M2V)
Power Tools MP3 Merger:Merge seperate .MP2 files into one audio file.
TMPGEnc:Edit the .MP2 file to 48K
DVDPatch:Patch the .M2V files to a DVD compliant resolution
DVDMaestro:Load patched .M2V and 48K .MP2 files into DVDMaestro

Although there are two more steps after these to complete my process, it is at the last step that my error is occuring. The first patched .M2V and 48K .MP2 file load into Maestro flawlessly. When I attempt to load up my second and last patched .M2V file into DVDMaestro I get the following error:

'Temporal References in a GOP are out of sequence.'(0xc1070034)
Now for the solution... =]

It seems like there is some problem with the GOP sequence and may have become corrupted in the last MPEG. You could try re-packetizing the MPEG.
M2Edit has a feature to re-sequence MPEGs which may solve your problem.

MPEGCarver and is another which can do this.
Vitec MPEG-2 Pro can add sequence headers to a GOP, but not sure if this will 'fix' and re-sequence the MPEG or not


ASHY

I have a mpeg file processed using TMPGEnc, it works fine, the file is under 700Mb, but when I try to burn it using Nero, it tells me the file is too long for a 80min CD-R. The runtime is 89mins. Is there a way I can fit this file in VCD format onto a 80min CDR?

Nero Is Wierd like this sometimes, you can either enable "OverBurning" and set it to 89 minutes in Nero, or Use something else to burn VCD"s like VCDEasy which I think is a Better Program for Burning VCD/SVCD"s Cuz it allows you to Make Chapters which Nero doesn"t...

Yea, i go w/ VCDEasy and ?Burn at once, or Burn it now? Its so simple and fast, I cant remember its name. But it will let you overburn w/o even asking.

Are you sure this file is only 700mb?

If you have created a 89min standard VCD then this file will be 890mb, I would guess Nero is telling the truth.

ASHY

When I try to open a d2v file with tmpgenc, I get the following message "Cannot open or unsupported" I used to have windows 98 and had no problems with d2v files. Anyone know why?

Thanks

Make sure you have the DVD2AVI.vfp Plugin in the Vfapi Plugins, if you don"t then take the "DVD2AVI.vfp" file from the DVD2AVI folder and Put it into the Tmpgenc folder and then it should be there..make sure you didn"t movie or rename or delete any of the Vob or Mpeg files you are Frameserveing..and if all else fails then Make a New D2V file...

i noticed following problem when producing mpeg2 svcd pal videos:
single vertical jitter every few seconds (approx 1-2 lines).
i use version 2.59; same problem occurs with every elder version
of tmpgenc i tried. (input-files are 720x540 pal videos, captured by
pinnacle studio dc10+ card)
jitter does not occur, if i encode the same files with pinnacle studio 8.
since i prefer to use tmpgenc i would be interested in a solution of
the problem.
has anyone an idea what the cause could be ?

Have you tried to De-Interlace the Files to Fix the Jitter????

no, because i need it interlaced to produce svcd-cds which are played on the dvd-player connected to the tv.
the jitter is not permanent; it's a single image-move down/up approx. 1 line, then for seconds everything is ok, and then it happens again...

The De-Interlace Filter doesn"t make the File a Non-interlace File it Just blends the 2 fields together so you don"t have to Wory about Problems with field Jitter...I use it all the Time when Makeing SVCD"s and It does wonders for Fixing Problems like this But the File will Still Be interlaced...

i tried the non-interlace filter when i started to make svcd's. my experience is, that non-interlaced looks better when played on the pc and interlaced looks much better when played on the desktop player connected to the tv set (when there is movement in the scene, it is very jittery when non-interlaced is used).
in fact noticed my problem after months, when i captured the 'neujahrskonzert 2003' of the vienna philharmonuc orchestra, because of many sequences with no camera movements or with very slow zooms...

I have this file where I can get the video, but not the sound.I tried to extract the sound in virtual dub and clicked on 'file information' and under sound it had "unknown (tag 2000)....I've tried and tried to find the right encoder AND decoder for this thing.....somebody PLEASE HELP ME FIND THIS FILE!!!...GRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!

It is Probably "AC3", You can use "AVI-Mux" to demux and uncompress the audio to a WAV file and use that as the audio source...

>It is Probably "AC3", You can use "AVI-Mux" to demux and uncompress the audio to a WAV file and use that as the audio source...

where is this 'avi mux' and how do I use or apply it to the movie file to make it work?? I've never used it so I'm dumb to this part. Is it in virtual dub or tmpgenc? Please help me out with this process on how to use this file.

Download it then search 'AVImux' in the search bar at the top of this page.

ASHY

please help when i try to open tmpg i get illegal op error in kernel32.dll

I would like to convert multiple files at once. I am having to go through each one separtely and convert each one that way. I have 100's of files to convert and it's getting annoying. Could you please tell me if there is a way to convert a whole file of movies? Thank you, in advance.

name each file sequencially then go to Enviromental setting, click the CPU tab and check the 'Open sequence files as a movie' option.

Now load the first file and the rest will encode.

ASHY

I tried the above thing, but i still can't convert several movie files to mpg files for joining, i would like to do this all at one time. Thanks for the help, any other ideas? and i am doing something wrong? I renamed 4 of them and opened one for converting, the rest did not open.

The Files have to be named like "File-001.avi, File-002.avi, File-003.avi ect" and they have to have the same characteristics like Resolution ,Frame rate and Codec..This feature works Flawlessly for me with Every format even Mpeg2 files..But if fore some reason it still won"t work for you you can use Virtual Dub to frame serve all the files as a Movie to Tmpgenc...

I understand the sequencial naming, but does this work with converting mpg's to a joinable mpg? I mean that i am taking mpeg files the cannot be joined to each other and converting them to mpg's with the program so that they can be joined. I named them that way, but it still only converted one video at a time.

What format are these MPEGs, MPEG1 or MPEG2?
Why would you want to reconvert them?
Simply join them all using the MERGE&CUT feature in the MPEGtools.

ASHY

I don't understand why, but they read as mpg files on the computer, but when i check their type with gspot, they read as an avi file. The avi files won't join in virtual dub, so i have to do this. Here are the reports from gspot:
Audio Visual Interleave (AVI), Video Media: 4cc: DX50. Video Codec: DivX Decoder Filter.

These files are infact MPEG4 files which are actually AVI's.
Confused?
Divx is MPEG4, but has an AVI wrapper, so these can be treated as AVI's and should have an AVI extension.
They will join in Virtualdub if you do it right and also in TMPG.

Follow Minions advice and it will work, but don'rt forget to click the CPU tab and check the 'Open sequence files as a movie' option.

ASHY

I am having this same problem, only not with batch encoding. I cannot load single mpeg4 avi files. How do I get them to load...also, tmpeg crashes when I try to load mpeg2 files....?

The title says it all: There is no wav-File the program will support on my system! No problem with waves in any other program. The video will be correctly saved (VCD-Format) and the audio I want to use can't be so bad either: VirtualDub created a perfect avi for me. But it's VCD I want, so what's can I do now?

I am having the same problem. Have you ever been able to create VCDs? I was able and now I'm not able. The only thing that I did was upgrade my DVD2AVI to version 1.77.3 (from 1.76) and upgraded TMPGenc Plus to 2.59. I've tried everything, including the environment settings (which I'm sure some people will suggest to you). But nothing seems to work. I also can hear the sound fine with Virtual Dub.

I know this isn't helping, but I wanted to let you know the progress (or lack there of) that I've had on this issue.

Well you can allways use something else to encode the audio, I do it anyways...

Can you give some specifics on how to encode the audio with another program. You mentioned downloading SCMPX. I did, but can't figure out what to do with it. Can you walk me through it?

I am trying to merge two .mpg files from a SVCD so that I can burn the final file to a DVD. When I play the files by themselves, there is no sync issue, but when I merge them, the audio goes out of sync near where the merge happens. I noticed that in the merge dialog , I can "edit" the files and alter where the merge occurs. When I play the tracks back there (before I merge them), they are already out of sync. So TMPEG is having a problem with the audio for those tracks - even though they play fine normally. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Do I need to fix the multiplexing?

Read my question a couple lines down and you will see instructions for how to seperate audio and video for merging.

Tmpgenc"s Merger doesn"t support Editing or Mergeing files that are VBR cuz of sync issues ,try a different mpeg editor merger..

For encoding video for a DVD, I want to set the YUV format to 444 (i.e. no color downsampling). I have some thin red lines I want to keep perfect quality. However, I can never change the YUV format (the GUI control is ghosted and set on 4:2:0). Is there a way to change this?

The best you can do with TMPGenc is 4:2:2 (422P@ML in the profile box).

However this will violate the DVD standard which is 4:2:0 (MP@ML) and even if you can get DVD authoring software to accept a file encoded at 422P@ML, it is pretty doubtful that any set top DVD player will play it.

Richard

Sorry TMPG does not have this option. The closest you can have is 4:2:2. Be aware though that neither setting is DVD compatible.

ASHY

Oops. Looks like we posted at same time.

ASHY

Use 4:2:2 for an archival copy and then re-encode for DVD authoring.

Use DVD2AVI to decode the 4:2:2 when re-encoding.

This preserves the higher quality source for future formats that might accept it.

I am in the process of trying to create a DVD Project in DVDMaestro. Up until this point, I have succesfully created and burned two DVD's made in DVDMaestro. The process I go through to make my media DVDMaestro compatible is as follows:
Using these programs:
TMPGEnc:De-Multiplex all .MPG files into seperate audio(.MP2) and video(.M2V)
Power Tools MP3 Merger:Merge seperate .MP2 files into one audio file.
TMPGEnc:Edit the .MP2 file to 48K
DVDPatch:Patch the .M2V files to a DVD compliant resolution
DVDMaestro:Load patched .M2V and 48K .MP2 files into DVDMaestro

Although there are two more steps after these to complete my process, it is at the last step that my error is occuring. The first patched .M2V and 48K .MP2 file load into Maestro flawlessly. When I attempt to load up my second and last patched .M2V file into DVDMaestro I get the following error:

'Temporal References in a GOP are out of sequence.'(0xc1070034)
Now for the solution... =]

BTW, if this question has already been covered somewhere else in the forum, a link would be just as great as a repeated answer. I couldnt find anything through my own search, but a solution is a solution.