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I'm converting files from AVI to MPG and after a while of processing I get a "Floating Point Error". I tried different files and sooner of later during the conversion I get this error. Any suggestions? Is this a bug?
Got the same error message sometimes. To avoid it use a frame server like the "Video Server Plugin v0.93 " from www.videotools.net in combination with some editing softlike like premiere.
to stop this error firt of all don"t do anything with your computer while encodeing,I mean anything ,no screen saver no nothing,and if this isn"t yer problem go to your "cpu" tab and un-check all the boxes on this page(sse,mmx ect) then un-check the "use floating point" box on the "quantize matrix" page and this will stop the error but it will take longer to encode......
I've been using TMPGEnc 2.53.35.130 on a new WinXP system (Athlon XP 1900+, 512MB). I'm trying to transfer an 80 min movie from VHS to DVD. I now have a 18GB AVI which plays perfectly, but TMPGEnc always locks the machine solid at some point during the conversion (this is full-frame PAL, 6kbps). Not always the same point - it might be a few secs into the conversion, or even 40 minutes or so, but it always locks up. What I do get of the MPEG seems perfect, however.
I've got the latest XP updates, drivers are up to date and so on. I've tried running TMPGEnc in Win98 compatibility mode, but it makes no difference.
This is driving me nuts, because I can't find any other MPEG2 encoder out there that I could use instead. I'd be willing to pay for one if I knew it would work ok.
Any suggestions would be really gratefully received.
If I can get TMPGEnc to work, I'll be registering it straightaway!
I too just got XP .. Intel 1.2ghZ .. and I also lock up when trying to convert with TMPGEnc most the time .. but that is not my biggest prob with xp .. I keep getting "lagged" off my dsl connection every 45 to 50 mins and it lasts approx. 15 mins unless I reboot modem then it is only a min or 2. Dont know if it is the same thing causing it or not .. I wonder if anyone else is having this prob or if it is just my bad luck .. If anyone has any idea on either of my probs I will be forever greatful! :) Sassie
I just made my first CD a few days ago of the video Joe Dirt. I had a problem with pixelation while previewing the video, and after tinkering with the settings, got rid of the pixelation. The video turned out great. I am now trying to encode a 2nd video entitled Dirty Work, but cannot seem to get rid of the pixelation in the preview. I have tried different templetes, and lots of different settings, but can't seem to find the right combination to get rid of the pixelation. When I preview the video in DVD2AVI, there isn't any pixelation. I don't know what else to try. Any suggestions. Thanks, Im4tunate
Which template are you using to encode?
If you are using the VCD template, unlock it and up the bitrate.
Depending on the length of the movie you could up it quite a bit if you use 80min CD's.
For a two hour movie you could easily up it to 1600kbps.
Also tick the soften block noise option under the quantize matrix tab.
Ashy - Thanks for the response. I have tried using a self-made template, as well as several different templates that come with TMPGEnc, such as VIDEO CD(NTSC).mcf for example. I'll try upping the Bitrate in the VCD template as you suggested, as well as softening block noise. Thanks alot for the info. I have done much work in the past with analog data, but I'm definately a newbie when it comes to digital. I'll let you know if your suggestion helps. Im4tunate
Ashy,
Just wanted to let you know that after re-booting my system, the pixelation is gone, regardless of which template I use. It may be because I didn't close dvd2avi before starting TMPGEnc. I'm still not for certain what the root cause of the problem was. At any rate, the problem is gone for the time being. Im4tunate
First of all, thnaks to everyone who answered my other question. Now, I burned cd's. 2 vcd and 2 svcd. None of them will play in my samsung dvd 611. I went to vcd help website and it says the player is compatable. It even says "video cd" player right on it as well as "DVD". I burned the dics with Nashua 80 min, 700 MB CD-R. Does anyone think a different type of cd-r will work?? Or any other suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks a bunch.
Hello Kona:o)
Well looks like you have done your homework for your player. I believe your problem is probably due to the fact that even though you recorded the Video in VCD or SVCD compatible format when you burned them to disc you didnÃÕ burn them as a VCD type disc using Nero or another burning program capable of this. Just like when you stick an Audio CD disc in your DVD player and it recognizes it as an Audio CD because of the TOC (Table of Contents) so it does with a VCD or SVCD if the disc isnÃÕ recoded with that TOC then it doesnÃÕ see it as a VCD. Check out http://www.vcdhelp.com/nero.htm ~NewtronX
Well I finally got it right, it will play on my computer with VCD software but no go on my Samsung dvd-611. I called the company and they said it will only play commercial vcd or svcd. So I guess I am screwed. Thanks for the help. If anything else changes I will let you know. I am always open to suggestions.
Thanks
Your problem might be with how you are burning your cd"s,I usually burn with "nero" in vcd mode at 8 times speed or less,I can burn up to 24 times but it seems to cause problems if you burn them to fast..........
Kona before you reseign yourself to the fact that your DVD player can't play home made VCD's try burning your Movie on to a decent rewritable such as verbatim disks.
A lot of DVD players which cant read CDR's can read CDRW due to the fact that CDRW reflect a similar ligh wavelength to DVD's.
So give it a go and DONT burn above 4x.
In my experience it is better,not to burn above 4x or your VCD may be jerky and give other problems. You will also find this advice from many experts and encoder manufactures.
I have purchased the new TMPGenc plus and I have some trouble with it. When I try to convert an avi-file to mpg the program stops after an hour or sometimes after half an hour. When I ceck the activity manager, it say that the program is not responding.
This happens all the time. I have no energy saver on or screen saver or anything. The program just stops and there is no pattern on how long it will function.
I have a 1.4 GHz AMD processor with 256 Mhz ram and 20 Gb free space o the disq.
are you useing win xp? a lot of people have complained about problems with xp freezing tmpgenc,all I can think of is to try compatability mode in xp.......
Hello,
No I have win 98. I think though it have something to do with the processor AMD, since every thing work fine with Intel until I change the processor.
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I know this is strictly a tmp thread, but any other info regarding this matter would be much apreciated
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when I tried to convert an AVI file, it gave me a video without audio. so, I use virtualdub to extract audio then, use TMPGenc once again. I successfully converted the movie but somehow, some part of the movie is out of sync, specially last part.
This is a problem of your soundcard which is not at EXACTLY the same clock rate with the rest of the system. The error occurs the more, the longer the video is.
There's a tool virtualdub_sync out there, but I have not tried it yet.
WHAT!*??
Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you misunderstand the question.
It has nothing to do with capturing.
The question regards converting an AVI to MPEG with TMPGenc, so what do you mean it has nothing to do with TMPG??
AS far as I can grasp from the original question the person is trying to convert an AVI, which is probably a DVD rip either downloaded or created by himself using various conversion software such as DVD2AVI or FlaskMPEG which has nothing whatsoever to with capturing.
It is this AVI which is already probably perfectly in sync that he is using to convert to MPEG with TMPG, but for some reason *AFTER* the conversion process the audio has *THEN* desynced from the video.
Does that make it any clearer or is it a lost cause?
Anyway to answer the original question.
Is the audio out of sync from the begining or does it go out of sync later on in the film?
It may just need a slight A/V shift correction when multiplexing if it goes out of sync from the begining.
If not your file maybe corrupted in some way. Try to find the exact spot where audio desync occurs by running it through Virtualdub to scan for bad frames.
If virtualdub doesn't find it you will have to find it yourself.
When you find the spot of desync, cut the file just after NOT before desync occurs.
Also what is the length of the video and audio files separately?
Then post back and I'll give you info how to correct it.
thanks for the great informations and solutions on this matter.
you were asking... about the length of the video and audio.. its the same length.
actually the thing is:
- when i tried to convert the download file, i managed to convert it to mpg but no sounds and it took too much time. And when I played the converted file, the film actually finishes at the middle of the players indicators and the rest are totally black... but the indicator and it continue to play.. Then, I found from your suggestions on other mails that I should use virtualdub to extract the audio and then convert the AVI to mpg using tmpgenc with the video from the original avi and audio from the saved wave file.
then when I tried to play the converted it becomes out of sync at the end.
Anyway, I will try to do the suggestion you gave, which is to find the error and cut the and reconvert the rest.
>WHAT!*??
>Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you misunderstand the question.
>It has nothing to do with capturing.
>The question regards converting an AVI to MPEG with TMPGenc, so what do you mean it has nothing to do with TMPG??
>
>ASHY
Ashy - FYI; I noticed that the MPEG PLAYER can cause A/V sync problems. Why I haven't a clue. Cyberlink's DVD Player (in "file" mode) yields seriously out of sync audio. ATI's "File Player" plays the same file in perfect sync (running their "All In Wonder"). Henna desu ne? Running a Intel 1.3Ghz CPU w/goodies so I don't think it's an overhead issue. Moreover; I initially didn't think of load the apparently out of sync file on my MicroDrive and hence to my 3630 Ipaq and try it THERE. I assumed that the file A/V sync was lousey... Ah yes; Another prime example of the attendant evils of assuming.
Incidently, I WOULD like to get my grubby little paws on VirtualDub_Sync if in fact such a nifty tool exists. Got URL?
>WHAT!*??
>Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you misunderstand the question.
>It has nothing to do with capturing.
>The question regards converting an AVI to MPEG with TMPGenc, so what do you mean it has nothing to do with TMPG??
>
>ASHY
Ashy - FYI; I noticed that the MPEG PLAYER can cause A/V sync problems. Why I haven't a clue. Cyberlink's DVD Player (in "file" mode) yields seriously out of sync audio. ATI's "File Player" plays the same file in perfect sync (running their "All In Wonder"). Henna desu ne? Running a Intel 1.3Ghz CPU w/goodies so I don't think it's an overhead issue. Moreover; I initially didn't think of load the apparently out of sync file on my MicroDrive and hence to my 3630 Ipaq and try it THERE. I assumed that the file A/V sync was lousey... Ah yes; Another prime example of the attendant evils of assuming.
Incidently, I WOULD like to get my grubby little paws on VirtualDub_Sync if in fact such a nifty tool exists. Got URL?
Hi,
I think I have the same problem. I can't open a AVI File with TMGEnc.
The Statement is "it is not an avi File or unsupported"
so I can't define an input source file.
Do you have some answers ? or a troubleshooting ?
Thanks, many greetings
Andy.
I get an "Not enough memory" error when trying to convert a asf to mpeg1. I have dozens of GB and 256 MB RAM. In TMPGEnc 12a it's a "Out of memory" error.
2001.09.28
Since we have released updated version as 2.00, we stop developing version beta 12x any more, we recommend all users to switch to 2.00 from beta 12x unless you use older version with your own risk. We do not permit re-distribution of any version, especially version beta12x or older at any website.
I'm not 100% on this, but it may have something to do with your swap file.
Check your swap file settings and make sure there is enough virtual memory for the task you are doing. Try increasing it to maximum 4096GB to see if it has any effect.
Hey.I'm having problems with converting my mpeg1 movie to mpeg2(vcd to svcd).I just updated my computer to Windows XP.When I click browse and locate my movie, it doesn't load and it shows an error report.Then it automatically closes TMPGEnc.Can anyone help me????
I'll probably never understand this, but why do people keep converting VCD to SVCD.
1. The quality won't be increased, but will probably decrease.
2. The file size will probably get bigger.
3. The file will be less compatible with more DVD players due to being MPEG2 SVCD.
Explain and relieve my ignorance and I will try and help you out my friend, but need more info on the error.
This is what the error report says...TMPGEnc has encountered a problem and needs to close.The information your were working on might be lost.This started happening ever since I updated to Win. XP. I'm not going to uninstall it. Plz help me.
Forget about the MPEG2 codec I was getting myself confused thinking you were trying to open an MPEG2 file. You don't need it for MPEG1.
Try this.
Goto File>MPEG tools and use the 'Simple demultiplex' option to seperate your video and audio then see if you can load the video only into TMPG.
If it loads then encode and when you have finished multiplex the audio back with your encoded movie.
Dear Tmpgenc,
First of all I love your software it is great! I've wanted to backup some of my dvd's into vcd format. So I ripped the dvd with smartripper, and ripped the audio with dvdtoavi, then used Tmpgenc to encode. The first move I did went flawless! However the last two I've tried have had audio/video sync problems (the audio is about 1.5 sec slower than the video). I've looked at your help site and it talked about slowing the frame rate, etc. I've still been having problems with the audio/video sync. First of all could it be that I'm not choosing the right settings (aspect ratio, frame rate, video type, frame time, etc)? Sometimes when I rip the dvd the video type says "FILM" neither PAL nor NCSC. Sorry for the long email, but I'm trying to give you as much info as possible! Thank you so much for your help and your wonderful software!
You should keep the framerate of the output movie the same as the input movie or it will cause sync probs and if you are encoding to VCD make sure the audio is 44.1khz.
If the original framerate is in FILM 23.976 FPS and you want to convert to NTSC 29.976 fps, select "Force FILM" from the Video -> Field Operation menu in DVD2AVI then use 3:2 pulldown in TMPG to convert the framerate to 29.976 fps.
This is how you are supposed to do it, but to be honest with you I've never actually got it to work properly.
First demultiplex your movie with TMPG then using BBMPEG remutltiplex. BBMPEG has an option to add a delay to the video or audio before you multiplex to resync you movie. Here is a guide how to do it http://www.spawns.dk/svcd/bbmpeg.htm
After encoding AVI/DIVX to MPEG for VCD, when I watch them they seem jerky. Looks to be about them same duration between pauses as the number of frames TMPGENC encodes at a time. Looked through previous articles spotted nought so any help much appreciated
I have the exact same problem but it seems to be from the dvd player cuz on really expensive players they play fine ,I did a little reading up on dvd players and have come to the conclution that dvd buffers can handle over flow a lot better than under flow,and looking at the bitrate in a graff,this seems to be the problem(with me any way)........
From looking at what I have done, I have changed the frame rate from 23.97-25. Tried to follow all the steps that I think you have posted and wow what an arse, will try to follow them again but the divx file I was converting would not give a frame rate in AVIFRATE changer, so would not allow to be changed. I always thought it would be so easy but maybe not
Well if I remember rightly in that post i gave instructions on how to change the framerate with Virtualdub and use that as a frame server.
but you will still need to change the audio with cooledit and any way it isn't as complicated as you think.
Shouldn't take you more than 10mins.