I'm attempting to encode a DivX4 movie to mpg, using the AVI2 VFAPI plugin. When I start the encode it gives me an error window that says "Invalid Pointer Operation". If I disable the AVI2 plugin, and use the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader, the file will encode, but seems to lag a bit. It also seems to blur a small portition of the screen near about where the subtitles are. I'm encoding a fansub episode of a anime called 'Naruto', so the subtitles are a part of the video stream, and not in a seperate stream. The other episodes I have encoded were using DivX3, and had no problem encoding with AVI2 VFAPI plugin.

I did attempt to search the BBS to see if this had been posted before, or if the AVI2 VFAPI plugin supported DivX4, but I was unable to find anything relating to this problem.

According to GSpot v2.21, the video has the following specifications, CodeC 4CC:DIVX/XVID , Name:DivX 4 (OpenDivX) , Runtime:00:23:05 (166,034 fr) , xy:640x480 (1.33:1) [=4:3] , BitRate: 842 kb/s , FPS: 119.875 , QF:0.023 bits/pixel. I think the Frames Per Second should read 23.976, since that is setting I encoded to mpeg with using the DirectShow VFAPI, and had no audio sync issues with.

Thanks, I really enjoy using TMPGEnc, it has a very easy to understand interface, and is a really stable program for me. I have had no problems with it except for the one listed above.

Download ffdshow as Decoding-Filter for DivX/XViD. It is much better than the Original-Decoder.

Thanks B_Racer, that fixed the blurring on the video.

Are you refering to the AVI2(OpenDML) reader?
I think this plugin is more suited to uncompressed AVI which use multi segments such as captured AVI.
I would stick with Directshow or VFW for DIVX or XVID.

Yes, I was refering to the AVI2(OpenDML)File Reader. The DirectShow Multimedia File Reader uses the codecs installed in your system to work with the video. I know this, because when I have the DivX5 'Disable Logo' unchecked in the DivX 5.1 decoder options, TMPGEnc will show/encode the DivX logo in the bottom corner of the screen, the same way MediaPlayer displays it when the file is played with this option unchecked. The AVI2 File Reader is TMPGEnc's internal avi filter that does not rely on any outside codecs, as far as I know.

I think I found out why the AVI2 File Reader was giving me an error. A friend had suggest that I try and change the FourCC header of the file. I downloaded, Nic's Mini AviC FourCC Changer, and ran the episode through it. For some odd reason, it told me that the FourCC Description Code was xvid, and the FourCC used codec was DivX. So, I changed the FourCC Description Code to DIV3, and tested it with TMPGEnc, with the AVI2 File Reader. Worked perfectly, and has the same video quality as the ones that I had previously encoded.

I want to thank everyone again, for trying to help me. I really appreciate it.

If you are encodeing a Divx file and you are useing the "AVI2(OpenDML)Reader" in the VFAPI Plugins still Means that you are Useing the DivX codec to decode the File, any File that is Compressed will have to use a codec installed on your PC to decode the File there is No way arround it...The AVI2(OpenDML) File reader Isn"t a Decoder so it is Not acting as a Codec .....

Minion is right.
No compressed AVI can be decoded without a relevant codec installed.
As Minion says the "AVI2(OpenDML)Reader" will still need to be fed a decoded input from an AVI codec such as DivX.
It is the structure and type of file that determines whether the "AVI2(OpenDML)Reader" can read the AVI not it's compression format.

If what you are saying was true we wouldn't need to install any codecs at all.

i have no problems using tmpg when the source file is already a good framerate but i do have several movies from tmd and they are pretty much ALL at 14.987fps and tmpg will never recognize this, the audio loads but the video won't!! either on drag and drop or clicking the browse button on the first screen! i've talked to several people that do convert these 14.987fps movies just fine but still have not recieved any help on how i can do it. thnx

Are you getting a "Can Not Open Or Unsupported" Message??? If so this Can usually be solved by Going to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct Show File Reader" to "2"..This will usually get rid of the Unsupported Message ....

Using the DVD Writing Tool, whenever I hit "Write DVD", I get the following message:

"The disk label includes nonstandard characterswhich might not be displayed correctly on some players. Do you want to continue the writing process?"

Since I'm only using roman letters in the disk label, I'm wondering why this message.

Help appreciated!

Only uppercase alphabetic, numeric, and "_" characters are
legal for ISO-9660 labels. If you include spaces or lowercase
letters, you'll get the warning. It's probably OK to ignore
it, but I usually just use all caps.

When I load my XviD file, it detects it as 1:1 ratio, which it is not, then estimates a 1000+ mb file size, when it should only be 450mb or thereabouts. he;lp please!

Don"t believe what Tmpgenc says about File sizes and definately don"t let it stop you from encodeing...If you are encodeing to VCD the File size will be about 10mb per minute of Video so Just encode the File and Don"t worry about what Tmpgenc says about File size....

How long is the AVI?

When encoding for DVD PAL when I set the BIT rate at a constant CBR 8000 I get an error report at about 3% into the encoding.I am exporting from Avid as a quick time reference file and combing the audio & video together.Any Ideas?

Well One thing I can tell you is that Encodeing QT Refrance files seems allways end up in some sort of Error as I do not believe that Tmpgenc actually fully supports them, and the QT Plugin allways Has Problems with QT Referance files and it could be because I don"t thing that the QT Plugin supports Files made with Quicktime 6 ....We Get Posts evey now and then in here about the Same Problem you are Haveing and There hasn"t really been any solutions...The only thing I can sudgest is to Maybe try rendering your Project as a AVI file then Just encodeing the File Like normal....good luck

I'm new to dvd authoring, and I'm having trouble getting smooth-playing MPEG-2 from a video source. The video is captured with a Media 100 card on a Mac system (.mov) and converted in TMPGenc to MPEG-2. It's a small clip, just under 4 minutes, basically a long commercial. Lots of graphics flying around, and video mixed with stills, etc.. The stuttering/hesitation in question is constant, but especially pronounced when a graphic enters the screen. I'm using CBR/7000, and I've tried all kinds of different GOP configurations to no avail. Any ideas on how to get this to play back smoothly on a set-top dvd player? I'm authoring and burning with ReelDVD 3.1.1 and a Panasonic a06/106d burner. Oh yeah, it's not a field order problem, I checked that first.

What is the source frame rate and what frame rate are you encoding to?

>What is the source frame rate and what frame rate are you encoding to?

29.97 on both. I'm thinking now that the problem lies in the way Windows is handling Quicktime files created on a Mac. I was able to solve the problem by rendering the .mov as an image sequence, and re-rendering the image sequence as an .avi, which results in a smoother mpeg from tmpgenc. I have no idea why this works.

Can anyone tell me why only some of my video file is converted in tmpgenc.

I have a 10 minute clip which tmpgenc will only encode 30 second of.

It's something to do with the video format, not tmpgenc itself.

Thanks

PKD

Well some Information on the File you are encodeing would be Nice as we can not read Minds....Sometimes if there is an error in the file you are encodeing Tmpgenc will stop encodeing when it hits the error....

Being new to the world of video editing and production;

Having encoded directly from premier using plug-in two files are created one audio and one video. How do i create a DVD with both files combined and playable on either a PC or DVD player?

I take it you are creating a DVD?
If so you should just load both files into your DVD authoring program and let it do the rest if not then select 'CBR MPEG1 layer II' audio instead of 'CBR Linear PCM audio' in the first screen of the wizard.

If you have a Real DVD Authoring Program then you can load Both Video and Audio files into it to Author to DVD, But Ashy is correct that you should have Chosen Mpeg 1 Layer 2 audio because Wav audio Just takes up too much Space on the DVD..What would be even better is if you had an AC3 encoder to encode the Wav to AC3 then use the AC3 audio in your DVD because AC3 is the Best Format for DVD Because of it"s Quality and Small file sizes...There is a Freeware AC3 encoder called "BeSweet" that you can find on Google if you wish to try it....Cheers

I have used TMPGEnc to convert an video .avi file (downloaded from the net) to a mpeg file and the video has worked fine. So now I am trying to get sound onto the mpeg video file. the sound on the .avi file is ac3.

I have tried the following:

Putting the avi file into the audio source to convert it to a mp2 file with 44100Hz and 224 kbits/s using TMPGEnc, but the produced mp2 file has no sound.

Using virtualdub to create a .wav file and then multiplexing it with the mpeg video file using TMPGEnc but TMPGEnc gives the error 'illegal MPEG audio stream'. The .wav file plays ok in windows media player but not winamp.

Using db power amp to create a mp3 file but i can't get this to play on either winamp or windows media player and the mp3 file is too small which suggests it hasn't converted the file anyhow.

I have the program 'ac3 decoder' but I suppose you need to get the .ac3 audio file and then convert that to the correct settings. I don't know how to get the .ac3 audio file from the .avi file.

Any assitance would be extremely grateful, cos watch'in silent movies just aint my cup o' tea.

cheers

First, why are you trying to multiplex a wav file with an MPEG, surely you realise this won't work as wav is not a comatible audio source for MPEG.
What you should have done is used the wav to encode to MP2 with TMPG. Also Mp3 is not a compatible audio format if you intend to play this movie on a set top player.

What you really need to do is install an Ac3 codec which can decode the audio in TMPG. There is only one which can do this at the moment and it can be found here: http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/AC3ACM/

Thanks Ashy...that has worked a treat.

In "Audio sourse" I put the same name of file like in "Video sourse" (for example: "bla-bla.avi". I can't perform encoding because warning: "File "bla-bla.avi" can not open or unsuported". What I have to do?

I had a similar problem. Although I'm still bit of a novice at this I'll tell you what I did:

I used the program G-spot to find out what codecs were being used and then obtained the codecs. For the codecs I douwnloaded the ACE Mega codecs pack pro version and then, using the custom install command, just installed the codec I wanted.

Depending on the Audio format in your AVI file you will either have to extract the audio from the avi to wav format with Virtual Dub or you will need to install a Decoder ...If the audio is VBR MP3 you will need to extract the audio to Wav if the Audio is AC3 then you will need to install the "AC3ACM Decoder" so Tmpgenc can decode the AC3 audio...You can get the AC3 ACM Decoder here : http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/AC3ACM ...Cheers

Earlier today i was converting some DivX to VCd flwlessly. I then trie dopening up another avbi file and I kept getting error meesages about some memory error and some dll filw. I reinstalled Nimo Codec PAck and TMPGenc Plus a few times with no results. I come to restart my OS (Win2k SPK 4) and TMPGenc won't even start up!! I reinstalled my Service Pack, and TMPGenc still won't even startup! Please help! All I hear is an error sound when I come to startup TMPGenc, and I get no message. Please help!

Sorry, here are my spelling corrections:

Earlier today i was converting some DivX to VCD flawlessly. I then tried opening up another avi file and I kept getting error meesages about some memory error and some dll file. I reinstalled Nimo Codec Pack and TMPGenc Plus a few times with no results. I come to restart my OS (Win2k SPK 4) and TMPGenc won't even start up!! I reinstalled my Service Pack, and TMPGenc still won't even startup! Please help! All I hear is an error sound when I come to startup TMPGenc, and I get no message. Please help!

Delete or Rename the AVI and try to start TMPGEnc. This should help.

Don't try to open the Video again in TMPGEnc, try to open it in VirtualDub. If this works, use the Frameserver of VirtualDub to serv the Video to TMPGEnc.

I've had this problem on a number of occasions.
From the TMPG folder delete the TMPGEnc.ini and CurrentCfg.tpr then restart TMPG.

I downloaded a video off of edonkey & I'm wanted to put it to DVD & I don't know how to do this using TMpegEnc

Well The way you would go about it would depend on the File that you downloaded, But since you did not leave any Information at all about the File you downloaded it will be Difficult to give you any Instruction .....Some Information on the Video & Audio Format and the Resolution and Frame rate of the File would help us determine The best way to go about Putting this File on DVD..But Basicly you Run Tmpgenc you load in your File and then you choose the Appropriate DVD Template and encode it to Mpeg2 ..The you will need a DVD authoring Program to format the Mpeg file so it can be Burned to DVD...There is a Lot of Information on this type of Stuff at : http://www.dvdrhelp.com/'

Cheers