hi there, i'm using TMPGenc 2.521.58.169
Core Version - 1.98.152

and after installing SP2 Final, when i'm trying to set VDR file as video source, i get an error massage says :

"blabla.vdr can't open or unsupported"

how can i fix it?!

thanks

Reinstall Windows XP without SP2... Or pray for a new Version of TMPGEnc 2.5x.

Go to the Virtualdub installation folder then run 'AuxSetup.exe' then click the 'Install handler' button.
'OK' everything then exit. Restart your machine and then start the frame server again and try and load the .VDR into TMPG.

If it doesn't load into TMPG still then Go to Options>Enviromental settings>VFPAI plugins and raise the priority of the 'VFW reader' to 2 and ensure it is top of the list.

If you still have problems open another instance of Virtualdub and load the .VDR into that.
If it fails to load then the frame server client isn't installed correctly. I would then suggest trying the whole procedure again.

Try this:
Go to the Virtualdub installation folder then run 'AuxSetup.exe' then click the 'Install handler' button.
'OK' everything then exit. Restart your machine and then start the frame server again and try and load the .VDR into TMPG.

>hi there, i'm using TMPGenc 2.521.58.169
>Core Version - 1.98.152
>
>and after installing SP2 Final, when i'm trying to set VDR file as video source, i get an error massage says :
>
>"blabla.vdr can't open or unsupported"
>
>how can i fix it?!
>
>thanks

Hi, I got a problem with TMPGENC, but im not sure if its the program or the video itself. I read other posts, and tried some of their solutions, but it doesnt work. The audio in the properties menu describes them as "Lame MP3" (Not sure what that means) and its the same for all of my videos, working and not working ones. So, i tried extracting the audio from the video using Adobe Premiere Pro. When i extracted the video, i was shocked, to find the Audio is COMPLETELY EMPTY, as if there was no audio. (the lines stuff to tell the computer the noise to make) And i knew this doesnt make sense, cause before, there was audio on the AVI file, and after finding the NO AUDIO in the video, i checked the video again, to make sure, but there is sound. I somewhat don't know whats happening here. All the other videos work, with same settings and stuff, and some dont, and also have extended time lines after encoding with TMPGEnc with those that dont work. Please help me.

If the audio property is refering to LameMP3, do you have Lame installed on your PC? If not do a search through a search engine, download and install.
Then point Tmpgenc to the lame.exe file within your environment settings.
Thats the only part that refers to Lame in Tmpgenc.

I dont understand what you mean by there was no audio in Premiere but you know its there. Its either there or it isnt. Use something like Gspot to examine the file and see what teh actuall properties of the file are.

G A I Y
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If someone has an answer it would be great to save time otherwise ill have to do it the long way, here goes.

I need to convert AVI > Mpeg as to burn to SVCD.
First I get the green block thing, which's cool, i have fixed that by telling Tmpgenc to use the OpenDML VFAPI plugin as Gspot says.
But now there is no audio associated! There's audio when it uses the directshow plug but its got the green block thing goin' on.
And when I look at the tip for Microsoft Mpeg-1 Decoder it says that it uses Directshow, no mention of OpenDML.

I have not had problems before as I suppose the AVIs have used Directshow, but unless someone has a solution for the OpenDML audio decode, I'll just have to extract the audio from the AVI and point Tmpgenc to the WAV file.

Any help is appreciated.

G A I Y
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Use ffdshow as Decoder. Enable VfW in ffdshow. Use normal AVI VFAPI.
Use ffdshow as Decoder. Activate postprocessing in ffdshow. Use DirectShow

Go to Options>Enviromental settings>VFAPI plugins
Raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2 and make it top of the list.

If the problem still exists after this install FFDSHOW. No need to mess with any of the settings in FFDSHOW it will have priority over other codecs anyway.

I use DVD2SVCD to create Video DVDs from my avi files but after DVD2SVCD runs TMPGEnc and finishes encoding I get error "Floating Point Division by zero". What is this and what can I do about it?

I think I had this problem when I first used Tmpgenc.

Try raising the priority of your Directshow VPAFI Plug-in.

Open Tmpgenc,
in the main screen click,
Option > Environmental Setting... > VFAPI Plug-in
Right Click the "DirectShow Multimedia File Reader" and select "Higher Priority" until it's one above everything else.

Remember what it was incase im wrong so you can change back.

Try converting a small movie file and see if it works :)

G A I Y
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Hi, I'm using TMPGEnc-2.521.58.169-Free, and have seen the same problem with TMPGEnc-2.521.58.169-Plus.

I have a 2min 7sec uncompressed AVI I created with lightwave and edited together using ULead Media studio. The audio is embedded in the file. I've tried encoding in a number of formats (CQ, CQ_VBR etc) at a number of quality levels, but I always get the same problem.

The audio stops when I reach about 2 mins, and the video continues on to the end. Then once the video has finished the last 7 seconds of the audio plays.

Any ideas?

(Audio is Layer-2 44100Hz 192kbps)

Extract the audio to a wav with Virtualdub and use that as your audio source.

I jus re-read your post.
You say the audio in the AVI is MP2? That's unusual for an AVI.
However if that is indeed the case then you don't need to re-encode the audio at all.
Just demux it with a suitable program such as Virtualdub.
Create a video only MPEG then remux it with your audio using the MPEG tools in TMPG.

I'll give that a go, cheers.

The only reason I went with MP2 was I'd already tried the other formats, and had the same problem.

Nope,

Tried using separated out audio and still have the same problem (using mpeg1 audio this time)

Anymore ideas?

Hang on a minute, you got me confused...are you saying that the original audio in the AVI is 'NOT' actually MP2?

The way your post reads is that your AVI has MP2 audio, but I guess you mean that is the format you are attempting to encode to.
What is the audio format in the AVI?

In any case extracting the audio to a wav with Virtualdub should solve the problem, however you MUST do this procedure correctly.
You need to select 'Full processing' and then select 'PCM' as the compression method.
When done the output file should be quite large, if it isn't you haven't done it correctly.

Iam guessing your AVI contains VBR MP3 which is common for causing problems.

Cheers for the suggestion, but the original AVI contains 16 bit PCM.

When I split it out using virtualDub, I did have full processing mode selected, and the output file was also 16bit PCM.

You are correct, the audio formats I refered to were the ones I had tried to encode in the mpeg.

Does anyone know why TMPGEnc suddenly stops working without any message? Here is what I do:

1. I use Virtual VCR and the huffyuv codec to capture.
2. I load the captured file into VirtualDub 1.5.10 to edit the video
3. I start the framserver in VirtualDub
4. I then use TMPGenc 2.5 to create a PAL DVD mpeg using the edited video

The Direct Show priority is at +2. I have done this over and over again, with different captured files. Once only a message showed up: Read error occurred at address 000922F4 of module TMPGEnc.exe with 0DDD8230. Any idea what that means? And what do I do wrong?

I have an AVI video file with a non-standard aspect ratio (576x320 frame size).
I'd like to convert it to VCD format using TMPGENC. I tried all combinations
of source aspect ratio and whether to keep aspect ratio in advanced settings.
But the output video kept being a little bit stretched or squeezed. Has anyone
been able to convert a non-standard aspect ratio (other than 5:3, 16:9...) to
VCD format? Is there a way to custom specified the source aspect ratio in
TMPGENC?

Thanks.

Wiley

All you should need to do is select "Full Screen (keep aspect ratio)" on the advanced tab in the MPEG Settings.
The prog. should just stretch/compress the frame until 2 sides are on the edge and then it will fill the top & bottom with a border.
You might get a little stretch due to the standards of VCD.
Maybe try SVCD as it has slightly different aspects ratios, but i dont know how big your file is.

G A I Y
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576x320 is a PAL 16:9 aspect ratio.
Simply select '16:9 (PAL)' as the source aspect ratio under advanced settings then 'Full screen(keep aspect ratio)' as the 'Video arrange method'

For future reference if you encounter a non standard aspect ratio that TMPG doesn't support then you can use the 'Clip frame' filter to adjust the aspect ratio to your satisfaction.
You will find this setting under 'Advanced>Clip frame>Arrange setting' then select 'Center(custom size)' from the drop down menu.

tnx

I've been using the 'Plus' version for two years now. Recently, I can no longer encode in batches; the program closes after one file has been encoded (it is not removed from the batch list either). Any suggestions?

I have now got the same problem you have!

Did you find a solution? If so, can you mail it to me?

Thanks

Dave

I have not found a solution. A workaround is to run more than 1 instance of the program each compiling a different file. Oh well....

tnx

Well as you all must know, life can be really busy sometimes. The only time I can find for converting movies is at night, when I sleep. I was wondering will running two TMPGENCs at once cause quality degradation or worse, skipping? Furthermore, as the number of TMPGENCs increases will the overall quality of the all the converted movies decrease?

I run a P4 2.6G HT, 512M DDR400, with a 7200RPM HDD with 22G of free space left and hardware set page file.

Please reply as soon as you can.

I have tried it, and have no problem running multiple instances, however the overall speed will decrease.

Instead, add the project to the batch list (batch encode). It will encode several movies in a row.

Also, I set the CPU priorty for both tasks to idle, and have actually noticed a small increase in encoding speed, and it makes it easier to do other tasks. I think that giving it idle priorty may give the codec I am using a little more CPU time.

Joe

Thanks. I'll try that batch encoding thing.

>Also, I set the CPU priorty for both tasks to idle, and have actually noticed a small increase in encoding speed, and it makes it easier to do other tasks.

Of course it will allow you to do other tasks because you have given prority to other applications. However I very much doubt you would see an increase in speed doing this.
Infact it would must likely decrease the speed as you have taken priority from the encoding and given it to other tasks on your system.
Doing this will afford less CPU time slices to the encoding and thus slow down the process.

Well, as far as low priorty speedups, I am speaking of when the encoder is the only task running (aside from services etc), and it only seems to work when using against the MainConcept DV codec.

Joe

hello, i was just wondering how i can take an avi file i downloaded, use TMPGE to convert it and burn it onto a dvd so i can watch it in my living room. plz help, thnx a lot

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