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

DVDRhelp.com

I'm using trial version.
I tried to convert AVI file in DV2 format. File is 18GB large.
When I try to open it in TMPGENC program claims "File .... can not open, or unsupported". If I cut from this file new file <4GB everything is OK.
Is there any limit in TMPGEN?

Go to File>options>enviromental settings>VFAPI plugins.
Raise the priority of the 'OpenDML file reader' to 2 and make sure it's top of the list.

Thanks.

no problem

I am using the free version at the moment and trying to re-encode a 7.5Gb mpeg-2 file. I get the same error that Mariusz was getting. Is there a similar easy fix?

I don't think your problems are the same.
There is no barrier for MPEG files.
More likely you have codec problem.
Install the codec below.
http://www.marumo.ne.jp/mpeg2/m2v_vfp-0.6.48.lzh

>Go to File>options>enviromental settings>VFAPI plugins.
>Raise the priority of the 'OpenDML file reader' to 2 and make sure it's top of the list.
This weekend I tested. It works.
Great thanks.

Oh, finally somebody who actually replies to my answers.
Does that mean I can stop talking to myself now?

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?

Incomplete and shutdown.

Hi everytime I encode with tmpgenc avi to vcd after 10 min, the computer shutsdown and I only get 5 min of encoding on average. THis is not a problem with corrupt avi files and the progamm was working fine before a couple weeks ago.

Any help would be great.

Ravi

I go to mpeg tools, merge and cut tab, and add my 8 mpeg-2 files i need to merge together. I order them all correctly etc, choose mpeg-2(program vbr), set the output, and click run. It all semms to merge together OK. The resulting file, when I play it back, the bits where its merged, it cuts off say the last 3 seconds of each clip. Which is really bad... I cant have these random chunks missing in the final mpeg file. Can anyone please tell me what the problem is or give me an alternative tool to use that would work for me? TIA

I go to mpeg tools, merge and cut tab, and add my 8 mpeg-2 files i need to merge together. I order them all correctly etc, choose mpeg-2(program vbr), set the output, and click run. It all semms to merge together OK. The resulting file, when I play it back, the bits where its merged, it cuts off say the last 3 seconds of each clip. Which is really bad... I cant have these random chunks missing in the final mpeg file. Can anyone please tell me what the problem is or give me an alternative tool to use that would work for me? TIA

Mpeg2vcr

Mpeg2vcr

thanks, worked perfectly once i finally worked out how to use it.

When I merge two MPG files there will be large sections of the merged file that have no sound. Both files being merged do not have this problem.

using "File~MPEG tools..." and creating an "MPEG-1 video-CD".

Each time I try the file has audio missing in different parts.

What's wrong?

tx,
Paul

When I merge two MPG files there will be large sections of the merged file that have no sound. Both files being merged do not have this problem.

using "File~MPEG tools..." and creating an "MPEG-1 video-CD".

Each time I try the file has audio missing in different parts.

What's wrong?

i just tried to convert a film i downloaded from avi. to mpg. using TMPG because the file size was too large too burn onto a DVD.
Everything seemed to be going fine and i followed the wizard making sure that the size of the output file would be small enough to fit on a DVD.
The conversion finished and i went to the output folder and found two files.
One was a wav file that wouldnt play and the other was mv2 file that also wouldnt play.
I was expecting a single mpeg file that was smaller and could then be burned onto a DVD. The new files together add up to over 3GB when the original avi. file was around 715MGB.
What am i doing wrong. Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thankyou in advance

Next time select MPEG1 layer 2(MP2) as the audio in the wizard, however most DVD authoring programs will accept both the files you have.
The M2v is the video and the wav is the audio. TMPGenc DVD author will happily accept both for creating a DVD.

The file size of the source has absolutely nothing to do with the output file size whatsoever.
It is it's running itime which determines the output file size.
The DVD output filesize size you have looks about right for a regular movie using standard bitrates.

I've been trying tmpgenc 2.521.58.169, core version 1.98.152. Under XP SP1, no problems.

I installed SP2 on a new machine and installed tmpgenc. I found that once I increased the priority of the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader from -1 to +2, Tmpgenc would immediately crash and it would keep crashing whenever I started it. When I deleted the tmpgenc.ini and restarted tmpgenc, it would run until I changed the DirectShow priority again.

I then removed XP SP2 using Add/Remove and tmpgenc is now running normally.

I'm running the 3ivx codec and WinDVD6. But I was running both those programs under XP SP1 as well, with no effect on Tmpgenc.

BTW, when I leave the DirectShow File Reader at -2 priority, Tmpgenc reports triple the number of frames in the avi I'm converting to mpeg2 and the conversion time appears to triple as well.

An update to this problem. Tmpgenc ran fine under SP1, but when I updated the 23 recommended patches to XP, one of them caused Tmpgenc to crash with the Directshow Multimedia File Reader priority increased to +2. I rolled back to just the SP1 express patch, added in the DirectX9 update, and Tmpgenc worked. So one of the other 20+ patches must cause a problem, at least for me.

Another update. It's not XP SP2. The problem appears to be ver 6.3.1.17 or 6.3.1.20 of Nero. When I install Nero, Tmpgenc crashes right away. When I uninstall Nero, Tmpgenc works fine. In fact, when I start Tmpgenc _during_ the Nero uninstall, Tmpgenc runs OK.

I don't seem to be able to edit the header of this thread, perhaps the adminstrator could change it from XP+SP2 to Nero v 6.3.1.17.

It is probably a codec problem.

Nero has it's own directshow codecs which are probably interfering by trying to decode whatever file you have put into TMPG causing it to crash.
A lower priority is likely using a different codec or decoding method.
To remedy this try installing FFDSHOW. This will replace all MPEG4 codecs (XVID,DIVX,3IVX,MS, e.t.c.) and will have priority over other codecs in the system and has good compatibility with TMPG.
http://athos.leffe.dnsalias.com/ffdshow-20040718.exe

>ashy 08/17 (Tue) 15:38 ( ID:l2ofrdcu/cg )

> It is probably a codec problem.

> Nero has it's own directshow codecs which are probably interfering by trying to decode whatever file you have put into TMPG causing it to crash.
> To remedy this try installing FFDSHOW. This will replace all MPEG4 codecs (XVID,DIVX,3IVX,MS, e.t.c.) and will have priority over other codecs in the system and has good compatibility with TMPG.

Installing ffdshow fixed the problem.

I've never used ffdshow before, I've only used the 3ivx codec. How does ffdshow compare to 3ivx for avi compatibility and playback quality?

FFDSHOW is highly compatible with all MPEG4 codecs and most applications seeing as it also comprises a VFW codec also.
It is based on the XVID codec, but has been tweaked to give better performance. In most cases FFDSHOW is more efficient at decoding MPEG4 sources than the actual codecs themselves. It is especially efficient at decoding uncompressed AVI.
I have no MPEG4 codecs installed on my sytem at all apart from FFDSHOW and have never had an issue yet unlike XVID and DIVX codecs which have caused problems in the past.

Not only that, but the filters and features it has are second to none for a codec.
It also produces excellant output when used as an encoder being based on XVID.

Stumbled across this thread trying to solve my directshow problems running TMPGENC XPress trying to open any AVI files that used Directshow and it crashing (TMPGENC didn't crash, just the VFAPI server). Installing FFShow fixed it! Thanks!

M
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>I've been trying tmpgenc 2.521.58.169, core version 1.98.152. Under XP SP1, no problems.
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>I installed SP2 on a new machine and installed tmpgenc. I found that once I increased the priority of the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader from -1 to +2, Tmpgenc would immediately crash and it would keep crashing whenever I started it. When I deleted the tmpgenc.ini and restarted tmpgenc, it would run until I changed the DirectShow priority again.
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>I then removed XP SP2 using Add/Remove and tmpgenc is now running normally.
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>I'm running the 3ivx codec and WinDVD6. But I was running both those programs under XP SP1 as well, with no effect on Tmpgenc.
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>BTW, when I leave the DirectShow File Reader at -2 priority, Tmpgenc reports triple the number of frames in the avi I'm converting to mpeg2 and the conversion time appears to triple as well.
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