I searched the archive for this problem, and found the question, but no answer that solves the problem.

I'm using the Merge & Cut to cut commercials out of a DVD compliant MPEG-2.
When adding a file to the Merge & Cut list of source files, and then press Edit or Double click to set start and stop brackets, the system crash when I press OK or Cancel to go back to the list.
I can see that the start and stop time in the source file list has been updated, so it seems like it crash after the "Edit merge Item" dialog is finished.
It doesn't matter what I do. I've noticed on forums that this is a buggy part of TMPGENC, but no hints help in my case.
I've tried
1. Setting the Output file before enter the "Edit merge Item"
2. Press Play and Pause before doing anything else
3. Not playing at all, just entering the time values in the fields
4. Remultiplexing my MPEG file.

I'm running on a Windows XP system with a Pentium 4.
Anyone with a similar problem (or, event better, a solution)
Like the tool, so I wouldn't like to use any other editor.

/Dennis

Well you are out of luck Because you HAVE TO use a different editor, there are NO magic settings that will solve your problems...The reason why you didn"t find a answer to the problem is Because there really isn"t any solution to the problem accept maybe doing a Total re-install of your OS which may or may not help...Or you can try a different version of tmpgenc But that Might not help either...You can use Tmpgenc to encode everything accept the commercials useing the one of the "Source Range" settings...Or edit out the commercials before you encode that is if you captured to AVI and encoded with Tmpgenc...Sory but what you are asking for has been asked Many times before and a Solution has not been found...Tmpgenc only supports Mpeg files encoded by Tmpgenc and it has the same problems with those files....

Hi Dennis, Hi Minion,

Perhaps there is a solution. Please look at my posting

http://www.tmpgenc.net/cgi-bin/ebbs/board.cgi?board=tmpgenc#topic16228

Minion thank you very much for your assistance - would be great if that tool could help also others - could result in less support..........

Best on that solution is that the tool is free and that it has a command-line interface !

Thanks again

Klaus Deiss

I have tried that tool and It works with files that have errors in them and for files that are Mpeg captures But it doesn"t help with a File that doesn"t have errors in it and was encoded with Tmpgenc....

how can i save my digital photos to cd and watch them on my dvd player?

What exactly do you want to do??Do you want to just be able to put a cd-r into the DVD Player and be able to use the remote to scan through and watch each picture??Or do you want to do more of a Movie with Pictures with say some backround music and/or narration??Maybe check this out:http://www.photo2vcd.com/photo2vcd.html

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goto this site.. for Ulead PictureShow

OK I'M ENCODING AND I WANT IT TO STOP CAUSE IT IS GONNA TAKE A WHILE AND I WANNA DO OTHER THINGS ON MY COMPUTER AND FINISH ENCODING TONIGHT IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN PAUSE IT AND PICK UP FROM THAT SPOT LATER ON? WITHOUT STARTING ALL OVER??? THANKS IN ADVANCE

Yes, just simply click the stop button, you will be prompted with a question..."do you wish to finsh encoding or somthing" and there you go, with that msg displayed it is paused!

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when i yse merge and cut foar an mpeg1 i am getting a error message at read error adress 73F91D04 any ideas?

hello there,

i was wondering does anybody know how to convert from mpg audio to either
ac3 or wav ??

thanx in advance,
jamie.

Allmost any Audio encoder will encode Mpeg audio to Wav..Even Tmpgenc will do it..You just load the audio in then go to "File" to "Output to" then to "Wav"..But makeing AC# is Much more difficult...You will need to get an AC# encoder of some sort like the one I use is called "Digigram Dolby Digital Encoder/Decoder" and they don"t come cheap...

Hi
I am looking to add a few transitions and other effects to my captured home videos. I have captured these to SVCD via a Dazzle DVCII and encoding with TMPGEnc.
Now I have looked at Vegas Video and Adobe Premiere and was wondering which of these two is better.
Will they encode as good as TMPGEnc or will I still be required to encode with TMPGEnc before adding any effects.

Thanks

Flash

If you want to add transitions or do any editing then you shouldn"t Capture to Mpeg format...Mpeg Format is not meant to be edited and editing it can cause Problems with the Mpeg file itself..You Should Capture to AVI then edit in say "Premier" then use the Video server to Frame serve the file to Tmpgenc or any an other encoder to Encode to mpeg...The Built in Mpeg encoders for Vegas Video and Premier aren"t very good, the one in Vegas Video is better But it is Much slower and you need to register the Mpeg encoder before it works..and there are a lot of Mpeg plugins for Premier But the best is probably CCE but either way you will loose a LOT of Quality if you try to edit the mpeg file Cuz you will have to re-encode it if you add any effects or edit with these programs...Premier is a Fairly good AVI Capture program But Vegas Video Only captures Uncompressed AVI File when useing an analog source and only encodes to DV with a DV Source.Virtual Dub is a Much better Capture program though...

Thanks for the info
I have been playing wih Premiere but only got 26 days left.
Vegas Video I have full install with mpeg plugin.
I think for now I will leave the fancy bits out until I learn some more.
Thanks

Flash

Hi !!

I try to encode an avi-file and there is an error - Failed to create device context.What does that mean??

THX

How can I split an mpeg into 2 parts? Thanks

By editing it...."File" to "Mpeg Tools" to "Merge & Cut"...

i need help,
see i try to open my avi file and an error messege tells me that "the file can not open or unsupported"
but it's an- avi file so whats the proublem?!

Go to "Options" To "Enviromental Settings" Then To "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct Show Multimedia File Reader" to "2"...

I have the same problem - change the value to 2 for direct show but the problem persists

i did what u told me 2 do (and thanx 4 that)
but it still doesnt work,
the same error message

Hi I am using the merge/cut option but it only shows the "time" sequence of where to cut a movie, is there a way to set it to show actual frames, since I am trying to get all the frames that pertain to a particular sequence ??? thanks..

Not That I know of ...Tmpgenc doesn"t support frame accurate editing..But you Can use the "Source range" to do frame accurate encodeing...But I don"t know how good it is...

Im new to the process of creating VCDs. Please help me with the following problme:

I used DVD2AVI to extract the audio as a .wav file. This plays perfectly. Then I used TMPGEnc to create the MPEG file. The MPEG works-the video plays, but there is no audio. I tried it twice and it does not work. Any suggestions?

Encode the D2V file from DVD2AVI like normal and take the Wav audio file and encode it to Mpeg audio with something elce like "Headac3he" or "Db Power Amp" the use the Mpeg Tools to Multiplex the audio to the video and soo if that works...And try useing DVD Playing software as Opposed to media player cuz Media Player can in some cases with certain Codec combinations plays Mpeg files without the audio or it cutting in or out...Try Power DVD it"s a good one...

It shows a freeze frame at the beginning but only render the audio. Help!

Well if Tmpgenc won"t accept it then you probably don"t have the correct Mpeg2 decoder installed...If you install Nemo codec pack or Power dvd then you should have the proper Mpeg2 decoder installed ..If you still can"t get it loaded then try useing DVD2AVI to make a D2V project file and then encode that.....

Or it could be the fact that it is a I frame file...