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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I tried to convert a avi movie to mpg with TMPGEnc 2.5 & it converted it but I was left with no sound. Can someone PLEASE tell me that this problem will be solved when I convert it with 3.0 express. I'm in the process of doing that now.

I have the same issues with 3.0 .... if you figure it out, let me know!

The source is probably AC3.
Xpress can't do AC3. I hear there is a plugin, but I haven't seen it work at decoding the ac3

Use another product to rip the audio

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.

So far I have been able to successfully encode one file using TMPGEnc 3XP. For some reason when I try to encode now I get read errors during the encoding process. The point where the error occurs is not always in the same place sometimes it is with the first 10 minutes of the video, sometimes it is a couple of hours in. Of course the program stops at this point and I have to start over. This is very time consuming when trying to encode 4 hours of video using XDVD. I have tried rebooting (cold and warm), running chkdsk, and changing the source files. I am beginning to wonder if I have some bad memory.

Has anyone else experienced this and/or know the cause?

I am running Windows XP Pro with an Intel P4 1.7Ghz 512MB RAM and a 250GB HD, file system is NTFS.

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!

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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.
>

I'm getting the following problem when I try to convert an AVI file to VCD. When I'm done with the project wizard, I click "OK" and then TMPEnc closes immediately after I get the following message:

Read error occurred at address 00012F40 of Module 'TMPGenc.exe' with 20656850

I've tested my RAM with a RAM tester and it shows no problems.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

>I'm getting the following problem when I try to convert an AVI file to VCD. When I'm done with the project wizard, I click "OK" and then TMPEnc closes immediately after I get the following message:
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>Read error occurred at address 00012F40 of Module 'TMPGenc.exe' with 20656850
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>I've tested my RAM with a RAM tester and it shows no problems.
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>Any ideas?
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>Thanks!
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