I have a little problem here that irritates me at times. I have an old TV-Tuner card and that old TV Tuner Card only support AVI files. I had to choose uncompressed AVI to prevent frames being drop out during recording. Well, the uncompressed AVI files really eats up my 40GB Harddisk - 10 minutes for almost 2 GB!!
When I tried to encode these captures into Mpeg files to save space, TMPGEnc will encode for first few 4000-7000 frames, it will claim it is finished. (but it was not...) This will always happens on the 8 - 10 minutes video capture. In worst cases, the Operating System hangs.
This is my system specification:
AMD Duron 800MHZ
WInsonic WSV6A17 (VIA KT133 Chipset)
Gigabyte ATI Radeon 7000 64 MB DDR
256MB PC133 SD-ram
Hauppauge WinTV Go! PCI TV Tuner Card
Maxtor DiamondMax plus-8 7,200RPM 2MB Buffer 40GB
Windows 98 Second Edition

This used to be an old problem with the AVI size limit barrier in TMPG, but it should now be fixed.

Open TMPG and go to Options>Enviromental settings>Vfapi plugins and raise the priority of the 'AVI2(Open DML) file reader' to 2 or 3 making sure it is top of the list then try again.

If you still have porblems after that you may need to frame serve the file with AVIsynth.

By the way if you want to improve your capture rate try changing your capture software.
I use to capture with a P3 500 and 128mb RAM at 400x300 without dropping any frames.
Some people say don't use DIVX for capture, but I used to get excellant rates capturing with DIVX 5 and setting the the Performance/Quality to fastest.
Fastes won't reduce the quality, but it will use less compression and create a bigger file, but far less than an uncompressed AVI.

Make sure you have WDM drivers installed for your capture card and use WDM capture software.
The best capture program I have used and will give you a better capture rate than most is IUVCR. You can also use the modified and improved WDM drivers that they have for your card.

Ah ha! I works completely! I even works with my AVI file that is 2.51GB (windows 98 claimed the file size is -1592908800 bytes) Wonderful! Thanks you Ashy. How I can encoded them without spliting and recominding them now. Thanks a lot.
(*psst: now then I know why is program haven't been updated since 2003, it has no more problems and doesn't needs an update!! :D)
Once again, Thanks.

Glad u got it sorted.

Uh-Oh....
I have the same problem again for today's TV show... :D
I made the piority to 20 and it don't seems to work...
Anymore way to solve this problem...

Hi,

I get always this error:

>Invalid sample format (error code 0x80048002)

Anyone else see this ? And better yet, have a solution ?

Thanks,
cu hm

Yes, I am also getting this error. I have no idea what it means or what to do. If I use TMPGEnc 2.5, it don't get the error.

Dick

Nice one!

Whet kind of format you import to get this kind of trouble ?

RGB for the friends

>Hi,
>
>I get always this error:
>
>>Invalid sample format (error code 0x80048002)

i was getting this error too, i think it might be something to do with
TMPG having problems handling MP3 sound.

i read elsewhere its VBR sound thats the problem, but i got this message trying ro encode an avi with cbr sound (according to g-spot anyway)

using nandub, i saved the encoded sound as a .wav, then set sound input to the saved .wav, set sound to full processing mode, video to direct streamcopy and finally saved as .avi.

voila

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smell that? thats the smell of DEATH!

the last 2 times ive tried to encode a film (avitompeg) my CPU goes up to a 100% usage and computor is very slow or stops responding i use windows XP PRO OS
the first 5 or 6 film encodes were perfect ive reinstalled TMPGEnc 3.0 but hasnt helped anyone got any ideas ???? thanx

Seems like you have the CPU priority set to higher than "low."

Look for the setting and lower the priority.

However, it may still apear to use 100%, but it is really using only the available IDLE time. Response should be better. Try it out.

i tried to load my movie into tmpgenc and it doesn't have sound.?

the sound works fine when played in nero showtime. the video is actually perfect too. its just when i play it in the dvd player that it looks like the tracking is weird and there's no colour.

You need to find out what the audio is in your source.
If it's an AVI it is likely AC3 or VBR mp3.
If you download a little utility called AVIcodec it will tell you what you need to know.
Post back with the info.

Your DVD playback problem sounds like you are trying to play the wrong format in your player I.E. NTSC in a PAL player.
If your DVD player is connected by SCART then have a look in your DVD players video output settings and set it to RGB output.
This may cure the problem.
If not you will have to do a format conversion.

hmm...it appears that i am a not quite the computer genius....i tried changing the setting on my dvd player from "multi" to "ntsc"...hee hee ...and it worked...blush...

thanks ashy

Oh yes...and how can I get the .log files to be created? Those have been very helpful in 2.5. I can't find it anywhere in 3.0.

Hi Vidimidi,

Seems there is no more log file available.

RGB for my friends

I have been using 2.5 for a long time...great product. I'm frustrated with a few things in 3.0, i.e. it doesn't keep my settings when I just want to switch files. I always have to start new which loses the settings, or if I delete the input file and use another one, the default output file name stays as the previous one, and as someone mentioned it doesn't warn you, so I have written over numerous files not realizing it until later. I wish there was a non-wizard way like the old version had.

But more of a problem, DV source files from Pinnacle Liquid Edition .AVI's in version 2.5 worked great, but in 3.0, I get video just fine, but the .wav files are mostly empty. It seems to give me a second of audio, and then it is all blank. I now have to go back and redo the audio using 2.5 for a bunch of files that I have to recreate....any ideas?

I also think the license validation needs to be reworked. I had no problems installing, I didn't use the trial version, but my editing machine is also NOT connected to the Internet...it just makes sense. There has to be a better way.

Kevin O'Connor

The codecs on the plug in are tricky on this one just try some different combinations I find the direct show drivers work best for most avi & divx, so try some different on off setups to change the priority & check for sound throughout the clip with the audio filter, if you are opening it with the wrong reader sound will be heard only at the beginning of the clip & the rest will have no sound or you may have no sound at all.

The m1v codec is not playing on several test machines. How do I correct this?

What do you mean the M1v codec.
M1v is not a codec it is the name for an MPEG1 video only stream.

You must have an MPEG capable player on your sytem to play it.
All windows OSes come with support for MPEG1 such as Windows media player

What is the error you ahve when trying to play.

If you are using an MPEG file as your source, does TMPGEnc Espress 3.0 have to re-render the mpeg file if you make additions or changes and will that result in some loss of quality.

When I want to burn to DVD, an error message box appear:

DVDWriter.exe - Ordinal Not Found

Ordinal 373 could not be located in the dynamic link library PX.dll

Does anyone know what is the cause or problem?

Please help.

>When I want to burn to DVD, an error message box appear:
>
>DVDWriter.exe - Ordinal Not Found
>
>Ordinal 373 could not be located in the dynamic link library PX.dll
>
>Does anyone know what is the cause or problem?
>
>Please help.

http://dynfiles.no-ip.info/htmfiles/dll-p08.htm

download px.dll and put it in tmpegnc dvd author folder (where is dvdwrite locate at)

>http://dynfiles.no-ip.info/htmfiles/dll-p08.htm
>
>download px.dll and put it in tmpegnc dvd author folder (where is dvdwrite locate at)

ive got a few avi files im trying to put on dvd. i know questions like this have been posted and im looking through them for info but im not getting anywhere. heres how im doing the conversion:
i use vdub and save the wav, then save the avi with no sound.
i convert the wav to mp2.
i use tmpgenc and select dvd(ntsc) and select the mp2 sound and the soundless avi.
after its converted and i play it the sound is 3 seconds slow. like the peoples mouths will move and then 3 seconds later i hear what there saying.
ive tried using the wav instead of the mp2 but i get the same thing. i also tried cbr and vbr.

the movie is fine before i encode it its just after that this happens.

all the other avis ive done work fine..... could it be something that has to do with a codec or something?
im gunna keep looking through old posts but please help me out with this id really appreciate it.

the fps is 23.976 btw

Why do you create another AVI without sound? Just use the one you've got and the new wav.

The first thing to do is to use Virtualdub. Load your existing AVI with audio then load the the wav you have created as the audio source.
Play it in Vdub, is it in sync?
If not use the audio delay feature until it syncs. When you find the right value you can either use that in the source range of TMPG and re-encode or you can add the value when muxing using BBMPEG.

By the way, why do you need to create a wav in the first place?

i heard it was faster if i split the 2 before i used tmpgenc. when i play it in vdub it works fine.

New to ripping DVD's and trying to create MPEG's for Windows. Using Smart Ripper and TMPGNC. After ripping a file and starting TMPGENC I can load the video part of the file fine. But when i go to then load the audio I can't see or load anything. If I select all files and try to load any fo them get an error that the file is not supporte. I am using a music DVD and by dumb luck did get the first selection working.

I ripped track 1 and then started TMPGENC, loaded the video file and easily loaded the same file into the audio section, made the MPEG and windows media player worked just fine playing it.

But any other track won't work. TMPGENC will load the video file, but I can't find an audio file that will load or appear in the folder I created. I have also tried to do the same with a History Channel DVD. Same problem, Video works just fine, but can't get any audio files to load in the program.

So, what key facts don't I know - what am I missing?

Thanks

totalrecall

Im having a bit of a problem playing vcds that ive created after using TMPGEnc. I started with an AVI. Then I converted to mpeg. then there was no sound so I had to separate the sound into a wav file and yadda yadda. I'm still pretty new to all of this. So.. when I play this on my dvd player the screen is all shaky like an old television. the sound works though. other vcds work fine. anyone know how to fix this? i'd really appreciate it.

Change the field order.

i tried to load my movie into tmpgenc and it doesn't have sound.?
the sound works fine when played in nero showtime. the video is actually perfect too. its just when i play it in the dvd player that it looks like the tracking is weird and there's no colour.