I have licensed video (which I legally possess) that I am attempting to convert to another format.

Is this possible? Whenever I attempt to convert it in TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress, I get an error stating that I need a license for the file (which I obviously have, since the file plays in Windows Media Player).

DRM ONLY works on Microsoft Media Player. No other Software is able to read a DRM protected file. Therefor, there's no way to convert it.

Whenever I attempt to convert a video, I get an error, "Floating point number divided by 0."

This has happened the last five times I've tried to convert video.

Anyone got an explanation for this?

After decoding to m2v vide file play is slowed down...why??
Every thing was set as it should be...

Dunno, need more info on what your problem is first.

Hi there,

IÃÎ trying to use TMPGenc to create MPG files that are VCD ready so I can burn them and watch them on the big TV. The source files are also MPGs but don't have the right formatting (whether its screen size, bitrate, etc.).

Most of the time these MPGs are transcoded without incident but there are some that end up being transcoded with an error. In the final product of these erroneous files the video freezes but the sound keeps going, often for several minutes, and then the image will change to another still frame while the sound continues. This will go on until about the last few of minutes and then return to normal.

Today I looked more closely at a recently transcoded file and noticed that the intervals are suspiciously uniform. In a 31-minute clip the image first froze at 1 second before the 8 minute mark. The still image was then updated at 1 second before 16 minutes and again at 1 second before 20 minutes. At 1 second before 28 minutes the playback unfreezes and the last 3 minutes run out normally.

I have downloaded VirtualDub and the associated FreezeCheck program and have tested the source and end products and Vdub seems to think both are OK and found no freezes.

Any ideas on what IÃÎ doing wrong? The eerily uniform pattern (8-8-4-8) seems to indicate something but what? I have installed the latest version of TMPGenc on a different computer with the same result (testing the same files).

I used Vdub to convert one such original file to an AVI format and the end result is fine but I canÃÕ burn AVI direct to VCD.

UGH!
Any ideas what I should check next?

Thanks,
blurp

I take it the source files are MPEG-1?
You could try increasing the priority of the 'MPEG-1 Decoder' in the VFAPI plugins to top of the list or try de-multiplexing the MPEG first.

If that doesn't work then I'm guessing your MPEGs are not fully compatible with TMPG. TMPG can be funny sometimes with files made with other software. Either that or they do contain errors. Virtualdub isn't too good at detecting errors in MPEGs.

If the above doesn't work then you could try frame serving the MPEG from Virtualdub to TMPG.

Wow! That's quite a mouthful! I will try all of these things and see what happens. I'm a bit of a newb at the AV stuff but not on computers so I should be able to figure it out. Thefrustrating part is that you don't get to see if it worked for a couple of hours.

Do you think there's any relevance to the uniform distribution of freezes (on near-perfect 8 minute increments)?

Thanks,
Boris

One other thing... if not TMPGenc then what do you recommend I try if this doesn't work?

In the interest of testing I took one of those un-transcode-able files and coverted to AVI with VDub and got a fully working file. Now I'm using TMPG to transcode from AVI to MPG to see if the problems were washed out in the process. I'll let you know.

Thanks,
Boris

Ok I tried elevating the priority of MPEG-1 in the Environmental Settings and it made no difference. I had the same problem with another file but it also had the same telltale interval in the advancing of the frozen frame: intervals of 8 and 4 minutes EXACTLY.

What the heck? I've now had this happen on several machines with several different files with multiple versions of TMPGenc. For some reason I think the solution is related to the interval of freezing but I can't figure out what it is. Could it be some form of copy protection? Is there some kind of disruptive system call that happens on these regular intervals?

I managed to change one file to AVI and then recode and THAT worked but I tried it with another file and it ballooned in size from 200Mb to over 2Gb before it ran out of HD space.

Now I've used VDub to save the WAV portion of one of these trouble source files and have told TMPG to use the original MPG file and the new WAV to construct a new MPG file. We'll see if that works, I hope it is what was meant by "demultiplexing".

Any further advice or suggestions would be very welcome.

Thanks,
Boris

The demultiplexer is in the MPEGtools section of TMPG. It will seperate the audio from the video and rewrite the headers in the MPEG.

If TMPG worked fine when you encoded the MPEG from the AVI that Virtualdub created then you may have a decoding problem.
You could try using the MPEG2 VFAPI plugin. Yes I know it says MPEG2, but it will decode MPEG1 also just fine.
This codec is highly compatible with TMPG and gives excellent results.
http://www.marumo.ne.jp/mpeg2/m2v_vfp-0.6.51.lzh

Failing all the above then your only other alternative is to use Virtualdub as a frame server to TMPG. Seeing as the AVI you encoded to MPEG turned out fine then the frame server should also work.
First of all play the MPEG in Virtualdub. If it plays OK then that is exactly how TMPG should encode it.

Thanks, I'll give it a try!

ashy, I know that this is likely a stupid question but how does one go about installing the above mentioned MPEG2 VFAPI plugin as a plugin in TMPGenc?

Just put the plugin in the TMPG folder. When TMPG runs it is automatically loaded.
You can verify it is there by looking in the VFAPI plugins list.

Well I've tried several of these things and now I want to try the earlier advice to use VDub as a frameserver to TMPGEnc. Trouble is I can't get TMPGEnc to pick up the stream. Any suggestions on how to do this? It's probably a syntax issue but I just don't know how to get it to pick up the start of the thread.

I'm using TMPGEnc v.2.524.63.181 and Virtual Dub v.1.5.10.

Thanks,
Boris

What do you mean you can't get it to pick up the thread.
What problem are you having? What errors are you getting?

It's ok Ashy, thanks for all your help. I've finally had success with the "de-multiplex then re encode" method and all is solved.

Thanks again for all your help in this matter, I really appreciate it.

Boris

ps. Just to resolve my previous post, I was able to start the frame server in VDub but I didn't know how to tell TMPGEnc where to find the file it needed to work on. The interface seemed to require me to specify a file location but there was no file yet. I tried specifying the network address and name of frame-served file but that didn't work. In other words I had the server but didn't know how to point the client at it. Again, I've got it working the other way so I don't need to use this method. I am, however, still somewhat curious as to the answer... how do you tell TMPGenc where the file being served by VDub is?

You don't need to specify anything.
Virtual dub starts the frameserver for you. All you need to do is simply give the frame server signpost file a location.
After starting the frame server just click through everything until the final stage where it asks you for a name and location to put the frame server file.

Give it a name and an .AVI extension. Then simply load that file into TMPG as you would any normal AVI.

My friend suggested me using TMpgEnc Plus to convert rmvb video clips to DVD (Mpeg 2) format and burn in DVD-R. I tried it but found that TMpgEnc Plus dose not support video clips in rm /rmvb format. How could i do the conversion?

Thank you!!

SLo

im trying to encode an avi + a sub file in SRT format but the moment i preview it in tmpgenc or start encoding, tmpGenc just crashes.

im using vobsub as my codec for the subs. what is the solution to this problem?
thanks

i have the same problem...

anyone?

this only happens with sp2...
i have another pc with windows xp without sp2 and works fine

I have 6 AVI's that I want to put onto a dvd but have a menu to choose each chapter. I can convert them with divx to dvd but it has been suggested that tmpgenc can do that and give me a menu. I have tpmgenc 2.5. Does any one have a step by step guide on how to do this.

In the bitrate setting screen, tmpgenc says that my movie is 277mins long.
When i open it in any other video player, it says 1:40 hours.
Because of the 277 mins problem, i can't get it to fit on dvd-r.

Anyone knows the answer?

Howdy, I was just messing around with divx to mpeg conversions and noticed the same problem. Well I checked the source range and the file was defaulting the project to have the start frame at 0 and the end frame at -1 resulting in the maximum length clip for the media selected. I changed the start and stop frames to the appropriate numbers and everything was back to how I expected it should be (no more 297min clip when it was a 90 min clip for me). Hope this helps, good luck.

I am multiplexing 5 vob files and creating a jpeg file. When I do that, only the first one seems to get created into a jpeg file, but the file size of the jpeg file is the same as all the vob files together. I added all of them into the list to be created, but only the first one is converted.

I'm sorry, but you're doing what?

You are attempting to convert 5 VOB files to JPEGs?!
You do realise this will create thousands and thousands of JPEG images don't you?
Why do you wish to do this as I can't really see a need to?

Also what do you mean you are multiplexing 5 VOBs? You can't multiplex them together as you will end up with one big VOB that contains 5 tracks and then you would need special software to select and play each track.

I tried using TMPGenc 2.5 to convert my RMVB files to MPeg however the video converts but I don't get any AUDIO?

Can someone please help?

Thanks in advance!

You'll need to extract the audio to wav first.

Face problem of converting avi or rmvb vbr into vcd. Using software like Winavi or Nero express can not perform the above request. Please advise.

I'm afraid were gonna need more than that mate! What is the exact problem, what steps have you taken and what errors did you get?

I have installed TMPGenc 3.0 Express.
How do I import Quicktime movies? I could not figure out; there's no Quicktime movies option in the open dialog box.

I have checked the standard plug-ins in Preferences and there's no QuickTime plug-in in the list.
I remember that when I have installed TMPGenc 3.0 Express in my old PC the QuickTime plug-in was there as a standard plug-in.
What's the workaround here?