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Yesterday I easily converted an avi to VCD format using TMPEnc Free.. the most recent version.
Today, when I opened TMPEnc to try to convert another MPG, I can set the avi as the source file, set the wav as the source file, and then upon trying to change any settings (setting an end frame), loading the proper file type, I get this error:
Write error occurred at address 77F83AED of module ntdll.dll with 00000000
When I try to set source ranges I get this error: Invalid Pointer Operation.
I've restarted my computer and reinstalled yet this error persists. I didn't do ANYTHING to my computer in the time between the last time I converted to VCD and the time I tried to convert this next one.
Anyone have some ideas? This is driving me crazy..
Yesterday I easily converted an avi to VCD format using TMPEnc Free.. the most recent version.
Today, when I opened TMPEnc to try to convert another MPG, I can set the avi as the source file, set the wav as the source file, and then upon trying to change any settings (setting an end frame), loading the proper file type, I get this error:
Write error occurred at address 77F83AED of module ntdll.dll with 00000000
When I try to set source ranges I get this error: Invalid Pointer Operation.
I've restarted my computer and reinstalled yet this error persists. I didn't do ANYTHING to my computer in the time between the last time I converted to VCD and the time I tried to convert this next one.
Anyone have some ideas? This is driving me crazy..
The "Write error occurred at address 77F83AED of module ntdll.dll with 00000000" Error usually happens with XviD files and the Solution usually is to Delete the XviD codec and Install the "FFDShow" decoder and configure it to decode XviD files in the Config settings then you shouldn"t get the error anymore...
Hey...um using this program called dvd2avi i made a .d2v file i think that is what i was sopose to make....and now with this TMPGEnc program how do i open that file to do whatever i gotta do with it or did i make the wrong type of file ...please help
I have 2 physical CPU's and 4 logical CPU's but TMPGEnc says "2 logical" in settings also if other programs are runned at the same time with TMPGEnc, TMPGEnc CPU usage stays between 65 - 80% but if TMPGEnc is only program running then CPU usage is almost 100%. Of course CPU usage aint real bug but matter of thread priority but even with normal or slow priority CPU usage should be around 100% if other programs dont use CPU time.
I want to change all my AVI files to MPEG to watch them using DVD. I have tried doing that but I normally get double the size. Is there any trick that I can use to keep the size the same. Thanks
Nope except for reducing the bitrate.
MPEGs are almost always larger than the source AVI. The only way to reduce the size is to reduce the bitrate, but be warned reducing the bitrate any lower than VCD standard will look like crap.
I have made several XVCDs or CVDs or whatever you call them in the past. I have used the SVCD settings to get good video quality and it works on my DVD player. But after converting a test clip of video without audio using the normal VCD standards, it seems the conversion process was much faster. In the past when converting a 1 minute clip using SVCD standards (with audio), it took 10 minutes. For my VCD test clip, it took 3 minutes! Maybe it was the fact that it didn't have audio? Just wondering if I should encode all my video to 352x240 instead of 480x480...since all my source AVIs are around 500x???, it would be safe to convert to 352x240 right?
Yes VCD will encode faster than SVCD because you are encoding to a lesser resolution. Higher resolutions contain more data in the image and therfore longer to encode plus add that to the fact you didn't encode the audio which would speed it up somewhat.
As for your question about what format should you encode to VCD or SVCD. It depends on your view about quality. If crappy VCD is good enough for you then fine go ahead, but SVCD is twice the quality of VCD and seeing as your AVI's are almost the same resolution as SVCD why waste that quality on VCD.
Yup, I'm patient enough! :) I have a problem. I thought VCD MPEGs were of lesser quality thus smaller file size? I have an AVI that has AC3 audio. So I extracted the audio using AviMUX and then made it have CD quality. Then I normalized the audio in TMPGEnc and encoded to VCD format. But the sizes shot up! The source AVI was 177MB while the MPEG was 352MB! Why is that?! Is it because of the higher quality audio? WOuld it make any difference if I lowered the constant quality to 80% (it was at 100)? Do you think it would fit 3 files of the same size onto 1 700MB CD-R with overburning? Let's hope it does, I don't want to cut out the opening credits like last time. :(
The Size of the AVI file has Absolutely nothing to do with the size it will be if you encoded it to Mpeg..What Matters is the "Length" of the AVI file...So if that AVI file is say 35 minutes Long then 352mb is the Correct size if you encoded it to VCD...But yes you should Lower the Quality slider down to about 70% then the File size will be smaller....
It was 26 minutes. :( I am having trouble fitting the third AVI onto the same disc because the second MPEG I just encoded was 268MB, it was at a quality of 80 too. :( I don't want to sacrifice any more quality. Good thing CDR come cheap!
This DivX I got, it has a VBR sound so when I encode it audio doesn't match video at certain places... It starts fine but then slowly gets out of tune so I can't just shift the audio. I tried both PCM and simply exctracting the audio with VirtualDub. AviMux doesn't handle it at all - takes 2 seconds and then says 'done' and file is 70Ks... It also won't let me choose the 'cd quality' - reports an error. What else can I do?
There are 2 Things you can Try, You can Try to extract it with Virtual Dub_mod as it is supposed to be able to Properly handle VBR MP3...Or you can take the Audio that you extracted that doesn"t sync up and Put it in a Good audio editor and Time stretch the audio to the exact same length as the Video..You can Use something like Cool Edit or Sound Forge But I use Vegas Video 4 cuz I can also Put the Video on the Timeline and make sure that the audio syncs up, come to think of it Sound Forge does this also..But you would be better off Trying to get Virtual Dub Mod to do it....
I'm not sure how you extracted your audio using Virtual Dub. Maybe this would help. You will the Virtual Dub (not the mod version). Open your AVI, then go to the audio menu and set the audio to "Full processing mode". Do not leave it at "Direct stream copy"! Then select "File" and "Save WAV" to save the audio track as an uncompressed WAV file.
Yes, Sakuya that's what I've always done. I get an audio file that's exactly the same in length as the original DivX [I checked in Media Player] and for the first ten or so minutes it seems fine BUT it slowly starts getting out of order and towards the end of the movie I have a 2 second delay [so it's not just a shifted sound]... Usually VirtualDub handles VBR sound files just fine and I don't even need to shift anything but in this case it does :(
Actually, what's weird is that the files I downloaded previously (it's a series) always had AC3, and it's weird that the current one has VBR (no wonder AviMUX won't work correctly). So I was just wondering if anyone could help me. I'm worried that the audio might go out of sync (it never has before for other AVIs). What should I do if it goes out of sync!? *panics* Help!
If I have a Mpeg that is out of Sync Because the audio is the Wrong length I usually Load the Mpeg file into Vegas Video and use the Time stretch feature to stretch or shrink the audio track to the exact same length as the Video track then render the File as a Mpeg 1 Layer 2 audio file and mux it with the Mpeg Video ,You can do it with AVI files also and Many other Formats and Sound Forge has simular features but most poeple don"t that all the Software I do so you Might just try and get something like Cool Edit to Stretch/Shrink the audio to the Exact length as the Video....Good Luck...
>Stretch/Shrink the audio to the Exact length as the Video>
Yea, but the audio file that I extract from the DivX is EXACT same lenght as the video... I compared them in MediaPlayer. In any case I didn't find any solution and doing it manually doesn't seem like such an appealing option. Thanx anyway
I'm spliting up a large mpeg file into shorter 10 minute(ish) clips. The problem is that it was working fine untill about 40 minutes into the movie. I can play the movie in the edit window after that point, but no matter where I put the end point for the cut the clip always ends after that 40 minute mark
Well there is No Magic setting that will make the Merge & Cut work when it doesn"t want to work ,So then only option is to use a Different Mpeg editor, You should be able to find a freeware one if you look on google...
I having a problem with some AVI files which losing the sound when converting
them to MPEG with TMPGENC (some files are converted without any problem).
Installing a AC3 filter still in most cases will not allow Tmpgenc to decode AC3 audio ,It is a Known Limitation of the Software but I hear that Hori is going to implement AC3 decodeing and Possibly AC3 Encodeing in version 3 of Tmpgenc..Tmpgenc has Problems with AC3 and VBR MP3 audio so it usually needs to be extracted and Decompressed to Wav..Virtual Dub Mod can extract them and so can AVI-Mux ,and Virtual Dub_Mpeg2_AC3 can extract AC3 from VOB giles to Wav...
I've been trying to encode several AVI files that I have with TMPGE. The problem is after I load the file into TMPGE it is displayed as having twice the time and frames that it really has. This would be no more then an annoyance, but when tmpge reached the 50% point (meaning it has really encoded the whole file) it keeps trying to encode, then it crashes, and the resulting mpg file is corrupted and unplayable. I am using Divx 5.05 codec for decoding. It reports the correct time code to every other porgram? Any suggestions?
Well Try this , Go to "Settings" to the "Advanced" settings and double click the "Source Range" and use the source range to set the beginning Points and end points of your File then it should just encode the File from beginning to end and nothing extra...
I have the same problem. I think there is something wrong with the audio. I used source range to cut the file but after I finish encoding there was no sound. Can someone help me out?
Well with a Lot of Downloaded DivX or XviD movies have non-stabdard Audio formats that Tmpgenc can"t handle so you have to extract the audio from the AVI file to wav format first and use the wav file as the audio source...You can extract the audio useing AVI-Mux or Virtual Dub...
Ok I opened the file that I was having a problem with in VirtualDub and it immediately gave me an error that the audio stream had a bad VBR header on it and that I should convert it to PCM WAV. I did this which took about 2 minutes, (use direct stream copy for video stream). When I reopened the file in TMPGe it had the correct time code and the audio was perfect, sync and all. Thanks for the help, I hope this will help others.