Firstly I am totally new to this Ive been using TMPGenc for a couple of months but I really dont know much about it.

Ok my problem is this, when I try to convert an AVI file to MPEG the video freezes on the first frame and doesnt move any further, the sound however converts fine and when I play the finished MPEG back its the first frame of the video with the sound playing as normal. Can anyone help me?

It might also be worth mentioning I used to have no problems converting AVI's to MPEG and I cant remember installing anything recently that would cause a problem. I cant play AVI files (hence me wanting to convert them to MPEG) using any program that I have (including divx player, windows media player and real player) and also MPEG's play in windows media player but really jerkily (itll play a couple of seconds then stop for a few seconds and repeat this cycle) so I have to play them through real player. Does anyone have any idea what I might have installed to cause this problem or does anyone know some codecs, files or programs that would remedy this?

I hope you guys can help :)

is there any output template for output to ppc (320x240) available?

Sorry, no template for this one, but you can still make one yourself, if you know the kind of format you have to use.

RGB

I have heard some really good thngs about TMPGEnc, mainly concerning the quality of it's encoding.

However, I cannot verify this as the program has never once run without crashing. Not once. I can always get to the Encode phase, but it ALWAYS crashes during encoding, regardless of the original file size.

I'd really like to evaluate this program, but if it won't run, then there's no way I'll be buying it. Any help would be much appreciated.

I'm running Windows XP Pro with SP1a, Athlon XP 2200+ CPU, 768 MB DDR333 RAM, 120GB Media Drive (NTFS, recently defragged) on Primary Slave. This machine was rebuilt two weeks ago using latest drives and firmware for everything.

Although the ads say the product is Intel and AMD freindly I think you may be experiencing platform problems. TMPGenc 2.5 is oriented towards Intel processors and I would imagine that 3.0 is built on the foundation of 2.5. I'm not cetain but the problem may actually be the fact that you are using AMD products. I am using Intel and have never had any problems with any version.

I have an AMD Duron Processor and I have never had problems with TMPGEnc.

I have a Intel Pentium 4 2800mhz fsb 800 and the Encode phase ALWAYS crashes during encoding. (tmpegEnc 2.59.47.155)

I just going to try the xpress version...

Try disabling the "Preview" option, I have always used AMD CPU's with great sucess, however I have come across certain files that were poorly encoded and have had to disable the "Preview" during encoding to avoid a crash. Try a different file and see if you have the same problem ex. MPEG, AVI ect... L8r G8r

I have an AVI with weird resolutions. It is 480x320 and it has 23.976 fps. I want to put this on DVD-R so what should I set the Video Arrange Method as? I usually have it set at Center (custome size 640x420) so the subtitles won't go off the screen. But in this case, should I do the same?

Let me note that in some scenes, the people's faces seem a bit elongated...is there anyway to resize it to its proper height and then convert to MPEG2?

Sounds like a wrong resized 4:3-Video
Try Center (Custom Size) 656,448, Letterbox to 704x480
Do not use 720x480.

Use the Project Wizard to create a DVD 16x9.

When you use a program like DVD MovieFactory, the file will look elongated in that program. But when you play it in a DVD player, it will play back at 16x9 anamorphic.

Lauren

Use the Project Wizard and set up a DVD project. If you want it in 16x9 or 4:3, select that option at the beginning. When you get to the screen where you select the input file, change the input ratio to 1:1.

Lauren

In Windows XP i have the following error
Read error ocurred at adress 0009A61A of module TMPGENC with 0946DC2C.

try vacuuming your processor and motherboard, its probably a heat issue

Is it possible to change the 'Play All' button to text so it doesn't look so out of sorts with the other text selections?

Thanks

No, but you can draw your own Button and use it instead of the standard button.

I have TMPGEnc installed in the newest version.
I execute it on a laptop with Windows XP Pro. SP1 and all updates.
I installed K-Lite Codec Pack to get some codecs to encode into.
The specifications of the laptop is.

CPU: Centrino 1.6Ghz
RAM: 512MB RAM
HD: 60GB C: free: 10.3GB D: free 5.63GB
Graphic Card: Ati Radeon Mobility 9000

I use the TMPGEnc wizard to encode my videos.

:::::Issue:::::
I run the wizard and get to the source range clip editing. Then I edit the video file, but then if I'm away for some time doing other things, it could be for 10 minutes or longer, only to get back to finalize my editing or just accept the editing by clicking ok then TMPGEnc crashes.
When I push ok to accept the editing in the source range window TMPGEnc crashes.
Then I have to do my editing all over again.
This can't be true, am I doing anything wrong or is there a patch out there for TMPGEnc, because this is really annyoing.
I really hope we can find a solution regards Lars Bengtsson.
Thank you in advance.

OK my problem is this.... I'm tring to open an m2v file which was created with a Pinnacle Silver editing suite. I've download and installed the latest (or what i'm assuming is the latest, it's version 0.6.47) m2v vfapi plugin (which works fine in 2.5), fails to work. Can anyone please help or have any suggestions.

P.S.
Using a m2v file which was made within TMPGEnc Xpress 3 via the demultiplex work fine but we mainly deal with (and use) the m2v from the Silver and so we really need this feature.

Try changing your reader priorities under preferences. That has a good change of solving your problem.

I am looking for a guide to the preference settings in particular Pref Page 2 Multichannel Audio Decoder Settings. I want to preserve the AC-3 format my MPEG 2 file is encoded with, I do not know nor do their seem to be any guides on what boxes need to be turned on to accomplish this. I find that there is no online manual that I can find that details all the functions under preferences.

G.B.

I'm having a weird problem. I have set up 4 tracks and a menu. The bar the bottom says it's only 4086MB out of 4438MB. There is still a chunk of white space left in the bar. I have burned it onto a DVD+RW (4.7GB) and all of them plays fine. However, when I burn it onto a DVD-R, the last track cannot load. The other three tracks and menu plays excellent but when I select the last track, it doesn't load. Why is this? I have double-checked in TDA and everything is fine. The M2V plays fine on the computer as well. The brand of DVD-R I'm using is unknown because it's generic, there is no brand name or disc capacity anywhere. Please help! At first I thought it was a corrupt DVD-R but now I have wasted 2 DVD-Rs. :(

I forgot to add that I used DVD Shrink to open my authored VOBs and I played the last track and it plays fine.

Maybe you are using cheap DVD-R brands. They often have some Errors on the outher Tracks... they often ARE the Problem.

i was wondering if there was one out there ?

No.

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Why not ?

Licensing? ;)

...however there is a freeware proggy out there that will convert RM files to MPG files or AVI can't remember wich. The quality bites, but I guess you could re-enc with TMPGEnc at that point. If U R interested, I'll look up the proggy (hiding somewhere in my 260GB data junkyard)... L8r G8r

Use Boilsoft RM Converter to convert to avi files, then use TMPGENC

Sorry if this has been covered, but a friends of mine has also experienced this, and it's happened to me on every computer I've tried it on:

I used the free version of TMPGEnc for the full trial of the MPEG2 encoder. Everything worked normally, and I could encode a 45 minute program in about and hour and a half, and get a 4000kbps video to take up about a third of a DVD.

Now, I would think that Plus would be no different, but it is. When I tried it out, if I load the same video into the wizard or anything, it seems to think that the resulting file will be many gigabytes in size. Then when I encode it, it ends up being a little smaller than it thought, but still not small enough for a disc, and not only that, but it takes all night to encode one video.

What's going on? I'm not going to pay for a program that doesn't live up to its free trial. I really wish that instead of installing the Plus version, I could keep the nice, independant, free version and pay for the MPEG2 encoder. I like just being able to keep the entire program in a folder anywhere I want it and move it around. Why do I need to install what appears to be the exact same program (except for the bug I'm getting)?

Look under MPEG setting's page and make sure the Rate control mode and the Motion search precision is the same settings you were using in the free version.