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I get this sometimes on a VBR enocoding. I also get it sometimes when I do the front end work on one computer, and the actual encode on another (when using hot swapable firwire drives). For some reason, it went away...
First I upgraded to the most recent version: 3.1.3.70
Then the error message changed. It began complaining that there was not enough space free on my output destination disk. This was not true - I have a second 80GB hard drive I use just for video, and it had over 50GB free.
However, I switch the output destination to the Desktop on my C: drive and retried. It has finally gotten past the initial choke stage and is working its way through the batch. I don't know if it will finish... but at least it's working.
So:
1) upgrade
2) fiddle with your output destination if possible
I set the output to a drive which only had about 7gb free, when I got that error message, I changed the output to C: which has 20gb free, and the error message went away. I guess it just needs a bit more space to encode. Hope this helps everyone, pity the error message couldn't be more helpful.
Well as you all must know, life can be really busy sometimes. The only time I can find for converting movies is at night, when I sleep. I was wondering will running two TMPGENCs at once cause quality degradation or worse, skipping? Furthermore, as the number of TMPGENCs increases will the overall quality of the all the converted movies decrease?
I run a P4 2.6G HT, 512M DDR400, with a 7200RPM HDD with 22G of free space left and hardware set page file.
I have tried it, and have no problem running multiple instances, however the overall speed will decrease.
Instead, add the project to the batch list (batch encode). It will encode several movies in a row.
Also, I set the CPU priorty for both tasks to idle, and have actually noticed a small increase in encoding speed, and it makes it easier to do other tasks. I think that giving it idle priorty may give the codec I am using a little more CPU time.
>Also, I set the CPU priorty for both tasks to idle, and have actually noticed a small increase in encoding speed, and it makes it easier to do other tasks.
Of course it will allow you to do other tasks because you have given prority to other applications. However I very much doubt you would see an increase in speed doing this.
Infact it would must likely decrease the speed as you have taken priority from the encoding and given it to other tasks on your system.
Doing this will afford less CPU time slices to the encoding and thus slow down the process.
Well, as far as low priorty speedups, I am speaking of when the encoder is the only task running (aside from services etc), and it only seems to work when using against the MainConcept DV codec.
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
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'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?
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?
>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.
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?
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.
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
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.