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I have purchased the new TMPGenc plus and I have some trouble with it. When I try to convert an avi-file to mpg the program stops after an hour or sometimes after half an hour. When I ceck the activity manager, it say that the program is not responding.
This happens all the time. I have no energy saver on or screen saver or anything. The program just stops and there is no pattern on how long it will function.
I have a 1.4 GHz AMD processor with 256 Mhz ram and 20 Gb free space o the disq.
are you useing win xp? a lot of people have complained about problems with xp freezing tmpgenc,all I can think of is to try compatability mode in xp.......
Hello,
No I have win 98. I think though it have something to do with the processor AMD, since every thing work fine with Intel until I change the processor.
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I know this is strictly a tmp thread, but any other info regarding this matter would be much apreciated
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when I tried to convert an AVI file, it gave me a video without audio. so, I use virtualdub to extract audio then, use TMPGenc once again. I successfully converted the movie but somehow, some part of the movie is out of sync, specially last part.
This is a problem of your soundcard which is not at EXACTLY the same clock rate with the rest of the system. The error occurs the more, the longer the video is.
There's a tool virtualdub_sync out there, but I have not tried it yet.
WHAT!*??
Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you misunderstand the question.
It has nothing to do with capturing.
The question regards converting an AVI to MPEG with TMPGenc, so what do you mean it has nothing to do with TMPG??
AS far as I can grasp from the original question the person is trying to convert an AVI, which is probably a DVD rip either downloaded or created by himself using various conversion software such as DVD2AVI or FlaskMPEG which has nothing whatsoever to with capturing.
It is this AVI which is already probably perfectly in sync that he is using to convert to MPEG with TMPG, but for some reason *AFTER* the conversion process the audio has *THEN* desynced from the video.
Does that make it any clearer or is it a lost cause?
Anyway to answer the original question.
Is the audio out of sync from the begining or does it go out of sync later on in the film?
It may just need a slight A/V shift correction when multiplexing if it goes out of sync from the begining.
If not your file maybe corrupted in some way. Try to find the exact spot where audio desync occurs by running it through Virtualdub to scan for bad frames.
If virtualdub doesn't find it you will have to find it yourself.
When you find the spot of desync, cut the file just after NOT before desync occurs.
Also what is the length of the video and audio files separately?
Then post back and I'll give you info how to correct it.
thanks for the great informations and solutions on this matter.
you were asking... about the length of the video and audio.. its the same length.
actually the thing is:
- when i tried to convert the download file, i managed to convert it to mpg but no sounds and it took too much time. And when I played the converted file, the film actually finishes at the middle of the players indicators and the rest are totally black... but the indicator and it continue to play.. Then, I found from your suggestions on other mails that I should use virtualdub to extract the audio and then convert the AVI to mpg using tmpgenc with the video from the original avi and audio from the saved wave file.
then when I tried to play the converted it becomes out of sync at the end.
Anyway, I will try to do the suggestion you gave, which is to find the error and cut the and reconvert the rest.
>WHAT!*??
>Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you misunderstand the question.
>It has nothing to do with capturing.
>The question regards converting an AVI to MPEG with TMPGenc, so what do you mean it has nothing to do with TMPG??
>
>ASHY
Ashy - FYI; I noticed that the MPEG PLAYER can cause A/V sync problems. Why I haven't a clue. Cyberlink's DVD Player (in "file" mode) yields seriously out of sync audio. ATI's "File Player" plays the same file in perfect sync (running their "All In Wonder"). Henna desu ne? Running a Intel 1.3Ghz CPU w/goodies so I don't think it's an overhead issue. Moreover; I initially didn't think of load the apparently out of sync file on my MicroDrive and hence to my 3630 Ipaq and try it THERE. I assumed that the file A/V sync was lousey... Ah yes; Another prime example of the attendant evils of assuming.
Incidently, I WOULD like to get my grubby little paws on VirtualDub_Sync if in fact such a nifty tool exists. Got URL?
>WHAT!*??
>Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you misunderstand the question.
>It has nothing to do with capturing.
>The question regards converting an AVI to MPEG with TMPGenc, so what do you mean it has nothing to do with TMPG??
>
>ASHY
Ashy - FYI; I noticed that the MPEG PLAYER can cause A/V sync problems. Why I haven't a clue. Cyberlink's DVD Player (in "file" mode) yields seriously out of sync audio. ATI's "File Player" plays the same file in perfect sync (running their "All In Wonder"). Henna desu ne? Running a Intel 1.3Ghz CPU w/goodies so I don't think it's an overhead issue. Moreover; I initially didn't think of load the apparently out of sync file on my MicroDrive and hence to my 3630 Ipaq and try it THERE. I assumed that the file A/V sync was lousey... Ah yes; Another prime example of the attendant evils of assuming.
Incidently, I WOULD like to get my grubby little paws on VirtualDub_Sync if in fact such a nifty tool exists. Got URL?
Hi,
I think I have the same problem. I can't open a AVI File with TMGEnc.
The Statement is "it is not an avi File or unsupported"
so I can't define an input source file.
Do you have some answers ? or a troubleshooting ?
Thanks, many greetings
Andy.
I get an "Not enough memory" error when trying to convert a asf to mpeg1. I have dozens of GB and 256 MB RAM. In TMPGEnc 12a it's a "Out of memory" error.
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I'm not 100% on this, but it may have something to do with your swap file.
Check your swap file settings and make sure there is enough virtual memory for the task you are doing. Try increasing it to maximum 4096GB to see if it has any effect.
Hey.I'm having problems with converting my mpeg1 movie to mpeg2(vcd to svcd).I just updated my computer to Windows XP.When I click browse and locate my movie, it doesn't load and it shows an error report.Then it automatically closes TMPGEnc.Can anyone help me????
I'll probably never understand this, but why do people keep converting VCD to SVCD.
1. The quality won't be increased, but will probably decrease.
2. The file size will probably get bigger.
3. The file will be less compatible with more DVD players due to being MPEG2 SVCD.
Explain and relieve my ignorance and I will try and help you out my friend, but need more info on the error.
This is what the error report says...TMPGEnc has encountered a problem and needs to close.The information your were working on might be lost.This started happening ever since I updated to Win. XP. I'm not going to uninstall it. Plz help me.
Forget about the MPEG2 codec I was getting myself confused thinking you were trying to open an MPEG2 file. You don't need it for MPEG1.
Try this.
Goto File>MPEG tools and use the 'Simple demultiplex' option to seperate your video and audio then see if you can load the video only into TMPG.
If it loads then encode and when you have finished multiplex the audio back with your encoded movie.
Dear Tmpgenc,
First of all I love your software it is great! I've wanted to backup some of my dvd's into vcd format. So I ripped the dvd with smartripper, and ripped the audio with dvdtoavi, then used Tmpgenc to encode. The first move I did went flawless! However the last two I've tried have had audio/video sync problems (the audio is about 1.5 sec slower than the video). I've looked at your help site and it talked about slowing the frame rate, etc. I've still been having problems with the audio/video sync. First of all could it be that I'm not choosing the right settings (aspect ratio, frame rate, video type, frame time, etc)? Sometimes when I rip the dvd the video type says "FILM" neither PAL nor NCSC. Sorry for the long email, but I'm trying to give you as much info as possible! Thank you so much for your help and your wonderful software!
You should keep the framerate of the output movie the same as the input movie or it will cause sync probs and if you are encoding to VCD make sure the audio is 44.1khz.
If the original framerate is in FILM 23.976 FPS and you want to convert to NTSC 29.976 fps, select "Force FILM" from the Video -> Field Operation menu in DVD2AVI then use 3:2 pulldown in TMPG to convert the framerate to 29.976 fps.
This is how you are supposed to do it, but to be honest with you I've never actually got it to work properly.
First demultiplex your movie with TMPG then using BBMPEG remutltiplex. BBMPEG has an option to add a delay to the video or audio before you multiplex to resync you movie. Here is a guide how to do it http://www.spawns.dk/svcd/bbmpeg.htm
After encoding AVI/DIVX to MPEG for VCD, when I watch them they seem jerky. Looks to be about them same duration between pauses as the number of frames TMPGENC encodes at a time. Looked through previous articles spotted nought so any help much appreciated
I have the exact same problem but it seems to be from the dvd player cuz on really expensive players they play fine ,I did a little reading up on dvd players and have come to the conclution that dvd buffers can handle over flow a lot better than under flow,and looking at the bitrate in a graff,this seems to be the problem(with me any way)........
From looking at what I have done, I have changed the frame rate from 23.97-25. Tried to follow all the steps that I think you have posted and wow what an arse, will try to follow them again but the divx file I was converting would not give a frame rate in AVIFRATE changer, so would not allow to be changed. I always thought it would be so easy but maybe not
Well if I remember rightly in that post i gave instructions on how to change the framerate with Virtualdub and use that as a frame server.
but you will still need to change the audio with cooledit and any way it isn't as complicated as you think.
Shouldn't take you more than 10mins.
Recently, I have run into the problem when converting avi to either mpeg-1 or mpeg-2 these purplish blocks start to build up like a crescendo and then dissappear returning the picture to normal. This cycle repeats being not noticeble at first and then bulds and builds until it just suddenly dissappears again. It runs about a 5-10 second cycle. I have reinstalled TMPGEnc and always delete the current.tpr file before use. Anyone have any comments or reccomendations?
Have you installed any codecs, or players or media software lately.
It seems somewhere on your system there maybe a rogue codec causing problems here.
Tip: Goto controlpanel in windows and click either 'multimedia' for win 98/me or 'sounds and audio devices' for winxp
For win 98/me click the devices tab then video codecs and remove any codecs you don't recognize or to be safe remove all and re-install the ones you need.
For winxp same as above except click the hardware tab then video codecs then properties in the box that comes up.
If it is any help, the problem first began after endcoding to SVCD using the freeware demo. Ever since I get pinkish-purplish blocks in my previews and final product. I deleted all the codecs and installed only those I need. I also ensured my video drivers were up to date.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I would highly like to get back to creating my VCD's and SVCD's.
As far as I'm aware the SMR (shadow movie realm) codec is just an inferior hacked Divx codec which causes nothing but problems.
I would steer cleer of this if you can, but if your downloaded movies are in this format then obviously theres nothing you can do.
it wont let me convert the avi file to mpeg. whenever i try and convert the blackhawk down file it says "(file name) , cannot not open, or unsupported. I think the files too large but i dont know how to make it smaller. someone help!
sounds like you don't have the codec to open the movie. I had this problem. I went to drivers.com and d/l codec mp4x (mp43 codec driver) now I can open any movie.
Your problem is with your "vfapi plugins" .Go to your "advanced settings" to "vfapi plugins" and raise the "direct show" to "2" and lower every thing to "0" or "1"...this should fix it...
please help me i have an AVI i'm trying to convert to VCD.
I have succesfully used virtualdub to sor out the audio biut when i go to load up my avi as a video source I get an error message saying "file can not open , or unsupported."
My video file details for the AVI are 352x240 ,53638 Frames 14.985 Frames/Sec, 41 KB/Sec, Unknown Format.