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I have an SVCD movie file in BIN/CUE format. (assume the file works).
When I burn it to NERO everything appears to burn fine but my DVD player will not play the movie back. It says "no disk".
I then tried using IsoBuster to extract the MPEG from the BIN/CUE (using the option 'filter only the....'). The resulting MPEG file will load in windows media player, but while the sound works fine, the picture is only a happy face, a constact still picture of a happy face.
I then try opening the MPEG file in TMPGEnc but it says 'unsupported'.
Forget VCDGear that software causes more problems than it fixes.
The best way I have found to extract MPEGs from bin files is to use this small app called DAEMON tools for opening images. http://www.daemon-tools.com/main.htm
Simply install it then load your Bin file into it then copy the MPEG to your drive.
And when burning Bin/Cue Files with Nero You can"t just burn the Bin and cue file and expect it to play, you have to Burn it as an Image File buy going to "File" to "Burn Image" then navigate to the Cue file...and VCDEasy is Good at Extracting Mpegs for Bin/Cue files also...
Using Avisynth 2.07 tp Frameserve an XVid to TMPEG v2.510 (and I've tried a couple of others as well). As it goes TMPG does open the Xvid OK, but what I'm trying to do is sample a couple of seconds of video per minute (using sampler.dll in Avisynth) to produce a representative sample of 40-50 mins of video (a bit of action, a bit of titles etc). The idea is to then be better able to predict what CQ setting to use to fill a CDR as I've always had to do this by trial and error.
Anyway thats the background, the problem is that I can't get Avisynth to reliably frameserve. One time it will work, the next it won't. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason to it. Frameserving with VDub works fine (but doesn't have sampler.dll available) so it isn't useful for this purpose. I've tried a couple of test scripts with just "version()" inthe script as its the simplest script I can think of, but even this is very hit and miss.
Has anyone here any experience of frameserving with AVIsynth and can you think of anything I've missed.
It could be your path.
AVIsynth doesn't like spaces in it's path neither does it like long paths.
For example AVIsynth doesn't like: AVISource("C:folder1folder2folder3 est file")
It would prefer: AVIsource("C:folder est_file")
If you can put your source files and any AVIsynth filters in a folder in the root of your drive.
Yeah, already tried the Direct Show switch - no joy with that one unfortunately. There wre spaces in the path, and I've removed them, and no joy there either.
I'm guessing that there has to be something misconfigured or broken in TMPGEnc, as Vdub, sevral media players, Nandub (I could go on here, there are more)will play the file correctly. I suppose another possibility is a shagged codec, I've had TMPG misbehave with some codecs before.
The strange thing is that the test file I've made only has the VideoSource set, and when you attempt to load the file the TMPG window will change size (presumably to allow it to show the video source at correct aspect ratio), and the stream type check box selector in the bottom right hand corner will change to video only, so it seems to be making some sense of it.
Yup, tried that no joy (I think readavs was intended for use with older versions of TMPG that didn't have avs and vdr support built in, but gave it a shot anyway). I'm gonna install this all on another machin and see how I go. I'm almost certain its a winblows registry/codec problem as these have made TMPG fall over before.
Well what allways works great for fixing problems like this for me is to do a Total re-install of my OS, then just install the Programs that I Need..I know it is a Bit of a Hassle But it is still faster that trying to fix the problem for a few days and then haveing to reinstall the OS anyways...
When I tried to convert .AVS files made by DVD2AVI, I got green picture, but if I read them with Windows Media Player the picture is OK . Also in the TMPG (2.510) Preview option, no picture during, only green all over frames . Already made the VFAPI plug-in Direct Show to 2 priority and the same .
Thank you to anyone could help me .
Firstly DVD2AVI does Not make AVS Files it makes it makes D2V files, You must mean that you are Frameserveing D2V files with AVISynth to Tmpgenc,But WHY!!! Tmpgenc will Accept the Straight D2V file without any AVISynth Frameserveing, So Just load the D2V file directly into Tmpgenc and Your Problem should be solved But if you are Still stuck on Useing AVISynth you will have to Disable the "Direct Show file Reader" In the VFapi Plugins before the AVS File will Load...
I want to convert an avi to an mpeg.. but whenever I try to set the avi file to the video source it says that it cannot be opened or is unsupported. But my friend tried the exact same file on his comp and it worked fine.. so what's the deal??
Do you have the Correct Codecs installed to decode the File????? and if you do then Try this ,Go to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the Priority of the "Direct Show File Reader" to "2".. this should get the file loaded..
I had the same problem, but when I tried changing the priority, the program crashed instead of saying it could not read the avi (which I am able to watch). What could be the problem here?
I had the same problem, but when I tried changing the priority, the program crashed instead of saying it could not read the avi (which I am able to watch). What could be the problem here?
when encoding an avi to mpeg2 everything used to be fine, but now i come back to my computer to see how a batch encode is going and it is always rebooted (recovered from a serious error in xp) but tmpgenc has actually finished the encoding of the first file and saved it.....
i tried to do a full uninstall and reinstall. but with no joy??
Many times my computer also reboots but it is not always. I wrote to TMPG support but got no answer. On my own experience there is no relation between the reboot and the conversion been made through batches. It does happen on any configuration. The most probable reason I have identified is that they happen most commonly on very large avi files. However, now I am getting another consistent error: TMPG gives me a read error mask pointing to an each time different TMPG address. I had this kind of error before but it was more sporadically. TMPG does quality conversion? Yes. But the hassle and the hundreds of hours I have already spent debugging it kill me. It turned that the $48 I paid for it became too expensive.
TMPG isn't the problem. Your PC setup is. For whatever reason your setup is causing problems.
I don't get this problem and neither do the many thousands of others using TMPG.
If I were you I would do a clean install of your system then maintain it with good houskeeping to prevent any more problems.
Well, I cannot tell by Gary but I am a 27 years in the field electronic engineer. I know computers from inside out. I started designing PCs back on 1981 and I still developing systems nowadays; curiously I work on the same building were IBM developed the IBM-PC in 1984. Therefore, I can tell if my PC is clean and lean and it is. I assembled this PC last January and it uses an ASUS A7N8X with XP2100+, 512 MB of Corsair Xtreme DDR 333, video card ATI 9700PRO, DVD Sony DRU500A, 450GB on fast HDs, and Windows XP Professional. If TMPGenc is not the problem, how I can convert movies using Pinnacle Studio, Sonic MyDVD, ShowBiz, Ulead Studio? Certainly if it is not, it is part of the problem. If you know what setup could be causing the problem that would help. I just bought and installed Norton SystemWorks 2003 Professional and Norton could be causing it, but I cannot be sure of that since not even Symantec admits that they also have problems.
All I can say is that these sort of problems only seem to happen with AMD processors and certain boards.
You will notice there is another post by OCJ having a similar problem and unusually enough has an ASUS motherboard and an AMD processor.
OK, yesterday night I could find a very significant problem. I had been around the reboot + 'read error' problems for more than a week. Because the hard disk where I am storing the avi is new (I mounted it on Feb 08), I could never imagine that the problem was fragmentation! The 19GB avi file was 68% fragmented, causing TMPG to either reboot or cause those read errors. It took me hours and 3 pass to defragment the disk but after that TMPG ran without errors.
Other suggestions to Gary:
(1) Find if your CPU is not overheating during encoding. TMPG is a heavy software and, in my case where I have 4 fans, the CPU temperature reaches 60C. Anyway, you have to find your own CPU threshold and make sure you are within the safe zone;
(2) Try to convert the AVI into MSDVTYPE2 by using the free conversion software that Canopus USA is offering if the file is TYPE1DV;
(3) If your are using AMD remove the check box of TMPGEnc Plus - Option - Environmental setting - CPU - 'Enable SSE.'
(4) Be sure your AVI file is not fragmented!
had a problem yesterday with converting an AVI to MPEG2. AVI runs fine with PowerDVD. I used VirtualDub to extract the sound to WAV and then used TMPGEnc Plus to convert AVI+WAV to MPEG2. When playing the MPEG2 file (again with PowerDVD) afterwards, video and sound were all of a sudden out of sync...
Installed are DivX, Xvid, Nimo Lite CodecPack and PowerDVD, so all necessary codecs should be available...
is any part of the outputted mpg file in sync. i.e is say the first 20 minutes ok. Often what happens is that when you encode the avi with a seperate sound file, any defect in the avi file, say a slight pause in the file will result in the sound file being out of sync to the video. If you are making two output files, what i tend to do is, find out the moment of time where the sound and video lose their sync, and encode the second output file from that point.
Understand? if not email me: mattross@safe-mail.net
Thanks for the info... i suspect my files are fragmented, but am not sure on how to check for sure?? But they are only 700 megs no where near the size of John's.
I have seen messages where people have had similar problems.. and the people reply seem to think it maybe due to the avi files in question.
These avi's should be checked in vdub for bad frames and resized and frame served to tmpgenc. (apparently?)
Gonna check it out and see what happens!
p.s. I have an AMD machine but the sse controls are greyed out, for obvious reasons.
Hi :)
I have a problem with tmpgenc when I try to encode xvid files into any kind of mpg file. It gives me an error when I try to load the xvid file and won't let me encode it at all. This is the error (copy and paste the link into your address bar or it won't work) http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/0103/tmpgencerror.gif
This all started one day out of nowhere. I have no clue what triggered it but I do know that I could encode xvid files before. I thought it was just a windows error because I fooled around with my windows xp bootscreens and themes so much. After a few weeks I reinstalled windows xp to fix the problem. Oddly even reformating my whole computer didn't fix this. Do I need a filter or something? I was able to do this before without a filter. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
This is a Common error with XVid files But I don"t know what causes it accept Just being XVid files..What I would Sugest is to Try Frame serveing the File to tmpgenc with a frame server like Virtual Dub or AVISynth...
you can get a codec from some where, and i don't know why but after i downloaded the codec, i found that tmpgenc encoded the avi file ok, although sometimes i would get no sound in the output.
Had this myself (well, an error in the same file, not quite sure of the code though). Removing all my codecs and reinstalling the ones I needed fixed it.
Thanks for the help. The codec I am using is Nic's Xvid codec. I have always used this codec and it has always worked fine. I just find it odd that I could encode xvid files before. I looked over my whole computer and there is nothing that I changed when this problem started. I'll try getting the ffdshow filter but I've heard nasty things about it like lots of artifacts in movies and such. If it starts working I'll let you know.
Ok, I havn't tried the ffdshow filter yet. Does ffdshow have an unistaller? anyway, I tried reinstalling my xvid codec but nothing changed. Is there anything else I would need to reinstall, I can't think of anything. I tried frameserving and everything seemed to work smoothly but when I made a test mpg file the audio and video was extremely glitchy/laggy.
Yes FFDSHOW is easily uninstalled. Don't know where you heard about those things about FFDSHOW but I have never come across any such material or had problems.
In fact FFDSHOW is more likely to correct or prevent artifacts not create them.
Alright, everything is working now. I installed the ffdshow filter and it fixed every problem. No more tmpgenc errors or anything. Thanks so much Ashy for the suggestion and everyone else.
Hello. I am encoding a xvid screener that I recently download, and about
10 to 20 percent thru, the screen goes black. I get some of the video but then it goes black the rest of the way thru. Any suggestions?
Do you have seperate Audio and Video Files??? If you do then I think that tmpgenc will only automaticly load the audio if the File name is exactly the same, But if you are Just loading in a Regular AVI File and only the Video gets Loaded then this could be because the audio format in the AVI File is not supported By Tmpgenc or Tmpgenc just cant recognize and decode the audio..Either way you have to use a Seperate Program like "Virtual Dub" or "AVI-MuX" to extract the audio from the avi file to a WAV file and use the wav file as the audio source...
no, its not a seperate audio file. At first when i browsed for the avi file, the audio box filled in automatically. Now when i do the same, even on the same files, the box is no longer automatically filled in. I haven't been messin about with any settings, do you know what the problem is??????
Well I think I said What the Problem was, You Probably need to extract the audio from your AVI files to a WAV file and use the wav file as the audio source, this is Especially True with DivX and XviD Files...
listen, i browse for a video file, and the audio box should automatically fill in. It is no longer filling in automatically, so the mpg output has no sound.
Now with previous coversions the avi file i browsed for did cause the audio box to fill in automatically. Now if i try it, even browsing the same files , i had previously successfully coverted, the audio box does not fill in.
extracting the audio is just unneccessary and even more time consuming.
Well, you have either uninstalled a needed codec to decode the audio or recently updated your version of TMPG.
In any case TMPG will not decode the audio without the proper codec being installed.
You need to find out what the audio is in your AVi and post back.
where can i find an mpeg2 plugin for my tmpgenc. i was able to find one but it was in a wierd zip format that was not supported by my winzip program. the program was archived as *.lzh and i need one archived as *.zip. can you help me?
Tmpgenc Now uses mpeg2 decoders Made By Cyberlink and Ligos, If you install Power DVD you will get the Cyberlink Mpeg2 decoder and if you install the Nemo Or Tsunami Codec/Filter Packs you will get the Ligos Mpeg2 decoder, either will allow you to open Mpeg2 files in Tmpgenc But i still think that DVD2AVI is a Better Mpeg2 decoder...
I have noticed a problem with encoding .avi(s) with TMPGEnc. Sometimes TMPGEnc thinks that an .avi is longer than it really is (for example, it thinks a 22 minute file is 44 minutes). I tried to set the end frame with the mpeg tools, but I was working on an .avi not an mpeg. After I made the mpeg, there was no sound, the file was the correct length, but there was no sound. How can I fix the problem of having TMPGEnc think a file is longer than it really is?
The Length Problem has Nothing to do with the No audio problem..The Problem with Tmpgenc reading the file as the wrong length can not really be fixed Because tmpgenc gets this information from the File itself, as Long as it comes out the Right length then there really isn"t a Problem..As for the Audio not being there you Probably should Extract the audio from your Source File to a WAV File with something like "Virtual Dub" or "AVI-Mux" and use the Wav file as the audio source..Tmpgenc will not encode all Audio formats...