TMPGEnc

[Bill Yates]

I am trying to use TMPGEnc as suggested to convert the AVI
file into MPEG. I have downloaded the trial version and
am following the information on the suggested link.
During the encoding process, the program crashes at
exactly the 50% compleation point. I think this is the
point at which the actual file is written to the hard
drive. All other hard drive functions work fine. As I
have not yet purchased the product, I cannot use the
Pegasys technical help. Yet I'm not willing to buy the
product until it works. Anyone have any thoughts?

Also, since the AVI files can be only slightly over 4GB,
how does one digitize movie clips longer than about 15
minutes. Making a series of short clips (about 4GB in
length) and keeping track of break points would seem to be
a bit of a problem.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Is your hard drive NTFS or FAT32? You would remove the FAT32 limitation by
converting the drive to NTFS.

See the Problem Solving > Checklist > Limitations section for some info
about the drive's file system.
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PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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[Bill Yates]

Thanks for the info PapaJohn. I suspect that my 40GB
internal and 120GB external drives are NTFS but I'm not
sure. How do I check that? I see how to change from FAT
32 if necessary.

Upon further investigation, the problem seems to stem from
using the "2-pass VBR" Rate Control Mode. The first pass
accesses the hard drive file and analyzes the data. Then
if things work properly, the second pass is done using the
best relationship between compression and quality.
However, at the transition between the two passes I get a
message that the file that I have just been accessing can
not open or is unsupported. I'm not sure why, if I have
some other parameter wrong or if there is a bug in TMPGEnc
Plus. The other Rate Control Modes seem to work OK.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

The web page includes info about how to check it.
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PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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[Rob]

I just experienced the exact same problem. I am also
using the "2-pass VBR" Rate Control Mode, but with TMPGenc
DVD Source Creator instead of TMPGEnc. I am quite sure my
file system is NTFS. I have about 15GB free hard disk
space. The DV-AVI movie file I am attempting to encode is
about 8-9 minutes long. So, Bill Yates, did you ever
resolve this issue? How? Please help!

Thanks,
Rob

 

[Bill Yates]

Per suggestion from PapaJohn, I have converted my external
drive to NTFS format (the internal 49 GB was already
NTFS), and re-booted the system. At the 50% completion
point the error "File 'drive/file info' Can not open or
unsupported" comes up and the program crashes. I finally
abandoned 2 pass and went CBR. The MPEG-2 conversion then
went well and authoring and DVD writing via
TMPGEncDVDAuthor produced very nice results. Even using
CBR, the TMPGEnc program creates and closes the desired
file but then crashes and I have to restart the program
for further use.

Although the TMPGEnc program does a great MPEG-2
conversion, it seems as though there may be some bugs in
it.

 

[Rob]

Thanks, Bill. I also abandoned 2-pass for CBR and it
worked fine. I was even able to encode a full 1-hr, 13GB,
DV-AVI into MPEG2 in this way, with avg. sample rate of
8000. I still have to author & burn to assess video
quality on TV, though.

For me, too, after the program created the MPEG file,
it "crashed" or closed itself. I assume this is not
normal?

And still, I wonder why you and I experienced this
glitch? What if I wanted VBR??

 

[Michel]

This was an known issue in old versions of TMPGEnc, corrected in the recent
versions (I thought). Are you sure you have the latest version of TMPGEnc?

From the tmpgenc.net (revision history=:

Version : 2.512. 2003/5/20
a.. Fixed: In an environment where multi-thread was enabled, choosing
"Highest Quality" as Motion Search Precision would cause the encoding to
stop halfway with an error saying Memory access violation error.

 

[Guest]

I am using TMPGEnc DVD Source Creator Version 2.1.3.8. I
just got it directly from tmpgenc.net, so it better be
the latest available!

I think I have eliminated the hyper-threading (HT)
theory. I disabled HT in my system's BIOS, then in
TMPGEnc environment, then both, and in all three trials
the result was the same as before: while encoding in VBR,
at exactly the 50% completion point, the following error
occurred:
File "filname.avi" can not open, or unsupported.

All progress ended at this point. Any more suggestions?


Thanks,

Rob

 

[Bill Yates]

I guess I'm glad that I'm not the only one experiencing
this problem. As of yet, I am still using the trial
version and thus have no way to use TMPGEnc support.
Perhaps someone who has purchased the program could
contact the vendor and see what's going on. I'm not
purchasing the program until I get this resolved. I did
download TMPGEncDVDAuthor and authored and wrote a file to
DVD using that program and it worked well. Did have to
abandon the two pass method though.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

I just tested TMPGEnc (TMPGEnc Plus 2.5, version 2.520.54.163) using a
2-pass VBR 7941kbps setting to make MPEG2 files for DVD.

Had no problems using a WMV source file, a DV-AVI type 1 from MM2, and a
DV-AVI type II from MM1.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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[William Yates]

PapaJohn,

The version that I have downloaded as a trial is:

Version: 2.521.58.169

Core Version: 1.198.152

I think this a more current version than yours so I'm not
sure if this version has a problem or the problem is in
our systems. I'm using a Dell Inspiron 8200 Pentium 4, Xp
Home, lots of memory, NTFS hard drive etc.

Bill