Just want to say that i've had alot of help from people on this forum and its been great, but, i need it once again (help). I have a file that i've tried to encode using TMPGenc (I've encoded with this programme before and it has worked fine) However, what happens now is that it encodes 20% and then crashes. Ive run the file through AVIfixed and there are no errors or corrupt frames on the file. What is this? thanks for help!
This could be From a Million different things, It"s Probably one of those stupid Bugs that Happen and all you can do is Try to get arround it..What I would suggest is you try Frameserveing the File to Tmpgenc useing Virtual-Dub...If Virtual-Dub can decode the File properly then this should work...I will Explain how to Do it ,First download this Program: http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/VirtualDub-MPEG2.zip After extracting the files to a Folder run the "AuxSetup.exe" file and click the "Install Handler" Button and then click "OK" and then close the Program...Now run the "VirtualDub.exe" file and then Load your AVI file into it by going to "File" to "Open Video File" and navigating to your AVI file and selecting it ,after loading in your file make sure you can scan through the whole file useing the slider under the window ,after this go to "File" to "Start Frameserver" and then click the "Start" button and now Choose a Name for your Frameserver file but give it a VDR Extention like this "Movie.vdr" after nameing the file and chooseing a destination path save the file... Now run tmpgenc ,You will first have to go to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "vfapi Plugins" and Lower the "Direct show file Reader" Priority to "0" and raise the "AVI VFW Compatibility Reader" to "1" ,Now you can Load the Frameserver file into Tmpgenc and encode it like normal... Virtual Dub will decode the File and serve the frames to tmpgenc to encode Via the Frameserver file ,This has worked well for Stubborn files I have had before....Well if you have any problems let me know...Cheers _X_X_X_X_X_[small]It"s better to be Pissed Off than Pissed On!!![/small]
thanks for the help, but, how do you load the vbr file into TMPGenc? it just says its unsupported. Its now happening with 2 files, and both are 25 fps. I was wondering if i converted them to 23.976 telecine would this work??? I might give it a go until you get back to me. Cheers.
Did you try Frameserveing the File?? If the File has VBR audio you will have to Decompress the audio first before Tmpgenc will accept it, if you PM Me with your e-mail I can send you a tool that will decompress the audio in your AVI files...Usually if you Frameserve the file you will not have to Decompress the audio..If the File is 25fps and you want to encode it to 23.976fps or 29.976fps then you are in a tough Spot because V-Dub can not properly convert 25fps into 23.976fps and either can tmpgenc encode 25fps to 23.976fps Properly....I know of 2 methods for converting Pal to NTSC and both are fairly complicated, if you can get ahold of Canopus Procoder it can properly convert pal to NTSC...well good Luck
sorry mate, i have the audio as a seperate file now (saved as WAV with virtualdub) this problem really seems to only happen with 25 fps avi's. Its quite weird. When you say open the .vbr file with TMPGenc do you mean open it as the source file? cos like i said, it just sayds that its unsupported.
O.K, let's get this all straight. Lets say i've got a compressed audio and video avi file. I go through your instructions to open the avi file in virtualdub (done) i start the frameserver (done) i click start and choose a name for the vdr file. I then open TMPGenc and i'm on the wizard screen, in the source section i try and open the vdr file and its unsupported. (Oh yeah, and when i change the environmental settings i get the stupid point errors that pop up sometimes in TMPGenc). Sorry mate, perhaps i'm being a bit thick. YEs, i am being thick. need help on this still! Do you know why TMPGenc does this to 25 fps files? is there another encoder which is better and doesn't have so many annoying nuances?
Well you are Right Tmpgenc can be Quite Buggy at times...I prefer to use MainConcept Encoder Personally because it can usually handle compressed audio...But no Matter what encoder you use you are going to end up with a File that has a slight skipping in the Video every second or so in High Motion Scenes because there aren"t any encoders that can properly Convert Pal to NTSC...A Lot of Poeple sometimes don"t notice the Jumpy effect but you will notice it more in Movies with a Lot of High action scenes..The Way encoders Convert Framerates is to delete or Duplicate frames to make up the new frame rate both of which can cause the Jumpy effect because there are frames missing or it is repeating the same frame twice..The Proper way to Convert Frame rates are to either Speed up or slow down the video and audio to the new frame rate like when going from 25fps to 23.976fps or to Interpolate new Frames by useing Fields from two adjoining Frames to create new frames and to use adaptive deinterlaceing to clean up the artifacts created by this method...This is the method used by high end Video editors and by Canopus Procoder..I would suggest the Slowdown method for a Pal 25fps file but the only Semi-Easy way to do this is to use AVISynth which can be complicated to learn but for doing this it is fairly easy once you understand how AVISynth works.... So Try the MainConcept Encoder you might have better luck with it and if you notice a Jumpy effect in the encoded video when encoded to NTSC then let me know and I"ll try to explain how to use AVISynth to comver it to NTSC.....Good Luck
