TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 freeze during Processing inverse telecine

[amputated limb]

i have a problem with TMPGEnc freezing up on me.
sometimes, i would get errors loading avi's, whenever that happens i would raise the priority of directshow multimedia file reader under environmental settings and that would enable TMPGEnc to load the avi. whenever the directshow multimedia file reader is on high priority, TMPGEnc doesn't start encoding right away, it would do something else before it starts to encode, at the bottom left corner it says "Processing inverse telecine" and to the right of it gives the status in percentage. this is when TMPGEnc would freeze up on me, it appears as if it happens randomly, like one attempt, it would freeze on 21%, next attempt 48%, another attempt 67%, and another attempt it would work just fine on through the encoding.

so it's like i'm shooting dice whenever TMPGEnc is processing inverse telecine, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, usually it would freeze up about 3 or 4 times before it would work. but the video i'm working on now has been freezing up everytime i tried.

any ideas as to solve this problem?

thx

[FOO]

My typical method for that is to Frameserve the video
from Avisynth or VirtualDub. It sort of hides errors from
TMPGenc

[Ejoc]

That was a big factor in my learning AVISynth, IVTC sucks in TMPGEnc, it would crash on me sometimes too.

[amputated limb]

and how would i go about doing this with avisynth?

[Ejoc]

decomb plugin for AVISynth:
Telceline()
Decimate()

[amputated limb]

sorry but can you be more specific?

[Craig Tucker]

TMPGEnc, does an IVTC when your source is NTSC(film) 23.976 fps.

[Ejoc]

I did misspell it, sorry, its Telecide()

Try a google search on avisynth telecide and decimate.

Try a search at DVDRhelp.com's forums.

[Craig Tucker]

Actually its Telecine.

[amputated limb]

sorry for being a noob but i still don't quite understand what to do
i d/l avisynth and decomb and installed avisynth but there's no .exe file for me to run

i did a forum search and google but all the post and webpages are all technical, i don't quite get the jargon.

can you dumb it down for me please.

[FOO]

I think if you will go to Program Files\Avisynth2.5\Docs
and click on index.html you will learn lots.

[amputated limb]

ok
i'm beginning to understand it somewhat
but i'm stuck

here's what in the script i made:


DirectShowSource("E:\Converted Wave Files\movies\jack.avi")
LoadPlugin("decomb.dll")
AVISource("jack.avi")
Telecide()
Decimate()

here's what i did so far:
i opened up TMPGEnc with direct show reader on high priority
the vid is 23.976 fps btw
using the wizard, i selected NTSC Film under VCD and clicked next
loaded the .avs file i just created for video and loaded the converted wav file for audio and clicked next
didn't mess with anything else, just started encoding after that

in the preview screen while it's encoding, it says:

DirectShowSource: I can't determine the framerate of the video; you must use the "fps" parameter
(e:\Converted Wave Files\movies\jack.avs, line1)



is the script right? do i need to add or subract anything?

[FOO]

Looks to me you have the same source loaded 2 differnt ways.
I think the directshow thing can't do audio - try skipping that

also you can check your avs easily by opening it with
Virtual Dub instead TMPGenc , after it's all fixed then
you open it with TMPGene

and for doing the IVTC ... I'll have to look that up

[Ejoc]

remove the DirectShowSource line.

[amputated limb]

ok i removed it and now the script looks exactly like this:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\Media\AviSynth2\plugins\decomb.dll")
AVISource("E:\Converted Wave Files\movies\jack.avi")
Telecide()
Decimate(cycle=5)

now the preview screen says this:

ACM failed to suggest a compatible PCM format
(E:\Converted Wave Files\movies\jack.avs, line 2)


does this have anything to do with the sound of the avi? it's in ac3

[FOO]

I don't know what to do with AC3 audio in Avisynth. I'll look

You might try this to get around it :

AVISource("E:\Converted Wave Files\movies\jack.avi").KillAudio()