Frameserving with VD > Tmpg

[jimdx]

Hi

Ok, the VD frameserver is all up and running OK (it would seem)

When I try to open the vdr file in tmpg it just locks up, tried renaming the vdr to avi but no joy. installed the file ReadAVS.dll and now tmpg just reports it cant open the file, type not supported. Ive installed the VD handlers and followed the framserver guide on VD.org but all to no avail.

What have I missed, what haven't I done or what am I doing wrong?

Does the latest version of tmpg support frameserving?

Any recomendations for an alternative to tmpg

Cheers
Jim

[fastfall]

Hmmm, I have seen something similar.
It seems the first time I open the .vdr file with TMPGENc 2.0, I get an hour glass
and nothing more. My OS (WinME) is fine - no lockup there - but TMPGENc is dead in the
water. I kill it (ctrl-alt-del-end-task) and the gui goes away. Now I try again, and it will
load the vdr file. At this point for whatever reason I have 2 TMPGENc's in the task list.
I kill the old one, and everything is cool.

I wish I could say this was entirely reproducable, but it isn't. Sometimes it works.
Sometimes it doesn't.

Honestly I prefer to use AVISynth - but for whatever reason it does not read
(in any mode) the avi files I capture with my ASUS 2.0 codec. Hufyuv works great.
So thats why I started using VirtualDub (1.4.7) frameserver.

Did you run the auxsetup command VD comes with?

So there's no confusion - here's what I do:

1. Capture with my asus card using asus 2.0 codec.
2. start VD, append all the avi files together.
3. Start the frameserver, call it x, and save it to signpost myavi.vdr (the names don't matter)
4. Load TMPGEnc (it has built in support for virtualdub)
5. OPen the myavi.vdr file
6. TMPGenc may hang - kill it.
7. Try again.
8. Kill off any residual tmpgenc processes.

Anyone know why AVISynth/TMPGEnc is picky about the ASUS 2.0 codec?
(I tried all the different source filters - AVISource() etc, and the VFAPIs in tmpgenc).

[jimdx]

Hi

I disabled the direct show and got the exact same error, the only thing that seems to have made a difference is installing the ReadAVS.dll which has added the vdr support to tmpg, so it is no longer locking up but the file is still unrecognized.

Could this be something to do with the original codec of the avi file even though tmpg will accept the original AVI

Cheers
Jim