TMPGENC 2.5 Crashing repeatedly

[Martin1962]

Windows XP Demo version of TMPGENC 2.5 (a couple tried) I am planning to buy once I am over this!!!!

Worked a week previous, but not on Sunday, crashes the PC after about 12 minutes of MPEG2 created, back to black screen.

Any ideas please, I have reformatted and reinstalled everything.

[ofbarea]

I used to have this problem with some DivX files. I just transcoded the problematic files to HUFYUV and RAW PCM using Virtualdub, and the new AVI file was processed properly in TMPGEnc.

[bugster]

Any error messages?

Could there be bad frames in the source file?

[Martin1962]

No error messages - AVI is off DV then edited in various Ulead packages (either free with PC or cheap) and it plays fine in Windows Media Player

All I get is the PC making disk and fan noises but black screen - I have to power the PC off to get anywhere.

[ofbarea]

Is you AVI DV type 2?

[ZippyP.]

Could be a hardware problem. Encoding is CPU intensive and problems components will show up when you do it. Ram, CPU or power supply are typical.

[Martin1962]

Hard ware was my main concern - however last night I installed Windows Media Player version 9, and then did Windows Update a couple of times.

Before bed I set up the MPEG2 run and found it at 100% and complete this morning.

However I still need to reinstall some video card drivers as the analogue capture device is broken and I can't be bothered to connect my old SLF1UB to my TRV33 analogue in.

[LSchafroth]

Windows XP Demo version of TMPGENC 2.5 (a couple tried) I am planning to buy once I am over this!!!!

Worked a week previous, but not on Sunday, crashes the PC after about 12 minutes of MPEG2 created, back to black screen.

Any ideas please, I have reformatted and reinstalled everything.

Try cleaning out your C:\documents and settings\userxxx\local files\temp folder.

Clean out the C:\windows\temp folder.
Clean out the C:\windows\prefetch folder.

Scandisk, defrag the machine. Download demo of Diskkeeper 8 workstation and defrag. Set the boot time consolidation option, defrag your pagefile, MFT and consolidate the directories.

This helps a lot with XP when you keep it cleaned out. If you are doing 2 pass VBR for TMPGEnc go to teh environment settings and set the temp sapce to at least 4.3Gb. It saves a ton of time encoding TMPGEnc VBR.

LS

PS I've had good luck with Mainconept NTSC. Seems a touch blockier then TMPGEnc but a little faster.

[Martin1962]

Prefetch - interesting

XP hides temporary files a lot better than 98 does

I'll have to check tonight from home