TMPGEnc 3 error 0.80070005

[impmon2]

A few months ago I had to reformat my main hard drive and reinstall OS and many apps. Since then, I haven't been able to use TMPGEnc at all. Just about every DivX encoded video I try returns error 0x80070005 when I start encoding process.

Before reformatting, I used to have DivX 5 because I was too lazy to update and I didn't have any problem. But 5.x is not available, only 6, and I don't think that should be causing any problem.

I have restarted PC, reinstalled TMPGEnc 3, etc. and it always gives me the dumb error message. Oddly the really old copy of TMPGEnc 2.0 (trial version, expired already) I have doesn't have any trouble encoding but TMPGEnc 2.0 doesn't have batch feature for converting multiple video at once. And when you got about 300 AVi to convert to DVD, doing it one at a time setting the profiles, bit rates, etc each one manually it gets downright boring. I'd rather spend 3 hours watching Barney than to hand assemble batch list manually.

Short of finding an older non expired (or hacked version) of TMPGEnc and a batch tool for automatically assembling list, is there anything I can do?

Most of the 300 AVI's I have were done with Divx 5, and a few latters were done with XVid when I found out I couldn't convert Divx encoded video to mpg.

[minidv2dvd]

what tmpgenc product are you trying to use? the encoders are either plus 2.5, or express 4.0.

[impmon2]

TMPGEnc DVD Author 3.0

[minidv2dvd]

author isn't really an encoder as the name implies. express v4 has a batch mode.

[impmon2]

I've tried Express 4.0 and I still get the same error when I try to start encoding, plus it crashes when I exit it.

[minidv2dvd]

did you mistype the error number and it actually ends in an "E"? that would be the out of memory error.

https://secure.pegasys-inc.com/faq/view.php?lang=en&faqid=543

[impmon2]

no it is 5 not E. The message was something like access denied.

My PC has 3 GB RAM installed (+2GB paging), and I have not used more than 4GB total on a busy day. Those 3GB passed Memtest (8 hours no error) when I originally reformatted and reinstalled OS. So it's defiantly not memory issue.

I'm using DVDForager, it is running without any error but it seems running like molasses, taking about 5 hours on a short 2 hours DVD. TMPGEnc did the conversion and encoding much faster.

Rest of my PC spec is:
XP Pro 32 bits
AMD 5000+
400GB free space on 1 hard drive, 2 more hard drives installed for a total of 1TB of space.