Xvid to VCD.......getting error at start of encoding

[CaelanT]

I am trying to convert a Xvid/AC3 avi to MPEG with TMPGEnc.
I have extracted the WAV using VirtualDub and HeadAC3he.
When I then go to convert to MPEG with TMPGEnc I get the following error after attempting to start the encoding process: -

Write error occured at address 77F52109 of module 'ntdll.dll' with 00000000.

I have done this before with no problems on other movies.
Anyone shed any light on this please?

[kayfam]

CaelanT,
I've run into the same exact problem when trying to convert Xvid files. I get the same exact error message right down to the write address. I went so far as to contact Pegasys support and their response was that Xvid isn't supported, but they were investigating. Now I know for a fact that in a previous version of TMPGEnc I had encoded an Xvid file without any problems, but it seems since v2.57 and up I've been running into this. I even went so far as replacing the ntdll.dll and it still throws up that error. I don't have any problems with any other file type so it has to be with the way the Xvid codec is constructed or in the encoding method used. My only work-around has been to decompress the file using Huffyuv and then running it thru TMPGEnc. As you might imagine this can be a problem for someone who has limited hard disc space. I'd be interested in any feedback on this also since I've seen this posted before, but no one seems to have an answer.

[CaelanT]

Good to see I'm not the only one..............bad to see I am also!

Is there anything else which I can use besides Huffy for this?
I only have about 4 Gigs of space on my hard drive.

[Aurtek]

Wow im getting the same problem too, just a little more annoying.
I'll get about 20 to 50% though encoding then BAM! TMPGEnc will shut down if i look at it wrong. It only happened to me while using 2.8 so i thought. I tried reverting back to 2.5.7 or lower but im still getting the same problem. I really like TMPGEnc but it seems about as stable as drunk driving on ice. If you guys know of any other encoding software that is compatiable with the XVID codec lemme know.

[vesterlee]

same problem here to

[kayfam]

If anyone's still interested you might want to look at this thread: http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=117324&highlight=
In particular SatStorms reply. It's a simple but effective workaround.

[scoobydo_uk]

IVe been havin trouble for a while with Xvid's
Here's my solution:-

Load the Xvid into VirtualDub 1.4
Convert the video to DivX format (Divx 5) - increase the bitrate to 5
Extract the audio and save to .WAV

Load the converted DivX into TMPEng and the extracted WAV and convert to VCD in the normal way.

This worked without problems for me.

Hope this helps.

[TheLarch]

It is heartwarming to see I'm not alone with these problems.
I've reached the same conclusion as some other good people here:
Frame-Serving from VirtuaDub to TMPGenc seems to be a viable work-around solution. You might get an error msg right at the start of the encoding session, but you can just ignore it.

Still to solve (at least for me) is the following:

Frameserving to Tmpgenc - ok
Choosing a Sourse Range - ok (let's say i need to split a movie in two)
First half encodes just fine.
Second half encodes with a time delay on the audio track.

Of course I can work around this by encoding the whole movie and later use the MPG tools built in TMPGenc, but I'd like to know why this occurs.

Also, when watching a Xvid encoded movie on my PC it looks like crap.
Unless I use VirtuaDub to do that.
I guess that has to do with which Codecs I have installed.

Hmmm.

Back to work.

[Executioner]

Yeah, this baby (xvid) is a pain in the butt. It took me a week to figure it out as I was trying different settings. What worked for me was:

1. I received 2 avi files of Star Wars EP2 in xvid format (640x272).
2. I combined the 2 avi's into one avi by joining the 2 files with VirtualDub. Selected xvid codec to compress it back as a single avi. I had no idea that avi is limited to 2 gigs? Final file size was just under 2 gigs using that codec.
3. I then using this method in this link with the help of Baldrick,
http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=117617 to deal with the audio.
4. Once I had the audio converted to a wav, I joined the 2 audios with Cool Edit and down sampled it to 44.1KHz. So now I have a mtaching single wav file with a single avi video file.
5. Using VirtualDub, I combined these 2 files into a single avi file.
6. I then used DVD2SVCD to load the avi and let it do it's thing to SVCD.

The final product was excellent! I used 3 CD's with 2 pass CCE. Not one single glitch or problem with audio sync. I even impressed myself on this one.

[ZeroKool]

Just change the priorities as follows in your TMPGEnc->Options->Environmental Settings->VFAPI plug-in:

Directshow.....3
AVI2(OPEN DML).....1
BMP/PPM.......-2
DVD2AVI......-2
TMPGEnc Project.....-2

Rest of them set all on 0

And now you wont even need to frameserve - just load the XviD files into TMPGEnc as you would any standard AVI file and encode as you wish.