TMPGEnc gives read error with resample.dll - what's that?

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When I use TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 (version 2.521) to convert AVI to MPEG-2 DVD video, I get errors like this:

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Read error occurred at address: 014329C4 of module 'Resample.dll' with 4C007281
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What does this error mean?

Most of the time the file goes to 100% completed before I see this error. Other times, the same file may stop at, for example, 46%. I can usually restart the conversion and the MPEG-2 will be finished on the second try. Weird.

When I try to use these MPEG-2 files in Ulead MovieFactory 2, Movie Factory will usually crash several times before I'm able to get a DVD made - This may be related to the error given by TMPGEnc, so I need to fix this problem.

My AVI files are 720 x 480 resolution with PCM audio. My CPU is an Athlon XP 1700+ (I read somewhere else that XP processors might not work well with TMPGEnc?)

What's up with the 'resample.dll' error? What could I try to get rid of this error? Any ideas?

[rcb]

Could be a corrupted file.

You may want to try an uninstall/reinstall of TMPGenc followed by by a disk defrag .

A full scandisk or error check (xp) might also help spruce things up.

If you're not familiar with these utilities, consult your operating system's help file. Good luck

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Thanks for the ideas. I think I'll try them out and I'll post the results.

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Well, they were good ideas, but I'm still getting the error.

I'm getting this error for any AVI that I capture with my ATI All-in-Wonder 8500 video card.

I took a screenshot of the error:



Notice that the file was 100% converted from AVI to MPEG-2 format. Sometimes I'm not that lucky and this error message interrupts the conversion. But, about 90% of the time, the file is 100% converted all the way and I'm able to burn the video to DVD. Although when I try to burn this video using Ulead MovieFactory 2, that program sometimes crashes on me, too. The crashes are unexpected and unpredictable. Anything I do with the program makes it crash. I just keep saving my projects frequently and then eventually I am lucky enough to get the last screen where I can press the button to start the DVD burning.

I tried the ideas given... I uninstalled TMPGEnc, defragged my hard drives, reinstalled TMPGEnc, and scanned the hard drives for errors (using Windows XP error-checking). I never received any errors that indicated corrupt data or problems with the hard drives.

TMPGEnc is still giving the error above. Any more ideas? Has anyone else seen this problem or am I the only one? When I did a search in Google I found nothing like this, which makes me feel lonely in this particular problem.

[rcb]

h,mmm.. looks as if we tried to treat the symptom instaed of the cause.
Given your latest problem description, your captured .avi files may have some gltches causing those read errors ?
While I use TMPGenc and TDA extensively, I'm not a card user - instead using an advc 100... and never have had that error.
Perhaps some of the card gurus can give you some tips on how to isolate/fix the problem... About the only other suggestions I could offer is to try capturing with all non-essential apps/firewalls/tsr's/etc shut down via task manager and verifyying no device/driver/irq conflicts via a device manager check.
Hope you can get it solved - such can be most exasperating.

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I found the source of the read error and found a way to prevent the error, but don't really understand why.

The source of the problem appears to be that I capture my video using the following audio settings in VirtualDub: PCM uncompressed 48.000 kHz, 16 bit, mono

If I change the audio capture settings to 44.1kHz instead, TMPGEnc does not give a read error.

I thought TMPGEnc preferred a source audio of 48 kHz. Why would TMPGEnc give an error for source audio with 48 kHz but no error for 44.1 kHz? There may be something wrong with my machine and not TMPGEnc...I don't know what is causing this problem.

Well, even if I don't understand this, I guess I found a way to prevent this error from recurring. Now, the main thing that bothers me is that I am forced to capture audio at 44.1 kHz, which may reduce the quality of the audio a tad.