Tmpgenc crashes at a point.

[Kyosho]

Hi,

I am trying to encode a video but whenever it gets to a certain part it says it an unexpected error has occured and it shuts down. I am guessing it is a bad frame that is causing this. Even when I use "Source Range" and go to the frame, it crashes again. However, when I play the video on windows media player, I did not notice the bad frame and everything played normally.
Help is appreciated. Thx.

[Bondiablo]

sometimes using external audio tools or changing the priority of the plug ins, specifically directshow, can help but you'll probably have to remove the bad frame(s) with divfix or virtualdub.

[CrappoMan]

I have had that problem too, media player will skip over bad frames, even if an I frame is bad, it will continue to play subsequent frames over the top of the last good frame (two scenes on top of each other) until a new "I" frame comes along.

You should always check avi's with VirtualDub's "scan video stream for errors". I know it's a pain, but it's better than having it crash at 95% of a 12 hour two pass vbr mpeg2 encode. Once scanned, just set video and audio to "Direct Stream Copy" and re-save. The saved file should have the bad frames cut out. If you have too many corrupt frames, the film may jump or have sections missing. Too widely spaced "I" frames make it worse. Audio may also go out of sync, not sure if it cuts the relevant audio out as well. Haven't had to use it lately.

Simon

[Propertyman]

Had the same problem.

It went away when I split the audio and video using Virtualdub, encoded them separately and then used the resulting files in TMPGENC DVD Author.

I do this now as standard procedure and it's been a great timesaver!