Frameserving problem

[nunesnuno]

When frameserving between VirtualDubMod and TMPG, I use to find some problems with some source films. The encoder just tell me that the file format is unsupported, and doesn't open the *.vdr file (created by VirtualDub)
I've encoded a lot of films lately, and none gave me that error, before and after trying to encode that one. It works fine in WMP, DivX or other Media players. Also TMPG and VirtualDub opens it directly.
Does any one know what happens here? Any clue?

[Tommyknocker]

Click here. Also, turning off the proxy may work.

[nunesnuno]

How do I turn off the proxy? I don't know what are you talking about!
The Multimedia file reader is at the top priority, but still not supported!

[babyboo]

In the Virtual Dub folder you created when you unzipped the original downloaded file there is a folder "aviproxy". Inside that folder is a ReadMe file and Proxyon and Proxyoff files

[aamir12345678]

I've tried all of the frameserving troubleshooting methods, proxyon, mscvrt??.dll, etc. TMPGEnc will open up the .vdr file because I have already installed the handler and the vfapi plugin, but when I try to set any filters or just plain encode, it always gives me a "Divided by 0" or "The error occured when ACM was initialized" error. I know my source is fine; why does this happen? I am using the latest VirtualDub (1.5 something). Is there any fix for this?

[Laddydaddy]

nunesnuno;
open your source file in gspot or avicodec and tell us what it says about the film.

aamir12345678
You need to extract the audio as a wav file and use that when converting.
Let us know how you make out.

[aamir12345678]

It does the same thing when I select video only to convert in TMPGEnc. I want to convert the audio to .ac3 or mp2 using another application.

[Laddydaddy]

The ACM is the Audio Compression Manager. Load your film in gspot or avicodec and let us know what it says.

[aamir12345678]

It's mp3 vbr.

[Laddydaddy]

Try saving the audio as a wav file as I suggested. Virtual Dub can do that. Then use the wav file for the audio in TMPG.

[aamir12345678]

Thanks, it worked. I extracted the audio and chose wav audio as my source. TMPGEnc would normally give me an error when encoding this file, through frameserving it is encoding fine. This solves all of my problems. Thanks a lot.

[aamir12345678]

Spoke too soon. I had TMPGEnc do a 2-Pass VBR. It went 50% of the way and then said "Illegal floating decimal point calculation order." I had VirtualDub scan it for errors and found none.