TMPGEnc 2.5 Plus falsely reporting output frames

[davidsonm]

Hi guys,

I'm having a very frustrating problem with TMPGenc 2.5 Plus that I'm hoping someone here can possibly help me with.

My problem is that TMPGenc 2.5 Plus is being inconsistent as to how many frames it "thinks" it's supposed to be outputting to MPEG2 from the AVI's i'm converting from.

In some episodes, it will report the number of frames correctly but in other episodes it will report anywhere from 2 times as much to 5 times as much as many output frames, which makes the output mpeg2 file that many times bigger then it's supposed to be which I don't want.

I've uploaded several images to show you visually this problem.





This is when I open the files in Virtuadubmod. This is to show you that according to Vdubmod, when I move the slider to the very end, the number of frames in both avi files is approximately 35000 frames.

The next images are how Gspot, an AVI information program, sees both the AVI files. Both use the same codec, both are the same FPS, to my eyes, I don't see anything different that could cause this issue between the 2 avi files. Note the compatible codecs it sees for this. I don't think it's the issue but there's a broken 3vix codec in my system which I have already tried to remove using DXMan, but with no luck. When I click the 3vix codec and then click remove, it doesn't even delete it just stays there. I am assuming that my system is ignoring that for now and just sticking with the Divx and Xvid codecs. The compatible codecs I have installed on my system are XviD-1.1.0-30122005 and Divx 6.2.5








Now, the next images show the settings that I'm using for both AVI files.












The version of TMPGenc Plus 2.5 I'm using.





Now, here's where the problem is. Episode 10 outputs the correct number of frames, and the file does not get too big, however episode 6 outputs about 5x the number of frames it's supposed to, and creates an MPEG2 file that is 5x too big. Note the output frames at the top right, and also note the amount of time the one with 5x as many frames is going to take to approximately encode.






Now I've already tried using TMPGenc 3.0 Express, just to see if it would have any better luck. Now the problem is that TMPGenc 3.0 Express has a known issue that it falsely reads 23.97 FPS XVID avi files as 30 FPS as you will see in the following screenshots. Because of that, even if I program the same settings that I used from TMPGenc Plus 2.5 into 3.0 Express, it outputs a very jittery MPEG2 file. But, the one thing that TMPGenc 3.0 Express gets dead on, is the number of frames that it's supposed to output with Episode 6. The following screenshots will show this.





I've already checked the enviromental settings and increased the Directshow plugin's priority to 1 and 2, and it had no effect. I also tried uninstalling the Divx 6.2.5 codec so the idea was that the Xvid decoder would deal with it instead of the Divx encoder, but that has no effect either.

I took a screenshot of the enviromental settings for TMPGEnc2.5 as they are right now, as I said I've played with the Directshow priority and after that has had no effect, I have set it back to 0.



I have also tried w/Virtualdubmod, outputting a stripped AVI (stripped the audio from it) and told Vdubmod to scan the AVI for frame errors, however TMPGenc Plus still does the same thing.

One more thing, I've had this same problem with another AVI set, but when I stripped the AVI of the audio w/ Vdubmod and scanned the AVI for errors, and then saved the AVI just as video by itself, it fixed TMPGenc 2.5 Plus so it could output the frames properly. But, that video set was using wmv3 as a codec and not Xvid / Open Divx 4.

Any help would be appriciated, any ideas as to anything that could be done would be greatly appriciated. I'm open to trying just about anything at this point, even standing on my head!! Well.. maybe I won't go that far haha.

- Mark

[davidsonm]

Never mind guys, I just reformatted my computer and that's fixed my issue.

I had tested it on another computer in the house and it didn't have this issue, I think some all in one codec packs I had installed awhile ago had really screwed up the directshow codecs.

- Mark

[guns1inger]

Codec packs will do that. Best advice - don't use 'em. Just install the codecs you need, as you need them.

[davidsonm]

Damn.. I THOUGHT it was fixed because it properly encoded episode 6 but when I loaded up EP7 and started to encode.. episode 7 had the same problem! I tried uninstalling Divx 6.2.5 and installing Divx 5, no good, uninstall that tried last version of Divx 4, TMPGenc would crash, then uninstalled that and tried Xvid, still does the same thing! This is really driving me nuts!