No video after converting with TMPGENC

[SimoBk]

Hi all,

I have a DivX4 movie that I want to convert to VCD. I followed the "DivX to VCD All In One Guide" as found in the HOW TO / CONVERT section of this site, but after the conversion finishes, I get a new mpeg file with ONLY the audio. No Video...

Anyone has an idea?

[toro15]

I had the exact same problem when i tried to encode Ghost in a shell, and a nAVI movie, i hadn't had any problems previously with nAVI movies, i tried both TMPEGNC v 0.11.20.98 and the newest version. SOMeONE please help us!! :lol:

[SimoBk]

Ok, I just downloaded the Panasonic MPEG Encoder Demo and wanted to follow the steps as explained in http://www.vcdhelp.com/panasonic.htm .

So I hit Select, choose my source DivX file, then click "use identical files" so it uses the audio from the avi source.

Then I select "VCD/NTSC Stream (.mpg)" in the Type section, and hit "Special Processing"... Nothing happens!!!

Tried then to use a separate wave file for the audio, same thing, when hitting "Special Processing", nothing happens.

So I try to encode it directly without using any special processing. I press "Start Encoding", and it gives me an error message not saying ANYTHING:


Here are the properties of my source DivX file as given by VirtualDub:


Hope this can help you helping us

[SimoBk]

Ok, after about 5 hours of late night / early morning reading, I found my solution...

In fact, the problem was in the AVI source file. I post how I could work out my problem so it could help other people.

- Open Virtual Dub
- File > Open Video File
- Video > Scan Video Stream for errors
- Let the process finish, you should then see in the status bar that a number of frames have problems.
- Video > Direct Stream Copy
- Audio > Direct Stream Copy
- File > Save as AVI

Then work with your new AVI to encode

Hope this will help someone...