Something stranges happens when using TmpGenc

[Tjalle Elite Ripper]

eeya guys iam new here so i got a question ,

i convert divx files .avi to vcd .mpg, i have some episodes of anime which i would like to convert to .mpg when i convert a file of 230 mb, to mpg it says the file will be 701mb which is much to big, when i shotdown the program and do the same all overagain, the file will be some mb larger then the original avi, but on some files i only get the video but no sound ??? and some have both anyone can tell me what iam doing wrong? btw when i burn them away with nero to vcd the quality is great though

hope some of you can help me

many thnx in advance

[bugster]

Take a look here:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcd
and here:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/newbie

[Tjalle Elite Ripper]

yo thnx maybe this will help out

[Tjalle Elite Ripper]

uuhm i know what vcd is... but what i really need to know is why some of the converted *.avi's have sound and others don't they are all encoded with the latest codec. ... ??


anyone knows what the problem can be?

[bugster]

uuhm i know what vcd is... but what i really need to know is why some of the converted *.avi's have sound and others don't they are all encoded with the latest codec. ... ??


anyone knows what the problem can be?

Well, your comments about file sizes suggested to me you didn't REALLY know what VCD was but, hey, I don't mind admitting I might be wrong!

However, if you had boteherd reading the stuff at the 2nd link in my answer you might have found this:

If you get audio errors, out of sync problems or bad audio or no audio at all
Try to convert the audio to wav before converting.

Find this and you will find your answer!

[hxc3634]

Try change the directshow reader priority, in TMPGEnc under Option->Environmental settings->VFAPI plug-in and right click on the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader and increase the priority to 1 or 2 and reopen the video.

[Tjalle Elite Ripper]

@ bugster i only get audio errors with some files not all

@ hxc3634 i will try i will reply if it works

[Tjalle Elite Ripper]

hmm @ hxc3634 i still get a file which has been encoded 3 times the original size and with no sound strange?

[Heavensent]

if you convert the sound to wav before you convert the avi, it will help.
you can do it with virtualdub.
load the avi file into virtualdub, press "audio",select "compression",
select "no compression (pcm)."
now you need to save the wav file.
press "file"
select "save wav"
and save it under whatever name that you want.

now you can use tmpeg to encode the avi file,
but as audio - you need to put the file that you saved with virtualdob

i think this will work for you.

[bugster]

@ bugster i only get audio errors with some files not all

Yes, and for the files that have those problems, that link I gave you describes the fix (in most cases).
In fact, with Divx conversion, it is generally considered good practice to extract the audio with vdub in ALL cases to avoid the possibility of these audio problems. (saves a re-encode when it does happen, only takes a few minutes). Vdub can also do a pretty good job of sample rate conversion, something Tmpgenc is not very good at.