Help - Audio is crashing TMPGEnc

[Phlotsam]

I have had wonderful luck with TMPGEnc, but lately it has taken up a nasty habit of crashing whenever I select an audio file to encode/convert along with my video. It started out with .mpa files created by AVI2VCD, and now it's happening with .mp2 files, and most recently an .mpg file that I created by de-multiplexing and then re-multiplexing an MPEG2 .mpg file.

It seems to be related to direct X or something but I'm about completely lost. I've tried installing other codecs, but it hasn't seemed to make any difference.

I'm running a K6-III 550MHz 256MB RAM and Win 2K SP2. I have both TMPGenc Beta 12d and 2.02 and it's happening in both of them.

The same files work fine in Beta 12d under Win98, so it's not the files. It's something with my audio codec and/or TMPEG.

HELP! Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

Plotsam

[TheDiggler2001]

You would'nt be running tooLAME external audio? I have TMPGenc 2.02.29.113 and tooLAME and both an Athalon XP and PII350 98SE continue to crash when tooLAME is in the middle of converting. Last night I ran 2.02 on my 98SE box without tooLAME and everything worked fine. I have not tried running with tooLAME yet, give that a try tonight.

Anyone have any ideas?

[Phlotsam]

Nope, unfortunately not.

This happens before I even get to encoding. I just push the "Browse" button next to the "Audio Source" and when I select my audio file and hit OK in the selection dialog box, TMPGenc crashes. I know it's got something to do with DirectShow because if I disable that choice under the VFAPI Enviroment tab, TMPG doesn't crash, but it also tells me that the file is not supported.

This happened sometime shortly after I installed DirectX 8.1, but not immediately. I'm guessing something I installed is conflicting, but I don't know WHAT. It says a log file is being written, but I'm damned if I can find it anywhere.

Does anyone out there have any experience with DirectX/DirectShow causing problems with audio files in TMPGEnc? Anyone know how to un-install/downgrade DirectX?

Can I just install 8.0a or will that (most likely) cause even more problems than I'm having now?