Problem with Tmpgenc

[Daevas]

Hi, I have been using this site to help me burn dvds. I am using Tmpgenc to encode my avi files and have used it many times with no problems now I am trying to encode 1 file and it encodes fine says no error but at the end nothing is there the video is all black and there is no sound. Not sure what to do at this point. Searched the forum but didnt find anyone else with the same problem. Any help would be appreciated thanks

[ZippyP.]

Can you play the avi? Test the avi using Gspot and see if you have the audio and video codecs. Scan for bad frames?

[Daevas]

Avi plays fine checked that first, downloaded gspot and it says I have all the necessary codecs. And scanned for bad frames and there were none.

[Sugar]

Is your source progressive or interlaced?
Have you played with that switch?
Have you change the bottom/top field first switch?

[Daevas]

Didnt know to check or how to but when I open it in tmpgenc it says non-interlaced tried changing it to interlaced but didnt fix it tried changing the top and bottom but that didnt fix it either.

[Laddydaddy]

What video and audio codecs does the film use according to gspot?

[Daevas]

Not sure if im putting down the right stuff but for video it uses DivX 4 and for audio it uses 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3

[Laddydaddy]

Try loading the film in virtua dub. See if you get a message about VBR audio. If you do, save the audio as a wav file and use that and your avi and try to frameserve to TMPG. If you don't get a message about VBR audio frameserve the film as is. So you don't waste a lot of time just encode a couple of minutes of the video and see if that solves the problem.

[Daevas]

Not sure where I would see any msg about VBR audio but it loads fine and when i check the file information it doesnt say anything about VBR. If I am supposed to do something else to check let me know

[Laddydaddy]

If it had VBR audio you would see a popup when you load it into virtual dub. Try frameserving the file and let us know what happens when you encode it.

[Daevas]

Ok trying to frameserve it now but having a problem doing that followed the guide problem is that it goes to the screen and says its serving but then it doesnt do anything.

[Laddydaddy]

When you frameserve, can you open the film in TMPG?

[Daevas]

I cant open the film after i frame serve it of course I am not sure if I actually frameserved it or not I think I did but it doesnt open. I am extremely pissed off that it seems so hard to encode a single file when i have had no problem doing any others.

[Laddydaddy]

When you start the frameserver in vdub it will ask you to give it a name. Give it a name, let's say newfilm and give it a vdr extension (newfilm.vdr). When you open TMPG try to load your file (newfilm.vdr) in the video window of TMPG. If it accepts it the preview window in TMPG will show the first frame of the video (usually this is a black screen) and you will get no error message from TMPG. Just hit the encode button and you should see the film being processed in the preview window. By the way, do you have any codec packs installed (i.e. nimo)?

[Daevas]

do i need to do a dub or just go straight to frameserve? I have codecs installed that i needed to watch some things never installed a pack though just a reply while i work on the frameserve thing

[Daevas]

ok saved the frameserve opened it in tmpgenc and it said error occured when ACM was intialized

[Laddydaddy]

After you load the film in vdub click on file>start frameserver. Then it will ask you to give the file a name. Follow my directions above. I would also install the k-lite codec pack available in the tools section under codecs. Most people will tell you to install only the codecs you need, but this pack really has everything you need except maybe divx5.

[Daevas]

ok did what you said but it doesnt do anything after I tell it to frameserve it just stays at 0

[Laddydaddy]

The frameserver won't do anything until you load the file with the vdr extension into TMPG. It just hangs until an encoder such as TMPG requests a frame to process. When you select "start frameserver" a new box will pop up that says "frameserver name". Click the start button and it will choose a location and ask you to give the file a name. Give it a name with a vdr extension and click save. A new pop up box will appear. Don't close it out, just minimize it. This is the frameserver. Then take the file you just saved with the vdr extension and open it in TMPG and encode it. Don't forget to try the k-lite codec pack.

[Daevas]

ok did the klite did the frameserve but get the ACM msg

[Laddydaddy]

What's the ACM message?

[Daevas]

just says the error occured when ACM was intitlized

[Laddydaddy]

Save your audio as a wav file. Load the avi in vdub and choose audio>full processing mode. Then choose file>save wav. Save the audio as a wav file and use the original avi for the video, and the wav file for the audio in TMPG. If you frameserve you can load the wav file into vdub for the audio, along with the original avi for the video.

[Daevas]

YES!!!!, you rock that worked but im confused as too how the sound was causing no video to show up. But thank you so much for helping me get this fixed encoding it right now if I have any problems at the end I will post here again. Was worried would not be able to get it to work and this is ep 9 out of 26