Black screen after encoding?!

[BrAiNDaMaGe]

Hi all - I have tried a few of the things I found in this forum, but none of the threads I found seemed to help

I have the following AVI:

576x320 / 23.976 fps / XviD MPEG-4 Codec / 48000Hz Audio @ MPEG Layer-3 Codec (professional)

I can play it without any errors or problems on my machine. However - when I try to encode it to an mpg to create a DVD from it (using TMPGEnc Plus 2.513.53.162) the preview-screen stays black during encoding and - surprise, surprise - I end up with an mpeg where the sound is all there but the picture is one long boring piece of .... you guessed it... BLACK! Argh! I set up the template using the Project Wiz. in TMPGEnc and it has worked fine for me sofar - I am guessing this is a codec problem - but how come I can watch the movie in WMP but can't encode it to mpeg2.

Also - another thing I have noticed - even if I select "film" in the wizard whilst encoding for a DVD, TMPGEnc displays "29.7fps" in the settings bar underneath the output file location.... is this normal? I can't change it manually unfortunately

Help appriciated!

[Hooky]

Looks like we both have the same problem....read my topic

[Hooky]

I think I found the solution...try this (worked for me)

1) Open TMPGEnc and press Cancel if Wizard pops up
2) Go to Option->Environmental Setting...->VFAPI plug-in
3) Adjust the plug-in priorities (this is done by right clicking on
the plug-in and choosing Higher priority as many times as
necessary) to match the following:

DirectShow Multimedia File Reader.......3
AVI2(OpenDML) File Reader................1
AVI VFW compatibility Reader.............0
CyberLink MPEG-2 Decoder.................0
Microsoft MPEG-1 Decoder.................0
Wave File Reader..............................0
BMP/PPM/TGA/JPG File Reader...........-2
DVD2AVI Project File Reader 1.76+.....-2*
TMPGEnc Project File Reader 2.58......-2*

4) Press OK
5) Now you can load your XviD AVI into TMPGEnc just like any other
AVI and encode as you wish.

[BrAiNDaMaGe]

Hi again - have tried and failed
Still getting the black screen whilst attempting to encode.

Also - any ideas about the framerate issue?

Thx for your help sofar!

[Hooky]

Hi...

It's gotta be the codec then...as far as I know about this stuff (I'm a newbie too..don't you forget it )

Try to get the DivX codec at :

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/xvid.html

Install it and let me know...

Hooky

[ZippyP.]

It's gotta be the codec then...

Test your file with Gspot, it will tell you if the codecs are installed on your system. Otherwise, did you scan for errors (see below)?