TMPGEnc Problem

[jonsey54]

TMPGEnc has been freezeng the video halfway through the conversion. Ive tried all the methods in the hints and tips. Including checking the video for errors and repairing etc...

When it freezes the video stops at a certain point but the sound continues. The video is fine up to this point. Ive tried reinstalling TMPGEnc and changeing the priorities of the plugin etc..

Any help much appreciated
Thank You
Jonsey

[ZippyP.]

If you play the original file do you see any noticable errors in the video at the point where TMPGEnc freezes? You could still have bad frames even if Virtualdub didn't detect them. There's a link below but I assume you tried that already, if not then you should. You need to edit out the bad frames, it should be relatively easy since you know where they are. The bad frames guide has instructions on cutting out sections of video using Vdub.

[jonsey54]

I still cant detect any bad frames with any program or with the naked eye. Im currently re-encodeing other files that i have sucessully encoded previously, just to see if these fail the same as the others (just to check its a file problem and not an TMPGEnc problem).

I also used a little program called video-fixer, the "fixed" file stopped in the same place as the previous "unfixed" versions.

Thanks for the reply anyway.

[aamir12345678]

I have the same problem. VirtualDub, VirtualDubMp3, and VirtualDubMod don't detect all bad or undecodable frames. The best way is to use VirtualDubMod and uncompress that divx or xvid USING HIGHEST FOR THE CPU THREAD PRIORITY. IT WILL TAKE FOREVER and a ton of space, but if you have the harddrive space, just set it overnight, and you should be fine. A good quality Divx file would run at something like 1500 kb/s, so a 20 min Divx file like that makes 200 MB. An uncompressed .avi runs at 17,000 kb/s. You're looking at a HUGE file; you might want to do it in segments.

[jonsey54]

Do you have the problem with all the files or just a few?

[aamir12345678]

just a few

[spectroelectro]

I've occasionally had the same problem with TMPGenc when decoding DiVX files to MPEG-2. Several solutions have worked. One is to avoid TMPGenc and instead use MainConcept, will seems not to crash or freeze. Another soution involved converting the DiVX to a DV AVI file, then using VDub to scan for bad frames. Then after marking the bad frames and fixing 'em, encode using TMPGenc. One extreme solution that nonetheless always works is to reset your computer screen resolution to 800 x 600, then play back the DiVX file (or whatever it is) using Windows Media Player at full screen, then pipe the output from your computer video card through a digital-to-NTSC box like the AverKey and then record into a DVD recorder or another computer from that and re-encode the re-captured AVI. Sometimes (in incredibly rare instances) an AVI file or a DiVX file will have corrupted frames that I can't fix. In that case, this extreme solution always does the trick.

[jonsey54]

I’ve ermm "reacquired" the files, that were causing problems. I tried to convert them but with the same problem occurred, so it was a problem with the initial rip then. Still cant detect the bad frames, by whatever method.

I will try MainConcept it seems good at first glance, so ill give that ago.

Thanks for all the replies, much appreciated.

[jonsey54]

MainConcept had the same problem as TMPGEnc. Which means im all out of options considering ive got no hard drive space left