Tmpgenc Prob : Error occured when ACM was initialized

[StoneColdWhat]

Yeah i'm trying to convert an avi to vcd and it gave me that problem. What should I do ?

[teegee420]

Try installing FFDSHOW.

[StoneColdWhat]

It is installed.

[teegee420]

Is it configured to decode the 4cc of the movie in question? If it is than try disabling it.

[StoneColdWhat]

mm... nope.. how do I do that... ?

[teegee420]

First determine which 4cc your avi uses with G-spot, then go to Start>FFDSHOW and click on "configuration" to see which codecs are handled by it.

[StoneColdWhat]

mmm.. well it uses xvid for the 4cc....

[teegee420]

So is FFDSHOW set up to handle xvid or not? If it is, disable it. If it isn't, enable it and try again with TMPGEnc.

[StoneColdWhat]

ah I just tried disabling and enabling it and it still doesn't work :\

[teegee420]

Make sure FFDSHOW is disabled and try re-installing the xvid codec.

[StoneColdWhat]

Well I tried disabling/enabling the xvid codec in ffdshow before, guess I'll try disabling ffdshow now.. how do u disable it anyways ? :S

[teegee420]

You know what? Let's move past that for now andry something else. Open the avi in Virtualdub, go to the audio menu and select full processing mode, and go to file and select save wav. Use the wav file as the audio source in TMPGEnc, and obviously the avi as the video source.

[StoneColdWhat]

yeah I already tried that before posting.

[teegee420]

How big was the wav file? The file size in mb's, that is. Also, what kind of audio did g-spot say your file has?

[StoneColdWhat]

The wav was about 350mb ish and audio is ac3

[teegee420]

A couple of more things you could try:

1. Frameserve with Virtualdub (you can find a guide if you click throught he link if you don't know how)

2. Raise the priority of the directshow multimedia file reader in TMPGEnc. Options>Environmental Settings>VFAPI Plugin

[StoneColdWhat]

I already raised it to 3.

[teegee420]

What about my other suggestion?

[StoneColdWhat]

mmm not sure what to do for the framserve I"m going to look that one up tomorrow , think i'm going to encode the audio to mp3 and see if that works.

[dafreak]

acm error is caused because tmpgenc can't read the audio file that you're using. You may not have the proper audio codec installed.

try encoding just the video stream. you can demux the audio using another program.
Place a dot next to ES (elementary stream=>video only)
if tmpgenc adds a path for the audio, go ahead and delete the path so it is left blank.

[teegee420]

mmm not sure what to do for the framserve I"m going to look that one up tomorrow , think i'm going to encode the audio to mp3 and see if that works.

Once you click on the Virtualdub link you'll see "Guides for this tool" mid-way down the page. There's a guide for frameserving.

acm error is caused because tmpgenc can't read the audio file that you're using. You may not have the proper audio codec installed.

try encoding just the video stream. you can demux the audio using another program.
Place a dot next to ES (elementary stream=>video only)
if tmpgenc adds a path for the audio, go ahead and delete the path so it is left blank.

That would have been my next suggestion. Just wanted to see if there was still a way to encode the audio and the video together. Still an excellent suggestion though. At least if the video is able to be encoded you can convert the wav to mp2 with FFMPEGgui and then mux with the video with MPEG Tools.

[dafreak]

That would have been my next suggestion. Just wanted to see if there was still a way to encode the audio and the video together. Still an excellent suggestion though. At least if the video is able to be encoded you can convert the wav to mp2 with FFMPEGgui and then mux with the video with MPEG Tools.

hehe, my bad teegee. didn't mean to steal your thread.

[teegee420]

hehe, my bad teegee. didn't mean to steal your thread.

I appreciate the sentiment, but no such thing was done, my friend. I didn't take it like that at all. Besides, I would never presume to think that posting on a thread entitles me to ownership of it.

[Laddydaddy]

StoneColdWhat

In order to convert an AC3 audio file to wav using virtual dub you need to install the AC3 ACM compressor which is available in the tools section. After you install it open virtual dub and choose audio>full processing mode. Then audio>compression>AC3 ACM compressor. Then file>save WAV.

[StoneColdWhat]

Yessss LaddyDaddy's way worked. Thx to all those who helped especially teegee420. Ok well.. one more minor problem I dled the new tmpgenc plus and I'm trying to svcd a 40-50 min vid with the templates that came with it and after the encode it turned out to be round 900 mb :S too big for a cd-r but when I used the templates for my older tmpgenc the size came out to 600mb ish.... why might this be and what solutions do you guys have for me..?

[teegee420]

Yessss LaddyDaddy's way worked. Thx to all those who helped especially teegee420.

If you didn't have the AC3 ACM Decompressor, how were you able to create a 350mb wav file when I suggested you decompress to wav before? I assumed you already had it installed because you didn't indicate there was any problem when you made the wav file with Virtualdub.

Glad you fixed the problem either way. I can't really help you on the new issue.

[StoneColdWhat]

I didn't had a problem when I created the wav with vdub before, I just saved the wav without decompressing...

[teegee420]

Aw, that explains it. Happens to the best of us, my friend. I've done some incredibly stupid things since starting my forray in digital video. A fool is someone who does not learn from his mistakes. At least that's what I keep telling myself.

[StoneColdWhat]

hah well I'll definately keep this in mind next time I encode another ac3 vid. Say.. how can tmpgenc open mpeg-2s ? I dled Sticky's mpeg-2 codec before but it messed up my powerdvd.