tmpgenc says an error occurred when audio was decoded

[BobbyDigital]

Does anyone know why this is or how I can fix it? Its happened with a few movies I have tried to decode.

[Al Bundy]

I was wondering if I was the only one with this problem. I only encounter this problem when I encode a movie in 2 parts using the batch encode functionality of TMPGEnc, where the second part is approx. halfway the movie.
First part is encoded OK second part shows the message that you mention.

I have a workaround. Encode the movie using virtualdub as a frameserver.

Probably a bug is introduced in TMPGEnc in the latest version(s)

[Truman]

TMPG's audio encoder is known to have problems to handle compressed audio. Uncompress the audio with VirtualDub to PCM uncompressed 48 or 44,1kHZ and everything will work fine.

[Al Bundy]

Sorry Truman, I do not agree.

The first half of the movie does encode correctly. The second half doesn't, if I use batch encode.

If the whole movie is encoded at once, using batch encode or not (doesn't really matter if it is only 1 movie), there is no problem. No frameserving was used.

So, there is no problem with the audio of the movie. It must be TMPGEnc.

[jasond]

I had the same problem, solution I used? raise your directshow to priority 1 under options-enviromental settings-vfapi plugin. I found 1(+) to be best since anything higher made encoding slower and divx playback wasnt working correctly (artifacting bad)

[Al Bundy]

It only seems to happen with AVI files that have 48000KHz audio. All others do not have this problem.

[BobbyDigital]

Ya JasonD that did work how was your sound quality though afterwards? mine seems higher.

[jasond]

my sound seemed fine.. if you notice much difference, you can try to lower the quality to maybe 44000 instead of the 48000

[Nitehawkzz]

I agree with Truman. It works for me all the time and it's a very easy solution.