avi viewing problem

[spiderman03]

i have an avi file when i play it on my pc it plays , no problem. i try to encode it using tmpegnc , so i can burn it to a dvd. it keeps me telling me it is unsupported.i used gspot to check what kind od codec itused, and it tells me , the codec is mpeg-1.......is this possible! do i need to install codec mpeg-1 in order to work with tmpegnc?

[erayboul]

You didn't mention if you have the Plus version of TMPGenc, but I'm pretty sure that the non-Plus version can only encode MPEG1 which is probably not what you want for a DVD (although I believe it is supported). The Plus version is not free but I think that the price is $37 US. It can encode MPEG-2. What program is complaining about the unsupported file?

[spiderman03]

i have tmpegnc 2.5 plus. it says that the avi is the unsupported file.

[redwudz]

Does the audio happen to be MP3 VBR? That may be your problem. If so save it out as a WAV with VirtualDub and use that for your audio source.

[jimmalenko]

https://www.videohelp.com/tmpgenc.htm#problems says that you should try raising the priority of the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader to the top of your list under Option > Environmental Setting > VFAPI plug-in if you get the "file unsupported" error message.

It sounds to me like you were looking at the audio codec and saw "MPEG-1 Layer 3" as the audio codec. While not completely impossible, IMO it would be rare to have an AVI with MPEG-1 video inside of it.

If you do in fact have VBR MP3 audio, then it would be advisable to extract it to WAV using this guide, as redwudz suggested.

Is it possible for you to upload a screenshot from GSpot, or at least provide us with a better summary of what it says about this file ?

(See How do I upload screenshots ? if you need help with this)