Problem with TMPGEnc Xpress

[jorgebonafe]

I am having problems with TMPGEnc xpress. Everytime I try to convert from AVI to mpeg with this program the convertion begins normaly, but at some point is stops, with a message saying that there was an error readyng the file or the file is corrupt. But the error never happens at the same point, so I doubt that is really the problem. Once I even could finish the conversion (after trying like 7 times).

I also tried using TMPGEnc, but there is no option for converting multiple files. Is there anyway to fix the error in the TMPGEnc xpress or any other way to do it? Other programs do the job, but the dvd player cuts the edges of the video. Only TMPGEnc xpress do it right, and it crashes most of the time....

[TBoneit]

I've never had that problem and I use it batch mode overnight where it can encode enough video for me to create 4 DVDs from.

IOW I set up 4 DVDs worth of video when I run it overnight. I can feed it a PAL DVD for conversion to NTSC and/or AVI or SVCDmor WMV or any combination and have no problems.

One possibility is that you may be feeding it more than one video to be converted into one file where they are not all the same resolution or audio type.

You will also have potential problems if you were to take 2 AVIs with AC3 audio that were originally 1 big file since the AC3 cutters don't seem to cut in a manner the Xpress likes. I also always separate the Sound out of AVIs and add the sound separate from the Video to avoid problems with VBR MP3 and Badly cut AC3.

[jorgebonafe]

Some of the files have actually a diferent resolution, but I didn't try to create one file for output, but a file for each input video. And I had the problem during the conversion of the first video, so I guess incompatibility between videos is not really the problem. I actualy couldn't make one output video, because everytime I put more than one video for input and 1 file for output, the program acusate an ilegal file type error, or something like that. I found out that there was some kind of problem with the .wav sound extracted from the video with virtualdub. When I used AudioConverter, at least the Tmpgenc Xpress started to convert. Of course, there is also the issue of the error during conversion.

I also have the same problem during conversion using .wav for the sound input or using the video file itself.

I considered a problem with the buffer, some error reading the file during conversion that just stops the process.... Stops at that point and there is no way to start from that point again.... I guess that program wasn't very well writen... I dont know if thats possible, I have a 3Ghz CPU and 496MB RAM. Even when I leave it converting at night, the same thing happens....

[TBoneit]

I always extract to Wave sound with VDub and if it has AC3 I extract the AC3 sound with VDubMod. I do of course have the AC3 plug-in for the AC3 sound.

Maybe it is your codecs? I have been using ffdshow these days. OTOH to be honest when I had Divx and Xvid codecs loaded it worked too.

I'm suspecting that it is either a bad video file(s), or Bad codec or that you may have loaded a codec pack?

[jorgebonafe]

I fixed it!

Well, i really have no idea why it worked, and I hope it wasnt just luck....

I used avisynth to framserv each video file and Tmpgenc xpress ran without any problems all the way... Lets hope it continues to work!

Tks a lot for your help TBoneit!

So long, and thanks for al the fish