Divx 6.4 and Multipass Frameserving

[Tolwyn]

I'm frameserving from Vegas using Debugmode Frameserver.

I'm serving to Virtualdub 1.6.10.

Video compression is DIVX 6.4 (most current, anyways) registered.

Has anyone or can anyone confirm that the last 1 or 2 versions of DIVX has made multipass encoding using this method impossible?

I've never received an error before, but now I'm only able to encode 1 pass. My only guess is something has changed with DIVX to make this approach/method not work anymore.

On the first path, I'm not using any WAV audio. I normally only encode that into the stream at the final "nth" pass.

[Tolwyn]

bump ?

[Tolwyn]

Bump.

[Vlastr]

Hi! I have the same thing! Using either VirtualDub or TMPGenc 3 XPress, when frameserving from Adobe Premiere Pro 2 and choosing multipass returns output error. 1-pass works fine. I don't remember which version of DivX I previously used for encoding, but it worked fine with the same configuration while selecting multipass. Did you find a solution for it?!

[Tolwyn]

Nope no solution as of yet.
I can perform the same task with XVID final, no problems, but not DIVX.

[Agent]

Hi all

I would like to confirm the same issue with TMPGEnc 3 (fully patched to latest version) Xpress and Divx 6.4

I have found somwhat of a solution though - its all about where it is storing the log file for the first pass. If i change the temp directory for Divx before encoding (its in advanced) to the same location that TMPGEng is putting its temp files (its in preferences within the program) it *seems* to work.

I say *seems* because i have a feeling that although it is working and outputting a video (more than it was before), it is only doing one pass, as the quality of the video i just did via this method was _bad_. I dont have time to check at the moment though and probably wont have time to mess till next week. Then again it could just be another setting i messed up somwhere.

Previous DivX versions in the 6.x series did not have this issue.
Somone wana fire a email off to them ?

Regards