TMPGEnc Read Errors

[Suprman37]

Ok, so I've been using TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 for around two years now to change AVI files into MPEG files to be burned onto DVDs. It's been taking longer over time, so I just last week decided to reinstall windows on my machine. I moved some AVI files to a secondary drive that I use for storage and did the reinstall.

Now, I'm up and running again (no codec pack installed this time, either, just the two codecs I seem to use) but I'm having a problem with TMPGEnc. First I was getting Illegal Floating Point errors. I read the FAQ and seemed to fix that. Now I can't encode a single file without it stopping midway through due to a read error. The last one said:

Read error occurred at address 004ABE07 of module 'tmpgenc.exe' with 03C2200C.

It does this with every video now, and the read errors are usually different (even when trying twice on the same video). I scanned through the videos and they have no bad or missing frames. I've done everything else I've found, and even uninstalled/reinstalled the program.

I've gotten used to using this program and, although it is sometimes slow, it's easy to use. Does anyone know what's going wrong here?

[redwudz]

The first thing that comes to mind for me is a failing RAM module. If you have more than one RAM module, try pulling one, then see if you have the same problem. Then try the other. If you have only one, or you want to do a test, you can try a program like Memtest86: http://www.memtest86.com/ This can take quite a while, so be patient.

If it's not RAM, then we go from there.

[Suprman37]

I do have more than one stick of RAM, but I'm coming up fine on both of the via Memtest. I was actually able to get through one video, but failed on a second.

I'll try pulling one (after this third test conversion goes through/fails), but for now let's assume that both of them are working fine.

Thanks for the help. I appreciate it.

[am_dew]

If you have the VBR multi pass cache function enabled, try disabling it. This worked for me.

Good luck.