TMPenc Plus freeze frames when converting as separate elementary streams

[bigbs4]

I am have been trying to figure out this problem for over a week now. I am converting DVD-quality WMV files to Mpeg 2 so I can use DVDGuiAuthor to burn to disc.

TMPGenc Plus converts the WMV's flawlessly when outputting to a single Mpeg 2 file with audio and video integrated. However, when I output the WMV as seperate elementary streams (m2v+MP2) the video m2v file freezes every few seconds when played back in any SW player on my PC. I thought this was a resource error. But the same freezing occurs at the same points when burned to DVD and played on PC or set-top player. The MP2 plays back perfectly on the computer and even stays in sync when burned to disc and freezes at the same time as the video.

The only program that will play the m2v without the stop motion freezing is Adobe Premiere Elements. All other sw players including Rp, WMP, PowerDVD, Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus, have the problem.

I would burn with Adobe, but I have no need for the large file sizes or need to have anything recompiled and re-encoded, hence why I am trying to use DVDGuiAuthor. It can only import the files as separate elementary streams

Is this a Codec issue? My PC is brand new and has more than enough systems resources to handle these types of tasks... Thanks

[redwudz]

I'm not sure of the source of the problem, but have you tried taking the converted system file and demuxing the audio from the video? That's in 'File>MPEG Tools>Simple De-multiplex or De-multiplex'. Then you should have your elemental streams.

I don't use TMPGEnc for audio conversions anyway. But with WMV, that may be the easiest. I usually convert audio formats to WAV, then to AC3 with ffmpeggui before authoring.

[bigbs4]

I tried to demulitplex the File manually and the same result happens.

I also played with the bitrate of the output files in case they were too high. No luck.

Is there any simple program that will accept an Mpeg2 non-elementary streams and burn to disc without having to re-encode and compile the files like DVDauthorGUI ? DVDauthorGUI can make a 30 minute DVD in 10 minutes compared to Pinnacle Studio 9 and Adobe Premiere Elements which take about 3-5 hours...

[Jim44]

I too use TMPGEnc Plus and DVDAuthorGUI and have not encountered this problem. But I almost always feed TMPGEnc an AVS script instead of the video directly - I'd run into a few "quirks" that seem to be cured with AviSynth. Plus it gives me the chance to account for the overscan on my cheap TV

Might be worth a try; a simple one-line script would be easy enough to try out:
DirectShowSource("myvideo.wmv")

Oh, and BTW, the only thing I've found that'll play m2v files well on the computer is Media Player Classic.

Hope that helps,
Jim

[bigbs4]

I have no knowledge of Avisynth or scripting. What is an Avs. file?

[guns1inger]

.avs is the extension for an avisynth script. Avisynth does not have a GUI frontend. You write scripts in notepad, save them as {filename}.avs, and load the avs file instead of your avi file.

Install avisynth 2.5.7
Open Notepad
Type DirectShowSource("fullpathto video\videoname.wmv", false)
Save the file as test.avs
Open test.avs in virtualdub and you should see your video, but without audio (that's what the 'false does). if this works, try encoding it with tmpgenc again.

[bigbs4]

this does not seem to work, even with simple line of script written as "version"
this and the WMV files give me a syntax error and will not open with WMP or virtualdub

[guns1inger]

If you open it in Virtualdub, what error message do you get ?

[bigbs4]

Avisynth Open failure:
script error: syntax error
("file path of test.avs....

[manono]

When making a Version.avs to test the AviSynth installation, all that should be in the script is:

Version()

What version is it, by the way? One of the 2.5.x versions, I hope.

Something is wrong in the path for the video, as near as I can tell. That's what the error message indicates, anyway. Are you sure you have it in the correct format:

DirectShowSource("C:\Path\To\Video.wmv", false)

[guns1inger]

The script I posted above needs to be changed by you to reflect your locations. You need to put in the full path and filename of your video in place of my example text. Sorry if that was clear. Example

DirectShowSource("C:\videos\video1.wmv", false)

You would change C:\videos\video1.wmv to be whatever path and file you are trying to open.

[bigbs4]

This is what I did for a test and I still received the syntax error in both virtualdub and wmp... Could there be something else wrong?

DirectShowSource(C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\My Videos\Windows Movie Maker 2 Sample File.wmv", False)

[guns1inger]

If the DirectShowSource statement is a cut and paste then you are missing the opening quotation marks ( " ) around the path.