TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 saying unsupported??

[Suprman37]

So, I was going about converting avi's to MPEGs in their transition to DVDs and I kept running across a few that wouldn't open. Instead of opening when I tried to load them, I would get the error message "could not open or unsupported." Well, I checked via AVICodec and I have the video and audio codecs installed (Divx 5.0 and MP3). I even checked through GSpot to be sure and it agreed.

Still, I can't open them. I even tried coverting them to a different format via Super, but that didn't help (TMPGEnc would open those but the file would be empty).

Does anyone know what the issue here is? The videos play fine in VLC and WMP.

[xzarkad]

Can you open them in virtual dub? If yes, then select "frameserve"in virtual dub. When selected, you will have to save a file like "xxxx.vdr". You can name XXX to whatever you like. (actually it is not a file, but a kind of signpost) No go to TMPGenc and select the vdr file as your source. This should work.

[Jim44]

So, I was going about converting avi's to MPEGs in their transition to DVDs and I kept running across a few that wouldn't open. Instead of opening when I tried to load them, I would get the error message "could not open or unsupported." Well, I checked via AVICodec and I have the video and audio codecs installed (Divx 5.0 and MP3). I even checked through GSpot to be sure and it agreed.

Did Gspot indicate if the MP3 audio was VBR? If it was, TMPGEnc doesn't do well with that. You'll need to extract the audio to a WAV and use that. I use VirtualDubMod for the audio stream extraction, but there are other programs that'll do it as well. Use the "Search" feature here in the forums for a whole host of methods.

Jim

[Suprman37]

Can you open them in virtual dub? If yes, then select "frameserve"in virtual dub. When selected, you will have to save a file like "xxxx.vdr". You can name XXX to whatever you like. (actually it is not a file, but a kind of signpost) No go to TMPGenc and select the vdr file as your source. This should work.

I just tried this and I also got "can not open or unsupported" when I tried to open the x.vdr file in TMPGEnc.

[Midzuki]

Is your TMPGEnc configured like this?

+++++

[Suprman37]

Is your TMPGEnc configured like this?

No, should it be? I don't even have that Quicktime plugin, but I never use Quicktime.

[45tripp]

Yes,
in that directshow should have the highest priority,
don't worry about quicktime.
might want to read this
https://www.videohelp.com/oldguides/tmpgenc#problems

If you are to frameserve with vdub,
first you have to startup auxsetup.exe and press "install handler".



Personally I don't understand people still using tmpgenc


gl

[Suprman37]

Personally I don't understand people still using tmpgenc

I'm using it because I've been using it forever. I guess I'm just comfortable with it. Besides, my machine is kind of old (Athlon XP 2000, GeForce TI 4600) and I'm not sure it would be able to handle newer programs without them taking forever for conversion.

Any recommendations, though?

[freebird73717]

You might take a look at HCenc. It's free and quality wise is as good as/possibly better than tmpgenc. Speed wise on my system (older than yours - amd xp1800) is faster than tmpgenc.

Only requirement is you need avisynth. Although creating simple scripts can be made easy using fitcd.

[Suprman37]

Yes,
in that directshow should have the highest priority

Reset directshow to priority 2 and TMPGEnc file reader to 1 (everything else at 0) and I'm still getting the problem. The only other thing in that help faq is to be sure you have the codecs installed, which both AVIcodec and GSpot are telling me I do.

Any other suggestions?

You might take a look at HCenc. It's free and quality wise is as good as/possibly better than tmpgenc. Speed wise on my system (older than yours - amd xp1800) is faster than tmpgenc.

I gave HCenc a look and, unfortunately, I don't think that's the one for me. I have AVIsynth, but I have no idea how to write scripts for it. Someone asked why one would still use TMPGEnc and I would probably say I'm still using it because it's simple.

[freebird73717]

Although creating simple scripts can be made easy using fitcd.

Look at this guide about half the way down for help to use fitcd to create a simple avisynth script. All you do is click open, set the destination size and click save avs. Fitcd does the rest of the work for you.
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic334173.html#1734488