AVI to MPEG problems....need help

[BrandonFYA]

sorry fi this has been asked 100000000 times before. Anyways, it always says "file unsupported" when i use TMP to try and open an avi for conversion. i installed 3.11 and 4 codecs ( i think), but that still didn't resolve the problem. divx player ver. 2.0 will play the movie, but none of the converters will recognize it. how do i find/install the correct codecs, or whatever i need? thanks.

[kitty]

Use Virtualdub to convert to another codec like huffyuv, indeo5 or uncompressed. Save the audio separately as a WAV in vdub too. Now in TMPGenc use the video & WAV files to make the MPEG.

Yes, it has been asked alot.

[BrandonFYA]

thanks. is this the only way though? for "file information" it said mpeg-4 codec for the avi im trying to convert.
not sure if my settings in virtualdub were correct, but it said 4 hours to do half the movie.
is there a tutorial for this? i tried to follow the one from this site, and it simply said to download divx 3.11 aND 4 codecs and install them, then TMP should work. I installed all that stuff and it doesnt.

[cheftaz]

try this

In TMPGEnc, select options > environment settings

Next click the VFAPI tab, Right click "Direct Show"do this until its at the top with a value of 4, check avi vfw,avi opendml and select higher priority,

[BrandonFYA]

thanks for thew response but no dice. this is really frustrating. what should the values end up being for the diff priorities? 4 for "direct show" but what about the others?

[cheftaz]

Brandon try installing the nimo codec pack
<----tools I find this download quite often solves this prob. I haven't yet had a prob with tmpg