No video only audio when encoding Avi to mpeg with TMPGEnc

[Andy G]

Hi Guys!
I've had a look through the site and forums and haven't managed to solve my problem - but I have an avi file which plays fine in windows media player - but I want to encode it and burn it as a VCD, and when I try with TMPGEnc 5.62 I get a black screen and just the audio... I did a scan with virtual dub and no bad screens but Im not sure what else I can do - anyone know how I can solve this one? Any help would be killer-
Thanks guys!
Andy!

[kenneth228a]

Use Virtual Dub to framserve the AVI to TMPG this elimated 90% of my problems with TMPG. There is a tutorial on this site. Set VD to Direct stream copy to be sure it does no processing on the AVI.

Ken

[Andy G]

Thanks Ken!
Hmm... I can't find that tutorial on the site... where about is it..? And how much H-drive space will a 30 min file take..? When I have tried making files before it's been many gigs and I haven't that much space to spare!
Massive thanks!
Andy!

[KingJohn]

TMPGEnc
Select options > environmental settings
click the VFAPI plug-in tab
right click the "DirectDraw" and select higher priority, do this several times until its at the top with a value of 4

[Andy G]

Thanks guys - got it sorted!
I appreciate the help!
Andy!