TMPGEnc & VBR encoding

[MythSpell]

Anyone ever have a problem where TMPGEnc finishes the analyzing part of a 2pass VBR vcd encoding and then just stalls and won't move on to the encoding? Any suggestions to fix this? BTW - I'm having this problem on every file I tried, so I don't think it's a source file issue, plus there's no problem with CBR encodings of the same files.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

[MythSpell]

Please, doesn't anyone have any input on this - it is driving me crazy. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks!!!

[Guyver]

I've had a problem where it would analyse the entire file but then crashed. I got round it by using an avisynth script.

You might want to try that unless you are already using avisynth.

[jeepman]

On projects I have done, I encode clips that up to 15 minutes long, and I use a custom DVD template. I have had it sit at the end of an encoding session for a few minutes while it finalizes something. This is on a dual Athlon XP 1700+ with RAID 0 (IDE) and Ultra2 SCSI 10K drives attached to an Adaptec card. How long have you waited for the "Start" button in TMPEG to become "selectable/clickable" again.

[MythSpell]

Thanks for the replies. However, I have figured out the problem. It only occurs when using VBR to encode the video and toolame to encode the audio. If you use VBR with the built-in audio encoding, it doesn't happen. Or if you use CBR for the video then there is no problem using toolame for the audio. It is just with VBR and toolame together.

Hopefully if anyone else experiences this problem this thread will save them some of the frustration I went through tracking this down.

[sjm817]

I use 2 pass VBR with toolame without any issues. Just finished making 20 SVCDs that way. They all worked fine. I did see if the minimum bitrate was set to 0, it would error after the analyzing part was done. This happens with or without toolame. Changing to 300 fixes it.

[MythSpell]

Well, when I turned off using toolame, the problem disappeared for me EVEN WITH the min. bitrate still set to 0. However, thanks for the idea. This should give me a way to use toolame when audio quality is important.

[sjm817]

I think min bitrate = 0 used to work, but it is a problem on the newer versions? I'd have to go back and check the older versions.

[MythSpell]

I'm using the latest version. Had the same problem on the prior 2 releases. Don't know about before that.