TMPGenc hangs!

[darkobserver]

During encoding of a film in MPEG4 V3, I noticed that there was a recurring, pinkish interference in the resulting MPEG-1.

To solve this, I changed the priority of the Direct Show Multimedia File Reader to 4, as recommended in this forum. The pink blurs vanished, but now the encoding stops halfway through the file, every time I try. I tried to decrease the priority in steps of 1, down to 1, but to no avail.

If I leave the priority at its default, the encoding goes through to the end.

I also tried to check for errors in the source file with DIVfix. Rebuilt the index, too. Nothing, except that the resulting file had its fps changed, which sped up encoding tremendously, but the pink stuff is still there.

What else could I do?

[offline]

darkobserver,

you might need to convert your mpeg4 into another avi format
or, better still, frameserve it to tmpgenc.

[darkobserver]

Hi offline! Thanks for answering. Frankly I have no idea what you mean by "frame serving" but I guess I can find the explanation here somewhere?! I'll look. Or if you like, please enlighten me <s>

[offline]

No problem. The guys here have an excellent tutorial. Put simply, you
are using a program to grab an image frame by frame of your original
video and sending it to another program as if it was recorded in
a different format. This will allow tmpgenc to "understand" your mpeg
video and save time and hard drive space by not creating a temporary
video file in a new format.

Frameserving 101

http://www.vcdhelp.com/virtualdubframeserve.htm

I'd advise you check out how to save the audio part of your video
seperately as not doing this can cause sound sync issues in your
final video.

[darkobserver]

Gee! I had found the guide myself. Now I am running into this problem, where TMPgenc won't open the frameserve signpost file (saying: Not supported) I already tried the remedies found here in a lengthy thread about this (installed VD 1.9 handlers and the MSxxx.dll) but it still doesn't work. 8-(

The other option you suggested, converting MPEG4 V3 to a different AVI format is easier for me, maybe? How would I do that? With TMPgenc again? What AVI format should I choose?

[KingJohn]

During encoding of a film in MPEG4 V3, I noticed that there was a recurring, pinkish interference in the resulting MPEG-1.

To solve this, I changed the priority of the Direct Show Multimedia File Reader to 4, as recommended in this forum. The pink blurs vanished, but now the encoding stops halfway through the file, every time I try. I tried to decrease the priority in steps of 1, down to 1, but to no avail.

If I leave the priority at its default, the encoding goes through to the end.

I also tried to check for errors in the source file with DIVfix. Rebuilt the index, too. Nothing, except that the resulting file had its fps changed, which sped up encoding tremendously, but the pink stuff is still there.

What else could I do?

Make sure you don't have the SMR (angel portion) codec installed, if you do, this is known to cause pinkish on the output., remove it, you dont need it.

Load AVI into Vdub and scan for junk frames, any junk frames will crash TMPGEnc.

[darkobserver]

Thank you, KingJohn! I solved the problem by splitting the material in question in two, encoding each half separately, no hang-ups, no Pink.

I obtained the program "Gspot" to check if I had this Angelpotion codec, but it said, I didn't.

[KingJohn]

Glad you got it sorted