TMPGENC problem with windows XP????

[VollyUK]

Hi

I Have recently installed Windows XP professional.

I tried to use TMPGENC Plus 2.58 to do a cple of avi to VCD conversions (which I had no problem with under WinME) and part way through each file conversion TMPGENC and/or my system keeps crashing. This does not always happen at the same point in the file btw.

I have installed the NIMO codec pack, SMR patch, combinations of these, no extra codecs at all (ie uninstalled NIMO and SMR Patch). Ive tried seperating the wave file from the avi and then tried encoding to VCD with TMPGENC. Ive moved the direct show element in the VFAPI list to the top priority. Ive shut down all background tasks, virus checkers etc. Ive tried deleting/renaming the MPG4DS32.ax file (which appears to be the problem most of the time from the error log, but not always) but the thing is if you do that windows IMMEDIATELY re-instates MPG4DS32.ax. Ive tried standing on my head, chanting inanely, kicking the dog/missus......nothing seems to work.

Can anyone help me to maintain my sanity???

VollyUK

[Tommyknocker]

Have you tried to reinstall TMPGEnc?

[DJRumpy]

You might also make sure your not overclocking your CPU, or pushing your bios settings to far for performance reasons.

XP is pretty sensitive to that sort of tweaking.

[wbandit]

I am having the same exact problem with XP professional. Can someone tell me how I might make sure that I am not overclocking my CPU or pusing my BIOS settings too far.

ANY SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

THANKS

[jkl]

i think Tommyknocker is right. software has problems when you upgrade. you should have did a fresh install.

as for wbandit, if you are not sure you're overclocking. then you are not. sinse you have to do it manually. but you may have unknowingly did it if you tried to adjust your bus speed in bios to have faster memmory. if you didn't adjust any frequencies, then that's not the problem.

[wbandit]

thanks for the reply...I did delete the old version before installing new so I don't think that is my problem. I am going to try to download an older version and see if that works. I haven't adjusted anything in BIOS.

Thanks for the help and if anyone else has a suggeston let me know.

[vcdfreak]

What's your system's spec? Have you installed the VIA latency patch if you are running a VIA chipset motherboard? RAID? Disable the RAID driver if you are not running any RAID devices although your motherboard supports it?

How many tasks are there in your system tray? Any task that are CPU resource-consuming? Try to disable unneccessary task(s) with msconfig (Run from START menu)?

[derekyeu]

I had the same problem since I upgraded to XP Professional last year. All the different versions of TMPGenc since October last year had the same type of problem running under XP Pro. I did figure out one thing to improve the situation. Whenever I run TMPGenc, I'll disable all graphic acceleration. That appears to solve the problem 80-90% of the time, but it's not 100%. I have an ATI All-In-Wonder video card. I heard that ATI driver sometime will cause problem, but it just hearsay, I'm not sure.

Derek

[mats.hogberg]

If it can be of any comfort, I've been running TMPGEnc under XP Pro for quite a while now, and it's as stable (if not more) as anything else running under a MS OS... Which leads me to believe that there is a third component involved here that doesn't like what's going on!

/Mats

[Ibme]

I don't use all the codecs you referred to, but I have been using TMPEGEnc with WinXP Pro for the last year or so.
I just use DVD2AVI to frame serve to TMPEG.
I have an ATI AIW Radeon 32MB card. I generally have the most recent ATI drivers loaded, and use TMPEGEnc 1.55 or 1.58.
I don't have too many problem, it seems to be pretty stable. Most of my problems usually deal with sound issues during capture.
My system uses AMD 1800+ CPU w/ 512MB DDR RAM. I don't overclock, but I may try it down the road.
Sorry, I can't be more helpful.

[bigdummy]

I had the same problem since I upgraded to XP Professional last year. All the different versions of TMPGenc since October last year had the same type of problem running under XP Pro. I did figure out one thing to improve the situation. Whenever I run TMPGenc, I'll disable all graphic acceleration. That appears to solve the problem 80-90% of the time, but it's not 100%. I have an ATI All-In-Wonder video card. I heard that ATI driver sometime will cause problem, but it just hearsay, I'm not sure.

Derek

I have the same card, I bet that is my problem as well....

[derekyeu]

My P4 1.8 motherboard is using VIA chipset with DDR memory. Where do I get the VIA patch mentioned in the earlier post?

Derek