TMPGEnc renders black after 9 mins

[Greydog]

Please offer any suggestions as to why my movie starts rendering black after 9 mins.


I have a 12 min home video that runs just fine in the AVI format. I put the AVI into TMPGEnc for encoding into MPEG-2. At the 9 min position of the video (Which is 1 hour into the TMPGEnc encoding) the video turns black and continues to encode black till the end of the file. If I edit the movie (for trouble shooting purpose) so it contains only the section that begins playing black, make that section into an AVI, place it into TMPGEnc and render with the same settings, that movie section looks fine.

I edit my home movies with Premier 6.0 to AVI, render them in TMPGEnc V. 2.5.44.152 to MPEG-2 using the same settings (exception being I select video+ audio as the stream type) suggested in the tutorial supplied by http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0165394101/TMPGEnc_Template.html

I have had excellent success with all my other home movies which have been up to 15 mins long.



System: ABIT KG-7 Raid MB, AMD Athlon XP 1.7, 1Gig Crucial ECC 2100DDR ram, 32Mb Asus V7700 GeForce Deluxe AGP video card, C\60Gig IBM 75GXP, D\100 Gig WD BB E\120 Western Digital BB, F\Pioneer 104, G\Plextor 16/10/40a, Enlight 7235 case W/ Enlight HPC-300-101 PS, Soundblaster 5.1, 1394 Firewire card supplied with Studio DV, Win 2K Professional OS

Camera: NTSC Cannon Optura Pi, Full-Rez DV capture only, Microphone for Camera is Cannon DM-50


Thank you ..........

[Greydog]

I posted this question on the TMPGEnc forum and a user suggested I look in the Options, Environmental settings, VFAPI Plugins then raise the direct Show File reader to 2. I tried that but it was no help. While in the VFAPI Plugin screen I noticed DVD2SVCD which I had recently installed on my system had placed some files in there. My next step was to remove the program DVD2SVCD from my computer and now my home movie encodes fine through TMPGEnc. Any thoughts what settings I can alter so I can load DVD2SVCD on my computer and still have my home movies encode properly through TMPGEnc?

[vcdfreak]

Try to frameserve to TMPGEnc from Premiere will solve the problem. DV captured by Premiere(+Matrox RT2500?) viewable only for 9 minutes in other apps.

You can also capture with XP/ME MS Movie Maker. The AVI captured won't be limited to 9 minutes only.

[snowmoon]

I think this resolves around TMPGenc's inablility to handle SOME ( not all ) .avi files over 2gb ( or 4gb ) in length. It's an unfortunate problem that can be solved with frameserving.

Good luck.

[Greydog]

Thanks for the input. I will study frameserving then give it a try.

Still, I'm not clear on this matter. I have encoded many home videos up to 20 mins long through TMPGEnc before I loaded the program DVD2SVCD. It is when the program DVD2SVCD is loaded on my computer that I am not able to encode video over 9 mins. Once DVD2SVCD is removed from my computer, I can encode video over 9 mins with no trouble.

I will add to this post when I am able to get TMPGEnc working with DVD2SVCD installed on my computer.