TMPGENC Bug?

[dshatz]

I am trying to use TMPGENC 2.59 to make DVDs (AVIs from may camcorder and VHS tapes connected through my camcorder Sony Digital TRV-20) but all outputs come out "jumpy" (at different places in the video, it looks like a frame or two is skipped - the video freezes for a second and then continues normally).

I have tired changing the TMPGENC frame rates, bit rates, and rate control mode and also have tried different DVD players.

Viewing the MPEG2 TMPGENC file on my computer does not have any frame freezing but does have small blocks of "noise" at the same frames where the freezing would be on the DVD players.

I can successfully produce problem free/good MPEG2 files of the same AVI source files using ShowBiz. This suggests the problem is with TMPGENC (or me).

Have you seen or heard of this problem? Can you offer any suggestions or TMPGENC settings that would correct the problem?

[monyong]

I also have the same problem with TMPGenc. I tried everything from NTSC template to bitrate and pulldown and it still give skippy video on standalone but fine video on DVD. It seems using the TMPGenc give incompatiable mpeg2 streams for some DVD player, not sure how to solve this so i switch to CCE which gave me no problems on standalone.

[dshatz]

Found the fix (but not the problem). When I used a different machine with the same OS all worked fine. So I reloaded the OS (Win2K in my case) on the same machine and all worked fine.

There seems to be a conflict with an application file(s) - not sure which one.

Hope this helps others.

Daryll