TMPGenc working under WINE, sort of...

[musicman]

I have it working very well. It opens .m2p files just fine and renders just fine....until it locks up.
It seems to lock up at 12 to 15 minutes into the encode. I have tried with several files just to eliminate a bad file. When locked, I can kill wine itself, but not the wineserver, which is still using 99.7% of the CPU. Only a reboot will rid the machine of the process.

The portion of the file that was encoded before TMPGEnc locks up plays fine, both audio and video.

I'm using Redhat 8.0 with most of the errata installed.

Wine is the latest release version....20021216, compiled from source.

Also, in an unrelated incident, the DVD2AVI.vfp loads but still will not load *.d2v files.

Anyone have any suggestions on what to do next?


Thanks,
MusicMan

[Cyrl]

Install windows 98 on a small hard drive for doing conversions... If you have such an aversion to windows that you just can't bear to use it then I have no suggestions to help out.

[sterno]

I suggest looking in to a native Linux encoder, something like transcode or mencoder. wine is a good enough interim solution for running some applications, but for something complex and heavy like video encoding you really should do it natively.

[montythedog]

Use VMWare under Linux.

[musicman]

VMWare would probably do the trick, but vmware requires a full windows install, and I don't own a legal copy of Windows, and I'm certainly not going to go out and buy it.

According to the www.winehq.org website, TMPGenc should work just fine.
I feel that the problem may be in the WINE config file. Perhaps it needs a .dll file changed from builtin to native or something like that.

I do not believe the complexities of TMPGenc and MPEG encoding are of any concern in this case. WINE does a fine job running Lightwave 3D perfectly, which I'm sure is far more complex a program than TMPGenc.

MusicMan

[ching0]

i read over that twice just to make sure i wasnt reading it wrong...
you dont have a legal copy of windows, but you're running a more expensive piece of software in wine?

"LightWave® [7] is available immediately for a suggested retail price of US$1595 with upgrades from previous versions of LightWave® starting at US$395. "

i too would suggest installing windows on like a one gig partition. in fact, i have windows on a 4 gig partition, and linux on a 10 gig partition, then 55 gigs for storage. yeah, i didnt want microshaft viruses on my computer, but hey... it does some things linux wont. just like linux does some things windows wont.

i wouldnt suggest running wine to anyone. have you ever heard the expression "if god intended for us to fly, he would have given us wings?" thats how i think about wine. if linux were intended to run virus-ridden and potentially irritating windows software, it would come equipped to do so.

[kwag]

Hi musicman,

Try TMPEG under Lindows. You'll be surprised of all the stuff that runs there with their modified Wine

-kwag

[musicman]

Ching0: Yes, I do run LW7.5 under WINE. The company I work for happened to buy me a copy in order to get the work required of me finished in a timely manner.

I mainly use it for test rendering once I bring the projects home from work, however. I rarely model or layout scenes under WINE.

UPDATE:
I have made TMPGenc work finally. What I had to do was resort to an earlier version. Everything below 2.57 runs fine and has not yet crashed rendering 4 seperate projects. Perhaps this should be addressed in the WINE or TMPGEnc mailing lists instead. However, I did notice one addition to the TMPGEnc directory: it now has a resample.dll file which is not present in pre 2.57 versions. What does this library do? I am suspecting it has something to do with the TMPGEnc people adding exclusive support for only two of the commercial MPEG2 codecs (Cybervision and Sony?).

UPDATE2:
I brought a removable Win2k hd home from work and plugged in into my system, booted it and installed TMPGEnc 2.59. It locks up the entire machine, mouse and all. I've tried 4 seperate projects with the same results. I then started suspecting my hardware, and ran several memory and CPU intensive tests overnight on it without a hitch. Once again, versions of TMPGEnc below 2.57 work fine under windows, but anything greater crashes.

I am suspecting at this point a problem with Athlon XP support within TMPGEnc.

Any comments on the above?


Musicman

[musicman]

Well, I finally got my problems fixed! It was the motherboard, and not the CPU or RAM. I swapped it out with a spare one I had on the shelf and viola, it now renders in TMPGEnc in WINE all the way through without error.

Musicman

[zergling]

However, I did notice one addition to the TMPGEnc directory: it now has a resample.dll file which is not present in pre 2.57 versions. What does this library do? I am suspecting it has something to do with the TMPGEnc people adding exclusive support for only two of the commercial MPEG2 codecs (Cybervision and Sony?).

UPDATE2:
I brought a removable Win2k hd home from work and plugged in into my system, booted it and installed TMPGEnc 2.59. It locks up the entire machine, mouse and all. I've tried 4 seperate projects with the same results. I then started suspecting my hardware, and ran several memory and CPU intensive tests overnight on it without a hitch. Once again, versions of TMPGEnc below 2.57 work fine under windows, but anything greater crashes.

I am suspecting at this point a problem with Athlon XP support within TMPGEnc.

Any comments on the above?


Musicman

This post has been dead for many months, but it's one of the few references I can find to an issue I'm having. I wonder if Musicman ever found out what the "resample.dll" file does for TMPGEnc. Like Musicman, I have an Athlon XP CPU (1700+) and TMPGEnc gives me an error message after every attempt to make a MPEG-2 file from an AVI. The error I get looks like this:

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Read error occurred at address: 014329C4 of module 'Resample.dll' with 4C007281
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Anyone know what this error means?

Most of the time the file goes to 100% completed before I see this error. Other times, the same file may stop at, for example... 46%.

My AVI files are 720x480 resolution NTSC, PCM audio.

When I try to use these MPEG-2 files in Ulead MovieFactory 2, that program will sometimes crash - it may be related to the error given by TMPGEnc, so I need to fix this problem.

Any ideas?

[buddhafest]

I too am having the same problem. Not the exact error numbers and letters but the whole Resample.dll thing.

It's only occurred when I am converting my Naruto 92 episodes.

I never had problem converting episodes after 92 and before. Altho i did convert 93,94 before 92.. I hope its just this one episode that im having this error with. if anyone has suggestions as to what's going on here.. please..

[zergling]

I'll post the solution to my problem in case it is helpful. I determined that my errors came from a hardware problem. Specifically, it appears that the solution to my problem was to slow the FSB speed on my Gigabyte motherboard by flipping a DIP switch on the motherboard from 133MHz to 100Mhz. I made that change on January 7th, more than 7 months ago, and have not seen any related errors since. Slowing down the FSB speed solved my problems. That solution worked for about 6 months, until last month when the motherboard blew up (literally). Smoke came out of the computer and capacitors were bulging. I rebuilt the system with a new motherboard last month and am still error free.

[buddhafest]

thanks zergling. hmmm... well im running a fsb of 200... wonder how low id have to set it to get the error away.

But again thanks for your solution. Next time I encode I'll try something like 166.

[courtrrb]

I too have TMPGEnc running under crossover office (wine) and the latest copy of it. It dosn't even come close to what Avidemux2 can do. The last mpeg video I had to convert TMPGEnc kept saying it's an unsupportd video type(Which I get most of the time). The same when I moved the file to my WINXP machine! Avidemux read the file let me cut the junk out of it and convert it just fine to DVD. Since then I haven't found any use for TMPGEnc.

[buildid]

i created with avidemux2 6 mpg files ( i wonder if i can called them ksvcd) from avi . and put them on dvd .

so my first dvd project with is done and working

[courtrrb]

If they are in fact DVD compliant mpeg files use KLvemkdvd to author them and to burn to dvd.