TMPGEnc brightness problem

[eJim]

I've been capturing, editing, encoding and burning VCD's and SVCD's for a while with no real significant problem but now I'm stuck.

"All of a sudden", every time I encode with TMPGEnc 2.510.49.157 it is coming out too bright. I can correct the brightness by -50 to -90 but that's just a work-around.

I'm not sure what changed on my system that might of caused this.

I have removed and reinstalled TMPGEnc but that didn't help.

My typical process is to use my ATI All-In-Wondows 8500DV under Windows XP Home to capture MPEG-2, edit with MxFlex XE, encode with TMPGEnc and burn with Nero 5.5.10.0.

I can take the same MPEG to another system and use TMPGEnc on it and that seems to work OK so I'm thinking there's some setting or something.

Any ideas?

[eJim]

Update: I've tried:

1) Uninstall PowerDVD XP
2) Uninstall TMPGenc
3) Reboot
4) Install PowerDVD XP
5) Install TMPGenc

Same problem.

[BJ_M]

did you delete the tmpgenc dir also ? and check to see if there is a tmpgenc config file lurking in your path somewhere

tmpgenc dosnt really add any registry entries worth noting - so thats not a issue ..

[eJim]

Yes indeed a "remove" operation left behind a tmpgenc.ini.

So removed TMPGEnc, deleted the entire Pegasys and then reinstalled TMPGEnc and I'm still having the same problem.

Update: The problem only seems to happen on MPEG-2 files. Plus MPEG-2 files that were recently created. My older MPEG-2 seem to be OK. Repeating a test run with an ATI TV created MPEG-1 does not exhibit the symptoms.

Next step is to (re)install the ATI drives (WDM Cap, Display and Control Panel).

[eJim]

Update: Removing all the ATI drivers (WDM, Display, Control Panel and even MMC) then installing them did not solve the problem.

In fact, I now have a new problem. During ATI TV, sometimes the TV image turns completely green. Recording seems to be OK.

I'm thinking it's time for a clean install of the O/S (XP).

[eJim]

Problem solved.

A clean install of XP along with all the latest drivers, applications and updates and TMPGEnc is happy again.

This time I'll keep an eye out for what caused this problem and if it happens again, I'll post what it was.