TMPGEnc closes without error message?

[Sakuya]

This has never happened to me before. I was encoding an AVI file to MPEG on my computer which is Windows2000. The encoding process was almost done, only a few more minutes, when I went to check on it several minutes later, the program was closed! There was no error messages or anything. Although, the encoded file was in my hard drive, it does not work properly. It cannot be played with mplayer2.exe.

The first time I encoded the AVI, I encoded it to 29.97fps. The program closes at the very end.

The second time I encoded the AVI, I went through VDub first and noticed that it had an fps of 23.967 (or something like that). So I went into TMPGEnc and encoded the AVI to 23.967. The program still closes at the very end!

Then I used the Source Range option to encode about a minute of video. It worked fine, the program didn't close down. Then, I heard that a possible cause of this problem might be that the audio is shorter than the video. So I extracted the WAV and AVI in VDub. It turns out they're of the same length when viewed with mplayer2.exe: 24 minutes and 4 sec.

What is the problem?!

[Sakuya]

I just tried encoding it again by using Vdub to extract the AVI and WAV files. Then selecting the appropriate sources for Video and Audio Source in TMPGEnc. But it still closes at the last minute.

[trillium]

Try isolating the problem (I ran into the same thing with a capture I did).
Encode the video stream using the Elemental (ES) setting...

my guess (if it's anything like the problem I ran into) your problem lies in the audio stream. What I ended up doing was encoding the audio completely outside of TMPGEnc using tooLame.

goodluck

[ZippyP.]

The audio encoder in TMPGEnc is generally regarded as pretty crappy anyway and Toolame is the best way to go for good sound.

[Sakuya]

How do I encode the video stream? Can you give more detailed step-by-step instructions please?

[trillium]

One of the best guides out there (referenced in one of the guides here using TMPGEnc):

http://dvd-hq.info/Compression.html

[ZippyP.]

Toolame is in the Tools section under audio conversion, installation instructions are there as well.

[Sakuya]

I skimmed through the tutorial and I don't think it mentions how to put the 2 files back together. Once you encode the video in TMPGEnc and the audio in TooLame, what do you do next?

[WeedVender]

After you convert both the video and audio to the MPEG specification, Open TmpGenc, close the wizard, go to file, and then select MPEG Tools.
There should be an option that says Multi-Plex. Just load the files and then click run....
You should have an output file ready and hopefully, audio is in sync...

[Sakuya]

tooLame doesn't work! I tried opening it, but nothing came up. Well something did, it was a black box (I think MS-DOS) popped up for 1 sec then it closed again.

[Sakuya]

I think I downloaded the wrong one!!! I'm over here, what do I download? Those files are ZIP files....

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19022&release_id=143639

[Sakuya]

I tried a test again. This time, I used Source Range and selected the last few minutes of the clip. There was no problem.