Prbolems with TMPGEnc Windows 2000 Pro

[xtreemkareem]

Hi. I used to use Win Me for my Video encoding and recently bought a new P4 system with Win 2K pro. I installed TMPGEnc Plus, Divx Pro 5.02 and the Nimo Codec Pack Audio Codecs. I was bale to sucessfuly encode DIVX into VCD/SVCD, however, when I came to rencode a VCD mpeg-1 file, I got a message saying "Cannot open or this media type not supported". This was a standard mpeg-1 file with a *.mpg extenstion and yet it did not work. I installed the latest Windows Media Player (for video codecs) and installed, uninstalled and reinstalled Nimo with no sucess. Anyone know how they can help? Would be greatly appreciated!!

[bugster]

Are you absolutley SURE that it is a

standard mpeg-1 file

. Just because it has a *.mpg filename it means nothing. Try opening the file in vdub, if it gives a 'packet synchronization error' (or something similiar) it is an mpeg-2 file. Or open it in bitrate viwer to get more detailed info on the video type.

[xtreemkareem]

I'm 100% sure because I ripped it off of a PAL VCD myself and I did the check. It also plays perfectly fine in Windows Media Player.

[bugster]

This may not actually be answering your question, but why re-encode a VCD? You can't make it any better, you don't need to re-encode to burn it to DVD so why bother in the 1st place?

Just curious really!

[xtreemkareem]

I see what you're saying, but first, a few things. For example it's PAL and I want to convert it to NTSC. Also, if you encode 2-pass vbr with some filters, you get smoother picture and smaller file size. The point is however i cannot encode mpeg, which is a problem to me.

[bugster]

Ok, I now understand why you want to re-encode. I Can't understand why Tmpgenc won't open an mpeg-1 so a couple of things you can try. 1st I would suggest raising the priority of the directshow filter under environmental settings, this often fixes a lot of 'could not open' type problems in tmpgenc. If this doesn't work, you could always frameserve it from virtualdub.