AMD - Floating Point Calc. Error - TMPGenc 1.2 SMR - VCD ???

[Dolphine]

Okay downloaded a copy of Shrek which was encoded using the smr patch, off the net - I always use TMPenc to convert these files to PAL VCD, and in the past I have never had any problems. The first CD file encoded okay and only took an hour - the second file - 11 minutes in, an error msg comes up saying that an illegal floating point calculation has been made and it cannot proceed. 3 more times - no luck!!

So I try to be a bit smarter - assuming that there is an error at that very point in the file, i try to re-save the file as an avi. In TMPGenc - I go to save as an then just choose save as avi, accepting the default audio/video codecs and this process is a bit quicker - showing an approx. time of only 30 mins, however no sooner said than done - 11 minutes in - same problem again!! Now I'm just getting pissed off - I've got an excellent 1st CD, but can't encode the file for the second CD. Can anyone help - may be this has happened to you before?? I dare not go to my Pentium friends and mention this unless I want to be laughed at!!

Any advice would be great - any other conversion suggestion?

P.S. It's great to be back after nearly a year! Glad to see the old faces and many new ones too!!

Dolphine

[rickmccl]

Woah, I haven't tried converting that one yet, but it's on my to-do list...
Which tmpeg are you using?
Do you have the 'use floating point' checked?
How about converting the audio to wav with virtualdub first?

[Dolphine]

Where the option to check the "use floating point?" Couldn't find it.

I use TMPGenc 1.2 a and/or b

virtualdub - yeah it made an okay wav file - but the 11min mark just gets screwed up (audio) so u have to go about 40 secs before the audio comes back to normal. Don't know how the video will fair though!

Any other progs to do the conversion? Been out of the scene for a while - hoping something has sufaced!!! Well just like a good NTSC to PAL frame rate software converter, we can always dream !!

The good thing with smr patch stuff is that - most of the movies you can download - both parts are encoded usually to about 150MB each - so its not too large and TMPGenc on my Athlon 600 - usually takes about 1-1.5 hrs to do each file in PAL VCD. If I decide to do it in NTSC VCD , then it takes like 45-50 mins. And smr quality ain't that bad anyway - yeah sure it aint no DivX or MPEG2 - but for something that got copied in a cinema - what kind of quality would really expect and get anyway?!!

[kbell8653]

I had the same problem with the second half of atlantis. I fixed the problem in Virtual Dub by going to the exact spot in the video and deleting the bad spot. I had to delete about 2 sec. then join the two pieces back together. after I did that it encoded fine in TMPEGEnc.