damn TMPGenc

[Homerboy]

trying to add a 5.2GB raw .avi to compress and as soon as I add it as a source file the whole program just hangs and crashes

 

[JonnyBlaze]

try splitting it into 2 parts using virtualdub.

 

[Homerboy]

yeah I know but I want 1 file
I shouldn't ahve to spilt - encode- rejoin etc

 

[Queasy]

Where did you get this AVI file from? I had the same problem when trying to encode video that I pulled off my DV video camera. I later found out that DV-AVI and AVI are not the same thing. I had to first convert it from DV-AVI to AVI and then use TMPGenc.

AVI2DVD will automatically detect DV-AVI and gives you the option to convert it to AVI while TMPGenc just crashes on it.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Where did you get this AVI file from? I had the same problem when trying to encode video that I pulled off my DV video camera. I later found out that DV-AVI and AVI are not the same thing. I had to first convert it from DV-AVI to AVI and then use TMPGenc.

AVI2DVD will automatically detect DV-AVI and gives you the option to convert it to AVI while TMPGenc just crashes on it.

yeap straight from my DV ~a tapes worth. So use AVI2DVD first then you say?

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: Queasy
Where did you get this AVI file from? I had the same problem when trying to encode video that I pulled off my DV video camera. I later found out that DV-AVI and AVI are not the same thing. I had to first convert it from DV-AVI to AVI and then use TMPGenc.

AVI2DVD will automatically detect DV-AVI and gives you the option to convert it to AVI while TMPGenc just crashes on it.

yeap straight from my DV ~a tapes worth. So use AVI2DVD first then you say?

Yeah, just open up the AVI file in AVI2DVD. It will detect if it is a DV-AVI file and ask if you want to convert it to a "normal" AVI file. It will take a few minutes to convert and then you can use AVI2DVD or TMPGenc to convert to a mpeg.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

no, use virtualdub to split the big file into 2 files, compress then rejoin. i think tmpgenc has problems with files over 4gb.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
no, use virtualdub to split the big file into 2 files, compress then rejoin. i think tmpgenc has problems with files over 4gb.

I've had it crash on files that are a gig. Actually, it crashes so much, I could classify it as "barely ever works". Anyways that's my own set of problems