cant encode videos ?

hi, umm im slowly crawling my way into dvd making.. but im having trouble with these video files

they are xvid .. i used tmpgenc.. the 1st time.. went smoothly.. but, alas.. no sound from the mpegs i created and no sound from the original files..... so i found that i needed AC-3 ACM codec..
so i downloaded some decompressor... still no sound.. then i dled i guess the ac-3 acm codec cuz there was sound in the original files.. so i tried encoding them again to mpegs for dvd authoring.. but this time it stops at 50% with this msg..."invalid sample format (error code 0x80048002)".. so.. if anyone can help me out here plz.. id really appreciate it.. thank you...

 

after googling your error I found this in another forum from MovieCodec.com:

one member says

hope that helps

 

gave ace codecs a shot.. but it didnt work.. still stops at 50% w/ the same error msg

 

I would reboot after doing the codecs! then try again.

 

did

same result

 

this Xvid file.....was this a downloaded file? if so it could be corrupted and at the same interval it will have problems and do what you discribe above! It's what the old adage says, "Garbage in, garbage out!" just make sure that you don't have any problems with other files, dvds, or cds when you play them. If your other files/cds/dvds all play then it's not your computer, it's not your programs it the source file and you learned an important lesson..... make sure the source file is not corrupt before doing all these settings searches and fixes.

 

hmm corrupted ? perhaps, but not just 1... all of em
so.. how could that be ?

 

well it seems alot of other video files are corrupted... almost all of them stop at 50%.. they cant all be corrupted.. plz.. some1 help

 

What happens when you run them through GSpot?

 

Why don`t you try "Digital Video Repair", or "Virtualdub-mp3-freeze" for example to check your files and see if they are worth converting. You can find them here : http://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=12#12

I`ve found "ConvertXtoDVD" from VSO software will convert your Xvids/Divx files without too much trouble.
It will also burn it to DVD - you can use other software (just see Settings)

 

A creative approach that seems to work well enough for me has been to use winamp with the discwriter output plugin to play back the file, which will create a .wav in the selected output directory (displayed in the "configure" dialog) , then use the original avi in tmpgenc to encode an ES video only, then encode the wav to mp2 (once again using tmpgenc selecting this time ES audio only) then allow your author program to MUX the files, or loading them seperately and re-encoding in tmpgenc to DVD compliant Mpeg.