I have an mpeg-2 file whose video was choppy playing on my pc(whatever player wmp, winamp, bsplayer), so I decided to just extract an uncompressed wav using VirtualDub-1.6.11 with the VirtualDub MPEG2 Plugin installed. I then tried to re-encode the file to an mpeg-1 file, but the following error appeared: Any advice on what the error means firstly, and also how I can solve it would be much appreciated. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, and also for being a newbie qy if it's covered already. I did search but couldn't find the same error.
That error is an error in the M2V.vfp Plugin....If you Disable that Plugin in the VFAPI Plugins then Tmpgenc will be Forced to use a Different Mpeg-2 decoder which should Hopefully Not give you an error...(Go to "options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Disable the "Mpeg-2 Video Plug-in (M2V.vfp)") The Best way to encode Mpeg-2 source Files in Tmpgenc is to First use "DVD2AVI 1.77" to Make a D2V Frameserver File and then Load the D2V Frameserver File into Tmpgenc and encode..... Cheers
Cheers Minion, I did as you said: and in the m2v.vfp entry it indicated that "The file cannot be loaded". It was then, while alternating with checking/unchecking the box beside the m2v.vfp entry, that I realised the free version of TMPGEnc I was using, had expired it's MPEG-2. Seems weird that I was able to encode the first 7 minutes of the file before the error appeared. Maybe it happened to expire MPEG-2 support coincidentally just in the middle of encoding. I just dl'ed a 14day trial of TMPGEncPlus and that worked a treat. [edit: spelling]
