Help Converting xVid_RamVideos

[charlesA]

Hey everyone, this is my first time posting and tried my hardest to solve this situation with the help of Columbo's Help Guides (which have always been very informative and useful) before ever creating a thread here. That being said, here's my problem..

Ive been using TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 for quite some time now converting music video files from RamVideos.com and creating DVD with DVD Author 1.6. Recently, RamVideos began encoding their music video files in xVid format and now Im unable to open the file on TMPGEnc 2.5, it specifically states, "File "C:\xxxxxx.avi" can not open or unsupported".

If anyone could shed light on this subject it would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

[AVI-Editor]

Try downloading this xVid codec from Divx-Digest:

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/xvid.html

That may do the trick (if there isn't something more fundamental wrong, but try that first). (May also be worth setting the xvid to decode divx as well, I assume the music videos used to be in divx format?)

[charlesA]

thank you very much AVI-Editor, Im able to load the files onto TMPGEnc Plus now. Unfortunately, I now have an issue with the audio. I tried using virtualdubmod to demux the audio and then apply it on DVD Author 1.6, but no success. also, i had tried saving it to a .wav file and adding it to TMPGEnc Plus but with the same result. is there anything i may have missed?

[AVI-Editor]

Can you say what the trouble is with the audio? Is there no sound at all? Or will it refuse to load in TMPGenc? Is it out of sync with the video?

Load the avi into vdub or vdubmod, and look at the properties (File->File information...) That should tell you the codec needed for the audio and video. It should also tell you the framerate (make sure you use the same frames per second when using TMPGenc or audio will go out of sync). You can probably get the codec from this site. Try to avoid the giant codec packs containing every codec in the world, as they will probably do more harm then good.


Also try: In TMPGenc: go to Option->Environmental Settings, open the vfrapi tag. Right-click the Direct Show multimedia option, and increase the priority until it is higher then the others. Also make sure that "use vfrapi" (or something) is checked in the Options menu (sorry doing this from memory at work )

If you have VirtualDub (not virtualdubmod) you can load the avi file into it, then go to Audio and click Full Processing Mode, then File->Save Wav, if you get an error, you know you don't have the correct audio codec.

[LT. Columbo]

thank you very much AVI-Editor, Im able to load the files onto TMPGEnc Plus now. Unfortunately, I now have an issue with the audio. I tried using virtualdubmod to demux the audio and then apply it on DVD Author 1.6, but no success. also, i had tried saving it to a .wav file and adding it to TMPGEnc Plus but with the same result. is there anything i may have missed?

do this as mentioned above by AVI-Editor, leave it this way ALWAYS

Go to the TMPGEnc's Option menu and select Environmental settings. From there, select the
VFAPI Plug-in tab.

There you see a list of various reader plugins installed for TMPGEnc. The one that's called DirectShow Multimedia File Reader is the one that we're looking at. As a default, it’s priority is -1. Select the item and right click on it. Choose Higher priority and repeat this until the "Priority" for this item is higher than any other plugin's priority in the list (usually 2)

refer here.

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=64025

what type of audio stream in this file? most often demuxed AC3 won't load into Dvd author, you must "fix" it first with besliced.