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  • grathol
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Jul 2002
    • 7

    TMPGEnc error message

    Hey,
    This is all related to what I posted a few weeks ago about ripping 5.1 audio and MPG-2 video clips from a DVD if any of you remember... in any case, let me tell you what I've done and what my problem is - I'm taking the VOB file containing the audio/video clip that I need and demuxing it. With the AC3 file I decode it to a 6-channel PCM wav file using Soft Encode by Sonic Foundry (confirmed that its 6 channels by looking at it in Cool Edit Pro). Now I have the m2v file from the VOB and the 6-channel WAV file. I then use DVD2AVI to make a D2V file that TMPGEnc+ (with MPEG-2 encoding) can understand and set the audio and video sources to the appropriate file (wav & d2v). The first thing that concerns me is that TMPGEnc seems to want to create 2 output files (an m2v and a wav file by the output file name format: F:\DVD\VTS5\DVD Clip.[m2v+wav]). I'd prefer it all consolidated into one .mpg file so I can burn it using standard DVD burning software. In any case, I hit the 'Start' button on TMPGEnc and get the following error message:

    The error occurred when ACM was initialized.

    I've tried moving the directshow priority higher (when I first searched for this error that fix was suggested) and it did nothing - I removed the audio file from the source and it encodes the video just fine, but that makes it essentially useless to me - Is TMPGEnc incapable of dealing with the 6-channel wave file? If so, any suggestions of software that will encode MPG2 720x480 resolution video and an AC3 or multichannel wav file to an MPG file would be appreciated - I'm a bit irritated that I'm this close to figuring this out and hitting this last snag!

    Thanks!
  • setarip
    Retired
    • Dec 2001
    • 24955

    #2
    "I then use DVD2AVI to make a D2V file that TMPGEnc+ (with MPEG-2 encoding) can understand and set the audio and video sources to the appropriate file (wav & d2v)."

    I'd suggest that you eliminate this step entirely, as well as the creation of the .WAV file (assuming that when you demultiplexed the .VOB, you extracted one .AC3 stream).

    Open TMPGEnc and load the.M2V and .AC3 files directly...
    Last edited by setarip; 22 Jan 2003, 04:26 PM.

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    • grathol
      Junior Member
      Junior Member
      • Jul 2002
      • 7

      #3
      Open TMPGEnc and load the.M2V and .AC3 files directly...
      TMPGenc doesn't understand AC3 files.... says it can't open them, or they are unsupported.

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      • setarip
        Retired
        • Dec 2001
        • 24955

        #4
        "TMPGenc doesn't understand AC3 files.... says it can't open them, or they are unsupported."

        Regardless of what you stated in your earlier post about this:

        In TMPGEnc, under the "Environmental Settings" "VFAPI plugin" tab rightclick on the "Direct Show Multimedia Reader" and increase to the highest priority number. This will enable TMPGEnc to accept a properly encoded .AVI with .AC3 audio for input...

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        • grathol
          Junior Member
          Junior Member
          • Jul 2002
          • 7

          #5
          OK, re-adjusting the priority of the directshow reader to '2' guives me a runtime error when I use the AC3 file as an audio source- once i click 'ok' to use it it crashes with a visual C++ runtime error.

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          • setarip
            Retired
            • Dec 2001
            • 24955

            #6
            I can only speculate that the .AC3 is flawed (or, perhaps, contains more than one audiostream?), or that your installation of TMPGEnc has been corrupted - in which case, you should uninstall and reinstall the program and the accompanying VFAPI file...

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