Crashing & CPU 100%

[rikesh]

Hi all,
Yesterday, I set an avi file to encode and burn into a vcd. When I looked at it a few hours later, it had stopped at 33%. The timer was still counting, but nothing was happening. Tried it again, same result. Tried it with a different file I had previously encoded successfully. Same result. Oh, and I forgot to say - the CPU usage was 100% on task manager winxp.
Then I switched programs, first to Panasonic MPEG2/1 then WinMPG. These both just froze the moment I clicked encode. With WinMPG, an illegal operation error came up.
What is wrong?!

[setarip]

Have you run out of hard drive space?

[UncasMS]

make sure your file is not corrupt at a certain frame

[rikesh]

thx 4 replying
no i havent run out of hd space and no the file isn't corrupt at a certain frame. (unless it is without me knowing)
plz help

[UncasMS]

did you scan the file with virtualdub for errors?

[rikesh]

0 frames masked, 0 frames bad, 0 frames good but undecodable. trust me, there is nothing wrong with the file its my ****ty computer. maybe codecs missing? plz help sir

[UncasMS]

can you try other tools/encoders like cce or mpeg mediator?

[rikesh]

ive tried nero, panasonic, cce sp, winmpg and im currently encoding (so far) with aimone video converter and it appears to be working! i wont get my hopes up but ill let u know if it worked or not. fingers crossed!

[rikesh]

yes!!! i successfully encoded it. the only thing was that it came out with its stupid watermark mentioned nowhere on the website...but at least its working! now im going to try tmpgenc and hope it works. ill post results. bye 4 now

[rikesh]

another problem in tmpgenc i cannot change the settings eg. resolution, bitrate etc. therefore an avi file previously 150mb is turning out as 650mb! on the video tab, all of the settings are grayed out. why???

[setarip]

Click on the "Load" radiobutton - and then doubleclick on "Unlock.mcf"...

[rikesh]

thankyou very much i dont know why they make it so complicated but finally its done. now ill try everything properly-hopefully no more problems. anyone else experiencing same problem just install aimone video converter then remove it - it probably fixes some codecs. bye 4 now

[setarip]

"thankyou very much"

My pleasure ;>}

[rikesh]

im sorry. is it me or my crappy computer? anyway, i encoded a file with tmpgenc successfully and guess what? no audio. the source file was set, i have all codecs (hopefully) and with other programs like ht mpeg encoder (trial), the sound is working. i like tmpgenc because of its good quality results and highly customizable settings. what have i done wrong?
ps. in virtualdub the audio is mpeg1audiopayload

[rikesh]

fixed it! the problem was in tmpgenc the directshow multimedia file reader priority was too low. change this to priority 2 by going to envionmental settings > vfapi tab and right click directshow multimedia, higher priority until it is 2. done! thx very much 4 all ur help, just let me know if theres anything i can do!
bye