if you can succeed converting with cbr and then fail with vbr its obviously that your pc(most likely your cpu) is just not liking the extra strain that vbr puts on it, either that or its overheating.
so i suggest you do what works (cbr), vbr may give you better quality than cbr but its really only marginal, cbr will still look great i promise you that
also what error sometimes shows up when it dies in the ass when using vbr??
i used to hate going to weddings, all the old dears would poke me and say "your next", they stopped saying it after i did it to them at funerals -Chopper Reid-
try using constant quality(cq) vbr instead of 2-pass
ive just been doing some reading and ive heard its a much better method, smaller file sizes while retaining maximum quality
maybe its a 2-pass problem with ur comp, im not sure
i used to hate going to weddings, all the old dears would poke me and say "your next", they stopped saying it after i did it to them at funerals -Chopper Reid-
I had same problem, VBR 2-pass would always error right 'at the turn'. Some error about cannot open AVI invalid file or something, right Wes?
Which is not the end of the world usually, if the first pass is 'in the books' and you can pick it up from there - but oh no, not TMPGEnc; you have to start over from the beginning. Forget that! I had a couple of hours invested in the first pass. You should be able to run a second pass manually...
Can we do only 1-pass CBR then Mick?
i used to hate going to weddings, all the old dears would poke me and say "your next", they stopped saying it after i did it to them at funerals -Chopper Reid-
i have the same exact problem. it have either read error or most of the time write error.
but after tinkering for many times, i noticed that it only happens when i use direct files, meaning i select the movie files directly. and it worked flawlessly if i frame served it with another programme.
if i'm converting dvd, i frameserved it with DVD2AVI. and with AVI i use VirtualDub, put it frameserve mode.
