Severe problems with XMPEG 4.2a

[CopyKiller]

Hi all,

I'm quite new to this so maybe it's a known problem.

I'm using SmartRipper to rip my DVD on my PC to use them when I'm on holiday. Till now I never had any problems and created working DivX movies but now XMPEG doesn't do what it's meant to do.

I've a working decrypted rip on my harddisk, i can watch it with the Media Player, everything is fine. When I first tried to create an 2 pass encoded DivX file the result was a far too small (about 150 mb, should be 700) file with a working audiostream but the picture was mostly green and a mess, just showing an idea of the original picture in the upper half of the movie. So I tried to reencode (thought maybe an option was wrong) but this time XMPEG won't load the .ifo file again. It just crashes. This happens on every file I try (vob) and on every other DVD I tried (about 5 i tried). So I reinstalled XMPEG but the green movie problem always reappears. I don't want to use another software because I believe the alternatives to be far to complicated, I like the 2 pass support and the auto cropping feature of XMEG. So maybe someone of you out there can help me.

Add information: DivX 4.12, XMPEG 4.2a, MP3 Sound.

Thanks

CopyKiller :-)

[Znarf]

Hi,

this is a known bug.


First :
You have to uninstall XMPEG, and install it again.
Then you will able to open ifo file again.

In a second time :

When you crop the picture, sometime XMPEG want to crop it with a negative offset !! It's a bug !! You have to delete the value and put a 0. If you don't do that, you 'll have a beautifull green screen, and XMPEG doesn't load Ifo files !! ;)

Try and say if there is anything else

[CopyKiller]

I've tried it and it was exactly as you said. It was the bug in the auto cropping feature.

The only thing to add is that there should be a note in the Xmpeg encoding guide.

By the way you don't have to delete the whole XMPEG installation, deleting the default config file has the same results. It will be recreated when you start Xmpeg.

Regards
CopyKiller :-)

P.S.: Hope there will be a new version of Xmpeg soon. The homepage (www.mp3guest.com) seems to be down since a few days.

[chipzoller]

Xmpeg WILL parse the IFO files. It works for me fine. I haven't had that green screen, but when I encoded a small music video from a James Bond DVD, I resized with the autocrop, and the picture is fine except for a green bar to the left side of the screen. I thought it was funny, but I just wondered if it had something to do with that?

any guesses?




chip