tooLAME bombs out in TMPGEnc

[MarcoPolo7]

First of all, newbie alert.

I've been using Pinoy's method- SmartRipper, DVD2AVI, vob2Audio, and TMPGEnc with TooLAME as the helper tool. I've tested 5 min excerpts in VCD, burned to CD RW, played on my DVD player. Looks suprisingly good.

My problem - I'm using the range feature on TMPGEnc to make the MPG files fit on a CD - about 129000 frames each. However, when it encodes using tooLAME, it ALWAYS bombs out at 112000 frames or so. Last night it put a stop to my batch encode. This morning I tried it again with just the first 129K frame segment and when it hits about 112000 in tooLAME (takes an hour to get to that point from TMPGEnc start) bombed again with the illegal action dialog, but then TMPGEnc kept going - with the truncated (112K frame) segment.

I've tried finding an answer before going to you gurus in the forum. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?

Thanks to everyone here - up to now I've been lurking, but learning.

MP

[DJ Bobo]

I've never had this problem but I'll try to help.

Why don't you encode video and audio separately?

[DarkAvenger]

Make sure you have latest version. Only the "i" version was stable for me.

[MarcoPolo7]

Thanks for responses, all.

I downloaded toolame 02i on 2/15.
bobotns, how can I encode video and audio separately if your product is a single .mpg? Like I said in my original post, I'm following the Pinoy cookbook for ripping, frameserving, audio, etc... but I'm open to any alternatives.

[Divine]

I have had some weird crashes with toolame 0.2i too. It would just crash at a certain framepoint of the wav, while it works fine when the internal encoder of tmpeg does the job.
I don't really know what causes it, because i have never really looked into it.
It's not a big deal anyway... for ex in the past 6months i have had it like 2 or 3 times.

[MarcoPolo7]

I'm assuming that there's a big difference in audio quality if you use TMPGEnc's encoder. I've seen posts here that say it's worth using toolame.

[DJ Bobo]

Just encode your AVI alone -> you get a m1v file (select Video only)

Then encode the WAV alone -> you get a mp2 file (select Audio only)

Then multiplex both files to an mpg file using bbMPEG or TMPG.

Using TMPG as audio encoder is not that bad as people say, I can't hear a real difference between TMPG and TooLame, one needs to listen carefully to detect any differences, so I won't bother my self too much if TooLame is not working properly ;)

[MarcoPolo7]

thanks. i just went ahead and did it without toolame.

TMPGEnc told me that my file would fill up 95% of my 650MB disc, but when it finished, I had a 732MB file! bummer...

So... another question (not strictly audio, I guess. Forgive me if this is a mis-post):

Do I have to manually create multiple files, or can I create one big file and use a utility (i MAY have heard something like this, but can't remember) to split it up into CD-ROM sized chunks afterwards?

MP

[DJ Bobo]

a 650MB-CD can hold 740MB in VCD or SVCD mode.

a 700MB-CD can hold 800MB in VCD or SVCD mode.

[MarcoPolo7]

Thanks.