Encoded M2V video - Corrupted, as if green channel only encoded

[Stevie-O]

I've searched the forums, read the FAQs, read the guides, and I am still stumped as to what I'm doing wrong.


I've tried with both CCE and TMPGenc to transcode various files (which are encodings of old television shows) from XviD to MPEG-2 for placing on a DVD. I even tried XviD RC4.

After transcoding a small bit of each file, I would check out the resulting
m2v file by playing it with Windows Media Player. Now, before anybody tells me it's some sort of colorspace problem, that's not it. If it was a simple case of only displaying the green channel, I'd say so. But it's more complicated than that. The result is a cross between a 'green-channel-only' effect and a 'ghost'
effect -- the green channel (and only the green channel!) is pasted over itself
at three or four places across the image.

I'm not sure what details are needed to diagnose this -- so if you need more information, please reply and I'll see if I can find it for you.

Please help; this is extremely frustrating.

[nbl957]

I'm no expert but very early on I had what I believe was the same problem. It turned out, after I tried about 3 d/l's of the same project, that I didn't have a proper codec installed.

Could be as simple as that.

[davexnet]

in tmpgenc - wasn't the green visible during the encode?
One thing you can try, select environment/vfapi plugin and deselect
opendml and let it default to dshow.

Does this avi look OK when you play it in media player?
Dave