Just want to share a nice experience I had with kwag's templates:
tried to encode a 18 min. avi clip in tmpgenc with each of these 3 kvcd templates: near dvd quality (pal), the new pal template and the pal-plus template. At 48% in the process tsunami stopped: stream writing error. So, being the computer wizzard of the neighborhood, I checked if ultra dma was enabled on the drive (suspecting data throughput was too low): yes.
Hmmmm, must be a problem with kwag's templates then. Felt bad, because I read so many positive comments about his work. Tried to encode another clip: stopped with the same error just 1% or even 0% in the encoding process. Removed 2.58 and installed an earlier version of tmpgenc: same results. Finally visited the faq section of tsunami, and found this answer: "Encoding is aborted with stream writing error. >> Either temporal HDD or target HDD for MPEG out put is too small to store the MPEG data."
Can you freakin' believe it???? The remaining hard disk size was 0 as in zero.... Am a happy camper since 5 minutes: encoding works fine and all plays well on my Diamond DVD player.