It won't show a picture, only audio. What's up with that? 2.5 Plus works fine.

Hello DOGG1
Welcome to the forums.
But, come on: what kind of question is that?
Tell us EXACTLY what you are doing, the kind of source you are using, the software you are using, etc.
Otherwise it's going to be very difficult to help you
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Rui

thx

LOL.

As the title suggests, i'm using tmpgenc 3.0 xpress. It won't play my divx5 (also in the title) avi file. Only gives sound. When i first add the file and i get the option to cut/edit. It happens when encoding also. It just stays on the first frame.

Well that we already knew
Same here
Again
And again...
This one is new.
You mean that when you open the encoded *.m2v file with your software player it just shows you the 1st frame?
Or is it only happening while encoding and watching in the preview window?
Ok, earlier what I meant to ask was if you were using avisynth and a script, for instance.
Doesn't seem the case
I am going to take as granted that you can open that source file with windows media player, right?
And if you say you can do the job with 2.5x then I really don't know much more to help you.
Why not use 2.5x instead of 3.0, then?
Tmpgenc 2.5x is still a very valid/valueable encoder that doesn't loose much to it's bigger 3.0 brother.
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Rui

Let me explain. I have a 3 hour avi file encoded with divx5. I set everything up in 2.5 and it was encoding fine until almost the end where it gave me a message, "invalid scanline" or something similar and stopped the encoding. Would've been nice to have a 'skip frame' option. But no, it made the whole thing useless.

The avi plays fine in players.

So i grabbed 3.0 because you can cut out parts of the movie. I was just going to test if it could encode the bad part and if it couldn't, i'd cut out half a second or so. So when i add the avi to 3.0 and play it in the cutting mode, it won't show a picture, only the 1st frame. When it encodes it just encodes the one frame which stays on screen forever but with sound.

Ok, now I get it
Don't you have another source to test it?
To me it seems obvious that there is a problem with the source.
Otherwise is there an DivX fix utility that you can try?
I'm not an expert when it comes to DivX/XviD sources
Maybe you better wait for Phil.
He's one of the Mods that run the AVI->KVCD forum and he is very familiar with those kind of sources.
Or maybe someone else can try to help too
Hopefully it won't take long for them to show up.
Cheers

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Rui

Thanx for advice. I used DivFix and DivxRepair an neither reported any errors with the file.

I've downloaded and installed the divx codec off the official website just in case something was wrong. Same problem still. So i downloaded a movie trailer off the site. It plays fine but it has no sound. LOL. Opposite problem.

EDIT: I've just noticed, the trailer is 1:15 but in tmp 3.0 in the 'clip info it reports it as 1813 frames but in the 'cut-edit' when i play it says xxxx/3762 frames.