hi everyone i'm new here! anyway i've recently encountered this problem when i try to convert some of my divx files to vcd....when i click on "start", a message comes out saying "(filename) cannot be created"...i've converted a few files before i've seen this kind of message, and i don't understand what seems to be the problem...when i try to convert some of the divx files i've already converted before, the error message comes out again...can someone help me? thanks in advance!

Check that you have room on the HD its trying to write to and dont use any special charactors, just letter (& numbers if needed).

...also make sure you've got the right codec installed for the DIVX file you're trying to convert. I used to do this stuff, and had no end of problems because folks used different codecs, and different versions of different codecs. You MAY need to search for and download a codec pack, various guys used to create them and they usually provide an installer to dump the files onto your hard drive.

I also found "HeadAc3he" a useful tool. It down mixed the audio part of the DIVX file IF it was AC3 encoded. Another thing that'll trip TMPGENc up.

I've had TMPGenc crash out encoding some formats, or have other misc issues. Quite often what I do is re-encode the whole damn thing in either DivX or Indeo etc using virtualdub to remove any bugs in the file and put it in a TMPGenc-friendly format.

You'll need appropriate CODECs, of course. And with all re-encoding of lossy formats you'll lose a bit of quality - sometimes noticable sometimes not.

You'll find virtualdub and friends (for free) on sourceforge.net