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can anybody help me out here, first off, if a vcd(mpeg) file is created with a bitrate different to the default of the program, will it still be playable in dvd players?
next is, what bit rate should i set to fit a 120 minute movie onto a 100 minute cd?
immediate help would be so much appreciated as i am anxious to start encoding some avi´´s, i have all of the rocky movies and me and my friends are all meeting up to have the first ever(at least for my town) ROCKY MARATHON!!!
Putting a Whole 2 Hour Movie on one CD-R is Not Worth it as you will have to lower the Bitrate lower than the VCD standard and even regular VCD"s Look Pretty Bud so with a Lower Bitrate they will Look even worse, You Probably couldn"t tell the Differance Between Rocky and his Brother In Law Pauly on the screen it will look so Bad, I would Put it on 2 CD-R"s, that is if you are Into any Sort of Quality, But if you want to Try it then Get a "Bitrate Calculator" it will tell you what bitrate to use for The Length of Movie you are encodeing so it will fit on X# CD-r"s, and if you use a Lower than Standard Bitrate you have to change the "System" setting to "Video-CD NON_Standard"..
Do you really want to show your friends the abysmal quality these VCD's will be.
For a start normal VCD's on 2 disks doesn't quite cut it as far as quality is concerned, so trying to fit a whole 120min movie on 1 100min disk will just produce , as far as I'm concerned, unwatchable crappy results.
I certainly wouldn't want to be one of your friends watching these crappy quality movies as it will just spoil the show.
If you want to make a high quality VCD that will fit on one CD, and aren't worried about going outside of the standard, try using the KVCD templates which can be found at www.kvcd.net.
In my experience the quality of a one disc KVCD exceeds that of an average two disc standard VCD/SVCD.
Sorry i just dont get this.
How do you create standard vcd on 1 cd with standard burning software if the file is 800MB+? Surely you'd have to split the file and burn to 2 cds!? If so how? How to split the file especially when there is a sub file. This has caused me umpteenth of problems.
Also using TMPG 2.5 using K(S)VCD template, the file always comes larger than 800MB+ so this just brings you to the same scenario.
Nero is a pain also cos it wont let me burn onto cd when the file is too large.
Yes Ashy! Thanks! By setting 100ms for both, you solved my AC3 problem! :) AviMUX said to set it both at 160ms, I set it at 100. What's the difference?
I have no idea why the interleave is recommended at 160ms. It's just too high. This always causes problems. 100ms just seems to be the best interleave setting for most Ac3 files. As a matter of fact setting it anywhere between 1ms and 100ms is usually ok.
I downloaded an mpeg2 file, but it isnt a standard size so i want to resize it and recompress to vcd. however i cant get tmpgenc to open it. I downloaded mpeg2 codecs but they only let me play the file in media player. Anyone know how i can solve this? Thanks
I need to encode a lot of realmedia files to VCD format: TMPGENC doesn't support this format and so I use Tinra to produce an AVI file as first step. A few days ago was released as open source a directshow filter called RealMedia Splitter. This filter enables Windows Media Player, Graphedit and other DirectMovie applications to play realmedia format. Why TMPGENC opens the files with blank video and mute audio? May be someone, more skilled than me, can use the source code of this filter to produce a TMPGENC .vfp plug-in to expand the capabilities of TMPGENC?
I don't think TMPGEnc supports RM files at all even with the filter. I use EO Video to encode my RM files and it turns out really bad. I don't like RM files anymore!
I tried converting all the South Park episodes into VCDs [they were initially in RM format].. Downloaded that same software you use and it came out terrible. It's not worth it :(
RealMedia Splitter uses yuy2 colorspace but TMPGEnc connects the rv dec filter in rgb24 trough VFAPI interface. It's correct? I can understand that fix tmpgenc to use one of the much faster yuv color spaces is a complex job because all VFP plug-ins uses RGB. May be that someone can transform RealMedia Splitter in a vfp plug-in.
Why don't you use the EDIT function to cut out the commercials before encoding instead of after encoding. This will then give you a continuous MPEG stream wothout commercials.
What you can do is go to "Settings" to "Advanced" and double click on "Source Range" and use the Mark in and Mark out buttons to choose the Beginning and the end of the file then Tmpgenc should report the Correct Length and if not just encode anyways as there is Probably an error in the header of the avi file that is telling Tmpgenc that the file is too long...
First time on the board. I've done a search for this problem but haven't found a solution. I know it's common:
I have the QT reader plug-in. When I try to encode a QT ref file made in Avid XDV3.5 to MPG1, TNPGEnc closes down with no warning. Any thoughts you guys? The AVI to MPG1 function works.
The QT Plugin isn"t really supposed to be for QT referance Files, and the Fact that some poeple have been successfull is Just a Fluke...The QT Plugin is not Supported anymore as the Author of the QT Plugin doesn"t have anything to do with Tmpgenc and he does not update the Plugin anymore...I guess you can try raiseing the Priority of the QT Plugin in the Vfapi Plugins But if it doesn"t work there isn"t much you can do about it, You can use a Program to encode that does support QT files Like CCE, of you can exrots your Files as AVI as opposed to QT Ref files...
Problem solved. When exporting a QT ref file from Avid XpressDV, deselect the Avid Codec button. Using the setup information at http://dvd-hq.info/compression.html, the software doesn't crash and the quality is stunning. QT ref files rule! It means that there is effectively only one compression pass going on, avoiding the conversion to AVI first.
Well it is Probably because the Audio in the AVI files is of a Format that is not Supported By Tmpgenc..You need to use something like "AVI-Mux" to extract the audio to Wav format and then use that as the audio source in tmpgenc...
I've been using TMPGEnc for almost a year and am very experienced in video editing, encoding, etc. However, the "read error" problems of TMPGEnc have stumped me for a few months. It would seem that there are several different read errors, but the most common one that I stumble across is "Read error occurred in address x of TMPGEnc.exe".
First, I experienced the problem converting SVCD (previously frameserved, so really a d2v file) to DVD. And just recently I experienced the problem converting a .AVI compressed with the PicVideo MJPEG codec. It would seem that the error is somewhat random as I have successfully converted these files before (PicVideo MJPEG especially, as this is the codec of choice for captures that I make), so I was wondering if there is any real knowledge known about its cause?
Further details will be posted if needed. Any help/feedback would be much appreciated. Thank you.
>I've been using TMPGEnc for almost a year and am very experienced in video editing
If that is the case then you will have/know that any serious Video creation requires a seperate and defragged drive (or at least a seperate partition). How's your drive health, defragged it lately?(yes a fragmented drive does cause this problem, this is from experience).
Have you raised the priority of the codec in the vfapi plugins?
Yes, using a separate drive is of course ideal, but this is not available to me. My drive health is fine and my priorities haven't been changed before or after the problems arose. It would seem that .d2v SVCD serves seem more prone to the problem than the PicVideo MJPEG codec (This was the first case that arose using the PicVideo MJPEG codec).
Anyway, I just run the same video (PicVideo MPJEG AVI) that recently caused the error through TMPGEnc again and no problems arose.
Well Try Frameserveing to PicVideo file to Tmpgenc with AVISynth or Virtual Dub, that way tmpgenc is not decodeing the File and will Probably will not give you as Many Problems..and Make sure in the PicVideo codec settings that the "Output to YUY2" Is NOT Checked.....Cheers
Hey, I had the same problem a few months back and started having it again a few days ago. If you look through this bb long enough you'll find others that have it as well. I solved my problem quickly this time while the last time it took me a week. My problem (both times)was dust build up in my heatsink. You might need to clean yours also.
1. Be sure to unplug your computer before you start.
2. Take your side panel off.
3. Unscrew your fan from your heatsink (be sure that your fan is clean too).
4. I then GENTLY vacuum my heatsink with the bristle attachment to wisk off
the hard to get dust.
5. Put the cleaned fan back on.
6. Close your case.
7. Plug in the power and try again.
Also like Ashy said defrag your drive(s) and check your defrag %, I use an online computer check-up at http://www.pcpitstop.com/default.asp to check for hard drive problems and other possible problems also. You can check your computer overall health for free.
I hope this helps.
I have this video where the audio was AC3. So I used Goldwave to extract the audio and save it as a WAV. Then I converted the video with the new WAV. On the computer, the MPEG played fine. But after I burned to VCD, the audio kept on halting, but the audio and video weren't out of sync (well, the video was unusually slow, unlike the playback on computer). How can I fix this without having to go back and reconvert?! :(
Well If you get a BufferUnderflow error then it is Because you did not encode the File as a VCD, You encoded it as a Plain Mpeg1 file with VCD Charicteristics...Try this Take the File and Put it in the "Merge & Cut" and Choose "Video-CD Non-Standard" from the Dropdown Menu and then choose an output file name and then click "Run" and it will make a New file with the Correct VCD header on the File without giveing you the BufferUnderflow error...
Thanks. I'll try that. Why is the audio having problems on the DVD player but not on the computer? Also, why don't I need to do this step for normal VCDs without AC3 audio? What is the function of Simple Multiplex, Multiplex, etc.?
Nero 5. I used AviMUX (the last time I used it on an AC3 audio-AVI file, it didn't work so I'm trying it again this time) and set the fields at 100ms. And it works in the test MPEG! Let's just hope it works for the entire thing. Also, did you know you could extract the AC3 audio in AviMUX and then when you're converting, you set the WAV file as the audio source. And under the "Audio" settings, at the bottom, you select "Audio Editing" and click on the button. Then click "Normalize" and press play to test out your audio volume. I never knew that! I was using Goldwave. Thanks anyways!