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Firstly may i say yur programme is brilliant - why has it taken me so long to find it?
Anyway..I am producing a small promotion video onto svcd and whilst I have the NERO mpeg2 plug in its quality isnt as good as i like. When i convert my avi to dvd format theough yur prog i get a fantastic result. When this is then used as a file by nero it says it is non compliant, but allows me to proceed if i wish, which then gives me full dvd quality on svcd. This obviously uses a lot of space on the disk but this isnt a problem as the video is less than four minutes. My question is:
Is this a legitamate process and will the result play on most dvd players. It works fine on my comp dvd player.
Thanks again for the programme.. il definetly be purchasing - dont hold yur
light under a bushel:)
I think your quite safe with the resolution. The reason is that DVD players can handle DVD resolution natively whether it be on a DVD or an SVCD, so most shouldn't have a problem.
The only problem some may have is with higher than normal bitrates on SVCD as this is dependent on the actual mechanics of the drive itself.
If the drive is able to spin the disk fast enough then it should have no problem with the bitrate, but some cannot which could cause jerky playback.
When I first started Doing SVCD"s I tried a Bunch of SVCD"s But at 704+480 useing a VBR Bitrate between 2000kbs and 6000kbs and while the Files Looked Great and were Pretty Much DVD quality My DVD Player Choked on these Disks because of the High Bitrate, even though my DVD Player could handle the Bitrate up to about 5000kbs it couldn"t handle it for the Whole File and I was able to get 40 minutes on a CD-R and these Disks Were Great after I backed them up to DVD...Just My Experience...
Thanks for those replies and ive immeadiately hit exactly that problem. Whislt the dvd drive on my computer can read the disk perfectly without any problems, my home dvd player produces a very jerky result. This particular player is fairly cheap but of course I cant rely on everyone having a high spinning player:)
Could someone recommend the maximum bitrate I can get away with which will suit the average player. Of course I recognise that the long term sulution is to right directly to dvd but then the disc contains other information that may need to be read by a cd reader (my problem of course - I decided to include a low lever mpeg that could be read by any computer not just those with a dvd rom)
I'm a new user and wanted to know how I can combine an mpeg that is chopped up into 10 parts and merge it back into it's complete file. I am using TMPGEnc 2.5.
It's me Ken again with additional comments to my orginal question. I tried using MPEG tools and then the "Multiplexing" tab. But after selecting my 10 files to merge and running it through I am only able to view the first file. Even though it says that the file size is now 250mb which is the correct file size of the whole file. I can't see the whole moive???
Because you selected the wrong tab.
All you have done is combined all 10 parts together to form 10 streams into 1 stream such as like twisting ten strands of string together, which means that when you play the MPEG all 10 streams play at the same time, but you can only see the first one playing.
You should have used the Merge&Cut feature to merge the MPEGs together end to end.
When i play back the VCD on my DVD player it seems to run fine then it pauses for a moment then it goes normal again,then it pauses again, etc. sort of "jittery".Anyone know what my problem is?
Well It sound like you are experienceing Bitrate spikes which Tmpgenc is Very notorius for...There isn"t much you can do accept Use a CBR encodeing Method, or use a encoder that does not have this Problem like Maybe MainConcept..You might also Try burning your VCD"s at as low of a Speed Possible like 4 speed as this Might help....
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...