This may be a stupid question and the answer right in front of me but!!!
Okay I convert an avi to mep to play on my dvd. But with my dvd if I try to fast forward it brings me back to the begining menu and I have to start watch ing from the begining again.
So can I insert chapters like on a dvd so say I waych a 1/4 of the movie and want to go to bed and watch where I left off tomorrow?
I know there must be away but I haven't hit the right combanation lol! Also any ideas why I can't fast forward or use other options on my dvd player with a burnt cd mpeg?

Yes you can and a VCD/SVCD isn"t really worth watching without them I think(up yours NERO)But you need a VCD/SVCD authoring program, you can make Menu"s and chapters and Titles and inset animation and your own sound tracks in the menu"s and titles add buttons on the screen that corespond with buttons on your DVD Remote so you can easily navigate you VCD/SVCD movie..With SVCD"s you can even add subtitles and another audio track...There quite a Few program out there for doing this but not all are very good either because of a bad interface or just to complex for doing something that shouldn"t be...But a Good one is "Ulead DVD Workshop 1.2" you can download a Fully functional 30day trial version from there web site at : http://www.ulead.com/ it will take a Bit to learn cuz there is quite a Bit to it...good luck...

I also use Ulead because it supports complex designs (and 16:9) but Dazzle DVD Complete has the easiest chapter/thumbnail selection process. Motion thumbnails are no extra work and once chapters are selected, fully functional menus are automatically generated. It is also cheap.

http://www.vcdeasy.org/

When I convert an avi file into a video CD mpeg file, the sound gets very crappy, like metalic sounding. It usn't be like that. What could be the problem?

Well when you encode your files with tmpgenc the audio has to have it"s sample rate converted then the format uncompressed then recompressed to a new format and it is a Fairly complicated job to without looseing Quality and the Ausio encoder in Tmpgenc isn"t very good so what you can do is get the External audio encoder and sample rate converter plugins for Tmpgenc, the audiop encoders are called "Toolame" and "SCMPX" and for Sample rate converters you can use SCMPX or SSRC, you install then by going to "Options" to "enviromental settings" to "external tools" then browse for the appropriate file..You can find these programs on Google or any other search engine...

thanks for the advice, I've tried it, and it seems to work perfectly.

Okay i've got 3 questions:

1. when i convert a divx movie to videocd mpg, i can play it normally with windows, when i burn it with Nero, and play it in my DVD player, it also works, but after 10-30 minutes, the movie is gowing slower, the sound stays the same, then the movie plays faster to synchronize with the sound.
also i noticed conversion works better when i turn on inverse telecine, it stutters less.
Does this has anything to do with my dvd player, it plays normal not converted videocd mpgs in good quality.
I mean, downloaded mpgs is no problem, why is it a problem if i try to convert divx movies to mpg.
Can anyone please help me ?

2. When i convert it to mpg2, it seems to work better, the only problem is i only get 30 minutes of film on one cd, i can ofcourse reduce the size but i do not know if this will affect the quality.

3. Converting from mov to mpg doesn't work, only the movies are working but there is no sound.
Why is this ?

If anyone can help me, i will be grateful
greetz
Mark Dekker

I know on my DVD Player when I get the video slowing down and the audio stays the same then the video speeds up to be in Sysc again it is sometimes called Jumpy Playback, Jumpy playback can be caused By Quite a few things..Like encodeing to a different frame rate as the source file..Encodeing to a bitrate that is too High, or sometimes you can get bitrate spikes caused by the encoder or by high motion scenes or complex scenes,which you player cant handle..Simular effects can be had by haveing the Incorrect "Field Order" set for interlaced film..If you are getting only 30 minutes of Mpeg2 on a CD-r then that is definately quite High and too high for most DVD Players, I can usually get 45-55 minutes of VBR Mpeg2/svcd on a CD-R with Great Quality...The reason the there is No audio with MOV files is probably because the audio format in MOV files is not supported, you get this with every type of file depending on the audio format..The audio needs to be extracted and encoded or De-Compressed to a format like WAV that tmpgenc can encode to MP2 audio..Inverse telicline only works with Files that have previously been teleclined and at 23.9/24FPS...

After I had installed Quicktime 5.5, TMPGEnc could open any MOV file I gave it without any problem, so I sugest you try that too...

ABS

But most of the DIVX movies are 30 frames, i convert them to 24, so they can be played on a PAL, if i use inverse telecine the movie becomes less shocking.
But i do not understand that mpg's that are downloaded that way are better quality then the movies that i convert, the divx movies i convert have those jumpy parts but the normal mpgs do not have that, and i just want to know how i can fix it.
Like i said, converting to mpg2 solves the problem, but it takes too long...
hmmm what can i do.
greetz
Mark Dekker

Well that is your problem...If you telicline a 30FPS file to 24FPS it still isn"t Pal, 24Fps is NTSC Film..And if you telicline it to 24FPS then encode it to Pal that won"t work either Cuz Tmpgenc does not do NTSC to Pal conversions(not properly)..If you want to turn NTSC to Pal you need a NTSC/PAL converter like ProCoder,Advanced NTSC/Pal Converter or even AVISYnth has a Good NTSC/Pal converting Command but Tmpgenc will not do it correctly...

when i try to encode an avi file to video cd(NTSCfilm) which was a match in frame rate the picture works but the sound is unsupported or unable to read. yet it played perfect on media player any help would be much app.ta

Well you need to Extract the audio from the AVI file to a WAV file with something like "Virtual Dub" then use that as the audio source but if the audio os AC3 you will need a AC3 Decoder ..

Hi,

I have decided that my next article will be about VBR Encoding.
The article will start by giving General info about VBR and then will talk about TMPGEnc. Later I might add info on CCE, though first I need to find a water-mark-free version to work with...

While still collecting information, it would be usefull if you
could post here, or e-mail me, some VBR expirience you have had or opintions or whatever comes to your mind. All feedback is wellcomed!

www.geocities.com/mpegobsession/

ABS

Is there plans to implement a .TS (Transport Stream) generation into TSMPEG? I think it would be very beneficial to have this implemented.

Hi
I have a few SVCDs from captured home movies that are in mono and the sound only comes out of one speaker.
What I want to do is copy this to the other side so I have sound coming from both sides (albeit two mono stacks).
I have looked at TMPGEnc and I can't see a way to acomplish what I want. I have also tried a demo version of CoolEdit but all I get is hisssss.
Help please.

Thanks

The best program for converting Mono into Sterio and Cleaning up the Sound Quality is "Sound Forge" it is a Share ware program that can be downloaded at "www.sonicfoundry.com" and you can probably find a way to register it if you looked hard enough...It"s a Great audio editing manipulation tool and It accepts Video files and does some minor Video editing and is good for extracting audio from Wideo files and encodeing them to what ever format you choose...

Thanks and sorry for the double post.
That Refresh button gets me every time!!

Flash

Hi
Got Sound Forge working (Full)
but I am now in need of some plugins (mpeg)
Any ideas where I can get them

Ta

Yes but you will have to e-mail me...

Just convert the MPEG audio to wav first with TMPG or another program and Soundforge should accept it. Soundforge will do this anyway even if you use an MPEG filter then after you have done what you need export the finished output to wav from soundforge and use as your audio input for TMPG.

ASHY

Thanks
I've been playing around with the converting to wav thing with cool edit and Goldwave. (I have yet to try again with soundforge with mpeg bits) I have managed to copy the channel and save in the Goldwave but TMPGEnc won't recognise the saved file (wav). It won't let me save as mp3 it says I don't have mp3 bits in my PC and suggests installing media player, well I use Win XP so I have media player... Hmmm.
Cool edit - I can load the audio extracted with TMPGEnc but all I get is hiss.
The only way I have had success is by using Goldwave to copy the channel and saving as wav (not recognised by TMPGEnc) loading this into Cooledit and saving as mp3 which TMPGEnc will accept.
A long way round but it works.
Minion, I will mail you as soon as I get back to my own PC. At work now for a few days.
Thanks for all the help

Flash

Does the wav actually play ok. It doesn't seem to make sense that TMPG doesn't recognize it.

ASHY

Yes the wav created by GoldWave does play in media player 8 okay.
It will load in TMPGEnc as an audio source for encoding but wont load into the audio input for multiplex (either simple or multiplex). I don't want to encode again as I have a few of these to do.

Flash

Just tried to encode just the GoldWave wav and I get the error unsupported audio strem.
When trying to multiplex the error is 'illegal mpeg stream'
Hope this info is useful.

Thanks

Flash

You cannot multiplex a wav with an MPEG SVCD or VCD it is not supported.
TMPG should be able to encode the wav no problem though. No matter what you do you will have to re-encode the file to mp2. I'm afraid there is no way around it.
If you are having problems with TMPG re-encoding the audio then try something like dbpoweramp. I would recommend Headac3e, but there seems to be a lot of problems with this program. MPEGDJencoder is by far the fastest mp2 encoder, about 10x faster than TMPG and will save you some time encoding all those files you have.

ASHY

Thanks for all your help. I have now got the results I wanted as below.
De-multiplexed using TMPGEnc to extract audio (mp2)
Load into Goldwave, copy left channel and paste into right.
Save as wav file
Encode this wav with TMPGEnc (audio only) which only took a couple of minutes.
Multiplex original SVCD with the new audio.
Resultant SVCD is as original with sound from both channels but the file size is about 10% larger. I think this is due to the extra audio channel but am not sure as the audio bitrate hasn't changed from 224.

Great and thanks again

Flash

Here's one I have not seen mentioned and it looks useful.

In Environment Settings/General there is "Enable multiplex with "mux://file name" for video/audio source".

Reencoding video from DVD2AVI leaves you with the .mpa audio file. Loading this as an audio source and adding "mux://" in front saves the extra muxing step.

If you quit encoding, the audio runs on long after the stopping point. (A bug?) This does demonstrate that audio is being muxed in just like when the external encoder feature is used.

Hi all - I'm an avid user of TMPGenc for about 3 months now. Just recently, I started getting "runtime error 16..", and "EAccessViolation module in TMPGenc". This started happening when I downloaded the Plus version of TMPGenc. These errors occur when I'm encoding an AVI to MPEG1 / 2, and usually pop-up around the 22% complete mark. Another strange thing is that the encoding of the AVI to MPEG looks finished, I can play the converted MPEG video, but there's no audio?? And the file size is almost twice as big as the original AVI, even though the encoding halted at 22%! Any suggestions on what to do?

Much appreciated.

Alright, i know everyone has read this before on here, but i am going to ask again for my my own benefit. Heres the scoop;
I have recorded an AVI file useing the HAUPPAUGE WINTV PVR useing the program VIRTUALDUB at a resolution of 640x480 as that is as far as i know the highest i can record under virtualdub. After that i have encoded the AVI to MPEG-2 with TMPG. After trying MANY different settings and variables,includeing BOTH of the DVD templates with the WIZARD, i have not found any sort of setting that looks good after burning a DVD with DVDIT PE 2.5 . The video looks either grainy or hesitates through the whole movie.
I am trying to record some home made martial arts videos and this is really makeing me frustrated trying to get a good watchable dvd. I thought makeing dvd's was supposed to be easy, but i guess not eh? I have had better looking videos makeing an mpeg-1 file and makeing a VCD useing nero. Unfortunately you cant just drop mpeg-1 files onto a dvd and have it play like a vcd. GRRRRRR.........there must be a better way, if anyone can help me along in all this it would be greatly appreciated. :) thanks ahead for all the help,

g~

Hello,

Im having the exact same problem with very high quality DV video ripped from my camcorder. When I try to convert to MPEG2, even with rediculous custom settings on the bitrate like 10000Kbps, it always looks like a video encoed at 200 kbps or less instead. I see higher quality from Micro$oft's encoder with wmv.

Please help us with this problem.

Sarge

Hi G-meekin, The problem coulc be that since you Capture card only supports up to 640+480(not Virtual dub) then you are encodeing it to DVD the 640 by 480 resolution gets stretched 20% to 720 by 480 then you loose 20% of the detail..And You might get better Quality useing a Lossless Capture Codec or close to lossless like HuffyUV, but you need about 25GB per hour of AVI at full resolution..And if you are captureing to Interlaced Video (which you probably are) use the "De-interlace Filter" while encodeing and Noise Reduction which will help get rid of Interlace artifacts and Block Noise and get rid of the stuttering effect caused By haveing the incorrect field order..If your Card is a Pci card it is Probably a BT848 or BT878 Card which means you can install different drivers for the card that will alow you can capture up to 720+480 or 756+576..I have a Cheapo TV Wonder Card which would only capture up to 640+240 which is a Totally useless Resolution so I installed these drivers and now I can capture up to 756+576 with Virtual Dub..You can download the drivers at http://btwincap.sourceforge.net I just checked and they will work for your Card.....

Hello

I seem to have some movies where the video is a bit choppy. I usually use only tmpgenc with nothing else running. And it seems when the movie is very busy IE a lot of action the video ends up choppy. Should I make sure I have nothing else running when I burn the CD or use VCDeasy? I burn at the lowest speed 4x.

Could it be the cd brand. I just purchased a new coputer dedicated to just making the mpg and its a p4 2.5mhz with 256 ram. So it should have the power to handel this.

Steven

Have changed the framerate of the movie to that of the original?
What bitrate did you use to encode and what format?

More details please...

ASHY

Its the one you sent me.

480x480
4000x1800 cq 65....

It seems to happen when the action on the screen is a lot.

Not sure what causes it.

Steven

That didn't answer the question.

I need to know what the source is I.E. AVI, MPEG and what the framerate is then I need to know what framerate you used to encode the movie or which template you are using.

ASHY

As a test try this.
Load the unlock.mcf template and change the maximum bitrate to 2600 kb/s.
Then encode a test part of the movie and play it your DVD player.

If it plays ok then I'm afraid your player is incapable of handling high bitrates in SVCD.
You can go to VCDhelp.com and look at the DVD player list to find out what it can handle, but I would suspect it's limit will be 2600 kb/s.

ASHY

Sorry you asked what type of file it is. I download AVI (DVD rips).

Could it be choppy from when I burn the CD. Should I only burn when nothing else is running or can I do 2 things at once?

Steven

PS I must say you guys have been a great help to me.

Thanks again. ;-)

Does the movie play ok on the PC or is it choppy on the PC also?
Please read the question carefully as you don't seem to be giving me the right answers to my questions.

ASHY

I looked on the FAQ of this site and entered in variables to the bitrate equation till it gave me a file that was 690MB. Then, when I burnt the movie (VCD), it came out to 970MB! Whats with the equation, is it wrong?

PS - It did the same thing when I used the file-sizer thing in the TMPEG wizard too.

Can you type here how you calculated? (what values you used)
ABS

First Off Don"t really put all your trust in Bitrate Calculators,Cuz they are really only Vaguely accurate when Useing CBR and to a Lesser degree Multi-pass..I have tried probably half a doZZen different VCD/SVCD Bitrate calculators with Varying degreen of success but the one that seems most accurate is this one:http://www.dvd-digest.net/downloads/files/encode/xvcdc111.zip accept I usually go 100KBS lower than it says Areason why your file could be bigger than the bitrate Calculator says, is if you are makeing a VCD with a Bitrate lower than the standard VCD Bitrate of 1150kbs you have to go into the "System" settings and change it to "VCD Non-Standard" because Tmpgenc will Pad the stream up to VCD specs to make it VCD Compliant....

PS:Why Make your VCD Files 690MB when you Can fit closer to 800MB on a 700mb 80min CD-R in VCD/SVCD Format??