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I'm trying to write a mcf template to encode a MPEG file like PocketMovies does. I've started by modifying the VideoCD-NTSCFilm mcf, with 176x120 (half each of 352x240) and reduced CBR to 350000. But when I encode it its file size is exactly the same as a normal 352x240 1150000 VCD - I'm expecting it to be around 1/4 the size. Can anyone help? What am I doing wrong?
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Can TMPGEnc rotate a video 90, 180, or even 270 degrees?
I just did an experiment after reading your question and I encoded a 30minute clip at 160 by 120 at 500kbs and the 30 minute clip(no audio) came out to 46mb even though the quality was terrorable and it only showed a small square of the middle of the screen(the original is 704 by 480)the only real differance is that I used the CQ encodeing method at 55 quality with 500 max and 50 minimum, and I was surprised at how small the file was, but in reality your file should be 1/8 the size as normal cuz just lowering the resolution that much would make it 1/4 the size then you lowered the bitrate by 3/4 which would have lower the file size again to 1/4, so the over all size should be 1/8 th the regular vcd size ,so you should have gotten simular results as I did, so why don"t you try to encode useing the CQ encodeing method it is a much better method for keeping file size down and quality up(not in this case), one thing that surprised me was that I encoded the 30 minute clip in about 10 minutes..try looking at the file through a bitrate viewer and see what the bitrates really are cuz the "cbr" method is not allways very constant ,it is known for causeing large bitrate spikes...
You must click the 'system' tab and change the stream type to 'MPEG1 VCD(non standard)' before you encode otherwise TMPG will just add padding to the MPEG file to try and make it a compliant standard VCD.
If you have already encoded your movie then you can remove this padding by running the file through the 'simple multiplex' option in MPEGtools and choose 'MPEG1 VCD(non standard' as the type.
This should reduce the file size down to what it should be.
Seems like after I encode a file to mpeg2 (svcd) it goes to 100% done for a 50 minute segment in about 1 hour and a half. Then it sits for another 10 minutes or more with the disk light on and the program keeps counting time and wont release the file yet. The disk light isn't "cranking away" that much, just on flickering constantly. Any idea what it's doing? Something I dont need it to do that I could turn off?
Well I don"t know about 10 minutes but on my system it sits for about 2-4 minutes while tmpgenc writes the end code on the header information, it says it is 100% done but it isn"t actually done until the stop tab is greyed out and the time stops running, the actual encodeing is done but the header information isn"t compleated being writen, patience my friend patience.....
Yes just wait and it will finish. I suppose it depends on the speed of your system on how long it actually completes writing the headers.
If you don't want to wait this long then you can prevent TMPG from writing the VCD headers by encoding the video only as an elementry stream and encode the audio separately. This way you won't have the wait at the end and all you will have to do is multiplex the two files together.
Yes and no, some poeple have had limited success encodeing "wmv" files, usually to get your "wmv" file loaded into "tmpgenc" you have to rename it to "asf" but every "wmv" file I have tried will only encode for a few minutes before crashing, you can encode your wmv file to avi ,I think a program called "asf tools" will do it, you can find it in the tools section at "vcdhelp.com"...
I convert WMV from time to time with very good luck.
What seems to be the bigest thing of importance is the Audio stream in a WMV TMPGenc doesnt like it so what must be done is the Audio needs to be seperated from the Video. I do this with total recorder http://www.highcriteria.com/ I out put the file as a mp3. The go back and select the file for video source. and the mp3 for audio source.
I'm in the midst of a VCD making project and perhaps someone could help me out. I have 2 950+MB mpeg files all set to burn to VCD but they're obviously too big. I want to put the two of them together, then split them into 3 pieces so that I can burn them onto 3 separate discs in VCD format.
I'm assuming it can be done by using MPEG Tools (in the "File" menu) but as yet I havent found any guide/instructions/help.
Can anyone give me a few pointers or push me in the right direction?
It is simple load part 1 in then part 2 ect into the merge and cut choose "mpeg1 vcd"from the drop down menu choose your output directory then click run, and god willing it will make a file with all files merged, then you take that file load it in the merge and cut choose "mpeg1/vcd" from the drop down menu choose your output directory click edit then a window will come up and you move the slider to the end of the part you want to cut click the tab that looks like this } and then the part you want to cut will be darkened then click "ok" then click "run" and it (god willing) will make a file for the first part, then you repeat for each part useing the mark in and mark out tabs { }..thats it, the reason I say god willing is cuz the merge and cut are notorius for not working correctly so make sure you view each cut and merged part before burning to disk to make sure that the mpegs are playing correctly...
Has anyone successfully tried converting SWF (Macromedia Flash) files to Mpeg-1 in order to burn to a VCD? The video comes out OK but there is no sound.
I do not know a single thing about Macromedia Flash Files, but the reason audio is not in your encoded mpeg file usually is because the audio format in your source files is not suported in tmpgenc so the encoder can not decode the audio format, what you have to do is extract the audio from your file to a wav file then use that as your audio source, I don"t know what software you would use to do this cuz I don"t know that format but seeing as you are experienced in Macromedia Flash you probably know the software to do it with.....
I've done it before, I used Quicktime Pro to convert the SWF to MOV and the to MPEG-1 with TMPGEnc... Is really easy and with good Quality.... Just remember to have the SWF with a good FPS.
Does anyone know how to make chapters using TMPGEnc or Nero Express? Is it possible to burn a VCD with chapters using one of these programs? I used Ulead Video Studio, but it has its problems, so I switched back to Nero. Also, I was wondering why Nero's status bar overflows past the red (80 minute marker) when I used the KVCD 120 min. template for 1 CD. I had to split the file into 2 mpgs to fit half on 1 CD and half on the other. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could get me back on these problems. Thankyou.
VBR should work in most DVD players if not all as DVD players are VBR machines by design anyway.
The quality should be better when using VBR as this method allows you to use higher bitrates when needed yet keep the file size down.
when i encode avi files into VCD or SVCD format the screen goes pink and then goes away and then turns pink again... any idea why it does this and most importantly how do i stop it? thanks!
The "pinnacle dv codec" is not supported in tmpgenc, the formats that are currently supported and "direct show" formats "video for windows"formats and "open DML" formats, which covers most codecs accept usually specialty codecs made for certain capture and editing softwares like "studio 7 dv" try any other codec accept those that are "pinnacle" like "Indio" or "microsoft mpeg4" or pretty much any other ones......
The line "pinnacle dv codec is not supported in tmpgenc" means exactly that, you can not encode "pinnacle dv" avi files to mpeg in tmpgenc..Tmpgenc can not decode the pinnacle studio 7 format so that is why tmpgenc will not read your avi files, so use a different codec to render your avi files, one that is not pinnacle studio 7.......
The other opinion :
Sudio Dv7 works fine for me . I have NTSC and doing capture and editing with Studio7. Then I'm doing encoding with TMPGenc-works fine.
Hi, I need your help.
When I open a file in TMPGEnc program (Ver.2.54), the error message was shown. But the error doesn't affect following work. I still can convert avi to mpg. But I like to know what is the error? Anybody can help me on this? Thanks,
Need some advice on getting Pinnacle Impressions to work with files created out of TMPGEnc.
I just installed Pinnacle Impressions on my new 1.8 Ghz P4 Windows XP computer, but it won't accept any of the files created from TMPGEnc. I have successfully created NTSC 720x480 29.97-fps AVI files from captured video using VirtualDub, created AC3 files using SoftEncode, and created various MPEG files using TMPGEnc (video & audio, video only, CBR, VBR), and all of these files are played just fine by my software players, but Pinnacle Impressions either won't open them at all, or it opens them and says they have a length of zero and won't do anything with them.
I tried changing the file extensions because Impressions says it accepts MPEG-2 video files with .MPV and .MP2 extensions, and TMPGEnc creates its video files with .MPG or .M2V, and audio-only as .MP2. But none of this has made any difference.
The only file I can get Impressions to work with is a .WAV file. So far, I am not impressed (arg-arg-arg).
Do you import audio and video as a program stream(multiplexed)
or each one seperately?Try doing it the other way.
Check again the parameters you used encoding for them and compare
them to what the help file of Pinnacle Impressions says.
I heard somewhere that the MP2-sound-format is only supported by PAL
but not by NTSC DVDs.Maybe that is the reason for your error.
If you want to create an NTSC DVD,I think you can only use WAV instead of
MP2.