During encoding an Avi file to VCD after 45% good, the movie becomes black.
There is no error message from TMPGENC.
The codec used is pinnacle MJPEG.
The movie is perfectly read under windows media

Any idea ?

I had the sam eproblem the other day, at about 50% the preview turned black, allthough the whole AVI was played flawless with Media Player...
I didn't care about it too much until I burned it to VCD and realised, that the result at my stand-alone DVD_player was the same: a black screen after 50%....

I don't kown what cuased it, but I solved it, by simply cutting the mpg at the point the movie turned black, and only reencoded the second part.
It saved a lot of time, and now worked just fine....

But as I said, No Idea what caused it, but would like to know as well....

Cheers,
Edwin

This can usually be solved by raising the priority of the 'Directshow mutimedia file reader' to 2 in the VFAPI plugins.

ASHY

Hello ASHY,

As my AVi is encoded with pinnacle DC10+ MJPEG codec (under w98se)w multimedia reader don't work, I have to use the vwf instead.

But my problem is still there , after a while the image is no longer encoded , only the sound.

By the way, is there a VFAPI plugin manual ?

thanks

This program has worked just perfect but yesterday it suddenly didnt show any video, only audio.. It doesnt give any error messages and everything seems to be fine,but when I look the file, I cant see a thing.. only the audio..What is the problem?

You probably need to raise the priority of the "direct show file reader" go to options to enviromental settings to vfapi plugins and raise the direct show to "2", this should get the video working...........

Hello,

Is it possible in a future version to show the frames next to the time (like in the program where you edit the range)?

Thanks,

Marc

I make short videos for local distribution. I would like to be able to trigger the copy inhibit for the 80% of my buyers that would rather purchase the content than go to the trouble to take it without offsetting my costs of my time/effort/equipment expenditures. I would like to dupe to VHS and DVD-R and +RW.

Can anyone tell me how to do this or where to find how to do it?

(Macrovision isn't an option because of my small quantities and my desire to dupe inhouse for ultra quick turnaround)

tnx!!!
Bruce

I wouldn't bother trying to protect the disks as it will just be a waste of your time and effort.

I have researched many of the so called protection programs out there, but none of them really work to well and all of them rely on the copier to be pretty dumb.

Anybody who is willing to make an illegal copy of someone elses material doesn't usually have to look far to find the right software to do it and have usually done it before. The software only protects the actual disk itself not the content.

By this I mean that if you did happen to use one of the programs to add protection to a disk and someone decided to copy it, they may recieve an error when they do a 1:1 copy, but there is absolutely nothing stopping the user from simply copying and pasting the actual content of the disk to another location.

The other thing is that if someone is intent on copying your material, there are many programs out there that will easy break the protection on the disk and still allow a 1:1 copy and most if not all burning programs are able to break this protection.

I suppose the best solution would be to encrypt the data on the CD which would require the user to have a key to decrypt the data. Ther is a program called Encryption Plus which is able to do this which will place a small key on the users PC which will allow the Disk to be viewed as normal, unauthorized users will not be able to view the disk.

Please see this link for more info:
http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_protect_cd.shtml

ASHY

Just looked at your post again and realise you want to author to DVD and VHS.

I think you are going to find it very difficult to find any protection for this, even DVD's own propriertry protection is useless, so what hope is there of 3rd party softare being able to accomplish this.

ASHY

As ASHY says, DVD copy protection has been brocken, with the copy disabling software being updated in a reactive manner as new DVDs are released. It is, however, possible to construct a DVD, which although can be hacked, would not be easy to rip (copy) without a great deal of time and effort.

If you're new to DVD authoring here's an article, about a year old now, but still valid, which might shed some light on the authoring process:

http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2001/08_aug/features/dvd_get_readya.htm

Griff

ok i posted the last time that tmpgenc keeps freezing up on me, now that everytime i encode i get the following error:

error:
.537403781 99504

i dont know what this is, and it always keeps popping up
anyway to fix this? im running lost here

Do you get the error for every file you encode or just one specific one ?
Have you tried re-installing the latest version of TMPGenc ?

yes to all your questions, i reinstalled and it still gives me an error, and it does it too all my encodes :(

Hey exact same thing happen to me except after it shows the error msg. , the time jumps to like 80 hours to decode. Does it do that to you?

Before you flame me, I have already tried the VFAPI Environmental Settings option that has been suggested many times, but it did not fix anything.

I used to be able to open MPEG-2 files just fine, and then all of a sudden, it stopped working. I may have caused it by installing an additional codec, but I've tried removing every mpeg player I can find, but I still can't fix the problem. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Nevermind, I fixed it by doing a "Full" install of the Nimo Codec pack.

I would be interested in knowing another solution ...

I had this problem when I upgraded from 2.56 to 2.57. 2.56 can open my MPEG2 files, but 2.57 cannot. I have an MPEG2 Codec (PowerDVD XP). Perhaps I need to reinstall PowerDVD? I too have not had success with changing environmental settings.

Thanks,
Xerces

Thanks to your help, I now have incredible quality for a 2 hours movie. But now, it seems I have some problems with sound. I encoded from a divx file. I first extracted the .wav with VirtualDub using 44100, 16 bits and stereo (to be clear: cd quality). Then I normalized the sound using NormalizeGUI. But after encoding the sound has some strange "metallic" noise. I tried with different higher bitrate, I get the same results... do you think I should use a better MP3-layer2 encoder. If yes, which one do you use and if not, how do you procede...

Thank you very much for your help,
Nicolas...

So I didn't mean MP3-layer2 but MPEG1-layer2... you certainly did the correction by yourself...

Are you useing Tmpgenc to encode the audio???There are other audio encoders that you can use with in Tmpgenc, and you can get a sameple rate converter for tmpgenc also pluss you can Normalize with tmpgenc too. The other audio encoders for Tmpgenc are much better than the one that is in Tmpgenc, the two that I have tried that are good are "Toolame" and "SCMPX" you can find them on any search engine and you install them in tmpgenc by going to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "External tools" and then just "Browse" for the encoders "exe" file and that is it.......

The sample rate converter is use is SSRC (Shibtach Sample Rate Converter I think)

http://shibatch.sourceforge.net/

Extract the audio again with Virtualdub, but this time make sure you check the 'High quality' box.
There is no need to normalize the sound with 3rd party software, both Virtualdub and TMPG can do this.

This should solve your problem.

ASHY

"SCMP" Is a sample rate converter also.

Thank you I tried Toolame and the sound is really nice now... I dunno if it's Toolame or not normalizing the sound as ASHY said but I think using the two ways is not so wrong...

Thanks for your help,
Nico...

Just wanted to add, that after I create my wav file with Virtualdub, that I use toolame gui and create a MP2 file before using tmpgenc. This way I have the option of changing settings if I want, but usually I make them the same as Tmpgenc does when it uses Toolame, which are the defaults except for :
-m for 's' stereo
-p for psychoacoutics model 1
-d for de-emphassis:n
-e for add error protection (CRC)
These settings can be saved in the toolamegui.ini file which also allows for batch processing and runs faster and smoother than when it does in Tmpgenc. Tmpgenc then just does the encoding and I point the audio to the newly created MP2 file.

The big thing is that if there are problems with the audio, I know them before hand and if something messes up later and I have to repeat the encoding, the audio file had already been created so I don't have to run it again.

You can find the free toolame gui at the "gui guy's" web site: http://guiguy.wminds.com/downloads/toolamegui/. Just make sure that you have toolame.exe in the same directory as where toolame gui is installed.

If anyone cares, here is what the contents of my toolamegui.ini file looks like to create the exact settings the Tmpgenc does when it calls Toolame.

[Main]
CLIpath=c:my documentsapplicationsaudio oolame oolame.exe

[Output]
M=1
Mode=1
P=1
Psy=1
B=1
Br=224
V=0
Vlev=5

[Misc]
F=0
Q=0
Qnum=num
D=1
Demp=n
C=0
O=0
E=1
R=0

After installing the new version I keep getting a streaming error. I do use the custom XSVD. Could this be the cause of the problem.

Thanks

When i encode Divx fils to Mpeg layer2 i seem to get the following error, usually between 2% - 25% into encoding . Please help.

" Write Error occurred at Address 00486f76 of module tmpge.exe with 001fd000"

This messages appears quite regularly when encoding divx, howver the numbers in the error seems to vary.

email: akaid24@ntlworld.com

thanks.AQ

Recently, TMPG started saying that all output, no matter what template-mcf file I load, the output will be like 20349203492GB... It gives a huge output filesize no matter what source MPG file I use, or what template I try!!??
Never had this before, and it just started recently?
I am trying to encode a MPG that was off of a DVD, and encode it with like a Kvcd or CQ template but having the same issue..
Thanks for any help
Ross

I guess you get this problem when useing the Wizard so just don"t use the wiZard cuz if you are useing CQ then the file size prediction will not be accurate anyways, as long as you can encode your files properly It doesn"t seem like a very big problem.......

Why do some movies read much larger than real size??? For example: a movie thats 120 mins reads that its 384.

>Why do some movies read much larger than real size??? For example: a movie thats 120 mins reads that its 384. Ok the movie Oceans 11 is, 1h and 56 min (690mb 1 disc/file) TMPG reads it as 381 mins or 6hrs 35 min. The movie Kiss of the dragon is 1hr 38min (698mb 1 disc/file) and TMPG reads it as 256min or 4hrs 26min. Both are divix. Is it a TMPG bug? Something not yet supported? Or am I missing a setting?

When i encode Divx fils to Mpeg layer2 i seem to get the following error, usually between 2% - 25% into encoding . Please help.

" Write Error occurred at Address 00486f76 of muduke tmpge.exe with 001fd000"

This messages appears quite regularly when encoding divx, howver the numbers in the error seems to vary.

email: akaid24@ntlworld.com

thanks.AQ