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I personally prefer CQ... I use Max. 4000, min. 1800 and CQ 65 for SVCD.
Quality is the same or better than with 2 pass but without losing the time of a second pass.
Whenever I open an mpeg1 file (as a source for conversion), TMPGenc closes without warning on me. It never used to do that... any ideas?
It does it with every mpeg1 file I try, but it opens avi's just fine (no matter what codec it uses).
Well, I figured out the solution to my own problem. It turns out that the program crashing was due to an ACDSee 4.0 plug-in. More specifically, it was either the PicaView or ImageFox plug-in. I had a weird hunch it might have been one of those two things, so after posting my last message, I went to modify my ACDSee 4.0 package, and got rid of both of them. Right afterwards, I went straight to TMPGenc and the files opened just fine.
Anyone else have ACDSee 4.0 installed? If so, do you have ImageFox and/or PicaView enabled?
i have two mpegs and want to merge them. So i start tmpgenc and click MPRG-Tools (merge & cut).
Add both mpegs select from beginning to the end of every part und "run". Everything seems ok, but only first part is outputted, so the two parts arent togetter finally.
If you cant get it to read or write the SVCD Header then edit it as a "mpeg2 VBR" stream and after de-mux the file and re-mux it with the "svcd setting" and see if it will write the header then, some authoring programs will accept mpeg2 files without a svcd header, like VCDEasy, or Ulead dvd workshop"...
Hi, just a note for other people like me who are new to a lot of this... I was trying to encode some files and kept on getting "writing stream errors" and a freeze up. I wasn't sure what was going on but it seemed (after several hours of trial and error) to involve my computer rather than any specific video program. (such as TMPG or NERO). I tried to use Virtual Dub to extract a .wav and I got the message that I was out of memory.
My computer said that I still had 5 gigs free, but I thought I'd defrag the hard drive and make a bit more room. (I have been downloading, burning and deleting files 24/7, so I figured a defrag was in order. I downloaded PowerDefrag thru CNET. I installed the program, and a message popped up saying that I had some problems on my hard drive, and that these problems needed to be corrected before I could defrag. So I ran scan disk, and I found that I had "crosslinked files occupying the same sector". So I deleted all the screwed up stuff. Now I found that I supposedly only had 800 megs free disk space available... I restarted the computer and it still said the same thing, so I deleted a bunch of stuff I never even looked at and then low and behold, everything worked just fine.
So - what I'm trying to say is... it's not always the TMPG program that is at fault... sometimes it's the garbage on our computers, the residue from too many
KaZaa downloads or similar things....
I created a DivX-File with the Avi-Output. The Video-Stream was 2-Pass-DivX 5.0.2 and MP3-Audio-Stream. The file was 700Mb large and I tried to open it by "The Playa" - DivX-Player. After 1 minute and my HDD worked a lot! I got an error-Message. I suppose that "The Playa" tries to write the whole file into cache and then play it.
Is there a preferred setting or template available for encoding animated .avi files to SVCD format? I have many .avi cartoons uploaded to my computer that are ready for SVCD conversion. Any suggestions?
When you have the TMPG encoder picture on the screen, go to the "File" header, top left corner, and scroll down to MPEG TOOLS. Open up this file and go to "merge and edit". You then add the file you want just as tho you were going to encode it with TMPG - presumably it is a file that you made with TMPG already. Then once the file-name appears in the box you use the mouse pointer to "click" twice on the file name and another box with 2 sets of "timers" appears. This is your edit studio, good for clipping out "previews of coming movies", advertisements, or whatever, or for splitting a long file into 2 smaller ones. Remember to provide a new name for the "output" file. If you are making 2 small files from QUEEN OF THE DAMNED.MPG You can call ther first half DAMNED1.MPG and the next one DAMNED2.MPG.
I find I have to do these in 2 separate operations. Perhaps both could be done in "batch" mode while you sleep, but I do not know if it is possible.
I would like to convert my NTSC video into PAL mpeg file.
Is it possible to do it this way?
If not please suggest me a best way to do this.
Thank you all
You can"t do it properly with tmpgenc, there is a tool that will turn your Pal avi file into a true NTSC avi file then you can encode it to mpeg, it is called "DV Film Maker" you can download a copy here:http://dvdsoft.da.ru/ but I haven"t tried it and heard that it does a very good job but it takes a while...There are instructions on how to do it another way on this BBS you will find it if you use a search function on the top of this BBS....
It is easier if the NTSC file is a 23.9fps Ntsc you can just change the frame rate of the 23.9fps avi file to a 25fps avi file with "avi frame rate changer" and then use a audio editing program like "Cool Edit" or "Sound Forge" to shrink the audio to the new length of the video...