How can I convert a wide screen avi to (S)vcd and put the black borders at the top and botom of the movie

Encode it at "16:9"...or use the "Clip Frame" feature to arrange the Frame the way you want it...

I have found it out now but it takes up to 40 hours to convert it. Is there a way to speed things up?

Well getting a faster Computer is about the only way to speed things up, you can put the "Motion Search Precition " on "Very Fast but you will loose Quality..You must have a pretty Slow CPU if it takes 40 hours, even My old 800mhz only took about 10 hours to do a 2 hour movie on High Quality...

If make sure your input source ratio is set at 16:9 and the output ratio is set at 4:3 then the borders will be added automatically to create the 4:3 display.
As for your PC taking 40 hours, you either have an old dinosaur of a PC or your settings are wrong. I used to have a P3 500 which would take about 10-12 hours to encode a movie. I now have a P4 1.7 O/C at 1.9 and it takes about 2-3 hours for TMPG to encode a movie.

ASHY

The program told after 30 miniutes of proccessing but the real time was 10 hours.
Thamks all for your help

I am having problems with the "unknown or unsupported" error message when trying to convert wmv (asf) to mpeg. I have two identical machines, one at work and the other at home. Only difference is the one at work has windows media player 9 installed. I can not get this to work... I have uninstalled it and reinstalled codecs all day. Any ideas or is this a bug?

Thanks

You Might need to Use "ASF Tools" to Correct the Any Errors in the WMV file...
Pluss WMV file aren"t Fully Supported in Tmpgenc, It usually works if the file is in Perfect Condition but WMV file are Notorius for Being Full of errors...You might need to raise the direct show filter...

FIXED - installed directx 8.1 and everything works fine. Thanks for the effort though. This is great software

ok so...

I downloaded ver 2.58

But when I open the zip file.. theres nothing there.

Is there something wrong with me?
*shrug*

Is running 2 intances of TMPGEnc better than 1?

I convert a lot of movies and my systems run 24/7. Would running it twice help?

Steven

NO... Not at all, I have tried and it slows you WAY down, and causes errors..I"m sure you Noticed that when Running Tmpgenc The CPU runs between 80%-100%..and doing it twice Puts a lot of strain on your Cpu...And it can cause Floating Point errors.....

What? Are you saying, that 2 running programs using Floating Point instructions simultaneously (but not really simultaneously, they are taking turns over cpu, don't they ?) can make CPU cause Floating Point errors ? Are you sure ?

I don't think minion is actually referring to the PC making errors, but rather TMPG itself.
TMPG has a bad habbit of popping up all sorts of errors if it finds it can't access a file when it tries such as the floating point error.
If there are two instances running and one of them finds it can't access a particular file because of the other one taking up CPU time then TMPG will treat that as a corrupt file and throw up an error.
This doesn't just happen when running two instances of TMPG. Encoding is a CPU intensive process and running any sort of other program while trying to encode has been known to create these kind of errors and is more likely to happen on PC's with optimizations enabled such as MMX and SSE as these sort of optimiztions use pipelining which I believe can lead to data becoming corrupt if the PC isn't running stable because it's being 'pushed' too it's limit.

ASHY

So then I shouldnt burn cd's or use VCDEasy at the same time. I use TMPG at work on my fast computer, but other programs run in the back ground. Would more memory help avoid errros?

Steven

More memory should make a difference, but remember it all depends on the program running in the backgroud. If this program takes up a lot of CPU time and is also a memory hog there's gonna be a lot of data swapping going on and virtual memory use.
It's impractical to run CPU intensive software while running other similar programs. It will only lead to problems. Burning a disk while encoding shouldn't really present a problem as it's not CPU or memory intensive and as long as it lets TMPG get on with it's job you will probably get away with it. But in my experience trying to do too much at once with a PC WILL lead to problems.

PC's are meant to be mutiltasking macines, but within reason. Pushing the PC too much and expect it to run stable is a lot to ask especially on weaker Operating sytems such as ME/98.

ASHY

Hi Guys

Wonder if you can help me, I am using TMPGenc Version 2.57 in conjunction with DVDx v2, but when I open TMPG and browse for the .avs file created by DVDx i get the following messsage:-

*.avs can not be opened or is unsupported.

I am running under Windows XP Prof, any help whould be appreciated.

Many thanks

Is AVISynth installed? Is the DLL in the right Directory (System32)?

I would like someone to help me to go through the steps of making an m2v file from an mpg file using TMPGEnc. I have a lot of mpg to comvert so i would not downlaoding again new m2v files instead just convert them. Someone please help me. Thanks.

under 'stream type' choose 'Video only' (you may need to load the unlock template from the extra folder first to be able to choose it)

This is a bit of a wierd Question...The only differance between a Mpg file that is mpeg2 and a m2v file is that the Mpg file has Audio..So all you need to do is De-Multiplex the Mpg file...But if you are trying to make a Mpeg1 file to a M2v video file, then there are a few ways to go about it...but the easiest is to just load the Mpg file in and encode it to M2v, explain were you are haveing the problem??

Can I also ask why? What is the point of converting files which are already MPEG's to MPEG again which in turn will produce a lower quality and probably larger file size?

ASHY

When converting DVD to VCD by DVD2AVI and TMPGEnc the picture quality is surprisingly good but in high moving scenes (e.g. turning the camera in landscapes) it looks like a lot of frames is simpy missing and the smooth motion gets interrupted. Is there any way to tell TMPGEnc to sacifice quality for motion (i've set motion estimation already to highest)?

Thx in advance!

This could be a result of letting TMPGenc do framerate conversion.
TMPGenc isn't great at doing framerate conversion and I have found it most noticeable in scenes where the camera pans across a scene.

Please post whether you are doing framerate conversion (e.g. using an NTSC source avi and specifying PAL output via a PAL TMPGenc template)

First, thanks for the response!

You're right! The source is NTSC 29.970 and I'm converting to PAL 25 fps. When I tried with NTSC -> NTSC, it runs absolutely smooth (at least on the PC)

So, is there any way to overcome this since I want to put PAL encoded videos also on the disk and have no clue if the player can handle the mix?

regards,
Wolfgang

Doing a 29.9fps to 25Fps conversion is Nearly impossible with Tmpgenc..and there are only a Couple of progrnms that Can do it properly, one is "Procoder" can do it but the program is allmost impossible to find, and the demo won"t do it...

It is possible to do that, but it takes lot of time.
You need Inverse Telecine in the Advanced-Tab.
You need also a setting for PAL-Video (25 fps).
AND you need Do not frame rate coversion in the Advanced-Tab.
This gives you a PAL-SpeedUp. But only if the Source is from 24fps-Cinema coverted to NTSC with 3:2 Pulldown.
After the Conversion to PAL, you maybe have to Speedup the Audio-Part, to get matching durations for Audio and Video. This can be done by a WAV-Editor like Cool-Edit.

Do you know how to use AVIsynth? AVIsynth is the simplest way of doing this and produces very good results.

ASHY

AVISynth is able to do a lot of different types of Format-Conversion. Some of them are quick'n Dirty, like Field Blending and other things.
It is also able to do a real PAL-Speedup, that's right. But from my point of view, the resulting Sound-Quality isn't acceptable.

BTW: AVISynth is, like we Germans say, a "Hammertool" or "Echt geil" ;) which means, it's a very very usefull Tool. Unfortunatly it is not easy to handle.

>It is also able to do a real PAL-Speedup, that's right. But from my point of view, the resulting Sound-Quality isn't acceptable.

You wouldn't use AVIsynth to alter the sound.
The sound does not need to be re-encoded if it is already in MPEG format nor would you use AVIsynth to encode to MPEG audio anyway, so your statement doesn't make sense.
The movie wouldn't alter in length so neither would the audio, so you either leave it alone and just multiplex or encode the audio at the same time as the AVS file with TMPG.

Neither do you need to use field blending for format conversion. The new AVIsynth is capable of doing real format conversions and is able to interpolate just like the expensive hardware format converters and produces excellant results.

ASHY

When I try to load an avi file into the program it says the file cannot open or is unsupported, yet I can open it in other programs. Why would this be cause I'd rather use TMPGEnc?

Thanks in advance,
Martin

I have exactly the same problem ! I use few weeks ago to convert a file to MPEG
and it was working properly. BUt , now impossible to load even if the file can
be read by Windows media player ! I don't know ! really .

This is the most common Question asked here ...Go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" and raise the "Direct Show" to "2"....

I've followed guidelines on www.karaokeplayground.co.uk to try and convert CD+G to VideoCD. Last step is to use tmpeg to create the VCD. The audio file is MP3 but this is not in the drop down list so I a receive an "unsupported" error. What do I do?

Tmpgenc does not like "Compressed" formats like MP3, you have to encode the audio to WAV then use that as the audio source...You should allways use wav as the audio soupce in Tmpgenc.....

Thanks for the response. I guess I was thrown off because some screen shots I saw showed MP3 as an option.

I converted the MP3 to WAV and then ran TMPGenc to combine the avi and wav files. However, when viewing the result mpeg file in Windows media player, I did not see any video, only heard audio. How can I check to be sure that the program worked as planned.

- John

You know if there is going to be video in the file if while you are encodeing the movie is displayed in the Tmpgenc screen..if there is no picture the you might need to raise the priority of the direct show filter, go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" and raise the "direct show" to "2"..

Thanks. That seems to have done the trick.

What is the rule of thumb on interlace x non interlace?
I have home movies from VHS, 8mm and Hi8 tapes and I'm converting to MPEG2 with TMPGEnc but I'm not sure which one to use. Can anyone help?

When you load the file into the "Wizard" it analizes the file and either sets it to interlace or non-interlace so you do not have to adjust it cuz the encoder does that...

Thanks a lot for the info.

TMPGEnc always crashes when I use it... error message:

Error read occurred at adress 00485db7 in module tmpgenc.exe

I've copied on different drives and used win2k and winXP... works great on my other computer with win2k it's just a hell of a lot slower...

I have an Athlon 1900+, Soyo DragonPlus mobo, 768mb DDR, both my HDDs are WesternDigital 40GB 7200RPM... I don't know why this specific program would crash all the time? idea or resources would be greatly appreciated.. thanks!

Daniel F.

I'm having exactly the same problem with running TMPGEnc on an XP system, the only other similarity with your system is that I have an Athlon XP (1700+).

Anyone out there with a solution?

Nick

Me too. System is Athlon 1,6, m/b Gigabyte and WD harddisk, running on WinMe.
Anyone ???

By the way, my program version is 2.57.41.146. Do you have problems with this exact version of the program ??

I'm having the exact same problems with 2.58.44.152. I either get an exception after a number of minutes encoding or I get a 'privilege order error'. My source data is digital video captured as an AVI file.

BTW, I have an Athalon XP 1500.

Same Here!

Version 2.58.44.152 converting from DV avi to SVCD. It stops after few minutes with a read error.
I tried with 2.57, same error.

I did a lot a conversion until 2.55 with no errors

Amd 1700+, 512MB, XP Pro SP1.

I have the same problem and have the registered plus version. I contacted the tech support by email and was told to turn off SSE under OPTIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING, CPU. They also suggested that if using DV AVI files that it should be type 2 and provided a link to a free conversion utility.
http://www.canopus-aust.com/US/products/free_utilities/pm_free_utilities.asp
I have not tried any of theses suggestions yet, but I'm hopeful they will work.

I have just d/l'd the software and ran one clip through it last night. Worked wonderfully!!! When I tried again this morning. I got the message Cant load "P3Package.dll. What am I doing wrong? Please can someone help me.

Michelle

I would expect you are starting tmpgenc from the menu or workscreen. Probably moved it there when you saw it worked. The P3package.dll must be in the smae directorty as where you start Tmpgenc from, then you are ok. Good luck !

Have you Moved any of the Tmpgenc files since last night??And are all the Tmpgenc files in the Same folder??? Look in your Tmpgenc folder and look for the "P3P Package.Dll" and if it isn"t there then that is your problem...and if it is there you can try to copy and paste it into your System32 folder, that usually works..but if you can"t get it to work then re-download the program ..