When will Multi-Pass more than 2 be added? its been so long. other programs do this already, and have better quality as result

Besides CCE what other encoders have More than 2 passes????

I've been using TMPGEnc successfully for months with MPEG and AVI files. Today I tried loading a QuickTime movie (MOV) just to see what would happen. The movie loaded into the preview window, but an error message popped up from TMPGEnc saying something to the effect "Component missing -- PAL.DLL file not found".

Where does one find the file PAL.DLL?

Do you have the "Mov Quicktime plugin" for Tmpgenc???

No, where do I get it?

Hi there, i just started working with tmpgenc. (I found it on vcdhelp.com)
I tried a to encode a small avi file into vcd(PAL) But while encoding i continually keep getting errors.

IT says ERRROR
-537403781 197008

I have no clue of what it means. When i watch the preview it is ok.

Does anybody know an explanation????

Post it or mail it to dcp@freebox.com

Thanx

/DcP

Why is the encoding quality in "highest quality" motion estimation search more worse than in "normal quality" Mode????

See the test report:
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/articles/tmpgenc_test.html

Regards,
Andi

Not this again...
Don't believe a word of that crap. I have done the tests some time ago and cannot find any foundation for the claims.
Do some tests yourself and I'm sure you will agree with me.

ASHY

Hehe, this idiot does not have any idea, what Motion Prediction IS (or how it works)!
If you are encoding DVD-Source to (S)VCD, the best Settings are Motion Estimate or High, but never Highest.
The only Thing, Highest can be used for, is to encode Interlaced Video.
Why the Hell are some people to dump to do a simple Test with CQ and different Motion-Search settings and having a lokk on the resulting Bitrates? They will say erverything!

I'm sure this is an old problem.

I have 11 .avi segments captured with virtualDub(50 minutes of video). I batch convert the avi files using the DVD-low template(system vid+aud). The first mpg file is fine, but subsequent mpg files have audio for only about the first 30seconds, then no more audio. Video is unaffected. I tried using an external audio compressor (toolame), but it didn't help, so I guess that TMPGencoder is blocking the audio.

I know it's possible to extract a wav file via virtual dub, compress it, then multiplex it back with the merged .mpgs in TMPGencoder, but I find I then get lip-sync problems.

Any reason why I should not be able to batch encode multi-segment avi's without lossing audio in the first place?

Many thanks.

First of all why are you doing it this way? It's no wonder you are having problems. Merging that many MPEGs is not a good idea.

The way you should be doing it is to frameserve the files from Virtualdub to TMPG.
Because you have already created the segmented AVI's with Virtualdub the segments will have flags which tells Virtualdub to look for the next file in the sequence automatically and saves you having to merge them together after encoding.
Doing it this way the segments will be encoded by TMPG as one file and will probably solve your problem.

If you need info how to set up the frameserver have a look in the Virtualdub help files.

ASHY

Works a treat with fileserving.

Many thanks.

Hi.

Is it posible to cut an mpeg file in small slises like 2 min eatch.

I have a mpeg file with is 20 mins long, and i want to cut it in to 2 mins slises, is it posible to do that in a bactch proses, or do i need to do it manualy ?

Thanks.
Morten

If you are attempting to create chapters then the easier solution is to use VCDeasy which will allow you to put in the chapters yourself without all that hmessing about.

ASHY

I'm sure this is an old problem.

I have 11 .avi segments captured with virtualDub(50 minutes of video). I batch convert the avi files using the DVD-low template(system vid+aud). The first mpg file is fine, but subsequent mpg files have audio for only about the first 30seconds, then no more audio. Video is unaffected. I tried using an external audio compressor (toolame), but it didn't help, so I guess that TMPGencoder is blocking the audio.

I know it's possible to extract a wav file via virtual dub, compress it, then multiplex it back with the merged .mpgs in TMPGencoder, but I find I then get lip-sync problems.

Any reason why I should not be able to batch encode multi-segment avi's without lossing audio in the first place?

Many thanks.

This should only happen if the audio is of a Compressed format like MP3, and I have noticed the same problem with sync when useing V-Dub to extract the audio, so what seems to solve the problem is to Use "Sound Forge" to extract the audio to wav, it will allways extract the audio to the same length as your video file so there for there is not Sync issues........

PS: Frameserveing might solve the problems...

I notice that, right before starting to encode, 2.58 now says "unknown media type" in the drop down box that used to list different sized blank CDs. The sliding bar that allows one to adjust the bitrate to fit a particular type is greyed....why? How can I get this back on again?
-Don

Does anyone really know how Tmpgenc handles the 2nd pass for VBR-2pass.
Is only the bitrate optimised in the second pass or is the motion search also optimised in the second pass?? Please some details or a Link.

Please no guessing, only answer if you actually know 100%(would be great if someone involved in the development Tmpgenc could answer:))

No Ideas anyone?

Does anyone know where I can get hold of a copy of the TMPG SDK. Pegasys are saying they no longer sell it.

Thanks

What is Tmpgenc SDK?????

Software Developer Kit.
As far as I'm aware an SDK is used to create software such as plugins and tools which will work with the particular program you have the SDK for.

ASHY

Heck, I would like to get a hold of the SDK as well. It might just have the info I need in order to parse the TPR file correctly.

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.