Ok, I am currently encoding the .avi I want.

However I tried the preview feature while its encoding and I do not hear the sound but only video.

Is this correct?
How can I make sure I have sound for the results?

I want to make sure because I am not sure if this .avi is a encoded sound in there. If so, I probably need to decode it first to two files.

Well any help will be greatly appreciated.

You can reach me at mavliu2002@yahoo.com

Thank you

No you won't hear any audio in the preview.

To know if there will be sound in the movie just do small test encode then play it back or go to the source range filter hand have a look at the audio graph.

ASHY

No you won't hear any audio in the preview.

To know if there will be sound in the movie just do small test encode then play it back or go to the source range filter hand have a look at the audio graph.

ASHY

Or you can go to the Audio settings and press Play and it will play the audio for you ...That is if Tmpgenc can read the audio...

When i want to decode a divx mpeg layer3 movie everything goes well but when i use the expert button to cut a movie i get the error message "win 32 api call failed"

Who has the answer?

I get that error when my resources are running low. I have Win98 so there is a continual resource drain over time. When I reboot, the error is gone.

Hi all

I have a really simple animation here that blends two logos on a black background. All the colors are fine expect for whites, which appear yellowish in the output file. What is even more bizarre is that the whites get even yellower towards the edges.

Anyone know whats up here?! Any help would be hugely appreciated as I'm testing the app for my boss to buy and I've got a major deadline coming up. I don't want to revert back to cleaner now - this seems so good otherwise!

Thanks very much in advance

Ben

Okay, after a little more messing I've noticed that it's not just the whites that are being discolored. There appears to be some kind of yellow gradient (transparent at the top, strongest at the bottom), overlaying the whole video. It's just the whites that are affected the worst.

The source AVI is completely clean.

Eh?! Help! :)

Right - I've sorted it. In case anyone else was having the same problem, all I did was tick the 'Interpolate YUV data from 4:1:1 to 4:4:4' in the General Environmental Settings.

Just so I know, does anyone know what purpose this serves?!

It was a raw animation of two image files animated in After Effects and output to uncompressed AVI on a Win2k machine.

Go to "options" > "enviromental Settings" > "Vfapi Plugins"
Try Raising the "Direct show" or "OpenDML" file readers to 2

ASHY

I suspect this is a bug report.
After encoding an MPEG file, TMPGenc unexpectedly just quits after completion, regardless if it's a single file encode or a batch encode.
I'm running win2k on an amd 1.33 ghz machine. I have more than enough ram and space for the program (I could adjust the temp directory for it)
Thanks lots if you guys could figure out why.

sometimes after encoding i get no sound! what should i do? the movies i encode r usually from cazaa

You have to extract the audio from your AVI file to WAV with Virtual Dub or sound forge and use that as the audio source,But if the audio is AC3 you can use AVIMuX to de-mux and uncompress the audio...

Every time i try to encode a 700mb avi film file, it doesnt have any sound. i have tries severel different films, dont know what to do, its really annoying, as i leave it for ages, and when its done there is no sound.

Hi,

try VirtualDub to create a .wav file from your movie sound and use this in tmpgenc as the sound source.
or use avi2vcd to create an .avi file with uncompressed sound

regards,

gonzales

When I finally start to convert my file to mpeg, I get a

"Read error at address 0049173C of module 'TMPGENC.EXE' with 0102C000"

Can someone please help? Thanks.

Hello i'm used TmpgEnc since about 1 year with Win98SE, no problem.
But, i've installed my new computer with win2000 SP3 and i can't encode correctly a movie, the system stopped during encoding never at the same place and i do reboot my computer ( mouse don't move, keyboard inactive ...).

to pass AVI--> VCD (pal)

My system
Mother board Msi6330 V5 KT Turbo2 with lastest Bios V3.6
Duron 1.3Ghz / 512Mo SDRAM / Directx 8.1b / Win2k SP3 / HDD 20Mo 80Mo
Graphic card Hercules 3Dprophet 4000XT 64Mo Tv Out

Can you help me please ?
Sorry for my poor english
@+ Jef

Have you installed the latest motherboard drivers?

ASHY

Yes, with the driver IDE and AGP ( MSI 4in1 drivers for win2k)

In fact, TmpgEnc run but it seems that the problem appears on a specific
file !!!
I'd tried to correct this avi file with DivFix and the log file don't show error.
File specification :
audio at Mpeg3 48Khz / 15,991Ko/s stereo
video DIVXMPG4 V3 576*352 / 25 flps

Could you help me ?

@+ Jef

If it is Just that file then the file is probably corrupted in some way, you can try to frame serve it with V-Dub which might work...

Bonjour,
Le format SVCD de TempGenc n'est pas lisible par le lecteur windows media player for XP V8.0
Est-ce normal?
merci.
D'autre part comment puis-je avoir la version complEe (supñÓieur E5mn de video)?
merci beaucoup.

Mediaplayer ne fonctionnera pas avec SVCD. Utilisez WinDVD.

ASHY

Hi,

hope you're able to read english.
the mediaplayer doesn't come with a mpeg2 codec for mpeg2 playback.
the mpeg2 codec isn't free. you have to install a dcd player software like WinDVD e.g.
after that you should be able to play the SVCD with this software and i think with the mediaplayer, too.

regards,

gonzales

Which is what I just said in my previous post.

ASHY

I am trying to convert a WMV file to MPG for creating a VCD and I am getting the unsupported error. I have tried raising DirectShow priority to 2 but that did not solve the problem. The file plays in WM Player. Properties specify Audio WMA8 and Video WM Version 7. So I have the right codecs also.

Another WMV file, the video is OK but the Audio is unsupported. Again, I am able to play in WM Player. Properties specify Audio WMA9 and Video MPEG-4 V3. I am able to convert another WMV file with the exact same settings.

Please help!

first of all u should convert the audio to wav before adding to tmpgenc. Use dbpower amp and install the vma8 codec for audio http://www.dbpoweramp.com/. If u have trouble with asf or wmv video then u might want to repair your file with asf tools 3.1 http://www.geocities.com/myasftools/. If it still doesn't load try cutting a tiny bit off the end.......workes for me sometimes. Asf and wmv can be tricky and are often corrupt in some way.

Lupy,

Thanks for your help. I used dbPowerAmp to convert the Audio to WAV and ASFTools to do a Basic Repair on the WMV. Now I am able to convert them to MPG for writing to VCD.

Lupy,

I was a bit hasty in posting the "Success" message. I was able to convert to MPG in preparation for creating the VCD, but when I play the MPG, I notice the Video and Audio are not in sync. There is a little lag of about 1-2 sec which is very disconcerting. Are there any tools for syncing the Video and Audio?

Thanks

This is what I did to solve the Video/Audio sync problem. First, I converted the existing WMV (WMV1 format) to MP43 format by using Re-Encode feature of ASFTools. This is because I couldn't convert directly to AVI format (kept getting "couldn't locate WMV1 decompressor" error). When I played this, there was no Video/Audio sync problem. Then I converted the MP43 WMV file to AVI using Convert to AVI feature of ASFTools. When I played this the Video/Audio sync problem was there. Then I played around with the Audio Lead / Lag values and kept Convert to AVI. This doesn't take long since it updates only the AVI Header info. After just 2 tries, I was able to get a good sync. Then I used TMPGEnc to convert the AVI to MPG for creating the VCD.

I'm curious...in the quantize matrix at the bottom of the page you see two differsnt blocks...one for intra block and one for non-intra blocks....what do these mean? I'd like to know how & when to use the block and intra blocks?

If you are very well versed with encoding techniques DONT touch the matrix.
Matrixes are complicated algorithms and take some technical know how to understand.

ASHY

>If you are very well versed with encoding techniques DONT touch the matrix.
Matrixes are complicated algorithms and take some technical know how to understand

Should read:

If you are not very well versed with encoding techniques DONT touch the matrix.
Matrixes are complicated algorithms and take some technical know how to understand.

ASHY

Hi,

Ive used TMPGENC to encode my DVDs to VideoCD MPG for a few weeks but just bought myself a portable VCD player for use in work/car.

Problem is that although the VCD MPGs TMPGENC create play on my home DVD system they will not play properly on my portable player because the average bitrate is not exactly 1150kbps.

Encoding an AVI with the old Panasonic encoder produces an exact 1150kbps file which runs fine.

Is there a setting in TMPGENC to create a perfect VCD compliant file ?

Here is an example of what I get with a TMPGENC VideoCD MPG played on the player.

http://www.strathycruise.com/kenwoodscreen2.jpg

As you can see there is breakup on the screen initially which is annoying but more so is on scene changes (eg: from the face of an actor switching to another actor) you get a flash of the following scene before it appears and also a judder whenever the movie pans across.

These are not apparent on movie files and VCD from other people that are encoded exactly to 1150kbps.

I load the MPG into VirtualDUB and File Properties to check.

Any idea on this one,

Many thanks.

Rikki

try loading a template.... choose pal or ntsc according to the framrate of the source ..ofcourse your vcd player has to support it

What do you mean average bitrate?
The bitrate shouldn't be average it should stay constant throughout the file.

Are you using the constant bitrate setting and the stream type set at 'MPEG1 Video cd' under the 'System' tab.

The best way is to create a compliant VCD is to use the VCD templates. If this still causes a problem then you may need to re-mux the MPEG with the Phillips VCD 2.0 toolkit as it is known that TMPG's muxer does not create 100% VCD 2.0 whitebook MPEGs.

ASHY

Hi Ashy :) I hear you say:
"it is known that TMPG's muxer does not create 100% VCD 2.0 whitebook MPEGs."

Is this why Easy VCD gives its error stating "improper VCD format not usually a problem normaly a indicator that TMPGenc was used"?
Also why doesnt the author fix this? Can you shed some light on this.
Thanks ~NewtronX

thanks for the help

Yes I believe this is why VCDeasy produces the error.
It is not the actual files which are at fault, but the way TMPG multiplexes.
VCD's have strict constraints.

If the muxer doesn't conform to these constraints when writing headers then a less than tolerant VCD player will reject the file.
Most DVD players won't have a problem it's only strict VCD players which have this problem.

I don't know why the author doesn't fix this, maybe he believes it's not his problem as most players will handle TMPG files ok.

Here is some ifo as to why a muxer may not be compliant, but I can't tell you the exact reason TMPG doesn't comply.
http://www.icdia.org/cdprosupport/encoding/pink/mpeg_bytes.htm


ASHY

Many thanks for your help here, its appreciated.

Here is a screengrab from VirtualDUB that shows what I mean by average bitrate :

http://www.strathycruise.com/kbps.gif

Where can I get this Philips VCD toolkit ? I would love to have my VCDs all compliant and I know Im going to loose a lot of quality if I have to decode them and recode them :(

Thanks again everyone,

Rikki

Use this program for viewing MPEG bitrates. http://www.tecoltd.com/bitratev.htm

Download VCD toolkit here. http://www.icdia.org/sw_pc/vcdtools.html

Just demux the MPEGs with TMPG then remux with the philipps multiplexer.

ASHY

Thanks Ashy :)

Now Im getting exctied LOL.

Ill try out the Philips VCD program when I get home. I take it Mux and Demux means multiplexing (combining two or more into one and vice versa) and hence will not require decoding and re-encoding.

Thanks

Rikki