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I'm trying to open SVCD (MPEG-2) movie file with TMPGEnc Plus 2.58.44.152, but get a "can not open, or unsupported" error. I have raised the priority for the DirectShow VFAPI plug-in to 2, but this has not helped.
When I try to open the file with the Merge & Cut MPEG tool in TMPGEnc, I also get an error - "Can not open this file with DirectShow (0x80040218), Detail:[] 03¼]" (The detail: part appears as square-Esquare on screen).
I also tried opening the file with VirtualDub and there too get an error - "MPEG Import Filter: pack synchronization error".
I can play the movie with PowerDVD but not with Windows Media Player 8. WMP is suggesting that the movie may have been encoded with a codec that it does not support.
Can anybody please help me with my problem? How do I find out what codec was used?
TMPG can encode to MPEG2, but cannot decode MPEG2 nor can Mediaplayer.
For this you will need a third party MPEG2 codec.
It is strange though that you have PowerDVD installed and are having problems as TMPG and mediaplayer should be using this codec to decode MPEG2 unless your are using an earlier version of TMPG than TMPG v2.58 to open these files.
Have a look in your VFAPI plugins for the Cyberlink codec and then raise it's priority.
for me the svcd that i got , is in pal(europe dvd). so im in north america (ntsc). could this make my ati media player just to play the sound but not the video. tmpgenc unsupported . virtualdub unsupported, wmp unsupported , elecard mpeg-2 player unsupported .....??????????
latest version of tmpgenc doesn't seems to work . do i got to make something more for this....??????
help help help help help please please please.....
Whether the SVCD is PAL or NTSC wont make any difference.
Do you have the Cyberlink codec listed in your VFAPI plugins in TMPG.
If you do there may be a problem with the SVCD file.
If this is the case you can use TMPG de-multiplexer to seperate the Video and audio streams in the SVCD.
This will seperate the video to a file called *.m2v and the audio to *.mp2
Try and load this into TMPG.
If you want to download DVD2AVI which is the Best way to encode Mpeg2 files with Tmpgenc it is easy to find ,You just didn"t try very hard..You just put DVD2AVI into a Search engine like "Google" ,I just did it and the very first thing that came up was this: http://arbor.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~jackei/dvd2avi/ which it were you can download it....
I found a good web site for help with TMPGEnc. It is [S]VCD Help http://www.vcdhelp.com/tmpgenc.htm. It also covers my very problem. It too was suggesting increasing the VFAPI priority for Cyberlink as well as using other MPEG2 codecs. The Cyberlink (PowerDVD) VFAPI somehow does not work. The pop-up info shown about this VFAPI plugin states that it is a TMPGEnc built-in plugin; ie. it is not linked to my PowerDVD installation. How do I change this? There is no *.vfp file in the PowerDVD directory.
From the web site I downloaded another MPEG2 codec (m2v.vfp), which is working a little better. I now can open a SVCD as video source, but still can't use the Merge&Cut MPEG tool in TMPGEnc.
I used the suggested DVD2AVI method to frameserve the SVCD to TMPGEnc. This worked okay and with the "Source Range" option I'm able to cut the SVCD as desired. The problem now is that the new MPEG file is 230mb bigger than the source. Has the audio been decompressed or why is this the case? How can I fix this?
BTW, when I look at the original MPEG with a hex viewer it shows that the file starts with a RIFF header "RIFFt1w.CDXAfmt ..." ahead of the TMPGEnc header. The new MPEG I created above only has the TMPGEnc header. What is this RIFF header?
I tried to convert a XviD.avi file but TMPGEnc always say that my file can not open, or is unsupported. I tried raising the piority of that DirectShow to 1, 2, 3,... I tried many digits but all of this caused my video to have green patches all over it... Can someone help out?
The link didn't come out correctly, so you might have to copy and past in browser.
After installing than you can take the DirectShow back up to highest priority.
Hope this helps.
I have been trying to convert an AVI file to an MPEG2 file through TMPG 5.9, and it keeps getting errors, or closes unexpectedly. I have tried this with both a 2 GB AVI file and a 400 MB file. Funny thing is, I did it once with another file and it went fine. Other times I try it, everything goes all right, but then it errors again. How can I get past this? I'm on Windows 2000, P4 2.4 GHZ.
Well I guess it would depend on that type of errors you are getting..But in Most cases if you get an error in the middle of an encodeing session it is Because of a problem with the File you are encodeing..Sometimes it is a Corrupted header or some Bad frames in the file.This is Very common with Downloaded movies...You can try Frameserveing the File to Tmpgenc with Virtual dub and you can get V-Dub to Scan the file for any errors and if there are some corrupted frames it Can mask them while frameserveing....
Is there a way to pause encoding...and resume it? I have only a PII 400...and encoding about 389 mg from mpg to vcd is going to take at least 5-7 hours....would be nice if I could do a few hours....pause it....do other stuff...then resume the encoding...is this possible?
Well Sort of..You can Press the "Stop" button ,and when the dialog box comes up and asks if you want to Quit encodeing just don"t answer and go do what ever you want to do on the computer accept turn it off, then when you want to resume encodeing just press the "No" tab in the Abort encodeing dialog Box...
been trying to mpeg 2 from AVI a pretty big file (avi is approx 8 gB) and seem to be running into a wall around the 2 gb mark...is this some real obvious limitation to windows nt 4.0 that tmpg 2.59.47 gets kinda squirrely with files over 2 gB?
Are you saying that when encodeing the Mpeg file and it get"s to about 2gb tmpgenc does something like give you an error of crash or something??? There is No Limit in tmpgenc that would make it stop encodeing at 2gb..The only limit I can think of is if the Partition you are encodeing to is Formated to a Fat16 file system, which has a 2gb limit...Explain what happens when you get to 2gb???
i had an AVI file of 8gb. I tried opening it in tmpg using Morgan Multimedia LSI TVMJPEG software codec, it comes up as grey or black. so i ran the file through Virtual dub and shortened it to approx 2.1 gb. when i went to preview the file in TMPG, i could only get to about 70-90 percent through it ie approx 2 gb worth of video.
sorry i forgot to mention the software codec, but i have used the software codec on other files larger than 2 gb in After Effects no prob.
i will check the drive to see if its fat, ill also look at the MM codec website for any otherpossible clues
Minion a while you told me you were having problems changing the framerate in IUVCR and could not raise it above 25 fps.
I have been in contact with the author about this problem and it can be solved by 'right' clicking on the 'capture format' button and adjusting the framerate through the native windows dialogue.
Is there a way to pause encoding...and resume it? I have only a PII 400...and encoding about 389 mg from mpg to vcd is going to take at least 5-7 hours....would be nice if I could do a few hours....pause it....do other stuff...then resume the encoding...is this possible?
No, but the logical thing is to do what I used to do and many others with slow systems, encode while you sleep and in the morning you'll have a nice MPEG waiting.
If you load an interlaced File into the "WiZard" it will analize the File for the Correct "Field Order" and adjust it accordingly..But if for some reason you are still getting field order problems and you have tried reversing the field order then you might consider Deinterlaceing...
i try the 2.59 ver. and is not working with non standard vcd it keeps encoding with the standard as a result the file is way to big than the bitrate , the 98%
and file output size how can i fix this problem .
I tyr to download the old version 2.58 and it say that my trail is expire
there is any may to fix this now that already pay for lic.
or to use a early version and where to get it
thanks
If you have already got a license then it will work with any version, so you must not have a license.
There is a bug in the new vesion's muxer, which is using the standard VCD muxing rate for non standard VCD. The way to solve it is to re-multiplex the file using the multiplexer in an earlier version. This will remove the extra padding.
Most of us here Know about KVCD templates and I have tested them Extensively and Don"t like them at all...Besides the Files Not Being Compliant and The lack of I frames Makes them nearly impossible to edit or Chapter properly, and the Poeple Who Make these templates Must have some sort of Vision Problem cuz there is No way that they are Near DVD Quality,some of the Templates cause Major Blockyness and Low Definition Images..But besides that there great....lol
Actually, there are just a couple of Nay sayers in all forums I've visited, compared to thousands of YEAH! sayers. So for those who still don't believe you can get near DVD quality, go get this latest sample, and read about the things they've done at kvcd.net. Like KVCDPredictor program and a lots of cools software: http://www.kvcd.net/red.m1v thread here: http://www.kvcd.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1969
As a matter of fact, the guys at kvcd.net have started their own MPEG encoder project, so with all the momentum these people have, I think they will blast away every encoder in the planet in a not too far away future. You people better keep watching that site!
>As a matter of fact, the guys at kvcd.net have started their own MPEG encoder project, so with all the momentum these people have, I think they will blast away every encoder in the planet in a not too far away future
Let me just tell you something about these templates.
While I think the principle behind these templates is good and they do work up to a point, I have done a lot of tests with the templates in the past and while good still cannot match the quality of MPEG2 encoding when using CCE, filesize 'v' filesize.
I will even send you the evidence. I have 2 identical clips. One encoded with KVCD and the other CCE. The file sizes are the same, but the CCE encoding is clearly better with a distinct difference of macro block evidence.
What is the best setting for TMPGEnc when converting AVI to MPEG2 format. I would like the highest quality possible. I set the CQ to 100. Max Bitrate 8000, min bitrate 2000, non-interlace. WHen I play back the Mpeg2 file, the picture have horizontal line ghost, especially when people are moving.
That is Probably because the Source IS interlaced, and that is what you are seeing...So you should set it as Interlaced and you Might want to try a deinterlace filter and Make sure you have the "Field Order" set correctly..Most video is Going to be interlaced...
If you ultimately will author the MPEG to DVD for viewing on a TV, interlaced video is the native format and will look flawless (as long as the field order was set correctly).
Better DVD player software for computers will supress some interlace artifacts but software like Media Player, which just uses a simple, decoder will not.
Even WinDVD's deinterlacing is surprisingly bad. With the horsepower in todays computers there is no reason for any artifacts to be visible, but they still are.
I totaly hear what your saying buddy, you want to get high quality cyrstal clear footage, those line..I spent a lot of time on this, use the filters, but look at a frame of your footage in the preveiw and choose the best filter, you will notice it straight away, use the highest bitrate you can a nd when you authour it and play it on your set top, you will be impressed !!!
>If you ultimately will author the MPEG to DVD for viewing on a TV, interlaced video is the native format and will look flawless (as long as the field order was set correctly).
I think this is untrue. I have tried this before with several interlaced PAL sources, which have had some sort of Telecine applied, and the produced image had a sort of strobing effect on fast moving objects (like what you would see if you move your hand in front of a TV screen) ( No these were not interlacing lines, I'm well aware of what they are)
The effect was definitely linked to the fact that the source wasn't de-interlaced though. The field order was also set correctly. As soon as I used the AVIsynth 'Bob' de-interlace filter the effect dissapeared and this did not really affect the image quality to any degree.
So while your statement may be true for some sources it isn't true for all.