have Windows XP Pro and TMPGENC 2.510 loaded and all required codecs. I am not running windows media player 9.Getting error message file unsupported.files play in media player, and encode in other demo encoders.cannot raise priority of direct show mutimedia file reader to 2 as programme crashes, can anyone help please.

I have been using the free version for some time. I registered and installed TMPGEnc Plus 2.510 and now my mpg2 videos and coming out very shaky and blurred. I am using the same settings as before and even the same avi. Please help.

Change the field order.

ASHY

I have been using the free version for some time. I registered and installed TMPGEnc Plus 2.510 and now my mpg2 videos and coming out very shaky and blurred. I am using the same settings as before and even the same avi. Please help.

I have been using the free version for some time. I registered and installed TMPGEnc Plus 2.510 and now my mpg2 videos and coming out very shaky and blurred. I am using the same settings as before and even the same avi. Please help.

Which "Free Version"? 12a? If so, you have to change the Field Order of interlaced Video.

I'm stuck with this error on my computer when attempting to encode a movie. I have this program on one machine and it works perfect, but on this machine I get the error message "cannot open, or unsupported". I am able to encode audio. I thought maybe MediaPlayer 9 might be the issue from reading other issues other people had, but I have this version on my other machine as well. I tried encoding the same files on the other machine and they work. I compared the settings and they both look the same. I tried a small video clip and it encoded but movies won't. Now, this machine is running Windows XP Professional. The other is running Win98 SE. Any suggestions???

I"m sure that since you looked around you also tried Raiseing the Priority of the "Direct Show File Reader" to 2..This is the Only thing besides Knot haveing the Right codecs that I can think of...

OH yes and get rid of MP9....

Had exactly the same prob. just installed nimo codec pack build 8 works great now. give it a whirl it might work for you to. P.S cant get to work with media player 9 might be worth reverting to earlier version,good luck

How do you register the trial version?

I think you have to download TMPGEnc Plus and it has a link to register it.

I will be glad if you can give me a link. Thank you!!

I have a Funny Feeling that you might be "Too Lame" to do a Simple search for it your Self...It took me 2 seconds to find it, just go to ANY search engine and Type in "Toolame Download", that is all I had to do and the very First link that came up was a link to were to download it, the Hight of Lazyness!!!
http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Audio/toolame-02i.zip

Hi there.

When i use the cut merge function with a mpeg(1 or 2) from my tuner card to cut out commercials. It always gets desycnhed.

I am trying to make commercial free for burn for VCD. Seams like the first cut works, but not the rest. Am i using the wrong app to try and do what im doing?

All i want is to to cut out commercials and keep the audio sycnhed and be ready to burn with out nero have to encode for a long time. :)

Thanks for your help, im getting frustrated :).

First Off Mpeg files aren"t meant to be edited and That is one of the resons why Captureing to Mpeg sucks..Pluss Tmpgenc"s Mpeg editor does Not officially suport files that are not encoded By Tmpgenc and it does Not support the acurate editing of VBR Mpeg files, and Tmpgenc is Just plain Not a Good Mpeg editor..And another thing is that a Lot of Mpeg capture programs compensate for Dropped Frames By adding Padding were the Frame was dropped But when editing the Padding is removed and so is the compensation for the De-sync caused By dropped Frames..All I can sugest is to use a Different Mpeg editor like "Womble Mpeg2VCR" but if you still get sync problems when I would sugest Not captureing to Mpeg at all and try a Different Format like AVI Cuz you will allways get better results with AVI than Mpeg cuz AVI is much less Lossy than Mpeg...

Could anyone recomend a good program to capture? I dont have to use the one the card came with right? I will search for the womble thing now.

I just want the simpelest way to be able to rip tv shows, cut out the commercials, and burn them in sycnh to vcd/svcd format. Man if there where no commercials in the first place this would be so simple.

I found a program that splits mpegs and they dont get desycnched.

Also, my buddy who recomended tmpeg to me cuts and merge mpegs with tmpeg and his never get desyched :(.

Thanks for your help

IUVCR is one of the best I have used.
http://www.iulabs.com/index.shtml

You would be better off capturing to AVI or MJPEG rather than directly to MPEG. This is much better for editing.
You can then use the 'Cut editing' function in the 'source range' filter to remove all the commercials in one go then just encode to whichever MPEG format you choose.

ASHY

I've got an AVI that has "white snow" (black/white random pixels) as an effect of somebody switching channels on a TV. Whenever TMPG encodes this, the footage immediately after the snow has severe blockiness at first, before settling back to normal. How can I avoid this?

Here's some links showing the problem:

http://tinyurl.com/5lao -- Shows "white snow" effect.
http://tinyurl.com/5lap -- Shows blockiness after snow.
http://tinyurl.com/5laq -- Shows normal picture after a second or two.

Thanks.

Noise, whether intentional or not, needs more Megabits/sec to encode.

Try encoding just that section with CQ at 8Mbs. You will then know the best quality possible with DVD spec.

Then try 2-pass VBR with the max bitrate set high (8.4Mbs) if you can't afford the file size of the whole file at 8 Mbs.

A more tricky approach would be to encode just those sections with a different GOP structure (less B and P frames) and try to merge the pieces together. (Use closed GOPs for this).

What would lessen this effect a LOT is to use AVISynth to frame serve the File But use a Heavy Noise Filter(AVISynth"s noise filter is better than Tmpgenc"s)
This would lessen the Noise before it gets to tmpgenc so you will get Less Blockyness, and use the "Soften Block Noise" setting to help with this, and setting the "Motion Precition Search" to "High Quality" will help with Blockyness also...

I agree with Minion, better to lessen the effect then encode, but is it really necessary to include these parts in the output?

If it's not required then remove them. This can easily be done by using the 'Cut Editing' function in the 'source range' filter. Just simply cut them out.

If they are required then maybe you would be better using a CBR method of encoding rather than VBR to keep the bitrate constant and using 'High quality' for the 'Motion search precison' or if you feel like you've got the expertise use the MVBR and 'Forced picture type' setting then at least for these difficult frames right after the snow you can set your own quality.

Check the Forced picture type box then click 'setting' and set the first difficult frame as an 'I' picture and change the bitrate of the frames.


ASHY

> is it really necessary to include these parts in the output?

Of course! They're part of the edited product... are you saying we should cut
out stuff from a final edit just because it encodes badly? No way, Jose. :)

> you would be better using a CBR method of encoding rather than VBR

I'm already encoding to MPEG1, 352x240 NTSC, with CBR of 1500.

As for the other suggestions of motion speed detection, this didn't help, no
matter which speed I selected. However, I will try the forced picture settings
option and make the frames "I" type and see how it goes.

Thanks!

I have an avi encoded with xvid that must have some bad frames because the video will freeze (and actually force me to restart my whole computer). I have VirtualDub and I tried scanning the video for errors and then making a direct screen copy (this is suppose to mask the bad frames?), but this doesn't work (also, no matter what I try, extracting or not, the audio becomes out-of-sync). Am I doing something wrong? I'm quite new at this, so I'm hoping for a simple way to mask the bad frames (like Divx Antifreeze does). Is there an xvid version of the Divx antifreeze? Is there something else I should try?
Please help, thanks.

After scanning for errors did you check the Option to "Mask Selected Frames"???
You have to have this option checked before makeing a Copy of the File..Depending on the Type of De-Sync problem you are haveing would determine what method you would use to Fix the problem..If the File starts in sync But gradually goes out of sync then this is the Most difficult type of De-Sync to fix Cuz you have to Time Stretch/Shrink the audio to the Length of the Video with an Audio editor Like "Cool Edit" or "Sound forge" to attempt to fix the Problem ,But if the File is the same amout out of sync the whole way through the File then this can more easily be fixed By off-setting the audio or Video so they sync up, you can do this with the "Muxer" in BBMpeg or Better yet with the Muxer in "Womble Mpeg2VCR"....Another thing you can try is to "Scan For Errors" then "Mask Selected Frames" then Just "frameserve" the File to Tmpgenc without Makeing a Copy of the File....

i am trying to conver some new mov files into vcd but there is no sound anyhting i can download to fix this or is it a setting?

This seems to be a Common Problem with Mov Files and Tmpgenc and the Only solution I can think of is to extract the audio from the Mov file to a Format that Tmpgenc CAN Encode, like WAV..I don"t know what software you have But I know that "Adobe Premier" can do this and so can "Sound Forge".But I"m sure if you took a Little time and Looked on the Net you would Find a Freeware Program that will extract the audio from a Mov file to WAV...

I have just received, but have not yet had a chance to install or use, Ulead DVD Movie Factory version 2. I hope to be able to retire MyDVD, which came with my Pioneer A05. With MyDVD, I used TMPGEnc 2.59 to create separate elementary streams of video (.m2v) and audio (.wav), which MyDVD then combined.

I would be grateful to hear the recommendations of DVDMF2 users as to what stream types they use in TMPG, as well as any other settings that DVDMF2 may be particular about, such as VBV buffer size, GOP open/closed, etc.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
EricJ

Well One thing I can tell you From Experience is that you will be Quite dissapointed in the New version of DVD Movie Factory, your "MYDVD" is still a superior Product..The New Version seems to have even Less features that the Version 1 of Movie Factory..Movie Factory is Quite a Low End DVD Authoring Program, so is MyDVD but MyDVD is still better, you should have spent a Few more Bucks and gotten Ulead DVD Workshop 1.2 which is a Better Program than MyDVD..IF you still can I would advise you to Return Movie Factory for a refund Cuz it is the Lowest end Authoring Program that Ulead Makes, But I"m sure you will figure that out for yourself soon enough....Good Luck

I tried, unsuccessfully using MyDVD, MGI Videowave and Pinnacle's built in
authoring. Each either crashed or would not play correctly on something.

Using MovieFactory2 and selecting "do not convert complient mpeg files"
produced DVDs that played correctly on everything I tried.

I used standard GOP closed or open, 8000 CBR, m2v+wav and highest quality
settings. I replaced the audio (actually no audio) in the .m2v file in
MF2 with the wav file in a 1/2 hour video. the sound stayed synced for the
whole thing. MF2 is kinda limited, but it worked for me. I spent lots of time
with software that had neat features, but made effective coasters.

Nonstandard gop resulted in jumpy or intermittant playback on some software
players.

Your results may vary. I'll wish you luck too. I got MF2 for real cheap at
CompUSA after a rebate, so I considered it a good value.

Thanks Mark, that is all useful information.

I picked up DVDMF2 at CompUSA also, who was selling it for $30.

In addition to doing the audio replacement with a .wav, I plan on trying MPEG-1 layer 2 audio, which DVDMF2 is supposed to accept, and which should consume considerably less space on the disk.

Thanks again for the info.

Regards,

Eric J