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I made a VCD from an AVI (DIVX). Previuos I extracted audio from the AVI stream, to avoid audio/video-sync problems.
The mpg1 I burned with Nero. (BTW VCD created with DVDx and Nero doesn't make any trouble).
Now the phenomenon: when I play the VCD in my DVD-player after some minutes the video runs fast, slow, fast, ... (audio is continous). But it's not a raw data problem, 'cause when I seek back the video for some seconds and start playing again, all is ok (for the next minutes...).
What setting have I do, to avoid this (as mentioned, with DVDx and Nero no VCD shows that mistake...)
This is the Exact effect you get when there are Bitrate spikes in the Encoded File..What happens is Suddenly the Bitrate Jumps and the DVD Player can not speed up fastenough to properly read the data so the Video seems to slow down then when the DVD Player is able to Catch up the Video seems to Play normally untill the Next Bitrate spike..Tmpgenc is Quite Notorius for this cuz it doesn"t Obey the Bitrate that you set...This usually doesn"t happen with Standard VCD"s because the Bitrate is Quite low in VCD"s but if the Drive in your DVD Player isn"t Very Fast it does Happen...What you can try is to Just encode useing CBR as opposed to useing a VBR Method,and if you are Useing a Higher than Standard Bitrate then this Can help cause this Problem also but if all else Fails Just don"t use Tmpgenc as your Encoder or get a DVD Player that can handle Higher Bitrates..There are Other encoders that Give good Quality but they aren"t free like Tmpgenc..To verify that this is your Problem take the Mpeg/VCD file and Look at it through a Bitrate viewer and see if there are Bitrate spikes(Or bitrate Dips) at the Spots were the Slow down Speed up effect happens...
Hi, i'm having the following problem:
After i encode my divx movies with TMPGenc to MPEG1, i use EasyVCD to burn them. But after the program analizes the file before burning, gives the following warning:
bbMPEG_Muxed_File00.mpg" This MPEG file requires autopadding... you may be unable to watch it correctly... Do you want to add this file anyway?
Why is TMPGenc producing this files? How can i fix this? or better yet, how can i do to make TMPGenc produce files without errors.
Thank you.
The File Doesn"t have an error, The Problem is that you encoded the File as a Mpeg1 file and Not a Mpeg1/VCD file, There is a Differance..Take the File and Run it through the "Multipex" or the "Merge & Cut" useing the "Mpeg1/VCD Non-Standard" setting in the Drop down menu, this will Add the Correct VCD header to the File and then VCDEasy will not want to add Padding to the Stream..And when Muxing use Tmpgenc"s Muxer with the Correct VCD Setting, and when encodeing Make sure the "System" setting is set to VCD...
I don"t have a problem with it, Just tried it and It worked Fine...Maybe Try a Download Manager and if you Are useing a Download Manager then Try it without the Download Manager....
This question is about avi to vcd/svcd conversion.
If the source avi has a video bitrate of 1300kb/s and audio bitrate of 128kb/s, is there any benefit to setting the output vcd file to have an average video bitrate highter than 1300kb/s? or the audio higher than 128kb/s?
I use GSPOT to check an avi's information, and I'm just wondering if maybe i've been making the output (s)vcd's too large. Example, I had a divx5.0 avi with aspect ratio 344x232, bitrate 1315, 25fps, and audio at 192kb/s 48000hz. I made an svcd file out of it that was 1.6gb (2 disks), with video bitrate about 2200kb/s and audio bitrate 228kb/s. Was this necessary? or would the quality have been exactly the same at a much lower bitrate since the original avi had a much lower bitrate?
The Source Files Video and audio Bitrate have Absolutly nothing to do with how you encode them To Mpeg so just get that whole Idea out of your Head, They are Two totally different Compression formats that have absolutly no relation to each other..With Mpeg then Higher the Bitrate used to encode to Mpeg the Better the Quality no matter how the Original AVI file was made....
I'm using TMPG plus, newest version 160 but this applies to all versions I've tried. Using WinXP pro, Direct X 9a. When I try to cut an mpg2 the place the cut is made 11 seconds before the place I've marked in the merge/cut editor. I have other computers that work correctly but on my production machine I can't seem to fix this problem. I've tried replacing mpg encoder, codecs. nothing seems to fix the 12 second problem.
Thought I'd provide an update in case anyone has any ideas. The merge/cut function of TMPG plus is reading the time stamp wrong on mpg2 video. On a very similar machine with the same codecs installed, I get the correct time showing at the frame I want to cut to. In the computer with the problem the time stamp shown is 11 seconds off, eg, 2:26 vs 2:37 actual.
The easiest thing to do would be to Just Not use Tmpgenc"s editor, the Merge & Cut is Buggy at the best of times and does not support the accurate editing of VBR Encoded Mpeg files...Use a Real Mpeg editor Like "Womble Mpeg2VCR" or Ashy posted a link to a Freeware Vob/Mpeg editor a Page or 2 back called "Chopper XP" I haven"t tried it yet but I"m sure it it better than the Merge & Cut, there is also another Freeware Mpeg2 editor called "Mpeg2Cut" based on DVD2AVI that works well also....
Hello, I'm encoding a 3+ gig AVI file after approx 6 min of file encodong
(from the source file) an error log message is generated. It doesn't tell me the error name/number. What may be some common culprits? I am using the downloaded sample version. I should add that the encoding process functioned very well on a similar type file.
Regards
Jim S
Probably need more information than this, Like the Format of the AVI file and were the AVI came from(Captured/Downloaded/ect) and audio Format in the AVI file and Framerate and anything else you can think of...
When I went to select the source file, the DVD has only either .VOB or .IFO extensions, which are not listed in TMPGEnc. I would like to convert DVD to VCD. Please help.
The Way you encode DVD"s is to first Use "DVD2AVI" to Make a D2V Project file and a Wav audio file from the Audio track you want, then you load the "D2V" and "Wav" file into tmpgenc and encode it to mpeg...You can not Properly Encode VoB files directly with Tmpgenc you have to Use DVD2AVI to Frameserve the VoB files to Tmpgenc....Go to "http://www.dvdrhelp.com/" and look for a Guide on how to encode VCD/SVCD"s from DVD"s Useing DVD2AVI and Tmpgenc....
I just downloaded and ran the version from the website. It says that the 30 day trial period has expired and I need to buy the full version to make SVCD's. Why?
This will Only happen if at some point in the Past you have Downloaded Tmpgenc before, you Might not have even used it more than once But that is all it takes, Cuz once you have downloaded and installed Tmpgenc once that is it, you get no more chances at useing Tmpgenc for Mpeg2, But mpeg1 is free forever...
You should ALLWAYS have "Detect Scene Change" Selected, And "Force Picture Type Setting" is so you can Make certain Frames in the File be forced to be encoded as "I" Frames..This setting is Generally Not used often...
No probs with that, I just was curious as to what the do. Obviously detect scence change does what it says on the tin, but difference does it make to the stream.
When a Scene change is detected the Encoder with Puts in an "I" Frame, this makes it easier for Chaptering and Editing cuz you want to Put in Chapters at the Beginning of a Scene and you want to edit at the start of a scene and you have to edit and chapter on "I" Frames so this Makes it easier....
When I try to convert an 'm2v'file I get a message saying it cannot be opened or is unsupported.
After installing the "MPEG 2 Video VFAPI Plug In' I can now open/convert the video part of the file but not the audio. It does not even appear in the 'Audio Source" area.
Does anyone know of an audio plug in that will solve my problem.
Why do you want to encode the Audio??? It is allready in the Correct Format for mpeg(mpa,mp2)..Just encode the Video and Use the "Multiplex" to join the Audio and Mpeg video together....
The "Multiplex" or "Muxer" Joins Video and Audio streams, and "Demultiplex" or "DeMuxer" Seperates Video and Audio streams from a Mpeg file into Seperate audio and Video files...
I am new at this and use Roxio software to burn vcd's. Any time I try to use TPPG to convert to a usable file it goes through the settings portion and then when I hit start it always says cannot create file. It also tells me that the file I am working with already exits should I overwrite it. Anyone have any experience with this problem?
It would only ask you to Overwrite if there is a File with the same Name in the Output Directory, Either change the name of the Output file or change the directory were the file will be Created....OOHHhhh I allmost forgot "RoXio is Crap" you would be well advised to get a Real Burning App for burning VCD"s/SVCD"s...