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Just downloaded trial version. I have high expectations and expect shortly to comment on TMPEnc DVD Author. As TMPEnc enjoys high reputation software needs to deliver at $68.
Best of luck.

I had to reformat my hard drive due to a virus so lost my older version of TMPGE. I also loaded a new Windows XP on it once reformat was done. I previously had ME. I notice that .mov files will only convert video and not audio although I was converting them successfully before. Can anyone give me any insight as to what I need to do or get to successfully convert .mov to mpg once again?

Thanks

This happens for some reason and I don"t know why, but some poeple can convert Mov files with Audio and some poeple Can not, A I can suggest is to make sure you have the Quicktime Plugin for Tmpgenc installed and the Latest Version of Quicktime and if that doesn"t help then use a Seperate Program to extract the audio from the Mov files to Wav format then use the Wav files as the audio Source...

I can convert older Quicktime-Movies with Sound. But the newer ones, especially the Movies with VBR-Audio, won't work. It's the same "Game" like converting some DivX-AVIs with VBR-Audio.

Well if the Audio is VBR Then that Explaines it Because Tmpgenc does not Support VBR audio, so the audio will have to be extracted by some other means..

I'd like to record the DVD in PAL from the NTSC source and looking for best solution.

I have a source AVI created in NTSC format (from DV camera). I use Ulead MSP7 to edit the file (with MainConcept codec). Ulead allows me to create new AVI in PAL format. Is this the correct place to do it? What about audio - I usually create separate WAV file from MSP7 as well.
Next I use the TMPGEnc to encode the file to M2V. Also during this process I can convert it to PAL. Would this be better place then MSP7 (AVI file).
Lastly I use Ulead Movie Factory (looking to try TMPGEnc DVD Author) and this tool also alows me to specify that DVD is in PAL. Will this be a good place to do it. Again what about audio. At this point my WAV file will be in AC3 format.

Tomas

If you are going to use this Method then the best Way to do the NTSC/Pal conversion is in "MSP7" then encode and burn it as a Pal File,How are you converting the Wav audio to AC3??

To convert WAV to AC3 I'm using the BeeSweet.

You said if I use one of these methods... Is there something else you can suggest?

Well the There are other ways of converting to and From NTSC and Pal but if Media Studio Pro does it without the Playback being Jumpy then that is Probably the best way..There are Other programs that convert Between DV NTSC and Pal but they are usually a Bit Pricey..

The source was originally Pinnacle DV codec but converted with the Canopus DV file convertor (which claims to be lossless) to Premiere compatible Canopus DV so that AVISynth can read it ...

The following AVISynth file is from http://home.bip.net/gunnart/video/AVSPorts/SmoothDeinterlacer/ although I've added the Weave at the bottom since it only returned a 240 high image without it ...

# PAL DV (50 fps) to NTSC DV (59.94 fps)
LoadPlugin("SmoothDeinterlacer.dll")
AVISource("myCanopus-CDV(AVI2).avi")
SmoothDeinterlace(tff=false, doublerate=true)
BilinearResize(720, 480)
ChangeFPS(59.94)
SeparateFields()
SelectEvery(4, 0, 3)
Weave

I'm feeding the result into TMPGEnc with a DVD NTSC template and "do not frame rate convert" enabled ...

The resulting DVD mpg looks very good to me but I'm a complete beginner so I'd be interested in Minion, Ashy and all the other experts comments :-)

I'm doing it this way:

directShowSource("C:film.avi")
Bob() #You can use SmoothDeinterlace(tff=false, doublerate=true) too
BicubicResize(720,480)
ConvertFPS(59.94,zone=80)
SeparateFields.SelectEvery(4, 0, 3).Weave
convertToRGB24()

I'm doing it this way:

directShowSource("C:film.avi")
Bob() #You can use SmoothDeinterlace(tff=false, doublerate=true) too
BicubicResize(720,480)
ConvertFPS(59.94,zone=80)
SeparateFields.SelectEvery(4, 0, 3).Weave
convertToRGB24()

B_Racer - I've tried your suggestion and I like it !!! Faster encoding and the resulting .mpg seems a tad better than my first attempt ...

Many thanks and I'll be sticking with your idea :-)

It's faster because i combined some commands. That's a trick, that will speedup AVISynth in generaly.
The Movement is smoother because ConvertFPS does not drop any Fields/Frames, it will combine it (blending). You can play a little with the Zone-Parameter, but Zone=80 works fine for me.

I want to convert some .avi files to .mpg so I can then burn them to VCD and play them on my TV. I'm limited to 700mb per disk, so is there some setting that creates multiple .mpg files from a single .avi file (whenever it hits the 700mb limit - then it should create another .mpg file)?

UM, Why are you limiting yourself to 700mb?? You can fit 800mb on a 80min 700mb CD-R, Just think of VCD"s as being 10mb per minute of AVI you are encodeing, if the File turns out longer then you cut the file into Parts with the "Mpeg tools" "Merge & Cut"...

Thanks - I'll try that and see how it works.

I'm looking for exact "step by step set-up. I like to do the same things as far as editing my long movie files to fit into 2 cdr's..
Thank you for your advice.

I'm running a AMD 1.8 gighz cpu.The program will freezup every time I start the video for conversion. Does this softwear support AMD processors?

Yes, it works on AMD-CPUs. But it don't like overclocked AMDs...

And Make sure the "Options"/"enviromental settings"/"Cpu"/SSE-2 is NOT enabled..

I recently upgraded to the latest version (2.511) of the registered version. My machine is a dual 2.4 GHz Xeon machine, so it appears to have 4 processors. I am encoding a simple DV-AVI file and I'm getting a hang at various stages in the encoding process. It doesn't completely freeze up, but starts to move at an incredibly slow pace and is performing nonstop disk I/O. Did something change with the multi CPU behavior?

<My machine is a dual 2.4 GHz Xeon machine, so it appears to have 4 processors.>

Doesn"t a "Dual" Proscessor system have "2" Proscessors Not "4"??....

Both Xeons and newer P4 processors have Hyperthreading technology. This causes 2 physical processors to appear as 4 logical processors. The environmental settings screen also incorrectly states that there are 2 'logical processors' when there are actually 4 (Again, there are 2 physical processors). When watching the encoding process on task manager (My task manager shows 4 different CPU level graphs), I see that the analyze part of 2-pass VBR IS in fact using all 4 CPUs when I do motion estimation, but not when I use the highest precision estimation (it only uses 2).

I know that as I have one with Hyper threading But it is Still a Single Proscessor but it is acting as a Dual Proscessor because of it"s architecture..

Correct. But I have 2 chips for a total of 4 logical processors. It's an i860 Supermicro motherboard.

Do you know of any problems that could cause the 2-pass VBR to hang, generally somewhere between 60 and 70%. I can do some experimentation tonight and test the machine using the /ONECPU bootflag and see if that makes a difference. Note that I've never seen this problem before last night (that means it's either the .511 build or some fluke involving this particular .avi)

Well I came home and ran it again, this time it worked fine, so who knows. The only difference in setting was to put the minimum bitrate to 1000 instead of 0.

Well Tmpgenc can just be a little Buggy at times so it does wierd things with some poeple..

As a programmer, I completely understand. I'm totally satisfied with the product, but I'm going to provide more info here for other people having the same problem and also so that the developer can maybe fix the problem in a future version...

Even though I was successful once, I wanted to turn the bitrate up a bit so I encoded again. This time I froze up at 86%. I used FileMon (sysinternals) to see what the disk activity was... One of the threads in TmpgEnc is continuously reading 224k chunks from the source .AVI file. I believe that this disk IO is starving the other threads from getting any IO done. Note that this can occur in either the 'analyzing' or the encoding phase of the 2-pass.

Later, I will try to turn off multithreading and see if that fixes the problem as a workaround...

Correct. But I have 2 chips for a total of 4 logical processors. It's an i860 Supermicro motherboard.

Do you know of any problems that could cause the 2-pass VBR to hang, generally somewhere between 60 and 70%. I can do some experimentation tonight and test the machine using the /ONECPU bootflag and see if that makes a difference. Note that I've never seen this problem before last night (that means it's either the .511 build or some fluke involving this particular .avi)

Admin, please delete this and the previous reply (It's the same as an earlier one, It was cached and I pressed 'refresh' and my browser reposted it)

Note that as a workaround, turning off Multithreading in the Environmental Settings stops my encode from hanging.

I cant even run the program. I am using Windows XP with Service Pack 1, Any thoughts? I get a Run Time Error???

Duh, WHAT error?

Sounds like you have outdated runtime files. What OS are you using Win 98 or something?

Go to the Microsoft site and dowmload the latest runtime files.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=BF9A24F9-B5C5-48F4-8EDD-CDF2D29A79D5

I noticed you have XP, so everything should be ok.
If the above doesn't work try downloading and installing TMPG again.

Hello
In encoding SVCDs at low bitrate, I find that if I use VBR the resulting file size is not always the same as predicted. I tried to encode for a 90 min. CD and the result is an 814 MB file. If I use CBR the file size is equal to prediction. I am using either the bult-in calculator of the registered version or the FITCD caluclator for 90 min. CDs.
Anybody has an idea on why is this happening? here are the settings:

stream type: MPG-2 Video
Size: 480x576
Aspect ratio: 4:3 display
Frame rate: 25 fps
Rate Control mode: 2-pass VBR(VBR)
avg. bitrate: 950
max. bitrate: 2520
min. bitrate: 200 Padding is NOT enabled
VBV buffer size: 112
Profile: Main profile & main level
Video format: PAL
Encode: Interlace
YUV format: 4:2:0
DC component: 8 bits
Motion search: High quality

Thanks/regards

That's strange, what Bitrate did you use for Audio?

Here is a site selling the Retail version of TMPGenc Plus for £59.
As far as I can see the only difference is you get a manual with it.

Does anyone else think that a price of £29(equivalent $48) for the downloadable version and a price of £59(equivalent $95) for the retail version is a bit steep just for a manual?

Sorry here's the link:
http://www.puresoft.co.uk/tsunami/

It depends is the manual over 1000 pages.

Hello,

is there any possibility to buy TMPEG Plus from Europe? I think Eurocard, Visa is not the real sollution! There are many users out of europe which whant to buy this program, but they could not....

cu

What are you talking about?
You can pay by most major credit cards and debit cards. VISA, MasterCard, Amex, Discover. Surely you have at least one of these or do you not even have a bank account!

What are you talking about?
You can pay by most major credit cards and debit cards. VISA, MasterCard, Amex, Discover. Surely you have at least one of these or do you not even have a bank account!

No, not everybody have one of these credit cards an so, they could not buy thos programm. Is pegasys-inc not interesstet in new users from europe?

There is no shop in germany, who provide this program.

Visa, MC, Amex, and Discover are American bank issued credit cards and are not always used world wide as most North American's are lead to believe in those lame Visa commercials.

Visa is a worldwide issued/accepted card and is used on most credit/debit cards in Europe. Just as I and many others have over here in the UK.

If you have a current bank account 99% of those people should at least have some sort of debit/credit card and most of those include Visa.

How else do you expect to pay for the software? Send a cheque to Japan maybe?


If you don't have a Credit/debit card then I'm afraid you are in the minority. I would have a word with your bank if I was you.

How can I create true VideoCD mpeg file with TMPGEnc? When I play mpeg by software player in my PC - all is ok, but my VideoCD player play it with jerky (movie turn back at some frame approx every one second). Original VideoCD disk my player play with no problem. With avi2vcd by John Schlichthe I able to create true VideoCD mpeg that played in my VideoCD player correctly.
I try to use Wizard for creating PAL VideoCD, try to use template VideoCD (PAL) and have same bad result. I think that may be problem in GOP structure parameters or Quantize matrix but not sure.
Does anybody have the same problem?

Yurii

There could be a few reasons for this.

The first could be because you are changing the frame rate of your original source when encoding.

The second is an authoring problem. Are you making sure you are selecting VCD burning mode in your burning software or are you just burning a raw MPEG on to the disk?

Third could be that you are splitting the final MPEG in to 2 parts but are not selecting the correct stream type (MPEG-1 Video CD)

My guess is that you have altered the frame rate of the original. Post the frame rate and file type of the original source here.

>There could be a few reasons for this.
>
>The first could be because you are changing the frame rate of your original source when encoding.
>
No, I don't change original frame rate (25 fps). I try to convert the same original source (.avi file with 25 fps) with TMPGEnc, avi2vcd by John Schlichthe and now with old Xing MPEG Encoder. Unfortunately, only with TMPGEnc I have the problem.

>The second is an authoring problem. Are you making sure you are selecting VCD burning mode in your burning software or are you just burning a raw MPEG on to the disk?
>
For authoring I use VCDEasy and try to create disk with this 3 MPEG files encoded by different encoders. And I have the problem only with TMPGEnc encoded stream

>Third could be that you are splitting the final MPEG in to 2 parts but are not selecting the correct stream type (MPEG-1 Video CD)
>
No, I don't split the MPEG

>My guess is that you have altered the frame rate of the original. Post the frame rate and file type of the original source here.
>
.avi file with 25 fps, I try to encode any other source and have the same problem

May be this is my VideoCD hardware problem, but why other MPEGs played correctly?

Yurii