Hi!

I want to convert a divx film to two SVCD's. I want to use TMPGEnc for this, and I'm using a trial version.

Everything seems to work fine, for about ten seconds. Then the video freezes, but the program is still encoding, and I can also hear the sound when I play the file.

Am I doing something wrong, is it an error of TMPGEnc, or an error in my divx file?

I hope there's someone who can help me :D

Do a search on this board for VFAPI plugins for your answer.

i try to create a menu with tmpgenc dvd author
-first movie 1h20 and 13 chapters
-second movie 1h21 and 28 chapters

when i add the first movie in a track 1 ... no problem / 13 chapters loaded

when i add the second movie in a track 2 ... problem / only 20 chapters loaded

is there a limitation with the number of chapters loaded

thanks for help !!!

You already found the Limitation: It's 20!

Is there a movie limit??

I have two 2 hour movies. But TMPGENC DVD Author only seems to add about 3/4 of each movie.

I don't know if this is possible or not. But I'm trying to convert ASF to MPEG so I can then convert to VCD. I go through the steps in the project wizard fine, but once it begins to encode I get an error message stating, "Can't load 'P3Package.dll'". How can I fix this?

Matt

Why you don't use the Search-Button on top of this Board? This questions was answered many times...

And why are you posting as a bug?
This is not a bug, it is user error and you will find out how to rectify it if you do a search just as B_Racer says.

Hi. I have been getting the following error message quite often. It occurs upon the completion of the job. No idea why it happens but when it does the resultant mpg file tends to be jerky with squares or rectangles floating on the screen. Using version 2.521.58.169. Thanks.

"Read error occurred at address 01DE29C4 of module 'RESAMPLE.DLL' with FFFFFFFF"

Got the same error trying to force a mono audio stream.
Just swithced to "stereo" to solve this issue.

I'm afraid it didn't work. Still had that read error at resample.dll. Any other clues?

For some reason, when converting dvd to wmv, i sometimes have problems with the audio.

With some 2 hour dvd's, the sound is out of sync with the video in the wmv.

With 4 hour dvd's, i end up with no sound at all in the wmv, although i succesfully extract a working 2.5 gigabyte wav file from the dvd.

I suspect that the problem lies in my use of tmpgenc somewhere?

Any thoughts?



Heres the process im using:

1) with DVD Decrypter 3.1.4.0, rip the dvd to workstation. mode--> file. this produces several vob files and and an ifo file

2) with DVD2AVI 1.77.3, extract the audio. open the vob files. audio--> output method--> decode to wav. save project. this will leave you with a d2v and a wav file

3) with TMPGenc 2.5, create an avi wrapper file. open the .d2v and .wav files, save project as a .tpr file.

4) with VFAPI Reader Codec 1.05, create an avi file. add the tpr file as a job and run it.

5) with windows media encoder, convert avi to wmv

When I need to convert Vob/Mpeg2/AVI ECT to WMV, I use a simple Program called "Stoik Media Converter" it is freeware...What I do is use "Smartripper" to extract the Vob files to One Big M2V file instead of a Bunch of 1gb Vob files and I use It to De-Mux the AC3 audio...Then I Make a D2V file with DVD2AVI and Then use AVISynth to Write an AVS Script and Frameserve the D2V file and the AC3 audio to Stoik Media Converter and Convert to WMV...You will Need the Correct AVISynth Plugins Like the Mpeg2dec.dll and AC3source.dll...AVISynth is a Much better Frameserver than VFAPI because AVISynth works in Many colorspaces and Vfapi Only works In RGB and you can Loose Quality when doing to many colorspace conversions, and AVISynth can add filters and convert Framerates which Tmpgenc Cant do(Convert Framerates Properly)...I have only done this a couple times cuz WMV is such a Crappy Format but it worked flawlessly...I think if you installed the AC3ACM Decompressor you Might be able to load the VOB file directly into Stoik Media Converter cuz the AC3 ACM decompressor lets VFW and maybe even Direct Show Programs decode AC3 audio.....good luck

@pete

Why are you using TMPG at all in this process, it's not necessary?
Just load the d2v directly into the VFAPI converter and create the dummy AVI without audio then just load that and your wav into Windows media encoder or Moviemaker or whatever and encode.

hey folks

still tinkering with things,

im using tmpgenc because im using windows batch encoder which requires the audio and video to already be together

thanks,
pete

If you use AVISynth the Audio and Video will be together, and if you use Stiok Video converter to encode to WMV/ASF then it will accept AVISynth files and will encode to WMV faster than allmost any other Program....And if you install the AC3 ACM Decompressor you will probably be able to Load the Vob files Directly into Stoik and encode to WMV/ASF...You are doing things the hard way...

hey minion,

how do you get the ac3 file with smart ripper, do you get the ac3 file when you get the m2v, or do you use smart ripper twice?

thanks,
pete

another thought, where might one find the ac3source.dll plugin?

thanks again!

ive shrinked 2 dvds 2one with dvd-shrink,
and theres is subtitle on both of them.
but why does TMPGEnc DVD Author removes them when i make a menu to the movies.i open the .ifo - file and the subtitles where gone
plz tell me why

Becaus TMPGEnc DVD Author only supports 1 Video- and 1 Audio-Stream...

hi

does anyone know if there is a version of TMPGEnc that will work with windows 95? an older version perhaps?

thanx in advance

rich

Version 12a should work.
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I am trying to convert an MPEG4 xvid avi file to svcd using TMPGENC (latest version). I have two separate files, the first has worked fine, the second file crashes when encoding the first half. It is approximately 130,000 frames and I have split the encoding process into two separate files (first 66,000 frames and the remainder). The remainder encodes fine, the first 66,000 frames crashes at various points during encoding. I have tried using VBR, VBR-CQ,manual VBR and CBR and all have crashed at differing points during the encoding process (sometimes as low as 2% encoded, sometimes 84% or 85%). GSpot tells me I have all the required codecs on my system and windows media player can play the avi without problem.

I don't understand why this is happening given the other file (and a half are fine).

Well I know that Tmpgenc doesn"t like the XviD codec at all so maybe you should try downloading and Installing the "FFDShow Decoder" and configure it to decode Xvid files...But if this doesn"t work for some reason then there could be something wrong with your AVI file Like maybe some corrupted frames,You might consider useing Virtual Dub to scan for errors and then Frame serve the file to tmpgenc, This will probably work....Cheers

Hi i have a quick question

I have this AVI file everytime i try to open it
i get this error

file "blah blah" can not be open, or unsupported

This is just a normal AVI i don't think its on the DIVX or XVID codec.

What do you mean a normal AVI?
If this is a compressed AVI then it WILL likely be XVID or DIVX or at least some sort of MPEG4 codec.
Either way you can do 2 things. The first is to navigate to the VFAPI plugins in TMPG and raise the 'Directshow reader' to 2 if that doesn't sort it then doenload and install FFDSHOW.

will do thanks for the help

Hi,

I read some postings about overscan but I must apologise, I don't quite understand how to compensate for it. Can someone help give me clearer instructions to correct the problem.

Basically I have an AVI that I want to convert to MPEG before burning to VCD. The problem is when I play the VCD on the TV(PAL standard), the edges get cut off (both horizontal and vertical) so in cases if I have subtitles, it gets cut off.

I used Adobe Premiere to edit and TMPGEnc Ver 2.520.54.163 for the AVI to MPG conversion. I am using the wizard to convert to VCD-PAL standard that uses 352x288 and aspect ratio 4:3 625 line (PAL 704x576) - (can someone explain what these mean?) How should I tweak these to make sure the edges don't get cut off on the TV screen?

I read somewhere about resizing the picture and putting black borders. How is that done?

Thanks in advance for any response.

Any CRT-Based TV has an Overscan-Area. So the visible size of the Video is smaler than the Video itself.

On CCIR-Based Video (PAL / NTSC, 704x576 / 704x480) the visible Area is around 672x544 / 672 x 448.

On ITU-Based Videos (720x576 / 720x480) the visible Area is around 688x544 /688x448.

So you can use a Tool like VirtualDub or AVISynth, to resize to this size and letterbox the Video to the "true" Resolution.
If you are producing VCDs divide the Messurements by 2.

In your case, use VirtualDub to resize to 336x272 and use the Letterbox-Function of VirtualDubs Resizer to put in the black Bars to 352x288.

Hello again. I saw this AVI that was 352x240. That's perfect. Is it possible for video to go off the TV screen? Should I just encode it to 352x240 in normal VCD format? What settings would achieve the best possible settings? Or should I do my normal XSVCD settings:

Output Size: 480x480
Video Arrange Method: Custom Center (352x240)

Theres absolutely no point in encoding this AVI to 480x480 as upsizing will just reduce the quality and will likely make the file unecessarily larger.

Just encode it to XVCD not XSVCD at the same resolution.

Hi,

I'm using Virtualdub frame server with TMPEG because I really like the VHS plug-in cleanup filter that's available from flaXen. But when I frameserve, I can't select System (video+audio) in TMPEG, because it's grayed out. So I get separate video and audio files. Is there a way to frameserve and create a combined MPEG2 video and audio file?

Thanks,

Mark

You need to unlock the settings first.
Click the 'load' button and navigate to the 'Extra' folder in the templates folder then double click the unlock.mcf or just stop using the wizard altogether and load the file directly into the main window.