I'd appreciate if someone "WHO KNOWS" will explain the setting of the aspect ratio parameters.

When I start the TMPGEnc with the Wizard and pick the AVI file (Captured by Scenalizer from Sony TRV900) the Aspect Ratio in Expert Settings for Source portion of the screen shows 4:3 525 Line (NTSC, 704x480) - Is it correct or should I change it to 4:3 525 line (NTSC) or even 4:3 Display

Next when I go to Other Settings, Video Tab the spect ratio there is set to 4:3 Display
And finally I go to Advance tab and look at Vidoe Source Settings - It looks like this Aource aspect ration corresponds to whatever I selected at the very beginning at the Expert Settings for Source part of the Wizard. And again; What should it be?

Another confusing part on this tab is the Video Arrange Method. Does it matter how it is set if I'm producing the DVD for the NTSC TV Output and I'd like to keep original size and aspect ratio?

I come accross the following explanation for Source aspect ratio and Video arrange method. Are they correct?

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***Source aspect ratio
If source footage dimensions are the same as the output dimensions, then selecting 4:3 Display or 16:9 Display (depending on the format) for both the source and output aspect ratios will ensure that no resizing is done (which makes the encoding faster and preserves the source quality). Alternatively, you can select the n-Line mode that corresponds to the source file's format (ex., for a 4:3 PAL file captured at 720x576, select 4:3 625 line (PAL), and for a 16:9 NTSC file captured at 704x480, select 16:9 525 line (NTSC, 704x480), etc.). In older versions of TMPGEnc, the n-line modes compressed the image horizontally by a few pixels in PAL, but this problem appears to have been fixed in newer versions. Note that the 1:1 (VGA) option doesn't refer to square images, but to square pixels (the format used by most computer-generated images).

***Video arrange method
If your source footage has the correct size (i.e., the same as the output size, selected in the Video tab), any method you pick will produce the same result. If the source footage has a different size, then it will be resized using the rule you define here. If you do not want the video to be resized at all, select Center. If you want the video to be stretched to occupy the entire screen, select Full screen. If you want the video to be resized in such a way that it keeps its original aspect ratio even when that's different from the output aspect ratio, select the modes marked (keep aspect ratio). If you want to convert a video clip to fullscreen without letterboxing it (by clipping the edges instead), select No margin. If you want to adjust its size manually, select Center (custom size).

Generally, if your source footage does not match the DVD resolution, it's best to resize it using an interactive program (that will show you the result immediately), and then feed the resized footage into TMPGEnc. If you resize directly in TMPGEnc you will only see the result after the compression is finished, so if you select the wrong mode you will have wasted a lot of time.
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Thanks for any clarification, Tomas

I just downloaded TMPGenc a few days ago and tried to convert a couple of DIVX files. The first one went through fine, but the second one ended up with having sound but no video. Anyone have some idea what might cause this?

Try this

http://www.movieking.co.uk/guides/tmpgencplugin.html

Well, that link didn't really help me much, but I think I figured out the problem. The first file I did was actually in divx, but the second one, which I thought was also divx, was was actually xvid. I used virtualdub to convert it to divx and then ran it though tmpgenc with no problems.

That is not a Good Idea to convert the XviD to divx then to Mpeg because the conversion from Xvid to Divx will greatly reduce the Video quality...What you should have done was Loaded the XvId file into Virtual dub and Frame served it to Tmpgenc or if you Install the FFDshow decoder then Tmpgenc should de able to decode it Properly and if you go to "options" to "Enviromental settings" and Raise the Priority of the "Direct show" then Tmpgenc will also probably encode the file properly...

how do i determine whether the avi file(s)is interlace or non-interlaced (progressive)?

If you load the File into Tmpgenc useing the "Wizard" it will analize your Files to see if it is Progressive or interlaced and if it is Interlaced it will Judge the Field order and set it accordingly.....Most Files that you download that are 23.97fps are going to be Progressive, Most that are 29.97fps are going to be Interlaced and with 25fps it could go either way but if Made from a DVD it will usually be Progressive but there are allways exceptions...Cheers

thanks alot Minion!!!

I used DVD Decrypter to Decrypt my movie using IFO mode as per the COPYTODVD instructions, Encoded with DVD2AVI and when I go to use TMPGEnc I get an error message that says F:DVD_VideoVideo_TS*d2v cannot open or unsupported where * is the name of the movie. What does this mean?

This is Probably something simple...You have to first make sure that you didn"t delete any of the Vob files or rename or moove any of the files in the Path between the D2V file and the Vob files..and if this is all correct then you probably just need to copy and Paste the "DVD2AVI.vfp" file from the DVD2AVI folder into the Tmpgenc install folder then restart Tmpgenc and it should accept the d2v file...Cheers

Typing Chinese Characters for menu names and items don't work.

Why you think it is Bug?

You can use the Chinese version from Chinese Windows.

To my knowlege, there is no chinese version of tmpgenc author.

http://www.pegasys-inc.com/gb/gb_main.html
or
http://www.pegasys-inc.com/big5/big5_main.html

The English product should still have support for multi-byte characters, because very often english products are upgraded first, and as such, users install English products on their local OS.

>The English product should still have support for multi-byte characters,
In my knowledge, the newest version will not support for multi-byte characters
again, cause of the copyright problem, cause the most of chinese user never buy software license. It is normal result.

I asked this a couple of days ago but did not receive a response. I really would appreciate the help from someone in the know. Sorry to ask again.

I am attempting to record some home videos onto Video CD's. Is this the correct way to do it and have them display correctly on a typical 4x3 ratio TV.

1) Record the video digitally at 320x240, 30fps, NTSC format.
2) Using TMPGEnc, select MPEG-1 (which is 352x240) and as a "Source Aspect Ratio" select 4:3 525 line (NTSC) OR should it just be 4:3 ratio (which one?), and for "Video Arrange Method" select Full Screen (keep aspect ratio)

Because I did this, and the result seems correctly perportioned and nice, but on computer it appears like the 320x240 movie is contained in the center of a 352x240 box with black borders on the right and left, and narrow black borders on the top and bottom. What I am wondering is if...when I play the video CD in my DVD player, on my 4:3 TV screen, it will attempt to display the movie as 352x240, which will either create a black border at the top and bottom of my TV screen, or will it squish the 352x240 to full screen and distort the 320x240 movie it contains, OR will it just display the 320x240 movie full screen on my TV to perfection!

Thanks

I would use 4:3 (525 line) NTSC.

When you play back a video on a TV it will "hide" some portion of the sides as well as top and bottom. This is because the plastic border that is around the glass screen overlaps it. So the borders you are talking about should not be seen on a regular TV but will be seen on computer monitor.

If you are concerned about the black borders just crop them out using TMPGEnc and set it to full screen WITHOUT preserving the aspect ratio. You will have no black borders but the aspect ration might be slighty off.

If your capture card allows it, capture the video at 352x240 in the first place and make life easy.

Video Guy

Are you useing Windows Media Player to Play this file??? If so then this is why it looks like the Image has big black boarders all the way arround it...WMP doesn"t display Images Properly, For watching Mpeg files it is good to use a Software DVD Player like WinDVD or PowerDVD...Cheers

Thank you both for your answers. One thing I should clarify though about the black borders. What it really appears like is a 352x240 rectangle with a 320x240 rectangle centered in the middle of it. The black borders on the top and bottom are just little borders above and below the 352x240 rectangle, however the right and left black borders are "within" the 352x240 rectangle due to the fact that the 320x240 rectangle containing the movie does not equal the same width.

I hope that doesn't sound to confusing. So I understand about the display issue with the Windows Media Player, and about how a TV will hide some portions of a black margin, but am still not sure from your answers whether a 4:3 TV will display the video CD as a 352x240 image (which is not 4:3) squished width wise, or just the 4:3 video portion of the image, or as a 352x240 image with a black border above and below the image (like viewing a wide screen video) with a 320x240 box contained in it or....... wheeeeeew, there has got to be some simple way to document this in plain and simple black and white.

Thanks

The best way to figure this out is to burn it to disc and test it out yourself.

You say that your video is 320x240 and TMPGEnc is adding a 32 pixel border on the sides (16 on each side) making it 352x240. If you burn it this way and it appears "squished" then when you open TMPGEnc use Full screen without preserving the aspect ratio. However ,if it appears to playback fine then just leave it 320 with a 32 border.

Video Guy

In the message you replied on 08/02 to the question "SVCD on 2 80 minutes CDs", you said:

"i did 2 48 minute svcd"s and they were each about 750mb and the quality was great.The settings were useing the CQ(Constant Quality)with a maximum bitrate of 4500kbs and a minimum bitrate of 750kbs and the quality at 85, with these settings you should be able to get 50 minutes of svcd on a cd-r and if you want to get more try putting the quality down to 80 then you might get close to 55-60minutes.and putting the audio bitrate down to 128kbs will give you more space for video without looseing noticeable audio quality.."

In the max and min bitrate you suggested, I encode the SVCD file, but the file size is much larger than 750mb. So could you please tell me how you did it.

Thanks, Xwyang

Well with the CQ Method there is No telling How Big the file will be so you have got to play around with a Few different settings...If the File is too big then lower the Max bitrate a Little and lower the Quality setting, Maybe try with the Max Bitrate at 3000kbs and the Quality at 70%...The files size is so unpredictable because if your file has a Lot of action or a Lot of Movement the File will be a Lot bigger than a File with Less action...Good Luck

email: cccs88@sina.com

Thanks, xwyang

Mailed.

Thank you so much.

Xwyang

Any chance of sending me some too? That would be awesome :)

Thanks
Simon

FINALLY!

I solved this. And its a miracle.

Bascially I am gonna post this so that people will be able to pick it up and just have the solution by searching the forums.

This is my own experience, I am using a Velocity editing system to output all of our media (television, game cinematic and film based) to TGA sequences so that I can take those sequences and compress (getting a really nice quality I might add) them in TMPGEnc to prepare them for DVDLab 1.1, final output being a DVD with the utmost configuration possible and with the best possible video.

The problem I was having was that the video actually appeared to flicker in all the interlaced parts. Anything not interlaced was fine. We wound up opening a frame in photoshop and using the video/deinterlace filter saw that there was still a 'shadow' of the other field which we assumed was causing the flickering in playback.

Solution (this is only for velocity as far as I know), was that when we were outputting from the velocity we hadnt selected a field, there is a dropdown box that is defaulted to No Fields (I wasnt doing the outputting at the time), so basically I was encoding over and over and over again (drilling my head into the wall) to get what I thought was a interlacing/field problem on my end fixed. All we did was select A Fields in the drop down box and then in TMPGEnc I just selected A Field and Interlace source and then Interlaced output.

Something else that was messing me up, selecting interlaced output and then opening the file in Windows Media Player makes you think the interlacing is F'ed up, it looks fat and clumped, ITS _NOT_!!! ITS FINE!!! Screen capture and bring into Photoshop and you will see the interlacing is perfect, when it appears too fat in WMP... Damn WMP.

Thanks you guys on the forum here for the help and suggestions. The pain is over, now the easy part of just outputting everything can FINALLY start happening.

By the way I still cant believe the insane compression we get with this thing, 6GB Files compressed down to 200MB and they are clean even when paused... Damn.

Joe

Poeple Often think they are seeing Interlace artifacts when watching interlaced video on a PC Monitor because Monitors aren"t meant to display Interlaed material so you see every field and every artifact on the Monitor but not on a TV which is meant to disply Interlaced material, and software Players Like Media Player suck for watching Interlaced Mpeg files because it ignores the Aspect ratio and it doesn"t use any Deinterlace filters on Playback like software DVD Players Like WinDVD and PowerDVD Do...weel I"m glad you got it worked out...Cheers

>By the way I still cant believe the insane compression we get with this thing, 6GB Files compressed down to 200MB and they are clean even when paused... Damn.

Are you saying you are compressing to TGA at this compression.
I'd like to see a few frames of this to judge for myself, seems a bit unbelievable that a 6gig file can be compressed to 200mb without noticable artifacts unless this is some sort of high bitrate, high res source.

I am taking uncompressed TGAs straight into TMPGEnc and outing to a mv2 elementary stream.

There are artifacts but usually only in certain scenes and stuff that I could probably fix anyways playing with the I frames and whatnot but overall the compression is fantastic... We have a priority with another job at the moment going out to DVD and as today is my last day at this job it will be rather hard for me to get you a sample but I will probably be going in and out so I will see what I can do.

Joe

Yes a new ffdshow codec :0)

I got it from www.tvfreak.cz

Cheers,

Hendrik

im trying to encode a divx to mpeg1 and im getting an error
'write error occured at address 77f83aed of module 'ntdll.dll' with 00000000'

what does this mean?

You get this error mainly from the Xvid codec. Try installing FFDShow and use it to decode the video.

Video Guy.

Ok, so I have gone over and over and over this. And over this.

Encoded both ways and the problem persists the slight jitter in the interlaced stuff.

Here is the problem, also, I am using a source that I had previously used before with success, I have narrowed it down a bit more for you folks...

The entire frame doesnt jitter, when I reduce the resolution CBR 2500 or something, where it would normally be 8000, most of the frame is smooth, but I can see jitter where the interlacing in the frames are, so now that its extremely low res it becomes smoother but that jitter is still in the edges of things...

I cannot deinterlace, wont happen, boss would lose his everloving mind if this thing got 1 ounce of blur in it. With that, I have tried Fields/Interlaced and non up the wazoo, I have come to the assumtion this isnt that kinda problem, partially because we had that problem before and it got fixed...

I am thinking its in the checkboxes in the GOP settings and quantize matrix settings, but as I havent gotten very into learning the really gritty details of what those checkboxes mean, I am still in the dark as to what I am doing with them. If you guys could point me in the direction of some laymans explanations of those boxes it would be a help, I will search the forum for explanations in the meantime. (which I now am slapping myself for not doing already)

Joe

Also, when I interlace it, it comes through on the other end double interlaced or something, basically it has fatter interlacing rather than the normal stuff, the lines are like double the thickness...

I was thinking that it might be my DVD burning software but as I am telling it not to de/remux it, then it should just leave the thing alone and use the file as is... Again I am confused because the noninterlaced stuff thats mixed in with the interlaced stuff is playing just fine!?!? And it all worked before?!?

Joe

Also, when I interlace it, it comes through on the other end double interlaced or something, basically it has fatter interlacing rather than the normal stuff, the lines are like double the thickness...

I was thinking that it might be my DVD burning software but as I am telling it not to de/remux it, then it should just leave the thing alone and use the file as is... Again I am confused because the noninterlaced stuff thats mixed in with the interlaced stuff is playing just fine!?!? And it all worked before?!?

Joe

What frame rate is the source?
It seems like this material has some sort of telecine added to the interlaced stuff.
This mixing of interlaced and non interlaced is quite common to anime films which are hybrids just like your source and are notoriously difficult to encode.

This page may help ( click IVTC For NTSC and then scroll down to the part about ANIME and THE DREADED HYBRIDS):

http://www.doom9.org/ivtc-tut.htm

Usually when I get this Type of Problem I use an Adaptive de-interlacer that will Just de-interlace the Parts that need it and a sharpen Filter to overcome any Blurryness caused from De-interlaceing....Just a Thought....