I used TMPGEnc 2.5 free version to convert a wmv to mpeg. I used the wizzard and didn't change any of the settings, used all defaults. Once encoded I used Nero to burn an SVCD on CD-R. The CDR won't play in WinDVD or my stand alone DVD player. It will play in windows media player. I want to play it in the standalone, which I know plays CDR's and CDRW's. According to the manual it plays VCD 1.1 or 2.0. Dosen't mention SVCD.

Anyone know what I need to do to make the SVCD play in WinDVD and the standalone DVD player??

Thanks

When i completed my encode. Then played file their was no video but great quality sound. NO VIDEO!!. Just a black screen...
ANY IDEAS

Not even Ideas, answers...

Do a Research on VFAPI priority settings. Especially search for the DirectShow Multimedia File reader

Had this just today. You're missing a Codec for AVI, Possibly need to download latest Divx Pack, 5.2.2. Tried this myself and fixed the problem.

I'm converting xvid AVI to SVCD, getting this error:
http://img31.exs.cx/img31/1632/heh323.jpg

I have the K-Lite full codec pack.

Remove this crappy Codec-Pack...

I have DVD Author 1.6 and I'm looking for a solution where DVD Author automatically can insert for each scene a chapter in DVD-Menu.
It would save more time when DVD Author has a scene detection for chapters and after that I remove unwanted chapters.
Is there a solution ?

Is this possible?

I think I have done at some point in Windows 98 but now I just can't seem to do it regardless of what I do and set the priority levels in Tmpgenc Options.

Thanks

Do you install the Virtualdub frame server client first?
Also make the 'VFW file reader' top priority in the VFAPI plugins

Thanks. It was that VFW thing. Now that I moved it up it works great.

I need to share some of the MPEG2 files I have created with TMPEGENC Plus 2.5 (registered) from AVI files. I want to make sure that people who get the files can view them, so I am thinking I need to tell them where to download the correct codec if their system doesn't already have it. I am using the TMPEGENC CODEC that came with the software.
Is there a place for people to download the codec from TMPGENC?
Is there another free CODEC that will work?
Should I not use TMPEGENC's codec and instead use another free codec to encode the files so that others can view them?

Thanks for the recommendations!

What do you mean you are using TMPG's codec?
TMPG's codec can only decode MPEG2 files that are loaded into it. It does not get registered with windows and cannot used to play back MPEG2 content with a mediaplayer.

All your friends need is a capable MPEG2 player of which there are several. 2 good free solutions are Media Player Classic and VLC player.
Both are self contained apps that don't need installing and quite small especially Media player classic which is a self contained .EXE and plays nearly any format yet only weighs in at under 1.5MB!

I mean that when I send these short videos to friends they need the same codec I used to create the video. For example if I encode the video with main concept's MPEG2 CODEC, then send the file to a friend, they won't be able to open it without that same CODEC (even if they have WinDVD, Media PLayer, or whatever). So, how do I make sure they can open movies I create with the TMPGENC encoder? What codecs work? Which ones don't? Where can they download the ones that do?

KK.

No, no, you've got it completely wrong. It does not matter which codec was used to encode it. You don't need the same codec it was encoded with, that would be just daft.
As long as you have a compatible MPEG2 codec to play it back then it will play fine.
Of course WinDVD will play it. It will play any MPEG2 files no matter which encoder created them as will the players that I already suggested previously.

Hmmm. Sounds great in theory. But odd because some MPEG2's I have rendered with Mainconcept's encoder play on my home pc but not my laptop. Windows media player errors it cannot find codec. However, it plays videos encoded by TMPEGENC fine. Maybe its just a media player bug??

First of all Media player is crap for MPEG2, especially for DVD content.
Use a real MPEG2 player on your laptop such as WinDVD.

I understand. Unfortunately Media Player is the defacto tool people use, and is a pain in the butt for all who distribute MPEG2 files commercially for playback on the PC. I wish there was another standard that people would adopt. <sigh> Maybe version 10 will solve some problems.

KK.

Use Media Player Classic (it's not made by Microsoft!) or VLC (like Ashy suggested). Both of them are including a good MPEG2-Decoder.
You can also use ffdshow als Universal-Decoder for all kinds of MPEG (from 1-4).

I want to convert an avi without subs and a srt sub file, into an avi with permanent subs. Is this possible with TMPGenc?

I searched old topics but they just show how to convert to VCD

Seems a bit daft, but Virtualdub can do this using the TEXTSUB or VOBSUB filter.

Well it worked, but it turned a 673MB avi + a 64KB srt into a 980MB avi!

The explanation is that I have a DivX DVD player but it does not play subs for foreign films (a friend's player only needs a .sub or a .srt on the disc on the same level as the avi and it auto-plays both movie and subs). What I'm looking for is a way to put subs on to foreign movies but keep the resulting file size small enough to fit on a single CD, thus saving a bit of money each time I burn.

Is there any way to keep the resulting file size down without losing quality?

Well you should have encoded the file at the same bitrate as the original if you wanted to match it's file size.

I tried to convert RM to MPEG1, the video quality is good, but no audio output

same here. I can play *.rmvb file can play in Real Player 10. I have realaudiosplitter.ax registered. Tmpgenc can open the *.rmvb and encode. At the end of the encoding, only about 0.5 second of the MPEG video clip has audio in it. I round up has to de-multiplex the MPEG file into *.m2v and *.mp2 and trash the *.mp2 part. It has no audio in it except the first 0.5 second. I have to rip the audio portion of the *.rmvb and multiplex *.m2v with the *.wav that I ripped. That is a long process.
I would like to know why is there no audio when the *.rmvb file was first imported into Tmpgenc. Anybody knows the answer, I would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
CC

And why do my submissions repeat themselves - i only click once, honestly.

Don't refresh, click 'View article' at the bottom of the page

When i open an .avi file in VirualDub i get the common "improper VBR" message, which has not caused a problem in the past. But with this file, when i extract the .wav file it is a full 10 secs shorter than Vdub says in the audio file information. I researched the problem on this forum and d/loaded and tried Avimux, but it just produces a 64K .wav file. The ultimate aim is to produce an mpeg1 file in TmpgEnc.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

Try VirtualDubMOD or GraphEdit to extract Audio.

Thanks B. Racer and Ashy for your imput. To cut a VERY VERY long story short, i finally managed to extract a correct length wav by demuxing to mp3 (in vdmod) and then converting to wav in goldwave.(I could not do it by any other method without ending up 10 secs short.) Unfortunately, when i remuxed with the video in vd, the audio still went out of sync.

Further investigation showed that the descnchronisation was resulting from 2 or 3 points in the movie where the video froze and then the colours "swirled" about (have you seen "predator" lol) for a few seconds. In the original movie with the VBR audio, this did not effect the sync, but in the new avi, as soon as the movie returned to normal, the audio was about 5 secs ahead of the video. I can cut the movie up and readjust the audio using audio skew correction. I did one, but it's messy and i get a black screen for several seconds with
just audio during playback.

If you can understand what i've tried to describe, perhaps you can suggest a more elegant solution?

Your nearly on the right track to fixing it, but you don't need to cut up the movie.
Load the AVI and the wav into Virtualdub, don't use Virtualdubmod for this it doesn't work properly, then sync up the first part of the movie.
At the point where it goes out of sync mark it as the end point and make sure you mark the beginning too, you should see a blue line.

Now goto File>save wav. Next mark the end point as the new start point and the end of the AVI as end point. Sync up the AVI again then where it goes out of sync mark as the end point then again File>save wav (make sure you number each wav in sequence).

Now just repeat the steps for each part that is out of sync, so again mark the end point as the start point and repeat the whole process until you have synched up each part of the AVI.

The next step is to simply combine all the WAV's in Goldwave or whatever in the right order. You should then find the new Wav syncs perfectly with your AVI.

Seems longwinded I know, but it's really quite simple.

Thanks Ashy - i'll give it a go. Before i start, which avi should i use?
(a) the original avi and just click OK when i get the VBR warning, or
(b) do i load the original avi, click OK when i get the VBR warning, save the avi as direct stream copy, and use this file?

BTW using Vdub i do get some strange behaviour at the points where the video starts to corrupt. Just one example: if i move from keyframe to keyframe forwards and then backwards, i get a different picture displayed in the preview window at the same frame number. i.e. in the example below frame 74919 shows a different picture depending on whether you step forwards or backwards by keyframe.

Moving forward

Frame 74780 = picture A
Frame 74919 = picture B
Frame 75127 = picture C

Moving backward

Frame 75127 = picture C
Frame 74919 = picture C
Frame 74780 = picture A

After a bit of messing about setting markers, the whole film seems to go out of synch right from the begining where it was previously OK! Very confusing and it makes it very difficult to decide exactly where the synch is lost!

I tried to convert RM to MPEG1, the video quality is good, but no audio output

When i open an .avi file in VirualDub i get the common "improper VBR" message, which has not caused a problem in the past. But with this file, when i extract the .wav file it is a full 10 secs shorter than Vdub says in the audio file information. I researched the problem on this forum and d/loaded and tried Avimux, but it just produces a 64K .wav file. The ultimate aim is to produce an mpeg1 file in TmpgEnc.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

What do you mean shorter?
Is the audio out of sync with the video?

Hello Ashy - When i first load the file, VDub tells me that the video and audio are (within a 10th of a second) the same length - 1:54:49. If i then save the audio as a .wav and then open it in wavworks or goldwave, it tells me it is 10 seconds shorter - 1:54:39. The original VBR movie file plays perfectly in WM player, but if, for example, i just open it in VDub and save it again with "direct stream copy" video and audio, then it goes way out of synch. I've tried all sorts - cutting the end of the .avi and playing with the audio file using both the above editors - even adding 10 silent seconds to the end of the .wav, but with no sucess at all - the synch is either completely out or it starts OK and goes way out as the movie plays.

Thanks for the response. Hope this is clear. I shall now hit submit and view article ;-)

Does this video have any sort of logo before the movie starts?
It is common for these to cause sync problems.

My advice is this. Resave the audio as a wav in Virtualdub. Next reload the AVI and then your new wav together in Virtualdub. If it's out of sync then go to Audio>Interleaving and then in the 'Audio skew correction' put a value in until you find the one that syncs up the movie then just resave the wav again.

You should find when you reload this WAV and your AVI into Virtualdub it will then sync perfectly.