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I have a svcd that is to big to fit on a cd. I had tried to convert the file to a smaller svcd file. But after 20 secends TmPgenc freezes. Had tested some other files and it worked perfectly. Does anybody know what i should do?
If I were you, I would use the source range function (I think it's called that) You'll find it when you select your encoding options. Choose the first half of your frames for disk 1, then the second half for disk 2. For example, encode the first file (CD 01) from frame range 0 through 91051 then when it's done encode the next one (CD 02) from range 91052 to the last frame in the movie. This will split up your movie into two files which will fit on two CDs.
I have found a bug in TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.0.10 (1.0.10.36)
It occurs when dropping an MPEG1 file into a project. The
audio sync starts to drift and by the time 45 min have gone
the audio leads the video by 3-4 seconds.
The MPEG1 file has Audio at 44.1 KSPS 224kbps
which is being resampled I guess to 48 KSPS for the DVD.
DVD bit rates of 192 kbps and 224 kbps have both been tested
and the bug is present. Looks like the sample rate conversion
is getting lost (round off error???)
Great product,
Will be getting work to buy it soon
Looking forward to the bug fix
I had this problem too - using tmpegenc to extract/reencode the audio (via the ES Audio Only) option and then pointing the audio at the created .mp2 file in TDA worked fine - I noticed that doing a demultiplex in tmpegenc produced an autio file that was a different length to the video file! Doing the reencode fixed the problem though.
BTW I am using TDA for creating DVD's of TV episodes in mpeg1 VCD-compliant format.
I am having trouble trying to working out Aspect Ration and Source Aspect Ratio in TMPGenc when encoding to Mpeg. Is there a Guide where I can relate to & work see which Aspect Ratio and Source aspect ration will look will and best suit the Mpeg file im encoding . I seem to get a Tall Picture and would try to change it so they head dont look slim and tall (best way to descibe it on various files)
I would assume a guide that show which ones looks like. Please Help ....
Yout problem is probably not your aspect ratio, but the arrange method you are selecting. If you want to maintain the same aspect ratio as the original then you should always select 'Full screen(keep aspect ratio) and select whatever input aspect ratio relates to that source.
For example if you have an AVI in 16:9 then select 16:9(PAL) or 16:9(NTSC) depending on the format of the AVI and 'Full screen(keep aspect ratio) under the 'Advanced' tab
If you have a standard 4:3 TV then the default output aspect ratio should be 4:3 under the 'Video' tab
If your SWF file come from the net, it is probabely locked to disallow any manipulation on it, there are various utilities to unlock such file.
You can try this one http://www.buraks.com/unlockswf/ but there are many others.
do you know if there is any free way to do convert swf to mpeg macromedia flash mx is outta my price range, i.e. i'm broke, if it can't be done for free nevermind
I don't know if this is a tmpgenc problem, or an issue elsewhere. If I record a program for 90 minutes on my DVD recorder, tmpgenc thinks it is 45 minutes in length. Preview, source range, mpeg tools all show the complete recording from the first to the last frame, but the end time is always half of the real length.
When I try to encode the motion freezes halfway through, displaying the same frame for the rest of the time, but the audio continues properly.
Is this anything to do with interlacing? When I view frame by frame, there are no jagged interlacing edges in frames of high motion. Is it possible that tmpgenc is interpreting the source as 50fps instead of 25fps? (This is just a wild guess, of course.)
If I encode without using "Source range", tmpgenc says there are 136501 frames total once I start encoding. If I enable source range and set the slider at the very end (which is really the end - verified by the content), then it says there are 83346 frames. This is even stranger, 83346 is not half of 136501. (????)
One other thing which may be causing this issue, the input file is larger than 2Gb. I am using FAT32 under 98SE. tmpgenc has no problems displaying to the end of the content in the preview and source range windows.
Stream was created by a DVD recorder, Panasonic DMR-E30 in PAL mode.
Tmpgenc gets all the Information Like the Amount of Frames and Length of Movie directly from the Header of the Mpeg file, so if Tmpgenc says that there are only a certain Amount of frames or says that the Movie is a certain length it is because the File is telling Tmpgenc this information even though the Information is incorrect..Anyways you are not doing this the Proper Way, Tmpgenc handles Mpeg2 files Much better if you Use DVD2AVI to Frameserve the Mpeg2 files to Tmpgenc, This is the Best way and fastest way to encode Mpeg2 files with Tmpgenc..
Hmmm.... tmpgenc is still doing something funny though, if you use a preview or source range screen it says there are X total frames, but once you start encoding it says Y frames. Regardless of the value in the file, it is saying two different things about the same file.
I ended up using dvd2avi, I was hoping not to have that extra step as I barely had enough space to fit it. It's a pity that the DVD recorder puts out 704x576 rather than 720x576; I was hoping just to cut the m2v file and save it directly, without having to re-encode. Instead of 20 minutes to cut the m2v and extract then encode the sound, it now takes 2+ hours and I do lose some quality... of course by re-encoding I do have the advantage of being able to use tmpgenc's ghost and noise filters. :)
I just re-read your reply, what is frameserve? Is that a way of linking the output of dvd2avi to the input of tmpgenc without needing an intermediate AVI conversion? (....my HD now has 600Mb free compared to 24Gb free when it started...)
>I ended up using dvd2avi, I was hoping not to have that extra step as I barely had enough space to fit it.
Please don't tell me you went and encoded the whole thing to an AVI with DVD2AVI. This not what minion meant!
He was trying to advise you frameserve the MPEG to TMPG by creating a DVD2AVI project file which only takes a matter of minutes and very little file size.
>It's a pity that the DVD recorder puts out 704x576 rather than 720x576
What do you mean by this? If you are intending to keep the MPEG in either DVD or SVCD format then there is no reason why you can't use a 704x576 frame size.
DVD will accept 720x576, 704x576 and 352x288 or 352x576.
Check out DVDrhelp.com for info how to frame serve with DVD2AVI.
>If I encode without using "Source range", tmpgenc says there are 136501 frames total once I start encoding. If I enable source range and set the slider at the very end (which is really the end - verified by the content), then it says there are 83346 frames. This is even stranger, 83346 is not half of 136501. (????)
I have a very similar problem here.
I worked with a big AVI file named 'output.avi'.
At first, I made some tests with TMPGEnc with this file, among others, I used the source range function, setting start at the middle, and the end at the very last frame of this big file.
Later, I replaced this file by a smaller one, but with the same filename.
Now, each time I open the new small 'output.avi', TMPGEnc handle the file as if he contained as many frame as the old big 'output.avi'.
The only way to have TMPGEnc working correctely, is to use the 'Source Range' filter.
>>I ended up using dvd2avi, I was hoping not to have that extra step as I barely had enough space to fit it.
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>Please don't tell me you went and encoded the whole thing to an AVI with DVD2AVI. This not what minion meant!
>He was trying to advise you frameserve the MPEG to TMPG by creating a DVD2AVI project file which only takes a matter of minutes and very little file size.
Yes, I did decode everything to AVI. :) I also saved the dvd2avi project in case I needed to it again. This is how I discovered frameserve, when I tried to delete the original M2V. I couldn't delete it as it was locked by tmpgenc, so I did some further checking and worked out that it was actually reading from the M2V, rather than all of the AVI files. The hour of decoding time and 24Gb of HD space was completely redundant...
>>It's a pity that the DVD recorder puts out 704x576 rather than 720x576
>What do you mean by this? If you are intending to keep the MPEG in either DVD or SVCD format then there is no reason why you can't use a 704x576 frame size.
>DVD will accept 720x576, 704x576 and 352x288 or 352x576.
I didn't realise this, so far I have only dealt with commercial DVDs which are all 720x576. I have decided that re-encoding is better anyway, because the video is recorded in real time it can never be as efficient as dual-pass VBR. To get the same quality, you need to use a higher bit rate. For long term archiving it's better to have a 3000Mbit/sec VBR stream, than 5Mbit/sec CBR...
>For long term archiving it's better to have a 3000Mbit/sec VBR stream, than 5Mbit/sec CBR...
>Oops, of course that was meant to be 3Mbit/sec and 5Mbit/sec, or 3000kbps and 5000kbps.
Hmm...how do you work that one out?
How can a bitstream at 3000kb/s VBR be better than a CBR bitstream at 5000kb/s?
Surely for archiving purposes you want the highest quality posiible or do you mean it's better for the file size?
>I couldn't delete it as it was locked by tmpgenc, so I did some further checking and worked out that it was actually reading from the M2V, rather than all of the AVI files. The hour of decoding time and 24Gb of HD space was completely redundant...
This is what we were trying to tell you. you didn't need to create intermediate AVI's.
Also there is no point in saving the project file. The project file will only work with the original files with their original names in their original locations. Surely you didn't expect that you could delete the M2v file once you had created the project file. The project file is only a connection between the source and the output. You still need the source files for encoding.
Well if it is a Mpeg file it could allready be a VCD depending on the Resolution ,Frame rate,Bitrate and audio format...Go to http://www.dvdrhelp.com/ and read up on How to make and What a VCD is....
I have many vintage Mpeg-1 files that need noise reduction and pop and click filtering. I tried demuxing into .mv1(video) and .mp2(audio), then running through Goldwave. The problem is that you do not have the capability of saving the restored audio file in .mp2 format. Tmpgenc will not accept anything else when multiplexing the files back. Any ideas as how to proceed?
If that is the case then it probably has to do with the editing you have done to the original and not a problem with TMPG's encoding.
Is the wav file that Goldwave created the exact same length as the original audio and is the Mp2 that TMPG creates also the same length?
I have been trying to perform accurate cutting of a TMPGEnc encoded MPG2 PAL program stream. The GOP is 10 and I want to cut from 00:00:00 to 00:01:04 (PAL=25frames) so this is the end of the GOP. This works fine.
I then want to cut from 00:01:05 to 00:05.24. The cut works fine, but the first 2 frames of this cut are identical.
Does anyone have any suggestions ? I have opened this cut in both Ulead Media Studio pro and Premiere 6.5 and they both show an identical first frame.
i need som ehelp/advice on removing the "credits" that appear at the beginning and end of music videos. these videos are on original dvd's.please help cause you can....
thx
carrie
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to improve the quality of a video (.AVI) file. I know it might be a dumb question.
I have just started to get into this and I downloaded some cartoons and they are pretty bad. The original files are from 50meg to 120meg and the larger ones are better (makes sense) than the smaller ones. When I saved them to mpg, the got bigger but no better. I did try to sharpen the video, but it didn't really work. Is there anything I can do?
Yeah, I was afraid of that. Thanks anyway. I guess I am gonna have to try and find better copies of the files. Good video files seem hard to find, atleast the old x-men and spidey cartoons I am looking for.
Virtual dub filters and AVISynth filters can help clean up noisy video and I have have Quite Good success with them but they only work up to a point...
Yes Most V-Dub filters have to be downloaded seperately and Put in the "Plugins" folder, You can find filters on the Net, just do a Google Search for "Virtual dub filters"...............
IÃÎ rather new to TMGenc and I like it so far. However the Source Range window is a bit painful. I plan to convert PAL VHS movies to DVD and most of them are recorded from TV with 1-3 adds somewhere in the movie. IÃÅ like to cut the adds away which works perfectly in ÅÔource rangeEbut it takes some time to find the location as the two arrow buttons move frame by frame (I know you can keep them pressed but stillE.
I suggest you add a time position feature:
Time: Hour <small up/down button> Minute <small up/down button> Sec <small up/down button>
This would make it much easier to find a desired position and you still could youse the current frame buttons for fine tuning.
maybe i dont understand u, but i believe your problems is that it takes to long to go throught the whole movie with the buttons. If thats the case maybe u should try to move the slider directly. This goes a little faster :) The buttons are only for precission,
but an other option would be to add a scene detection. a button to go to the next scene, and one for the previous scene (just like in vdub).
I think you got me right :-) I tried the moving slider too, but that is rather slow (on my 2Ghz P4) and not very accurate on a long (90min) movie. Ulead Movie Factory2 has the feature described in my posting above and itÃÔ quite easy and good to use.
when i use the slider it goes very very very fast.
It cant be your computer cause mine is slower than ur's (1800 mhz)
I think that the decoding of the movie takes to long, so it goes slowly when u move the slider... can u slide fast through the movie with other programs like virtualdub?? if this doesnt work eather it might also be a slow harddisk
if virtualdub is ok it might be a possibility to cut away all the adds aways in vdub and then use the virtualdub framserver. If u dont know what it is:
a frameserver lets u make a "fake" avi. When u open the avi in an extern program this program gets the avi like u edited it. But the big advantage is that u dont have to make a freeking big avi again, only a fake one. This fake avi can't be opened always but in tmpegenc it certanly can(i use it too).
Vdub has an other advantage, and that is it can find the next scene. If u r searching for the add's this is a must have :).
Thanks yes I know VDUB and I use it when I need high quality captures. However in this case I want to put 3 old VHS movies onto one DVD and there low PAL resolution is good enough. The movies are captured in low PAL resolution by MyDVD 4 and VDUB canÃÕ unfortunately read them. It reports Å®PEG Import Filter: pack synchronisation error <ok>EBR>
I normally use MyDVD for capture and ULEAD Movie Factory 2 for authoring, rendering and burning. IÃÅ prefer to use one product for everything but I havenÃÕ succeeded to capture in PAL with ULEAD and MyDVD is less powerful in authoring and burning.
The hard disk is an external 160 GB firewire disc from Maxtor, I think that should be fast enough.
You definitely have a problem somewhere!
You have a fast machine so you should not be having this problem. When using the slider it should move almost instantly to the position you require.
It seems like you may have a codec problem. Which codec are you using to decode the MPEG2 source you are using?
My advice would be to use DVD2AVI to create a d2v project file from your source MPEG2. DVD2AVI is very fast frame server and should then allow you to move through your source almost instantly with the slider.
Also to read MPEG2 files in Virtualdub you need Virtualdubmod or VirtualDub-MPEG2-AC3