Hi everyone, question...........when i convert avi to mpeg (ntsc)the file comes out perfect. Im using a LG cd burner to burn the cd with Roxio 5 software, so i must split the file. Im using avi-mpeg-asf-wmv splitter. here is the problem....... after i split the file(usually in two equal parts) the file has a break point in it. Roxios software keeps hitting me with errors............file is not vcd compliant, and in the window that tells you about the mpeg, the audio is not being read correctly on the second half of the two files, and when i burn it anyway it doesnt play on my dvd player. when i re convert it to mpeg(even tho its still mpeg)its fine. i find this a waste of time, and was wondering if there is a workaround to correct this, or if im missing something? i love roxio for the other work i do with music, maby im not giving NERO a fair chance. ty dave

For a start of ROXIO is absolute crap and NERO beats it hands down for VCD/SVCD/DVD, but thats not the problem.

You can't use the program you have used for cutting VCD compliant files you will just end up with 2 ordinary MPEGs which are non compliant.

You must use TMPGs 'Merge and Cut' tool to cut VCD then select 'MPEG1 VCD' to add the correct VCD header to the MPEG and make it compliant.

Run your MPEGs through the simple multiplexer, rename the output and select the above setting then run. It should now burn without any problem.

You don't need a seperate program to split your file.You can do this in Tmpgenc.When setting up Tmpgenc to encode your avi to mpeg,use the Source Range function.With this,you can select the start and end points for each half of the film,and correct audio lag too.I don't use Nero,but I'm told the resulting files work fine.You could try VCD Easy to burn your discs too,it gives you some good options.Hope this helps.

For a start of ROXIO is absolute crap and NERO beats it hands down for VCD/SVCD/DVD, but thats not the problem.

You can't use the program you have used for cutting VCD compliant files you will just end up with 2 ordinary MPEGs which are non compliant.

You must use TMPGs 'Merge and Cut' tool to cut VCD then select 'MPEG1 VCD' to add the correct VCD header to the MPEG and make it compliant.

Run your MPEGs through the simple multiplexer, rename the output and select the above setting then run. It should now burn without any problem.

ok ill give NERO a fair chance. you arent the only 1 who said this about NERO,and personally ive seen roxio get even worce over the years. thank you all again.

when I convert a avi into a VCD and play it on my stand alone DVD player the movie messes up time to time for acouple seconds and the frames skip when there is high motion in the movie.. I tried converting the same movie with a differen't converter and had no problems.. only reason I don't use the other program is because I can't set the black bars..

Did you use the VCD template or your own custom settings?

Tmpgenc from tite to time has Problems with Bitrate controll so the Bitrate has a tendancy to spike and when this Happens you DVD player has to suddenly spin the Disk really fast so that it can read the sudden increased data rate which causes the Jump and skips in High Motion scenes..The only Way to get over this Problem is to Maybe not use a VBR encodeing Method or do not use a Higher than Standard Bitrate but even then it can still happen...If you even want to set the black bars and other aspects of the Image with other Encoders then learn how Frameserve useing AVISynth......

I have a strange problem that has occurred with TMPGEnc and the Premier Pro media encoder. I have a video that contains a few shots that have very bright reflections on either plates or silverware. The video is fine when the original AVI file is viewed. After being converted to MPEG the bright spots have a flickering star-like effect for a few seconds just as the scence appears. I've tried a number of settings in TMPGEnc based upon tips I've found but I can't seem to removed this flickers. I wonder if the reflections are so bright that after being encoded to MPEG they are causing a problem?

Any ideas on what I can do to resolve this? I could probably cut out a 4 - 10 second slice of the video to show what I mean if that would be helpful.

The Flickering could Just be Artifacts from Interlaceing, in which case they would only be Viewable on your PC Monitor which isn"t meant to display Interlaced material were your TV set is ,I have a TV out Card hooked up to a 13 inch TV set so I can See what the Video will look like when Displayed on a Interlaced TV and Most Interlace artifacts totally disapear when Played on TV....You can try encodeing the Part in question and use the Deinterlace Filter and if the Problem disapears then you Know it was from being Interlaced and you won"t have to worry about it.......

After reading your message I decided to do a bit of checking by viewing the output through my external TV which is connected via my camera which is connected via firewire. As it turns out the original footage played from the timeline has the problem as well. I certainly feel like a blockhead (add to that my inability to correctly spell the words on my subject line (:<)). I can't tell you how much time I wasted thinking the problem popped up once the sequence was converted to MPEG.

Thanks for your reply since that nudged me back to looking at the source material. Lesson learned, make sure you know your source material, even the insignificant portions....

I was not sure what fourm to put this under since it has sort of lots of problems in 1. If not just move it to the right fourm and tell me.


Ok I have these .mkv files and since I could not find no one to help me change them to svcd file I gave up on them(if you know how feel free to tell me) and decided to covert them with too .ogm files.
Heres what I did.

I used this guide to try to help me with this so you can see were I got this stuff from:
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/userguides/170944.php


I used VirtualDubMod to covert them to ogm files. Works good about the same size. So the quality is about the same.

I took the .ogm and used VirtualDubMod again and took out the audio and saved it as a Demux what makes it as a .ogg file. I have 2 audio file but I am not sure why I would need to put both in at the end since I want only the English.

Then I took it and I used a program called goldwave to covert the .ogg to a wav file.

Then I went to and used this program to convert it called EaseAudioConverter to convert it too a mp2 file. I tried this HeadAC3he but it never worked for me I got some weird error.


Then I took it and used TMPGEnc to try to put it together the sound and the avi(what I got by just taking my virtual dub and getting the video did not know what they ment by chaning the file estention). But I get an error when I do that.(I am on step 3 of that guide I put up their)
Here is a picture of the error.

[img]http://www.angelfire.com/ab7/howser/dll_error.JPG[/img]


I have that file by that why what is says it is unable to load.

In case your wondering I need it too be scvd since my player plays that format. I hope someone can help me been trying for days now.

Also tell me step by step I am a noob as this. This is my first time trying to burn something to a cd. Let alone one of these 2 formats.

This is anmie too by the way. Also tell me if you want me to post more screenshot up about something and I will.

Ps. I hope someone helps me soon I am starting to think this can not be down.

Jaysus what a carry on?
You have just made things so much harder for yourself for no reason and it's took you about 5 steps and probably a lot of time to get nowhere when you could have accomplished this in one easy step.

All you needed to do was load the file into Virtualdubmod then start the frame server this will then create a small file in seconds which you just load into TMPG and encode as normal.

These are the steps you need to take to install and start the frame server.

1. From the Vitualdubmod folder run the file labeled 'Auxsetup.exe'

2. In the box that pops up select 'Install handler' then OK to all other boxes then 'Exit'

3. Now load your .mkv file into Virtualdubmod as normal

4. Select the audio track you require (I'm assuming you know how to do this)

5. Now click File>start frame server...

6. In the box that pops up click 'Start' then select a name and place to save the file and give it an .avi extension.
For example save it as MKV1.avi

7. DO NOT close the box that comes up. Next start TMPG and load the file you just created named MKV1.avi

8. Now just select the SVCD template or use the wizard and encode as normal .

As for your 'Can't load P3package.dll' error.
This is either because you have not downloaded TMPG correctly or you are trying to run TMPG from the .zip file or you do not have the TMPGenc.exe located in the same folder as the rest of the files it came with.

I searched and found several comments about DVDit's problems with GOP headers.

My problem is slightly different in that my files are already in MPEG2 format but apparently with headers that DVDit does not except.

Can anybody give me the details of what I need to do about converting the header configuration? I'm not sure at this point if I need to demux it and then reencode it with the proper settings or what.

Thanks in advance!

Are we talking about sequence headers?

Yes this is a Common thing with DVDit ,It needs a Sequence header before each GOP whch means before you encode your File go to "Settings" to "GOP" and set the "output Interval for Sequence Header" to "1" and now when you encode you will have a Sequence header before each GOP......

A newbie question. In terms of quality, which format is better? I hear that you can convert AVI to MPEG to reduce size while RETAIN quality, is it true?

avi andmpeg............i see it as what you are going to do with the file. avi are smaller than mpeg. some links for you..........

http://www.jmcgowan.com/avi.html

http://www.petesvideo.com/vidDVformats.htm

http://www.graphcomp.com/info/specs/ms/editmpeg.htm

hope this helps, these were found by copernic agent, case u were wondering where to get more info. dave

There are many types of AVI. AVI is just a container.

AVIs can be smaller then MPEGs (Divx and Xvid) and they can be bigger then MPEGs (DV and uncompressed).

The highest quality file of the above choices is uncompressed avi, but it takes up so much space it is only useful for capturing and not storage.

Xvid and Divx are based on mpeg-4 but in an AVI container. These can be small and high quality. For long term storage I would not use since they may not be around in five years. (yes it is possible to put xvid in a mpeg-4 container but this can be tricky and difficult for a person new to this)

For high quality and long term storage I would use MPEG-2.


Video Guy

A newbie question. In terms of quality, which format is better? I hear that you can convert AVI to MPEG to reduce size while RETAIN quality, is it true?

No, the opposite is true.

You can compress an MPEG to a smaller size AVI while maintaining similar quality.

Most compressed AVI's use MPEG4 which is a newer and better codec than MPEG 1/2 and allows much better compression and thus a better file size vs quality ratio.

Thanks! So for older game FMVs, AVI to MPEG is relatively save, right? The reason I'm asking this that I'm trying to make a CG from Final Fantasy 8. The problem is I only have the tools to convert Bink files (FF8 CG files) to AVI. And then I only have tools to edit MPEG. :( I know there probably are other tools out there, but I'm just too lazy to search. So if I don't lose too much quality by converting FF8 AVI to MPEG, then I can do my job.

Just use Virtualdub for editing AVI files. It's the best there is an also free.

Is there a way, hopefully with TMPGEncoder to say insert say black bars of some defined width along the top and bottom of the frame? Basically, the video does not fit the screen and I need to modify the video without affecting resolution and aspect. I was able to do this with yuvscale on *nix with a command similar to yuvscale -nn -MRATIO_720_640_460_480 -OSIZE_720x480.

What is the frame size of the video and what aspect ratio does it use?

Play about with the settings in the Clip Frame option

Yep you'll want to look at the Clip Frame settings. If you turn on the MASK checkboxes (left and right, in your case), it will replace whatever you are clipping out with a color "mask" (which defaults to black). I find this useful for replacing poor (or noisy) letterboxing in source video with fresh letterboxing. I have also read that clipping the frames can cause better video encoding quality because bitrate is not wasted on what is being clipped out.

Whatever you set up in here will probably also "interact" with the Video Arrange method, so depending on what you're trying to do, you'll probably need to experiment there some too, and don't forget about the Output Aspect Ratio. All 3 of these work together to give you what you have set.

I would set a subtitle on a avi movie - and I used this guide http://www.dvdrhelp.com/srtsubsvirtual.htm

But when I come to the point where TMPGenc opens the vdr file - TMPGenc crashes!
In the send report error log - Modname: ole32.dll and a lot of other informations

Have you disabled the "direct Show File Reader" in the Vfapi Plugins"???You need to do this sometimes to get Tmpgenc to load VDR Files.....

If you have no sound in your mpeg output and your file is not encoded with ac3 sound. Just goto option, enviromental setting, then vfapi plugin and set direct show filter to a higher priorty like 1. I know most people know this but I haven't used tmpgenc in a long time and I forgot. So I just thought this might help some new people.

Excellent....im new and i didnt know that so thank you because you just taught me something new. Please dont hesatate to post your tips cause us newbeeeeeeez love ya for it. Dave

No problem dave glad to help.

It would be nice to have the ability to either fade to black or simply add a certain number of seconds of black to the beginning and end of edited clips to give a more professional look to compilations of clips....when authoring discs with many clips there is often a delay between clips, this would make that less apparent.

Hope to see this in a future version of my favorite encoder!
Thanks for the great work and the time involved to bring it to us.

Justin

Interesting problem. Installed early version. Now when I try to upgrade with later version, cannot locate TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.5.msi to remove older version, leaving no option but to abort install. Is this a registry edit. Operating system is XP Home.