Hi. I found out that my AVI video has twitchy playback. Could this be a codec problem or is the original video supposed to be like this? I'm not sure because I forgot who made the video. Anyway, the video is fine most of the time. However in certain scenes, the character will sort of twitch when she's walking (this is a cartoon by the way). It's most noticeable in the preview at the end where entire frames would twitch. I went frame by frame and some frames would go 1 frame backwards before advancing! Is it the author's encoding problem?

I opened GSpot and it said it uses Xvid. I opened Virtualdub's File Information screen and it said the AVI uses the ffvfw MPEG-4 codec. The video is 23.976 fps. I have ffdshow set to decode: XVID, DivX 3, DivX 4, and DivX 5. I have ffvfw set to decode: XVID, DIV3. My FFDSHOW is version December 13, 2002. My FFVWFW is version October 28, 2003.

I'm making a DVD so I'm just wondering if these twitchy problems will transfer over when I'm converting with TMPGEnc Plus.

Are you saying that when playing the original AVI in Media player you are experiencing this problem?

By the way your codecs are very old. Uninstall all FFDSHOW and FFVFW codecs and download the new one below which is FFDSHOW and FFVFW combined.

If this XVID has been encoded using a recent version of XVID then this is your problem. The way XVID handles bitstreams has been changed in the recent version and so requires the update for correct playback.
http://athos.leffe.dnsalias.com/ffdshow-20040508.exe

By the way Virtualdub will always say that the codec it uses is FFVFW or similar as Virtualdub is a VFW application only.

Also I prefer to use AVICODEC for codec details.

I did not know how to configure it since it's even more confusing now so I left it as is after the installation. The problem persists. Whenever I try to open it in Virtualdub, it says I do not have the VFW decompressor. I thought that file above is a FFVFW and FFDSHOW combo?

Yes it is, but obviously YOU must enable the codecs you wish to be decoded.
You must select 'VFW Configuration' from the FFDSHOW programs menu and enable the relevant decoders.

Also you didn't answer my question. Do you see this effect in Media player?

I enabled all the necessary codecs in VFW configuration window. The twitchiness still occurs in both Virtualdub and Media Player. I'm guessing the creator made some errors to cause this glitch then. Oh well, I hope the next episode won't be like this. Thanks for the codec upgrade though! :)

Is it an interlaced AVI?
If it is it could simply be a field order problem. You can quite easily reverse this with Virtualdub.

Just open the AVi as normal, but put a check in the 'Pop up extended options' box.

Next put a check in 'Swap fields'

It is an interlaced AVI and I did that "Swap Field" thing. But the resulted AVI is still the same. So it has to be something that the creator did.

Try to encode it in BFF-Mode instead of TFF. Swap Fields is NOT doing a Field Order Change...

Actually the 'Swap fields' WILL reverse the dominance because the dominant field to be played first remains the same however the fields have been swapped so in effect the opposite field is now dominant, but this is not really the correct way to do it as you point out.
It should however have been enough to test whether the field order was the problem with the AVI.

There is a specific filter that can do this, but at the moment I can't think of the name of it.

I'll try a bit of searching and get back.

I have found this filter that should do the trick:
http://neuron2.net/reverse/reverse.html

However I seem to remember using something different when I had a similar problem with the field order. Nevertheless the method seems to be the same by just shifting the frame one line.

@Ashy

There is a big difference in Field Swap and wrong Field Order.
Try it by yourself. A still Picture with Field Swap will look totaly different from one with a complementary Field Order.

Ashy, I tried your Reverse Field Dominance filter and it still won't work. Actually, I made sure I had the filter on because I didn't see any differences at all.

After re installing my computer (Win 98 SE) there is no audio after converting a mov file into a mpeg 1 file. I did that before and it worked. Playing those files with the Quicktime Player is fine. I already installed tons of codecs like the nimo pack, read Faq´s at forums and other stuff. But nothing helped. I also have the QTReader.vfp. What is wrong? It worked before!
Thanks for helping.

this might be you have a compressed audio... have you try checking the file using Gspot? This program shows what video and audio format you have and upon clicking "render", it will show if you have a good copy for video or/and audio.

No, I didn´t try using Gspot yet. Anyway, I did convert a certain MOV file before and now I´m having that problem with the same file. It doesn´t work anymore. But thank you for helping anyway.

I just merged 3 MPEG2 files into one. For some reason, the output is not an MPEG2 file, it's just called a "file", it's not an "mpeg" or "movie" it's just called a "file" and is not associated to any program (a normal MPEG2 would be associated to, say Media Player). Double click on it and it tells me Windows cannot open this file, and that Windows needs to know what program created it. However, when I try to load it into a DVD Authoring program it recognises it as an MPEG2!? My PC doesn't seem to know what this file is. I've created an association for it now, but it's not recognised as being anything. Anyone else have this experience?

You didn't give the file a name when you merged it.
Just give it an .MPG extension. It will then open with whatever program you have associated with MPEGs

Hi, I have multiple MPEG2 video files. All of them are 720x480 29.97fps NTSC at 8000kbps. I have no problem putting each MPEG into my DVD authoring program, however to make life easier, I wanted to merge each file into one large MPEG2. When I try to merge them, TMPGEnc tells me that they are not the same even though they are. All MPEGs came from the same source and each has been encoded the same. Am I doing something wrong? Or has anyone else experienced this? Thanks.

If you use TMPG DVDauthor you don't need to merge them first. Just add each file one after the other and build the DVD. They will be automatically joined into one file.

Dears sirs,
having used TMPGEnc DVD Author for some weeks, I have some questions. By the way, a very good program with very easy handling!!

1. Where can I get some other themes, layouts, backgrounds or buttons for the DVD Authoring program (yes, I found the "Edit" button :-) )?

2. I use a Pioneer DVR-7000 standalone DVD recorder for direct recording from DVB/TV. For this, the recorder uses the compatible "video mode" (which is unfortunately limited to 2 hours recording time) and the "VR mode" with some more possibilities. Having recorded in VR mode (145 min) and importing this disc into Tmpgenc DVD Author, I get the following errors:
- "The video resolution 544x576 cannot be used for a standard dvd"
- "The video framerate 25fps cannot be used with the resolution 544x576"
which I cannot "ignore".

I understand, that this resolution is not supported with Tmpgenc DVD Author as being not compatible with DVD standard players. So, I imported the VRO-file into Tmpgenc plus / Tmpgenc DVD Source Generator to re-encode the video stream.
Doing this works fine for the video, but the resulting file misses the audio stream (being AC-3).

- Would the AC3 audio plugin solve this problem ??
- Is there another way to convert the VRO-files to a standard format(including audio information), so that I can reauthor it for compatibility with standard DVD players ???

5. At least ?A bug? When chosing an cursive script font in Tmpgenc DVD Author, the headings and chapter descriptions in the menu are not complete (i.e. the right half of the last letter is cut away). I help myself by appending a single space at the end of each word (which is much work though).

Best regards

Oliver Koenen

The problem is not specific to an input or output file type. My problem Lies within the batch function. When I batch (no mater what format), the system will encode the first in the list. After completion of the first, the program will hang, but not crash the computer.

I have had very little problems with the software I recently cleaned/formatted my Box and upgraded with a fresh install of Windows XP Pro and software.

Now I have the batch hang issue. Previous version of Windows was 2000pro, and I did not have a problem with the Batch hanging up.

1.4Ghz AMD, 640mb ram, DX9.0b, ATI 9000LE 128MB, Lotsa other detailed crap.

Question 1: Will there be a free version of TMPGEnc 3?
Question 2: What happened to the manual ivtc capabilities that is there in 2.5 but not in 3? (japanese trial version)

hi, id b really grateful if sum1 cud help me with this cos ive been surfin forums for ages tryin to find an answer but im out of luk so far.....

rite im tryin to convert avi and mpeg files so that i can use tmpg dvd author to create a dvd, im using the pal dvd template but changing the bitrate to 4000, when i play the .m2v file on media player the frames skip from time to time but its really noticable.

can ne1 help!?!
plzzzz

More details required:

1. Source frame rate?
2. Format, XVID DIVX etc?
3. Output frame rate?
4. Is the skipping at regular intervals and where is it most noticable?

its happens with avery format ive tried- mpeg, mpg and avi (divx and regular avi, im not sure of the frame rate, but it dus it with every file i try to convert.
im tryin to output the file at 25fps and 4000kb using the pal dvd template

the frame skipping seems to happen randomly and is very noticable, it seems to skip several frames at once.

thanx for ure interest/help so far mate

lav

It is important you tell me the exact frame rate of the source. If it's avi you can find this out with AVICODEC.

For MPEG use something like BITRATEVIEWER.

Also does this happen with the MPEG itself or only when it is burned to disk?

cheers for the advice, the only thing is i use tmpg dvd author to encode the files after tmpegenc, and it requires 25fps for pal dvd, and it comes up with the warning message if its a def frame rate. ive used avs video converter to convert sum avi files at 25fps and they work fine, but id rather use tmpgenc cos its got more controls and shit
thanks agen

Hi I would like to know if TMPGenc supports conversion from WMV to MPEG.
An example is if I want to use Windows Movie Maker as my editing program, (yeah I no it isn't the greatest, but it's not to myself) and because Windows Movie Maker only can save into the WMV format and no DVD players support this format yet, I have to convert it to MPEG.

So the short version of my question is simply can TMPGenc convert a WMV file to MPEG so I can burn that end file from TMPGenc to a DVD.

Thank you in advance
Regards Lars Bengtsson.

Yep.

I would like to string together a time lapse sequence of JPGs using TMPGEnc. It has been suggested to me that this program will do the job for me but I can't work out how.

Is there a FAQ, help file, that will be able to help me?

Thanks in advance.......

Make sure the JPG's are numbered sequentially then just load the first JPG in the sequence.

I would like this marvel proggy to be able to do this:

1.- Set a track as first play, with appearing in the menu. I'm actually solving this by moving the button for that track out of the safe areas but remote control number still works as well as navigation.

2.- I also would like to insert some videos as transition between menus and between menus and the movies.

That's all. Hope I explain myself clear. English is not my mother language.

Regards,
Khonshu.

Hi folks -

I'm having some issues with getting TMPGEnc to startup VobSub and use the subtitles for an MPEG-1 format movie that I have - I want to use it to "burn in" the subs.

1. I have set the priority for the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader to the maximum (3) in the Environmental Settings dialog box.

2. VobSub does load properly and show the subs when I run the movie in Media Player.

3. The subtitle filename and the movie filename are the same (except for the file extensions of course), and the files are in the same folder.

I've reinstalled TMPGEnc a couple of times to make sure there was nothing wrong with it.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Install FFDSHOW.

@ashy. I have the same problem. I also tried ffdshow. didn't work.

Following is my comment to a similar thread somewhere else on this board. (Question: No subtitles?! NO 2751 started by Sakin on 2004/04/25).

I have recently run into the same problem with TMPG. I used to be able to burn all subtitles into my movies with Directshow VFAP set to highest priority and installing DirectVobsub. Was doing this for over a year with TMPF successfully encoding evefrything I threw at it. Started having problems with XVID encoded AVI's. Since more and more movies were coming out in XVID, I searched the forums of Videohelp.com and several other places and they all came up with the same suggestions. Uninstall the Nimo pack codecs (which I used succesfully for quite a while), install ffdshow, configure its codec for XVID, turn on the subtitle option in ffdshow etc. Did not work. The subtitles load automatically in the media players but not in TMPG anymore. Now I can't get TMPG to hard burn any subtitles at all. TMPG doesn't seem to load directshow anymore. I believe I somehow screwed up a registry or TMPG setting. BTW, presently I have the K-Lite Codec pack installed (although I installed the newes XVID codec and the newest Vobsub and directvobsub directly from files obtained throuhg their websites). Every thing seems to work OK except I CAN'T GET TMPG TO LOAD THE SUBTITLES. Would appreciate any suggestions.