i have downloaded the application and extracted it too any old place (maybe my first mistake) and then i get the templates and extract them too where is specified in the guide i am using.
but upon opening the application i dont see the option other and when i went ahead anyway and tried using just a ntsc format it said that the avi file i wanted to convert i got an error message,,,
can someoone run me through how to get the application and the templates to work together please...
thanks dan

all i want too do is convert avi files into kvcd to be able to burn onto cd-r,s and watch on my dvd player...

I'm assuming you are referring to the settings template .mcf files. These you will want to extract it to ~\TMPGEnc 2.5\Template\Extra\ directory then click on the Load button on the lower right corner between setting and save button. You can also manually locate the .mcf file anywhere you extract it to on your HDD.

But it seems like this might not be your main problem. If you get an error message like that then there might be something wrong with your AVI file. Could be that you don't have the codec to decode it.

I am trying to create MP4 playable on my PSP with TMPEG 4.0 (Trial)
The source is MJPEG, 15fps, 320x240.
I tried using ISO MPEG4, Portable Game console as container and several different settings (level 2 and 3, 15 and 29,97 fps, different bit-rates) but always the PSP tells me the format is unsupported.
Am I doing something wrong or TMPEG is unable to output this format?
I've looked everywhere (this and other forums, FAQs) but haven't find an answer yet, and my purchase decision relies heavily on being able to create PSP video.
Can someone help me?

The PS3 is somewhat related to the PSP, so I'll share what I've learned. For me the PS3 will only accept MP4's that use AVC, not the ISO setting. Try the AVC MPEG4 with the portable game console container, main profile, at level 2 or 3, and your original 15 frames per second. If the main profile encode doesn't work then you could try changing to the baseline profile.

If you want some somewhat convoluted but helpful reading on what the PSP can handle for MP4 then go here: http://www.pspvideo9.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4

Fuzz54 is probably right about the format. AVC also gives you a better quality and bitrate higher than 768kbps. Of course AVC format will also make your file size larger than ISO encodes. If you stick with ISO, then try changing the bitrate to CBR or VBR and setting the Quantization mode to MPEG instead of H.263. That might work.

I have one .m2v file plus one .wav file, and want to make now one mpg2 file.

I go to FILE-->MPGE TOOLS-->SIMPLE MULTIPLEX

I choose my .m2v file - ok
I choose my .wav file - error message pop ups

Multiplexing Linear PCM stram to system strem is not supported

So, what do I wrong ?

thx a lot,
bernhard

I'm guessing your using TMPGEnc 2.5, which doesn't support WAV files for multiplexing. You need AC3 or MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio for it to work, so try converting your wave file to AC3 or MP2 then multiplex shouldn't give you an error.

Hey, i would love the the posibility to add logos (watermarking) to the movies i encode with tmpgenc this is the only let down with the program.

Best Regards
Morten

I second this, this is the only let down of the software

Al intentar registrarme como usuario Support, User Registration ,User Registration step2, dejando de lado que únicamente está en inglés, el producto TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX Authoring VERSION EN ESPAÑOL no se encuentra en el desplegable.

¿Deben actualizar la lista de productos para incluir la versión en español, o debo escoger la de inglés?

Por cierto podrán crear en el foro el apartado para consultas del TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX Authoring VERSION EN ESPAÑOL

Gracias.

I suggest you try using the Espanol forum in the Espanol language site. Seems like they have a TMPG Es tech there under TXP4 that can probably help you even if its wrong software section.

http://bbs.tmpg-inc.com/bbs.php?board=es_tmpgenc

But from basic Google translation, you might just have to wait a little bit for TMPG to update their website and system to include the newly released ES version. Hope you can understand what I wrote, if not then try using Google.

http://www.google.com/language_tools

This is an important project. I'm trying to author a DVD and it got 92% of the way through (Elapsed: 01:43:23 Remaining: 00:08:08) destined for a dual layer DVD (8008/8025 MB as it stands at this point, the target size was lower, however)

I got this error message:

An error occurred during the process. (Error code: 0x80040218)

What does this pertain to?

Thanks,

JG

It would help if you can tell us more about your source file. TMPG is pretty solid, so any error it gives is usually a result of either a corrupt source file or other process interferring such as FFDShow or codec packs. Sometimes, but rarely do those help more than they hurt.

Hello, I start new project and import from DVD source. I want to be able to select many certain parts of the DVD to add to the project as one file. Whenever I select a part to cut out it does not cut it in the right place. It leaves a part of the frame...a very brief blip of the frame. I move the cut exactly over the head but it always cuts just a bit before or after the head leaving a bit of the frame in the final movie.

The only way I've been able to work around this is to make the selection I want and click OK, then I have to import the DVD source all over again to select another scene from the DVD. I have to do this with every scene I want to include in the final movie. This tool is suppose to be easy to use, but in reality it is not easy.

Questions:

Why won't it cut properly?

Why do I have to import the DVD source each time I want to select a scene to add to my movie?

It might be normal that there seems to be a frame left behind, it's probably just the way TME2 displays the frame. If you right click on the preview area and select thumbnail display settings > I Pictures only then you won't see that 1 remaining frame. TDA3 does a better job at displaying the frames, it can display 1 frame at a time so you don't get that remnant frame, but this doesn't affect your video.

If you want to split your chapters up then try using the Split tool next to the chapter flag on the lower left corner. It will split the video into however you want into separate clips so you don't have to re-import every time you do a cut.

Thanks for your help. Ok I see what you mean now. It doesn't include those little blips in the final encoded file. It is a bit deceiving. Why does it do that? I've not seen any other editors do that. Is there a reason?

I can only assume its the way the developer wanted to display the frames as I-picture so its easier to re-encode or they placed it that way as a flag to let the program know what is going on.

Hello,

I tried using DVD Author 3 to make a DVD. I took a bunch of anime clips that originally aired in 4:3, but someone converted to 16:9 on a dvd for me and it all looked stretched... so i pulled all the clips off of the dvd, set the ration to full screen, and created the menus.

Everything looked AWESOME, except that when i went to view it on an SDtv, the video wasnt encoded to fit within the safe zones. The menu creation screen has guidelines to work with to make sure you keep everything viewable, but i didnt see any kind of an option on the videos properties page. I tried choosing both full screen options and also the square pixel option but nothing works.

On my HDTV it looks perfect, but on the older sets the subtitles on the bottom are totally cut off and its cropped all over the place it seems like.

Is there a way to fix this? These subs are hard coded and originally fit fine on all the tvs until the clips get encoded.

Sorry if this was long winded... and thanks!

Its a bit confusing because theres no setting inside TDA3 for ratio "Full screen" that I can think of for the video. On the menu, the TV grid line just affects the menu, it shouldn't change your video...TDA3 might not be the problem, try checking your SD TV or DVD player for any zoom option, i think it might have been turned on, so you are seeing it zoomed in or "cropped".

TDA3 either stretches or shrinks your video to fit NTSC 720x480 but will not crop any part of your video, from what I can tell anyway.

I have a couple of avi videos, with 5 or 6-channel AC3.
When I encode with TMPGenc XPress, the audio is always extremely low, even if I use the volume adjustment.
It doesn't seem to be reading the center track, which normally has the main dialog.

If I demux the AC3 audio from the avi file, and try to merge it to the converted mpv stream, it's always out of sync.
The picture quality is great, so I'm wondering what to do... and what tools to use? How can I merge the original AC3 audio, with the newly encoded mpeg-2 stream, so I can author it, with it being in sync?

Any help appreciated... thanks!!!!!!!!!

Do you have AC3filter installed? TXP4 uses directshow for avi with ac3, so that means it will use external codec to decode. If you are missing the codec or if the setting for ac3filter is set to stereo then it might not decode the other channels correctly.

If you plan on muxing the AC3 to video then I suggest you tell TXP4 to output video in ES (Video only) it will create .m2v file that you can mux your audio with TXP4 MPEG Tool. Its an elementary stream so chances are you get better sync assuming you didn't modify the fps.

Thanks for replying.
Yes, I have the AC3 filter installed.
I did a test with a 6-channel AC3 source, and put the AC3 filter's output as 3/2+SW 5.1. What I got was a loud buzz. If I changed back to stereo, it encoded very low. I played around with different settings, but anything more than 2-channel got a loud buzz.

Too bad there's no way for TXP4 to mux the original audio, as it encodes the MPEG-2, rather than having to encode it again, or mux it separately.

If you have any other ideas... thanks!

Try going into Options > Preferences > File Input > and disable the AVI file reader. This will boost directshow priority and hopefully decodes your AC3 correctly. Once it does, you might want to tweak your AC3filter to boost the audio level, sometimes DD playback level is a little low.

I use TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress to encode for my TIVO,and have been doing so for at least over a year.

I just recently relized that I could also add subtitles, so now when I click new project | Edit filter list | and then try to add subtitles, the software hanges quite often. I'm sure this may have something to-do with memory or something along that line (or the fact that the HD where the video is is connected via USB2.0) - but regardless, I have no problems with encoding this and using the filter on my other machine (which has less memory, but an internal HD).

so my question is, I'd really like to be able to use this other machine to continue to encode the file(s). So is there a way via the commandline to write a batch file that will specify the avi file, the srt file and which template to use for the exported/output?

This would greatly simplify this and my worry for hanging the machine everytime I go to clip/edit. Also note, that I've never needed to use the clip/edit feature, so I'm not sure if this was always a problem or not - but I'm quite confident that this has nothing to-do with filters etc. (since this works on my other machine).

any help would be appreciated.
thanks

A bit odd for it to hang/crash when you add subtitle. Might want to check your processes running in the background, could be affecting TXP4 somehow.

But to answer your question, none of TMPG software supports command line.

Fruber - Is TXP4 opening VobSub?
Check this out, maybe it will help with regard to the hanging.
http://tinyurl.com/28wxhb

I had TMPGenc 4.0 Express working perfectly with a Pentium 4 930 dual core processor. Now I've upgraded my system to an Intel E6750 processor (just released) and a P35 (bearlake) motherboard and the program crashes before I can finish encoding mpeg and MP4 videos from homemade VOB files. Is anyone else having this kind of problem with the newest Intel processors and mobos? I have the most recent BIOS for my motherboard and have tried disabling and enabling all kinds of CPU, cache, and multithread options in 4.0 Express to see if I can get to the end of an encode without the program crashing. The only error I get is that "TMPGenc 4.0 Express has encountered an error and needs to close". The error report lists different modules at different times as the reason for crashing, so I can't pin it down to a specific module or error. My only thought is that it might be a problem with a new stick of RAM, but I am not getting BSOD's or crashes in any other programs with my new system build. I have the most recent version of the K-Lite codec pack and have disabled AVI in 4.0 Express to force it to use the K-Lite codecs when necessary.

Klite might not help in this case since you are dealing with VOB (MPEG2). I highly doubt it is the proc or mobo that is causing TXP4 to crash. Best way to know for sure why its bailing out is to use SystemInternal FileMon.

Use memtest86 to verify your RAM, it might not always give you BSOD but a bad RAM read/write can crash TXP4 which is CPU and RAM intensive.

For precaution, try resetting K-Lite settings back to default, they have a simple tool for that.

Thanks for the suggestion on memtest86+. It probably is faulty RAM. Unfortunately none of the memory testers that I know of are compatible with the new P35 chipsets yet. But I'll try it. I am going to swap out with the ram from my last computer to see if it fixes the problem. I'll probably try tweaking the voltage on my RAM just a bit higher too (to anyone reading: only mess with your RAM voltage if you know what you are doing!).

The problem was a faulty stick of RAM. I had my first successful encode last night after switching out each stick until I found the culprit. Rock on Xpress 4.0! Stuff that was taking me 20 hours to encode with my dual core Pentium 930 and 533 Mhz DDR2 RAM is now taking me 4 - 5 hours with an Intel E6750 proc and 1066 Mhz DDR2 RAM. Amazing.

You must be encoding HD or a very long file for it to take 4-5 hours on a high spec PC like that, but good to know that it all works. Normally it takes me 1 to 2 hour for a 2 hour movie using DVD Template output on my Core 2 Duo E6600 and 2 Gb DDR2.

I'm encoding raw VOB movie files to MP4 (AVC level 3.1) at 720 by 480 resolution and 2-pass variable bit rate at 3000 kb/s average. I'm also applying a de-interlace filter (inverse pulldown). I end up with a great format that can be streamed wirelessly to my PS3 (using as a media server) for viewing with no problems and decent quality. When encoding to mpeg2 with just a single pass it usually only takes an hour with a bigger file size to get the same quality as the MP4.

nTekka: I'm curious if you have any suggestions for what is a good bitrate for MP4 and mpeg2 movies. I've kind of picked 3000 kb/s because my media server can handle it fine and file size isn't such a big deal now with the price of storage dropping. But I haven't done detailed experimentation to see where a higher bitrate doesn't really matter. I think I remember reading that DVDs are encoded at somewhere around a 6000 kb/s bitrate.

DVDs are actually encoded around 9200kbps and can't exceed 9800kbps for both video and audio because older DVD models can't keep up if its higher. Of course that doesn't matter now with newer DVD players.

I'd keep my bitrate at around 7500kbps, I didn't notice much difference between 7500 and 9200 but the size difference was noticable, so I guess 6000kbps is good.

i'm trying to convert mpeg4 to wmv and get to the convert process screen to get the 0x80070005 error msg. HELP?!
how to fix?
Bypass?

Is there more to your message or just that very very informative number? Something like Access denied? No stream? etc etc... I'm assuming you are using AVI container with MPEG4 codec, in which case you may want to check your system for the right codec. Also check under Options > Preferences > File input and remove AVI file reader so this will force DirectShow file reader to take over, which usually performs better.

it is the "ACCESS DENIED" error.
wha is the "right" codec for this and how do i check i have it?
thanks in advance.

Try using GSpot to check your video, then find what codec it uses and download it online somewhere. Its not recommended but you should just download K-Lite codec pack, will likely solve all your codec problems.

Before your RE:, I went ahead and got the most up-to-date KLITE pack and it seemed to cure the problem!?
thanks for everything on this!
:D