Hello,
my name is John and i am from Athens, Greece.
I am interesting to convert QTRef from Avid to Mpg2 for dvd or Bluray.
Is it possible to use the Leadtek PxVc1100 or the Canopus Firecoder Blu?
These two cards can accelerate any file conversion, that TmpEnc can handle?
Looking forward to your reply
Thanks

The Spursengine cards will accelerate MPEG4 & MPEG2 encoding/decoding but will rely on your CPU for any other format and the audio portion of the video. I have one for sale, including the TMPGEnc & Spursengine plug-in license, if you're interested. I just got a 6 core processor and it's able to handle things well enough that I dont need the spursengine card anymore. The spursengine card is still faster though.

Thanks for the reply.
Just a minute, i need a clear answer.
I have QTRef files (Sd and HD) and i need to convert them, to mpeg2.
Is it possible with this card? (i mean faster than Cpu).
Thanks

What is QTRef? Is it MPEG2 or MPEG4? If it is one of the two it will be accelerated on decoding. Are you converting that QTRef file to an MPEG2 or MPEG4 format in an MPG or MP4 container? If so it will be accelerated on encoding.

QTRef is a Quick time file or .mov file.
And this type of files i need to convert to mpg2.
is it possible?
Is it possible to try it?
Thanks Frank

The trial contains the SpursEngine plug-in trial, so yes, you will be able to test it before you buy.

TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress trial download:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/te4xp.html

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I just downloaded and installed TmpGenc 2.525.64 from http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/e_download.html

I extracted the files and when I tried to run TmpGenc.exe I get the error message "Invalid file = please re-install". So I downloaded the file again, extracted the files, and the same thing happens.

Is the current TmpGenc download file corrupted?

TIA
Brent

It works for me.

Hello and thank you for the previous answer.
Having authored a Divx Ultra project which contained chapters and then played on a set top player, skip ahead does not function. only start, stop and ff are possible.
Can the user skip to chapters chapters?
thanks

Not really sure. DivX Ultra is a little different from DVD, so that may be one of it's differences. I'll try to test this out myself.

My set-top DivX Ultra player is on the fritz so I can't properly test a disc. But playing it with the software DivX Player, I can definitely jump to a certain chapter so the ability is there.

I have a 25 fps FVL file that I want to convert into a NTSC DVD compliant MPEG file. I am concerned about the audio being out of synch on the converted file. How does TMPGEnc handle te audio when converting form a 25 fps source to a 29.97 fps output file? Thanks.

I meant to say "I have a 25 fps FLV file.."

It *should* convert it fine, but I believe there have been cases where the audio is out of sync.
You can download the trial and test it out yourself if you want.
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/te4xp.html

Thanks. I have a copy of the program and tried this last night. The audio did get out of synch however I also edited (cut) out the first hour from the source FLV file, which in itself should not have introduced synch errors as I've done that before successfully with other sources. But, there also seems to be something wrong with the first frew seconds of the source FLV file though, because it plays very oddly, so perhaps that is causing the synch issues, not sure.

Also, and not sure if this has anything to do with it or not, but TMPGEnc Xpress thinks the source FLV file is 25 fps but MediaInfo (http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net) thinks it's 29.97 fps. What affect does changing the source's frame rate under 'Clip Properties' in TMPGEnc Xpress have on the output?

Update...

Using TMPGEnc Xpress 4.0 I converted the entire source FLV file to MPG and the audio and video in the output file are a long way out of synch...the audio is significantly shorter than the video.

If I play the source file in a FLV player, all is fine. What is really odd is that I also used FLV file and cut it so that I would end up with a 75 minute section in my MPG output file. The MPG video came out perfect but the audio for that 75 minute section of video is only 71 minutes long in the MPG output file! How odd is that?!?! I also tried outputting the same exact 75 minute video segment to a WAV file and the WAV file is 75 minutes long but the last 4 minutes of it contains audio that immediately follows the desired video segment.

Another thing I tried is capturing the audio "live" while the 75 minute segment was playing and the WAV file that resulted is only 71 minutes long. How can the video supposedly be 75 minutes but the corresponding audio only be 71 minutes? I would bet that the audio length is correct but something is throwing off the video time.

There appears to be a significant difference between the audo and video information contained in the FLV file, or at least TMPGEnc does not keep them in synch for some reason.

Any ideas or comments welcome.

Hi Folks,

When trying to encode a quicktime h264 with mp4a audio I get an error box when I click ok at the audio settings box.

"An error occured during the file output initialization. (-192)"

Anyone know of a fix/workaround?

Cheers!

Marc

Any plans to add support for the iPad Motion JPEG format? Specifications are as follows:

Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format.

Might be possible already with the correct codecs; ffdshow has a MJPEG encoder.
So theoretically you could make a MJPEG AVI file with those specs. I don't have an iPad to test it on though.

Why not use MPEG4 AVC? What does MJPEG offer that can't be packed in an MP4 container?

>Why not use MPEG4 AVC? What does MJPEG offer that can't be packed in an MP4 container?

Good suggestion. I just got my iPad and I am still figuring this out.

After a few experiments, I came to the conclusion that MPEG4 AVC is the best option. However, I would still like the option to save an a M-JPEG.

>Might be possible already with the correct codecs; ffdshow has a MJPEG encoder.
>So theoretically you could make a MJPEG AVI file with those specs. I don't have an iPad to test it on though.

I will also give this a try. I will let you know if it works. Thanks.

You should be able to use TMPGEnc to do MJPEG as along as you have the appropriate MJPEG codec installed on your computer. You may also try Virtualdub, depending on the input format, or stream to TMPGEnc with Avisynth.

Is it possible to use a french accent on a letter in the menu? If so, how?

Only way I've done it is by copy and pasting it from another program.

http://i49.tinypic.com/2h5pfrs.png

OK, after more research, I have found the answer.
Go to Micorosoft word help. The way to do it is exactly the way MS word does it.
Go to the 'insert' menu in MS word. Go to 'symbols'
Find the character with the accent you wish to insert.
Note the code
Go back to Dvd Authoring Works and enter 'ctrl' + code.
This works for any symbol.

Is it possible to use a french accent on a letter in the menu? If so, how?

Hi all. Could anyone tell me how to unlock template items in Authoring Works 4?
Many thanks. Alan

Not possible.

Thanks, thought that might be the case. Although I don't understand why.
Thanks again.
Alan

Hi
I'd like to use a captured frame from clip editing as the background for the Menu
is it possible?

Yes, as long as you're making a custom menu and not a menu based on a template.

Just double-click the background in the menu editor. A new window will appear and you can set a video as the background and then navigate to the frame you want as the background. Or you can just an image of your captured frame as the background.

Is it possible to import a adobe photoshop file into the menu templete module in authoring works 4??

If so, what are the steps to do this?

thanks so much.

Yes, you can use .psd files for custom menu frames and buttons.

You can then register them and they will appear in the layout selection page when you create a custom menu in the Menu Wizard.

Check out the help file within TAW4 for a detailed explanation of how to set up your .psd layers for each type of menu item.

From within the help file, look at section User Guide-->Start-->Advanced tools-->Menu item tool.