I just purchased a Dell 8200 and tired to open my .avi files, yet was unsuccessful. Tmpgenc is on a external hard drive, which i just transfered to my new CPU, but keep getting some sort of CODEC error, this happens when i try to open certain files in the VFAPI converter.

Are there certain codecs i need to install, or is there a certain formula, besides raising the direct show to 2, that can aid me in opening .avi files in tmpgenc/ vfapi (.tpr) successfuly?

Thanks

there are many different codecs that can be used for avi(Audio Video Interleave). Try DivX, it is the best and mosy widely used

thanks, ill give it a go

And to use the "Vfapi Converter" you need to have the "Vfapi Codec" installed..

I've got myself a AVI File. I am trying to convert it to a VCD to be able to watch it in my Home DVD player. I'm using TMPGEnc to convert the video and GoldWave to convert the audio. When I am done converting the movie it has a Ghosting/Cloning appearance (not sure of the proper term). What settings should I be using to make a WideScreen VCD. Here are the movie specs below:

Video Stream:
Frame Size, FPS 640x272,23.976fps
# of Frames (time): 105303 (1:13:12)
Decompressor: XviD MPEG-4 Codec
Number of Key Frames: 1205
Min/avg/max/total key frame size: 1901/18961/53249 (22314K)
Min/avg/max/total Delta Frame size: 96/4416/49890/ (448954K)

Audio Stream:
Sampling Rate: 48000Hz
Channels: 5 (Stereo)
Sample Precision: 0-bit
Compression: Unknown (tag 2000)
Preload Skew: 3584 samples (0.07s)
# of Frames: 68625
Min/avg/max/total frame size: 2325/3583/3584/ (240187K)

I got this info off of Virtual Dub....Any help would GREATLY be appreciated....
Thanks....Travis

Alot of those setting are incorrect to make a VCD, it has to encoded to MPEG1 for starters. Use the template for VCD(either PAL or NTSC) in TMPEGnc, then you should not have to change any settings except to perfect your quality.

I have been trying to use TMPGEnc to convert it to MPEG1. After it is done converting I even go back and watch the movie and it looks good. It is when I try to burn it everything goes wrong. I use Nero and I get an Error about the 640x272,29.976fps. I choose leave alone and continue anyway. But when the VCD is burnt I get ALOT of Horizontal Lines and the image looks to be tracing and ghosting itself. The Audio is fine though. Any suggestions......THX

You can not make a VCD with 640 by 272 resolution, for that file you need to load the "VCD-NTSC Film" template.....

I got a new problem now...I have burnt the Movie to a CD/RW and everything looks GREAT. About 20-25mins. into the movie I start seeing distortion and then the Disc Crashes. Is this still to do with the Encoding or am I just burning it wrong now....I get the hang of this someday...lol...(with your help)

Recently ive been trying to use the merge/cut mpeg tool on tmpeg. After i mark my in and out points make a file name (edit.vob or whatever) the audio always dissapears. If i run the clip there is no audio and demuxing shows no audio. What am i doing wrong? Ive come so far to be shut out now!!

Thanks!

Oh by the way i checked my original vob and have even demuxed it, and it deffinatly has audio, so where is it going?

Oh by the way i checked my original vob and have even demuxed it, and it deffinatly has audio, so where is it going?

It's not a good Idea to Cut VOB-Files with TMPGEnc. It can't handle VOBs correctly.

Oh by the way i checked my original vob and have even demuxed it, and it deffinatly has audio, so where is it going?

so how would you recomend cutting the bits i want? I dont want to lose any picture quality.

What exactly do you want to do?
OK, demuxing Audio and Video, but why? And what do you want to produce?

Here is what im doing.

I bought a set top panasonic dvd recorder and i am transfering all my vhs tapes to dvd. when i record them the panasonic puts them in vob files. I then would like to use tmpge to edit the shows, i.e. cut off the end of the last show and the begining of the next show. then i can record everything back to sonic mydvd and record them to my pioneer dvdr. I really dont want to have to renencode everything if possible. I dont want to loose any more video quality. I also have Ulead media studio pro 6.5 which i can edit with but it always wants to renencode the file instead of just cut the begining and the end.

Any ideas?

The reason you are losing audio is that the Merge/cut feature, stupidly enough, doesn't handle Ac3 audio yet the MPEGtools can multiplex and demultiplex it.
The Ac3 in the VOB will just be ignored and you end up with a soundless VOB. The only program that I know of that correctly cuts VOBs is DVD cutter.

It is only the audio which is causing you the problem. If you encode the audio to mp2 first then re-multiplex that back with the original VOB then you should be able to cut without a problem in TMPG.

ASHY

What format should my audio be in before i remux it?

The Mpeg tools will let you Multiplex and De-multiplex Mp2 audio and AC3 but it will only edit MP2..so if you really want to use Tmpgenc to edit your files you have to De-Mux the vob files then encode the AC3 audio to MP2, then mux them together then edit.....it seems like a Lot of trouble...

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>It is only the audio which is causing you the problem. If you encode the audio to mp2 first then re-multiplex that back with the original VOB then you should be able to cut without a problem in TMPG.


ASHY

Can somebody help with this? It says this every time i try to convert the file. I've also tried raising the direct show priority to and it didn't work. Can anyone help?

Try renaming the file extension to from asf to wmv. If you are using Virtual Dub you have to use the older vesion(1.3C). Convert it to avi, then use TMPEGnc to convert to MPEG

I'm using TMPGEnc to convert AVI files to MPG files to view on VideoCD. Most of them work fine, but I have one that TMPGEnc does not recognize. Windows Media Player does, however, recognize this file. Does anyone know what the problem could be? Thanks.

Go to "Options" to "enviromental settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "Direct Show" to "2"...

Tht seemed to work. Thanks so much!

So here's where I am at and getting decent VCD's now:

Capture my JVC mini-DV videos of about 62.5 minutes long with Ulead VideoStudio into an .avi format with NTSC 29.9 fps and 704x480 framerate. This leaves a nice 13G file on my HD. I then use TMGPEnc to encode with the following settings that are producing the best video so far which is Framerate of 352x240, NTSC 29.9 fps, and CBR at 1594 bps and High Quality (Slow) motion setting. I then use Nero 5.5 to burn to a CDR using non-standard VCD setting and I get about 779Megs onto an 800Meg CDR.

I tried a few times with playing with CQ settings and one time 2-pass VBR, and even once with SVCD and mpeg2 but either the resulting files were too big or the quality was not acceptable. So my quesiton is are there any further setting tweaks to TMPGEnc and/or capture/encode/burn process improvements that you would recommend?

Cheers,
dagger

How do I caption a movie? I've created an *.AVI file and an *.WAV file, and now I wish to convert them into a VCD (MPEG 1) File, but it would be very helpful if I could add captions to the movie (Before or After the convertion?)

Will TMPGEnc ever support the loading of segmented AVI files, or segmented Mpg files? If so, when?

Yes I already know I can frameserve the files. What I want to know is if there are plans for TMPGEnc to load them directly. Thanks.

Also if I have an Athlon CPU should I disable SSE under cpu setting. Or can I leave MX, MMX2, SSE & 3D Now all enabled for Athlon 1700+ cpu?

You should Enable them ALL if Possible or the encodeing will take forever??There are plans to support segmented avi files but not Mpeg files...

I would really like to see mpg supported too. I have a capture program that saves video in MPG then it will create a new segment when it hits the 4GB limit in W98. It would just save time for me to be able to tell TMPGEnc to ok use this mpg for video 1 then append the other mpg to the end of that in the final output. As it is right now I have to do 2 different mpg files with encoding then afterwards go back & 'merge' the 1st to the 2nd. An unecessary step if TMPGenc could just load up multiple segments at once.

hi, i have short movies (avi) which i made with a digital camera (canon ixus v2). when i select a avi file ( i'm using TMPGEnc 2.5), i get the window with: *.avi can not open, or unsupported. what can i do?

i'm using windows xp home.

many thanks for help

dude, i get the same thing... windows XP Pro, with AVI Files... please let me know if you get the answer. john@hubickey.com

I get the samething on MPEG2 files. This problem isn't exhibited in 2.57 and before.

Did you Try raiseing the "Direct Show File Reader"?????This solves that error 99% of the time...

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>I get the samething on MPEG2 files. This problem isn't exhibited in 2.57 and before.

hi, thanks for your help. but where can i get the version 2.57?

when i try to bring up tmpg i always get a response that windows does not reconize this file type help please

hi, i want to know something about the audio channel mode.
what means "joint channel" and what means "dual channel"?
do i have the surround sound from the original dvd- movie, if i use one of this options? or what will happened?
thx.

Dual Channel is for two independant Audio-Channels codet as Stereo. Left the English Sound, right the German one as an example.

JointStereo is a special setting for low Bitrates. But if you do DVD-Conversions, don't use this, you will loose most of the Surround-Sound if you do that.

You Can"t do Surround sound with VCD or SVCD.. so you will not be able to reproduce the audio format from the DVD into your vcd/svcd..

@Minion

Only with the TPMGEnc internal sound encoder youre stuck with stereo.
But eg. with HeadAC3 you can convert an ac3 audio stream to 2-channel Dolby Surround.

What??? Who says you can't?
Most programs such as DVD2AVI and VOB2AUDIO and many others, already downmix the Ac3 audio to Dolby prologic surround and surround IS supported by MPEG audio also.
There is no problem in making an MPEG file with surround sound. I think what needs clarifying here is that the surround sound can only be Prologic and not Dolby digital, but then again MPEG 5.1 (not Ac3) surround is supported in MPEG audio if you can actually find a way to do it.

ASHY

@ASHY

Yes, that's the correct answer. Dolby Prologic is codet in "simple" Stereo-Streams. And DVD2AVI does a correct downmix.
MPEG 5.1 ist specified, but many Players are unable to play it.

I try to convert divX movies to vcd (pal). while the pictures are converted, the programm seems not to find any sound.

In earlier versions of tmpeg it worked, at least with earlier divX files.

what can I do?
do I have to install plugins?

thanx 4 ur help

Sometimes this is due to audio compression on the original. You must demux the avi file first and then recombine. Another way I have found is to run a file called uncompress on the .avi file which can be found in a zip or rar file called avi2svcd somewhere on the net.

Tmpgenc Does Not like Compressed Audio formats so you need to use "virtual dub" to extract the audio to a WAV file and use that as your audio source....