Hi Guys
I Have done this the right way round (not )
upgraded the computer to a P4 2.5 ghz and installed new version of TMPGEnc on to new puter, when i down load avi files and convert them, i seem to get on the finished mpeg, a pinkish blocky haze left around and movement, usally across a face if picture is dark. But not present if played as a AVI
Question, Has anyone else had this, is it the new puter doing it, is it TMPGEnc doing it or have i just been lucky down loading corupt files,
Any help appriciated, as for settings used all i do is tick it to be a pal vcd output and select relevant input and output folders.
Fragile

You should check and see if you have the "Angel Potion Codec" Installed on your machine, this codec has been known to cause discoloration in mpeg files encoded with Tmpgenc....

I have converted a DVD to MPEG then to VCD but it is too big to go on a CD.
how do I split the file so it goes into two files that can go on 2 CDs.

Thank You.

No need to reply - I found a tutorial on vcdhelp .com = http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/userguides/84759.php

Thank You.

The program said me that i dont have msvcr70.dll, when i tried to edit a "*.vdr.avi" archive. Where can i found it?

and...... when i use the avi file in the video source and the wav file in the audio source (extract with virtual dub), in the mpeg archive, the sound go 8 seconds later then the video. What can i do?

Type in the Name of the missing DLL into the Search-Field of google.com and download the File...

">"how can i convert mpeg files to .DAT?

By using a Program for authoring and Burning VCDs. Like Nero, WinOnCD, EasyCDCreator, VCDEasy, TSCV, VCDComposer...

i have encoded a film to svcd which as come out great sound and picture are fine but when i go split the file into 2 parts there seems to be about 5 secs of audio missing from then end of the frist half of the film ??. And i was just wondering if somebody knew why this was happening

It Happens cuz you used the editor in Tmpgenc,Use something else to edit your Mpeg files with cuz Tmpgenc has a lot of bugs in it"s editor...

What software do you recomend for spliting the file into 2 parts then mate

You can try vcdcutter

TMPGenc has trouble cutting Mpeg2 files, its something about TMPGenc unable to correctly cut the audio and video in the same place, i had the same problem, if you go to the TMPGenc home page, you will see some info regarding this problem, as they seem to be unable to address it, try to encode the movie in 2 parts, using batch convert if you like, i just do one half, then set up the second half with the same bitrate as the 1st half, as so you dont get one half looking better than the other, all depends if you cut the file at exactly 50%, sometimes its not a good idea if its bang in the middle of a busy scene, or someone is talking in that particular part of the film.

Baz lad

thats what i have been doing batch encoding but then another problem developed where it would bomb out with some error but if i did it 1 part at a time it would be ok its abit time comsuming as i wanted to set it off b4 i went to bed as not to tie up the pc too much i havce tried vcd cutter but it just locks up

VCD Cutter only works with MPEG1 Files...There are lots of good Mpeg editors ,i sometimes use the Mpeg editor in "Power VCR" and it works Quite Good, or there is M2-Edit Pro, or DVD Cutter, or Mpeg2VCR, which is a Fairly Cheap one ,you can download a Bunch of different editors at :http:/www.apachez.net/ in the tools section....

Hello
I have created 2 mpg files from 2 avi files with TMPGenc. When I want to join these 2 mpg files, it says that file # 2 is not compatible with other mpeg file.
Waht can I do to solve this problem.

thanks

re-encode the file, or both of them with TMPGEnc.

Go to mpeg tools in TMPGenc, choose merg + cut, select mpg1 video cd from dropdown menu, enter path and filename for the outputted file, choose run. now try to join the files, this should do the trick.

Baz lad

If my input has been widescreen format what pixel ratio or other settings do I need to set so a VCD displays letterbox format on a 4:3 Pal television.

Source is 16:9, Target is 4:3.
Or search the Web for the Guide from mb1.

Got a question.

I'm getting 'gradiant' artifacts during encoding. It appears on low-lit scenes, and where the gradiants are happening in the scene (like a low-lit door, dark colors, lots of shadows) it's not pretty.

Source is 720x480 24p (yes, 24 frames progressive, not interlaced) sourced from an High Definition transfer.

Settings are 2-pass VBR, minimum 4000, 5000 average, 7500 high end. 3/2 pulldown is inserted, and noise reduction are being used. 8-bit is the color depth.

I've also tried 2-pass VBR with 7000 minimum, 7500 average, and 8500 high, with 10-bit color, as well as noise reduction and "Soften block noise" in Quantize matrix. The gradiant artifacting is minimized a little (~20%) but not enough to make it disappear. The source footage does not have this problem.

GOP Structure is default, but I've also played around and tried adding more B frames (no difference, actually a little worse)

Any help would be appreciated, this is a sticking point right now.

One last question, I have the new version of TMPeg, and my version doesn't have HP@HL for HDTV resolutions and encoding. How do I get that (plug in?). I have HDTV source footage, and would like to MPEG-2 encode it (same source as 720x480p footage being used)

I believe that you only get the High profile High level resolution and settings with the Pluss version......

Or you just might need to "Unlock" the settings..You can do this by loading the "Unlock.mfc" Template in the "Extra" Folder....

Hope someone can help. Downloaded avi files from inernet site. With some of them, after encoding there is no sound whatsoever even though sound was present before (checked with a player). Picture is spot on though.

You should do this with ALL the movies that you Download off the net, you need to Extract the audio to a Wav file with "Virtual Dub" and use that as your audio source...Tmpgenc does not like to encode Compressed Audio formats and most of the time the audio is going to be compressed so this is the way to fix it....

Thanks, I'll try that in the future.

sometimes it helps to do a direct stream copy with virtualdub.

I am new to this conversion stuff and im a little confused. I recently downloaded an avi movie trailer from Kazaa. I tried to play it in Windows Midea Player and I had sound but no video. How do I see and hear the file. Is thier something wrong with it or what. Please help!!!

Well if you have the correct codecs installed on your system then you should be able to play it but if you have all the relevant codecs then the file just could be screwed up,A lot of Movie files on the net are screwed up in one way or another....

I have just downloaded TMPG for the purpose of merging 3 svcd overlapping files into 1.

The problem is that when I use the Merge & Cut option to merge two of the clips I end up with the video clip being okay but the audio becomes out of sync.

What appears to happen is that the audio from the end of the overlapping clip starts at the beginning of the overlapping clip and pushes the audio out of sync by about 30 seconds (the time that the two clips overlap.)

This happens both with using the 'Correct' function and also with manually setting my start and end points for the two clips.

If this is an error on my part I appologise for submitting it as a bug report and welcome any advise on how to correctly join two overlapping clips. Even if I try to crop the clips individually so that I can join them later I end up loosing the last 30 seconds or so of audio.
ie With a cropped clip there is no audio for the last 30 seconds or so of the clip.

Tmpgenc does not Officialy Support the Joining or editing of files that are not made with Tmpgenc, and tmpgenc does not Join files that are VBR properly, your best bet is to use a Better mpeg editor...

I have been unable to get TMPGEnc to recognize a large Quicktime .MOV. I'm not sure exactly what the size limit is (it will recognize larger than 2GB) but there is one. These are .MOV files that play fine in Quicktime Player for Windows. DV-NTSC format, created in Final Cut Pro.

I have gotten TMPGEnc to recognize and successfully encode smaller DV-NTSC .MOV files (less than 5 min. or so). Larger files (15 minutes or so) are recognized, but the encoded output hangs occasionally on certain frames after a while. I'm guessing that .MOV support in TMPGEnc isn't solid. This is probably why .MOV is not in the recognized formats under Video source in TMPGEnc.

The only workaround I've found is to break the large .MOV files into small .AVI files (less than 2GB each). I understand there is a way to create larger than 2GB .AVI files directly in Windows, but I have not found a way to convert a .MOV file to a larger-than-2GB .AVI file. Anyone know of a way?

I've tried outputting the Quicktime movie as an image sequence in TIFF, BMP or TGA formats, but the result is unrecognized by TMPGEnc. That would be an okay workaround if it worked.

Any advice?

why wont 2gb or higher work ???
windows fat32 = 4gb max files size
windows ntfs (nt4,2000,xp)= over 4gb files
so format drive to ntfs standard to encode large files

yes, MOV support is really hosed on windoze and tmpgenc.

I see fwd/rev frame jitter every 10..15 frames when using the QT plugin,
looking almost like a frame-rate conversion, but both input/output settings
are 29.97 fps.

the only reliable solution i have found is to use windows qt player to
'export' my mov as a sequence of BMP files (best quality, 29.97 fps).

This is very awkward, somewhat slow, eats lots of disk space- BUT IT WORKS
100% of the time. Save the audio track as a seperate .wav file.

ron