Hi. I'm encoding what looks like a hand painted anime that runs for about 2 hours. I set the bit rate at 3000 and the quality level "high", Then I went to the gym for 2 hours. When I first set things up and pressed start the expected work time was 9 hours... (that was when TMPG was just reading the title pages I guess). Once it got a couple of minutes into the film it went up to 31 hours. Now as I sit here in dismay it claims it will need 37 hours before it is complete.
What I don't understand is this... the complexity of the picture has not increased as the anime has progressed, so why has the time need to process the thing increased?

Ufff... what Kind of PC do you use? And what are your settings? 31 Hours is terrible slow. Even my old PIII 500 was a lot faster.
Animes haven't complex Pictures, but they often have complex Movement (from the point of view of TMPGEnc)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player/relnotes.asp#knownissue

there are Known and Unknown problems with this BETA release. Read the microsoft" known issues" board at above URL for SOME of the details.( As always for them, I believe that they are holding some hidden cards that benefit only themselves. Personally, I would NOT upgrade.

Hey all. I'm tired of floating point calculation errors with TMPGEnc. I paid for it, and was wondering if anyone knows of a place to download 2.56 Plus version? I never had those issues with that version. NOTE that I am NOT asking for the free version. Thanks.

Ed

"Floating Point errors" are caused By BAD AVI files..Usually some sort of Corrupted sectors in the file and a different version probably won"t help,These errors pop up all the time with Files downloaded off the net...

Nope... it ain't a bad AVI... Virtualdub detected no errors in the AVI. Anyways, does anyone know where I can get an older version?

My camera is not progressive scan. I am capturing from a DV cam to an interlaced DV avi file. I am then encoding for burning to DVD-R.

Firstly should I be bothering to worry about de-interlacing the AVI file when creating the Mpeg2 DVD file.

If so what is the difference between the Video tab "Encode Mode" drop down (Interlace/Non-Interlace etc) and the deinterlace filter. Currently I am using the Encode mode drop down set to non-interlace and the de-interlace filter setting it to "Double".


If you are feeling generous, a real newbie question. What rate control mode should I be using for good quality DVD output of DV cam home movie material.
ie 2 pass VBR, CQ or CQ_VBR.

I would use 2-pass I like CCE better then TMPG but I still use TMPG to set the setting with the wizard

If you will watch the DVD on a TV, leave the material interlaced. I believe DV is "bottom field" dominant. It is absolutely critical that the setting in the source page match the input material.

Since computer viewing is also common, home video type material with high motion content could be put on the DVD in two versions. Interlaced, for TV viewing, and de-interlaced, for computer viewing. This is especially true if you need to step frame by frame on the computer.

IMHO, Virtualdub has much better deinterlace options than TMPGEnc. The Smart Deinterlace plugin with a very low motion threshold is great at interpolating a single frame from two fields. No double images.

If you author deinterlaced only, set the output format to "non-interlace". Otherwise some standalone DVD players will not properly step frame by frame.

Thanks guys.
So the bottom line is. Create two DVD's one for TV the other for computer.

I guess that only leaves the question, is there any downside in de-interlacing for TV and only creating the one DVD for both display types.

Well, creating two DVDs really would be for the exceptional case of extreme motion and the desire for optimum frame by frame viewing of interpolated deinterlaced frames. Interpolated frames on a TV in full motion would look strobey (no motion blur).

Blended deinterlacing would retain the motion blur effect and looks good on both TV and computer in full motion. Try this first since it is MUCH less work. The tradeoff is poor frame by frame appearance.

Interlaced looks great on a TV in full motion and frame by frame but most computer DVD software show interlace artifacts in full motion and frame by frame.

Is "Blended" what I am doing when I choose "Both" in the Tmpg de-interlace filter. I had a good look at my output today. On high motion I can see two images of a fast moving object. I guess that is to be expected by puting two fields together.

To be honest having gone from VCD to DVD this week (New A04) I am so pleased with the quality. The only real bug bear I have is that blacks are not resolved very well with tmpg. But lets face it this is all great stuff.

I had a look at the smart de-int filter from donald graft and it blew my mind. You know I thought my jobs of bio-chem and programming was techie! Any chance of some hints.

Need any SQL-Server or RDBMS help. I'm your man. Thanks so much.

My audio is out of sync with my video. It gradually becomes more out of sync. I encoded at 29.97 FPS, and the properties (right click on the file) says that that's the correct FPS. My video also seems very jerky; like it's stuttering. I will sometimes see distorted blocks on the video when it stutters.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

use the virtualDub and extract the audiofile uncomrpessed to the Harddisk.After load the tempgc and load the videofile and this audiofile.Sorry for my english.


Save the audiofile as wave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm trying to encode a DivX to an SVCD, but i keep getting errors of different values. I've split the audio with VDub but i still get errors. Can anyone help?

Is it a Divx file you downloaded off the Net???If It Is it"s probably a bad avi File, more often than not files downloaded off the net will have problems like this..You can try to make a copy of it with Virtual Dub and encode that but there is no Gaurantee it will work....

When I use Tmpgenc to encode a file from DVD2AVI using .d2v project I can not use merge/cut to split MPG2 (SVCD file), it hang when I try to move the slide, It happen only with SVCD files because the VCD files created with Tmpgenc work fine. Any suggestion?

Hi had the same problem in wondow's 98 most people get this problem with windows 95 98 and ME when I installed windows 2000 I had no problem's moving the slider. Some time's it will work in 98 but only for a while before some file's go bad or some thing. You can use MPEG2VCR that's a great MPEG2 editter it does some thing better then TMPG and TMPG does other thing better. Its better if you edit in windows98 me or 95 TMPG is better if you need to edit a file larger then 4 gig's

Why is TMPGEnc showing 30 fps in the "Source range" window (and other filters) when the VFAPI "DirectShow Multimedia File Reader" is set to a priority >= 1?

TIA

Hi.

I'm wondering if you guys think it's worth encoding SVCD movies if you can't frameserve to CCE ? People have said that the quality in CCE is much better and I don't need to encode the stuff that bad anyway ? anyone ?

Tmpgenc is great for encodeing SVCD and I believe it to be as good as CCE 2.50, but the 2.62 and 2.64 versions are better...And one of the best ways to use CCE is to use Tmpgenc and the Vfapi Converter to Frame serve to CCE, this works for all versions of CCE..But Tmpgenc will Do a great Job Encodeing SVCD"S and it doesn"t cost $2000 like CCE....

Im sorry to say but TMPG does a bad go at SVCD very blocky CCE is alot better and alot faster only use TMPG if your on a P2 that how I made my SVCD before I upgraded to make SVCD use DVD2SVCD as it will rip the DVD and encode with CCE you only need to hit one button and walk away

Well you odviously don"t know how to use Tmpgenc properly...It"s all in the Settings...

Just installed WM9 beta, and now m2p and m2v files are suddenly unsupported (or can not open) under TMPGEnc (both free and Plus versions). Anyone know why?

There have been a few poeple complaining in the last few days about not being able to encode certain file types after installing Media Player 9, all I can sudgest is to install your Old Media Player, or use your system restore to go back before you installed the media player 9......

Hi

I need Help

I would like to encode an AVI 2 SVCD File
while i am trying to decode it and klick on the start Button
immedatelty after that i get following error "Index of Scan Line is Out of Range (345)" and the encoding immedately Stops !!!

PLZ Help me

My Config:
Duron 800
Asus A7V-M
384MB RAM
30 GB HD (5GB FREE)
Win2k+SP2
Tmpgenc 2.53.35.130

plz email to me the solution

thx in advance

C9owy

That error seems to pop up a lot with AVI Files that are downloaded off the Net off places Like Kazaa...It probably meant that your AVI file has some errors in it, you might be able to fix it by makeing a copy of it with "Virtual Dub"...

In TMPG audio encoding there is channels mode there is dual channels does this give you Surround sound with Dolby Dolby or DTS 5.1? And what does Joint-Stereo mean? thanks

You Can Not get Surround Sound useing Tmpgenc to encode the audio, Plus vcd/svcd"s don"t support Surround Sound Audio and MP2 doesn"t support Surround Sound, the only way you can get Surround Sound is to Extract the "AC3 Dolby Digital" Track from the DVD with DVD2AVI and Multiplex it with the SVCD Video file, but if you do this your DVD Player probably won"t play it unless you can select the audio format in the Settings on your DVD Player...

thanks but im encoding DVD's not SVCD's

Well if you are doing DVD it is easy, just de-mux the audio track with DVD2AVI and mux it with your encoded movie....