I used TMPGEnc to convert .mpeg files I downloaded off the internet because they refused to burn, and I thought that if I converted them again, they would burn. Well, it turns out to take about 45 minutes to convert a 4 minute video while converting a 4 minute .asf file only takes about 11 minutes or so. Why is .mpeg taking so long?

This application puts quality first, regardless of time. I know from experience that it can take many hours to encode movies, so 4 mins in 45 mins does not sound excessive for an mpeg file. Obviously, if you compare the speed of something like VirtualDub to TMPGEnc, the latter appears to be a lot slower, but you need to think in terms of what they are doing: VirtualDub is only converting to a different codec.

Andy

Your MPEG files will burn to disk but the problem probably is that they are just mpeg files not vcd or svcd file what you have to do is attach the proper headers to the mpeg files, load an mpeg file into the "merge and cut" and choose your output directory and if it is a mpeg1 file then choose "mpeg1/vcd non-standard" from the drop down menu, and if it is a mpeg2 file then choose "mpeg2/svcd VBR", then click "run" this will make a copy of your mpeg file with the headers attached to the file so you can burn it to disk...

The new TMPG dosent work with Windows 2000 SP2 correctly, the problem is when you encode an AVI File to VCD, the Audio source Stream where not put to the Audio source !
If you select the Auio Source in Single there comes an Error Message "The Audio Source is unknown or not suportet"



Can you help me or is there an problem in the Software

The problem probably isn"t with tmpgenc the problem is probably that the audio format in your avi file is not supported in tmpgenc ,you have to extract the audio to a wav file with "virtual dub" and use that as your audio source file, but if the audio in your avi file is "AC3" then you will need a AC3 decoder...

I have encoded a 3 minute pop video to High Quality PAL MPEG-2, cropped, sharperned, de-inerlaced etc...

However, I now want to conver the file to NTSC, to send to an American friend, so all I am doing is taking the file and converting it to NTSC.

My problem is the finished file has a repetative stutter where it slows for a moment, every second. The picture and sound seem to stay in sync, but the file has this constant stammer.

Is there a process or option I need to select to cure this?

It happens because you have changed the framerate.

ASHY

So here we are again. Do you not know what will happen if you do as you suggest?
To think this advice is coming from somebody who is so keen on research, well it is obvious you haven't researched in this aspect.

You cannot convert a 25 fps movie to 30 fps without artifacts when using the 3:2 pulldown checkbox.

I have posted the method to achieve this on a few occasions and it is not a simple matter of adding 3:2 pulldown.

ASHY

Hi, everybody!

Could anybody advice me, how to get subtitles from a DVD rip into TMPGEnc (to be seen directly on the screen, not to be managed by SVCD system)? Some say the FlaskMPEG can handle subtitles when IFO file opened. I tried to open IFO file with FlaskMPEG with no result. The FlaskMPEG site does not give any suitable information.

I know this is only a "half" relative to TMPGEnc, but can somebody help me?

TIA George

I think you would have to frameserve the file from virtual dub and use it's subtitle filters.
Create a d2v file, use the vfapi converter to change the d2v file into a dummy AVI and open it in Virtualdub. Extract the subs from the DVD using one of the many progs available on the net and convert them to a format that virtual dub can use then frameserve the AVI with the subs to TMPG.

ASHY

Can you convert Caption (SMI) and
Movie file(AVI)?
then which program i need to use?
please~

You can use 'multicon.exe' which is multi-script converter. You can find it by searching yahoo.com by typing 'multi script converter'.

It's simple ms-dos program. You can see how it works. Just place multicon.exe and anything.smi at the same directory.

Then you can have anything.ssa for virtualdub use to combine script and video.

Good luck.

Kisoo

I have encoded a 3 minute pop video to High Quality PAL MPEG-2, cropped, sharperned, de-inerlaced etc...

However, I now want to conver the file to NTSC, to send to an American friend, so all I am doing is taking the file and converting it to NTSC.

My problem is the finished file has a repetative stutter where it slows for a moment, every second. The picture and sound seem to stay in sync, but the file has this constant stammer.

Is there a process or option I need to select to cure this?

You can not encode a PAL avi movie to a NTSC mpeg with out getting that jerkey playback, you have to change the frame rate of the avi then use a audio editing program like cool edit to stretch or shrink the audio file cuz the avi file length will change after changeing the frame rate,It is a fairly complicated procedure if you have never done it before..

I have captured a PAL video using Pinnacle DV500 Plus, 14.8GB uncompressed. I am now trying to MPEG-2 @ 6000k the file, to burn to DVD. However, when I try to engage the De-interlace option in the advanced setting, it thinks about it for a moment, then wants to send an error report to Microsoft, as it does, then TMPGenc closes.

I'm sorry, I can't try it with anything else at the moment, as this file fills my drive and I need to encode it before I can do anything else.

But the previous version did not do this with other files, as I had a go of the de-interlace option when I was playing with it last week.

Do it without deinterlacing,or open it in Virtualdub,add the deinterlace
filter there and then frameserve it to Virtualdub.

If I work on it in TMPGenc, then try to open it in VirtualDub, it gives me a syncronisation error, and doesn't open.

You don"t use "de-interlace" with PAL movies, pal movies are "progressive" so there is no interlace, you are probably getting the error cuz you can not de-interlace and file that isn"t interlaced, so forget about useing this setting...

Actually Minion you are right and wrong in a way.
Pal movies are indeed interlaced. It's just that they differ from NTSC and you don't get the interlaceing artifacts assciated with NTSC because there is no 3:2 pulldown added to the movie.
It is the 3:2 pulldown which causes the horrible interlacing artifacts when we try to convert a movie not the actual interlacing itself due to the extra fields which are added. 3:2 pulldown basically overlays 1 frame on three fields at regular intervals.

But you are absolutely right that in most cases there is no reason to de-interlace a PAL source as there are usually no interlacing artifacts because no extra fields are added to the movie because these movies have what is called 2:2 pulldown which is basically 1 frame overlayed on two fields and. There are rare PAL movies which do have a what is called a 24:1 pulldown added.
Thes movies overlay 1 frame on three fields evey 12 frames and are notorioulsly difficult to de-interlace.
Basically all pulldown does is add extra frames to turn a 24 fps movie into either 25 fps PAL or 29.97 fps NTSC by repeating certain fields.

In any case the original problem sounds more like a there is a fault with the file not TMPG.

ASHY

Everytime I try ti encode withe I get the message cannot load p3package.dll. Can anyone help.
Thank you

Search the forum for p3package.

I'm using TMPGEnc 2.56 Free with an ABIT VP6 (dual 850 P-III Coppermine)
768MB SDRAM ; a single IDE UDMA100 hard drive.

I've configured TMPGEnc for multithread on 2 processors, and trying
to encode an MPEG2 movie (I have m2v.vfp from somewhere I can't remember).

For a little while everything is going smoothly and Task Manager shows
both CPUs pegged at 100%. But sooner or later, the hard drive starts
thrashing and my disk led stays constantly on.

Task manager at this point shows very little CPU usage, very little memory
usage, and the system is basically idle with TMPGEnc using only 5-10% CPU
every so often. So here I am with my hard drive massively swapping/thrashing
but no CPU utilization. TMPGEnc is showing ~54MB memory used, and the total
memory in Task Manager isn't showing even past the half-way point graph.

Any ideas here? I'm going to try turning off multithread next time and see
how that goes...

I´ve converted a DivX5.02 Movie with Audio (the movie is checked and ok) into VCD. The Result has no Audio!

The green Line in the Source Range Window is flat - no Audio available.

I´ve converted DivX Movies in the past successfull - I´m not a newbie. A new installation had no effect.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

ME TOO...OUT OF THE 5 FILMS I WANTED TO CONVERT 3 ARE OK AND 2 HAVE NO AUDIO. HAVE TRIED DIFFERENT VIDEO FORMATS I.E PAL NTSC ETC BUT STILLNO JOY. ALL THE 5 FILMS ARE VIDEO COMPRESSION DIVXMPG4 V3 AND AUDIO FORMAT MPEG4 LAYERS. WOULD LIKE TO HEAR OF AN ANSWER PLEASE...

SADNICK

Would also like to indicate that I have had the same problem. Using latest version on an XP Machine.

You guys have to realize that Tmpgenc only encodes certain audio formats, and a lot of divx files have either "mp3 vbr" audio or "AC3" audio, and these formats are not supported in tmpgenc, what you have to do is extract the audio to a wav file with virtual dub and use that as the audio track but if the audio is "AC3" then you will need an AC3 decoder to make a wav file....

I have used Total Recorder and saved the audio in an external wave file.

That works fine for Divx 5.02 and Quicktime (With QTReader Plugin)

cheers,

Daniel

I have a source DivX video in 608 x 320, approximates to 16:9,

I select the source as 1:1 VGA, Full size (preserve aspect ratio), and target output as 16:9

The result Mpeg2 frame looks right, streched high (or compressed thin...), whith ~60 black lines above/below the image, But WinDVD does not play it at 16:9 A/R, nor does Creative DXR3 (Hollywood+)

How do I make sure the correct AR is encoded in the mpeg2 by TMPGenc, or is there a bug in the software?

TMPGEnc v 2.55.38.142, Core v 1.88.135

Well if your Source is 16:9 then obviously you should be setting your source aspect ratio at 16:9 not 1:1 and your output at 16:9 full screen(keep aspect ratio)
1:1 is for square pixels, your pixels are rectangular.

This works fine for 16:9 sources for me in WinDVD.

ASHY

If you are not encoding your movie for widescreen TV you should set the source at 16:9 and the output at 4:3. This will give you correct aspect ratio in Windvd.


ASHY

I didn't believe that to start with. What I got after I tried Src 16:9, Target 4:3 is what I expected. A padded video that still is skewed. The video may look allright on WinDVD (although it's still skewed from original), but it's also PADDED on top and bottom, bucause the encoder PADS the 16:9 video in the center with black on top and bottom to make the video 525 lines for NTSC...

In other words, if I want a 16:9 anamorphic MPEG2, I have to select 16:9 as target aspect ratio. The source video's resolution is already corrected for VGA display, so it should be 1:1 source AR


There is a program on the mac called Force Anamorphic, but I can't find one for the PC. Anyone knows of a similar program for PC?


anyways... thank for your input

I still don't believe you are using the correct settings for your movie. I have used all sorts of source aspect ratios and have always managed to create an almost identical output with TMPG which plays correctly in both any software and hardware DVD player.

Your right that TMPG pads the top and bottom to create black bars. This has to be done to create an anamorphic picture within a 4:3 frame.
16:9 does not fit within a 4:3 frame on a TV or a monitor without being stretched.

TMPG needs to know the original aspect ratio so it can add the required black bars accordingly otherwise it will stretch the picture. I don't see how your movie can be 1:1 if the framesize is 608 x 320. It doesn't make sense. As far as I'm concerned 1:1 would be a 16:9 picture within a frame size of 608x608 or 320x320. This is 1:1 as the pixels are square, your movie is not.

If you do use 16:9 as the output it is unlikely that any DVD player, software or otherwise will detect the 16:9 flag and adjust the aspect ratio accordingly.
This is only acheived by using a 16:9 TV to force the picture to anamorphic.

If you wan't you can send me a small 2mb sample of this movie as I'm absolutely sure I can acheive the correct output.
If you agree I will post my email.

ASHY

Well here's another datapoint.

I have captured HDTV anamorphically by telling the tuner my "TV" is 16:9. This creates a stretched 4:3, 720x480 capture.

I have then tried every permutation of input/output settings. Bitrate sees a 16:9 flag but Win DVD does not. It plays stretched in a 4:3 window until I manually unlock the aspect ratio and stretch the window to a non-exact 16:9. There is no way to go fullscreen, with black bars.

By the way, results of this on Leno show music performances are stunning.

I agree and will send you a small chunk of the avi source video...

send to: mark.ashworth1@ntlworld.com

ASHY

Did you type in the address wrong?

thanks

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ashworth1@ntlworld.com
550 Invalid recipient: <ashworth1@ntlworld.com>

No you have sent to the wrong email adress, you have missed out the first part of the name.
mark.ashworth1@ntlworld.com
There is a dot between mark and ashworth.

ASHY

I just pulled some Simpsons episodes off of gnutella and am now trying to put them on a vcd so I don't have to huddle near my monitor. The only problem is that I keep getting an error that says " 'file' cannot be openned or is not supported." I get the feeling that this is due to it being a DV1 file as I cannot bring it into Premiere, yet it opens in wmp. Is there anyway to convert these files into vcd compatible format, or a format which can be run through tmpgenc?

You should see if "virtuadub" will load the file then you can frame serve it to tmpgenc, go to "www.virtualdub.com" and download it and see if it works....