I am trying to encode .avi to mpeg-2 and every time at 100% it says stream reading error. I did have the temporary pointed to the C drive which only had 650 MB free, but changed that to D which has 7 GB free and still get stream read error. I tried changing the source range to a few seconds before the end of the actual file and still got an error. What am I doing wrong?

I have gotten that error at the end of encodeing a couple of times but I burned then to cd anyway and there wasn"t any problem,have you tried playing the mpeg on your computer? if it seems fine it probably is fine.........

it does not play fine. WMP tries to download a codec and fails. If I encode a small portion in the middle, I can play that fine...

if you have encoded it more than once and have the same results then the problem is probably with your avi file ,it might have some corrupted frames in it, try makeing a copy with virtua dub and try encodeing that......

Run it through the latest virtual dub and check for bad frames.
If it finds them try frameserving your file to TMPG with virtualdub, but I think if you are getting to 100% then obviously the error is at the very end.

Or,

Try trimming off a couple of minutes from the end with the 'MPEG tools'
My advice would be to do a test. Set the source range filter to start 10 mins from the end and to finish 2 mins from the end.
If the encode completes with no problem then all you have to do is keep trimming the end source range value to find where you need to stop the encode then when you know the value go ahead and encode the whole movie.

ASHY

It would be WONDERFUL if we can let TMPGEnc to search through the whole
AVI once.. and gather all flicker power... then we can get a list of frames
with more than 100,000 flicker power, or more than (user specify) flicker
power. Therefore we can try and think about how to make a good AVI without
Interlace.. (when the pattern is all weird etc..)

to make a non interlaced avi just make a non interlaced avi(progressive),or use the deinterlace feature,and you can search through the whole movie and see where the interlace lines are the worst and adjust the settings acordingly,just double click on deinterlace in the advanced settings page and a window will come up and you can scan through the whole movie and adjust the settings to fix the interlace lines......

ewww dude :) IVTC is the way to go..
Deinterlace gives you that Blurry Bilinear effect.. :(

http://toolbox.sgi.com/TasteOfDT/documents/video/lurker/fields/fields.html

have a read there.

It'd be truly nice if I wont't have to search thru manually.

I thought TMPG already had some sort sort of automatic setting for IVTC.
As far as I know this is what the 'Auto setting' is for.
Just find out what the field order is first using the de-interlace option.
Once you have the field order, turn off the de-interlace option and select '24fps (flicker prioritized)' in IVTC and choose 'automatic' as the interlace setting then click start and TMPG should scan the movie and create the settings.
Either that or I'm just not understanding the question.

ASHY

Yes yes! you did not misunderstood my question.
I'm requesting for such function is due to what you've described is only
applicable if the WHOLE DVD is telecined with that single pattern. If the pattern, change however, then it's an entirely different story.

Many Animes has such pattern change behaviour, since many cutting and editing
has occured. I'm just requesting such function so we can have easily identify
the points in where the cutting has occured..

I wonder if the author checks here? :P

I think I understand what you are getting at now, but it wasn't that clear in the original question
I've never really dealt with anime movies so i can't really give any advice. Maybe Hori will check in, but i doubt it.

ASHY

I am now burning my movies in svcd format but I still am confused about certain things,
1) I downloaded bitrite to see what I should be setting the bitrate at and it tells me for a 60 min movie it should be at approx. 1650kps but when I do that 1% of the file is 8,500 megs which will be 850 megs when I am through, and I am trying to fit it on 700mb cdr which I know that I can get close to 800 mgs on it but not 850! So I am encoding at 1480 kps to make it fit but why is the program telling me to go higher when it will end up being too big?
How can I up the bitrate without making the file too big?
Are there any other bitrate calculaters that are more accurate?

2) If my dvd player which is now JVC 300 can play svcd can I also play xvcd and is this better than svcd?

thanks
Jules

you can"t acurately measure the size of the encoded mpeg file by seeing what the file size is at 1 percent,but if you want to be sure that 60min fits on a cd go 1600kbs and 128kbs on the audio,that is the settings i use and it works every time,if you use automatic vbr your file size will be even smaller without loosing any real quality.....

Jules creating a SVCD at 1480 kps would be pointless and defeats the object of MPEG2 as the quality will be low.
This is the reason not use CBR for MPEG2 as MPEG2to is inherently a variable bitrate format. The templates I have sent you should give high quality at a reasonable file size.
In fact the templates will create a 100min movie on two 80 mins disks at high quality with hardly any visible Macroblocks.

ASHY

Whenever I try to merge two MPGs together using MPEG Tools -> Merge and Cut, I get a split-second loud squeak or shriek at the point where the two files are joined. Exporting the audio and loading it with GOldwave reveals a brief spike in the audio at that point. Is there any way to avoid this, or fix it?

Demultiplexing, converting .mp2 to .wav, reducing that point to 0db in the .wav, converting to .mp3, and re-multiplexing causes the audio to get out of sync badly.

Both MPGs were captured with the exact same specs in VirtualDub and encoded separately with the exact same specs in TMPGEnc.

Help!!!!


-Chance

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After you have entered the files to Merge make sure to click the "Correct" button on the right hand side of the window and OK it. Works most of the time but there are other underlying causes for beeps.

This question has been asked many times. It would save time and effort if a Search was made before asking a question.

Before I asked this question, I did searched on "squeak", "join", "merge", "combine", "combining mpg", and "noise". None of the results I got said anything about this type of problem.

I appreciate your help, but I am getting tired of the Search Police that seem to hang out on all the boards these days...

I have been looking into this problem and your right it does seem to coincide where there are large bitrate spikes.
Somepeople will notice that when they cut their MPEGS, at the end of the cut point there is a sudden Bitrate spike.
This doesn't happen on every cut only on some cuts and the spikes can go up or down.
The only reason I can deduce for this is down to the problem that MPEGs were never meant to be edited.
Therefore what it seems is happening is that it depends where in the GOP the movie is cut as the bitrate spikes can be corrected by just shifting the cut a few frames up or down.
This can be checked with bitrate viewer.
On a test file I had, when I cut the MPEG in a certain place at the very end of the cut the bitrate would spike dramatically, but if I shifted the cut a few frames, say 4, the spike dissapeared.

In conclusion this is probably what the 'Correct' button does. It makes sure that two GOPs are joined correctly avoiding the spike.

So my advice to correct the problem is to check the cut with Bitrate viewer first for spikes, if you see one shift the cut a few frames.

ASHY

I can't encode AVI files that I downloaded, they play in windows media player but when I try to set them as the source file in TMPGEnc, it has an error saything that it is not support.

Go to your "enviromental settings" then to "vfapi plugins" and raise the "direct show" to "2" and everything else at "0". this should get your file loaded.....

I STILL CAN T OPEN AVI FILES TRIED TO LOWER EVERY THING & HIGHER AVI SETTINGS BUT STILL NO LUCK

>Go to your "enviromental settings" then to "vfapi plugins" and raise the "direct show" to "2" and everything else at "0". this should get your file loaded.....

I also tried this.
The file will open under the MPG tools menu, and it went through the entire 'encoding' process when I ran the file through the merge option.

When I try to edit merge item it gives me the following error: Could not open this file with Direct Show (0x80040200)
Detail: gibberish characters =<, a small o with a caret over it, and a square.

Help!

Whenever I try to merge two MPGs together using MPEG Tools -> Merge and Cut, I get a split-second loud squeak or shriek at the point where the two files are joined. Exporting the audio and loading it with GOldwave reveals a brief spike in the audio at that point. Is there any way to avoid this, or fix it?

Demultiplexing, converting .mp2 to .wav, reducing that point to 0db in the .wav, converting to .mp3, and re-multiplexing causes the audio to get out of sync badly.

Both MPGs were captured with the exact same specs in VirtualDub and encoded separately with the exact same specs in TMPGEnc.

Help!!!!


-Chance

=========================

this happens a lot all you can do is to click the "correct "tab before cutting...

I have a problem with the newset tmpgenc. The output SVCD FILM mpg file works fine but it has not APS. VCD EAsy 1.09 (latest) simply states that i can only make 1 chapter. How can i fix this?

get rid of "vcdeasy" and get "nero" it doesn"t complain about chapter points...

What do you mean it hasn't APS? I know what Access Point Sectors are, but I don't understand as it must have APS otherwise it wouldn't be a SVCD.
What settings did you use in TMPG.
How have you tried to create the chapters? Have you entered them manually or have you pasted them in from another program?

We need more info.

ASHY

i have created them maually with vcdeasy...vcdeasy sez that it can only have 1 chapter in a 42 minute file. i can make more only if i relax the APS constraints...this screws stuff up. I dont get it... my phillips dvd 711 could skip chapters before but now it dont.

All I can suggest on this one is remultiplexing with BBMPEG, but is it really that necessary to have the chapter points anyway.
You will still be able search through the movie even though you wont be able to skip.

ASHY

actually it is...my player refuses to fast foreward svcd's

Hi,
I am trying to use LAME with Tmpgenc by putting it in the external tools in enviromental settings. When I click start to begin the encode about a minute or two after i click a box comes up saying -
external encoder lame.exe was not properly run.-
does anybody know what i can do?
it might be something with the way i set up lame and the .exe file where it should be. I don't know.
Thanks
breathe
or does anybody know a good site to get lame so i can try it with a different download

you mean "toolame" if not that is your problem,try a different external encoder look for"SCMPX" it is a great external encoder for mp2-3 and has a frequency converter,you can find it on any search engine.....

You probably have the wrong ToolLame binary.
They may look the same but they are not.

This is what you need.
http://www.macdvd.org/trnsz/Compiles/TooLAME-0.2i-Win32.zip

ASHY

Ashy the site that you showed me, is that the newest version of lame. I think that the newest is v3.92. Is that the one. Thanks for help. also do i need the rest of the files to make it work.
thanks

Your getting yourself confused here.
The file you are talking about Lame 3.92 is a .dll file which must be used with another program as a front end to encode to MP3.

The file you need to use with TMPG is a binary which can be run from the command line, the lame_enc.dll can not.
TMPG can use the binary by sending commands to it, but it can't do this with the .dll
This is why I said they are not the same.
And yes as far as I know this version 0.2i is the latest command line version.

What do you mean the rest of the files? There is only one file and thats it.
just put that in your TMPG directory.

ASHY

At the risk of getting shouted at, does anyone have a definitive guide
to avoiding a video track skipping on past audio ?

I use TMPGenc to convert DIVX to VCD, the quality is excellent, with
the exception of intermittent skips and jumps in video.

I have read many posts, both here and on VCDHELP, however a
definitive guide would benefit everybody.

Many thanks to any contributors.

I think that comes from the dvd player ,cuz on my player they sometimes jump in and out of sync,but on my friends player they work fine...I have had some sucess lowering the size of the vbv buffer,cuz I think the jumping has to do with buffer underflow and overflow,but i"m still trying to figure it out...

Keep your burning speed low.
Usually anything above 4x will give jerking problems on most players.
If you do burn at this speed try 2x.
Watch your bitrate settings check with a program like Bitrate viewer to see if the jumps or jerks happen at high bitrate spikes. Your player may not be able to handle these spikes.
Do a search on the net for compatibility problems for your player.
VCDhelp have a good guide on DVD players.
Don't use cheap crappy media.
This makes a world of difference on my player, usually anything made by the Ritek company (Arita, BASF, Samsung, Memorex, Targa, Rimax, Traxdata, FujiFilm & Ricoh) is crap and so are Prodisc. The best I have found are any disk made by the TAIO YUDEN company, (Sony, Philips & Imation) and so are TDK and KODAK.

ASHY

Hi,

I decided to burn a avi to xvcd but was having problems with file size not being able to fit on 2 cds...so I instead burned my avi to svcd and lowered the bitrate to 1400kbps to be able to fit 62 min on 1 cd, but now that I have burned it my dvd player (hitachi sd-2800) will not play it. It plays vcd's no problem...was there something in nero I should have done...all I did was pick the svcd and dragged the file and started to burn. I like the quality of the svcd to vcd and I am hopping there is workaround for this!!
Please Help!!!!!!

Jules

Look for item 4516 on page 13

Sorry. Page 14.

Or even....

http://www.tmpgenc.net/cgi-bin/ebbs/board.cgi?board=tmpgenc&page=13#topic4516

you have to burn it as a svcd not as a data file,and if your player says it plays vcd"s it doesn"t mean that it will play svcd"s.......

What version of NERO are you using? I had same issue with latest version 5.5.8.0. Was using 5.5.7.2 ok before update. Changed back to 5.5.7.2 and all ok now again.

Thanks for all the messages...I found out that my dvd player cannot play svcd and have since rectified the problem with a new dvd that does.

I got many original DIVX movies, but I couldn't watch them.

I downloaded DIVX 5 Codecs and the lastest version of DIVX player. When I loaded the disc into my DVD player, It said my DVD player (Poneer S106) does not equipped with DIVX features. After that, I tried to load the movie either to play in DIVX player program or Windows Media Player, and those ways were failed too.

If your divx movies are an older version than 5.0,try downloading
an old codec.Maybe that will work.
Divx movies can never be played on standalone players so far.

are you talking about the old divx disks that came out around the same time as dvd"s started to come out but didn"t catch on?they have nothing to do with the divx compression...those disks will only play on a OLD divx player,and the only thing that they have in common with the divx codec is the name,those disks are obsolete and have no use unless you have a divx player witch they haven"t made in many years...so don"t get confused between the divx compression codec and those old divx disks cuz they have nothing to do with each other....

Most of My discs were created in 1998-1999. Mr.Margoo, Patch Adams, Mouse Hunts, and so on...I not sure that those cds are in the category that can't be used or not.

Download and install the divx 3.11 codec.
The movies are probably encoded with the Divx 3.11 codec.
Divx5 is not backwards compatible with divx 3.11.
Don't worry this won't remove the Divx5 codec as they can co-exist on the same system.

ASHY

If the movies are original DIVX then I'm afraid Minion is right.
They are not the DIVX related to the MPEG4 codec, but another format which was designed to combat the DVD format, but never caught on.
These movies where originally designed to be used on a Pay-Per-View basis and thus required you to have a special hardware player which had to be connected to a Phone line.
So unless you can find yourself a DIVX player then you're out of luck.
Circuit city were the ones who used to stock the players, but I doubt they would have them now.

ASHY

Check this out for some info I found on the net.
http://www.widescreen.org/dvd_divx.shtml.

ASHY

OK, I am new to this, but learning very quickly. Here is my situation:

I have converted a few avi's to mpeg-1. I've edited them to be sure they fit on the disc (making sure the file type is set to VCD). I burned one and it works fine in my DVD player. Since then, I've burned probably 6 more and NONE of them play. The DVD player recognizes it, but I'm getting nothing. I've gone back and tried to duplicate what I did with the first one exactly to no avail. I've checked and re-checked my settings... Needless to say, I'm stumped and frustrated. I have a Roxio VCD burning program (Easy CD 5.12 -- which may be part of the problem???)

I read the post from Kona and have been following that advice. I have not tried the CD-RW yet, but plan to later today. I was just wondering if anyone had any other advice... I'm stumped!

Thank you, everyone!

Chantico

get nero It migh solve your problem if your problem stems from burning.....

Get Stomp RecordNow Max

Firstly, what is your DVD player.
Second, stick with NERO and forget all the other burning programs for now and certainly dump that crap from ROXIO.
Nero has been proven to be one of the most reliable softwares for VCD burning and is probably the best option for Beginners.

ASHY

DVD player is a Pioneer DV-C503 and I suddenly can't find the paperwork to give you more info on it! It's a 5 disc changer that reads mp3's, mpegs, etc.

Here's what the specs are on their website:

Video Performance Features:

10-bit Video Signal DAC for high-quality DVD pictures
Twin-Wave Laser Pickup for CD/Video CD/CD-R playback
Component Video Output
Pioneer Exclusive Viterbi Error Correction for Superior Reading Accuracy
Still Play (Field or Frame with Auto)
Still Step Play Forward and Reverse
Slow Motion Playback

Audio Performance Features:

96KHz/24-bit Audio DAC for superb sound quality
Dolby&reg; Digital and dts&reg; Digital Outputs

Output Terminals:

Video:

Component Video (Y, Cr, Cb) Output x 1
S-Video (S2 Compatible) x 1
Composite Video Output x 1
Audio:

Dolby Digital / dts / LPCM Coaxial Output x 1
Dolby Digital / dts / LPCM Optical Output x 1
Analog Output x 1

I am looking into Nero now... thanks!!

I got Nero and everything is now running smooth as silk. Thanks for all your help!