I have been wondering about the Wizard's settings when loading my 7.3gb NTSC Video movie. The Wizard checks my AVI and sets as follows:

* CBR (normally, I use 2-Pass VBR (new) and sets ave and min)
* Full Screen (should this be Full Screen (keep aspect ratio?) I use Full Screen
* 4:3 525 (NTSC 704x480) (should this be 1:1 VGA? but I never us it)
* Bit Rate: 2520 (normally, I use smaller to maintain compliance)
* Motion Search Estimate (isn't this just for 2-Pass VBR and can it cause blocky picture on TV?)
* Stereo 44K (can't I use 22K and still maintain good enough audio?)
* MP@ML (isn't this DVD setting?)
* No motion search for still picture (can this cause blocky picture... my experience?)

I use Pinnacle Studio 7.13.5 to edit then encode my DV to AVI, then TMPGEnc to MPEG2 (480x480). Then, I burn to CD using NERO 5.580. Most of the time, they play very good on my Hitachi 505 stand-alone DVD player and A/V surround system. I use Win XP (Home) on my P4 with 2 separate drives.

GOT ANY COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS, PLEASE? Thanks.

Everything seems fine.

keep the aspect ratio and make sure it is 4:3 or 16:9 NTSC. This ratio affects the viewing on the TV (widescreen etc...)

Techno

Thanks for the tips on the TMPGEnc settings. I will try it to convert my Studio-7 AVI to MPEG-2. I have attempts various setting sin method last week, and my MPEG-2 got a lot of jitters around the image edges especially when the object is in motion. So I tried Nero to create my SVCD disk directly from Studio-7 AVI files and It worked for me with pretty good quality.

If you decide to try Nero please let me know your observation about the pic quality: Nero vs TMPGEnc. Thanks.

when i try to transform any kind of video, i get this f******
"stream write error"

same problem in dvd2svcd
could it be possible, that it depends on the mpeg codec?

the frames maybe corrupted or something is not functioning properly.

What are you trying to convert? (AVI/MPEG1/MPEG2)

Techno

If I remember correctly stream writing errors occur if you have too little HDD space left where TMPGenc is trying to create the file.

sometimes! :)

Techno

I have enough HDD space and the frames are fine

hmmm, have you tried another version of TMPGENC to make sure that it is not a bug in this version?

What are you trying to convert the file to? MPEG1/MPEG2?

Techno

When I press START button,it display TMPGEnc can't load p3package.dll.
Who can tell me where to download the file "P3package.dll"?
Thanks.

At the top of this BBS, type "P3Package.dll" into a box which is right next to "Search" button, then press "Search", then you will find answer.

the easy way is to un-check all the boxes in the "CPU" tab (mmx,sse,ect)this should get rid of the problem but encodeing will take longer.......

Can anyone out there recommend a good freeware, frame by frame, mpeg splitter, simlar to VirtualDub, but I would like it to output in mpeg format rather than avi?? I've been looking around, but can't seem to find anything, and I am kind of in a hurry. Quick responses would be much appreciated!

***Comment based on MPEG standard***
As far as I know, there is not freeware which can cut MPEG frame by frame.

If you know what MPEG is, I guess you do not ask for "frame by frame" cutter.
MPEG can only be cut GOP by GOP.

You can search "what MPEG is" over the net easily.

***My personal opinion***
I do not think it is technically impossible to cut frame by frame, however, i also do not think someone provide that for free because cutting frame be frame would probably need "smart rendering" or similar technologies.

Well, the thing is I have a 1.2 Gb movie in mpeg-1 format and I would like to split it into two parts for burning to disk(s), but it would be nice if I could make the cut at the end of a scene, then the second disk will start at the beginning of the next scene. Is this an easy thing to accomplish?

TMPGEnc has such feature already !!!

MPEG tools > Cut
This may cause slight gap between "where you pointed" and "where you cut"
because of MPEG standard.

Source range (to partially re-encode)
I am sure your MPEG can be re-encoded partially (if the file is not broken.)
This would have better result.

Please do not ask more than this, because that is too much to teach, you need to search this BBS or other site how to do this step by step by yourself.

The way most people do it is to add 20sec or the END for first CD and start back on 20sec on the second CD. I don't think you can split like you want to not with free software but what dose it matter if you have 10-20sec more in the end and se the same 10-20sec on the second disc, overlapping typ of stuff.

/Regards Dennis

http://www.musclesoft.de/combatman/software/dvtool.html

This is the tool I use to split large mpg's in half. I do not split by scene but will do a great job in a matter of minutes. And yes it is freeware.

Heres step by step what I do, this has worked for 4 of the 6 *.vobs I am tring to decrease the bitrate.

-The Project wizard pops up and select the DVD NTSC format with the CBR @3000kbps.

-For source select, I select one of my VOBs which is 0.99GB and leave the Expert settins at defualt

-Default for Filter Settings

-Then for Bitrate Setting, the estimated File Size is 0.01MB

For Vobs 1-3,5 It sees them as the correct size but for 4 and 6 it sees them as 0.01MB.

Whats the deal?

never use TMPGEND to encode a VOB!!!

use dvd2avi to make a project for the vob's, install the dvd2avi plugin for TMPGENC then load the d2v file in TMPGENC

Techno

How could I then put that back to dvd format after I got the bit-rate down. All I am tring to do is lower bitrates so DVDs over 4.7gb can fit on a 4.7 and function as a normal dvd.

i've created mpg files with tmpgenc and all works. i've installed & registered the vfapi reader codec and the file for tmpgenc from this site. i've saved my project file. earlier today i converted 2 .tpr files with the vfapi converter with no problem. however, with no change to my system, i now get the error message "???? filename.tpr ????" and it won't load the file to convert. what am i doing wrong? i've turned proxy off on virtual dub. i've used avifile.reg and aviresetall.reg and it still doesn't work.
PLEASE HELP ME if you can, this is driving me mad!
Thanks for your time :o)

Hi!

I've lately been capturing and converting some old concert videotapes to VCD, and I thought it would be convenient to add chapters while I'm at it.

I realise that there are requirements in an MPEG system for valid chapter entry points (access point sectors). I've read that, for TMPEGEnc, the option "Output interval of sequence header" should be set to 1 (output sequence header with every GOP), and one chaptering guide also recommended checking the "Output bitstream for edit (Closed GOP)" option.

I've done this, and it works (of course), but I'm having a problem with gaps. Have a look at this APS list from VCDxmInfo (note the lines marked with an arrow), taken from a TMPEGEnc encode of a 30-odd-second MPEG-1 clip:

> <aps-list>
> <aps packet-no="2">0.000000</aps>
> <aps packet-no="61">0.533856</aps>
> <aps packet-no="120">1.067722</aps>
> <aps packet-no="179">1.601589</aps>
> <aps packet-no="239">2.135456</aps>
> <aps packet-no="298">2.669322</aps>
> <aps packet-no="328">2.869522</aps>
> <aps packet-no="380">3.403389</aps>
> <aps packet-no="438">3.937256</aps>
> <aps packet-no="467">4.137456</aps>
> <aps packet-no="520">4.671333</aps>
> <aps packet-no="579">5.205200</aps>
> <aps packet-no="638">5.739067</aps>
> <aps packet-no="697">6.272933</aps>
> <aps packet-no="757">6.806800</aps>
> <aps packet-no="816">7.340667</aps>
> <aps packet-no="863">7.774433</aps>
> <aps packet-no="923">8.308300</aps>
> <aps packet-no="982">8.842167</aps>
> <aps packet-no="1093">9.743067</aps>
> <aps packet-no="1662">14.981633</aps> <-- 5 s
> <aps packet-no="1722">15.515500</aps>
> <aps packet-no="1782">16.049367</aps>
> <aps packet-no="1841">16.583233</aps>
> <aps packet-no="1900">17.117100</aps>
> <aps packet-no="1960">17.650967</aps>
> <aps packet-no="2078">18.718700</aps>
> <aps packet-no="2135">19.252567</aps>
> <aps packet-no="3560">32.065356</aps> <-- 13 s
> <aps packet-no="3618">32.599222</aps>
> <aps packet-no="3677">33.133089</aps>
> </aps-list>

This is especially frustrating because that 13-second gap falls (unluckily?) between two songs, so I have no choice but to set the chapter six seconds before one song ends, or six seconds into the next.

I've tried limiting "MAX number of frames in a GOP" to 30 and 15. I've also tried enabling "Force picture type setting" and forcing a new group in the middle of the gap. No luck with either of these.

I'd be happy to make this MPEG clip (8 MB) available, if it would help.


Thanks for your time,

- Robert Barnhardt, robertb@iaw.com

Hello,

How do I change the audio bit rate in TMPG Enc? Mine always does 384k, but I need it at either 128k or 192k. In the Audio Settings, the audio bit rate is preset to 384K and it is grayed-out so that I cannot change it.

Please email me if you know how to change it. Thanks.

heytae@pacbell.net
Tae

when the template is loaded, load the unlock.mcf file and then you can change the bitrate.

Techno

That worked. Thanks for the help!

Tae

Hmm...

Well, well, well now that I have lods of different formats I am starting to wonder about a lot of rubbish out there on the net.

It has turnet out that Automatic VBR is better (for me) than Constant bitrate and 2-pass VBR. The end result of encoding from e VOB file to SVCD after close examination is that the blockyness is "far" less on Automatic VBR, at least it's not disturbing enough to care about.

I have tried with quality set at 60 and at 100 and there seem to be no differens though I read that quality about 65 was not recomended because of some talk aboute video displaying blocky on standalone dvd drives ? which I can't confirm or deny.

And Automatic VBR was fast too. Hmmm I think it has something to do with the talk on the net that you need to configure some settings to not be set at maximum sinc standalones will display blockyness then or something.


Anyway, my conclusion or endresults is that if you have a good input file like DVD then goto Automatic VBR with Minbitrate=300 and paddingbyte enabled (I allso read somewhere that a minbitrate of 300 will keep some standalones from getting cranky on playback since some don't like null output of data for some reason.


Well now I only have to get some parts for my server and im off to SVCD encoding :)

Btw folks I stick to standard SVCD templates except for the things you can change in those, like motion search and so on.

Thanks for the advice on settings to try techno.

Cya round mate.

Anytime m8, I am happe to help.

Thanks for the useful information that many people can benefit from.

Remember = If your source is good, the output is good.

Techno

I am getting an error when I try to open a d2v file. "can not open or unsupported" What can I do to fix this? Please help

make sure you have the dvd2avi project reader plugin installed and increase the filter to a higher priority in the environment settings.

Techno

In Order for TMPGEnc to recognise D2V files, you MUST have the VFAPI and the DVD2AVI.VFP file located where the TMPGEnc.EXE file is!

You must have also DVD2AVI.VFP in in your DVD2AVI-directory. Run DVD2AVI once to register the DVD2AVI.VFP.

It is also sometimes helps to use the Forced Film option in DVD2AVI, but only if you are still unable to open the D2V files with TMPGEnc.

Hi,

I have converted a DivX film into a VCD format. Everything works good but the sound is a bit later then the video.

What can I do about it ???

Thx a lot !

Greetz Gette

Ah.

This problem is usaly fixed by extracting the audio from the AVI file to a uncompressed wav and loading that up instead of having audio processed from the avi file.

Don't know but I think this is some kind of bug in tmpgenc or something.

Read other articles down below to see where to go and what programs to use.

use virtual dub (freeware)
open the original divx file
goto to file > file information
note the framerate for encoding later
goto audio > full processing mode (select this)
goto audio > conversion... and select 44100hz
goto audio > compression... make sure no compression PCM is selected
goto file >save wav name the file and wait a few minutes
after encoding's finished open video file in tmpgenc and open the wav file you just created as the audio source file
you can now encode and select the range, etc, as you normally would
i hope this helps
happy converting :o)

correct, well done! :)

Techno

i am trying to encode the *.d2v file with the audio file to be able to make the mpg file.

However when i select on the video, and select the *.d2v it says that the file cannot be opened as it is incompatible.

Please help

I am having the same problem. Please contact me if you find out the solution