The darker parts of my movies burn almost completely black. Its almost impossible to make out what is happinening. The movies are fine, its only when i put them on disk. Thanks much.

I"m trying to burn a vcd but nero says it isn"t compliant because it is 2 channel audio.how do I change it to 1 channel,do I have to make it mono? I tried toolame 2 layer I tried 1 layer...please help?...thanx

Check you other post sherlock.

The darker parts of my movies burn almost completely black. Its almost impossible to make out what is happinening. The movies are fine, its only when i put them on disk. Thanks much.

you can change the contrast,and the bright in the settings,or you can adjust your tv....

Exactly what software are you using to burn this MPEG. It must just be your eyes that are telling you it is darker on your TV because the brightness is lower.
Either that or the brightness is actually low on your PC as well but not as noticable because you have a wrong setting in TMPG. Make sure you untick any colour correction boxes under the advanced tab in TMPG and while we're at it what programs are you using to using to rip the vobs. i.e DVD2AVI or something.


ASHY.

It will be grate to have pause for encoding process. In this case you can pause encoding, hibernate computer and continue later.

you can pause the encodeing,but you can"t turn off your computer..you just press stop and when it asks you to abort encodeing just don"t answer.You can leave it like that forever...

That is the way to do it. You can then Hibernate your computer and it will start up again exactly where you left off.

WHEN REINCODEING AVI-MPEG AT VARYING PERCENTAGES IN THE CYCLE WE KEEP GETTING A MESSAGE SAYING

ILLEGAL FLOATING DECIMAL POINT CALCULATING ORDER.

WE ARE RUNNING WINDOWS XP WITH A 800 Mhz CELERON PROCESSOR AND 400 MB RAM.WE HAVE INSTALLED DIVX 3.11/4 AND IT WORKED FOR US TWICE AND NOW WE GET THIS MESSAGE EACH TIME WE TRY TO RECODE.

CAN ANY ONE HELP .
THANKS MARK.

check/uncheck all the settings in the quantize matrix settings

Techno

and don"t forget to un-check "sse"

Mark, I got that same error you got. I tried wat techno said but it didn't work. I did some more research and noticed I got that error at the point where my file was encoded 75%. I tried encoding it several times. Then I looked at my source file and that video frame at 75% was damaged in my source thats y you get that error. I just divided my file in 2 parts skipping that messed up frame and it works. Try it... I don't think those settings which techno and sherlock are telling you to uncheck have anything to do with it.

well, we are talking from our own experience. There are many ways of solving this problem, I tried it my way, works fine

Techno

yes I m talking from my own experience. I think you get that error if you source frame is messed up. In my case it was. May be there are other causes of that error. I came here looking for solution to my problem. I found it on my own. Just trying to help others with wat I got....

Hi,

I would like to fit a 125min MPEG-1 Movie on a 700mb CD. I've read that if you reduce the bitrate, that will reduce the file size and subsequently degrade the picture quality. Has anyone ever tried this to see what affect is has. As an example , if you decrease the bit rate by 10%, does this shrink the file size by 10%, and create a 10% decrease in picture quality?

Thanks, Bob

if ur trying to make a VCD then nero used timscale, not file size.

yes, decreasing the bitrate degrades quality and reduces file size.

Techno

if you go to "vcd help.com" there is an article there by some guy who says he can get 120min on a vcd with out changeing the bit rate,and he tell"s you how,but "I DON"T BELIEVE IT" ,but you can check it out and give it a try........

Techno / Sherlock,

Thanks for the info, I'll look into them....

Bob

I have download the MPEGS created with this new method of downsizing to fit on one SVCD/VCD disk. Quality is definitely better than VCD but not as good as SVCD but amazing. The template for doing this with TMPGEn has been posted. It's kind of analogous to 1/2 DV vs. full DV but SVCD.

Where I can get the template?

Hello, I see I am not he only one having problems in converting using this program. I have followed all of the directions several times. I still keep getting that my avi are not supported error. How do I fix this?

Please HELP!!!!!!

Thanks

Dina

increase the avi vfw and the avi opendml priorities in the environemnt settings

Techno

Hi there

I've read through your BBS and see a lot of people who get the above mentioned error message.

Isnt it possible for you to make a version which does contain all the nescessary files for this to work.

I do have this problem, and nothing I do will make the progz work. I have reinstalled, uninstalled, added, removed, no codecs, divx versions, patches etc. You name it, I've tried it. Nothing works. I am simply not able to open MPEG2 files.

I know that I make something wrong, because a lot of people have made it work, but I simply cannot make it work.

Best regards
Lucy

P.S. Thanx for your work you put into it

Email me for some MPEG2 filters which will solve this problem.

Techno

I completely understand you frustration.
What really frustrates me is I have tested the same mpg file with tmpeg that I have installed at work and it accepts it with no problems.. Windows 2000 or 98 and whats really strange is I have the same software installed and codec at work as I do at home.

What's really odd is I previously had a dual OS which was 98 and 2000 .. tmpeg would open the mpg file in 98 but not in 2000... I only wanted to switch to 2000 because it "stabler"

Well, please email me for the link to the MPEG2 filters.

Techno

You getting some sort of kicks from emails or are you afraid to post the link to your filters? Maybe you just get kicks from emails?
This is an Discussion forum where people DISCUSS things and finding better ways to do things. If you dont want to make your work public then DONT POST.

we got ur IP address so watch it.

The reason I don't just give links its because of the bandwidth, GET THE FACTS RIGHT!!!

UR SICK FOR A START and yes, I sent these 2 nice people the link

LOL bandwidth!!!! the config files are under 8 KB apiece. Btw. Thats roughly the same size your WWW Frontpage has. ROTFLMAO. Why dont you even snap and paste the essential lines in this forum?

Regarding my IP ... do what you like but stay out of my firewall logs.

Whoops hard to admit it but i might be wrong ... maybe Techno is talking not about his 'famous' encoding filters but is meaning the software needed to get TMPGEnc to work ... well, I doubt it but who knows. Even if its true its still am mysery why he wants email.

Just a good advice: Archive your threads and look at em again in 12 years or so. Recently I've looked up some ancient threads in Usenet and fidonet/znet from me ... no further comment %-)

-->this is sick

Well for starters I am glad that Techno is willing to use is time to help us, make progz. etc.

If you don't like Techno, me, the program etc. why do you keep comming back to this page/BBS. No one is forcing you (to my knowledge, that is, hehe).

-->Techno

I have sent you a mail. Thx in advance.

Lucy

helo "mr this is sick" I don"t see you giving advice,and with an attitude like that who would want it......ohh ,i allmost forgot "YOU SUCK"....na na nana na...

Thank-you very much Sherlock and Lucy, it is greatly appreciated for your support. Thank-you for helping me. Please feel free to email me or contact me.

Thank-you

Techno

I've been trying to get TMPGEnc (Ver. 2.53.35.130) to work, but I just can't figure it out.
Any help would be greatly appr.

I have an AMD Athlon 900mhz PC running Win2K. (400+mb mem) (DirectX installed) etc... DivX, Win Media Player all work fine, but I can't seem to get any video to come up. Could it be my CPU itself ?

I have a number of AVI files (some have formats that can't be read). The one I'm testing does show the the sound stream but I get no video.

I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks

if it is DIVX 5, it is not fully supported.

increase the avi vfw and the avi opendml priorities in the environemnt settings

Techno

I have been making vcds and noticed that if they are encoded with Divx 4.12, TMPGenc won't work right. It has a "fuzzy" quality in the Vcd's sound. While this isn't that bad, it's still a piss off. I mean, why is it doing this? I installed all the codecs I could and installed the 4.12 codec and it STILL happens. The playback of the video in Virtual Dub is choppy, too. I suppose this problem could lie in the Virtual Dub program, instead of TMPGenc. If anyone knows how to fix this, please leave some info.

BTW the VCD's video playback is perfect, I just can't get the nice audio that I'm used to with the 4.12 codec.

Thanks,

Nikkou

DIVX 4 and 5 sux.

extract the wav in virtualdub and then encode the video and wav together. do a little sample to c if the problem is there or not.

Techno

That's what I am doing :(

I don't know what else to do!

I had the same problem, but I dont know if it was because of DivX 4.12. Try to use graphedit and its filters to extract and write down the sound to a wav-file, and then load wav and avi into Tmpegenc as two seperate files. When converting divx to vcd/svcd I allways do this before the mpeg-encoding. Graphedit handels multicannels and other fancy stuff that might cause problems in tmpegenc.

Hello,
i have installed WinDVR, WinDVD, TEMPenc and DivX5.
This constellation would run very perfect, but with some changesyou will get to work with everything (Mpeg1, Mpeg2, Divx)
1. First of all deinstall DivX5. At my machine, TEMPGenc would not work together with DIVX5 and WinDVR.
2. Second install DivX4.12 (The Codec itself is enough, you don¡­t need the bundle)
3. Install the ELCARD MPEG2 Codec (Get it at http://www.elcard.com)
4. Install WinDVR, WinDVD etc.¡­
5. Install the newest Version of TEMPGenc ;)
6. USE IT!

OK, not the newest or best help, but thats the only way that it willowrk on my computer at home.

I hope i helped some people.
Greets ODITY

Sorry, the Web Adress for the MPEG2 Codec is: http://www.elecard.com

#glglg# ;)

Thanks for that.

Personally, I hate DIVX 4 and 5, everyone has their own opinions.

Don't use elecard.

What is the point on installing 2 MPEG2 filters?

I am just asking.

If you want MPEG2 filters, email me and I will send u a link, no probs.

The elecard and windvd have MPEG2 filters, sometimes will not function properly.

Only install one.

Thanks

Techno

I've installed tmpgenc 2.5 on my computer (p4 1,7 ghz with windows XP).
It all seemed to work fine.

But when i converted an avi file to a mpg (vcd format) then their is no sound. In the original avi file you can hear the sounds.

Please help me!

Have you tried extracting the audio as wav?

Use virtualdub (www.virtualdub.org) and open the avi file and save the eav.

Then load in the video and the wav in TMPGENC and encode as VCD/SVCD.

Techno

I Have Had The Same Problem, With Mpeg4 V3 Avi Files. I Have Had No Sound, I Tried To Use VDub To Extract Sound But I Get An Error Message

The Requested Audio Compression is Not Compatable With The Input Format.

Im Using PCM Uncompressed @ 44100hz

Require Help

Eric,

Question: did you manage to have sound at all since using TMPGEnc ?

I had the same experience, but this had nothing to do with TMPGEnc.
I used W2000 and simply activated ALL the controls in 'Volume Control' (right-click on speaker in right corner of Taskbar -> 'Open Volume Control'): ALSO Aux & Line In !!! Activate the latter via 'Options' -> 'Properties'.

Hopes this helps