Hi there!

I made a VCD for a friend this week. He wanted to see a homemade flick (old school stuff) on his RCA RC5240P DVD player.

Now the resulting MPEG file works just GREAT on my PC but on the DVD player the video sometimes looses sync with the audio; when this happens the player plays the video too fast and the audio has a 1-2 second delay. This obviously turned the flick into a coaster :(

The sync problem is further aggravated by fast-forwarding the flick.

I used TMPG 2.53, my source is in DIVX3.11 in 23.976fps and I my audio is an uncompressed WAV file. The resulting MPEG-1 (NTSC-FILM 352x240) was written to VCD by Nero 5.5.6.4. All parameters are untouched in TMPEG.

Now I will try to deactivate "Detect Scene Change" but I'm wondering if this is going to help.

If anyone has any experience with this type of problem, I would appreciate your feedback :) My impression is that the RCA team implemented a very *strict* version of MPEG-1 into their decoder.

Try decompressing the audio first ... prior to encoding with TMPGenc.
You can do this with Virtual Dub (see tools section at http://vcdhelp.com)

or use avi2vcd decompress prog ...

http://www.mnsi.net/~jschlic1

Hi!
Ive got a problem(Ithink)
The error: When converting to VCD format the preview screen is just black.
Well hope somone can give me a hint!?

Best regards
Thomas

Open options environment then vfapi plugins make directshow the highest priority on the list.. or uncheck all avi codecs other than directshow

That was the tip of the week!

it works! But how did you make it top of the list???

Yes, definitely the best tip around! Thanks lots!

Hey all,

I am having a very annoying issue when i encode a divx5 avi file to mpeg2 for DVD.
The video and audio or of excellent quality.. but as the movie progresses the video and audio become more and more out of synch. after about an hour of watching you can actually see the lips move about 4 seconds before you hear the voice. The movie Im trying to re-encode is divx5 and has encoded mp3 audio and the filmspeed is at 24 fps. Ive tried encoding it at standard 29.97, then 3:2 pulldown then inverse telecline.. None worked.. similar or worse results in each.

If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

try extractng the audio as wav using virtualdub.

See what happens.

I don't think TMPGENC is compatable with DIVX 5 yet.

Techno

I am getting really weird stuff from 2.53. I went back to 2.51 and everything seems fine. Weird stuff like very grainy picutre, pixelization, jerky movement in pans, and interlaced frames appearing where there are none in the source vobs.

Anyone else seen some of these things in the latest version?

mGuru

Yep, tons of probs,

email me for some filters, it should work with them. I will give u the filters when u email me.

Techno

Ive had a great deal of probs lately 2.53. It says that it cant write to C: drive randomly (actually about every 7 seconds) and i have to put something on top of the ESC button to keep it going and not stop encoding. A big let down. 2.51 was the best for me. Worked every time!

If it can't write to drive C: (blue screen) then ur hdd is faulty m8! :)

Still if u want the filter then email me and I shall send it to u ASAP

Techno

Can I split an mpeg movie to 2 files? If so how?

Yes
use TMPEGEnc
select File>Mpeg Tools
then select the Merge and Cut tab
change the Type to Mpeg1(Video CD)
select Add to add your movie
Browse to select your file name and destination
then highlight the movie and select Edit
Move the slide bar to about 1:17 for your first CD, Hit the "]" for the end
hit Run
do the same for the second CD, I usally go back 5secondsfrom the end of the first part for the start of the second CD

what is ""can not run P3Package.dll""

Download the newer version or download the same version and replace TMPGENC, this should solve the probs

Techno

There are two work around that work for me: 1) use version 2.51--search google.com for TMPGENc 2.5-- or 2) uncheck Enable MMX-2 and Enable SSE in version 2.53. Probably best to use solution 1.
I am using Athlon 1800+ and Win2K Pro.
Regards

TMPGEnc is recognizing .d2v files and shows as an option for file types, but it still won't open the one I've created in DVD2AVI. Is there something I'm missing?

the Dv2 files have to be in same folder as the vob files you ripped from CD

Hi, I got same problem. It can't recognize .d2v from dvd2avi. any suggestion?

Copy this file 'DVD2AVI.vfp' from your DVD2AVI folder into your TMPG folder. It should solve your problem.

I am getting the same problem on my laptop computer, but don't get the error on my desktop pc. I have checked the vfpi file, and it is there and fine. I am using dvd2avi.
Any help would be appreciated!

SYH

Had the same Problem.

Copy the 'DVD2AVI.vfp' in the tmpgenc directory AND in your DVD2AVI-directory. Start DVD2AVI and close DVD2AVI. Then Tmpgenc should recognise d2v-projects.

So it works for me.

I must be really dense! The .vfp file is already in the dvd2avi folder, so the file "dvd2avi.vfp" is in both these locations. TMPGENC still does not recognize the dv2 files. Is there something that I am doing wrong? It works fine, with no fine tuning on my desktop pc, which is leaving me completly baffled!!!

SYH

OK try this. In TMPG goto Option>Enviromental setting and click the VFAPI plug-in tab and make sure the DVDV2AVI file reader is ticked. If it is untick all the others except the above mentioned and the Directshow multimedia file reader.
Also check out a previous post below.

I have been reading through this forum and time and time again there are people having problems with opening .d2v files in TMPG.
The reason is usually down to some silly mistakes which I'll list below.

Problem1. Keep getting 'Can not open or unsupported file' error.

If you haven't got DVD2AVI on your system and you haven't run it then you wont have it's codec installed on your system for TMPG to use. To check, open TMPG and goto OPTION>ENVIROMENTAL SETTING and click the VFAPI PLUG-IN tab.
Here you should have a list of installed codecs. One of them should be the DVD2AVI PROJECT FILE READER and it should be ticked. If you haven't then you haven't got the codec installed.

Remedy: Download the program and run it at least once. This will register the codec with windows which TMPG should recognize and then be able to use.
Also make sure you have registered the VFAPI plug-in for TMPGEnc project files
which you have to download seperately from TMPG.
After downloading, unzip to same folder as TMPGEnc.exe is stored, then run "TMPGEncVFP_Install.bat".

Problem 2: It says under the VFAPI plug-in tab in Enviromental setting that DVD2AVI project file reader is installed.
If you have run DVD2AVI then this will have registered the codec with windows, this codec stays in the directory of DVD2AVI and doesn't get copied to the windows system folder, so if you move the folder containing DVD2AVI you will also be moving the codec.
Since the path to the codec has been registered with windows, if you move it TMPG will no longer be able to find it and thus won't be able to use it to open your .d2v project file.

Remedy: Find DVD2AVI from where ever you have moved it to and run it for a few seconds. This will re-register the codec with windows and TMPG should be able to find it and use it.

Problem 3. I have deleted or moved my vob files, but I still have my .d2v project file and it won't open in TMPG.
Once the .d2v project file has been created you CANNOT move or delete IT or the VOB files you used to create it.
Once created the .d2v project file contains the path to the VOBS. If you move either the .d2v or the VOBS the path in the .d2v file is no longer valid.

Remedy: Don't move or delete either the .d2v project file or the VOBS until you have finished encoding with them.

Note: If you download the latest version of Smartripper ( version 2.41), which in my opinion is the best ripper by far, it will automatically create a .d2v project file when it rips the VOBS off the DVD which you can then use with TMPG, but remember you must still have the actual DVD2AVI program on your system.

I hope this helps some people out. Let me know if it does.

ASHY

If I use VCDImager, I can see that the scan data offsets are broken when I used TMPGenc. If this is a bug, could you please repair it?

Jens

I just created my first SVCD using TMPGGENC. I think the quality is great and it took it acout 8.5 hours to encode. It plays just fine in my APEX AD-1100w DVD player but I cannot fastforward, rewind, seek, or any of that. Is there a setting that I missed or can you tell me what I need to do different to get that feature to work. I have other VCDs that I can do that with. Thanks for your help.

MoVieBoY

Im having the exact same`problem with my Apex 660, vcds play fine but SVCS dont, when i press FF>> the movie skips, also the mpeg-2 files were made with bbmpeg and TMPGENC, and when i try to open a mpeg2 file made with tmpgenc using bbmpg i get an error and it closes the program. But mpeg-1 files are ok; by the way, my Apex 660 can handle bitrates as high as 6000 kb/sec xvcd.

I just created my first SVCD using TMPGGENC. I think the quality is great and it took it acout 8.5 hours to encode. It plays just fine in my APEX AD-1100w DVD player but I cannot fastforward, rewind, seek, or any of that. Is there a setting that I missed or can you tell me what I need to do different to get that feature to work. I have other VCDs that I can do that with. Thanks for your help.

MoVieBoY

What settings did u use? This should not happen

Techno

Did you burn it as a SVCD? Their is a difference in making it a SVCD compliant format (movie settings) And actually burning it as a SVCD Disk. If I don't burn it as a SVCD disk instead I burn it as a file I have the same problem. My player Mintek 2110 plays MPG1&2 files saved as files. So just use Nero or another program campable of burning it as a SVCD Disk once your done making with TMPGenc. Check out http://www.dvdripguides.com/dvdmenu.html they have great info. Tmpgenc Rocks and soon DVD players will be able to play Divx I hope. ~NewtronX

Thanks guys. I think I found the problem. I will try NewtronX's suggestion and use Nero to burn as a SVCD. I just burned as a file. Thanks again. You guys rox!!!!!

MoVieBoY

Hi folks,
I have been reading lots of email about SVCD from this bulletinboard.
But I don't what the advantage is to using SVCD instead of VCD. Is it
faster, can it play on your tv/dvd, is the quality better? I would love
to learn how to use this if it will be better all around. Any help?

Thanks!!!

It is better quality but takes a lot of CD's

Techno

I'm using tmpgenc 2.52
When I try to convert pva files with 720x576 resolution,
the program terminates after a few seconds.

Converting other files with 480x576 works fine,
(with exact the same adjustments).

Any ideas?

Thank's,

Ray

Yeh, I noticed that today with myself.

r u trying to encode into MPEG 2?

Have tried VCD(pal) and SVCD(pal) profiles from TEMPEnc,
same problem on both.

ciao,

Ray

I am trying to cut a mpg into chunks to fir on a VCD. Each time I try to Edit the file (under the Merge and Cut section) I get a msg saying Not Responding.
I am running XP (I tried under W2k and my PC Blue Screened !!)

Any clues?

Apologies if this doesn't help but I use W98 and when I cut files it does pause a while between seeking audio and video and streaming the file (approx 3 mins or so).

If I do a CTRL ALT DEL and look at task manager it says TMPGenc is not responding ... it is running though .... so maybe you need to give it more time