I just purchased TMPGEnc and am trying to record a dvd. In the project wizard, I don't know what video or audio source files to select, so I can convert them to MPEG format. When I click the browse button and the OPEN window appears, under FILES OF TYPE it automatically looks under COMPRESSIBLE VIDEO(or audio)SOURCE(*.avi,*.bmp,*.ppm,*.tga,*.ipg,*.ipeg,*.qt,*.mov,*.asf). Unfortunately, none of those types of files show up on the dvd. If I select ALL FILES @ the bottom of the FILES OF TYPE dropdown menu more files appear, but I don't know which ones to choose. And when I select a file to open I think shows promise, I get a ...CANNOT OPEN, OR UNSUPPORTED error message. Any help will keep me from pulling my hair out, thanks!

you need to go to "vcd help.com"to figure out how to do it,cuz it seems you have no idea what you are doing,you cant just stick a dvd in your drive and run "tmpgenc" and at the end have another dvd movie,It doesn"t work that way,there are at least two other programs needed between putting your dvd in your drive and useing "tmpgenc".you have to "rip" your dvd to vob.files first,then you have to make a d2v file and a wav. file and then you can think about useing "tmpgenc".....go to www.vcdhelp.com and there are dvd ripping guides there that will help you do what you want,it isn"t as easy as it seems..

no no no no, never ever encode a DVD in TMPGENC!!! THIS IS WRONG!! read a few posts down from here, ASHY replied.

if MPEG2 files cannot open, download my filters

Techno

i get an error: "could not obtain the length of the movie with directshow" when cutting mpeg2

also wmplayer won't fast forward the mpg. (it will with m2v b4 multiplex)
what's wrong with my direct show filter settings?
all play fine with PowerDVD and WinDVD.

movies played fine b4 reinstall winXP, and i was able to split and fwd; on the new os installation something screwed up.

appreciate suggestions
DanK

I have a few divx 5.0 encoded files I would like to convert to VCDs.

With the divx 5.0 codec installed Tmpgenc recognizes the video portion
but not the audio portion.

If I remove the divx 5.0 codec and install the divx 4.12 codec then
Tmpgenc recognizes the audio portion but not the video portion.

Is there a way around this problem that will allow me to create VCDs
from divx 5.0 encoded files?

Also is it possible (and are there any plans) to allow Tmpgenc to handle
divx 5.0 encoded files in the future?

Thank!

No u cannot convert DIVX 5 to VCD/SVCD because of compatability probs.
personally, DIVX 4 and 5 sux, stick to 3.11alpha if possible.

Techno

Techno is right the new divx sux,but what you can try is to re-encode your divx5 files to a different avi. format with virtua dub......

Can you please explain how to do this in virtual dub,,I have the program but am not sure the steps to take in order to convert an avi/divx file to an avi file so I can convert back to MPEG2...The Virtual Dub program is a little confusing to me as there is no instructin manual to read( or I can't find it if there is)...I need to convert an avi(divx) file from that format to avi so I can use TMPGEnc to make an MPEG2 file

Hi there.

This is my link to the MPEG2 filters. The filters are only to open ANY MPEG2 file in TMPGENC if it does not open it:

www.os1.150m.com/tmpgenc/filters/mpeg2/vob_filters_104.zip

Uninstall ALL DVD software
install this
all should be well.

If not, please email me and I will email u ASAP.

I am currently testing new set of filters and will post up the result.

Thanks

Techno

I have a 1.2 ghz computer with 786 MB ram.
I am trying to convert a roughly 2.5 hr movie to ntsc format, using the Normal setting. I've closed all other applications. It says it will take about 17 hrs to convert. Should it take this long?

Jaysus. It should take about 5 hours or less on your system, but it depends on the file your encoding. i'e original resolution whether it's Mpeg 1 or 2 or AVI.
Check to make sure you're not doing two pass encoding and change the Motion search precision to Normal.

Ashy.

normal or motion search estimate. If it is a DIVX file, make sure u use the source range filter.

goto beginning and hit start frame, goto end and hit last frame then click ok and encode

Techno

Ashy, it's an avi, and I've got the motion search precision set to Normal. I can't find where to check if I'm doing 2-pass encoding. Oh - is it the Rate Control Mode? That is set to Constant bitrate.

Techno, what do you mean by "goto beginning and hit start frame, goto end and hit last frame"? Where do I do that?


thanks for the help!

(forgive me if this shows up twice -- I don't know how I'm doing that.)

What I mean is in the settings.

load TMPGENC and avi, goto settings button and then in the advanced tab, double click on the source range tab.

The at the beginning of the movie, hit the start frame and move the position to the end and hit the last frame button then click ok and encode. encode using the motion search estimate fast.

Techno

Ok, I figured out what Techno meant about start frame and end frame (had to double-click on the source range filter to get there).

I did that, and it still says it will take 17 hrs to convert.

Here's everything I know and everything I have set:

It's a 702 Mb avi file
I used the SVCD NTSC template
I've installed divx 4.12
I'm not using toolame, because I got an error message.

I've unchecked everything under the CPU tab, because I was getting an error message and I read in another post that this would solve it.

Priorities for the VFAPI Plug-ins are as follows:
AVI VFW compatiblity Reader: 3
AVI2(OpenDML) File Reader: 3
BMP/PPM/TGA/JPG File Reader: 0
Wave File Reader: 0
DirectShow Multimeadia File Reader: -1

I have Source Range filter checked and did the start frame and end frame thing.
For Video arrange Method, I have "No Margin (keep aspect ratio)"

What have I done wrong??

What I mean is in the settings.

load TMPGENC and avi, goto settings button and then in the advanced tab, double click on the source range tab.

The at the beginning of the movie, hit the start frame and move the position to the end and hit the last frame button then click ok and encode. encode using the motion search estimate fast.

Techno

Ok, I figured out what Techno meant about start frame and end frame (had to double-click on the source range filter to get there).

I did that, and it still says it will take 17 hrs to convert.

Here's everything I know and everything I have set:

It's a 702 Mb avi file
I used the SVCD NTSC template
I've installed divx 4.12
I'm not using toolame, because I got an error message.

I've unchecked everything under the CPU tab, because I was getting an error message and I read in another post that this would solve it.

Priorities for the VFAPI Plug-ins are as follows:
AVI VFW compatiblity Reader: 3
AVI2(OpenDML) File Reader: 3
BMP/PPM/TGA/JPG File Reader: 0
Wave File Reader: 0
DirectShow Multimeadia File Reader: -1

I have Source Range filter checked and did the start frame and end frame thing.
For Video arrange Method, I have "No Margin (keep aspect ratio)"

What have I done wrong??

ok, increase the directshow filter

put it on motion search estimate fast.

are u using any other filters in the advanced settings?

set it to full screen (no margin)

Thanks

Techno

ok, increase the directshow filter

put it on motion search estimate fast.

are u using any other filters in the advanced settings?

set it to full screen (no margin)

Thanks

Techno

Ok, I've increased the priority on the Directshow thing to 3.

It's on motion search estimate fast. (will this degrade the quality?)

No other filters are set.

I set it to full screen (keep aspect ratio). (is that what you meant?)

Now it says it will take 11 hours -- that's better than 17, but still seems slow. (and the estimate keeps creeping up.)

well, it should be faster, no it will not degrade the quality (maybe 5% max, but un-noticable)

Well, this is al we can do, quit some background apps, and try to get a faster PC!

But this is all we can do I am afraid.

Techno

Ok, I've increased the priority on the Directshow thing to 3.

It's on motion search estimate fast. (will this degrade the quality?)

No other filters are set.

I set it to full screen (keep aspect ratio). (is that what you meant?)

Now it says it will take 11 hours -- that's better than 17, but still seems slow. (and the estimate keeps creeping up.)

well on my cpu which is a 800mhz it takes 14 hours to do a 1 1/2 hour movie in mpeg1,....seems a little long but what can you do ? buy a new cpu..

Yeh, I got a PIII 800EB with the fastest motherboard on the planet, ASUS CUSL2 with the Intel i815E chipset.

everything's bus speed is 133MHz so it takes me 4 hours to convert a 1 and a half hour move.

Techno

I am trying to use toolame as a layer 2 external audio encoder, but I get the message that it can't be used as an external coder. What am I doing wrong? I downloaded the toolame that someone pointed to in another post, and I renamed the .exe to toolame.exe.

It's the wrong binary.
Try this one and you don't need to rename it.
http://www.macdvd.org/trnsz/Compiles/TooLAME-0.2i-Win32.zip

ASHY

I get the same message with that binary.

Have you actually downloaded this particular binary. They are not all the same and it works no prob on my system. If it still doesn't work make sure you have the latest TMPGenc.

Ashy

I get the same message with that binary.

Oops, don't know how I happened to post the same message twice.
Yes, I've downloaded the binary. I'm using tmpgnc v 2.53.35.130.

Oops, don't know how I happened to post the same message twice.
Yes, I've downloaded the binary. I'm using tmpgnc v 2.53.35.130.

Part1

*** This post is people having problems when converting Movies from one framerate to another e.g
29.97fps to 25fps which is causing the resulting movie to have jerky playback. ***

Instructions:

First we are going to need some software.

1. Virtualdub: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/virtualdub/VirtualDub-1_4_9.zip

2. Cooledit 2000: ftp://207.109.248.242/disks/cooledit/ce2kmain.exe

3. Aviframerate changer: http://www.divx-digest.tv/software/edit/avifrate101.zip

Step 1.

The first step is to install all the above software then the next thing is to start with your original AVI if you have one. If not then we are going to have to use either the MPEG file we want to convert that doesn't jerk or the MPEG file that we have already converted that does jerk.
I will outline all three methods below.

Step2.

First method:

**Starting off with a jerky MPEG which has already been converted.**

What we need to do is convert this MPEG back to it's original framerate to remove the choppy playback using TMPGenc.
Load one of the VCD templates either PAL or NTSC depending on your T.V. system.

Now click load again and this time choose the template which says Unlock.mcf
Load your MPEG and under 'Stream type' click Video only.
Click setting and under the Video tab change the framerate to what the original movie was. So if the movie you have encoded is 23.976fps and the original was 25fps then change the framerate to 25fps. Leave the size as it is, it should be the same as the source. Under rate control choose CBR at 4000kbps. (The reason for this is to preserve quality so make sure you have plenty of hard drive space).

Under the advanced tab choose the 'Source aspect ratio' either 4:3 625 line PAL or 4:3 525 line NTSC depending on you source movie.
Choose your output and we are ready to encode.
When TMPGenc has finished check the movie to ensure it plays smoothly again. If it's ok it then Goto STEP 3.

Second Method:
** Starting with an MPEG movie which doesn't have choppy playback **
Goto STEP 3.

Third method:
** Starting off with an AVI **
Goto Step 3

STEP 3.
Once we have our MPEG or AVI which doesn't jerk then we can begin to change the framerate of the movie.

Start up Virtualdub, click File and open your MPEG or AVI you created from the SECOND or Third method. In Virtualdub click File then click 'Save wav' and choose where you want to save then click save.

Next click Video and choose 'Frame Rate' and change the frame rate to the one you want to convert to i.e 25fps.
Now click 'Edit' and click 'end' from the menu.
Note what it says in the timescale box as the length of the movie exactly.
Now calculate what the total time is in seconds. For example 1:20:02.360 would be 4802.360 secs, write this down. Close virtualdub.

The next steps are continued in another post as this post was so long it wouldn't allow it so I had to split it.
Cont...

Thanks for ur time ASH! Greatly appreciated

Techno

when i encode a movie to SVCD with aspect ratio "16:9 Display" and play it in my standalone dvd-player the picture is shaking!
what have i done wrong?
something with pal and ntsc(film)?
the movie have a framerate of 23.97. and that's ntcsfilm, right?

thanks
matte

Hello.
please, follow the next test.

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/articles/tmpgenc_test.html

It's true?.

Thanks for that.

Everyone has their own way of encoding, like my self, somethings work out better for us, somethings don't. It just depends on your source.

Thanks anyway

Techno

Hi.

Im having problems with CCE SP v2.50 since I think I must use it in order to convert VOB files to other format. Read that on a DVD info page that had extencive information on CCE SP v2.50 but the thing is this.

Do I need any other software installed with CCE SP because it craches on me when I want to edit som Bitrate setting on selecting 2 pass VBR and apart from that when I try to encode a file I get a strage error.

Anyone here experienced with CCE SP ?

Regards Dennis.

P.S. Is CCE SP better on encoding to SVCD ? the quality I mean, because the speed issue I don't care about.

don't process audio with cce, use mpeg tools in tmpg to multiplex mp2 file with your m2v (mpv).
use MS GraphEdit to get sound on wav. convert to 44khz, encode to mp2, you get the idea.
the best guides for converting to svcd are www.doom9.org

not sure which is better mathematically, cce looks great i think, not to mention 2.5SP supports avs scripst, so multipass is bearable encoding time (faster than realtime per pass..i know you don't care)

Oki. Hmm well It seems there is another problem all together.

I have a K6-3 450mhz cpu and I think that's why the program is found of craching on my system. I have studied the different guides and encode to test to see what results you get. And It seems to me that for the best SVCD stuff you want to do a 5-pass VBR with CinemaCraft Encoder.

I have read that only v2.50 is able to read DVD2.AVI projekt stuff converted with vfapi proggy. If that is so, then I can't use the later one 2.64 something... a shame since I wan't to use 5-pass vbr and stuff :(

Thanks anyway for the info !

Oki. Hmm well It seems there is another problem all together.

I have a K6-3 450mhz cpu and I think that's why the program is found of craching on my system. I have studied the different guides and encode to test to see what results you get. And It seems to me that for the best SVCD stuff you want to do a 5-pass VBR with CinemaCraft Encoder.

I have read that only v2.50 is able to read DVD2.AVI projekt stuff converted with vfapi proggy. If that is so, then I can't use the later one 2.64 something... a shame since I wan't to use 5-pass vbr and stuff :(

Thanks anyway for the info !

I have 2.64 and it reads vfapi ,it takes a little longer than normal.......

I am getting audio but no video -- I read other posts that this may because I can't use divx 5.0. Where do I get an earlier version of divx? The divx site only has 5.0.

http://pkl.net/~hussein/tools/DivX412Codec.exe

or the nemo codec pack hat a couple divx versions....

When converting some DVD's (.vob) to SVCD (.mpg) I get the wrong sound file.

When I play the .vob file it plays the right sound after encoding it doesn't.

Instead of having the correct movie sound, I get a documentary on how the film was made.

I'm guessing the .vob file contains two soundtracks, one the doco on how the film was made and the other the proper movie sound.

Is there a way of getting TMPGEnc to use the right sound? or is there a way of altering the .vob file itself so TMPGEnc will use the right sound?


I'm using TMPGEnc-2.53.35.130 It's fast and good quality, the wizard kicks butt.

My main concern is mentioned above, I've also found that on some DVD's, there is one or two .vob files which TMPGEnc can't encode any tips would be greatly appreciated.

U might have been using the wrong audio or the track contains 2 tracks.

Try to find the correct audio or you can "rip" the audio using 3rd part software

Techno

Don't tell me you are using TMPG to encode directly from vobs right.
Wrong. This is not the way to do it. Not only is it the wrong way, it is also the slowest method.
You should be using the DVD2AVI method and creating project files. This will greatly improve the speed, usually 3 times faster.
It will also rip the correct audio track from the DVD.

If you need info on this check out www.vcdhelp.com

that is correct ASHY, I did not want to say that incase if people thought "oh look, it's MR know it all"

Thanks

Techno

I wouldn't normally say it like that Techno, but some peoples methods are insane and it keeps coming up over and over again.
I don't think your a 'Know it all' Techno just a 'Know a lot' like me. He hee only jokin'

ASHY

Much Obliged. Works great.

If you two know so much, here's one for ya.

I've got a french movie, which has an english or french soundtrack. I could use the english soundtrack, but it lacks authenticity.

I want to use the french sound with english subtitles.

So I need to know the number setting in TMPGENC for the french language and how you get english subtitles to be displayed.

As you've probally guessed I'm a beginner.

Thanks.