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I am trying to use the Simple Multiplex tool to convert a SVCD mpeg to a VCD mpeg. This way I am fooling my DVD player into thinking the Video CD is a VCD but it is actually SVCD quality. My DVD player won't read SVCD. It works great except for one problem. When converting an 800 meg mpg2 file using Simple Multiplex I keep getting an error (326746s packets cause buffer underflow. The Mpeg file might cause error when it player) When this happens it cuts the conversion off at 725 meg. Help!!
Jason
You can't be fooling your player into thinking it's a VCD by running it through the simple multiplex option as VCD.
You would have to burn this as a SVCD using your burning software. Running it through the simple mutiplex option merely changes the header info and doesn't alter the file in anyway, it will still be MPEG2 which is SVCD.
Your player must therefore be able to play SVCD otherwise it wouldn't play at all as there are fundamental differences between MPEG1 and MPEG2 which would prevent it from playing.
Your technique must be the reason your SVCD's don't play and as a quirk you have somehow managed to get your player to accept the file by running it through the VCD option in TMPG.
Please post the specs of the file you are burning and the options you choose in your burning software and the DVD player you have as this has got me interested.
I have a 1.3 gighz AMD Athalon using to 40 gig hds on separate IDEs. 512RAM and Pinnacles DC10Plus capture card using Pinnacles Stuio software.
I have been told that the MJPEG that studio creates in the capture mode can be converted by TMPGEnc by instally the VFAPI. Which I did. I have set Direct Show to a higher priority and still I get an error message in TMPGEnc. What am I doing wrong. They say that the MJPEG is NOT proprietary and others on their website have been able to use it. Otherwise I have to re-encode to their DV encoder and then run through TMPGEnc to make my mpegs. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!! You have no idea how much time I have spent on this. Thanks in advance!
Ktrek
Hi, I am having a little problem with the VCD file after its encoded from .AVI to .MPG with TmpgEnc 2.53. It seems to be happening with every movie that i encode. At some parts of the movie the video will slow down for 2-3 secs then it will speed back up! The audio seems to stay at a constant rate but the video is the part giving me the problems. I'm not sure if its a bug in TMPGEnc 2.53 or not. At first i thought that nero was doing it when it was burning the cd, but when i try to watch the .MPG file on my computer and goto the parts where it slows down at, it does the same thing. Does anyone know how to fix this? Also, does anyone know if there's a program that will scan threw a Divx or VCD file and will make sure that the frame rate is constant threw the entire movie? Any help would be appreciated!
I have this problem all the time with vcd"s but when I tried uping the bitrate and burning it on a slower speed ,the jerkyness seemed to go away a bit ,but it seems to be there all the time , mostly at high motion parts,svcd"s don"t seem to be as bad.....
Do you have this problem viewing Mpeg on your puter or on a finished VCD watching on your standalone player? If it is not on your fininshed VCD, then you could have too many programs running in the background, or maybe you need to defrag. I find that deleting alot of large files creates the need to defrag every couple of days. If you don't turn your computer off ever, you also might just have to reboot before testing MPEG
What i'm saying is that at certain parts of the movie the video will go slow and then speed up. but the process is only like a 2 sec process. then the movie goes back to normal. Its only the video though. the audio stays the same threw out the movie. And when the video goes back to normal it catches back up in exact sync with the audio. It has to be during the encodeing because when i view the mpg file on my computer it has the same lagging at the same parts as the finished vcd that i play in my dvd player. I do decode the audio useing Virtual dub so that the encodeing time will be cut in half. What i'm wondering is if the problem is in TMPGEnc version 2.53 because the encodes that i've done with earlier versions haven't given me this problem.
I have made some vcd's before using tmpg as a tool for converting mpgs to ntsc format and the vcds have so far turned out ok, however, recently i tried converting an avi to an mpg using tmpg, then burning it as a vcd and it doesnt read on my dvd player. I have done this a few times with everything properly set up and there is always a problem with vcd's that were once avi's, can anyone help?
Try different CDs. I bought a lens cleaner and switched to Memorex CD-R. Other CDs did not work in my DVD player. If you download a VCD Player for your computer, the VCD will probably work.
>I have made some vcd's before using tmpg as a tool for converting mpgs to ntsc format and the vcds have so far turned out ok, however, recently i tried converting an avi to an mpg using tmpg, then burning it as a vcd and it doesnt read on my dvd player. I have done this a few times with everything properly set up and there is always a problem with vcd's that were once avi's, can anyone help?
I'm trying to convert a couple m2v files into mpg. The program seems to work fine with the exception that it cuts off the video to about 300 frames. Is there something I'm doing wrong?
Trying to convert an .avi with SVCD (PAL) template and the file is about 750 Mb. The Wizard in TmpGEnc tells me that the mpeg file is to be about 5.7 GB's!!. When I encode other avi's they ended up to 1.2 -1.4 GB's. What can I do to make it smaller? The avi is in 576 x 240 resolution and 23,976 fps.
firstly, try to reduce the res, to 320*240 or 352*288, this will NOT lose quality.
make sure that the motion search estimate is set to the last option (fast)
set vbv buffer to 224 *YES IT WILL PLAY FINE ON ANY DVD PLAYER!!!!!!!!*
once you have loaded a template/went through the wizard, dont encode it straight away, load the unlock.mcf template and then do these settings. Make sure audio is 44100Hz.
in the advanced settings, use th source range filter:
The file size TMPG is quoting must be an error as there is no way that the file is going to be anywhere near that size using the SVCD template.
Either the template is corrupt or you are choosing an incorrect setting or it's a very very long movie and as the original file size is only 750mb I dont think it's this reason.
Another point is, if you reduce the resolution to 320*240, regardless of what Techno states you *WILL* lose some quality. It is natural for this to happen and the other point is that it MAY not play in your DVD player due to the fact the resolution is not standard for SVCD.
What Techno needs to learn is, what may work on his DVD player may not work on another as it certainly wont work on mine. It all depends on the tolerance of your DVD player.
Also the other thing I would point out (and this is definitely *NOT* my advice) is that if your file is going to be 5.7gb then just cut it in half before you burn it and make sure that both parts are under 80mins playing time because according to professor Techno no matter what size your file is, as long as it's under 80 mins it will fit on a CDR!!!!!!!! (laugh if you want)
My advice is, if you want to take the advice of someone who doesn't test his own theories first before giving out shaky advice to other people, would be to test it on a CDRW first.
Oh and one other thing i must correct Mr. Techno Einstein on.
If you change the Motion search precision to fast this will in fact INCREASE the file size slightly. This is due to the fact that the slower method allocates the bitrate better thus producing a smaller file size. If you need evidence of this try it with a 5min test file on both the fasest and slowest method and see which one gives you the smallest file size then make your OWN decision as to which one is best use.
I am trying to convert a DIVX file to MPG in order to create a VCD. When I select the file for the Video, the Audio portion is automatically selected. When I attempt to start the decoding, I get an Error Message that says "An error occurred when audio was decoded". I do not have any file size limitations and it seems to select the same file (.AVI) as the Video, but when I attempt to decode, I get this message. Any hints? Thanks,
Hi there.
I've just finished downloading a 470mb video called CKY3 from WinMX. It said the file name was CKY3.mpg after 3 long weeks of downloading this with my crappy 56k modem I tried to burn it to VCD with Nero, Nero then complained it wasn't a MPEG1 compliant file even though the extension was .mpg. I later found out that it was an AVI file which led me to this program in hope of converting it to this MPEG1 compliant VCD file.
How the hell do I do this using TMPGEnc???
Hi,
After downloading *.avi files or converting home vhs movies to *.avi to my hard drive, I get "Illegal stream format" errors when I try to convert to MPG-1 using
TMPGenc. Ultimately, these are to be burned to vcd using Nero. This has worked when the downloaded file was originally in *.mpg. What am I missing or doing wrong?
TIA for your help!
fiddler51
I want to use the information of the first pass cause i don't want to spend 3hours more
¿its possible to use the information of the first pass (like log or sbs stats in divx) and get up (or get down) the quality in the second pass (and only reencode the second pass?
Are you saying you would like to use the information created in the first pass for ALL your movies?
If so, what would be the point in that.
The first pass is to set the bitrate for each particular scene in a movie and refers *ONLY* to that movie.
It would be totally pointless to use it for any other movie because the bitrate settings wouldn't refer to the scenes in that movie.
No, I am saying to use the information of the first pass to reencode the second one if were needed.
If I encode one film and it's too big to get into a cd i could reencode in worst quality but i don't need to extract the information of the first pass cause i have do it yet, I only need to make the second pass in worst quality to smaller filesize.
Hi i tried with the new version of tmpgenc to make a dvd format mpeg2, dvdit pe doesn't accept it. However when i did the same thing with version 2.01 it worked fine.