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So I'm doing the TMPGEnc Batch Encode thing. Two cds worth of a dvd. It encoded the first one in 1.5 hours. The second in 25 minutes. As I expected. Then, it deletes the first one, and proceeds to encode same set again. I figured I had not set something right, and let it go thru a second cycle. But, at the end of the second, it proceeded to overwrite again.
How do I get it to encode once, and stop there? I clicked on "Shut down with finish encoding".
When makeing your project files you have to name each file differently, that is your mpeg output file ,not your project file ,name them like: name#1.mpg and then :name#2.mpeg,you can name your project files(.tpr)to anything you want but you have to name the output mpeg files differently,cuz you can"t have two files of the same name in the same directory or file.......
When I look in Windows Explorer at the directory I'm saving to, the names are in the format you suggested: name#_vcd1 & name#_vcd2. Same for in the batch log. I'll go back thru and really look at project names, again though.
I appreciate your feedback. Keep up the good work!
Well that is your problem because you shouldn"t see the the file names #1 #2 and so on till after you encode them,I know exactly what you are doing because I have done it myself more than once,what you have to do is make new project files because the ones you have from earlier have the wrong ouput directory.What you do is load your file in then your template do your settings then before you save project go to the bottom of the screen to the "output file name" and make your file name#1, then go and save project.then repeat the step but put in name#2 in the "output file name",and so on, I actually made the same mistake the other day......
My standalone will not play svcd, I want to convert an svcd I have to vcd and when I try using the mpeg tools-->simple multiplex, after it converts and I try to play it...the sound plays but the video does not. I have tried splitting the files into *.mp2 and *.m2v w/ tmpgenc and *.d2v with dvd2avi, but tmpgenc will not load either of the video files, it says the format is not supported. I downloaded the VFAPI plugin and installed it also, but that did not help. I also need to convert it from PAL to NTSC, but tpmgenc will not load the video files so that I can do this. Any help would be appreciated
My standalone is not compatable with svcd's...only vcd's. I need to convert the svcd i have to ntsc and vcd. But I can not load m2v or d2v files in tmpgenc, any help would be be appreciated.
I am not 100% sure I understand you but after multiplexing the film when you try to watch it (ON YOUR PC) you only hear the audio? That is how it will be when you try it on a pc. If you burn it and play it on your standalone it wil work. I have seen this everytime I do this. I think the PC players get confused by the vcd headers on the SVCD.
I have TMPGEnc and I have a AVI movie i need converted to MPEG I enter in the video source/audio source and output. Stream type is System(video+audio) I use all other default settings i hit start and then it runs its course and the video is fine but there is no sound... Any idea why this happends? or how i can get the sound to work ? I picked system audio+sound.. Do i have to put them together after i do that or should the file work straight off conversion? please help email me if you post @ aolshock@bellsouth.net
If there is a VfW codec installed for your AVI file, then you can open it in VirtualDub and pass it to TMPGEnc using the frameserver. Works like a charm for about every AVI file and you can finally set the range exactly to the frame. If TMPGEnc or any other program wants an AVI extension, well just save the frameserver file with the extension .AVI.
You can use "tmpgenc" as a frame server to,my technique (which I learned partly from Ashy)for makeing exelent dvd to svcd rips,I don"t use "tmpgenc" to encode but I use it as a frame server for "cinemacraft encoder 2.62".CCE has much higher quality mpeg2 and much quicker but has no features at all,I mean none which makes it practicly useless for svcd,so here"s my solution: I rip my dvd with smartripper and use dvd2avi to make project files but I make 2 or 3 from a movie,these are the parts of the movie I will burn to cd, this is so I don"t have to cut them after encodeing,so after this i got say 2 d2v files and 2 wav files for the 2 halves of the movie,then I go to "tmpgenc" and load the first d2v file in but not the audio,I set the setting as if I were to encode with "tmpgenc" but make a ".tpr"project file instead,then I load that into the "vfapi converter"(you can get it from vcdhelp.com) this makes a psudo avi file with all the info from your dvd movie but resized,then i encode that with my wav file with "cinemacraft".but your new mpeg file isn"t svcd compliant cuz it has no "svcd headers" so I use the "mpeg tools" "merge & cut" and just run it through with out editing it, just makeing a copy of it ,but the new copy has all the svcd headers and can then be burned to cd...I know it seems like a long way to do it but it only takes me 2 hours to do 1 hour of movie......just another cool thing about "Tmpgenc"
Quality? Cinecraft? Correct me, but the last time I tried Cinecraft it was REALLY FAST and the MPEG2s looked REALLY CRAPPY. But maybe this has really changed ... but I don't think the quality is better then TMPG... becaus analysis needs time, no matter what encoder you use. Maybe I'm wrong... next time I'm running out of time I will try your way =)
The way I do it all the filters and settings from tmpgenc get transfered to "cinemacraft" through the vfapi,this is the only way i can use "cce" cuz the only thing good about it is the speed and quality,I think maybe you tried the old 2.25 or 2.50,the version I got is really nice quality ,but with out "tmpgenc" it is pretty useless to me.......
The settings were not a problem with CCE, it was just that the whole video would look blocky, eventhough it was fine in TMPG using the same bitrate... But one thing I don't get is why you use TMPGEnc as a frameserver and not directly VirtualDub... except for a good frame rate managemant everything is in there... well, I guess I just answered the question myself. Still it doesn't matter for me as my DVD player strangely enough accepts any framerate TMPG has to offer in every resolution (tested from 128x96 to 720x576)
i still use cce 2.5 and yes i changed the crc check so no probs with nt's and i changed the encoding matrix it uses... so i use the same encoding matrix as TMPGEnc (actually this matrix is the same as cce 2.6x) and use at least 5 pass to have better output that TMPGEnc 2 pass... and no i dont use the tmpgenc project... just learn to use avisynth and u'll se its the best editing/frameserving ustility ever made :)
CCe is fast... but it sucks when it comes to 1 pass quality... only 3 or more passes will give u high quality.
On my Sony DVD player it is not possible to play SVCD, but intereresting enough, you can compress a video to MPEG 2, then Multiplex to VideoCD using the TMPG MPEG Tools and finally write it using WinOnCD 5. Does it work for other DVD Players too?
It certainly works on the two machines I have tested it with. (A Sony and a Technics.) However, I did have to up the minimum bitrate to 650 (VBR CQ) to eliminate a few jerks. (Burnt with Nero.)
ok i managed to make a xsvcd file but ...
when burnig it to cd, nero lockes up, what is the problem ?
and yes i did set it to non standard compliant cd
Could someone please a list of command line parameters for TMPG? The classic "/?" switch does not work and, to be honest, I just don't want to do try and error. However, there have to be some kind of command line switches, since TMPG returns an error if you just pass two filenames to it, but I just can't find a list in the FAQ.
I'm pretty sure it is avaiable, I just don't know how to handle it... when I pass an AVI file to TMPG in the command line I get an illegal stream error. I mean sure, it's just an error, but it's mere existenece already tells us TMPG has command line support.
I downloaded and extraxcted the files. When I open the program, there are no letters or pictures or anything. Just blank boxes that don't do anything when I click them. When I first entered the site, I had to put in my WinXP installation disk to download fonts to view the site and I got an error telling me it couldn't find one file and skipped it to continue installing fonts. HELP!
Just use Mozilla and forget about Internet Explorer. Version 1.0RC1 is rock-solid and it displays about any language perfectly right, including Japanese, as in case of TMPG. About your problem in TMPG: Try setting your Win installation to English(US). Just an idea, maybe it works. I've got WinXP US Pro OEM installed and TMPGEnc works great!
I had the boxes in mind... coz windows shows them if there is no char with that ANSI code. Asuming he has a win installation with some sort of latin installed, this would mean TMPGEnc somehow switched to japanese, which his system is not capable of showing.
About selecting another language:
The menu at the top should contain three groups of boxes. When English is chosen they read:
File Option Help
choose the boxes in the middle(Option)
Now a menu like this pops up, you will see only boxes but that's all right
Just choose the second line (Language) then, in the menu that pops up, choose the line in the middle. This will set TMPGEnc to English(US) and let you see the menues properly (after restarting TMPG).
>Just use Mozilla and forget about Internet Explorer. Version 1.0RC1 is rock-solid and it displays about any language perfectly right, including Japanese, as in case of TMPG. About your problem in TMPG: Try setting your Win installation to English(US). Just an idea, maybe it works. I've got WinXP US Pro OEM installed and TMPGEnc works great!
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>Greetings from Germany
>Hans Schmucker
What is Mozilla and how do I use it? I went to the website and there were no download links. Help!!
Is wmv1 compression supported in TMPGEnc? I cannot open the avi file with an error message indicating the format is not supported. I also tried changing the VFAPI setting but to no avail. Any suggestions and ideas. Thanks.
Wmv isn"t really supported,there has been some success with wmv of you re-name it to asf,or you can encode the wmv to avi with asf tools....but I have no idea why you are getting the "can not open" error, try raising the "avi compatibility reader" or the "open dml file reader" but this only seems to work with dv files......make sure you have the right codecs....
Maybe you want to get a VirtualDub version 1.3 or earlier. This way you can save an ASF to AVI without recompressing it. Maybe it works for WMV to. Just an idea...
I have loaded into the main window of TMPG an MPEG2 formatted movie made from Pinnacle Studio 7 software. When I go to preview the file I get no sound. The movie contains both the video and audio source. What am I missing?
Does Pinacle produce MPEG2 files with AVI header? In case it does... use virtual dub. In case it doesn't... use the TMPG's Demultiplexer for extracting the audio from the mpg file (File/MPEG Tools/De-muliplexer) and look what you get, if you post it then we just might be able to help.
Hi, another newie here, having great difficulty, even getting started with TMPGE,trying to convert a movie avi file only to recieve a "cannot open or unsupported" error message, yet it will manage the audio fine? Help.
Go to your "enviromental settings" then to "vfapi plugins" and raise your "direct show" to "2" and lower every thing elce to "0".this should get it to work....
I am trying to convert some of my videos to vcd.
Saving private ryan is Damn long.
I have been trying to encode the second part which is about a 6 gig capture.
total time is 91 minutes 3 secs.
I am trying to fit it onto an 80 minute cd.
I have succesfully used TMPGEnc to calc the first part perfectly.
It was 1 hour 20 minutes long and it came out to exactly fit on an
80 minute cd
but the second part keeps coming out to be 908 megabytes(952,000 kbs)
cbr @ 982 was what I was trying.
What did I change or am doing wrong now.
Please help I have encoded this thing about twice now lowering the bit rate
It takes 4 and half hours to encode this!help
Why are you so eager to fit so much on a cd,the quality will be total crap,any movie with more than 80minutes of vcd on one cd will be really bad quality, come on cd"s are like 50 cents each I think you can come up with some pocket change for the extra cd,If you want a good quality vcd dont have the bitrate lower than 1150kbs,I dont go lower than 1650kbs and with that bitrate I get 60min on a cd,and if the bitrate gets to low your dvd player won"t be able to read it cuz dvd players have a minimum bitrate they can read and your vcd"s will have a stop start effect in high motion scenes....Trust me with vcd"s the direction to go with bitrate is up not down.........
I just toyed around with VBR VCDs. With 2 pass VBR min/mean/max 750/1300/1850 I can fit ~73 minutes on an 80 mins CDR in quite nice quality. VBR is NOT in in the VCD specs but at least my Yamakawa DVD player has no problems with it.
In my humble option the quality of an VCD with 1150 kbps CBR is plain ugly and not worth the encoding time.
My thoughts exactly,and i haven"t had problems with vbr in vcd either,I think most players will play vcd"s as long as the bitrate isn"t to low and the frame is the right size,and of course 41000hz audio.....
there is something wrong here and i cant figure out what no matter what bit rate I choose it comes out as 908 megs(952 kbs).I have tried deleting the config file ??does tmpeg make registry entries.I have tried encoding at various bit rates and same result.Has this happened to anybody else.I bet i am making some really stupid mistake .I just cant figure out what.It seems to me I encoded the first part which was an 1 hour 10 minutes at about 1600 or something i am seriously confused.I just slipped in an new 1000 mhz processor tho so I guess I can make the same mistakes faster heh heh :( Help
tmpgenc wont make a mpeg file with such a low bitrate that it doesn"t have enough bytes to make up the movie you are makeing because if the bitrate is too low you wont have anything accept some pixels on a frame and major "buffer underflow".tmpgenc wont make a movie for me if I put in 200kbs because the buffer wont have enough info to make up the frames, there is a minimum bitrate that you can have and still have a image...
Hood load a template to make VCD! That will get your started. If your movie has a pan-and-scan version then that might be an easier experiment than the widescreen one.
if the movie is 70 minutes as you say then your 900+ megs of movie is too big to be correct - as in VCD standard ntsc. Read up on the basics at vcdhelp.com.
29.97 frames per second - 240x352 Framesize and 1150k data, is the USA standard.
and the only way you could have that tiny kbps is if your framesize is too small.
Keep us informed, maybe others could learn from your mistakes.
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