all i see is black, i do not see the movie, how do i fix this

first you have to have the proper codecs installed on your machine,like divx 3x,4,5, and if this don"t work write back with all the specs of your avi file, like codec, frame rate ,audio format ect.and tell us what you are doing and tell us what you want to do......need lots more information..

When I went to cut and merge to cut my movie, it said illegal mpeg stream. What does that mean? The video is mpeg2,super video cd VBR and 352x240.

don"t quote me on this but i think that happens if you try to join two mpeg clips that aren"t the same bitrate framerate audio format or the same headers,or different in any way..

I was trying to split a movie. I splitted part 1 of it. When I was splitted the other half and clicked on run, then it said illegal mpeg stream.

It is just one of those stupid things that happen with all the "mpeg tools" I have certain problems with all of them accept the de-multiplex..use the source range and encode your movies into two or more parts so you don"t have to split it later.I even split my d2v files into parts so I don"t have to use the mpeg tools..

352x240 is a VCD instead of an SVCD resolution (SVCD is 480x480 NTSC or 480x576 PAL). Could that have anything to do with your problem?

Hi. I've been getting problems where I coudn't load some of my movies in TMPGEnc. It kept crashing. Then I installed Nimo Codec with everything in it. Finally I was able to load my movies but now every time I listen to any audio, I hear static noises coming from my speakers. my speakers aren't the porblems because when I converted a movie on to a cd, my TV was making static noises. I think there's something wrong with my codecs. Will anyone be able to help me?? Thanks.

Well I think there are two things you should do,first try useing a different audio encoder try "toolame" or "scmpx" they work with "tmpgenc" as an "external tool" and allways extract the audio from your avi files and convert it to wav,most audio problems can be avoided if you do this and a better quality can be expected....

Hey. Not only am I now having problems with converting audio, I can't convert videos properly because it makes static noises. I think it has to do with the codec I installed. See, when i updated to Win Xp, I needed to install an audio codec. But when I did, it started making static noises. I'm really messed up. Sorry. Can you help me??

Totaly un-install all the audio codecs on your system and just install the ones you need and know work,and don"t play your mpeg files with windows media player,use "power dvd" or "win dvd"cuz certain combinations of codecs seem to screw with the way media player plays mpeg"s,on my system the media player plays mpegs with fuzzy sound that cut"s out all the time ,and the picture looks grainy but powerdvd plays them great.......

Thanks a lot! I finally got some help.

Hi, is anyone out there using VIDEO-CD 2.0 toolkit as authoring software ?
If so, why are my TMPGenc-converted MPEG1 files reported as "invalid" when I
try to import them as "assets". They seem to meet all the requirements (size,
framerate, bitrate etc. for VCD, but nothing doin'. Also, the extensions used
by VCD2 are greek to me, ie : .mmd for MPEG files, .spa for audio and whatnot.

Any help appreciated.

The easiest solution and probably the best solution is to get rid of that crappy authoring software and get "nero burning rom" you can download it at www.nero.com .Most likely the reason why your file isn"t being recognozed as compliant is that it is just a mpeg1 file, and it has to be a mpeg1 encoded for vcd,meaning that is could have the correct audio format and the correct bitrate and frame size but it doesn"t have the proper vcd headers on it, to correct this you can load your mpeg1 file into the "merge & cut" feature choose the mpeg1/vcd setting on the top ,choose your output directory and click run, this will copy your file and put the proper headers on it......

This very old software and you should upgrade to something else.
It is a common problem with the VIDEO-CD 2.0 TOOLKIT and is the fault of TMPG.
The reason is TMPG doesn't produce 100% compliant video-cd 2.0 MPEG streams.
Most authoring programs will ignore this and burn anyway, but the VIDEO-CD 2.0 TOOLKIT is made to produce absolutely 100% MPEG1 VCD 2.0 compliant streams.

What you need to do is re-multiplex the file with VCDMUX in the TOOLKIT which will make it 100% compliant and then try again and it should be fine. (Ignore the 'Read past end of file error')

If you want my advice download NERO or VCDeasy to author and burn your MPEGs.

ASHY

I'm very new to this, so please bear with me, I had converted a avi to mpeg that I downloaded off the net using TMPGEnc, then I downloaded another movie and forgot how I did the first one. I tried to convert to mpg with tmpgeng and it worked great but no audio. I don't know enough to solve this problem, please give me some advice, I would like to figure this out, the first movie I did everything worked great, I just can't remember what it was. Thanks

extract the audio first using virtual dub... I already replied to a similiar problem.. the info can be found at http://www.tmpgenc.net/cgi-bin/ebbs/board.cgi?board=tmpgenc#topic6945 .... also try encoding and hit stop after the source range reaches a minute or two... then look at the file and make sure there is ausio and video and that it is in sync...sound matches mouth moving... then if all is good hit start again and say yes to overwrite... happy encoding

Not all avi files have the same audio format,and the audio in your avi file probably not supported so you will have to get "virtua dub" to extract the audio to "wav" format and load the wav file in for the audio source..a lot of avi files downloaded of the net have vbr mp3 which "tmpgenc" doesn"t like very much....

and one thing that you have to check is that the audio is encoded to 41000hz or your dvd player won"t play it.....

I thought it had to be 48000khz.

Hi all, Iv been captureing and encodeing for a few months now. Most cartoon or CGI movies turn out pretty good, veggie tales for my kids as an example.

But when i try to convert either VHS or direct analog signal from my Dishnetwork reciever, anything real-life (ghostbusters 1, all my Enterprise series) Dont turn out quite as nice.

Iv been using these settings to get the best look but I cant help but think if Im missing a few things or should try something else.

usually for around 45 minutes of real life I capture at 2000 kbps I then use TMPG to convert my AVI also at 2000 I set motion detection at Highest quality/slowest speed. I also save as Mpeg2. This will get me on one SVCD.

35 mins all the same but i record around 2500.

My equipment is
CAP-card PCI : Pinnacle Studio DC10+
cpu and system : 800mhz Athlon Thunderbird with 320megs or pc100 and my hardrive is a ATA-66 20gig by Maxtor 7200rpm

My CAP-software : I usually use the DC10+ software that came with it, but i just rescently bought Pinnacle Studio 7. Which is its own problem. It keeps closing after opening.

anyways, does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how to improve my quality. My picture sometimes is fuzzy or even looks like pastells when people start walking around. kinda like a smudge trail behind them.

thanks all.

when you capture the video up your bitrate to its max .... 10,000 for me.... encode your movie according to what bitrate you need for cd size...it will affect it slightly.. obviosly.... but I think your problem is that your capture bit-rate is too small... that or your saving it as a compressed file...save it as uncompressed... there are two codecs you can use .... I can't remember the name...but I believe it yuyv2 and the other is the huffy codec... hope this helps you out on your quality issue

I forgot one thing.... a very important thing.... some capture cards and win98/me only allow a 2 gig file to be made in avi format.... there is a way around it for the video capute....usually called sequential capture mode or something like that... and if you run NT/2K/XP ... these operating systems do not have the 2 gig file limitation... good luck and hope this works for you

>Hi all, Iv been captureing and encodeing for a few months now. Most cartoon or CGI movies turn out pretty good, veggie tales for my kids as an example.
>
>But when i try to convert either VHS or direct analog signal from my Dishnetwork reciever, anything real-life (ghostbusters 1, all my Enterprise series) Dont turn out quite as nice.
>
>Iv been using these settings to get the best look but I cant help but think if Im missing a few things or should try something else.
>
>usually for around 45 minutes of real life I capture at 2000 kbps I then use TMPG to convert my AVI also at 2000 I set motion detection at Highest quality/slowest speed. I also save as Mpeg2. This will get me on one SVCD.
>
>35 mins all the same but i record around 2500.
>
>My equipment is
>CAP-card PCI : Pinnacle Studio DC10+
>cpu and system : 800mhz Athlon Thunderbird with 320megs or pc100 and my hardrive is a ATA-66 20gig by Maxtor 7200rpm
>
>My CAP-software : I usually use the DC10+ software that came with it, but i just rescently bought Pinnacle Studio 7. Which is its own problem. It keeps closing after opening.
>
>anyways, does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how to improve my quality. My picture sometimes is fuzzy or even looks like pastells when people start walking around. kinda like a smudge trail behind them.
>
>thanks all.



Hi Jeremy!

I too have a DC10+ card... and I too get them "pastell" colors (sometimes)...
I have some reflections reguarding that card, AMD and TMPGEnc.

It is like this:

Whenever I use TMPGEnc to encode a movie grabbed from air/VHS/LD, it seems that when I use a AMD Athlon CPU the result is shite and when i encode with a Pentium CPU (both P4 and PIII) it turns out good...

I guess that TMPGEnc doesn't work with AMD CPUs...

Tmpgenc" is optimized to work better with "pentium 3 & 4" because of the mmx and sse, but it is optimized for 3d now which I think is a AMD optimization..

Here's my advice for excellant quality captures.
Capture at no less than 640x480.
Use YUY2 and not RGB.
framerate - 23.976 fps

Capture to the DIVX pro 5.01 codec set at highest quality (2000 kb/s is far too low for high quality).
This codec has the ability to capture to progressive frames and de-interlace on the fly which should solve any interlacing artifacts or blurring problems and gives excellant results as far as de-interlacing is concerned.

If your card starts to drop frames when using the codec then set it's performance to 'Fastest'. This won't affect the quality, but will give less compression to the file.
Capture the audio to a wav not a compression codec.

When you come to encode it is pointless setting the 'Motion precision' setting to 'Highest quality' which as far as I'm concerned is a 'white elephant' as this yields very little difference if any at all compared to the 'High quality' setting and for the extra time it takes to encode you could have done something like a 3 pass encode which would give better results.

Using the SVCD(NTSC FILM) template(only if you captured to 23.976), encode to MPEG2 using the 'Constant quality(CQ)' setting and set your bitrates to min-1800 max-4000. To set this you will need to unlock the template using the 'unlock.mcf' template in the 'Extra' folder

Now encode and you should have a high quality MPEG2 file as a result.

ASHY

Thanks Guys, Ill try your advice. What capture software do you recomend?

Iv noticed the supplied program that came with my board isnt gonna cut it. I think it can only capture in its own codec made by pinnacle. I did notice a section under make file which listed 12 others, example :Cinemac Codek by Radius, micrsoft RLE and H.261 and H.263 Mireo Video DV300. there were a others.

Iv been fooling around with Pinnacle Studio 7.13 but it wont let me capture more then 10 mins worth of video. I have like 14gigs free. Also the majore problem is it wants to capture around 27000 for high quality and 6500 for low quality. My max safe (and locked speed according to the program) is 6000 so I cant capture even low quality with it. Not sure why i have this problem. My read speed on the drive is like 25000 and my write speed was something like 13000. I would think a ATA-66 would run better. All cables are good and drivers are up to date.

I also im trying to get Adobe Premiere 6.0 to work but it just gives me a load error and says " The operation hase been canclled due to restrictions placed on this computer, I need to contact my system administrator. " I dont know why in the world it decided to do that.

Sorry for the run on and off topic mess i made. Maybe someone knows whats up on this. I have retried installing the capture programs and the drivers.



btw Ashy thanks for the templates.

I just wanted to give a shot out to minion and ashy... my movies turned out perfectly... my dvd player does support xvcd.... thanx minion.. apex rules.... and my NTSCFilm plays great with no skipping, jerking, or glitches... internal 29.97 is great... ty ASHY... you guys rock

Thanx for that. Good to be appreciated.
Glad your movies turned out ok.

ASHY

I second that..It is difficult enough out here with little help but Ashy has been a godsend to me/.

I got a question... I have been encoding for a while, but want to perfect what I am doing...not just foollow someone else's tutorial... I have graduated beyond that... the question is ...how can you tell whether the film was originally 4:3 or 16:9 and how do I choose what options I want according to this.... and the other question involves interlace... if the original file comes up as interlace do I just encode with de-interlace or use ivtc or inverse telecine...then do I usew the interlace or non-interlace? and does this matter whether its vcd...xvcd...or svcd? any insight or where to look for this would be greatly appreciated...there has to be an mpg or avi analizer that will give me this info... and on a side note ... how do I get to kazaa?

Ususaly when you load a file into "tmpgenc" the settings in tmngenc should show if it is 4:3 or 16:9 in the source file info,but another clue is that most 16:9 movies have a black bar on the top and bottom, like widescreen...ntsc movies are interlaced,I usualy use one of the de-interlace options.and if you go to "www.downloads.com" or "www.kazaa.com" you should be able to download the program.......

is it better to get rid of the interleaving and just encode as progressive? if so is this true for vcd svcd or xvcd or only some? if so which ones... is it neccesary to get rid of the interleaving or just encode as interleaved? I know how to figure out bottom or top field first and it works...but I am looking for best quality...which method is preferred for quality purposes?

Ntsc(north america,Japan)is interlaced source,and pal(europe asia)is progressive,as for the type of de-interlace to use, it depends from movie to movie.I usualy go to the "de-interlace" option screen and scan to a part of the movie that has noticeable lines and just experiment with the settings till I find the one that looks best,I don"t screw with the inverce telecline it"s not for fixing interlace lines, it is for takeing non-interlaced 30fps avi and converting it to a 24fps mpeg.If you live in north america and you are ripping "dvd"s you probably never use the "inverce telecline(ivtc)"...

Just one or two corrections.
PAL is indeed interlaced not progressive, but doesn't have the same problem as NTSC interlaced movies due to the fact there is no 3:2 puldown added.

IVTC is for fixing interlacing problems related to movies which are 29.97 fps interlaced movies which were originally 23.976 progressive FILM and have 3:2 pulldown added.
It simply removes the 3:2 pulldown of interlaced movies and returns them back to their original 23.976 fps progressive FILM state.
If you don't use the 'ForcedFILM' option of DVD2AVI then this is the option you should use.

The decision whether to use this or the 'Forced FILM' option depends on whether DVD2AVI reports the movie as FILM and you are encoding to MPEG2.

ASHY

Hi everybody
when i start tmpg appears a window error (can't load P3 package.dll)and the program don't run. I saw in the file list and P3 package is there...
Thanks and bye
Mr.Arkadin

Go to the search bar above and type p3package.dll

ASHY

Hi All

I was just wondering if any one else out there is using the pinnacle impressions DVD authoring software with MPEG 2 streams created in TMPGenc.

I use a PAL source video from the pinnacle DV500+ and encode to MPEG 2 using PAL format. When I import the MPEG stream into the impressions authoring software it is always reported as being NTSC format. I guess this is an issue with the authoring software but I'd be intrested if anyone else is trying (and maybe succeeding?) in using a similar configuration.

Regards

Bill

Why not simply use the MP2 output and then import the audio and video files into Impression. It's hardware accelerated output and therefore is faster than most software encoders

Thanks for the reply

I tried that as well. It is much faster than the software encoders but the quality wasn't as good. Also, I still had the problem!

It seems that pinnacle impressions DVD treats everything as NTSC when you first import it and then SOMETIMES let you change it to PAL if you lucky.

I'v been seeing a lot about nero on this list - maybe I'll have a look at that.

Bill

i convert avi to mpeg but when i do it twice as big and will not fit on a disk

what can i do to make it fit on a disk. it 700mb disk please help me

Goto File>MPEGtools>Merg&cut
Then split your file in half.

ASHY

think nothing about the file size... it means nothing...well it does....but try not to look at it that way.... with a vcd standard template you can fit 80 min of movie per cd and with a svcd you can fit 40 min of movie.... if you use the standard templates and do not change the bitrate this will always hold true, irregardless of the quality... to get different amounts of time to fit on a cd you would need to adjust the bitrate... there is a good online bitrate calculator at http://www.vcdhelp.com/calc.htm .... you can also save it to use offline.... sometimes the cut/merge option makes the stream be non-(s)vcd compatible and requires you to multiplex it again.... to avoid all of this use the source range setting in the setting/advanced tab... set the beginning frame to 0 and set end frame to either half the movie or up to 80 min for vcd or 40 min for svcd.... most movies will fit on 2 cds in vcd and 3 cds in svcd... this is usung the standard templates... to do cd2 or cd3 just move to end frame and set that as start frame...then drag it over to the end or another 80 min and choose set end frame.... I usually start cd2 frame offset about 50-60 frames before the end of cd1 to give me a 2 sec repeat from cd1 to cd2... this works good if during an action or important talking scene.... that or make sure your switch from cd1 to cd2 is during a non-important part... some templates will allow you to fit more per cd...this is accomplished by lowering the bitrate of the audio or video...resulting in degraded quality.... I would just use this rule of thimb till you get the idea of bitrate and what it means.... I hope this helps you to understand ... best of encoding luck

Im fairly new to TMPG ( which is cool by the way) but when i convert from avi to vcd...the finished movie seems to stop ever so slightly every 2 seconds ..then plays... then stops..This is only for a fraction of a second or so but is still noticeable.Im using all the standard settings so nothings been changed.(Im using the Pal vcd setting)Is this normal or is there a setting i can change.

Check the original framerate of the movie.
If it's different from your output framerate then this is your problem.

ASHY