I have made a movie using Pinnacle Studio 7 and have rendered it to a MPEG2 file format with [Audio set at 44100 hz]. The next lower audio setting is 32000 hz. I have also rendered the movie into two separate files [video stream and audio stream]. What I want to do is to tweak the Pinnacle made MPEG2 I have and author it onto a DVD. I have been successful with the video portion but no sound. Tmpeg gives a better picture quality then what Pinnacle alone can produce. I have taken the Pinnacle Mpeg2 file and loaded it into the main window of TMPEG. Tmpeg recognizes that there is video and audio in the same file as it is automatically loaded. When I preview I get no sound. I have demultiplexed this file and still no sound. I have taken the Audio File of the movie rendered by Pinnacle and converted it to a Wav file format and entered the Pinnacle Video only file and the Wav audio file into the main window of Tmpeg. Still no sound when I preview. I have taken the Tmpge demultiplexed audio file and converted to a wav file and loaded into TMPEG along with the Tmpeg demultiplexed video file. I still get no sound when previewing. Good picture No sound!!

"Tmpgenc" will not make your "pinnacle" mpeg look any better.if you want a mpeg that looks better than your pinnacle mpeg you should encode the original avi file.you only get out what you put in so if the mpeg you put in don"t look good then the mpeg you get out won"t look good..But have you tried to encode the vidio and then encode the audio then listen to the audio to make sure it is there then "multiplex" them together..Another thing you can try is try an external audio encoder like "toolame" or "scmpx" and a frequency converter might help, these tools work with "tmpgenc" as external tools in the "enviromental settings"....

everytime I go to edit a avi, and adjust the sound to sync correctly, it works the first time, but subsequent times it fails. Ideas? it is almost like it is cached, or it isn't clearing a buffer. thanks

As Minion stated on 05/21 (Tu.) 01:28 "It seems that your file has some errors in it and "tmpgenc" is chokeing on it, what you can try to do is instead of moveing the slider to the part of the movie that you want to encode to ,just type in the frame number ..this has worked for me,"
This is a real world problem I my self have ran into several times when TMPGenc runs into a bad section or error in the Video file your trying to encode it chocks and either stops or errors out closing TMPGenc.
I suggest TMPGenc should have the ability to recover from file errors and or have an option under Tools to repair a bad Video file possibly by cutting the bad frame out. By the way TMPGenc Rules !! So keep up the good job Hori ~NewtronX

This is quite difficult to support because of same reason why pause/resume feature can not be supported so easily.

However, I am not asking you to stop requesting, but just wanted to let you know.

Hi ! I have a problem with a divx with AC3 sound.
I first tried to convert it with tmpeg but tmpeg didn t want to open the avi in sound source so I have extracted the audio with virtuadub to video.wav.
Then I have convert the avi video and the wav audio source to a mpeg vcd compatible but (I have the video without problems) there are errors in my final mpeg sound (like if some parts of the sound repeat a bit)
sorry for my bad english language
Thank you in advance !

oK I have find a way to convert AC3 Divx to vcd:
1- Extract the AC3 audio from AVI with "Virtuadub" (-> audio.wav)
2- rename your audio.wav to audio.ac3
3- Extract your audio.ac3 with "PX3sAC3->WAV" to audio_ok.wav
(http://www.dvd-digest.net/downloads/files/encode/px3conv_004.zip or http://www.dvd-digest.tv/downloads/files/encode/px3conv_004.zip)
4- Run TMPEnc with your AC3 Divx as video source and your audio_ok.wav as audio source
Now you have your mpeg video with a perfect sound !

This is much easier get a program called "ac3 decode" you just load your file in and it makes a wav file out of your ac3 audio,"virtua dub" does not decode ac3 very well..

I cannot remove motion lines out of tmpeg encoded video. I have played around with various settings, but still I cannot remove it from any parts of the video that move.I have tried highest quality motion but it is still there.In mpeg mode it is a blurr around the edge. Any clues. thanks

To make my original message a bit clearer.I experimented with various settings and nothing made the slightest difference. What I think I am getting is interlace lines.This happens wherever an movement occurs, transitions are marked by these 1mm thick lines that breakup the edge and the trasition looks like you are looking at it through bars.I do have the input and output interlaced.Wherever motion is detected this breakup occurs,eg. moving past a pole ,the pole breaks up into sections.The avi produced video that I use for the encoding is in perfect order.Sorry about the vagueness of my first message but I was not sure of how to describe what was happening.

There must be 2 dozzen de-interlace settings in "tmpgenc" im sure one of them will work.......

the original video was ripped at smaller bitrate than what you encoded it at try using the original. if unknown just take it down and reencode until you get the desired effect

What capture software do you recomend?

Iv noticed the supplied program that came with my DC10+ cap card 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.

btw Ashy thanks for the templates.




I just picked up Adobe Premier, will be playing with it later.

I have adobe premier but it wont capture through a capture card it seems to only capture through a dv "firewire" card.I have been trying to get it to capture through my "hauppauge win tv" but no luck so if anyone knows the trick to get it to work let me know.....

I had the same problem with studio 7 (7.13.5). I could not change the capture rate (it was set at 27000 while the dc10+ hardware only handles 6000 as maximum). While I was playing with the capture settings I changed PAL to NTSC and then I could change the settings. Then I changed the setting to PAL again and I could set the datarate (with 6000 as a maximum). Now it captures fine.

With win95/98/me there are several programs then can capture with the dc10+:
aviedit (i like the best) avi_io, and premiere 6.

Under Win2000/XP you can only capture with studio 7.

Rob

TMPGEnc opens the file good. But then when I want to use the source range option it doesn't "scroll" up and down the movie frames .. it just gets stuck and I need to close the service. Why is this?

It seems that your file has some errors in it and "tmpgenc" is chokeing on it, what you can try to do is instead of moveing the slider to the part of the movie that you want to encode to ,just type in the frame number ..this has worked for me, .....

I'll give it a go :)

I have the quicktime plugin, yet when i try to turn into an mpeg i get perfect quality, yet no audio, can anyone help me here ???


Thanks in advance

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the audio in your mov file probably isn"t supported by "tmpgenc" you should extract the audio from your mov file and convert it to wav and put that file in to "tmpgenc" as your audio source...since I don"t do "mov" files i can"t tell you a tool that will extract the audio and convert it to wav but "db power amp" might do it..

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I am trying to convert a video file that is in AVI format to MPEG 1 so that I can burn it to VCD. But every time I try to have TMPGEnc open it(the avi file) so that I can convert it I get an error saying "File "G: he name of file.avi" cannot open, or unsupported." By the way I am using TMPGEnc Plus Version 2.54.37.135, Core Version 1.87.133. Also I am using the VCD NTSC Film template to convert the file. If you need more information you can e-mail me at Zhou_3@msn.com. Thank you. Below is the information on the video file and my computer.

_______________________________________________________________________________
INFORMATION ON VIDEO FILE:

Size - 181mb

IMAGE
Width - 352 pixels
Height - 240 pixels

AUDIO
Duration - 1:10:19
Bit Rate - 56kbps
Audio format - MP3

VIDEO
Frame Rate - 14 frames/second
Data Rate - 44kbps
_______________________________________________________________________________

INFORMATION ON MY COMPUTER

Pentium III 1Ghz Proccessor
384mb of SD RAM
Windows XP Pro
All-In-Wonder 128 Pro video card w/32mb on board RAM
Sound Blaster Audigy MP3+ Sound Card
Sony SPRESSA CRX160E burner (12x/8x/32x)

it is one of two things, you don"t have the right codec, or you need to raise your "direct show" plugin, to do this go to "options" the "enviromental settings" then to "vfapi plugins" here you raise your "direct show" plugin to "2" and lower every thing else to "0"....this should work...

Thanks for the advice Minion. My problem is solved.

Thank you also, I was having the same problem and that worked for me to...

Minion,
I'm getting the same error as Zhou_3. I'd like to use your solution to this problem, however, when I try to change my vfapi plugin settings I am unable to do so. Is there a trick to this or am I just missing something here? What should I be doing? Thanks.

mcarlo,
to change the priority you have to right click to the line to get a context menu

for some reason.... after using smart ripper successfully 19 times and dvd2avi 19 times and tmpgenc 38 times.. i cant seem to get an audio (.wav) file from dvd2avi for the movie From Hell... this movie's audio format is DTS . it is the first one i have tried in DTS audio format. does dvd2avi support this format. can someone clarify or help me with this please. thanks :)

First go into your "ifo" file that smartripper made,and check what track the english audio track that isn"t "DD" . then change the track number under audio in dvd2avi, then you will get a wav file...

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND NOT ONLY THAT. BUT NOW I CAN USE THE SUBTITLE TRACKS IF NEED BE!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU :) :) :) :) :) :)

no problem .I"m here to serve!!!!!!!

im wondering if you ca do a batch encode to do numerous files consecutivly with out manual intervention

Yes you can.

great......how do you do it?

MPEG tools > batch encode

there is no batch encode under MPEG tools

file > batch encode

I must say, this is general question, which you can search net or the software directly. And asking/answering this kind of question may be violates "Term of use" on this BBS.

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I have a serious problem. I converted Avi to VCD many times with TMPGEnc. My system XP, AMD 1600+, 256 MB DDR.
Since two days the complete System freezes after 2-4 Min. of converting. I changed nothing remarkable. Is my system instable or whats the problem. I tried many files, I downloaded a newer version of TMPG, nothing works. Please help. (Answers in german are also welcome)
Thanks

Have the same problem.
Tried different versions of TMPGEnc on different avi files. First started noticing it while converting avi file to DVD MPG2.
Running on WinXP, P4 1.7 MHz, 256 MB RDRAM, 40 and 60 GB 7200 rpm HDs..

I have the same problem! amd 1700+ 512 ram winxp. The cpu usage for the program is running @ 99%. I did look at the know issues and created a new temp file for the output. I'll let you know if that worked.

No luck. Froze again.

me too can hardly get through a 800mb file to encode. whole system crashes. Real pain. 1400 512ddr XP.