I am just getting into copying dvds for the purpose of backing up.

I have been instructed by a friend to use Smart Ripper to extract the VOB files to disk (which works very well), then I use FlaskMPeg to convert the vobs to a single AVI file, PAL encoding 352X288 resolution, 25fps, INDEO-5.1 CODEC, 44.1 KHz audio, interlaced etc.

When I play back the AVI, the results are very good indeed. Even the sound is nicely synced.

I have then been using TMPGEnc as recommended on quite a few web sites to do the conversion between AVI and MPEG-1 for making a VCD. However, I have found that pixelation occurrs very frequently in the MPG files when played. This seems to be when the brightness changes suddenly or when there is a lot of movement.

Any ideas how I can minimise this pixelation?

You are totaly useing the wrong method for copying dvd"s, your method will take twice as long and loose quality..you don"t need to make an avi file ,doing so will make you loose quality and takes forever to do..what you need to do is get "dvd2avi" and make a "d2v" project file and a "wav" file from your vob files,it takes 15 minutes compared to a few hours makieng an "avi" file, you then load the "d2v" project file and the "wav" file in "tmpgenc" and encode... This method you are encodeing the information directly from your dvd instead of encodeing a copy of your dvd in avi format...Trust me use the "dvd2avi" method ,I do 2 or 3 dvd"s every day because this method is much quicker and the quality is great.....There are some manuals at "vcdhelp.com".......

i know how to brighten avis using virtuals dubs filters. Can a mpg be done the
same way. i really want to end up with an mpg at the end not a avi....perhaps
tmpgenc can do it?

nevermind.....its obvious...settings/ advanced tab and double click simple color setting for adjustments.

Is there any possible way to create a SVCD with Dolby Digital 5.1???? I use smart ripper, DVD2AVI + Tmpgenc...

Also when im making SVCDs now they are often too big for two cds, so using the wizard i lower the bit rate and make it fill 100% of the CD, when i play them on my DVD player it shows about 78 mins of film on the clocl but there is only 45 mins of video. what can i do???

Regards
Simon

You can put "dolby ac3" sound on your svcd, but I don"t know if it will play on your dvd player.......for the ac3 sound you have to get a different program to multiplex the ac3 audio track to your mpeg2,I think a program called "m2-edit pro" will do it but it is quite expensive and not easily available and the demo version has no options.....look on the net and you should find some info on this...

Can't be done. It won't work on your DVD player, you will get no sound.

Hi,

Each time I try and encode a large file for VCD with TMPGEnc, I get an error message that says "Index of Scan is Out of Range"

Is there any way to fix my video file so I will no longer get this error message and it will encode properly?

- dave gellar.

i was testing tmpgenc with avi files about 4gig, everthing was allright. yesterday i forgot to turn of the videoplayer and i catured both movies at once a i got an avi file more then 8GB. it look so that tmpgenc can not handle it, because i can not start a batch, i even can not start a single process. i get the message:" write error occured at adress 77F43812 of module 'ntdll.dll' with 01070074"

i am using WINXP on an 1,7XP Athlon
thx for your answer

How do I convert a 16 by 9 film to 4 by 3 in order to burn a VCD for my TV? Having the black bars at the top and bottom is fine. How do I avoid the long, stretched, distorted images?

You file is automaticly converted to 4:3 from 9:16 when encodeing unless you change it...I think your problem is in the "video arange method" use the "full screen keep aspect ratio" option , or use the "center custom size" and choose the original resolution of your avi file...this will make you movie look as close to the original size as possible...

i was testing tmpgenc with avi files about 4gig, everthing was allright. yesterday i forgot to turn of the videoplayer and i catured both movies at once a i got an avi file more then 8GB. it look so that tmpgenc can not handle it, because i can not start a batch, i even can not start a single process. i get the message:" write error occured at adress 77F43812 of module 'ntdll.dll' with 01070074"

i am using WINXP on an 1,7XP Athlon
thx for your answer

Hello,

I've had the similar problem before...
Create a temporary file using VirtualDub's frameserver and open it in TMPGenc.
That should work, although this may increase the processing time.

Cheerz,
Bdzzld.

Hello,

I'd like to create SVCD (MPEG2) files with a still image and high quality music in the background.
Off course I'd like to fit as many files as possible w/o any sacrifice of the quality of the picture as well as the music.

Can any one advise on the settings to use to create a SVCD file from a JPG (still image) and a MP2 file ?

Thanks.

Com'on,

Someone using TMPGenc must have a template of this kind or some simple directions to help me out...

When I encode an MPEG-2 stream to be SVCD compliant, the audio part is in sync at the beginning of the movie. It gets more and more out of sync the longer the movie is (ca. 1/4 sec after 1 hour of movie). This is only the case for ca 50% of the encoded movies (with the same settings). Movies all come from Hauppauge WinTV PVR with the same setting.

Hello,

The only thing I can think of, is that you're doing a frame rate conversion on the video stream and not on the audio stream. Maybe you'd better handle these two seperate; first the video stream via TMPGenc and later the audio stream via a seperate encoder (or via multiplexing).

Cheerz,
Bdzzld.

It may or may not be coincidence but I seem to be having similar problems with my Hauppauge Win TV captured mpeg movie (see posting below). When using TMPG to create a PAL VCD, the sound track is out of synch and 'clipped' i.e. the sound drops out from time to time though the picture is excellent. When using WinDVD to replay the orginal file, both audio and video play back fine.

When I have used a utility to create a .WAV file from the original mpeg file, the audio plays back ok but slowed down (i.e. everyone has deep voices). I'm not sure therefore whether this is a Hauppauge related problem with the sound capture or whether TMPG is not optimised for Haupauge output???

Is there a way I can make a VCD that claims the same quality as an SVCD to play on a VCD compliant player?? and what are any possible reccomended settings for SVCD/ VCD?

Hello,

VCD = MPEG-1 stream video
SVCD = MPEG-2 stream video

A VCD player does not recognize MPEG-2 streams; you may try to increase the width and height of your file to match that of a SVCD, but this may not play on your VCD player.

Cheerz,
Bdzzld.

Hmmm,

I dont quite understand the question.

A VCD can never be the quality of an SVCD. Because of the much lower resolution of VCDs it cant match the quality of an SVCD. Even with an raised bitrate.
According to my encoding tests and the judgment of 3 friends which I showed the results making an MPEG1 stream with the bitrate/resolution of an SVCD will give slightly inferiour quality compared to an standard MPEG2 SVCD.(And vice versa)

I guess your file is an SVCD but your player only can play VCDs?
If so you can fool most players with changing the Header of your mpeg file to VCD (non-standard). I fear I dont have time to explain it in detail right now but you have to use File -> MPEG Tools -> Merge & Cut in TMPGEnc.
Basically you load your SVCD file, change Type to MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard) and write it out under a different name.

If you want to encode your own files and your player only can play VCDs you should raise the bitrate of an VCD to at least 1300 to expect reasonable quality. The best bet is to choose an 1-5 minute sample of what you want to encode and try around until youre satisfied(this includes burning to an CD-RW and trying it in your player). Nothing is more frustrating then to realize after 10+ hours of encoding that you made something wrong.

Minion,

Thnaks for the reply!!

I tried to start the movie converting and when I do a message pops up that it cannot load the P3Package.dll? What is the deal? I used this program before and never had a problem and when I cleaned my system and downloaded the new program I cannot get it to work?

Thanks,
B

You should really use the search engine at the top of the screen, cuz this question has been answered to many times, what you got to do is go in to your "tmpgenc" folder and copy the "p3p package" into your "system" and "system32" folder.......

Thank you I wasnt sure where to go?

I have a large (870mb) mpeg2 file sourced from a Hauppauge Digital TV capture device which plays back perfectly in its native format using Intervideo's WinDVD playback software.

When I tried to convert this via TMPG to VCD format, the picture is excellent quality but the audio track is plays back slow and therefore is out of synch with the pictures. The audio is also dropping out frequently.

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

Try an other great program called FlasKMPEG. It works fine with my Haupage files.