whenever i convert my avi files to mpeg i get a pink discoloration of some of the pixels off and on. any solutions, reasons would help, thanks.

This is sometimes caused by the "angel potion" codec pack, if you have this codec on your system then get rid of it, and I heard that lowering the priority if your "direct show" filter might help, but I don"t know why....

yeah it was "angel potion" codec that was giving me problems, but all is good now. thanks minion!!!

Hi,
I want to make selectable audio streems in my SVCD (like language on a dvd), how can this be don with Tmpegenc ? Has anybody some experience with this ?

I have never done it but I think you can "multiplex" multiple audio streams into your video file with the "multiplex" option......I know some authoring programs have a multiple audio stream option.......

Thanks for the tip minion, i have to demultiplex the mpeg file first then multiplex it with the new audio.
Do you know also how you can make subtitels ?

Hi,

using the evaluation version of TmpgEnc to produce a DVD-R
DVDit does not accept a .mpg file of about 700 MB encoded
by TmpgEnc from a .avi produced by premiere.

The error message from DVDit says that no valid decoder
could be found. A small .mpg produced by TmpgEnc is
recognized.

Is this coming from the evaluation version ?


TIA

I have "sonic dvdit 2.5 pe" and it sucks the big one it wont accept anything I try to put in it, so I switched to "ulead dvd workshop" and it has no problems with any thing that I throw at it.........so maybe try a switch...

Thanks,

I tried the evaluation version of Ulead DVD MovieFactory
and got no problem with a TMPGenc mpeg2.

i have converted a avi file to mpeg. the sound of the mpeg file is gone. How can i get the sound correctly

Your audio could be a unsupported format. you will have to extract the audio from your "avi" with "virtua dub" and convert it to "wav" format, then use that as your audio source,.....

Hi, I just spend 3 hours to encode to mpeg2 [svcd] with TMPG. And after I play it in a PowerDVD under information bitrate goes high up to 3.6Mbit !? .. I set CBR @ 2400 kbps as encode parameters sound 224 .. how is that posible? I presume that set top dvd player will have problems to play such nonstandard SVCD while video+audio should be 2748 kbps acording to standard? How is posible that CBR encode setting return VBR when playing.?

Thanks.

..jOsIp..

Your player won"t have a problem with it ..I have a totaly cheap dvd player like $100, and I do my "svcd"s at a average of 3000kbs and a max at 6000kbs..and my player has mo problems with it , my player even plays svcd"s with a resolution of "720 by 480".....but burn a single disk and see how your player handles it and if it does handle it try it a high resolution, and if that works then you can make your svcd"s look almost exactly the same as the original dvd with high res.it is good to see what you players limits are...

Thanks on feedback .. I but I will send that SVCD to my relatives, they live 300 km away, so I would like to burn a standard SVCD to I can be sure that will play it .. any way thanks ..

..jOsIp..

A targa sequence from After Effects shows up upside down. How can I vertically flip it in tmpeg?

Brian

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?

The Indeo-Movie is the Problem.
Kick Flask away and use DVD2AVI to create a d2v- and a WAV-File from the VOB (Save Project). Then use TMPGEnc for encoding this directly without saving an AVI first... and be happy.

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