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Are you saying you want to raise the bitrate in "tmpgenc" for encodeing??To do this you have to load the "unlock.mfc" template from the extra folder...this will unlock ALL the settings so make sure every thing is the way you want it, go over every setting because when you load the unlock.mfc template all the settings can change....
All I want to do is make the file smaller. Right now it's 400mb and i'm trying to cut that in half. My friend told me to use tmpgenc to change the bitrate... i'm not sure if that means to lower it or raise it. What settings am i supposed to check for? thank you!
I don't know why you want to make it smaller, but if you do lower the bitrate you will also lower the quality and if you are lowering it lower than the standard bitrate for VCD it will look terrible.
Any way this is what you need to look for...
Open TMPG, load the standard VCD template by clicking the load button then click the load button again and this time look in the folder called extra.
Click the file called unlock.mcf then click the setting button at the bottom right, click the video tab and where it says 'Rate control mode' choose CBR from the drop down menu then underneath change the bitrate to a lower value.
The lower you choose the smaller the file size and lower quality the movie.
Next click the 'system' tab and change the stream type to 'MPEG-1 Video cd(non standard)'
Now encode.
Just a quick note.... please don't fall for the trap of thinking that raising the bitrate so the file gets larger than 400Mb will improve the quality - it won't. MPEG is a "lossy" compression format which means that to get the file down to that size you destroy some of the information. That information can't then be retrieved (although you can use special software to attempt to clean up the picture).
If you read the question it states that the original file is DIVX and want's to halve the size from 400mb to a 200mb MPEG.
Which obviously means that the bitrate will need to be lowered thus creating a lower quality movie as I don't think that there is an encoder in the world which can create better or similar quality looking MPEGs with a smaller file size than the original AVI.
Also the Mpeg would indeed have to be larger than 400mb to acheive anywhere near the same quality as the AVI as MPEG files are always larger than the original AVI.
hi. i am using the newest version so far and i have had the same problem with all the versions. when ever i try to convert AVI file to MPEG file, it seems to convert the audio file perfectly but cannot get the video to work. i cannot see anything but can heard the audio. this happened in every single version that came out and tried with different AVI files. cannot seem to get it work. also, when i try some other format like ASF, it works very well. both audio and video works. i do not know what is wrong with it. is it my computer that does it or does it do the same to everyone? or do i need to configurate something? please reply to this as soon as possible. thank you
You need to have all the proper audio codecs on your machine, and your avi files have to have the correct audio format, many avi files have "mp3 vbr" or "ac3" audio which "tmpgenc" wont encode..A good rule to go by is to extract the audio to a wav file from all your avi files before encodeing, "tmpgenc" seems to encode "wav" format the best...or you don"t really need to use "tmpgenc" to encode the audio, I use "db power amp" ,it can extract audio and convert it to "mp2" which you can then "multiplex" with you mpeg file that has no audio......
i do not understand what you are trying to say. it is my video that i have problem with. not the audio. the sound comes out perfectly fine. it is the VIDEO. there isn't any picture coming out.
Sory I was reading someone elses question and answered yours instead, your problem could be a video codec problem, make sure you have all the divx codecs, and make sure your direct show filter is at high enough priority...sory about the mix up...
I'm running a Pentium4 1.5GH machine with 768 MB ram and 1.2 gig page file and WinXP. When encoding .avi to .mpg with TMPEG, I cannot use any other program on my PC. Is there something in XP that might be causing this? It is taking approximately 15 hours to encode a 60-70 minute movie using all the default settings with all other background apps turned off. I have read here that this is much too long. My Norton Utilities indicates 100% CPU usage, 500+ MB free memory and 10% page file usage. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to speed the process up and use my PC for other things?
Actually that is quite common and usually ,depending on your configuration can take even longer.."tmpgenc" is designed to suck up every bit if juice your computer can come up with.."tmpgenc" is written in a very slow language called "Delphi" which is easier to write than "C++" but a little out of date..on my "pentium 3 800mhz 384mb 100gb-hd" it takes about 16 hours to do a 1.5 hour movie, this is one of the reasons that I use a different encoder for mpeg2....the only thing I can think of that can speed up the encodeing a bit is to not use any color filters, set the "motion precition search" to very fast, turn of all applications includeing your screen saver, and de-fragment your hard drive once in a while...other than that there isn"t much you can do ..
Heveing the "motion precition" on fast does give you slightly less quality but I have tried it and I couldn"t really tell the differance so I usually use the "normal" setting because there is no differance between normal and really damn slow..any encoder that gives you any type of good quality will take up all your system resources, the encoder I use sucks up 100% but at least it is 5 times faster than tmpgenc ,but it costs 40 times as much....
That is far too slow for your machine.
I have a P4 1.7 which can encode a 2hr movie in 21/2 hrs.
Make sure motion search precision is set to normal and ensure you are not doing a 2 pass encode or using any filters.
Also make sure the MMX and SSE optimizations are enabled in the enviroment settings.
If I were you I would download another copy of TMPG and try that, because you should have no problem using other apps while encoding. I never do and I didn't even have a problem on my old P3 500 with 128mb.
What kind of "avi" file are you encodeing? did you capture it with a capture card?Please leave some information on your file and what you are trying to do so we can assist you in fixing your problem.......
Are you saying that after you are finnished encodeing you have video but no audio?this can be caused by a bunch of things, the most common is that the audio in your source file is not compatible with "tmpgenc"..so what you should do is extract the audio from your "avi" file to a "wav" file and encode the wav file, and multiplex it with the mpeg video you allready have .. or if you allready got rid of your mpeg file, just encode your avi file with the extracted "wav" file as your audio source...but your audio might be "ac3" so if it is ac3 you will need an "ac3" decoder to extract the audio to wav......
PS: you should try an external audio encoder like "toolame" or"scmpx" they have better quality ,they work with "tmpgenc" as an external tool and have less problems.
Load up your AVI in Virtualdub and click File>file information if it says 'Unknown format' under the audio stream properties then this is your problem.
If this is the case then at a guess I would say the audio is an Ac3 stream which TMPG won't recognize.
You will have to extract the AC3 from the AVI to a WAV using another program.
Post back with info about the file and if it's AC3 I will give u instructions to solve the problem.
NO,To rip a sound track from a vcd you would have to first get the vcd on your hard drive, then convert the "dat" file to mpeg and then extract the audio from there with a audio encoder or de-multiplex the file and use the "mp2"file....or you could hook up your dvd players audio out into your line in on your sound card and record it to your computer....but it seems like a lot of trouble to me but there might be a program that will do it but I don"t know of one....
Yes, just simply go to FILE>MPEGTOOLS and click the 'simple demultiplex' tab.
Load your .dat file from your VCD into the input box, clear the 'Video' Field after you have loaded your .dat file. Choose an output for the audio then click run. After TMPGenc is finished you will be left with an Mp2 file.
This file will play in practically any media player and can be converted to a wav if you wish.
Or, you can use virtualdub. Just load your .dat into virtualdub, go to the 'Audio' option and click full processing mode then click compression and choose what format you wish to save the file in then click File>Save WAV... and give the file an extension of the format you chose. This will produce an audio file in your chosen format.
That is wierd cuz When i try to load "dat" files into "virtua dub" I can"t i have to re-name them to mpeg or convert them to mpeg, and tmpgenc" wont take the dat file either unless i re-name it or convert it to mpeg..but i guess all systems have there bugs......
You need to sort your system mate.
TMPGenc will open any .dat file, just use the *all files* option.
Virtual dub even has .dat files listed as one of it's supported types.
Click "Browse"
In the file window that opens, change the option at the bottom from "MPEG stream" to "All Files"
Find the MPEGAV folder on your VCD, and click on the file you want.
You should now see 3 (or more) streams, a padding stream, the video and the audio. Just double click on the Audio stream and choose where you want to save it, then sit back and relax.
You'll probably find you get an MP2 file which you can easily convert to WAV should you need to - I find WinAmp does this very well.
I don't think so mate. You just stated that it wasn't possible to rip the audio using TMPG and that you would have to faff around converting to MPEG and copy to the hardrive first and use another audio encoder.
That's not what I said or what Magic said, but like you say it's not a competition is it, cos i don't think there are any prizes on this board for answering as many posts as you possibly can before anyone else can is there 'Minion'.
I know it's not an MPEG editor but a fade-to-black is very simple to do, and it
would save using an external editor to do so. It already does audio fades which
makes it more than an MPEG encoder... so a fade down/up to black for vision would
not really be out of place either. Anyway, here's hoping...
Not to mention the anti-aliasing feature to reduce block noise.
I think the lack of a "Fade-To-Black" when you have these sorts of useful features at your disposal is more of an oversight! Sure I could go buy an MPEG editor, but what's the point? TMPGEnc does everything I need bar that one very simplistic but useful feature.
Hmm yes and maybe if Mr. Hori has got time he could also incorporate something which would do my ironing or maybe my washing...Ooh and I could do with a ground to air yogurt maker, that would be nice.
I don't know what this guy Mr. Hori is doing, but fancy creating such a useless program.
.....Some people are never happy with what they have got!
Comprende'
I downloaded an MPEG file and it's damaged about 40 minutes into the film. I tried re-mux but the sound then goes out of sync by about 3 secs after the damaged part, Is there any way to repair it or reconstuct it?
What I've done is split the file just before and just after the damaged part, then re-merge them and this works ok but obviously I get a shotr jump in the film which I don't really want,
A handy tip for people encoding Widescreen films to VideoCD for playback on a TV. If you set the output format to 16:9 you get a stretched video when you save, but you can use the picture format button on your TV to squish it back to how it's supposed to be - even newer portables have this facility now!
Because you have a stretched movie you get higher quality (better vertical resolution for larger TV's) and you can also get away with lower bitrates. I just encoded Evolution at 825kbps with 160kbps sound and it looks very good on the 32inch screen.
I'm not sure about lowering the bitrate because lowering the bitrate would produce a blocky movie, but your right about the vertical resolution being higher when you use the format button to squish it back down to normal. Why waste those extra pixels on black bars when they can be used for the movie. Good idea.
I say reduce the bitrate because although you would get more blocks on the movie, they're squished so they don't notice as much - ie you can get away with a little more compression... only little bit but to me that makes the difference between getting away with 80 mins on an 80 min CD and squeezing 90 mins on. :-)
Every time I encode on TMPGEnc, I get an error message that reads:
Read error occurred at address 00402f40 of module 'TMPGEnc.exe' with 65726460.
I never used to get this problem with the trial versions; happened after I have the purchased TMPGEnc(2.54). How do I fix this problem? Please let me know as soon as possible!
This error most likely is caused by corrupted frames in your avi file, try doing a "scan for errors" with "virtua dub" and find out if there is any bad frames...and if there is you can try to edit them out....
I did use Virtual Dub and scanned for errors but still didn't work. Also, NO files work. Every file I import in and try to encode, it does not work. I don't know the problem either. Please help me (also thx for helping) but I would appreciate it if I could fix this.
Do you mean by "import in" that you are frame serveing?are you useing "avi" files or are you useing "d2v" files?I guess i got to know more about what you are doing, you can e-mail me so we don"t have to wait for each others posts and i can try to help.....