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I am converting a lot of 352x240 23,97 fps to 352x288 PAL 25 fps. On my system as it was yesterday, it did 1 second of video in about 5 seconds. I had a lot of different mpg codecs installed on that PC , but I had to re-install because of a softwareproblem.
I did a clean install, installed only the necessary software and TMPeg and Virtual Dub.
I restarted the encoding and now it takes about 30 seconds to encode 1 second of video.
What can be the problem here ?
Make sure you haven't got the Motion search precision setting to 'high' or 'highest'.
Check to make sure you are not doing a 2 pass encode and go to the enviromental settings and check if the SSE and MMX optimizations are checked.
Oh and as a tip.
You will find that if you change the framerate of a movie with TMPG for example from 23.976 fps to 25 fps, you will notice that the movie has little jerks when it plays.
You can't just change the framerate as simply as that.
>Make sure you haven't got the Motion search precision setting to 'high' or 'highest'.
>Check to make sure you are not doing a 2 pass encode and go to the enviromental settings and check if the SSE and MMX optimizations are checked.
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>ASHY
Motion search : normal
No 2 pass encoding and SSE and MMX are both ON.
Actually.... the settings are still as they were before I had to re-install.
>Oh and as a tip.
>You will find that if you change the framerate of a movie with TMPG for example from 23.976 fps to 25 fps, you will notice that the movie has little jerks when it plays.
>You can't just change the framerate as simply as that.
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>ASHY
I just have downloaded a lot (more than 400) mpg's which are all between 2 and 25 MB each. They are in NTSC 23.976 fps format and all have different soundstreams. I want them all to be PAL VCD compatible. I converted more than 300 already and must say that I didn't notice the little jerks on my standalone DVD player in the smaller files. In the longer ones there are every now and then a few jerks, but considering the content of the files (ahum !) that's not a problem :-)
Are these MPEGs MPEG1 or MPEG2?
If I was you I would completely delete TMPG from my system and re-install the new version again.
Also check to make sure you don't have any filters checked. Some of these can slow down your encoding considerably.
30 secs for 1 sec of video is far to long.
What are your system specs?
Some extra information :
Before I re-installed I had several encoders and editing software on the system.
A few of these titles : Panasonic Encoder, Divx 5, Ulead Media Studio, Ulead Picture Show, Win DVD, M1 and M2 Edit pro, DVMpeg, Roxio Videopack, complete Dr. Mercury Videopack, DVDx 1.8 and I think I forgot a few.
Is it possible that one of these programs/codecs influence the speed of TMPeg in a positive way ?
I'm not being funny about this, but nowhere in your first post does it state your MPEG's are MPEG1. It only gives the frame sizes which could be either MPEG1 or MPEG2.
Anyway I think there is a problem with your system if re-installing TMPG doesn't work.
I doubt any other programs you had installed prior to re-installing your system would have influenced the speed of encoding as I used to have a P3 500 with 128mb and encoding a movie would take about 4 or 5 times longer than the length of the original movie.
So a 1 second clip would take 4-5 secs to encode which is the speed you originally had and I didn't have the programs you had installed.
>I'm not being funny about this, but nowhere in your first post does it state your MPEG's are MPEG1. It only gives the frame sizes which could be either MPEG1 or MPEG2.
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You're correct. Because I only work with VCD or SVCD compatible mpegs, I forgot that you can encode them different too ! Sorry !
>Anyway I think there is a problem with your system if re-installing TMPG doesn't work.
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>I doubt any other programs you had installed prior to re-installing your system would have influenced the speed of encoding as I used to have a P3 500 with 128mb and encoding a movie would take about 4 or 5 times longer than the length of the original movie.
>So a 1 second clip would take 4-5 secs to encode which is the speed you originally had and I didn't have the programs you had installed.
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>ASHY
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Okay, the mystery continues.......
This morning I re-installed M1 and M2 edit and I changed one setting in TMPeg : I made the temporary, input hd and output hd all the same.
And......... the speed was back !!!!
I saw that by installing M2 edit, some of the files of DirectX (8.1 !) were overwritten.
Could that be the solution or was the drive change in TMPeg the solution ?
I will put back the drive options as they originally were.....
temporary : C
input : E
output : D
And let you know what happens.....
But not now...... busy encoding at full speed again :-)
I would guess it's the drive change and would suspect that your input drive E: or your output D: is a slow drive or they are on the same IDE channel.
This doesn't work because the information to and from both drives still has to travel up and down the same channel and cable and one has to wait for the other slowing down the transmission between the two.
If that's the case I would install the input and output on different channels.
>I would guess it's the drive change and would suspect that your input drive E: or your output D: is a slow drive or they are on the same IDE channel.
>This doesn't work because the information to and from both drives still has to travel up and down the same channel and cable and one has to wait for the other slowing down the transmission between the two.
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>If that's the case I would install the input and output on different channels.
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>Which did you change to?
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>ASHY
Changed all to E:
Did a check a few minutes ago and indeed it was the drive change !
What do mean it recognizes it, but it still says unsupported.
It wouldn't load in the first place if it wasn't supported.
You are obviously doing something wrong somewhere.
Post the steps you are taking to load the file.
Start from when you first rip the VOBS to your hard drive and be detailed.
Please refrain from double posting on the same subject. It gets highly confusing and is unecessary.
Stick to the same thread your problem will still be answered.
if ur useing DVD2AVI to make them .dv2 and ac3 .wav files try reinstalling DVD2AVI or TMPGenc or hell reinstall both of them. worked for me. something about the .vfp file cant be moved from the directory causes the problem
I have done everything right and the dv2 file shows up in TMPG, but when I click it TMPG says it is an unsupported file type. I have done everything right, but it still doesn't work. WHATS UP WITH THAT?
i've made a mpeg2-file with TMPGenc 2.54a, MPEG-2 480x576 25fps VBR 1600kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 128kbps.
now i'm trying to cut it with the mpeg-tools, but the slider at the edit-sheet don't let me move through the file. If i enter a start- or endtime manually, the program writes the hole file, not the range i've specified ... what am i doing wrong?
Your probably not doing anything wrong, the "cut" function does this quite often,my advice is to use different software to cut your mpeg"s, or use the source range while encodeing so you can encode your movie in parts...
I have succeed in making the first VCD: I have cut the mpg movie file and made the first smaller file which can be hold by one cd.
But I can not make the second CD: Each time I start merge file from any point other than start point(00:00:00), program freeze before it start to record file. The Version I am using is 2.54.37.135.
Can You tell me how to make the second part of movie? Or Can I try older vision?
What makes you think it is freezing.
It takes a while before it starts to produce the second half because it has to seek to the point of the cut first.
Just before the edited file store to HDD, the porgram stopped, I press Ctrl-Alt-Del, message shows Tmpgenc not response. This is what I mean freezing. I have tried 4 times even restart computer, same result. So I guess this is a bug of Tmpgenc
No it's not a bug.
This problem has been posted a few times before and the problem was solved by completely deleting TMPG from your system first then download a fresh copy and install that.
on my system the task manager displays alot of crap (not responding) dont worry about if. if you notice alot of lights blinking let them blink for a lil longer. patience here
Hello,
I am using the Pinnacle DC10+ card to capture and edit video to avi format. I am then using tmpgenc to encode to mpeg2 format and finally using vcdeasy to burn an SVCD disk.
When I encode the captured video alone into mpeg2 format and burn to disk, the audio is fine. However, when I add titles before the start of the video clip using the dc10+ software and then encode to mpeg2, the audio is distorted (the audio level is higher and there is noticable distortion in high frequency notes).
I suspect that the problem is with tmpgenc since the avi file with the titles seems to play fine on the computer. Since there is no soundtrack on the titles themselves, could this be causing a problem for tmpgenc ? Does it judge the audio level by sensing the first few frames of the movie ? If that is so, it would explain why the level would be higher with the titles than without.
I am using constant quality (CQ) for doing my encoding.
I have created a MPEG using Flask. I want to use the MPEG on a VCD so that I can play the disk on a home DVD player. The information I have says you have to cut the MPEG into two smaller files so that they will fit on a CD-R. Can anyone tell me how to do this using TMPGEnc v. 2.54?
Use MPEG tools from the FILE menu, then use the merge&cut option. This allows you to select a section of the original movie and write it to a new file.
I prefer to do it after encoding because of the time it takes to encode. I can set the machine going bfore I go to bed and leave it running all night and all the next day. When I come home there's nice big MPEG file all ready to be sliced at an appropriate point for burning to VCD.
You do have a little more control over exactly where it is cut is you use source-range though. It's personal preference really.
I assumed you weren't looking for the obvious answer to your question, which would have been "when it's too big"... ;-)
Just a thought - you could set your source points on the same file in two separate projects and then batch encode overnight and voila 2 separate files, perfectly cut and no need for extra diskspace/time..
Hi, i've got a question regarding the audio input. What would happen if I use a mp2 file as audio input in TMPEG. Will the program reencode it again or it just will encode the video and mux it with the audio (untouched). I want to know it 'cos I want to encode the audio into mp2 with another program (headAC3) using DPLII encoding, and then use the TMPEG to encode the video and build the mpeg file.
Tmpgenc would encode the audio file,maybe, sometimes it will choke on non wav formats, if you have a mp2 audio file just encode the video, and save the audio for your other audio encodeing program .....
i am creating mpg2 video with Tmpgenc (720*576) - PAL - MVBR max (3500).
i can not import my video from dvdwise authoring program, an error message says "this is not a vob stream" but when i create the video with flaskmpeg the video is valid for authoring.am i doing something wrong with Tmpgenc settings ???
Thanks for your answer..
Yesterday, i found the solution!!
i changed the option from (non interlase) to --> (interlase) and finally i import the video without any errors from authoring program.
Can i ask you another thing..??
Why i cant set the option to (non-interlase)..i mean why my authoring program could not import the video stream with this option??
All DVD movies start off as progressive 24 fps movies.
The DVD specs state that all MPEG2 DVD's must be interlaced movies.
This is done by adding a 'Pulldown' to the movie.
With PAL movies 2:2 pulldown is used and the movie is speeded up by 4%.
With an NTSC movie the original movie should be progressive 23.976 fps which has 3:2 pulldown added to make the movie a 29.97 fps interlaced movie.
No, no, no you would have to remove the pulldown, it is the pulldown which adds the interlacing.
What I mean is that all movies before they are put on to the DVD are progressive at a frame rate of 23.976 fps or 24 fps, but your TV needs an interlaced source and DVD's need to be 29.97 fps or 25 fps, so what happens is that a 3:2 pulldown is added to NTSC films which basically addes extra frames per second to the movie by repeating the fields in a movie to make it 29.97 fps. A field is what makes up half of an interlaced frame and there are 2 per frame an odd and an even.
With PAL it is slightly different a 2:2 pulldown is added and the film is speeded up by 4.17%.
It is all very hard to explain without some sort of graphical representation, so have a look here, it may explain things a bit better.
In conculsion and to answer your question, it is always better to start with a progressive frames movie, it will then save you a lot of time of fiddling about trying to solve interlacing problems when you encode.