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The movie takes about 16 hours for the first 70 minutes to encode on TMPGE and it encodes fine until it gets to about 6 seconds left. When its gets to the last couple seconds there will be an error message saying illegal operation or error has occured. Why is it waiting until the last few seconds and what can i do to stop it. Thanks for your help.
There is probably an error at that point in the avi file you are encodeing, you can try to encode the remaining six seconds of your file and join the two parts together with the merge and cut feature..
The error occurs with all of the movie files that i try to encode. They are all different movies. How do you encode the last few seconds if that is all i can do.
i have downlaoded three svcds from web and extracted the mpeg files rom these.
i want to play with the files such as join them and convert file type.so i tried tmpg which i have used before and file type is not liked basically
cannnot load or is unsupported so i tied multiplexing it because of reading about it. when i do this it ony processes about half of each of my files but the actual processed amount varies from one file to the other. in sort i now have half of each file no good. any other ways to make these files become accepted in editing software please.
i have tried many programs so im gonna need some help here thanks
Hmm I'm puzzled and hope someone can help.
I have a VCD movie which spans just on to two CDs so I thought I would re-encode with a slightly lower bitrate to fit on one CD. Easy I thought, so I used a bitrate calc to work out the 969 bitrate and set the parameters in TMP ensuring the audio was the same (128) and set to encode overnight.
But the resultant file is the same size as the original (give or take a few kilobytes). So I checked the bitrates of the files with a bitrate viewer and a mpeg properties viewer and they both state following.
Original bitrate - 1.246Mbit/s (Audio 128kbit/s)
New file - 969Mbit/s (Audio 128kbit/s)
I also checked the Mpeg information in Virtualdub which just confirmed the above.
The original file was mpeg1 and an animation film (PAL 25fps).
Tmpgenc - standard VCD Pal unlocked and frame rate changed (audio also reduced down to 128)
Any help please as I don't know whats going on.
Can mpeg1 have a variable bit rate? could this be the answer?
Yes mpeg2 can have "VBR" but only if you choose "VBR" as your encodeing method.. if you want to have the file smaller and not loose quality use a "VBR" encodeing method, try these settings, use "CQ, with a max of 1150kbs and a minimum of 500kbs with a quality of about 75, this should give you a smaller file size with out looseing too much quality, but beware that useing bitrates lower than the standard will greatly reduce the quality especialy if you are encodeing a mpeg file to a mpeg file....
This is an easy one and catches a few people out.
The reason the bitrate is the same is because you havn't changed the stream type to MPEG1 VCD(non standard)
If you just change the bitrate to a lower value without changing the stream type then TMPG will just add padding to make the VCD a standard compatible VCD.
The next time you encode a non standard VCD click the 'system' tab in 'settings' and change the strean type to 'MPEG1 VCD(non standard)'.
To fix the file you have already encoded, just run it through the 'simple multiplex' option in 'MPEG tools' and choose 'MPEG1 VCD(non standard) as the type. This will then reduce the file size of the movie to what it should have been.
Try downloading this version http://www.dll-files.com/files/msvcrt.zip and putting it in your Windowssystem directory for Win 98/ME
or Windowssystem32 for WinNT2000XP
I use my WinTV USB PVR to rip video in MPEG2 format on the fly from various sources. The PVR always rips perfectly with no video or audio sync problems on playback. However, when I want to cut or merge these files with TMpegENC, occasionally I get audio sync problems. I always rip from the PVR at the same format (MPEG2 2 Mbps) and cut/merge with TMpegENC to SVCD. It seems to occur only in larger files and only later in the file cut. For example, I rip a one hour show, and it ends up being a gigabyte or so. Then when I go to cut/merge the file, I can do so with no problems until I get say halfway into the file, try to cut/merge a new clip and the audio is out of sync.
Any suggestions or help?? thanks!
I capture mpegs from VHS using Ulead studio 6. The audio stream is 44100. If I FINISH the project in Studio 6, the resulting DVD audio at 48000 sounds fine. But yo get rid of the noise at the bottom of the frame, I use TMPG with bottom mask. The respulting mpeg file, ready for burning, has an annoying, shrill bloom or sizzle in the audio track. The only way I've been able to eliminate it is to FINISH the project in Studio 6 and then re-encode it all over again in TMPG with the bottom maked out.
My guess is that TMPG is misreading the input stream as 48000.
Had the same problem that seemingly just popped up. The only way I could "clean up" the audio was to set up everything I wanted in TMPeg and then "normalize" the audio.
This is most likely the usual problem with TMPG's samplerate converter. It isn't too good. To solve your problem use an external samplerate converter with TMPG. One of the best is SCMPX. Just go to enviromental settings and click the external tool tab and choose SCMPX as the external program to use.
If multiplex 2 audio files 128 kps MpegI, in an MpegII svcd video file (even if chosen SVCD mulitplex mode) the orignal quality of the video gets bad and worse ... does anyone know how to solve this problem ?
(The orginal video is 2500 kps.The orgignal plays realy very good)
I am using DVD2AVI (1.86) to generate a .d2v file and an .AC3 file from .VOB files. If I do this for NTSCFilm format (either as 29.97 or forced film 23.97 fps), once I have used TMPEnc to produce a video only mpeg2 (3:2 Pulldown 23.97 (29.97 fps internally) otherwise video is not smooth) when I load the mpeg and AC3 files into Spruceup or ULEAD Movie Factory and produce a DVD, the audio progesively goes out of sink throught the DVD?!
I'm not sure at which stage the audio / video is affected i.e. DVD2AVI / TMPEnc or Spruceup but the final video is the right time duration, the sound seems to get progrsevly ahead.
I haven't found any tools which will let me work with AC3 (DD) most requre down sampling to DS :-( (.wav or .mp3).
I think this could be a problem with with DVD2AVI as it is known for sync probs where the audio is concerned.
To extract your AC3 use VOB2AUDIO, it is much better at it and can extract to AC3, wav or mp3 and is more accurate as it uses direct show filters to do the ripping much the same as what Graphedit does. http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/vob2audio.html
Since removing interlace artifacts seems to always be one of the hard parts of mpeg 2 compression, would shooting video with a camera that will do progressive scan (vs normal interlace) (e.g., Canon Elura) generally provide a better result when the target is DVD?
I realize I will have to perform some experimentation, but might this be generally true? It could have a huge bearing on what DV camera I buy next.
Is content of commercial DVDs progressive? (Then DVD player outputs interlaced for most people and outputs progressive for people with higher end player and TV?)
All DVD movies originally start out as progressive and then have pulldown added to make them interlaced.
Progressive movies don't have the problem of interlacing artifacts and therefore can save much time if you capture to progressive frames in the first place as you won't have to de-interlace or apply IVTC to the movie before encoding it and should therefore give a better quality result in the final movie.
If you can, go for the DVcam that can capture progressive frames. It will save you a lot of time and frustration when it comes to encoding it.
I don"t know what is wrong but you can just encode your mpa files to wav files, tmpgenc does not like to encode mpeg audio, but encodes wav the best, I use "db power amp" cuz it is free and fast with good quality and it extracts audio from most video files, I use it rather than "virtuadub" for audio extraction.....