when i encode my mpegs using the VBR SVCD or CBR SVCD template for NTSC, i'm getting green sqaure pixels pop up here and there on the screen, then another 2 seconds, they come back then go away on darker parts of the movie. is this part of the encoder? is there another algorithm i can use or matrix?

thanks

There have been complaints of discoloration in mpeg"s when the "angel potion codec" is installed on the same machine, but if that isn"t your problem then i don"t know what it could be unless they are interlaceing artifacts which I would correct with the de-interlace filter...

If this only happens on you DVD player then try to lower your burn speed to no more than 4x.
A lot of players have trouble reading disks that have been burned higher than 4x causing the effect you are seeing and also jerkyness and funny pops and noises in the sound. If you experience any of these then lower the burn speed or try different disks as certain cheap disks can also cause this.

Another thing is to watch the max bitrate you have set. Your player may not be able to handle the rate you have set. A lot of players can struggle above 2600 kb/s.

ASHY

thanks guys. appreciate the help, but i get the green sqaures when watching it on my computer as well through powerdvd, as an mpeg and as a SVCD bin file. maybe try and use another quantrize matrix? like using an MPEG standard matrix instead of the default? no one else has this problem? i might just be picky about the quality as well, like i said, it doesn't come up in bright screens, and my apex player plays 20x to 24x cds very well including some that i didn't encode and they come out fine....maybe use another tmpgenc template?

thanks guys

thanks guys. appreciate the help, but i get the green sqaures when watching it on my computer as well through powerdvd, as an mpeg and as a SVCD bin file. maybe try and use another quantrize matrix? like using an MPEG standard matrix instead of the default? no one else has this problem? i might just be picky about the quality as well, like i said, it doesn't come up in bright screens, and my apex player plays 20x to 24x cds very well including some that i didn't encode and they come out fine....maybe use another tmpgenc template?

thanks guys

my movies are usually one large divx file... 500 megs or so.., and i was wondering if there is a way to program tmpeg to split the movie into 2 automatically. i know how to mess with the source range, but i needed where i can press start and let it run during the night. and when i wake up i want to have 2 mpegs(vcd) files. sometimes i run tmpeg twice, but my pc cant handle that...... if you know how i can use task manager to have one start in the middle of the night... that would be cool.or if tmpeg has the ability to do this on its own.... where can i find out how.if it does not have the ability it would be awesome if you can add it. Like in winrar and winace where you tell it a size limit and it splits the file into diffrent parts each matching the size limit. Except in this case it should go back 3 seconds so we wont miss anything during the split.

use the batch encodeing mode and you can load as many movies as you want and come back in a month and have 100 movies encoded...Well not quite, what you do is load in your avi file use the source range and set it up for the first half of your movie and do your settings like you were going to encode then go to "file" and save it to a project file, then go and do the settings for the second half then go to file and save it as a project file.Now go to "file" to "batch encode" and then load your project files in the batch encode window and then you are ready to encode ....now go to sleep and you will have tmpgenc slaveing away for you all night encodeing ........

After buying tmpgenc plus I have recieved an email giving me a code to be entered. The email says to press "register" on the "splash screen". Unfortunately I cant register tmpgenc plus as there is no "splash screen" when i start the program, there is only a wizard. I have tried looking under "help" "about" but there is nowhere to register there either. "help" "about" does give me a splash screen saying i have 30 days to try the program, but still nowhere to register. How can I enter my registration code?

first of all, you need to download TMPGEnc Plus.

I think this is wrong place to ask such question.

You have obviously downloaded the non plus version of TMPG. Go to the Pegasus site and download the PLUS version.

ASHY

my audio is little faster than
my video source...
I used dbpoweramp to convert
asf file to wav or mp2.
when i encode wav and asf to mpg,
video source is little faster than audio source
and
when i encode mp2 and asf to mpg
sound source is little faster than video source...

is there's way i can put video and sound source
coming out evenly?

Don"t encode the mp2, just encode the asf and multiplex the mp2 with your video..

what's multiplex?
how do i do?

Multiplex is the joining of a video stream and an audio stream, you have a "mp2" audio file that does NOT need to be encoded, but you have a mpeg video that has no audio, so you need to join the two streams, to do this go to "file" to "mpeg tools" then to the "multiplex" load in your audio and video file then choose the correct setting in the drop down menu eg:mpeg1/vcd or mpeg2/svcd,Then click run, and it will join the two files together.....

Hey I was wondering how to open an mpeg2 file / svcd in tmpgenc? When I try to it says the file cant open or is unsupported. Thanks for any help.

You need the "mpeg2 plugin" then you still might have to de-multiplex your svcd file and load the streams seperately.......

Is there a way to automate (or even script) tmpgenc to work with virtuadub etc?

I was thinking I would be nice to pass a file(s) to it via a 'shell' program or script (and with virtauldub) and have the results output to disk in one go.

Would make the program much more useful!

You can It is called "frame serveing" .......

TMPG has had the ability to work with Virtualdub frameserver files for as long as I can remember.
Really, you should use a thing called the internet and do a little research before making requests for something which is already there.
As for scripting, ever heard of AVIsynth.

ASHY

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to edit indivdual frames in an mpeg. I don't mean just cut it out but to like at censor blurs or lettering in the frame. If this is not possible then is it possible to edit out the video completly and just leave the audio. I tried murgiong an mpeg without video and just audio to some with video and audio but it told me that it was not possible. So in short, can I make a black screen with sound? - Jonah

You could cut the part out you want to alter then re-encode it with TMPG to a series of bitmaps then edit the bitmaps as you wish and then re-encode them back to an MPEG and rejoin it with the movie.

If you want to encode a blank screen with just sound then just load up your MPEG into TMPG then clear the Video field and set the option to 'System (Video+Audio)' and TMPG will encode the movie with sound and a blank screen.

ASHY

i downloaded two programs for avi2mpeg, this one and a "avi 2 vcd mpeg-1 encoder". The vcd encoder gives me sound and picture (after i have already decompressed the sound of course) but it takes....well it's going on 15 hours for half a movie! this program however only takes me about 6 to 7 hours, but iget sound and no picture. i went in and looked at the avi2vcd encoder and tried figure out what kind of numbers i was getting on that program and maybe i could set the tmpg to the same settings but was unsuccessful. please help me.

Goto Option>Enviromental setting click the 'VFAPI plugin' tab then right click on the 'Directshow multimedia file reader' and raise it's priority to 2 and put the rest at 0.

ASHY

thank you very much! All is working well now, I can't express how thankful i am! one more question, probebly heard a million times but how can i speed up the process? i got a bigger hard drive cause i heard that might help but is there anything else?

What are the best CDR / CDRW's (on the local market) to use when burning VCD's?

This is a difficult one to answer because it all depends on your burner and player. Some burners work better with certain disks than others.

I have tried many disks and have had good ones and crap ones. Usually the best disks are the Taio Yuden manufactured disks,Phillps,TDK,Kodak,Sony.

The disks I'm using at the moment are the best I've used so far. Which has really suprised me because they are actually made by Ritek and are the DATASAFE brand or the WHITELABEL brand. These disks are excellant on my player for VCD.

I used to have a problem with some cheaper disks causing jerky playback and I could never burn a disk higher than 4x or it would jerk like hell.
With these disks there is never a jerk, a stutter a pop or anything, they play perferct 99.9% of the time even the more expensive disks didn't achieve this and these diska are quite cheap to buy.

Ritek used to have a bad name for CDR's but I have done some research into these disks and they have apparantly improved the quality now as they are aiming at the professional sector with these disks.

I certainly approve of these disks so maybe they would work for you.

ASHY

I used tmpgenc 2.53 to encode an AVI-movie captured from a camcorder. Although the result on TV is reasonable I expected a better result compared to the original DV. Especially in the moving scenes I see a lot of pixels/snow. I used the standard SVCD-template (PAL). Is this normal or are there any better SVCD-templates or perhaps XVCD-templates available? Can someone help me by providing such templates resulting in higher quality or give me some hints.
Thanks in advance.

Gerrit

They're on their way.

ASHY

Hello Ashy,

Thanks again for sending the templates. I have used the SVCD(PAL) but now my TV shows a jerky movie. I think, this has to do with the DVD-player (Grundig 5100). What to do now, should I lower the maximum bitrate?

kind regards
Gerrit

Is this your player - Grundig Xenaro GDP 5100?

I have done some checking and there are mixed opinions of what it can handle. Some say it can handle bitrates up to 4000 kb/s others say only up to 2600 kb/s.

As a test set the max bitrate to 2600 kb/s and see what happens and most importantly make sure you burn your MPEG at no higher than 4x as this can and does cause the movie to jerk.

ASHY

By the way are you using CDRW or CDR for your MPEGs. If you are using CDRW then try it with a CDR. CDRW always play back jerky on my player, but the same movie plays fine on CDR.

ASHY

Thanks for your response,

I tried it on a CDR instead of a CDRW but it still resulted in a jerky movie (4000 kb/s). Decreasing the max. bitrate to 2600 does work, but the result is the same as the standard SVCD-template of tmpgenc: when the camcorder is moving and following a subject the background of the movie is full of pixels. Is it possible to improve this?

kind regards
Gerrit

I'm afraid it's down to what your player is able to handle as the blocks are just an effect that using lower bitrates than the particular scene requires causes.
There isn't really much you can do about it, all you can really do is do some tests to find out how much bitrate you can use before your player starts to choke.
If you are more concerned about image quality than audio quality then you could sacrifice some of the audio bitrate so you could up the video bitrate slightly. If you reduce the audio bitrate to 128 kb/s you can up the video bitrate and extra 96 kb/s, not much I know, but it will help and remember the total bitrate your player can handle is the audio bitrate plus the video bitrate.

Setting the motion search precision to 'high' will give slightly better quality, but don't bother with 'highest' as it doesn't make a difference and doubles the time of the encode.
Also make sure you have 'soften block noise' checked in the quantize matrix tab.

ASHY

Ok, and thanks

Gerrit

Whenever I try to merge mpeg files together with the "merge/cut" tool of Tmpgenc I get a high pitch beep/chirp at each join point. I even try using the "correct" option and still I get the audio noise. I use VirtualDUB to capture the segmented files so there is really no way for me to merge at a differnt point. I can seperate the video from the audio and then edit them back together but that is too much work.

When will they fix this problem in Tmpgenc and make this problem go away and make the "correct" option automatic?

Thanks in advance.

Your main problem is that MPEGs are not meant to be edited and is not a fault of TMPG.
You shouldn't be joining them anyway. What you should be doing is using the option in Virtualdub to join the segmented AVI's together and then frameserve them to TMPG. This is much simpler than the way you are doing things and will prevent the beep you are having problems with.

ASHY

I have a 4gig limit in windows98 so how am I suppost to merge my files after that? Or better yet explain this frameserve to me.

Thanks.

You don't merge them. If you have captured them with Virtualdub to segmented AVI's then Virtual dub will automatically open all the segments as if was one one file. You would then start the frameserver by clicking File>start framserver and then you will be asked to name an output for the frameserver file. Name it and give it an AVI extension then open that file with TMPG and encode.

If you need more info on setting up the frameserver go to http://www.vcdhelp.com it will tell you everthing you need to know.

ASHY

is it possible to have TMPGENC split a file up into 700MB size mpeg files when it encodes so I can burn it out to cd?

File>Mpegtools>merge&cut

ASHY

thx. I actually found that after i wrote the post. I was curious if there was a way to do it when you first encode it so you dont have to do it after.

Yes, you would use the 'source range' filter and set the start and end points at a point in the movie where you wish to split it.

ASHY