Recently TMPG has stopped letting me encode mp2 files for no reason when i try to open them as the input file i get an error that the file is not supported and it cannot be opened when i could before the only thing i can think has changed on my pc is that i installed the newest version of directX. I am running TMPG 2.5 plus. Anyone know how i can get around this program, do i need to reinstall an older version of DX if so where can i get it from!

I am still able to use DVDx but its a much worse piece of software to do what tmpg used to do for me.
The version of DX i am running is 8.1

Direct x has nothing to do with it! you are opening MPEG2 files and therefore you need MPEG2 codecs. Techno was so nice at this, as he gave FREE AND LEGAL MPEG2 codecs.

This MPEG2 enables us to encode and open MPEG2 files.

Hardcore

What's Techno got to do with this. The codecs you are talking about were not his and are freely available all over the net.

http://www.plmovies.com/mpeg2codec_installer.zip

ASHY

I cannot attach created AVI with other AVI part. I also do not get any message after the conversion is completed. I simply go the FILE menu and END it when conversion is finished (I think). I see 100% in progress bar.
Can somebody guide me please, If I am making a mistake somewhere !!!

If the conversion is truely finsihed the stop button should be grayed (not active) if you are encoding a big file it will sit at 100% for a while before completing.

I'm trying to merge m1v video and mp3 audio files, but after the merging, strange audio glitches appear in the sound. And the thing is, these glitches aren't completely random - there seems to be a 'rhythmic' pattern to where they appear. e.g. if there's music in the audio, and there's a drum part included, then the glitches might correspond exactly to where (some of) the kick drum beats are played. They also might appear at the same time as the regular beats of the song.

Anyone have any ideas?

Working on Win98SE, I can only create 18mins of DV footage at a time which I will encode to mpeg 1 using TMPGEnc.

This gives me two to four mpeg 1 files to 'merge' using the MPEG Tools within TMPGEnc.

I notice that there is a beep tone at the merging point between two clips and is consistent regardless of the footage length.

I have tried it on all formats of mpeg, VCD, SVCD, MPEG-2 and the beep tone is still there.

Anyone with a fix or tweak for this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks
NT

This happens when you cut or join a file in the middle of a gop,the best way for you to encode your multiple avi files is to frame serve it through "virtualdub" then you wont have to join them ,they will be joined as you encode them and you won"t be able to tell where you joined them if you do it right,You can learn more about it at "www.virtualdub.org"...

Downloaded VirtualDub as suggested but couldn't get it to recognize the DV-AVI files that I am working with.

Just for info, I am using MSP6.5 and the files are DV Type-1.

Thanks for any info or help that you may provide.

Cheers!

Have the same problem here, have de multiplexed the MP2 sound file.
But now I do not have an edditor for MP2 sound files

u can use Ulead Audio Editor, a very good one for ur purpose.

Hey, I have a couple Real Media Files that won't open, when I try to open them I get the error message, "Invalid MetaFile" Or "Unsupported Document" I have tried to open them in a whole bunch of different programs, but none of them work. Is there anyway to fix this problem?

Thanks

Real media is not supported in tmpgenc , you will need to convert the RM file to avi with something like "Trina"(I think thats what it is called)..You can find it on any search engine....

I get the error when i try to open them in RealPlayer, when I try to convert them to AVI it wont work, which is probably related to the errors that I receive.

Hi there!!

Is there any way of resizing a mpeg-1 file from 16:9 to 4:3 without having to re-encode?....

Depends on where you wish to play the file. If you only intend to play it on the PC then DVMPEG has a tool which can change the aspect ratio of an MPEG without re-encoding.

ASHY

Ok ive been messing with alot of programs. i can make a perfect svcd film with tmpgenc plus. but want to put the svcd to dvd-r. i know its possible, but need to know how, and what programs are needed. ive tryed mydvd and it sucks

plz help

There is no differance between dvd and svcd formats accept the resolution and the headers, so what you can try is to take your svcd file and remove the svcd headers by loading it into the "merge and cut" and chooseing the "mpeg2/vbr"setting and then choose your output then click run ,it will then make a copy of your file but with out the svcd headers, then you can burn it in "Nero" useing the dvd option...I don"t see why this would not work, accept that the audio might not work cuz i think that dvd audio has to be 48000hz...

Ok ive redone the svcd file as you said, but what options do i use in nero(dvd) to burn to the dvd-r. Surely i cant just drag and drop the mpeg2 file. does it not all need converted into .vob files and stuff. Is there a good program that will convert a mpeg2 file to audio_ts and video_ts that seems to be what it asks for. Please help with some detailed explantaion of how to put svcd to dvd-r with out having to encode the mpeg using a dvd template in tmpgenc. Spruceup sort of worked. but there must be a better way to do it.

TIA

http://www.vcdhelp.com/svcddvdr.htm

The best walkthrough you'll find for what you want to do

I was wondering what ISO meant when it says "CD-R 700MB (ISO)" in the Unknown Media function. I chose the 700MB ISO version when I decided to encode the avi into an mpg. I've had some burning trouble because the minutes on the movie was over 80 minutes and the burning program would not burn it. I've had other questions posted regarding this problem, so if someone could help me on that I would really appreciate it. I believe it's titled "Please help!!! Big burning problem!!!" Was it correct to choose this function (700MB ISO)?

system: 900MHz Athlon AMD-751 256MB W2K-sp2 tmpgenc 2.54

Tried to transcode 2 hour wmv stream (WMV: V7 YUY2 352x480 3Mb/s, WMA: V8 44,1Kb/s stereo 96Kb/s) to mpeg-2 (DVD-NTSC template). [Also tried more reasonable mpeg-2 templates with same outcome].

Used the admin. counters to monitor paging and memory use. It seems to me that memory is consumed fast. At 8% (10% using RamBooster) already ~1GB of swap-file space was used. The end result is always an "out of memory" message.

Q:
1) Am I the only one observing this phenomenon?
2) Am I doing something wrong?
3) Are there any fixes/patches or work-arounds?

thanks

--- amm

I have never heard of this problem but this is just a thought ,maybe cuz you are encodeing wmv files,Tmpgenc does not seem to fully support wmv files when ever I try to encode wmv files after about 10 or 15 minutes of encoded wmv it would either freeze up on me or I would get any number of errors, have you tried to encode a different format? like avi files? see if it works fine with avi files on your system then it could be because of the wmv format, just a thought.....

Increasing the virtual memory to maximum should help.

ASHY

To Minion:
Yes, I tried other formats (like avi) and they work fine. It is definitely a problem of importing wmv files into tmpgenc.

To Ashy:
Yes, increasing virtual memory will prevent --- sometimes --- "out of memory" messages: For the previous example I would have to increase the swap-file in theory to ~10GB --- + some extra to prevent any weird system crashes ---. The problem is that ix86 architectures have an address space of 32b (4GB).
Not to mention, that increased disk access leads to slower transcoding.

thanks

There may be a limit of 4096 gb as you say but nothing is stopping you from creating more than swap file. In theory it could be as large as you want it.

ASHY

That should be 4096 mb not gb.

ASHY

Ugnore the daft typos above and read this instead, it may make more sense.

There may be a limit of 4096 mb as you say but nothing is stopping you from creating more than one swap file. In theory it could be as large as you need it.

ASHY

You may have noticed I have a new keyboard it is one of those ergonomic types with the keys at a weird angle. I think I'll go back to my old one so people can then understand my posts.

ASHY

converted the file OK, but when i play the movie in media player, the picture is upside down?

That could be media player , Do NOT use media player to view mpeg files cuz it sucks for mpeg files and you will allways think you have problems with your files cuz media player does not play them correctly, use dvd playing software like "power dvd" and you will probably find that it is fine..

There is a program that can make Adobe Premiere work on TMPGEnc, dos anybody know this program? I have seen a link on the BBS, but now I can't find it!

Do you want to use tmpgenc as a plugin for premier? or do you just want to encode files made by premier?

i use: Premiere Video Server Plugin v0.93(with installer) Download [1318K]
http://www.videotools.net (this might be known -> sorry then)

I've been creating VCD's from .avi files frequently lately, and I've come across a new movie that will have sound in .avi format, but not when it's encoded to mpeg. The audio format is MPEG layer-3. I've tried de-multiplexing the file, and converting the audio file to wav and mp3, but I still can't hear any sound when i play the converted files in winamp. Can you help me find an audio format that will play in a vcd-compatible dvd player?
Thanks.
Chris

The only audio format that is compatible with vcd players is mp2, you can either extract your audio to wav and then encode it with your video with tmpgenc or you can extract the audio from your avi and encode it to mp2 then multiplex it to your mpeg video file,"db power amp" encodes to mp2 and it is free....

Hello,
i've got the same problem but i detected the reason... sorry Minion, but you didn't answer the question of doja_01, because the question was 'why is there no audio after converting any AVI with MP3 audio source to MPG'... But back to the problem. TMPGENC can not convert MP3 audio streams which are encoded with VBR. Because of the missing time scale (the base for calculating the output stream) TMPGENC simply does not know how to handle this situation and just does not encode audio at all. Maybe including an external MP3 encoder (such as LAME) may solve the problem, but i didn't try myself (maybe this weekend, i'll let you know what happened).
I hope this will help a little bit...

Greetings