ive been encoding for a while now but all of a sudden the finished movie has started coming out upside down..????...any ideas

its ok...got it sorted

Hi
I run a trial version of tmpg and Premiere 6
When I use avisynth, I load the part0.avs file in tmpg
But it is write that there is no command called IPCSource
Is someone may help Me???
Thanks

Go to http://www.videotools.net and download a new version of Avisynth
there.It should have the command IPCSource.(They write on their page
right now that this command was moved to a dll,so you'll have to download
this dll too and declare it as a plugin in your avisynth script before
using IPCSource).

i have a movie clip that is actually filmed upside-down! Can i flip the picture so i can veiw it right with TMPGEnc? if not, maby someone knows a program that can.

Thanks,

Marcus

Load the film into Virtualdub,apply the vertical flip filter,
start the frameserver and open the frameserver file in Tmpgenc.

AVI to MPEG2 (SVCD) TV useage PAL.

When I read some sites about converting AVI into MPEG2 (SVCD) I see something about de(non) interlaced and interlaced.

Do I use the option/filter deinterlaced or is this not neccesary for TV use.

I have seen some forum post on www that it can be that the quality drops for TV usage with deinterlaced filter on.

Who knows the right answer.

Generally speaking,you shouldn't deinterlace if you plan to watch it
on TV because interlacing won't degrade the visual quality on TV
and not to deinterlace it preserves the material most which is desirable.

Hello,

My ? is when I convert a AVI file to MPG the video is fine, But I have NO AUDIO?
The AVI file plays fine with both audio and video,Before I convert it.. If you have any help on this I would really appreacite it...

Thanks,
Frank

extract the audio file from the movie using virtualdub (save as wav ) and insert with the video file

Some time when I try to convert an .avi file to .mpg it say "Error illegal floating decimal point" and it halts my conversion to the point that I would only be able to get part of the job done. How would I fix that?

Try uninstalling all programs you use and installing them again and
check your settings.If the avi file is a DVD rip or something like that,
try to create the avi file again and use it then.

That error is usually caused by corrupted frames in your avi file, to get rid of the error go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "cpu" and un-check the "SSE and SSE-2" boxes, then go to "settings" to "quantize matrix" and un-check the "use floating point dts" box this will get rid of the error but this error can also happen if you do anything with your computer while encodeing accept encode.....

is TMPGenc english version available?
where can i download it?

Go to http://www.tmpgenc.net,choose the English language version of the page
and download Tmpgenc from there.

Is a DivX movie converted into a SVCD the best quality that can be made other than a DVD. How much quality is lost in the conversion.

The best Quality besides DVD is probably mini dvd or xsvcd, mini dvd is a little more complicated than xsvcd so that is what I do, it is basicly a dvd on a cd-r accept for the fancy stuff......

>The best Quality besides DVD is probably mini dvd or xsvcd, mini dvd is a little more complicated than xsvcd so that is what I do, it is basicly a dvd on a cd-r accept for the fancy stuff......

How do I make a xvcd? I want the best quailty I can get other than buying a dvd burner.

Thanks

Well a xsvcd is basicly a mpeg2 file burned on a cd-r with svcd headers that isn"t a svcd, to make one it is up to you there aren"t any specific settings cuz it is a non-format, it can be what ever you want it to be,bepending on the source file.The ones I do are from dvd rips and they look pretty much just like the original dvd but I only get about 30-40 minutes per 80min 700mb cd-r, and not all dvd players will play them, the ones I do have a resolution of "704 by 480" and an average bitrate of about 3000kbs and a max of 8000kbs, but I don"t use "tmpgenc" to encode them cuz it takes to long on my system but tmpgenc is just as capible of doing them.I"m not going to write out a 5 page manual for you cuz there are other manuals out there. Go to "vcdhelp.com" and look for a manual on xsvcd"s, every one has there own system for makeing them but they are basicly a regular svcd with higher resolutions(or lower if you want)and higher(or lower)bitrates....

Thanks I'll give that a try.

Acording to VCDhelp it looks like I dont even use VCDEasy I just use TMPGenc and then Nero. Is that correct. If I understand I make the Mpg and drag it into Nero selecting SVCD and that makes a xSVCD?

You do not need vcd easy,you just encode to mpeg with the xsvcd settings then drag into nero in svcd mode then nero will give you an error about the resolution being wrong then you just burn it anyway and that is it ...

I cant see a way to encode with a xsvcd setting under Tmpgenc should I be using something elese. And again thanks for your help.

Steven

The quality I get is only 1500 is that good, or should I be changing something.

Like I said before xsvcd is a non-standard so there are NO settings for xsvcd you have to make them your self, there is no xsvcd template in tmpgenc you have to make one your self, cuz xsvcd is a NON-STANDARD so there are to specific xsvcd settings so do the settings your self.....

OHHH, and 1500kbs is not nearly enough for a good quality xsvcd, the way you unlock the settings is to load the "unlock.mfc" template in the EXTRA folder then you will be able to change every setting to what ever you want.....

When I change the bitrate above 1500 it wont fit on a CD. I figure most movies should fit on 2 cd's right? My movies start at 2500 but I have to roll them back to get them to fit on a cd (SVCD). I read that I should change the rate mode control from "cbr" to "2pass VBR", motion search to "High", NTSC to "704x480" and aspect to "full screen".

Should I change anything else or are these wrong. My videos are like VHS quality.

Mine barely fit on 3 cd"s but you said you wanted the best quality,and the higher the bitrate the better the quality,I told you that you will only get 30 to 40 minutes on a cd-r and I never said to use CBR either, use the CQ, the 2 pass method will take 3 times as long to encode and it isn"t noticeably better than CQ,You should read what I wrote in my posts so I don"t have to repeat myself, but to each his own I guess you have to find out what is best for you......good luck

If I use "CQ" I no longer can change the file size. Is that ok?

Steven

I read that KVCD and KSVCD can produce better results any thoughts?

Steven

Tmpg enc vresion 2.2.31.119


Problem....when I encode the captured raw video using the Tmpg enc to make it in to a VCD or SVCD, the lip sync is all out...the audio is 1.5 seconds ahead of the video!!! This only happens when capturing form a VHS. When I capture directly from the TV card (connected to the outside world - not from the VHS), this problem does not occur.

Can you offer any guidance...why is this happening? I want to back up and transfer my VHS videos to VCD or SVCD....I cannot do it with this problem..


Equipment Used:

AMD Duron 950 Mhz
768Meg Ram
20Ghz hard drive
Hauppage Win TV card
Matsui VHS recorder connected to

Is the sound also out of sync in the original avi file after capturing from
tape and before encoding?

no - the raw avi is fine - it does not go out of sync until it is encoded. But as I said, the problem is only with vhs capture, not with direct capture from TV card real time.

strange

If it simply is a case of the audio starting before or after the video you can fix it by multiplexing the streams together with "bbmpeg ,mpeg2vcr or m2-edit pro" they have a function that will let you off set the audio to match your video with there multiplexor.This problem happens sometimes with captures cuz the audio starts recording a second after the video starts recording.But if it is a de-sync cause by dropping of frames then it is more complicated to fix..

I do not think it is frame dropping because the problem is consistently the same each time, whereas frame dropping is inconsistent. I have downloaded an evaluation version of MP2VCR - would I use this in place of the entire TMPGENC package?

thanks
tc

I wouldn"t use "mpeg2vcr" for encodeing, the quality is pretty bad and it takes forever but the multiplexor is a handy tool accept it seems to put a lot of padding on the file ....

Anyone have a clue why this happens? It can even be the same exact file.. if I try to demux it will always see the stream itself, but sometimes it sees its ac3 and sometimes it just sees as an unlabeled stream... very strange. I can find no reason for this.

That is totally wierd that "tmpgenc" even sees the ac3 stream at all cuz tmpgenc is not capible of reading ac3 audio streams,it wont encode them and it wont multiplex them, I don"t know about de-multiplexing them cuz I have never tried but I know it wont work with encodeing them or multiplexing them.If you want a program that will mux and demux ac3 audio try a program called "xmuxer" you can get it for free at "www.elecard.com"

I just read in the "tmpgenc" help file and it says that ac3 streams are supported in the multiplexor, so I have to correct myself but for some reason I allways have problems muxing ac3 streams, but I guess It could be something wrong with my configuration......

Yeah kinda a strange way to support it, but no biggie, the program you pointed me to does a great job. Thanks for all the help, I've found solutions to my few problems as have with this great program, and perhaps several creative work arounds also. Once again thanks.

hm. I've worked around the Studio7 problems by re-encoding (using studio7) the original capture with huffyuv and then encoding with TMPGEnc. Turned out beautifully - until halfway through and then there's no more video - only audio.

I'm sure this is something dumb that I've gone and screwed up but if anyone has any ideas on what it might be it would save me a LOT of time messing with things.

Be sure that you didn't accidentally set some source/clipping range boundary.

i just made sure of all of that and am re-encoding now. hopefully all goes well. wouldn't setting the source range incorrectly have 86'd the audio too, though?

i just made sure of all of that and am re-encoding now. hopefully all goes well. wouldn't setting the source range incorrectly have 86'd the audio too, though?

grr, sorry about the duplicate post.

Okay, update to this problem: when scrolling through the source range filter, the video freezes at the same spot. However, audio continues just fine.


Freezing / loss of video happens at frame 4970.

I am trying to resize an mpg movie gtom an enhanced CD to the VCD standard size. The movie size converts ok, but I get no sound.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Tmpgenc has trouble sometimes encodeing compressed audio sources and the audio from the original mpeg is probably compressed, demultiplex the original mpeg and either use that audio to multiplex with your resized re-encoded mpeg or convert it to a wav file and use that as your audio source..

Thanks I'll try that, but what to I use to De-multiplex?