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I employ the last version of TMPEnc and I have a question.Can somebody help me and to explain how I then to cut a file MPEG in some of the same files cuts?
If I can employ another software to cut my videos, which is his name?
Thank you in advance.
I don"t really know exactly what you are talking about but it sounds like you are looking for a mpeg editor, there are quite a few good mpeg editors like "m2-edit pro" and "mpeg2vcr" and "ulead video studio, and, media studio" any of these will do a good job editing your mpeg files...
Is it possible to have an option to save out uncompressed audio from TMPGEnc.
I am using it to make DVD's and I would like to use AC3 for audio.
Currently I have to
1, Extract from my Tivo
2, Multiplex
3, Encode and edit in TMPGEnc
4, Demultiplex
5, AC3 encode in BeSweet
6, Multiplex
This has caused an extra encode of the audio in the chain, and will be reducing the quality. If the Audio could be made to come out of TMPGEnc as PCM Then I could avoid step 4 and quality loss.
Can anyone help me with opening & encoding a DV file?
I have changed the VFW to priority 1 in the VFAPI plugin menu (as suggested at vcdhelp.com) but it won't encode the file.
It says 'Can not open or not supported'
I have an NTSC SVCD video that I have encoded that causes ZoomPlayer, BSPlayer, and WMP6.4 to freeze on the exact same frame. The clip however plays back fine in PowerDVD.
When it freezes the video stops playing immediately, and the sound continues for another second or two and then stops as well, but the time coutners in any of these players continues to run to the end of the file. If I attempt to click anything in any of the players the applications will freeze requiring an End Task from Task manager.
I have re-encoded this video about 4 or 5 times now, and it freezes at the same spot every time.
I have tried 2.55 and 2.56.
It appears to freeze ont he last frame before a scene change.
I have clipped out the relevant section of the file (it's about 8mb), if you would like it sent to you somehow (ftp, icq transfer, irc dcc), or my TMPG project file, e-mail me.
I have encoded many videos with TMPG and this is the first one i've experienced this with.
This is odviously a problem with the file you are encodeing as opposed to tmpgenc, there is probably a badly corrupted frame in the avi file at the exact point were it freezes,you can use the "cut editing" feature in the source range to skip encodeing the bad frame or frames were the problem happens....
It seems strange that TMPG is producing an error in this file.
I don't see why this would affect it, but as a test why don't you encode this movie without the manual IVTC,maybe use the automatic IVTC or non at all to see what effect it has. It may be a bug with the IVTC.
I've tried everything I can think of to get it to work as it should, I failed to mention this was the first video i've encoded with the new versions and I don't recall what my previous version of TMPG was but it was expired so I had to upgrade and I never had this problem with it.
I now have a totally different source video with the exact same problem, again it freezes at the same specific point every time the video is played back.
It doesn't seem to matter what I do or how many ways I try encoding either of these videos, they continue freezing at the same location.
Lately, some of the new mpegs i made had a sound sync problem. I'm sure it wasn't a problem with the original avi since that played fine. This is just a suggestion to put something to fix any sync problems in the mpeg tools.
You can find the tool you are looking for in BBMPEG.
BBMPEG will allow you to skew the audio when multiplexing.
As a note, what most people don't realise is that a great percentage of these AVI's which have been downloaded which may play ok and in sync are usually at fault for sync probs not TMPG. The reason being is that a lot of these crappy AVI's are originally out of sync and have been adjusted by skewing the audio to re-sync the movie.
These then play ok, but when it comes to encoding this skew is ignored by the encoding program and thus ends up out of sync.
If the AVI is loaded into Virtualdub first it will usually tell you how much skew has been added. You can then add this skew to the MPEG using the audio gap correct in the source range before encoding.
at first i had no problems creating vcd. now everytime i use tmpgenc my movie plays good on my dvd for about 10 minutes and then it starts freezing. the converted version of the movie does the same thing on my computer while the unconverted version plays fine on my computer. PLEASE HELP
When I try to combine a .wav file & an .avi file it comes up saying
"index of scan line is out of range (239)" What does that mean? I have other files that seem the same and they work fine. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks, Larry
When I use VirtualDub it tells me to reencode the audio as a wav. When I do that and use tmpgenc the movie becomes out of sync in the audio. I have even tried to make the Avi(DivX) a single cd I get a constant error message. I have about ten movies I've downloaded that I have "VBR audio needs to be recommpressed".
You can re-sync your mpeg by de-muxing it and re-muxing with a program like "bbmpeg" or "mpegvcr" cuz they have a option so you can off-set the audio or video to sync them up, and there is a function in tmpgenc in the source range that lets you off-set the audio so you can sync up while encodeing...
I have a 30 minute AVI file (actually several) when I conver to MPEG NTSC VCD (using the wizard) I wind up with a 45 minute MPEG the file size is 518mb and should be a little over 300mb if my math is correct.
Don"t leave us in suspence what is on the other 15 minutes????is it just the last frame repeated for 15 minutes?usually errors like these have to do with some sort of problem with your file, try useing the "source range" and set the begining and end points of the movie and see if tmpgenc encodes it correctly....
Are you saying you want to extract the ac3 from the AVI?
You should be able to do this with Virtualdub_ac3 no problem. Just make sure you use the direct stream copy option under the audio tab.
the problem with this file is that although i can watch it OK in windows media
player, virtual dub wouldnt open it saying that the file is of unknown or
unsupported format :(
how could that be?
what should i do?
help please?
that's the problem - properties of that file wont give me ANY info as for
it's video and audio properties :(( generally, properties say everything,
encoding, bitrate, framerate, u name it... so i dont even know what to think
about this movie file :(
if it helps, tmpgenc can open it, i can play around with it, but when i start
encoding, it gives an error about starting some module or something - sound i
guess...
any ideas??
Is this file actually an AVI?
If you can play this file in the old media player 6.4 and click properties it should tell you what the file is. I'm guessing it's not an AVI.
the files DOES have an extension avi, but when i click "open avi" button in
avi info proggy, and choose that file - it displays a window saying "file is no avi" and "ok" button. that's it.
maybe some smartass changed extension? or what could be the problem?
how can i know what video format it is?
It sound as though this file isn't an AVI at all.
Maybe it is WMV or MJPEG.
Don't use Media player 7/8 or right click the file for the properties.
If you play this file in the old media player 6.4 and click properties it should tell you what the file is.
Either way I don't think you going to be able to extract the AC3 from this file, if is indeed Ac3 which I suspect it isn't.
How do you know the audio is Ac3?
The only way would be to extract the audio to a wav.
I've been using TMPGEnc for some time now. Recently, I purchased a DVD burner and started playing with the idea of getting 2 hours onto a single disc. Compressing the audio to AC3 makes this possible. While playing around with the 2 pass VBR....I noticed that if I set the motion search to high quality.... the encode took about 24 hours on my P4 1.6 and produced a 3.5 gig file (Digital8 source) and setting motion search to fast, the same encode took about 10 hours and produced a 3.5 gig file as well. Now.....on my 32" RCA CRT TV.....it's impossible to tell the difference. Why? Hell....if I can get the same results using fast motion search......I'm there!!! But since it looks exactly as the high quality setting, why use anything but fast? Anyone else notice this?
On a side note......I'm thinking about getting into the business of converting peoples home movies to DVD......what should I charge for something like this? And instead of crunching with TMPGEnc, wonder if I bought a Philips DVR for $1,000 and just pumped the video from my source, straight to the DVR and let it crunch 2 hours to a DVD in real time. Wonder how the quality compares to that vs. using TMPGEnc?
The reason that you probably don't see much difference in the quality of the two files is because you are using a reasonably high bitrate to encode.
The motion search precision only really affects files that are encoded with a lower bitrate as this bitrate has to be better allocated as there isn't any spare to go round unlike when encoding to a DVD.
Using the high quality setting searches further ahead in the file for motion and allocates the bitrate for those frames accordingly and DOES make a difference where VCD and SVCD are concerned and the difference will even then probably only be noticable in fast action scenes, so take another look at something moving fast and compare.
The other explanation is that seeing as you are using a 2 pass, the bitrate for each scene is already set in the first pass for each scene in the second pass and therefore the motion search setting won't have much of an influence except for slowing things down and maybe increasing the quality only slightly, which in any case you would find hard to see on a TV of your size.
On another note the time it is taking to encode a movie is for some reason pretty slow for the speed of your PC, even for 2 pass.
Most movies will take 4 hrs max on my system when using 2 pass set at normal precision.
I capture my video over the firewire port into VegasVideo 3.0 at 720x480. As for bit rates....don't really play with them. Just use the wizards. I keep hearing how CQ is better than 2 pass VBR. It was explained that if you want to fit 2 hours of video onto DVD and have it look nice, use 2 pass VBR. If you want awesome quality video and don't care about size, go with CQ. I was using CQ for moving home videos to DVD but getting 1 hour per disc kinda stunk so I looked into 2p-vbr and 2 hours can easily fit onto a DVD disc with AC3 audio. NOW....I see some people claiming to get 2 hours of CQ onto a single 4.7 gig DVD disc. How so? Even with AC3 audio, my CQ files were coming out around 3+ gigs per hour. What are they doing right? I don't want visual artifacts in my video so I don't wanna lower my max bitrate while using CQ to say 6000. I usually keep that at 7000 or 8000. Is that their trick? CQ with a max bitrate of 6000?
It's not the max bitrate you need to worry about, it's the minimum bitrate and as far as I'm aware 2000 kps should be the lowest minimum when using CQ and 9000 kps the max bitrate. You will then have to play with the quality slider to acheive the best quality and file size to fit on one DVD without artifacts. This should be easily possible on a DVD as I can do it using CQ on to 2 80min Cd's.
I have tested TMPG's DVD template which uses the CQ method and the settings are more or less right to fit a regular movie on one DVD without artifacts. It all depends on the length of the movie.
If you do see artifacts don't play with the bitrate just increase the slider slightly until they disappear.
Ashy, could you please post or email me a .MCF template file which will allow me to put 2 hours of Digital8 footage onto a DVD disc with no artifacts? My video is targeted for NTSC DVD 720x480 rez.