Can someone point me to documentation about the Deinterlace options?

The filter selection tool works fairly well but slight flaws in motion still seem to show up in the final product even with nothing visible in the TMPGenc viewer screen.

Deinterlace filter options include Even Field, Odd Field, Adaptation, Double, and the children of all these options.

Thanks,

Dee Tent

Here is a BBS on de-interlaceing maybe it will help..
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/4574/0/

VirtualDub + selected plugins has much better deinterlace options. Use built-in (blended) deinterlace for low motion footage or Smart Deinterlacer (interpolated) followed by Hi Quality Smoother if non-blurry still frames are required.

The latter method is slow but produces unbelieveable results on clean video (set motion threshold low in the deinterlace options). You essentially end up with 30fps progressive video at a high shutter speed.

Frameserve the result to TMPGEnc

when i convert from avi to vcd the vcd always comes out pink
can anyone help

cheers

This is probably because you have the "Angel Potion Codec" installed on your machine, the "Angel Potion" Codec has a wierd reaction with Tmpgenc and causes pink and purple discoloration, so to fix this you need to Delete the Codec then re-encode your file to VCD....

hi,

how can i make an avi file to an mpeg1 file, because i want to burn my movie on a video cd to play it on the dvd player in 16:9 format, the avi file is ind 16:9
i tried it with tmpgenc but it doesen`t work there is only 4:3 format

i hope somebody can help me how i make a avi into 16:9 mpeg1

:)

If you want 16:9 when you se VCD on a DVD you must go in to
sittings and set size to 352*340 aspect ration to 4:3 NTSC/PAL then
you clik the tab advansced and set Field order to Top Field first (Field A)
Then you set Source aspect ration to 1:1 (VGA)
Video arrange method you set to Full Screen (Keep aspect ration)

and all this is only if you have a 16:9 format AVI file

You will get a MPG file with Black bars and the 16:) movi in the midle
the most new 16:9 tv's have zoom so you can se 16:9 movies
The DVD have it to I think

Good Luck

From The Killer(DK) From DENMARK ***PEACE OUT***

you mean 352 x 240. ^_^

what does the ERROR 640 640 means??
I get that when i tries to convert a DIVX movie to SVCD

WHEN I AM ENCODING MY AVI TO MPEG2 I GET A ERROR STATING DECIMAL POINT CALCULATION ERROR. HOW CAN I FIX THIS OR EVEN AVOID IT?

THANKS JAY

A 30 seconds search with google.com and the keywords "decimal point calculation error tmpgenc" produced the following on the first hit:


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

--snap--
If TMPGEnc freezes or crashes when converting or you receive errors such as Unexpected decimal point calculation Illegal floating decimal point calculation order Try first to change the codec reader settings in TMPGEnc under Option->Environmental settings->VFAPI plug-in and right click on the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader and increase the priority to 1 or 2 and try open the video.
--snap--

And please fix your caps lock key too ...

hi,

how can i make an avi file to an mpeg1 file, because i want to burn my movie on a video cd to play it on the dvd player in 16:9 format, the avi file is ind 16:9
i tried it with tmpgenc but it doesen`t work there is only 4:3 format

i hope somebody can help me how i make a avi into 16:9 mpeg1

:)

You just Change the aspect ratio to "16:9" but you might need to load the "unlock.mcf" template to unlock the settings so you can change them after locking them in with the vcd template.....

Here a comparison of MP and non-MP performance on an Dual 750 Pentium III WinXP System:

TMPGenc 2.58 pro ,352x576 mpeg1(input stream resized to 320x320), CQ 65 700-2300 Kbit, Motion Search precision: normal, no Sound. Source was an DVD vob file.

Time to encode 1 minute

with 1 Prozessor: 3m37s
with 2 Prozessors: 2m41s

Out of curiostiy I tested 2 instances of TMPGEnc rendering in parallel.
4m07s for both tasks.

1 MP instance encoding 2 minutes of vob file: 5m22s
2 non-SMP instances encoding 2 minutes of vob file: 4m07s

So 2 non-MP instances of TMPGEnc running on an MP box outperforms an single MP instance of TMPGEnc running on the same Machine by a huge margin!

With motion search precicion: high the gap is closing a little bit. Sorry dont have exact measures on hand right now.

Since running 2 instances of TMPGEnc in parallel seems not 100% stable it would be great if the multiprocessor Code would get an update in one of the next releases :-)

cheers

M. Bastian

MP = MultiProcessor

Have you also tried these tests while saving the output to AVI using the DivX codec? I am just wondering because I have noticed a couple of odd things with multi-thread support in TMPGEnc and DivX 5.02 regarding the remaining time counter. I posted it on this forum earlier this week. Have you had any experiences with this?

No, sorry. Cant help you there. Until recently I didnt even know this is possible ;-)
I cant even test it right now cause one HD of this Box died yesterday and it takes at least a week for the warranty exchange.

Just a thought, but this was a common problem on NT4 systems, they could be notably slower on MP systems as it basically spent more time trying to figure out which CPU to use.

I would not expect this to reappear in XP after it was fixed in the NT4 service packs, but it may simply be easier for XP when 2 heavy tasks need to run on 2 CPUs.

I would try tweeking the XP registry settings to improve performance.

Simon

This might be a Problem but the same behavior is observed when I run TMPGEnc under Linux emulated with wine(Btw. which isnt an exactly an emulator like Vmware).
If I start it with MP enabled I see 2-4 TMPGEnc tasks in my task list so I dont think its an Windows SMP problem. As a matter of fact I waited with my report till I got an SMP machine with WIndows on hands so I could verify that its not an wine/Linux problem.

I am interested to know how your windows vs. Linux encode times compare, all else remaining the same.

Regards.

Does anyone use BeOS? I heard it supports up to 16 MP's (top that windows!)and was designed for video editing.

The speed under Linux is acceptable but not all addons(like avisynth)work propperly. As soon as I get my HD back und have some time on hand I will install Linux on the same Machine and get some hard data.
Does BeOS has an good Windows emulation? Anyway, TMPGEnc only soupports 2 Processors right now.

Any word on improved SMP? It seems to run about 75% load on my system.

hi,

how can i make an avi file to an mpeg1 file, because i want to burn my movie on a video cd to play it on the dvd player in 16:9 format, the avi file is ind 16:9
i tried it with tmpgenc but it doesen`t work there is only 4:3 format

i hope somebody can help me how i make a avi into 16:9 mpeg1

:)

Basically you have to unlock yout template(load extras/unlock.tmpl) and set the aspect ratio for input(Advanced->Source aspect ratio and aditionally Video arrange method to Full screen(keep aspect ratio)) and output(Video->Aspect Ratio) to 16:9. Beware that most standalone DVD players refuse to recognize the 16:9 flag on (S)VCDs.

Btw. Setting the Video arrange method to Full screen(keep aspect ratio) isnt exactly advisable for making (S)VCDs since an TV set dont show the outmost 32 pixels. Resize manually or use Fitcd/avisynth for that.

cheers

M. Bastian

I think yor problem is you are not choosing the correct source aspect ratio or the correct arrange method.

Assuming your TV is 4:3 then you should choose 16:9 as the source and 4:3 as the output. Then choose 'full screen(keep aspect ratio)' as the arrange method.

This will give you a 16:9 image on your 4:3 TV.

ASHY

And if you have a 16:9 tv, "then you should choose 16:9 as the source and 4:3 as the output. Then choose 'full screen (and DON'T keep aspect ratio)' as the arrange method."

Just copied and pasted ASHY's comment - why type it again?

This will give you a squashed on-screen 4:3 image, till you hit widescreen on your remote, and then it'll be 16:9 anamophoric.

Griff

Hi everyone,

I have captured a 45min SvhS tape to a 18GB avi.
Sound is in Sync thoughout the avi. After i encode it to mpg2 sound at the beginning is in sync but the more i get towards the end of the encoded movie the sound becomes more out of sync.

I have tried separating the audio to wav with virtual dub, but that has the same effect. There was no frame-loss when capturing.

I don't know what to do with it.

Does anyone know ?

TIA
Naqua

The problem is probably dropped frames or you might have captured to 30fps and you are encodeing to 29.9fps or simular such thing..Whatever the cause the effect is odvious the audio track is a different length than your video track so what you can try to fix it is to find out the "Exact" length of the video file then use a audio editing program like "Cool Edit" or "Sound Forge" to stretch or shrink the audio to the exact same length as the video then you can encode the audio to mp2 and mux it with the video, goood luck....

Dear sir.

Thanks for your product ( tmpgenc ) its wonder and helpfull, i want to know if it is possible to edit and to increase the bitrate of vcd from 1150kbps to other rate as 1900 or 2200kbps.

Please send me your answer to my e-mail adress:
bouhraoui@wanadoo.ma

Best regards.

Md. Bouhraoui

What you are talking about is producing an XVCD - a non standard VCD.
You can use higher bitrates (see www.vcdhelp.com and go to DVD Players List link to find your player, read the reviews to see what works for others and try it out) in TMPGenc.

To do this

- Load the Unlock template in the extra folder
- Change your bitrate
- In the System tab change the stream type to MPEG-1 Video-CD (non standard)

hi olli.

Many thanks for your assistance, that's all i want to know.

Thanks again.

bouhraoui

ok this has never happened to me, but when i encode a avi file into mpg (either vcd or svcd) as soon as it begins to encode, it freezes then locks up, thus that blue screen comes, how can i fix this fast???

helppppppppppppppp

hello, i have 2 questions

i usually make cvds out of tmpgenc and put the correct size/pixel at 352x480 for NTSC-film. However, i do not know the correct size/pixel to make a cvd out of Pal. And how do you convert pal to ntsc-film using tmpgenc

thanks a lot

Converting Pal to Ntsc with Tmpgenc is not a good idea cuz the result will probably be choppy playback, the resolution for a cvd in Pal is probably 352 by 576 but changeing a 25fps pal to a 23.9fps ntsc film file should not be done with Tmpgenc, if you do a "search" of this BBS you will find a couple methods for doing pal to ntsc conversion, it usually involves changeing the frame rate of the Pal avi file then shrinking the audio track to match the new length or the avi file, but do a search and you will find more detailed instructions.....