i've never had a problem capturing at 19.x fps. every capture i've done completes without issue. as soon as i began capturing at 29.x fps, i've run into many issues. i have an athlon 1.4 ghz machine, 256MB ram, 40GB 5400 rpm hard drive...sometimes the my machine just stalls - i cant click on anything on the screen, capture stops, i need to reboot. other times the incoming image becomes scrambled and i need to stop capture and restart my machine to get it running properly again. i didnt get any of these problems before at 19.x fps. has anyone experienced this before? is this indicative of a memory issue or what?

thanks in advance,
gpalmz

sorry, this is more of a virtualdub issue, but if anyone knows anything, please let me know!

This could be a memory issue cuz when I capture on my 1.7ghz Intel at 29.9fps I drop frames like crazy, and the system freezes up sometimes, it also could be a driver problem , I capture at 24fps now cuz I don"t drop frames and I can still use my computer to do stuff while capturing ..I sometime capture useing "Windows Media Encoder" to capture to "Microsoft mpeg-4 v3" and can capture to 30fps with out much of a problem with pretty good quality and Tmpgenc encodes the file fine.........

Hey when i'm encoding a file from .avi to mpg it says "Stream Write Error". What is this? and how do i fix it?

Are you getting low on "Hard drive "space????

Is it possible to ad metadata -- primarily Title, Author, Copyright info., etc.? If so... where are the settings?

Under settings go to "system" then check the box that says "comments" then type in your information.....thats it.....

I followed the suggestions and I still do not get the information listed as need when I bring up the File properties. Ideally, I would like the end-user to be able to open the file, sellect File/Properties and see
Title:
Author:
Copyright:
Comments:
etc.

Right now--even with adding the comments before encoding--I get "Unknown" in all catagories

Can these fields be determined before encoding?
Thanks,
david smith

Hi,
just used the downsampling feature. Had an impute film (m2v) of 2:50 hrs. Now TMP started the compression (Q50 2500-3500) but reaching 100% the film had been cut at 1:34 Hrs / 2,xx GB .. what did I wrong why didnt it covert the entire film ? help by mail - thanks !!

I don"t know why it didn"t convert the whole film but What I do to encode "m2v" files and allways works is use "DVD2AVI" to make a d2v project file and encode that with Tmpgenc, I have never had a single problem useing this method for encodeing mpeg video files......

I assume the problem is file size limit based on FAT32 filesystem.

To make a file above 2g size, you have to use NTFS.

4gb is the Fat 32 limit 2gb is the Fat 16 limit, and not many systems run on a Fat16 system anymore..I think the bitrate is a bit high if you are doing a svcd then you are going to have to put the 3 hour movie on 4-6 cd-r"s...

These are the pics I got for you to see how bad the quality is .. maybe you can tell me why this happend?

http://channels.dal.net/proctor

Those are Interlaceing artifacts, and you will get them with most interlaced sources, you correct them by going to "settings" to "advanced settings" and double click in the "De-Interlace filter" then a window will pop-up with you movie displayed in it , you go to were the lines are really noticeable then go through the filters untill you find the one that looks the best, usually the "Even Field" gives good results but it depends on the field order of your file.......

Hi people!
There are so many options to specify in TMPGenc! How do I know which option is correct! For instance, how can I specify the correct Video Source Setting when I don't have that information! I have a source file (MPEG, that's all I know) and I just want to convert it to SVCD format. No quality loss, if possible.
I know I can use Nero for this, but whe I do audio gets out of sync (about half a second).

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

http://www.digvid.info/tmpgenc/

i tried to turn a AVI file made with the tmd codec into and MPEG and it just had a black screen once it finished, the sound was there but no picture was present. I was wondering if there was a way around this problem?

I"m not sure what format "TMD" is but you can try to raise the priority of the "direct show file reader" this works with Direct show formats like divx/mpeg4, go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "Vfapi plugins" and raise the "Direct show File Reader" to "2"...

tmpgenc stiil encode my avi to mpeg2 very bad
it worked before untill i swicth from tmpg 12 to tmpg2.53 2.57
if i reinstall tmpg12 again no difference


i tried all templates none of them worked

when is ready with encoding movie stutters skips or shocks

i read some where that it can be your o.s with the sofware that can give this tmpgenc problems ... like kazaa .. true/false

That skipping jumping effect could be caused by encodeing to a differant frame rate than your source file,You should only encode avi files with a frame rate of "23.9/24/25/29.9/30/FPS"if your avi file has a different frame rate and you encode it with tmpgenc you will get that jumpy skipping effect....

but the movie i encode is an 23.97 to 25 fps

I use Windows XP, Premiere 6.0, Avisynth and Tmpgenc, newest release. After converting to SVCD there is no sound. What's the problem?

You have to make sure that the audio in your source file is Wav format, you can extract the audio to wav from your source file then encode that to mp2 audio then multiplex it with you svcd/mpeg2 file.....

Has anyone had any luck using TMPGenc as a bridge between Vegas Video 3.0 and pinnacle impression?

Yes I tried but impression will not accept the mpeg file, tried different settings but nothing.
If you where able to import something to Impression please let me know.
Thanks

What is MOTION SEARCH PRECISION? how does it work?

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

Hi,
I have encoded several .avi files using tmpgenc. I burn things with Nero. However, on all of them, Nero is not recognizing the files I have encoded as being vcd-type files. How do I fix this? I tried to bypass the standards (Nero asked if I wanted to re-encode, bypass, or cancel), but then my DVD player can't read the CD. It tries, I get sound, but the picture is all screwed up. Anyway, in short, how to I make a Nero-burnable VCD so I can watch it on my DVD player?

Thanks
Goldie

you should encode the stream again throug tmpg in the right format pal or ntsc
and this should fix this problem

Yeah, you need check with PAL or NTSC first.
For example, Europe uses PAL standard, USA uses NTSC standard.

Nero might have some restriction to accept MPEG format, but
choose "bypass" as you did.

Also, you should check if your DVD player can play VCD (I hope you did already).

after opening the avi file, make sure you are loading the proper template = vcd mpeg-1; select either PAL or NTSC depending on where you are.

Many burning programs have issues with files encoded by tmpgenc. Nero should be okay. Could be that your DVD player does not play VCDs; or you may have to use a cd-rw disc instead of a cd-r disc (some players read only cd-rw).....you'll have to experiment. If all fails, you might try the free VCDEasy to burn or to creat the bin & cue files which you can then feed into Nero. See vcdeasy.org.

good luck,
leralph