In a previous post, I was having problems getting VCDEasy to import chapters from the DvD using Chapter X Tractor program. VCDEasy said there was only one chapter point available.I was making my first SVCD of Lord of the Rings on 3 80 minute CD's. The copies worked great and looked great, but I had no chapters.

The solution was to increase the bitrate to 2520. So in my SVCD setup when encoding, I selected "Constant Quality (CQ)" for the rate control mode, with a quality setting of 75, max bitrate 2520, min bitrate 0. So I was able to fit the 3 hour movie on 3 CD's of one hour each with a file size of 750 MB.

weird, chapter x tractor has nothing to do with encoding bitrates it only scans the dvd ifo file for the chapter info and with copy&paste you can read them into VCDeasy.
i have 1800 kbps VBR video files that i chaptered with the use of chapter x-tractor.
Must be something else you did wrong the first time.

im trying to convert some anime episodes from avi (divx 3.11) to svcd to play on my dvd player. i burned a couple of eps and they worked fine but i have problems with one ep. the avi plays good and i encode it using the same template i used with the other eps but after its done and it says 100% completed the TMPGEng program crashes and stops responding. Anyway since it said its completed i tried to load it into nero but it said "stream encoding which is invalid for a [super] video-CD". btw, the mpg created works in powerdvd.

any clues on how to fix the problem?

Tmpgenc probably crashed before it had a chance to wright the "sequence end code" on the svcd header, this is a bug in the 2.57 version but it can be corrected but you will have to use a different version of tmpgenc or you can burn it with VCDEasy cuz VCDEasy does not rely on the header to make it svcd compliant..but how you fix it is get a different version of tmpgenc and load the file into the "Merge & Cut" in the mpeg tools, then choose "Mpeg2/SVCD" from the drop down menu, choose your output directory and then click "run" then it will make a copy of your file and attach the proper svcd header...

hey thanx alot, it worked and it was quick and easy :)

where can i download the ulead dvd plugin, ive looked everywhere can someone give me the exact site ASAP please thank you

You can get it on Kazaa, you can only work it if you have either "ulead Video studio" or "media studio".....

I am trying to make a VCD with an MPEG2 file using the header trick in TMPGEnc 2.57, but everytime I try the audio is about 8 seconds out of sync and changes periodically. I ripped and encoded using DVD2SVCD with CCE. Any help is appreciated.

I the audio sample rate 48KHz by chance? or a different bitrate than 224 kbps?
if either of that is the case reencode the audio to stereo 44100 Hz 224 kbps.
procedure: demux the video, reencode the audio and mux them again.
also problems might occur if the mpeg2 video is vbr.
Due to the set CBR bitrate of vcd that might cause synx problems too

Newbie question,

Fairly new to the game and have downloaded most progs and codecs (at least all those recommended here), but having trouble in tmpgenc with a new download (Blade 2) ie blah, blah .....unsupported.

Is this a codec problem, and do you have to update them regularly?

Where is the best place to find out about updates if you do need to keep them up to date?

Cheers

If you can play the file on your computer then you probably just need to raise the priority of the "Direct Show File Reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins", you do this by going to "options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "vfapi plugins" and raise the "direct show" to "2".....

This is a "smc" avi file from Kazaa. For the first 20 minutes the video, even within the TMPG "Preview" does say: Do Not Duplicate. I figured I could live with that so I burnt it to VCD with Nero. When I went to play it about a third of the screen had a green bar running from top to bottom, obscuring that part of the picture.
Is this some form of copy-guard?
Is there any way around it?
Just out of intellectual curiousity....

When i play the avi in question the video freezes and the audio keeps going when TMPEG reaches this point it doesn't not encode any more and becomes non responsive......

..... How would i go about correcting this?

ty for your time and any answers that come

The only solution I can think of is to encode up to were it crashes then use the "source range" to start encodeing a few frames after were it crashed then join the 2 files together with the "Merge & cut"....

OOhh there are a couple of video utilities something like "Divx Defreeze" or divX fix" that are supposed to fix frozen areas of an avi file..try Doom9.. you might be able to find it there.....

OK I found the TBE (batch list) File creation program i had tried out before and was buggy- seems like the author, Andrew Doyle, has made some revisions since, and it seems to get the paths right.

One thing that is a bummer is that when you select a saved template to process your batch list through, it reads everything but what you have set under "advanced"

ie: if your template has filters like Sharpen or Crop setup, they wont show up in the batch list- you'll still have to add them in manually :(

A dark blemish on an otherwise SWEET little program

If Andrew Doyle or anyone else with programming skills is listening, this batch creation tool could be AWESOME if that was tweaked!

You can find it on this page:

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/tmpgenc.html

I am trying to convert ntsc video to pal, I set the end frame accordingly. TMPG Enc does decode but misses the end part of the m2v file no matter what I set the end frame to? any ideas please?????

Tmpgenc will not do a proper Ntsc to Pal conversion, you will have jumpy playback on your dvd player and possibly have out of sync audio..The only program that I know of that will do it right is "Canopus Procoder", I get from your post that you are trying to convert a NTSC Mpeg file to a Pal Mpeg file??if this is true you can try loading the "m2v" file into DVD2AVI and make a D2V file and encode that to Mpeg, then you don"t have to rely on Tmpgenc to do the mpeg decodeing......

>Tmpgenc will not do a proper Ntsc to Pal conversion, you will have jumpy playback on your dvd player and possibly have out of sync audio..The only program that I know of that will do it right is "Canopus Procoder", I get from your post that you are trying to convert a NTSC Mpeg file to a Pal Mpeg file??if this is true you can try loading the "m2v" file into DVD2AVI and make a D2V file and encode that to Mpeg, then you don"t have to rely on Tmpgenc to do the mpeg decodeing......


Thanks for your help it is much appreciated.............

Hi. Much reference is made to VCDHELP.COM, and it is indeed a good site. But much of the info there, like the info here, is helter-skelter... not really orgainized in a way like a text-book is...
I did find one online video production guide that is put together like a textbook. That is Luke's Video Guide. You can find it at : http://www.lukesvideo.com/ For people who don't know the first thing about frames, interlace, non-interlace, bitrate etc, Luke's guide is a great way to start.

I'm downloading movies, and i would like to know can i make them appear like dvd quality on my tv with my dvd player even if i only have a cd burner and not a dvd burner. Im using the NTSC under video-cd. Also is there anyway i can like add the menus and subtitles to downloaded movies so they can really appear to look like a real proffessional dvd? thanx

A standard VCD will never look like DVD Quality, the bitrate is way to low to achieve the quality you are looking for, you either have to make a XVCD or a SVCD, but there is no gaurantee than your dvd player will Play XVCD but most will play them, if you raise the bitrate to about 1650kbs you will greatly increase the quality of the Mpeg1/vcd file but you will have a bigger file size but you should be able to get about 60 minutes on a CD-R, and you can add chapters and menu"s and titles to your VCD but you need a authoring program that has these capabilities, you can use "ulead dvd workshop" but it will re-encode your file if it is a non-standard VCD which ruins the quality of your VCD, one program that will do this without re-encodeing is the "ulead dvd Plugin" that works with "Ulead Video studio 5 & 6" and "media Studio 6" it has a wizard style interface than is quite user friendly and has a quite good look when played....

is there any way i can make the quality better without making it a svcd because my dvd book said it wont play it but it didnt see anything about xscvc any other way ....any programs that wouldnt require a dvd burner

is there any way i can make the quality better without making it a svcd because my dvd book said it wont play it but it didnt see anything about xscvc any other way ....any programs that wouldnt require a dvd burner

If it will play VCD then it should play XVCD, but if it doesn"t play svcd then it won"t play XSVCD...You don"t need a DVD-Burner to use the programs I mentioned just a CD-Burner......

my dvd plays vcd's and in the book it says it will play vcd's but not svcd's but nothing about xsvcd...but how do i make an xsvcd anyways and how do i higher the bitrate? how much greater will the quality be and is there any other way if my dvd player wont play the xsvcd?

Trust me if is says it will not play svcd"s then it will not play xsvcd,XSVCD is just another less compatible form of svcd, which means it is a svcd with higher bitrates and or higher resolution..and it would not say it plays xsvcd because xsvcd is not a recognized standard, and either is xvcd ,there are many different forms of xsvcd and xvcd, and your player if it plays vcd might be able to play some types of xvcd and not other types, meaning it might play higher bitrates but not higher resolutions.....

To Raise the bitrate you will need to load the "unlock.mcf" template from the "Extra folder", the quality will be greatly increased if you raise the bitrate enough, but if you raise it too much you player won"t play it, start off with about 1650kbs this will get rid of the blockyness and your player shouldn"t have a problem with it, at "vcdhelp.com" you can look up your dvd player and see what it is capible of playing.....

so now that we've accomplished that , again i ask you, how can i get better graphics on my dvd player?

I allready told you, you have to raise the bitrate, and I gave you instructions on how to do .......

sorry my comp. is slow i didnt get the message with ur instructions b4, so anyways i double clickd on that file and nothing happened what exactly should i do to that unlock file to raise the bitrate...and by raising the bitrate it will be like perfect quality?

You have to load it like a "Template" ,so you click the "load" tab in the bottom right corner then find the "unlock.mfc" template, then choose it,, then the settings will be unlocked so you can change the settings, and the quality will be much better but it can only be as good as your source file, so if your avi file doesn"t look good then the mpeg file isn"t going to look good, you know the old saying "Garbage in garbage out", and useing the "Constant Quality" instead of CBR will give you better quality with a smaller file size, and you can use a higher bitrate without increasing the file size too much, so try this, in the settings go to "Rate Controll Mode" then change it to "Constant Quality" then click the little settings tab next to it and adjust the bitrate to "1000kbs minimum" and "4500kbs maximum" and the "Quality" at "85".. With these settings you will get much better quality and still get about 60 minutes on a CD-R......

can you tell me where the settings are i cant find them....and the environmental settings dont have any of the things u mentioned

forget i found it and did it .....why wouldnt it be better to crank everything up to a maximum? and how can i get really good quality movies how big should they be? thanx for all ur help today

Most scenes in a movie don"t need a whole lot of bits to give you good quality so if you give it to much bitrate your are just wasteing it, useing the CQ method only allocates the amount of bits needed to encode the frame , so if you set the max bitrate quite high the encoder isn"t going to use the max bitrate unless it needs to, this is the whole point of useing the "Variable Bit Rate" encodeing method, so you can achieve the maximum quality without useing the maximum amount of bits, this is how it can achieve the same quality with a lower bitrate and file size..

I have a movie split into two files one that is 790mb so im gonna have to split that into two files, so than the second file is only 53mb so i dont want to burn the first file on two dif. because of the split and then the third file. Is there any way i can merge the remaining piece of the first file with the secod file and fit the whole movie on only 2 cd's rather than 3. And another question i use the NTSC video-cd option can i use anything else that would make the quality better on my dvd player even if i dont have a dvd burner? thanx answer ASAP

Virtual dub is a good program to merge 2 movie parts together

thanx were can i get it at?

never mind i got virtual dub but i have no idea how to use it to merge the 2 files

take the time to print out the user manual for Virtual Dub, you got it when you downloaded the program.

Firstly if you are talking about MPEG movies then u cannot use Virtualdub to merge them. You will have to use the merge&cut feature in TMPG to do this.

Secondly why bother splitting and merging at all. Your 790mb movie will quite easily fit on to an 80min cd as 80min CDR's can hold 800mb of MPEG data.

ASHY