I'm trying to save a file as AVI, and under "video>setting>compression I only have Cinepack and H.263, although I installed divx 5.0.2 and bunch of other codecs.
Funny thing, my VirtualDub can encode using,say, Divx engine, but TMPGEnc can't!
Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Maybe try to re-install Tmpgenc cuz for some reason it doesn"t want to read the codecs on your machine...if all else fails use V-Dub.....

I used dvd2svcd to rip the movie and encode it.The ripping part was oke, then TMPGEnc couldn`t download the file.
I tried to open TMPGEnc download the files manualy ,the video file downloaded, but the audio didn`t, even tough it was the right file the message said:

File"C:program files......................AviSynth_Script_file.avs" can not open, or unsupported

What do I do wrong?

What do you mean TMPG wouldn't download the file?
I'm assuming you mean TMPG wouldn't open the file.

Have you actually installed AVisynth before trying to use TMPG to open the script.

You may have an error in your script. A quick check to see whether the script is ok or not is to simply open it with media player. The file should play if it's ok. If it doesn't then there is something wrong with the script or you don't have AVIsynth installed correctly.
If it does play in mediaplayer then you may need to disable the Directshow filter in TMPG under the VFAPI plugins to allow TMPG to read the file.

ASHY

Why is there no audio in an MPG encoded with TMPG if the original source DVD is LPCM. I have tried 4 DVD's with the same results. The wav file created by DVD2AVI plays fine with any audio player. But after I encode the the DVD2AVI project with the created wave file, the resulting MPG is silent.

Do you try raiseing the priority if the "Wav file Reader" in the "VFapi Plugins"??

Does the wav file load ok into TMPG and can you see the waveform in the source range filter.

ASHY

Is is possible to encode for widescreen WITHOUT stretching the video. I have a lot of home digital video I would like to burn to DVD but formated correctly for my Mits. HD widescreen.

If not with TMPGEnc, with what?

Thanks in advance.

Novice at work....

Bill

If you load the "Unlock.mcf" Template you will be able to change the settings locked in by the templates, then you can change the output aspect ratio to 16:9, and if this doesn"t fix it then use the settings in the "Clip Frame" feature to arrange the movie in the screen to the way you want....

I have unlocked the template and changed the output to 16x9 and that WILL format the video but STRETCHED.

I have also played with the clipping function but as yet have had no luck.

If I knew that is was possible to output for widescreen without streching the video I would continue experimenting, but I don't know if it is possible with TMPGEnc.

I know I can get this functionality with software in the $600 and up range but that is out of my league.

Bill

What do you exaktly want?
Widescreen anamorph or widescreen letterboxed?
And what exactly is the Source?

TMPGEnc can do both versions of widescreen video, but the settings are completly different.

((hehe, has anybody ever tried to produce an anamorph VCD from an 2.35:1-Movie? Looks incredible good, but unfortunatly it's no standard))

Encoding avi file to mpg, I have great picture, but absolutely no sound! How to fix this or what's causing it. Sound is fine when playing as avi!

This is one of the most common Questions asked in this forum, The audio in your AVI file is not supported by Tmpgenc so you have to extract the audio to a WAV file with "Virtual Dub" and use that as the audio source...

is there still a possibility to import d2v-projects in tmpgenc? (version 2.57)

No problem whatsoever.

ASHY

In the "open project" dialog you can only choose from *.tpr files. i cannot load d2v-project files. (Version 2.57)

are they of the same structure and have i to rename them?

ok. my fault. there was no DVD2AVI.vfp installed on my system. sorry.

Hi... I know thisd is "off topic" but I downloaded 2 files from KaZaa that were supposed to be movie clips from 2 old Pam Grier films. They turned out to be some sort of data files. I cannot do anything - it seems - to remove them from my hard drive. DELETE does not work. SEND TO does not work. RENAME does not work. Nothing seems to touch the damn things!
Any suggestions?

Looks like you've neen hit with one of the many virusus on Kazaa. Use your Virus checker erredicate these file and make sure it's updated.

ASHY

Yes, I have gotten those Before on Kazaa and they can be a big problem,I would sugest not downloading anything off Kazaa unless a lot of other poeple have the same program, and allways look at the file size of what you are downloading cuz usually a problem file will have a name of a movie or program but the file size is much too small to be the file it says it is...The only way I was able to get rid of some problem Kazaa file was to delete my whole Kazaa folder then make a new one......

Tried in DOS mode? Assuming you're not using 2K or XP with NTFS hard drive format. Booted off say a Win 98 Boot floppy?

I've not had this problem myself. I presume you've closed KaZaA and your web connection before trying to delete?

In addition to this have you changed KaZaA version whilst still having incomplete downloads? I changed from Grokster to KaZaA once and each file I had part downloaded on Grokster had to be renamed with the appropriate extension upon completion under KaZaA.

Good luck!

Most likely it is not a virus. When you tried to delete it, did it say something like file is in use.

If so, you might try this. Use Windows Explorer. Change to that directory where the file is located. Under the menu View, change to details. Give
it a second or so to allow XP to make some changes. Then try to delete it.

Kazzaa has some files that have movie extensions and Windows tries to create thumbnails and etc and gets stuck trying.

Good luck,

John

Thanks guys, for all your suggestions. Since my Kazaa "shared file" was only 2 gigabytes in size I simply created a "fix kazaa" folder and moved everything but those 2 invaders to it. I then deleted the entire folder.
I will try to be more observant next time!!!

Can someone suggest a good way of telling up to what bitrate a player will go ?

In the past I did the following

- Selected a scene with a lot of action it - the first 2 mins of Mummy2
- Saved the scene as a seperate avi using an avi cutting tool
- Encoded the scene in TMPGenc at various different CBR settings 2000, 2100 , 2200 etc with everything always the same except for the bitrate
- Joined all the output files together into one MPEG
- Burnt the mpeg with VCDeasy creating a chapter at each section where a new bitrate setting comes into effect
- Played each chapter on the DVD player and looked/listened for video/audio stutter

Is this a good way of doing this or is there a better way ?

Olli

P.S I have lost the manual for the player (Sony DAVS300) so I cant look it up, plus I dont think it specifically mentioned bitrate limits.

P.P.S Yes I have looked on vcdhelp.com and some people say they can go up to 3000 but I have found the limit to be 2300

P.P.P.S It does not support SVCD

Hi Ollie,The method you are useing seems like it should work..I have noticed with my DVD Player that it can handle much higher bitrates if I am useing a VBR Encodeing method like CQ, cuz it seems to only get to really high bitrates for a few seconds and it seems that the Player can handle the bitrate better if it is gradual or only for short periods of time..I know if I set the Minimum bitrate to say 1000kbs and the max to 8000kbs my player can handle it with no problem but if I use say 5000kbs CBR then my player has some problems playing it....

I have been unable to encode any files larger than 2GB. .AVI doesn't seem to support >2GB at all, and TMPGEnc cannot deal with a Quicktime file that is larger than 2GB.

Is there any way to do it?

Maybe you need to format your hard drive to a Fat32 or NTSF system, I think only Fat16 has the 2gb limit...

The above is indeed the answer:

FAT-16 = 2GB file size limit

FAT-32 = 4GB file size limit (I think)

NTFS = for all intense and purposes no single file size limit

It should be noted that some programs, despite one working on an NTFS partition, will still not work with file sizes that extend beyond the 2 or 4GB file size limits. A good example of this is Winzip 8.1, Winzip will not open ZIP files larger than 4GB, yet one can create ZIP files of this size with the upto date DOS version of Winzip, called PKZIP...(PKZIPC.EXE being the file name).

In addition to Cyclops's statment, I would like to add one thing.

AVI 2.0 : one file size is not limited.
AVI 1.0 : one file size is limited to 2GB.

This is just FYI.

I split an mpg file... only one part will play...tried everything

Try useing something else to Split your file into 2 parts.Tmpgenc"s mpeg editor sometimes has problems cutting the second part of a Mpeg file...

vcdcutter

Hi guys...
last time it was a green bar obscuring one third of the picture... tonight it is a purple one. These bars do not show up when the avi file is run on my computer. Just when I use NERO to burn the TMPG encoded file to CD-R. Can some-one tell me why this is occuring? (This avi file did NOT say: Do Not Duplicate)

Never mind. I figured it out. The colored stripe denotes "level 2" macrovsion. I now know how to defeat it too.

hello,

i'd like to know if i could encode an avi file with the dvd mode and burn the file on a cd-r(or two) and play the on a dvd player (not software)

thanks

Not Exactly, if your player supports SVCD then you can try XSVCD with a resolution of 704 by 480, this resolution is a DVD Resolution and some SVCD players will Play it......

In fact it's to play it on the playstation 2 who only read dvd....then I could't read the movie encoded in dvd pal format burned on cd-r's ...?

No, because of a bunch of things, first the authoring program won"t burn a Video_TS Folder on to a Cd-r, your Playstation won"t spin the CD-R fast enough for it to read it properly, plus your Playstation has to be able to read CD-R"s,and even if you could you would only be able to fit 15minutes on a CD-R..You can get a DVD player that plays VCD/SVCD for less than $99....

Thanks !