Does anyone know how to get rid of the strobing, or flashing that occurs when playing on the TV a VCD that features a lateral camera motion? I tried all the filters with no success...

Do you mean Interlacing artifacts?
Interlacing causes a sort of combing effect in high motion scenes.
If so you need to de-interlace the file.

ASHY

I'm using TMPGEnc to create an MPEG2 using Virtual Dub as the frameserver. Sometimes the audio quality is not the best so I use the Simple de-multiplex option on the MPEG2. After converting the MP2 audio file to WAV, editing it and then converting it back to MP2, I then join the video and audio back together again using the simple multiplex tab. The problem is this results in creeping audio/video sync problems about 20 minutes into the movie.
This was not occuring on the original MPEG2.
Anyway to get around this?
Thanks

By Creaping do you mean it Gradualy goes out of sync???That type of De-sync is allmost impossible to fix...Have you tried a differant Multiplexor?? a good one is Mpeg2VCR it is faster than Tmpgenc for muxing plus it has a Function to off set the audio to fix sync problems...

You're right, it is gradually out of sync. I've tried shrinking or streching the audio to compensate but it never turns out quite right. I've never heard of MPEG2VCR. What's the website for it?
Thanks a lot.

You can download a Full version but older version at http://apachez.net/ in the tools section...

I went ahead and retried everything a second time and still haven't gotten the vfapi converter to work. Here's what I posted yesterday:

I did everything you said above: ran vipfset.bat from the vfapi folder,

ran the file TMPGEncVFP_Install.bat which I downloaded from the TMPG site,

and registered TMPGenc.vfp to VFAPI.

I'm still having the same "Reader Codec" error in VFAPI converter. With one file it actually worked, but never saved it to a the Output folder lister in the converter box.

I went ahead and erased all my old .tpr files, and saved them again after I reinstalled TMPGENC 2.58 and VFAPI with the necessary codec and I still have this problem.

Would repeating the whole process (re-installing the software and codec possibly take care of this problem? Or am I going about this the wrong way.

I'm running on a Dell Demension desktop 8200 that is windows XP ready. I heard VFAPI has a problem running on XP machines. COuld this be the problem? Is there any other program I can use to go from TMpgenc to CCE 2.62 to build psuedo avi files?

I run XP and don"t have a problem with Vfapi converter..But i do know that it can be Quite Buggy at times..What I would sugest is to try to get CCE SP 2.64.01.10 and use AVISynth to frame serve and to resize the file, it is a bit Quicker and has a better Resize filter.E-Mail me if you can"t find it and I"ll try to find it for you, and you can use a program called "Gordain Knot" to write the AVS Scripts for you...What you can try to do if you just want to get this VFAPI problem fixed is to backup most of you programs on a Disk and re-install your operateing system and then re-install you programs one at a time with the VFAPI first...Do you have "Norton System Works"?? use it to Clean out your Registry and any system errors that might be going on...It has fixed a lot of problems for me.....

Minion

appreciate the reply

No I dont know whether or not I have Norton Sys, ill have to check out the backup disks i receivecd with my computer.

Ill go ahead and check google for avisynth. Would tmpgenc be invovled with the formula you gave above, or would frameserving from avisynth to cce sp 2.64 do the trick?

would framserving from avisynth work in cce sp 2.62?

What version of the VFAPI converter do you have? Does the VFAPI converter list .tpr files as a supported format when you open it?

Also to check you have it installed go to Control panel>Sounds and audio devices>hardware>Video codecs>click properties>properties
In the list you should see the VFAPI reader codec.

ASHY

AVISynth only works with the 2.50 version and the newer releases of 2.64 but not with 2.62, and the 2.50 doesn"t produce quite the same quality in my opinion as the 2.64 version..If you are lucky enough to get the 2.66 version it supports AVISynth..I think the new 2.66 version(Not Beta)is being released Tomorow sept 24/2002...I warn you though AVISynth is not to be used By the unexperienced because you have to write out scripts meaning a sort of Code to get it to work, that is why It is good to use "Gordain Knot" cuz it will write the code for you....

I'm using VFAPI EN 1.05, it shows up in my registry in the control panel under video codecs, and yes it does take tmpgenc .tpr files, yet i still cant it to work. Everything is registered in TMpgenc. Is it possible for my to install a differnt vfapi codec (like for tmpgenc 2.58) in a Tmpgenc 2.57 FREE folder, and still have it work the same (if I can ever get it to work).


How do I frameserve w/ Gordian Knot to CCE 2.62? Do I have to encode first w/Nanodub (???) If anything can ya hook me up w/ a link to a site or tutorial?

Thanks

You Can"t frame serve to 2.62 with gordain knot, only 2.50 and 2.64 and 2.66, and I guess I forgot to say it was for frame serveing D2V files from DVD2AVI and not AVI files...But if you are useing D2V files for DVD2AVI then you need to get either 2.50 or 2.64 would be better...

Answer me a few questions.

1. What sort of file have you loaded into TMPG to create a project file with?

2. Are you adding audio to the project file?

3. If .tpr files are listed in the VFAPI converter as a supported type, is the .tpr file accepted or rejected when loaded?

4. You must still have the original files you loaded into TMPG to create the .tpr files in exactly the same location as they where when you first made the project files. Is this true?

ASHY

ASHY

1) I load in divx (w/an .avi extension) and standard .avi files

2) No audio included

3) Near all files are rejected, with the exception of one. Yet after I load the file (which is also just the video) and convert, I cant locate the converted file in the output folder specified in the converter

4) I do keep the original files, which were used to create the .tpr files, in the same location all the time.

Im encoding with TMPgenc 2.58 FREE, Mpeg-2, on my new 2.4 GHz, and it's pretty fast, minus all the filters, but would love to see how fast CCE can be.

Thanks

This letter is regarding the letter I wrote previously. Please disregard that letter, but this is the problem I'm having. I encode SVCD movies and lately I've been getting these square-like things in the picture. It's like the pixels aren't right. I encode good high quality movies (DVD rip, divx, AVI), yet I'm getting crappy pictures! What adjustments can I make or how can I improve my TMPGEnc to work right again?? It worked fine before!! Please reply ASAP.

Well that sounds like "Macro Blocks", usually if you are doing SVCD"s you shouldn"t get these cuz the bitrate of a SVCD is usually high enough to get rid of them, the only other thing I can think of that would cause this besides a low bitrate is if you had a Lower resolution file and you increased the resolution..Say you have a file with a resolution of 352 by 240, and you make a SVCD out of it with a 480 by 480 resolution,Then you can expect to get a whole bunch of macro blocks because there are less than half the amount of pixels in the 352 by 240 resolution than there is in a 480 by 480 resolution so the encoder has to make up all the extra Pixels by duplicateing other pixels to fill in the space..so you get a lot of macro blocks and loose Detail..This is the only this I can think of unless you are useing a lower bitrate than the standard SVCD bitrate...

Minion is right - try to increase bitrate. I have have this experience. I make SVCD with music videos - when a picture is letterbox, 1600 kbps will do, when the black borders are smaller, I use 1700, when no borders (full screen), 1800, in rare cases (intentional noise in video) more. If you use VirtualDub for capturing AVIs, set Noise filter to 'on'. In that case, 1600-1700 kbps will always do, and you don't need to use filtering in TMPGEnc - you will bw much faster. I all cases I use 2-pass VBR, best quality.

Lately, I've been getting movies turn out distorted....with square-like shapes that distorting the picture. It's like the pixels aren't right in the picture. The movies I encode are high quality movies (DVD rip, DIVX, AVI), yet I keep getting crappy pictures. What can I do to try to resolve this problem?
Please e-mail me an answer ASAP.

i have couple of avi movies and when i try to open a avi file "video sourse" for decoding to mpeg1 it saying file can not open, or it unsupported.

Go to "Options" to "Enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" and raise the "Direct Show" to "2"..

i can not change directshow to anything i cant change any of them is there some i need to do frist

Hey, whenever i try to convert off of my D drive it says can not open or unsporrted and i cant drag it into any of my computer folders because my comp. wont allow me to, what can i do?

The problem is odviously with your computer, have you tried Right clicking the file and go to "Copy" then "Paste" it on your desktop???Maybe you should get your computer looked at....

hi. i just download the program and when the program starts to encoding..takes at list 20 hours per movie..
can someone please tell me if it is always like this..or i can do something to make it works faster

I've got the same question.. please help us

Your encoding time depends on what filters you use, how fast your processor is, and whether or not you have any other programs running while encoding.

Encodeing to mpeg is a very CPU intensive operation and it will suck up most of your resourses know matter how fast your computer is..But if it is takeing 20 hours you must have a slow computer like maybe a 500MHZ, on my 1.7GHZ VCD"s encode in Real time..So maybe it is time for an upgrade...

what are the programs?

thanks minion!

hi,

i often encode d2v project (dvd2avi) with tmpgenc and some usefull option is missing :(

i wonder to ask if it's possible to add vob subtitle option when user encode a d2v project to svcd for exemple, and so selectable subtitle language.

I think it's the more important function missing in tmpgenc for the moment.

But Tmpgenc is a wonderfull software, please continu to dev it! :)

thanks for replies...++

Tmpgenc will Probably Never support adding subtitles whithin the program it"s self....It Just isn"t the job of a mpeg encoder to add subtitles to a source file..You can rip the subtitles from the dvd then add them in Gordain Knot and frame serve them with Gordain Knot and Avisynth.or use Virtual Dub to frame serve the subtitles to tmpgenc........

ok thanks :)

It is more or less pointless adding selectable subtitles to MPEG files anyway. VCD doesn't support it and even when you can add subtitles with a program such as Iauthor to a SVCD. Most players will not recognize the subtitles anway.
The only option you really have if you want subtitles is to hard encode them into the MPEG file by framserving to TMPG with a program which supports them.

ASHY

is it possible to transform an mpeg2 to an avi? And if so how?

There are better programs for this than Tmpgenc but if you want to try with Tmpgenc you first need to have either the "Cyberlink" or "ligos" mpeg2 codecs installed on your system so tmpgenc can read the file..if you have one of these codecs installed then you just load in the mpeg2 file and the go to "file" to "output to" then "avi"....

>There are better programs for this than Tmpgenc but if you want to try with Tmpgenc you first need to have either the "Cyberlink" or "ligos" mpeg2 codecs installed on your system so tmpgenc can read the file..if you have one of these codecs installed then you just load in the mpeg2 file and the go to "file" to "output to" then "avi"....





minion
thanks but what are the programs

well ther are a few there is Mpeg2AVI which is more for Vob files to avi but it works for mpeg files to, and you can use DVD2AVI 1.76 or later, it might make a seperate audio file but you can mux than with the video with aviMux, then there is Flask Mpeg, and there is one I just ran across that looks easy to use it is here:http://www.divx-digest.com/software/mpeg2avi_imedia.html , it is called I-Media mpeg2avi...and there are a dozen more programs for makeing avi/Divx files out of mpeg files..

Hi!

I have a movie which is captured from TV, and I have a separate soundtrack which is in 5.1 surround (that is 6 separate channels in a Samplitude project). Is there any way I can encode this to a mpg (or other format) and keep the surround sound? I have tried to read about AC3, AAC, DTS... but I only get confused. Please, please help me out.

Regards,
Bjorn

Surround sound is not supported in the "SVCD or VCD" specification, if the audio file you have is in "Dolby Digital AC3" you can multiplex the audio with the Mpeg video but it probably won"t play on your DVD player....

You may have surround sound in your MPEG file, but you will need to downmix the Digital surround audio to Dolby prologic surround sound.


ASHY

I am getting this on the startup page every time I start TMPGEnc now.
I did'nt know it was nessesary to buy a MPEG-2 encoder sepparately?
What do I do from here, I get a strange numbered error every time I try to convert AVI to MPG to make a CDV.

Regards

Chris

The error means exactly what it says, it means the the "Mpeg2 encodeing function has experied..It only works for 30 days after download, now if you want to keep useing tmpgenc for encodeing mpeg2 you have to buy the program..but you can still use the mpeg1 encodeing....