Is there any easy way to encode all the file in a directory
without having to select each one individually ?

http://www.videogeneration.com.au/batchlist.htm

If you read this one, Ashy, please read it all the way through. I have seen your name on a lot of the replies, and I believe that you are very knowledgeable about this software and video editing in general. Thank you to everyone for taking the time to read this post.

I have used the search function on this BBS, and I have found several articles on my question, but nobody has really ever said if they have found a definitive answer for it.

My question is What can I do when I get this error message: "The error occurred when ACM was initialized."

I understand that ACM stands for Audio Compression Manager. I am guessing that there probably is a problem with one or more of the codecs. Does ANYONE know how to find out which codec it could be?

Let me explain what happened. I had gotten hold of an XviD movie that I played in Virtual Dub. "Virtual Dub has detected an improper VBR audio encoding in the source AVI file and will rewrite the audio headerwith standard CBR values during processing for better compatability." It also says that you might try to decompress the entire audio stream to a .wav file and then recompress it using a CBR encoder. To make a long story short, I converted the audio to 44100 Hz, 16 bit, Stereo, High Quality using Virtual Dub. It created a file that was almost 1.5 MB. I then took that AVI file and converted it to MPEG-1 for Video Cd using TMPGEnc. Everything worked great with NO problems. I then cut the file using the MPEG tools in TMPGEnc, but I did not realize that I need to change the "Type" from MPEG-1 System (automatic) to MPEG-1 Video CD. It cut the video file just fine.

Then I tried to convert another AVI file, and that is when the problem appeared. I received that error message. I have since tried many other AVI files with no luck. I get the same message regardless of what codec is used to decode it. I have found that TMPGEnc even decodes ASF files, but I have no luck with those either.

PLEASE HELP! I am at my wit's end. I am sorry the post is so long. Thank you very much for your patience. Please feel free to e-mail me if you wish. Thank you again.

gsg1175

This is just usually a codec problem.
Most AVI's come with AC3 or MP3 audio, some have MP3 VBR audio which is problematic as you have noticed by the warning Virtualdub gave you.

First of all do these AVI's play OK with audio in media player?

My advice is to first install the 2 codecs below:
http://www.einfach-divx.de/download_detail.php?download=15
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/AC3ACM/AC3ACM.zip

If you still have problems post back.

I just downloaded the software, keep getting Can't load "P3 Package.dll. File is in folder. Anyone know why?

No idea, I've never heard this one before.....

Did you unzip all of the contents into one folder instead of opening TMPGEnc from an unzipping utility? Did you move anything after unzipping? TMPGEnc.exe should be in the same folder with that P3Package.dll file. If not...then I guess delete your version of TMPGEnc and then re-download it? Or simply, delete TMPGEnc and if you still have your ZIP file, unzip it again.

Hello.
TMPGEnc is a great tool. But I can't manage to create a SVCD, VCD or a MVCD that has got two audio channels. The source is a PAL-DVD. And I would like to have German and English as audio channels. I read it in the forums, that it is possible to have two channels on one SVCD, but I could not find a How-to-Guide. Thank you for your help!

Dominik

You just need to mux in the extra audio channel using the Multiplexer in the MPEG tools.

Encode both of the audio tracks to Mp2 with TMPG then using the multiplexer add all of the tracks I.E. Video, audio track 1 and audio track 2 then set the 'Type' to 'MPEG2 SVCD(VBR)', name your output and run.

Thank you very much, ashy. Though, I already tried using the muliplexer but maybe I did something wrong. After doing that, I played the file with PowerDVD, but I could not select another audio-track. I'll try yours and we'll see.

You must burn the file as a SVCD first before you will be able to select the second audio track.
Simply playing the MPEG file itself will NOT work.

It *MUST* be formatted and burned as a Super Video CD. There is data contained within a folder on a SVCD that tells the player which tracks are present. Without this folder your player is unaware of the second track and will just play the first one it encounters.

But what about the video file ? Do I have to make a stream of it first in tmpgenc ? Do I have to use DVD2AVI ?

What do you mean 'What about the Video?'

Just encode the source to an MPEG2 SVCD as normal with TMPG.
Then using TMPG, encode the second audio track to .MP2
Mux the second track in with the existing video/audio track you have created using the Multiplexer in the MPEG tools then just burn the whole thing to disk as a SVCD.

The easiest way to do it is to use DVD2AVI to create a d2v file. In DVD2AVI under Audio>Track number select 'None'
This will create a Video only .d2v

Then get yourself VOB2AUDIO to rip out the audio tracks that you require from the DVD to wav files.

Put the .d2v and one of the wav audio tracks into TMPG and encode to SVCD.
Then encode the other audio track to .mp2 with TMPG and mux in with created SVCD as described above.
Then just burn as a SVCD to disk.

Thank you. I'll try it.

Ok, now I tried it and it just didn't work. That's what I did:
I decrypted the DVD to my HD. Then I used DVD2AVI to create a project file (.d2v). I selected "Demux all tracks" as audio outpout method.
Then I opened TMPGEnc and chose SVCD PAL in the Project Wizard. I chose the .d2v-File as Video and didn't choose any audio-input. After finishing this process, I opened the MPEG Tools, put the produced file into the De-Multiplexer and made the .m2v-File. After that I opened the Multiplexer, put the .m2v-File and two audio-tracks (.ac3-Files I produced with DVD2AVI) into it. After that I had the final file...... i thought. I tried to burn it as a SVCD, but NERO 6 said, that the file was not compatible and I should download some plug-in for DVD-Conversion..... WHAT DID I DO WRONG ? Please help me one more time!

Ok, so now I did excactly as you said and burn the file as a SVCD. And NERO said there where 2 Audio-Streams and that it's not standard, but I clicked "Ignore" and burned the CD. But my DVD-Player and also my DVD-Programme (PowerDVD) don't seem to accept the other audio-stream and I cannot selcet another stream, there's still only one.

Maybe it's because I made both audio-streams from WAVs to .mp2 and then use the Multiplexer to combine the m2v-File with the two mp2-Files ?!
First I had the file with the first track built into the SVCD from the beginning, not convertzing it into mp2, but after the multiplexing the file was too big to burn it (and it's only 45 Min!)

Obviously you are doing something wrong somewhere.
For a start Nero should not be giving you that warning. 2 audio streams in a SVCD is perfectly within the specs.
Also I don't use PowerDVD cuz i think it's crap, I use WinDVD which doesn't have a problem with it neither does my DVD player.

Trust me if you do this right it WILL work.

Lets go through it by starting off with what you need.

1. 1 Video stream (.m2v) - 480x576 25 fps

2. 2 audio streams (.mp2) both 224 kb/s

Now what you need to do.

1. Open TMPG and click the Multiplexer tab in the MPEG tools.

2. Load your Video stream then load each of the audio streams, so you have 3 in the multiplxer window.

3. Now make sure that the 'Type' is set to 'MPEG2 Super VideoCD(VBR)'

4. Choose your output and run.

5. Make sure you're using the lates version of NERO burning ROM 6 'not' NERO express.

6. Run NERO and select 'Super VideoCD' from the options then click 'New'

7. Drag your MPEG into the compilation window

8. You shouldn't get any errors about how many streams there are, however if you do then ignore and burn anyway.

9. The SVCD should now play with selectable audio tracks.

Sorry to barge in but that's so cool! Is that the same thing as the dual audio channels for VCD where one language is on the left channel and another is on the right channel, so 2 mono streams? Sorry, I don't know what I'm talking about. :)

hi now I'm sure someone out there has a quick answer to this so here goes

I've got some avi files I'm tring to encode but could only get video with no sound -ok so i bumped up the piroity on the Direct Show plug in - sound but no vid- ok so i bumped up the piroity on the AVI VFW plug in - back to original problem
what ever plug in is on top of the list, even if they have the same piroity, means i get sound or vid but not both ??

Hi There !
I've the same problem. I've some video files which are compressed with Div-X 5.1.1. when I try to convert them into MPEG-1 format with TMPGenc the result is, a video without sound !!!!
Does anyone have any ideas ??

i'm encoding 2 .dat files. the second half of the movie is converted using tmpgenc plus perfectly. for some odd reason the first movie file seems to be doing fine during the encoding process. when i open the .m2v file, i find that it'll play up to the 7 minute mark and then the rest of the file is just one frozen frame. what could be causing this? thanks for your help!

Hello, got a quick question. I'm trying to split my SVCD (mpeg) into 3 parts, so i can burn it. But when i try and edit it TMPGEnc says "Illegal MPEG video stream". What is wrong ? also, what is another good piece of software that i can use for splitting my file ?

I have a movie that i downloaded and i went to convert it to be burned as a vcd. When i go to spit it under the sorce option i see there is no sound i was wondering why this is. It plays fine with sound in the .avi for it is currently in. I have also download the AC3 Codec and that doesn't help.

After 12 hours encoding during which everything seemed fine it all went quiet and inactive and I saw that the last log message was 'failed to make a cue file'..

can I do that manually somehow?

What failed to make a CUE file?
TMPG doesn't make CUE files.

Is there a manual available somewhere for TMPGEnc ?

AVIcodec shows this info for the file I want to convert:

File : 348 MB (348 MB), duration: 0:43:45, type: AVI, 1 audio stream(s), quality: 51 %
Video : 309 MB, 987 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640*352 (16:9), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4, Supported
Audio : 39 MB, 126 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MPEG Layer-3, Supported

But when I try to load it into TMPGEnc I get "XfileX Cannot open or unsupported".

Help?

Ok, I'm not being funny about this, but I would appreciate it if you would use the search function next time.
This is probably the most common question on this board. I have answered it myself god know how many times and I'm just fed up of repeating myself.

Search > Cannot open or unsupported

You need to get the XviD codec. Go to http://www.free-codecs.com to get a "Precompiled XviD Codec." Then it will work. The XviD is an open-source codec.

Hi all

Ive a mpeg film I want to cut into four parts.
How do I do this with TMPG 3XP
I add a file, Cut - edit pops up so I edit my mpeg into four parts and save so the four sections are in the key frame list, go to the next stage and it only encodes the last section.
What am i doing wrong.