I am also using TDA to make back up copies of DVDs for my friends. So this is what I did:

1.Create New Project
2.Add DVD Video
3.Select DVD drive; VIDEO_TS
4.Double-click on first title
5.Uncheck reading chapters
6.Check copy to HDD
7.Ok

For some reason, near the end of the progress, it said "Stream write error" or something like that. Last time I did this, it worked and there were 3 outputted MPEG-2 files in my folder. What I'm trying to do is extract the videos from the DVD, and then load them back into TDA to burn to a DVD+R. Last time it worked, but this time, I'm getting all sorts of errors.

Hello, I was wondering if there was any way to create your own menus in TDA? Or at least provide your own backgrounds?

Have you looked at the product at all? There's a lot of editing you can do with the menus. From the "Create Menu" screen, you click on "Edit Menu Theme" or the "Edit" button to specify background images, change buttons, etc.

No, I meant to make my own backgrounds in Photoshop and use it in TDA. I don't really like their default backgrounds.

I always produce my own Backgrounds. Where's the Problem? Just klick on the Background, a PopUp will show up where you can choose your own Pic.

Cool, I never knew you could right-click it! Thanks!

What does the error:
"invalid pointer error" mean?

When do you get this error? Could you provide more info like can you open your avi file. Or do you get this when you just open the program?

Video Guy

i get that message sometimes when splitting files using the source range

I really like this product, but it would be nice to have an UNDO button on the editing screen as well as a SAVE button so you could save it after a lot of edits in case something goes wrong.

A couple of times, I have somehow made an incorrect CUT and an UNDO button would have saved me a lot of work. A SAVE function would be very useful after you have made a lot of edits and you could save it without getting out of the EDIT function.

Mike Halvorsen

The UNDO is in the EDIT MENU under the EDIT CLIP screen.

I just purchased DVD Author and am having a problem importing a DVD I have copied to my harddisk using DVD XCOPY. It plays with no problem in my software DVD player (PowerDVD).

On the ''Source Setup'' screen, I click on ''Add DVD Video'' and point to the VIDEO_TS folder where the files are located. In the ''Select Title'' screen, it shows the title I want to import correctly. In this case, Title 4 which is 5hr20min13sec and 6477mb.

When I click NEXT, on the ''Options settings'' screen, I click ''Copy the clip video data to the HDD'' and point to a folder, however, there is a message in red below the ''destination folder'' box that says ''3453 mb of video data has been copied to this folder'', not 6477mb as shown in the previous screen. The endpoint in the imported clip is not the end of the movie, because it apparently didn't copy all the data.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Can it be fixed? I purchased this product because I liked the simple interface and it did exactly what I wanted, however, it is not much use to me if it doesn't copy the entire movie.

Thanks,

Mike Halvorsen

Hi! If you want to rip DVD movie, try to use DVD shrink. It's an excellent program to that purpose. Than you can author it using any program you like the most. Also you must specify a drive that can support a large amount of data. On the other hand, you HD has to have enough free space to handle it. The best way is to have one drive for all systems and one for only DVD transfer (ripping), I mean, 2 HDs.

I need to encode approx. 200 10 second files, do I have to do each one seperatly or can I set the encoder once, and have them all done at once?

Every time I tried to normally uninstall TMPGenc from the Add/Remove Programs control panel, the Install utility loaded up and promptly exited without any notice or warning. So I manually brute-force uninstalled it by deleting the TMPGENC folder and it's contents and then I deleted every reference to it in the registry.

Then I rebooted and tried to install the new version of TMPGenc, but it always fails with the following error messages:

"Error 1714 during install -- unable to remove old version"

THEN:

"Feature transfer error

Error: -1603 Fatal error during installation

Consult Windows Install Help (msi.chm) or MSDN for more info"


It turns out that error 1603 means: "Error installing Windows Installer engine. A file which needs to be replaced may be held in use. Close all applications and try again."

Naturally, I tried exiting all applications and then re-installing, but I got the same error.

So then I tried installing it from Safe Mode (although I'm still having trouble getting into Safe Mode deliberately) but I again got the message that it couldn't uninstall the previous version.


What should I do? Thanks in advance for your help!

So I FINALLY got the xvid .avi file to convert to an mpeg via TMPGEnc, and burned my vcd's.

Overall the quality is very good. But every once in a while (not at scene changes and not with fast action, necessarily) the video just hesitates; sometimes for just a second or two. other times, I have to mess with the pause/play/search buttons to jar it out of it and make it play again!

I encoded using the standard template for VCD/NTSC.
I burned the disc using the Roxio Platinum VCD utility.

Any ideas how I can get it to play more smoothly. I am using FFShow which is how I got it to work in the first place; before that it did not work at all; and as you may recall I set my DirectShow setting to 2 at the top of the list in Settings. And I'm playing the dvd on a Panasonic dvd player, an RV-32. (not a computer dvd player, a stand alone one, with my tv.)

A few suggestions:

1) The bitrate is too high for your player. But you say you use the standard VCD template, so that's not the case.

2) Limit the burning speed to 4x.

3) Try another brand writable CD.

4) clean your CD.

Cheers

Does the actual XVID have any playback problems itself?
You may have a movie which is encoded with the new XVID codec which causes this jerky play back if you try to use the old XVID or FFDSHOW codec.
You need the updated version of FFDSHOW which will solve this problem.
http://athos.leffe.dnsalias.com/ffdshow-20040329.exe

>Does the actual XVID have any playback problems itself?

No, it plays back fine on the computer with WMP. Only on the dvd player with my tv does it give me problems. Also, I have no problems with other vcd's I've made from vcd-ready files (I have not made any others with TMPGEnc, so I don't know...)

>You may have a movie which is encoded with the new XVID codec which causes this >jerky play back if you try to use the old XVID or FFDSHOW codec.
>You need the updated version of FFDSHOW which will solve this problem.
>http://athos.leffe.dnsalias.com/ffdshow-20040329.exe

I will try that. Thank you! But, do I need to uninstall the previous version of FFDSHOW, first? (I have the 20040325 version.)

I already tried cleaning my recorder and my player, and if the above does not work I will try another brand of cd-r, but right now I dont have any others. But I doubt that is it, I've never had a problem before with Imation cd-r's on my TDK 4800.

is there a downloadable manual for tmpgenc? if so, where can i get it?

thanx,
-sean

Download the plus version there is a manual with it.

Where would one find the "plus" version? I see only one version available on http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html

Jaysus, have you guys never heard of google?
http://www.pegasys-inc.com/

ok, i put the avi file in the input video place and selected the output folder. then i clicked the load button and chose DVD(NTSC) and tried to begin my conversion when it gave me an error saying that there was a read error with "ntdll.dll" please help.

Congrats you are the 60th person to ask this question.

Next time use the search.

Xvid seems to be the number one cause of ntdll.dll errors.
Is this your format of avi? You might want to try installing ffdshow to decode the avi. This should fix your problems.

(I just read my previous post and it sounded sarcastic. Sorry about that, it was not my intention. I had just misphrased myself. Just meant to say that the "search" is your friend.)

I tried to download PMPGEne Version 2.521 ( Zip file ), however
WinZip prompted an error and cannot unzip.

Please fix the problem asap.

The file is fine.

Chances are your download is corrupt.

Clear your internet cache and download it again.

your full of shit....it does'nt work and you know it....lier

He's NOT full of s..t u a..hole. It's cuz your using an older version of Winzip u tosser.

Download the latest version of Winrar and it should solve the problem.
Now F...off and don't come back you foul mouthed git.

xaewswq1l, your response demonstrates your level of intelligence.

Most people who visit this board know the basics of computers and the internet. This includes downloading and unzipping files. This majority of people seems not to include yourself.

I was trying to help FukuSan, on my own free time without any payment.
Many other people also provide support here, especially ashy and Minion.
Why you feel the need to attack people who try to help others I do not know, and to be honest I don't care. Thread closed.

I just noticed that you made your user name my ID.

Well your user ID is 6zgvhpgwgof.

It should be noted that you have violated the "Terms of Use" on this forum.
Example: Impersonation, foul language, etc.

I agree with both Ashy and David. Your comment was way out of line. David was helping. We don't need fools like you on this board.

To get back to the topic:

If your file got corrupted or did not finish downloading, do like David said and clear the cache. Sometimes if you do not clear the cache, the browser will use the corrupt file in the cache instead of re-downloading it.

If you have an old version of Winzip, do as Ashy said and update it or try another zip program such as WinRar.

To repeat there is nothing wrong with the zip file.


Video Guy

Hi. I have two questions about aspect ratios and video arrange methods.

1) I'm making a PAL SVCD from some captured videos. Source resolution is 640x480 (so source aspect ratio should be 1:1). I set output aspect ratio as 4:3 (620 lines) PAL. Now my problem is this: video looks good, but the video is subtitled and the subtitles are 'cut' on both sides of the image (left & right). It's like it doesn't fit on my tv screen or something. This only happends using Full screen modes. My question is, which full screen mode wouldn't make it happen?

2) When converting the same video to a PAL DVD I get a similar problem. Image is a bit off-screen on bottom and left side. Should I use 'CENTER <CUSTOM SIZE>' and enter 720x540 for example? I say 720x540 because it's the closest resolution to full screen with 1,33333 aspect ratio like the original, so I suppose it will fix the 36 remaining pixels with black bands, right?

Thanks in advance

Use Center (Custom size) with 688x560 or 672x544.
And use 704x576 als Target Size, NOT 720x576 which isn't PAL 4:3 (1.333).

'Use Center (Custom size) with 688x560 or 672x544.
And use 704x576 als Target Size, NOT 720x576 which isn't PAL 4:3 (1.333).'

I don't understand it. 688x560 and 672x544 don't have a 1.333 aspect ratio, how is that going to work? And why the 704x576 as Target size? According to the templates a PAL DVD is 720x576. I'm just trying to know the 'why' of your answers cause I like to know the reason to do something so I can understand it. Thanks for your help.

> I don't understand it. 688x560 and 672x544 don't have a 1.333 aspect ratio

Sure they have. ;)

> And why the 704x576 as Target size?

Because your Video has the AR 4:3 and this Resolution has the AR of 4:3.

720x576 is the same than 704x576 with an Overscan of 16 Pixels.

Your Source is at a PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio) of 1:1, MPEG do use 1.092:1, so the rest is simple mathmatics. In "natural speaking": MPEG-Pixels aren't square, they are Non-Square, which means:
768x576 square is the same than 704x576 non-square
786x576 square equals to 720x576 non-square

PAL DVD knows the following Resolutions:
720x576 with a Motion Area of 704x576 (ITU-R 601)
704x576 with no special Motion Area (CCIR601)
352x576 which is called Half-D1 (CCIR601)
352x288 (Quarter D1, CCIR601)

They all use the same PAR: 1.092 on 4:3 AR.