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I have an avi movie, 2hrs in length, divx 5.0 codec, bitrate 1315, 25FPS.
It plays perfectly on my PC (i use Divx player and/or Windows Media Player).
However, when I open it in TMPGEnc and use the project wizard to convert it to SVCD, the following problem is seen: In the "Source Range" page (where I set the beginning and end points) there is color distortion throughout the movie. Bright green color will bleed onto the screen from the right edge, getting worse for about 5 seconds, then disappear and the picture will be normal. A minute or so later the same thing will occur again, and again, etc, throughout the whole film. I went ahead and encoded it to SVCD anyways, burned it, but the problem was still there when I watched it on a DVD player.
This is the only problem with the movie, and oddly it doesn't have this problem when being played back on the computer directly from the original avi file in divx player or windows media player. Only TMPGEnc has this color distortion.
Have Divx collection of films
Have Compaq Ipag 3850 + Tosh 5GB drive
Have Pocket TV
Use setting as recommneded by pocket TV (see http://www.mpegtv.com/wince/pockettv/encoding.html#parameters)
Get no video, just black screen.
Audio and length of clip seem OK
I am having two problems and need some help. I am fairly new to video/tmpegenc but I converted two avis to mpeg2 without a problem. Then I got a new computer (1.7 AMD/1 gig DDR/80 gig drive)and the the newest video capture is having problems. First of all when I go to select the source to be encoded I get a "insert disc into drive D" pop up, I don't remember getting this before -why does it want me to insert a disc? The main problem I am having though, is after the program starts and is running for about two to three minutes of video, it shuts down my computer: the power stays on, but the fans shut off and the hard drives shut off and the screen goes black. Could this be overheating protection on the motherboard? Other ideas? - thanks alot.
It sounds like you are haveing some Pretty Big problems that don"t have anything to do with Tmpgenc, and these Problems could be anything, I think you should take it to the Shop...Encodeing is a Very CPU intensive Process and even a computer with big problems will not show any symptoms if you are just surfing the net or running simple Program but when you start pushing it to it"s limits thats when the Problems become apparent...Take it to the Shop....
>First of all when I go to select the source to be encoded I get a "insert disc into drive D" pop up
I think this one is fairly obvious. I'm guessing D drive is your CDROM drive or DVD drive.
At some point you have loaded a movie into TMPG directly from the disk in your CDROM/DVD drive then closed TMPG and removed the disk from the drive.
When you start TMPG up again it will automatically try to load the last file you used as a source hence giving you this error.
Just click 'Continue' and load a different file into the source box, but this time from your hard drive. NEVER load files directly from your ROM drive into TMPG. This puts far too much stress on the drive and you may damage it.
As for your other problem try disabling the MMX,MMX-2 and SSE,SSE2 optimizations under the CPU tab in the 'Enviromental' settings.
If you have an AthlonMP/XP you may enable the SSE, 3D Now! and MMX-2 optimizations.
It is an Athalon XP. I wasn't quite clear before: I captured the DV vid on the old pc, I used tmpgenc on the new pc with no problems for the previously captured vid. The only thing that would be different would be the capture of the new vid, which was done on the new pc, with seemingly no problems.
Ashy; the environmental settings will not let me choose mmx-2 and SSE without choosing mmx, being that I do have an athalon xp, should I enable or disable the settings? Re: the D drive, I think I did look at a movie to see if I could encode it with tmpgenc - that explains that. Minion: the motherboard thing was just a wild guess, I really don't know. Any other ideas?
I read somewere that the SSE-2 optimizations on an Athlon XP are a Bit different than on an Intell so the SSE-2 in Tmpgenc isn"t totally compatible with an Athlon so Maybe enable everything accept SSE-2...The reason why I said there could be something wrong with your Mo Bo is because it is shutting down after a few minutes of encodeing which sounds like a Problem to me...
Minion was correct originally: I did a crappy job of installing my heat sink on the processor, it was overheating, shutting off the computer. I fixed it and all is well. Great (free) product, great support on the free product!
I get a "cannot load P3Package.dll" error when I try to encode. Any suggestions. I have the "free demo" program in program files on "C drive" and the p3package.dll is in there too. Please help. Thanks in advance.
DG
I'm trying to go from Creatives Digital VCR to SVCD. A post on dvdrhelp.com mentioned that installing the TMPGEnc mpeg2 plugin was all that was needed to convert these nonstandard mpeg2 files. Well, it's not working.
First problem is that TMPGEnc gets to around frame 38000 (out of 10700) and then the rest of the converted file is that last frame for the video. The sound however does continue. Same thing if I try to preview it, or when I try to do cut editing. I can view the video in a player and it works as expected.
I'm also having problems with the sound being out of sync. I did a short test and it came out fine. Then I let it run the entire file and it was way off.
Any suggestions on either problem? Or a consensus on what really works? I've been searching usenet, forums, websites, etc. and what one person says works for them, doesn't seem to work for another. Or for me. An example, Ulead Moviefactory has been said to work. It did load the file ok, but the resulting SVCD had a stutter in the video. It was like every few seconds, it would rewind maybe half a seconds worth, then continue. Is there a name for this?
Well the reason what it is sticking on that Frame is Probably because there is come sort of an error in the Source file at the Point were it stops, Try this it should work unless the File is totally Corrupted..Download "DVD2AVI" and Make a "D2V" project File and Encode that..DVD2AVI is a Frame server for Mpeg files and it is Better to use it than Loading Mpeg2 files directly into Tmpgenc..
When I try to load the d2v and wav files i have ripped into TMPGEnc, the wav works but now the d2v says 'unsupported' or some bullshit. I've done three thing successfuly already and i can't for the life of me figure out what's wrong.
Any help would be hot
Well if you have done it before rescently then you Probably have the Correct Plugin installed so what will probably work is to Just make another D2V file, that usually works..And remember Dont Move,Delete Or rename any of the Vob/Mpeg files or the D2V files from there Default locations untill after you have encoded the Movie..
ok i dont get this
i used this vcd galaxy program to rip a copy of labrynth
worked great
got it all working
it came with a copy of tmpgenc
so i tried to put the dv2 file where its supposed to go
and it pauses and then give me the kernel32.dll error
and ive tried many versions of tmpgenc and it just doesnt work
the second step of this after ripping the files from the dvd is to use dvd2avi
is that the problem or what?
When It is time to start recording, I get the message to play MPEG-2 files, DVD player files must be installed on your system. MPEG-2 files cannot be played without such playback software.
Funny thing is I DO have dvd playback software on computer w/ Windows XP and I can easily play DVD's.
The Message Is NOT telling you that you don"t have the Software it is Just telling you that to play Mpeg2 files you have to use DVD Playing software..It says this if you have the software or Don"t have the software so there is nothing wrong....
Will TPMG encode and compress for web delivery only? I want to compress an minidv avi into mpeg with TPMG. It keeps making an mv2 file that is not recognised by either player. Is TPMG the right program for encoding and compressing for web delivery?
For Web content the Mpeg format you need is Mpeg1, you are encodeing to Mpeg2,and you have chosen some wrong setting Cuz a "M2V" file is a Mpeg2 video file with NO Audio..Most streaming Mpeg1 content is Very Low Bitrate Low resolution Files, so you would Probably get better Quality and File sizes if you used a Different Format Like "WMV or ASF" which can be made By "Windows Media Encoder" you can even Use Windows Media Encoder to Capture directly from your MiniDV Cam right to WMV/ASF Format....
What are you useing to Convert the Vfapi/AVI file with?? And were are you Typeing "RUN"?? and Have you installed the Vfapi Codec?? And have you tried a Different Frameserver to accomplish what you want to do???
>When I try to convert an tmpgenc project file in vfapi reader and to convert it, whenever I type "run" I get the follwing messge:
>
>VFAPICONVEN has caused a mistake because of an invlid page in the
>Module QDV.DLL bei 019f:014822e0.
>Register:
>EAX=00000000 CS=019f EIP=014822e0 EFLGS=00210202
>EBX=0235fcb0 SS=01a7 ESP=0235fc60 EBP=0235fc7c
>ECX=00000000 DS=01a7 ESI=00008cd4 FS=592f
>EDX=00008cf0 ES=01a7 EDI=0235fc64 GS=58ff
>Bytes bei CS:EIP:
>22 05 26 05 1b 05 1f 05 23 05 27 05 2a 05 2e 05
>Stapelwerte:
>bff7363b 00000b18 00000024 00000000 0235fcf0 8cae590f 000001a7 0235fc90 bff94407 58ff8cd4 000058ff 00000000 bff719b8 00008cce 0235ffbc bff7186d
>
>
>Any halp availeble??
>
>Thanks
>Herb
Ok. Here are the details:
Source material: AVI file from DV digital camcorder.
I want to use it in Virtual Dub. So I load it into
TMPGenc and save it as TMPG project.
Then I open this file with VFapi reader.
I can load the file (TMPG project file) there.
When I try to convert it and I hit the box saying "run" (= convert the file), the message quoted above pops up on the screen.
What other frame server could I use to be able to load the avi file into Virtual dub?
What I would Probably do is Make a VCD, OR ,You can try this Make a VCD but use Mpeg2 instead of Mpeg1, and use VCDEasy to burn it as a SVCD, I have done this Quite a Few times and Have achieved better Quality than If I used Mpeg1, But generally if you made a Low bitrate SVCD you would get too much Blockyness, so you would probably get better Quality going the VCD Route..I have Gotten an Hour or more on a Disk in SVCD and Have gotten Pretty Good Quality But that was useing CCE and useing 2 or more Passes...