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I'm using PowerVCR for TV Recording with a resolution 720x576, 2300kbps at 25fps (PAL). I've choosen these seeting to have enough picture information for TMPGEnc to do its job well converting the stream to Standard-Pal.
The problem is, that I have to cut out commercials from the recorded material. Doing this, audio and video become desync exact at this position where it has to start over after the commercial break. From this point audio is round about 1 sec ahead. The base file has 1,6GB.
I'm using the latest version of TMPGEnc on Windows 2000 SP3 / NTFS.
Well the Merge & Cut" only oficially supports Acurate editing of Mpeg files that were encoded with Tmpgenc, and it doesn"t support acurate editing of VBR Encoded Mpeg streams..If you are re-encodeing your Captured File with Tmpgenc you can try the "Cut Editing" feature in the "Source Range" setting to edit out the comercials while encodeing..And Power VCR has it"s Own mpeg Editor that I have used before and have found it Fairly good but a Little Tedius to use..This has nothing to do with your Problem But the Bitrate you are useing to Capture is Far to low to for that Resolution to Retain any sort of Acceptable Quality, if you are re-encodeing the File anyways you should capture at the Highest Bitrate Possible(10,000kbs??) so you will get the Best Possible Quality..When i capture to Mpeg2 I use WinDVR 2 (The Best in My opinion) and I capture at 14,600kbs which is as High as it goes and the Quality Is Very good, then I encode to SVCD resolutions and Bitrate after and I get Pretty good Quality...Just a Sugestion...
I converted a an AVI file, and the video, while not as great in quality, is good enough. However, this is a film for school, and the resulting audio is not acceptable. Is there any way I can have TMPEG convert the AVI file, while staying as close to the quality in audio as possible? It really doesn't matter if it takes longer to convert, it will be worth it. Thanks for any help.
Well Yes, You can Install an external Audio Encoder engine into Tmpgenc Pluss if you are Doing any Sample Rate conversion with the audio in Tmpgenc which you Probably are there is a setting to increase the Quality..Go to "Options" to "enviromental Settings" to "Audio Engine" and Under the "Sample Frequency Converter" Choose "High Quality", you can also install a Seperate audio encoder here also, the Best ones that are supported By Tmpgenc are "Toolame" and "SCMPX" you can Find them on Google and you install them By clicking the Browse Button under"Mpeg 1 Layer 2" and navigateing to the Encoder you downloaded, SCMPX can also be used as a Sample Rate Converter and you install it the same way under "Sample Frequemcy Converter"...Useing a Higher Bitrate will also give better audio Quality, if you still do not like the audio Quality after trying there methods you can allways use a Totally seperate Program to encode the audio....
You should take a look at the framerate of Your movie. Sometime the one who encoded it anly did it for PC usage, so they differ from the standard fps of 23,xxx or 29,xxx for NTSC or 25 fpr PAL. I had the same problem where the movie was encoded at 20fps... GSpot will show you. I have to parse the miss-encoded avi through AviSynth to get the fps corrected and then let TMPGEnc do the mpg conversion.
Programm seems to be very raw. And for sure not for $68. User interfase is "minimalistic", no multiple audio streams support, menu templates are agly and user are not allowed to change them or even disable "chapter" submenu, it's not possible to make an iso image. After all, there is no VCD/SVCD support, which seems to be a "standard" feature.
One thing is good: partial AC3 support (haven't try it yet).
Sorry, but current version can be called only "DVD authoring plug-in for TMPGEnc+" and sold for $19.99, and only after adding VCD/SVCD support to it and fixing menu builder. Are you going to make a "real" program in closest feature?
Is there anyway to boost the RAM usage in TMPG for faster encodes like CCE ?
TMPG has better results then anything else but it doesnt use much ram.
I have a gig of ram and Dual cpu and TMPG uses full cpu usage and I still have half of my ram left while encoding on high priority.
CCE uses full cpu and leaves me with 50 megs of ram on high priority and encodes much faster.I dont like CCE or any other enocders on the market.
Can TMPG utilize my system to the fullest and eat up my ram?
NO, There is No way to make it suck up more ram, If it needed the Ram it would use it, I believe that only the very newest versions of CCE have the Encodeing Priority setting.Tmpgenc and CCE are Written on 2 totally different Platforms, Tmpgenc is written in the Old Delfi code were CCE was written Useing Visual C+ and C+ is a Much More highly Optimized Code that the Old Delphi Code, they Could Write Tmpgenc Useing C+ but that would take rewriteing the Code from Scratch for the Most part and would take a Lot of developement and they would have to start dealing with a Whole new Batch of bugs to work out, but it would greatly increase the Encodeing spead of Tmpgenc...I don"t know why you don"t like CCE as for Mpeg2 encodeing it is well Known that it is Far superior to Tmpgenc, It"s Mpeg 1 encodeing is Not very good at all but they only added the Mpeg1 encodeing to CCE as an After thought, and the Developers didn"t even test the Mpeg1 support in CCE when they First realeased it so they didn"t even know if it would comply with Mpeg1 standards..I find CCE easy to use Fast and of Superior Quality, and it doesn"t Have any of Bugs that Tmpgenc has..So CCE doesn"t have any Good Filters or a Resize filter or any real Extra Features at all But even when I use Tmpgenc I do not use it"s Filters or It"s Extra Features Cuz AVISynth Filters are Far superior..But Hey To Each his Own...Cheers
I agree with Minion. You can't compare TMPG and CCE because of the way they use resources.
Just like minion says CCE is a $2000 optimized program written in totally different code to TMPG and thus use resources differently.
You can't force a program to use more ram, but what you can do is stop your system from using virtual memory which does slow things down. Seeing as you have so much ram you shouldn't need any Virtual memory at all.
Go into your virtual memory settings and disable it this should make sure your ram is used to it's full potential.
As for your dislike of CCE compared to TMPG, you are in a very small minority here. There could be a few reasons for this. Maybe you are only using CCE for MPEG1 encoding for which CCE is no good at all. CCE is designed as a commercial MPEG2 encoder. Maybe you don't like the interface, but there are ways you can use the benefits of TMPG's interface yet get the high quality and speed of CCE.
If you really are using TMPG for MPEG2 (and there is absolutely nothing wrong with TMPG's MPEG2 encoding) because you think it's better than CCE then I can only say this must be due to the fact you don't really know how to get the best from CCE.
Once you have learned how to use CCE properly you WILL see the difference in quality.
wHEN I SEEM TO ENCODE IN tepG ENC THEN i USE NERO TO CONVERT TO VCD I ENCOUTER 1 SMALL PROBLEM. THE SCREEN ON MY TV SHOWS THE VCD UP SIDE DOWN. THIS I GUESS IS A NERO PROBLEM
Firstly why are you First encodeing with Tmpgenc and then Re-encodeing with Nero?? this will totally Ruin the Quality of the Video cuz Nero is the Worst encoder there is..If you would have first encoded the File properly in Tmpgenc then Nero would not have to re-encode the File..If you used one of the Standard VCD/SVCD templates in Tmpgenc then the File should be Fully Compliant and Nero would not have to re-encode it, and the Upside down image is a Nero Problem as I have heard of this Before with Nero...Tmpgenc encodes to VCD and Nero Just burns the File to Disk , this should only take a Few Minutes to Burn with Nero, if nero starts to encode your File again then you should stop it cuz you did something wrong in Tmpgenc....
Try uninstalling tMPGEnc and then reinstall it, -BUT- when it asks you what type of installation do you want, select custom, select all the filters except "Bicubic Resizer", that's the one turning your image upside down.
....and please stop using CAPS it breaks the rules of this BBS.
I am using the tmpgenc 2.5+ to convert mpeg1 file (has different left and right track audio) from ntsc to pal using the standard template but the resulting file has the same left and right track audio. How can I fix that?
Also similar audio problem (missing audio track) when I change the bitrate of mpeg1 file from 1150 to 1050kbps (ntsc to ntsc using the unlock mcf). Any suggestions?
UMm, You can not Convert NTSC to Pal Properly with Tmpgenc in the First place, you will get Jumpy Playback when watching on your DVD Player, it is Extremely anoying to watch, you would have to Use something like AVISynth to to the Conversion or a Seperate Program Like Procoder or Vegas Video 4 to Convert it to Pal..As for your Audio you Should First try the "Dual Chanell" setting but if that doesn"t work you might have to Use an audio editor to Seperate the audio tracks and re mix them..
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try some other tool for the ntsc2pal conversion. I did try using the toolame as the audio engine and separately chose dual channel but neither one worked for me. It just seems strange that it will not give me dual tracks after the conversion.
>I am using the tmpgenc 2.5+ to convert mpeg1 file (has different left and right track audio) from ntsc to pal using the standard template but the resulting file has the same left and right track audio. How can I fix that?
Are you saying that after encoding with TMPG the tracks are no longer as seperate left and right but both tracks have been mixed into both channels?
If you have used dual channel I think this is unlikely and is probably more of a problem of how you are selecting the right track when playing back.
Is this happening on your DVD player or your PC?
Yes after encoding I used window media player and all three tracks (1-both channels, 2-left channel & 3-right channel) are the same. It must be something that I have done wrong in my set-up??? The two temporary files generated by toolame are identical (assuming those files XXX.mpa). Any suggestions?
Make sure that it's not a playback problem first and ensure any kind of sound effect such as surround sound or something similar is disabled in media player otherwise this will give the effect of mixing the channels.
If it's not a playback problem then either your original tracks are already mixed or you are making an error in your seletion.
I have encoded seperate tracks myself and it works perfectly.
First make sure the tracks you are encoding from are in wav format. Then choose dual channel. Don't use toolame, use TMPG's encoder.
If the tracks really are in seperate left and right channels in the wav then the resulting Mpeg should be exactly the same.
After you create a project, select your videos and look at the menus, you finish and save to work on it later. You go back and decide to change the video source in the tracks but when you go to the track select menu and try to select the displayed frame, it still shows the original video selection and you cannot update it and keep all of the other menu editing you have done.
When i try to load an AVI file at the "Video Source" tab, i get an error that says: "File 'C:...' can not open, or unsupported." I know it has something to do with the VFAPI Plug-ins, how can I get a plug-in for this video codec: "Microsoft MPEG-4 Video decompressor"?
You don"t need a Vfapi Plugin you probably just need to raise the Priority of the "Direct show File reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins" usually to 1 or 2 is good enough..But I have heard there is a Version of Microsoft Mpeg-4 that was made so it could not be Encoded, I don"t know if it was V1 or V3...
You don't need to change the header on anything. The original V3 MPEG4 codec from microsoft was only locked from using it to encode not to decode so there should be no problem using it in TMPG. Changing the FourCC to "DIVX" is not the answer.
The hacked version of the MS V1, MS V2, MS V3 codec is available all over the net and will allow encoding as well as decoding in ANY program.
Either way you don't need to do either. Just do as Minion suggests if that doesn't work then download FFDSHOW. This will decode ALL MPEG4 codecs.
No there is No File size limitation in Tmpgenc, What is the error you are getting??? and What type of AVI file is it meaning the Compression used for the File?
I actually created the avi in Final Cut Pro3. It says the compression is DV/DVCPro. I made six files with this one being the largest at about 4.6 Gigs. I have a network between the Mac and PC and just send them to the PC and then use TMPGEnc to encode with. I have used TMPGEnc on four of the six files without having any problems. Just this one so far. I just created another AVI of the same file and after it gets done encoding a file I will retry the new file.
The file is a Microsoft Video file, the same as all of the other files. There is another avi file that is 3.4 megs and it encoded without any problems. I checked the properties of the problem file and compared it to the others and it is the same. It seems to be the size or something.
So it is Just a Plain DV AVI file, Probably Type 1 DV, You still didn"t tell me the error you are getting, Is it something like "The File is Unsupported" if so you can try raiseing the Priority of the "Direct show File reader" in the VFAPI Plugin and if that doesn"t help you can try Raiseing the "OpenDML File reader" as all DV files over 2 GB are supposed to comply with OpenDML standards...
> I have a network between the Mac and PC and just send them to the PC and then use TMPGEnc to encode with.
If you mean that the files are stored on your MAC but you are networked to a PC where TMPG is located then your problem is the size of your file.
What sort of operating sytsem are you using on your PC? If it's a FAT32 partition then you cannot encode any file over 4GB due to file size limits of the operating system.
Either split the file or convert your file system to NTFS this will remove any file size limitations.
There is one other thing you can do. You can frame serve this AVI through AVIsynth but AVIsynth only works on PC systems (as far as I know) so you would need to use a PC emulator on your Mac to install it.
It may be a NTFS problem so I will have to check. I thought I had converted all of the drives but now I am not sure. I finally found the QTReader plug-in and installed it and have been trying to use the QT files. Had a problem with them in TMPGEnc. The previous error was the "unsupported file" error but I don't get it any more.
If I convert the drives to NTFS from FAT32 will I loose the data on the drive? The drives I am using are three firewire drives I haven't used in a while so they are probably FAT32.
It is taking way way too long to encode the 22 minute QT file to a mpg file. It said it was going to take 13 hours. In FCP3 I exported using the Sorenson3 codec but maybe I should have used just a QT video codec instead. I tried the FCP movie export but it wasn't recognized by TMPGEnc. It also didn't have an extension on it. Any idea which QT codec I should use?
I get the same messages, i 1st installed nemo/mino ???? and git the error then i installed fddshow and it still happens.... it also gets half way through some xvids and displays a blank screen with the films sound behind it????
First of all remove those useless goddamn codec packs from your PC which cause more problems than anything else.
Uninstall any other MPEG4 codec you have installed. Install FFDSHOW and the raise the priority of the directshow reader to 2 and ALL others to 0 in the VFAPI plugins.
If you still get the error then download and re-install TMPG. If you still continue to get arrors then the file is dodgy. You could try frame serving from Virtualdub or AVIsynth.