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I get this message occasionally, and i was wondering if there was a fix to it. With some movie files, but only some, i get the message "cannot open, or unsupported" when i select it for conversion. I have the latest DivX installed, so i don't know what it could be.
damn, it still isn't working. I installed FFDSHOW and changed the option but i still get the message "cannot open or unsupported". The movie plays fine in WMP, but it just won't convert.
If it is a Mpeg file then you Might not need to convert it so you can put it on a DVD...As long as the Resolution of the Mpeg file is 352+288 or 352+576 or 704/720+576-Pal then it is DVD Compliant, You can even burn SVCD Resolution files on a DVD and they should Play without a Problem But if you have to encode the File then you should encode it to Mpeg2 instead of Mpeg1/VCD as you will get better Picture Quality and even though the DVD standard doesn"t specificly say that 352+288 SIF can be Mpeg2 I have never had a DVD authoring Program complain about useing Mpeg2 and every DVD player I have tried plays them..And if your Source Mpeg file is NTSC you should not use Tmpgenc to convert it to Pal cuz Tmpgenc doesn"t properly Convert NTSC/Pal, you should try useing AVISynth to convert the Frame rates or if yor DVD player supports Both Pal and Ntsc like Most do even the cheapo ones then just make it as a NTSC DVD....
All the advice we have been giving you relates to AVI's not MPEG and is why none of it worked.
The MPEG you have is likely MPEG2. If you have the latest version of TMPG you should have no problem loading this MPEG as TMPG now has it's own MPEG2 decoder. Just make sure the 'CRI MPEG decoder' is top of the list in the VFAPI plugins.
If you still have problems loading it try demultiplexing with the MPEGtools to seperate the Video and Audio streams. (You don't need to re-encode the audio anyway)
If it still doesn't load after that then try frame serving it from DVD2AVI to TMPG (that doesn't mean create an AVI, it means create a project file to load into TMPG)
As for your audio delay problem there could be few reasons for this.
Firstly you must make sure you run this MPEG through the 'Simple multiplexer' first to add the proper header, either select 'MPEG1 VCD' or 'MPEG2 SVCD' as the stream type depending on the format of the MPEG then when done it should load into Nero no prob.
Secondly if the audio sync problem only exists on your DVD player then you may have the SVCD audio sync problem, what model of player do you have?
This can be corrected using a modified version of VCDeasy.
If you really want help then post back with more info.
1. What is this MPEG, MPEG1 or MPEG2?
2. What is it's resolution?
3. Does Nero give you any warnings when loading the MPEG?
4. Which model of player do you have
5. Does the audio sync problem occur on the PC also or just the DVD player?
Download 'Bitrate viewer' this will give all the details of the MPEG you need to know.
First of all, sorry about not mentioning that it was an MPG, i thought that i had mentioned it, sorry!
Secondly, i have the latest version of TMPGE (TMPGEnc-2.520.54.163-Free.zip), but i don't seem to have "'CRI MPEG decoder' " on the list of plugins. Do i have to download this separately?
>First of all, sorry about not mentioning that it was an MPG, i thought that i had mentioned it, sorry!
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>Secondly, i have the latest version of TMPGE (TMPGEnc-2.520.54.163-Free.zip), but i don't seem to have "'CRI MPEG decoder' " on the list of plugins. Do i have to download this separately, or do you mean "CyberLink MPEG-2 Decoder? If so, i have given this the highest priority and it still doesn't work, so i'll try the other sugestions you gave.
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>Stinga
Ok this MPEG is an MPEG2 file in SVCD format, so there should be absolutely no problem in loading this into TMPG.
If none of the installed MPEG2 codecs are working then this file is corrupt.
Try running it through the simple multiplexer in the MPEGtools and select 'MPEG2 SVCD(VBR)' as the stream type.
Now load it into Nero using the SVCD option and burn at low speed, 4x if possible.
If you can't load this MPEG into the MPEGtools then it is corrupt, in that case load the MPEG into DVD2AVI and make a project file then load that into TMPG.
If that doesn't work then you can try and fix it with a full version of MPEG2VCR..
I guess you probably downloaded this MPEG. This is what usually happens to downloaded media files, which is why I never bother.
This File is a NTSC SVCD File which you can"t make into a Pal File useing Just Tmpgenc, You should Convert the Frame rate useing AVISynth but if your DVD Player Plays Both Pal and NTSC then you should Burn this SVCD as a Non-Standard DVD useing something like "DVD-Lab" Most DVD Player should be able to Play Such a Disk especially if the DVD Player supports SVCD....
Something that is Confuseing me is that you want to encode the File to Pal VCD and Put in on DVD, So do you want to make a DVD or do you want a VCD??? Either way all of this Long post is Moot Because you can not Convert NTSC Mpeg to Pal Mpeg with Tmpgenc, You would need to Use one of the Many Fairly complicated Methods for converting NTSC/Pal formats....
Kind of obscure but annoying nonetheless - tmpgenc seems to be unable to set its user interface to English on Chinese Windows 2000.
I click on options ... language and choose American English. It tells me that the settings will take effect when I restart the app. I do that, but it still comes up in Chinese.
Hmm I use Chinese Windows XP and it works fine, any software that has language options I use English because I am more used to it. Maybe because XP has multi-language support.
I was encoding an DivX file into MPG for VCD purpose. It ran fine the first time. A few minutes into the encoding I decided to stop the encoding to check on the settings.
When I restarted the process again it gave me this error
"Write error occurred at address 77F83AED of module 'ntdll.dll' with 00000000"
I restarted twice, and even did a cold boot. But still to no avail.
Anyone know why this occured? Or better yet, how to fix it?
I'm not sure if it's a bug or not, but I have been getting an error on my kernel when trying to encode. As soon as I push the start button I get this error.
Well if it was a Bug then everyone would have this Problem..Maybe leave some more information like what type of file are you trying to encode and what are the Files Specs? Like Codec ,Resolution,Frame rate,Audio Format, and were you got the File from Ect...
ah, good point. I'll try some other codecs and a different movie and see how it goes.
Oh, and I was trying to encode The Matrix Reloaded, if that is the reason.
Well the reason could be were you got the file from, If it is an AVI file that yopu downloaded off of the net then it could be the Problem as Downloaded files have a tendancy to be Corrupted from being downloaded repeatedly, a Corrupted file might play just fine in Media Player or some other Player but when it comes to encodeing a corrupted file the encoder has to analize every frame and just one corrupted frame can cause the encoder to crash, But you can allways try a different encoder if you can get Tmpgenc to work with this file....Good luck
Yes, Tmpgenc comes with a Simple Mpeg editor..Go to "File" to "Mpeg Tools" to "Merge & Cut" and everything else is easy to figure out Just Make sure you choose "Mpeg-1 Video-CD" from the Dropdown menu cuz if you leave it as just Mpeg 1 then your VCD will Not be accepted By your Burning Program...
I do a lot of capturing on a Formac Studio DV/TV (connected to a Mac). There I get .dv files contained in a quicktime file, these files I want to encode to MPEG2 with TMPG then.
For this I use the QTReader plugin for TMPG.
But encoding them brought up to problems:
1. the quicktime.dv, when imported in TMPG only comes out in low quality, although the quality setting is set to Hi (checked with the QuickTime Player)
2. problem is that the movie has a framerate of 600 fps! in TMPG (but the movie is in 25 fps/PAL, checked in QuickTime Player)
But I got solutions for both problems!
For 1.
I open the quicktime.dv in QuickTime Player, press (ctrl+j) check the video quality setting button to "Hi Quality", then save the file as quicktime.mov (reference not selfcontaining movie!)
For 2.
It get's more complicated here; by accident I found a forum thread linking to the Apple QuickTime Tool "Dumpster", which will let you change the various resource settings in a quicktime file easily!
So, I opened the before created quicktime.mov and searched for the wrong frame rate entry, changed the value from 600 to 25 (you have to put this in on the bottom window and they must be hex numbers). I put in 019 which results to 25 in decimal numbers) and press the "apply" button to confirm changing the setting!
Also you have to look for the "Duration" values, which should then be divided by 16 an put in instead! (they are in hex coding too!)
Do this for all occurrences you may find, always press the "apply" button, then close the quicktime.mov, now you can put this reference quicktime.mov file in TMPG and it works as expected!
Im sure that this Info will be helpfull to someone as these are Problems inherant to the QT Mov Plugin, The Plugin was made for Quicktime 4 and 5 and does not Properly support Quicktime 6 files and the Plugin has not been updated since it was released and the author of the Plugin is nowere to be found but you can feel free to rewrite the QT Plugin so that it works properly ,that is if you have these skills...ThanX for the Tip....Cheers
If you new that the actual frame rate of the source was actually 25 fps why didn't you just set the frame rate to 25fps in TMPG? It would have encoded correctly regardless of what was contained in the headers of the source file.
I don"t think there will be any sort of AC3 support till Tmpgenc V3.0 and the AC3 support it will have is not what you are looking for, I think they will have AC3 encodeing Support But not AC3 Decodeing Support...AC3 audio is mostly Only used in AVI files that are usually downloaded off of the net which are the worst files to encode to Mpeg cuz they have a Habbit of being Corrupted and have Non-standard Frame rates and Audio formats...You can allways use Virtual dub to extract the audio to wav from your AVI file and there is a New AC3 decoder Plugin you can get for Virtual Dub so you can extract better wav files useing Virtual dub and you can now useing this AC3 plugin Frameserve decoded AC3 audio to Tmpgenc....
Minion says: "AC3 audio is mostly Only used in AVI files that are usually downloaded off of the net..."
Wrong. AC3 audio is mainly used when making DVD's. For complient NTSC DVDs, you have the choice of either PCM (wave) audio (a very large file) or AC3 audio (Dolby) that come out to be about the same size as MPEG Audio.
TMPGEnc will multiplex AC3 audio (but not PCM Wave) though the MPEG tools dialog.
You can take MPEG audio from TEmpgEnc, run it though AC3Machine, then multiplex it to get what you want.
>Wrong. AC3 audio is mainly used when making DVD's. For complient NTSC DVDs, you have the choice of either PCM (wave) audio (a very large file) or AC3 audio (Dolby) that come out to be about the same size as MPEG Audio.
So what's your point?
I think minion is quite aware that most DVD's have Ac3 as the audio.
I think you have missed the point of his answer. When minion quoted the line you have posted he was referring to AVI only not what format of video Ac3 is used in generally, but the fact that most AVI's downloaded off the net use the original Ac3 track ripped from the DVD.
How else do you expect the Ac3 track was added.
>TMPGEnc will multiplex AC3 audio (but not PCM Wave) though the MPEG tools dialog.
>You can take MPEG audio from TEmpgEnc, run it though AC3Machine, then multiplex it to get what you want.
This doesn't relate to the question asked either.
The point was that TMPG will not accept Ac3 as a valid audio source for encoding to MP2 or wav therefore a third party program must be used to convert the audio to a format TMPG will accept.
Nobody asked how to multiplex Ac3 audio to MPEG video or for that matter convert the audio to Ac3.
Maybe you should read the post twice before posting comments in the future.
What I wanted to do was take a movie I have that's an .avi with AC3 sound, and convert it to a VCD...TMPGEnc cannot handle that, and I wanted to know if a future release will do it
All you need is a Decoding-Filter like AC3Filter. After installing that, TMPGEnc is able to hanlde AC3-Sound too. But it isn't optimized for that. Consider on, TMPGEnc is an Encoder, not a Decoder.
And..um...which filter is that may I ask because every single Ac3 filter I have tried in the new version doesn't work even the ones that used to work in earlier versions don't work.
'Ac3filter' will only allow AVI with AC3 to be loaded into TMPG, it won't allow VOB or MPEG with AC3 or Ac3 audio itself and even though it will load an AVI with AC3 it still won't decode it because all you get is silence.
Exactly - it works with the odd file, but no way will it work with all of them...I just want TMPGEnc's next version do have support for AC3, so I wouldn't have to extract the audio, convert it, re-multiplex it with the new vcd, take all that extra time, and finally discover the sound is now slightly out of synch...
I'm using this Filter on VOB-Files too, but have to demux it first. Maybe there is something installed on my Machine you don't have? (no idea what...)
However, the best Way to decode/transcode AC3-Audio is an external Program like BeSweet or, if the Source is DVD, DVD2AVI.
An other Way if the use of GraphEdit. Unfortunatly that's not easy to handle, but fast and good.
I don't use either, the best and fastest way I have found for extracting audio from DVD is VOB2AUDIO.
VOB2AUDIO works in the same way Graphedit does because it uses the same 'Imedia Multiple MPEG2 Source filter' as Graphedit and because it uses directshow it is more reliable as far as sync issues are concerned and also doesn't exhibit the low sound level problem that DVD2AVI has.
For AVI with AC3 I use AVIMUX04 which is simple to use and seems to give the best results and allows you to extract the audio to whatever format you wish. I don't like besweet as it's a far too complicated and messy program for doing something as simple as extracting AC3 or converting it to a wav.
ES (video + audio) means elementary Streams. You will get separated Audio and Video-Streams (2 Files). This is usefull for DVD-Authoing.
System (video + audio) means, you will get one System-Stream. Audio and Video-Streams are muxed into on File. This is... hm, usefull, if you want 1 File. It can be used by some Authoring Tools directly, but the secure way is to produce elemantary Streams.
Yes....But poeple have problem with encodeing WMV files because WMV files are so compressed that they are very prone to errors, and if you are Haveing Problems Loading WMV files into Tmpgenc you should try Raiseing the Priority of the "Direct show" in the "Vfapi Plugins"....And if all else fails you can allways convert the WMV files to AVI then encode the avi files in Tmpgenc...
tmpg seems to have trouble interpreting the color palette of my clip. Its AVI uncompressed 352x288@25fps (VCD PAL standard) trying to convert to mpg. I searched this bbs and a there are quite a few questions with same/similar problem, but no suitable answers. I dont have angel codec (its a fresh windows 98 install), and no other player has problems with the color. Its the full picture is mostly blue, it occasionally changes to red, but it looks like tmpg is unable to read it. Other files seem ok, just these ones. Conversion to MPG ends up like that (unusable).
I tried it on another computer, its the same there too.
Get AVISynth, install it, write the following Script:
AVISource=("your_movie.avi")
ConvertToRGB24()
Save the Script into the same directory where the AVI is as test1.avs (the name doesn't matter, but the extension is important) and open it instead of the AVI in TMPGEnc. What happens now?
update: I couldnt' get it to read the files, but i ended up downloading a new version of Lifeview's TVR (capture program for the FLYVIDEO 3000 capture card) and the files it captures NOW are accepted by TMPG. I still think my original hypothosis was correct. Maybe it was using something that was incompatible with tmpg (or non-standard avi). Anyway, the new program is also a lot easier to use and is compatible with TMPG, so i can keep encoding/converting with it.
BTW, while this card isn't great, it certainly does about as good as you possibly can with VHS.
B_racer thanks for your advice, i'll keep a reference to that (sounds like you think its not 24-bit?)
You said that your Files were Uncompressed AVI files, If these files use YUV or YUY2 or YV12 Colorspaces then Tmpgenc will not read them properly Cuz Tmpgenc works in RGB and since Uncompressed Files do not use a Codec there is Nothing to convert the Colorspace to RGB for Tmpgenc, that is why the convertToRGB() Command in AVISynth was sugested to solve your Problem but if one doesn"t know anything about AVISynth then it would be hard to figure out.You should consider useing the HuffyUV Codec for Captureing cuz it is Lossless so it will produce the same Quality as Uncompressed would and it has an option to convert to RGB on Decode so the files work with Tmpgenc...Cheers
Ok. Here's my problem. First off, I have used this program numerous times to sucsessfully convert an .avi video to .mpg video for burning to a VCD. I never had a problem with video or audio conversion in the final resulting file. Now hpwever, I'm trying to encode (Samurai Jack Episodes) so I can put them to DVD at my friends house. I have so fae unsucsessfully gotten a complete video and audio render to mpg. I have tried three or four different ways that would possibly solve the problem. 1.) tried decompressing audio, then used the decompressed audio video source. 2.) used the original .avi file. , 3.) used a .wav of the audio and .avi for video. I'm pretty possitive it needs to be in NTSC format. Could I be Wrong?, If not, Can someone help me solve the problem? I'd really appreciate it.