I used the SVCD template to encode a perfect playing AVI Type 1 DV file into SVCD mpeg2, but something strange happens to the resulting file. The playback has intermitten segments where the video slows down (as in slo motion) for a second or so. The audio is not affected. I dont know why this happens.

I tried changing the field order, but it didnt help (switching the field got even worse results with the field order distortion so I figure I got the field order right the first time)

Any advice please?

(btw I tweaked the template for Constant Quality)

What settings did you use? Some Players do have Problems with Videos if the Bitrate vary's too much or the Min._bitrate is too low.

Such effects can also happen if you burn a SVCD too fast. If the Drive do have too much Read-Problems, the Player might loose the Sync with the Buffer.

If this Happens on your DVD Player it can also be caused By bitrate spikes of Which Tmpgenc is Notorius for..What Happens is the Bitrate Spikes and the DVD Player has to suddenly spin the Disk extra Fast to read the increased data rate but if it spikes too fast and too high the DVD Player can not read the Disk Fast enough and the Video seems to slow down or Play Choppy...I haven"t found a Reliable solution for this becides Possible Lowering the bitrate or useing an encoder that has better Bitrate controll......

I used the standard bitrate default of the SVCD template 2520. I only toyed with the CQ and CBR setting as well as the Field options, which has gotten me utterly confused.

Yesterday I reran some test files, and found that my field order was a bit confused. I converted files using Non Interlace, Field A and Field B options. Although my original avi shows as Field A (Top) in Ulead Video Studio as I was preparing them (i get the horrible jerkiness caused by wrong field order if I encode in Ulead using Field B), I found that using Field B (Bottom) in Tmpgenc and using CBR eliminated the problem (there was still very slight jerkiness here and there but on the whole okay). I am confused. I swear Field B gave me horrendous results the last time around.

The Field A and Non Interlace files showed the slow down effect.

I am trying the same process this time with Constant Quality and VBR to compare. I just dun understand what is going on.

Cheers
ch

Ulead-Software... *argh!* It always uses a wrong Field Order-Term. Field A in Ulead is Field B in TMPGEnc or Premiere or many other Tools.

Hi

Thks. I found this out eventually. But that wasnt the source of problem. I tried using CQ and VBR and both produced the slo mo problem even with the right field order. In the end only CBR worked ok. I havent tried this out on DVD Mpeg yet but I guess there is little I can do with SVCD here.

Rgds
ch

I have just encoded a .avi as an mpeg1, file, which is fine but it is 1gig - so naturally i want to split it to chuck it onto two CD's. Anyway my problem is that when i go to file > mpeg tools > merge and cut, add the file, and click edit, my computer freezes. i tried it three times, one the last two leaving lengthy periods for the comp to sort itself out before resetting - but to no avail.

is this a common problem? it's not too serious, because i found another mpeg1 splitter, but if there is a patch or something that i could grab to fix it up that would probably make things easier. The program im using right now expires in ten days, so if you have a good free one perhaps that might be the solution :).

thanks,
Jack

Well I don"t hear much about It freezeing when Loading the File into the "Merge & cut" but it has been known to freeze when it is Outputting the Split File..There isn"t that much you can do when it doesn"t want to work, but it seems that you have allready found the Solution which is to use something else to edit the files...Cheers

PS: if this Happens with every Mpeg1 file then I would sugest it might be a Configuration problem....

Hello, I am a long time user of TMPEGnc 2.520 plus and have now encountered a problem that I am unable to get around. I have Googled for this error but I'm unable to find a soulution. My problem is that when encoding a 2hr 11min XviD movie to 3 SVCD's TMPEG stops encoding after about 6 mins into disc 3 (after successfully encoding the 2 first discs). I get an error message stating "Read error occured at address 000B1C2D of module 'TMPEGnc.exe' with 00000014". I have checked the XviD for bad frames with Vdub MP3 and extracted the audio to wav with Virtual Dub. I have also increased Direct Show Multimedia File Readers priority to 3 and enabled everyting under the CPU tab in environmental settings. I tried 3 times to do this with both TMPEG and PC restarts in between with no luck. Computer detalis: P4 2.0 Ghz, 512 MB, XP Sp1, 200 GB HD (30+50+120 GB). Would be very greatful for any thoughts on this, best regards-Lars

I read from another list that this might be due to insufficient space in the disk cache, so did you check your disk space? Try clearing it, defragment your drive and see if it works.

Cheers
ch

Dear CH, That did it! I defragged my C drive and reencoded without any problems. Thanks alot for help! Lars

Hello I am kind of new to all this but i´ve read a lot of the questions here and tried out quite a lot of possible solutions to my problem, and nothing worked for me. Here is my problem.

I have a DVDRip Divx Kanoegy avi file
Video is NTSCFilm framerate is 23.97
Audio is 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3

Found this out with GSpot

Then I load this file in to TMPGEnc Load the NTSCFFilm video encoding template.

From Setting button:
From the Video tab:
I set the Motion search precision setting to Highest quality

From the Advanced tab:
Video source type to be Non-interlaced
Source aspect ratio to be 1:1 (VGA)
Video arrange Method to Full screen (keep aspect ratio).
And leave all the boxes in the bottom part unchecked.

This gives me audio sync problems after about 1/3 of the movie watching it on my PC

I´ve tried to extract the audio using Goldwave to correct the length of the audio track saving it as .wav PCM 16 - bit stereo

This was not 100% with the first movie I tried this on it left the audio in sych in the beginning and end of the movie, but out of synch in the middle.

The second movie I tried this on was a disaster cause it left out about 40 sec. of silence in the beginning of the movie then I manually tried to add silence in the beginning of the .wav but of course that didn´t work.

I have done my best trying to explain my problem and how i´ve set things up in TMPGEnc. Can You help me??

I have Dazzle DVC-80 and was working well to capture video from camcorder
with Windows Movie Maker using window-xp operating system.

I have downloaded the TMPGEnc Version 2.521 and installed on my Sony PCV-RS310
system and now the window movie maker gets stuck befor the video capture.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

thanks,
Ram

I do not see how this is a Tmpgenc Issue...It sounds Like a Windows Movie Maker Problem of which there are a Lot, i guess you get what you pay for....Cheers

PS: there Migh be answers on the Windows support site..

IF you have a Digital Camcorder you should not be useing the Dazzle DVC 80..The DVC 80 is a Low Quality Low resolution Analog USB Capture Device and a DV Camcorder Captures High Resolution Digital Video that is transfered through Firewire to your PC so by Useing the DVC 80 you are only captureing at about 15% the Quality you would be if you captured Via Firewire...But if your Camcorder is Not Digital then you can disregard this Post accept that you would still achieve much better Quality if you got a Real capture device that Captures to Full Resolution...Cheers

Hi there

i'm converting an AVI to MPEG, but it says it's gonna take another 7 hours. can i resume it somehow, or do i just have to leave it encoding overnight?

Thanks
Fionn

You can not Cancell the Encode then resume later But you can Pause the encodeing...What you do is when you want to pause the encodeing Just click "Stop" and the encodeing will stop and a Dialog will appear asking if you want to abort encodeing, and you Just do not answer and do what you need to do and when you want to resume encodeing just answer "No" in the dialog and it will resume encodeing...Cheers

You can not Cancell the Encode then resume later But you can Pause the encodeing...What you do is when you want to pause the encodeing Just click "Stop" and the encodeing will stop and a Dialog will appear asking if you want to abort encodeing, and you Just do not answer and do what you need to do and when you want to resume encodeing just answer "No" in the dialog and it will resume encodeing...Cheers

>Question - Resuming downloads?

What's this subject go to do with TMPG, downloading is nothing to do with encoding?

Hi all,

I have downloaded 3 different versions of TMPGEnc (2.54,2.58 & 2.521)
I am running on win2000 using NTFS and every time I try to use the program on any of my PC's I get a Write Error at an address location of module ntdll.dll
I have no idea what this dll is or what for.
The error only comes up after I have chosen an AVI file and press start to convert to MPEG.

Anyone had similar problems

Regards

Christopher

Hi,

i have similar problems, but no solution so far.
My write Error occures in the kernel32.dll (Windows 98).
Maybe the same reason (?).

I found an issue here in the BBS (LSTJ 2003/11/10 Read errors of module TMPEGnc.exe).
Maybe this is the same Reason too (?).
I will try the answer of CH and hope it works.

Regards
Manfred

I have not been able to open a .d2v file with TMPGen. I can create and save that file with the D2V software. However it also doesnt seem to create an audio file. I have tried other suggestions on the BBS like copying the Dvd2AVI.vpi file to the TMPGen install directory and it still does not work. I was also trying to find the download for VPAPI.

First of all make sure that you have the required audio track checked in the audio options of DVD2AVI if you want audio.
Next check the VFAPI plugins tab to see if the 'DVD2AVI project file reader' is listed. If it is raise the priority to 2.

I have a 640x272(2.35:1) movie i want to author to pal svcd. i want to maintain the widescreen cos i don't want any of the image cut. question is what is the difference between maintain aspect ratio and maintain aspect ratio 2? i want a PAL 4:3 encoded svcd but i am not sure which aspect ratio i need to maintain? also should the source aspect ratio be 1:1 VGA or..?

You should select 16:9 display and 'fullscreen (keep aspect ratio)'

Not really sure what keep aspect ratio 2 is supposed to do. Sometimes it does the same as the one above, but puts a black margin either side of the image. Most of the time it doesn't actually do anything different from the one above and is a pretty pointless setting in my opinion.

ok im having a problem with TMPenc. It happened to me twice already, the problem is that the file is 2gig, and the video is 4hours long. at the end of the movie the rest of it (till the 4 hours) is just a black screen... is there a way i can fix thaT?

and one more thing, it doesnt have sound either.

In Merge & Cut, if I select multiple MPEG files, it changes file order e.g. if I have file MOV001, MOV002, MOV003 and if I select all files, it does not list all files in that order, order is lost. Is there any way around it.

Thx
Sanjay

Strange, but I don't have the same problem. I have just tried it with 5 files with the same names as yours and it works fine.

Maybe you should try naming the files like so, mov_001, mov_002, mov_003 and so on.

I'm just getting into DVD burning, I used tmpgenc to convert an avi movie, then used IfoEdit95 to convert the mpeg, then burned it to DVD with Nero 6. The image quality is fine but the picture is streched top to bottom, like the movie should be letter box but was resized to fit the TV screen. How can I fix this?

You probably encoded the MPEG using 4:3 as the input aspect ratio. You must have noticed this in the original MPEG surely?
If this is the case then you can use a simple program called DVDpatcher to patch the headers to 16:9, but remember to set all the other options to the same as the original first and patch the entire file not just the first header.

The next time you are encoding for DVD and you have a 16:9 source make sure you set BOTH the input and output to 16:9.
Don't use 4:3 as the output resolution for DVD if the source is 16:9 as this just wastes the resolution on black borders that could have been used for the actual image and will degrade the quality.