I was searching on the internet to see if there is a program to convert VOB files to MPEG files, and on the website this website was mention. So, I downloaded the program using TMPGEnc Version 2.524. When I do a browse when TMPGENC is open on my computer the file of the VOB doesn't show up as a supported file format. I'm thinking maybe VOB doesn't support in TMPGENC. I'm trying to see if possible I can convert my copy of VOB files into MPEG format so I can CD Burn it into a Video CD or VCD to play on my DVD player at the moment don't have a DVD burner plan to have one soon, but for now I would like to convert my VOB files into MPEG format so that way on my CD Burner it can burn it to a Video CD or VCD. Does anyone know if this is possible, and If TMPGENC doesn't do it is there any other programs out there that will do it.

Thanks for anyone that knows the answer to my question.

Maybe you need a MPEG2-Decoder like m2v.vfp (http://www.marumo.ne.jp/mpeg2/m2v_vfp-0.6.51.lzh)

When opening directory with the file, select *.* all files. VOB may not be an option but all a VOB is is an MPEG file "badged" to DVD format.

The other option is just to rename the file .mpg and then open it.

SM Elly please read B_Racer's post again and take note of what it says.

I have tried, TMPGEnc will not open a VOB file without adding a decoder.

I have downloaded a lot of programs and tried everything I could only to come to this conclusion.

There is an easy, free, one step answer to your question. What you need is Eazy VCD. It will enable you to rip a DVD and convert it into MPG files which are compliant with VCD, XVCD, SVCD & XSVCD authoring. You can rip any program chain on the DVD. You can output to either a Bin/Cue image or Mpeg files.

It can be downloaded from:
http://www.arach.net.au/~phatjeff/EAZYVCD_115a_SETUP.EXE

The web site is:
http://www.eazyvcd.tk/

I assume that you have Nero or Easy CD creator or some type of program to author the VCD. If not you can do it for free with VCDEasy. It is an advanced VCDImager GUI authoring tool that allows you to play/watch your videos, pictures, and your audio files directly on most of the home DVD players, without having to buy a DVD Writer and DVD discs. It allows easy chaptering of VCDs and SVCDs including burning via CDRDAO.

It can be downloaded from:
http://www.videohelp.com/download/VCDEasy_v1.1.5.2_Setup.exe

The web site is:
http://www.vcdeasy.org/

I hope that is of help to you. VCDs are a lot easier to author than DVDs. I guess that's why they named both of those programs accordingly.

>Second terms are deadly games, they need to fear no one

It may be easier, but I bet the quality leaves a lot to be desired. Nothing beats TMPG's MPEG1 encoding quality.

I don't undetstand the problem. B_racer has given the solution. Install the MPEG2 decoder and Bob's your uncle. I've done it for years and so have many others with TMPG or get TMPG plus which has it's own MPEG2 decoder.

In anycase you should never attempt to encode VOBs directly anyway. The best method is through DVD2AVI as a frame server.

I agree that "Nothing beats TMPG's MPEG1 encoding quality."

B_racer has given a great solution. I just think that the Eazy VCD program is easier. It automates the functions that you would normally do manually. The quality is the same because:

"Eazy VCD uses programs that anyone familiar with making VCD's and SVCD will be familiar with. vStrip, DVD2AVI, BeSweet, TMPGEnc and VCDImager are the programs that Eazy VCD automates the tasks between, so you can relax while Eazy VCD does all the work for you.

Eazy Vcd uses the best software to make sure you end up with the highest quality VCD.

All you have to do is;
1. Put the DVD you wish to copy in your DVD-ROM drive.
2. Select the output folder, name, and what type of CD-R you are using, then click "RIP IT".
3. Burn the Bin/Cue image or Mpeg file to CD-R."

Quoted from: http://www.eazyvcd.tk/

Fair enough. Ok for novices, but I prefer to have control over everything myself to get the best I can out of it.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions I'll check into all the programs listed.

Hi, kind of a weird error this time as Ive never had it before.

I have 2 mpeg files that Id like to merge&cut together into 1. Both files work fine in Windows Media Player (or any other player for that matter) but when I go to edit the length of the files (in merge&cut) I only get audio when I move the slider across. There is no image at all eventhough it plays fine in WMP (and was fine when I initially converted the 2 files in TMPGenc).

As Im not seeing any visual but am hearing audio, Im guessing that it may be a codec problem but then why did it play fine during the initial encoding and why do they both play fine in WMP?

Any help is appreciated and if you need anymore info then please ask. Cheers :)

Maybe you need a MPEG2-Decoder like m2v.vfp (http://www.marumo.ne.jp/mpeg2/m2v_vfp-0.6.51.lzh)

Downloaded the decoder (just to make sure I didnt have it) and still nothing. The Merge&Cut window still stays blank whilst the audio plays along fine.

Thanks anyway B_Racer :)

To anybody that can help.

I have TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 / Free version, and am tryign to cut a file in two. but everytime i go to complete the seperation the second half of the avi that i am trying to cut doesn't complete itself. the length of the avi is 2 hours 13 minutes. and the size of the file is 1.3 gigs, so i want to get it splint and on a disc, but the second half only wants to produce approximately 20 minutes, and not the 1 hours and 5 minutes that i want it to produce, can anyone help me with this problem?

Use VirtualDub instead of TMPGEnc which is a MPEG-ENCODER!

What do you mean 'cut'? TMPG wouldn't even allow you to cut an AVI at all as it would see it as an illegal MPEG.

Please explain what you mean properly instead of confusing people.

Just starting using this program. I have an hour long AVi. file and encoding it into a mpeg2 file. it has been 25 minutes and only 13% is complete. IS that normal? Is there anyway to speed it up?
Thanks.

>Just starting using this program. I have an hour long AVi. file and encoding it into a mpeg2 file. it has been 25 minutes and only 13% is complete. IS that normal?
Depending on the speed of your processor, yes.
>Is there anyway to speed it up?
1. Faster processor.
2. Reduce output quality (e.g., CBR instead of VBR, less accurate motion search)
3. Switch to a faster encoder. ;)
>Thanks.
You're welcome. :)

When I open Tmpegenc and open an avi file it says "cannot open or not supported". I have tried with some different avi files and it happens the same. Why ? I only need to convert avis to mpeg for cutting films to make it smaller, and because Virtual Dub cannot open avis too. Can anybody help me??

The program is called "TMPGEnc MPEG Editor", not AVI Editor - isn't it?
And if VirtualDub isn't able to open the AVI, you have a Codec-problem.

i have the same problem, i have downloaded fddshow so i DO have all of the codecs necissary even though i havent thryed it in virtual dub. however, i need mine to convert to get it to burn to a dvd. So dont crack on him. Anyone help if you can

hello!

I am using Windows Xp(w/ srv. pk 2), Tmpgenc 2.5+, and this guide: http://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/153058.php
To join subtitles to a divx movie(divx 4.5 was used -*i think)

Problem being...
When i goto "start" Tmpgenc is freezes. I have followed the directions to the "T" but no luck...

Any help would be EXTREMELY and FOREVER appreciated!
thanks sooo much!

I had this problem until I installed "service pack 1".

>I have followed the directions to the "T" but no luck...

What does that phrase mean?
I thought it went 'I have followed the directions to the "letter" but no luck...'

hi there
i downloaded a trial version of 1.6 and trying to convert some VCD (.DAT) files to a single dvd. DVDAuthor1.6 able to conver the video fine, but has no sounds.

I checked that the .dat file and are all 44k, so i checked the "reencode audio" option to convert everything into 48k (and tried both monolingual or bilingual)... but still no sound

so... do i have to use yet another problem to pre-convert the file into something else, then import them to DVDAuthor and convert them to dvd format ?
thx in advance

Well it not really a bug, just a tiny grammar mistake:
Is: Option > Task Priority > When actif - Normal Priority.
Should be: Option > Task Priority > When active - Normal Priority.

You noticed that too, eh?

Hi,

I try to convert the 640x360 (16:9) Xvid AVI to mpeg using the TMPGEnc Plus 2.5, but everytime I convert it change to 4:3 ? No matter what I've set in the Expert Setting for Source!!!

Please help!!
Thannks

Terrybobo

Well, the ouput will still be 4:3 if you are only changing the source settings.
You need to alter the output aspect ratio to 16:9 under the 'Video' tab

Hi, in TMpgENC I am having problems with the audio dissapearing entirely in certain files. The files are using Mpeg-3 audio. I believe this is due to it being Variable Bitrate. So my first workaround was to bring it into virtual dub and extract the audio to a wav file, that made the audio way off-sync. When I load the video into vdub it says this "VirtualDub has detected an improper VBR audio encoding in the source avi file and will rewrite the header with standard cbr values..."

Anyways, any idea why the audio isn't working in TMpgEnc in the first place? or what is a workaround I can use? These files work fine in other similar programs, but lack the quality.

The apparent problem is lack of a suitable ACM (VFW) codec for decoding MP3 audio that isn't 100% compliant with the standard, and I know of no such suitable codec. The easiest work-around I know of is to first use the freeware AVI Audio Decompressor (which comes with avi2vcd http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=avi2vcd) to decompress the MP3 audio into a new AVI along with the video.

The Kristal Studio MPEG Layer-3 Audio Codec 4.2.0.0 (MPEG Layer-3 Producer, Copyright 1999-2000 Kristal Studio), which can be found in the Nimo Codec Pack 5.0 Build 8 http://nimo.titanesk.com/modules/freecontent/index.php?id=1, will decode the audio in some (but not all) problematic XviD+MP3 AVIs in my tests.

To anyone who can help.... My computer crashed and we had to reinstall Windows XP. Unfortunately, we lost everything and of course I didn't back anything up(lesson Learned!). I'm trying to find out how to reinstall TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 (purchased last year) but I don't know how to do that and of course I don't have my original registration code. Does anyone know whre I can go to get this information? I've looked everywhere in the Pegasys website and the TMPGEnc website. I realy don't want to have to buy it again.
Thanks to all who can help.

Just simply re-download the TMPG zip file again and unzip it to your drive to install it. You will need to contact pegasys to explain your situation and they may re-send your code.

I agree. The serial was in windows registry, HKEY CURENT USERSoftwarePegasys Inc. TMPGenc Plus2.5.
I really hope you got it correcly, ot Pegasys won't re-send you it again...

When I open an MPEG for editing, I get audio and video in the preview box where I set my start and stop time. When I hit Run, it only processes video. When I play the finished product, there's no audio only video.

What am I doing wrong?