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I am desperately looking for a frame rate conversion software ( between NTSC and PAL ) which is better than TMPGENC. TMPGENC will do the job but results in jerky video ( The way it does the job is to insert or remove one frame for every 4 frames and doesn't do actual frame interpolation ). Virtual Dub and AVI frame rate converter don't do real frame rate conversion, they do the job by reducing or extending the video length. Anybody out there have any idea where to look for such software ?
I wish the tmpg team would add more support for this (i always ended up with jerky playback as well), i asked the same question before, try canopus procoder.
Thank you for the information, Yam Yam. I downloaded the demo version of ProCoder 1.2 and tried it. It actually makes a big difference. The software is also a little faster than Tmpgenc . The only bad thing is that they are asking a little too much for it : $699 ! But I need it and I think I will buy it.
Tmpgenc Does TERRORABLE Frame Rate conversions and Is Not meant for This at all ..There are specific Pieces of software that are Meant to do this, Like "Advanced Pal/NTSC Converter" and even the "Canopus Format Converter" will do it, actually Both will do it faster than Procoder will Cuz Procoder is One of the Slowest Format converters there is, I have the Full Retail Version of Procoder and I hardly even use it because if this Fact But it is a Very Good Quality Mpeg encoder...and there is a Way to do it Manually also But it takes Quite a Long time especially if you are Converting 29.97fps to 25fps...
Why not just use AVIsynth. It has one of the best frame rate coverters there is as it is based on the same techniques as proffessional frame rate converters.
AVIsynth does a very good job of frame rate conversion and I have used it many times in the past. Not only is it fast, but best of all is totally free.
AVIsynth is a very powerfool tool which can perform practically any job required in video applications.
AVIsynth can be obtained here:
Here you will find the command required for the filter. Click the link for frame rate conversion and look for 'ConvertFPS'. http://www.videotools.net/index.php?rub=guides then click the link titled 'Avisynth Doc'
After encoding the file, I have no audio. The file is WAV format and can be played in the "audio edit". Using audio edit, I've done 400% and normalized to 100, and still nothing. If anyone could help, I'd appreciate it.
You can Try Raiseing the "Wav file reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins", Or you Can Just use a Totally Different Encoder to Encode the audio to Mp2 then mux it with the Mpeg video...
1. make sure you have the VFAPI plugin in the encoder
2.change your enviromental settings
OR
change you audio in the film to .WAV ......... and when u put the film in the program (video), where it says (audio) put the .WAV there which u have created
YOU can create a .wav from Virtual Dub
read up on that if u cant use it .........its VERY VERY easy though
Using 2.510 version of this program, everything is fine. Plays on my Dvd Player, but audio is out of sync or the video that the program DvD decrypter picked the longer video file, but the shorter audio file, does that make sense? Please give advice?
Hello,
I've been using TMPGEnf for some time now and it seems there is a problem with the framerate conversion. (Not sure if I am correct here) But it seems that when encoding an source file (usually AVI) with a non VCD standard framerate the high motion scenes in the resulting mpeg look jerky as hell. I've searched the forums and found that one way to get around this problem is to not change the framerate when encoding. But lets say the AVI file has 23fps and VCD needs 25fps will DVD players play the VCD since it has wrong fps?
Almost all DVD players will play either NTSC or PAL format VCD's but depending on the DVD player you may need the right kind of TV set to watch both types.
If you do convert it with TMPG you will get motion artifacts as TMPG does not do correct framrate conversion. There are however other correct ways to acheive this which you will find somewhere in the archives of this BBS.
I have tried several different ways and 2 other mpeg encoders to try to eliminate red blocky mosiac-like output from my DV500. The original DV in my editor looks great, no artifacts, and the output to VHS is great. After converting to mpeg2 using TMPGE, I have noticed, along with several other Pinnacle owners, that blocks appear on red colors, i.e. red signs, red flowers, red clothing, etc, and that it takes on a mosiac-like pattern.
This output is annoying and degrades the overall quality of the video, especially when there is movement.
I saw that there is a tab for canopus AVI files to lessen that effect. Why only canopus? Is there a way to eliminate the blocks aside from Noise Reduction and inter/intra block softening? I have tried those options with no change in the blockiness of the output.
Could it be that Canopus has a better AVI codec than Pinnacle? Any comments would be welcome. I'm trying hard to understand why this might be taking place and Pinnacle, after stating that they would look into the problem, has not offered any explanations.
Try this, Go to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to VFapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct Show Multi-Media File reader" to "2"...This usually works...
I have a 1,280mb mpg1 file that I am trying to cut into 2 files >800mb. When I use TMPGEnc's merge & cut tool, I get the following error Read error occured at address 1d1c4e860f module'mm switch.ax with 0000,0000' The file plays fine in Windvd4 player. Does anyone have any suggestions . This is my first atttempt at DVD to VCD, I am so close yet still so far away!
Do any of you have an opinion on whether it makes any difference to render out to an avi file then convert to mpeg or render directly thru a mpeg codec.
I've heard some say that when Premier renders out to an DV avi that some loss occurs in the video, verses rendering directly out to the final mpeg? I haven't tried to test the results because I don't have a premier mpeg2 plugin.
Well obviously you are going to lose some quality.
No matter what format you render to there will always be some quality loss. Encoding then re-encoding to any format will cause loss. So keeping the times you need to re-encode will always be preferable. So to answer your question render directly to MPEG.
Don't use DV format unless your original source was DV. That has 4:1:1 color sampling versus 4:2:0 (or 4:2:2). Use Huffyuv Lossless Codec for AVI output if input and output formats can't be exactly matched.
Lately, I have been trying the AVIWrapper plugin from videotools.net with Ulead MediaStudio. It creates a dummy AVI file and frameserves uncompressed video from the editor. There is also a Premier version. (To use it for free you have to solve a random addition problem each time!)