Hi everyone! I was wondering if anyone out there can help me with this probem, I'm not an expert in encoding AVI files to MPEG files, but I know the baic. I have this little problem. I used VIRTUAL DUB Then THPGEnc to encode AVI file to MPEG, but my finish product always come out a noticeable color changes throughout the whole movie, theres a purplish or bluish cube like picture, but the avi files looks perfect color before convertion, is there any sofware out there that i can use to improve the color quality of my AVI before I convert them to MPEG using TMPGEnc, so I'll have the exact color/picture quality as the original AVI file? Pls. Help. Thanks so much to anyone who can give me advice.

Yancy

Sounds Like you Might Have the "Angel Potion Codec" installed, This codec causes Purple and Pink Color discoloration is Mpeg files encode by Tmpgenc, You should look for this Codec and delete it if you have it installed, The File might be listed as "apmpeg4v3.dll"....

Well, does video quality have anything to do with this? Also, with fps. I encoded a DVD-rip to 30fps and the color was pretty good. When I convert it to 29.97fps and viewed it on the computer, the gradients looked blocky. I swear it wasn't there before!

You can"t just decode to Encode it to 30fps or 29,97fps you have to encode it to the same Frame rate as the Source file and if you want to make a NTSC DVD out of the source file it has to be either 23.98fps or 29.97fps and it it is 23.98fps then you will have to use 3:2 pulldown or the "23.98fps(29.97fps internally)" setting to make it 29.97fps which is the NTSC DVD Standard Frame rate........

I'm encoding it onto 2 VCDs...so are the color changes normal?

I was wondering if opening other programs affect the speed of the encoding process? When I open an Internet browser (like now), the speed won't increase. But when I opened the DivX Player 2.0 to watch an AVI while encoding (it's not the same as the AVI that is encoding), TMPGEnc froze...or actually, it paused. When I stopped the AVI in the player, TMPGEnc resumed.

When I played an AVI in VDub, TMPGEnc slowed down and needed 16 hours to complete! I quickly closed VDub and the 16 hours dropped. Will the mplayer2.exe affect TMPGEnc? I have nothing to do while encoding a movie which takes a long time. So I want to at least what some other files I downloaded without increasing the encoding speed. Is this possible?

Also, I have a somewhat slow computer. 3D processor 400 MHz if that means anything to you. I have 288MB memory (42% utilized). And to encode the second half of a 52-minute movie, it takes me 10 hours! TMPGEnc and Vdub is messing around with me so I don't know the original source's fps. But I'm encoding it to 29.97fps. TMPGEnc says (at the bottom) 30fps when I open the AVI to encode. While VDub's File Information menu says it is 23.976fps. Is there a way to speed up the process? And which program provides the accurate information?

Well I think it is quite obvious that you can't really watch an AVI or do other things with your PC while encoding!
Encoding is very CPU intensive even more so on a slow dinosaur such as yours.
Why don't you do the sensible thing and just encode the movie while you sleep. It's what I used to do before I upgraded to a 2.8ghz P4.

How to speed up the process?
Your PC is now very slow by todays standards and with the price of CPU's nowadays it's worthwhile upgradeing if you intend to do a lot of encoding.
What used to take me 10 hours now takes me 1 hour.
You can pick up 1.5ghz p4's on ebay for something like $50.

To answer your other question. Virtualdub is probably correct. You have probably selected the NTSC template in TMPG which means that the framerate will show at the bottom will be the frame rate of the template not the AVI.
You need to unlock the settings then load your AVI before loading a template. TMPG should then correctly detect the frame rate.

I think It Is time for an Upgrade, You can do it For VERY Cheap these days, I just Upgraded a Friends CPU to a New Athlon XP 2000+ and a New ECS MotherBoard for Under $100 US on EBay and you can probably get it cheaper than this if you looked, I just upgraded to a New ASRock(ASUS) MotherBoard with a SIS-645DX ChipSet and a New P-4 2.53ghz CPU for $250 US(Intel P-4"s are Quite a Bit more expensive than Athlons)..It might be worth looking into Cuz encodeing on a 400MHZ PC is going to take a Lot of time you could spend doing something more constructive than waiting 24 hours to encode a movie.....

$100 is cheap?! :( But it would be very nice to encode 60-minute movies in 1 hour...would you prefer an upgrade or a whole new computer? I don't want to encode overnight because I worry that my hard drive will burn up, literally. :(

Also, last night, I didn't finish encoding. I encoded the second part of a movie and it took me 9 hours! At 10:30PM, I just couldn't keep the computer on and I was dying to go to sleep. So I aborted it. It still had 1 and a half hour to go! Just now, I used TMPGEnc's cutting function to cut out the bad parts at the end. Then, I tried to pinpoint the exact frame in which the encoded video ended and decided to pick up encoding right at that point using Source Range. Are you with me? Well, I can't pinpoint it exactly because the Source Range shows the entire movie file and my encoded sequence was only the second half so the times, and frame numbers don't match. What'll I do? :( I am currently encoding what I THINK is the correct frame. What if it isn't? :(

If you don't know what I'm trying to do by pinpointing the frame which the sequence I already encoded left off, it's so after I finish encoding the second sequence I can merge them together. So to make it seamless, I would want the exact frame in which the first sequence ended and then the next frame would be the start of the next sequence...@_@

Hmm.....I don't think you need worry about your hard drive. Hard drives are built to run continuously for years.

You didn't need to abort the encoding entirely either.
The next time you wish to stop the encoding to do something else with your PC, simply click the stop button, but don't abort. This will pause the program. When you are ready to begin encoding again just cancel the abort.
If you want to move TMPG out of the way while you do other things just drag TMPG over as far to the bottom as possible off your screen then press ENTER then move the abort box out of the way too.

If you wish to stop using your PC all together halfway through encoding then simply press stop to pause the process, but don't abort entirely then hibernate your machine. When you are ready to begin encoding again just boot your PC and cancel the abort.

To start encoding from where you left off it is easy to find the exact frame.
Just load the part you have already encoded into TMPG then click File>Preview then move the slider to the very end. Note the frame number. Then start the encoding from the next frame after that in the source range.

Thanks! What do you mean by hibernate the PC? I have never tried to put my computer to sleep because I fear that I don't know what to press to make it come back on. :(

Which operating system are you using?

Windows 2000

Can anyone tell me the best way to convert movies downloaded from the net to DVD's.

These are DivX movies. I currently use the default settings in TMPGEnc DVD format NTSC not 16x9. Then use the other program Tmpgenc DVD version.

Then Nero to burn the DVD.

Anyone have fine tuning or adjustments for me. I want the best standards. I use a highend computer with 1GB of ram......

Thanks,

As best I understand it, The movies you get won't fit on a DVD because once they are converted they are too big. Now I'm not sure if this is entirely true, because i've converted some AVI's to mpegs that, after conversion, are roughly 2.1 gig instead of the 7 or 8 you may commonly get. The reason I've been told that you can't burn feature films to DVD is because the movie industry can change the bitrate at different parts of the movie to keep the average bitrate down, and because they use DVD-9's which hold close to 9 gig of data. This as opposed to the DVD-5's that we use which only hold 4.7 gig. If i figure out how to convert them I'll let you know

>The reason I've been told that you can't burn feature films to DVD is because the movie industry can change the bitrate at different parts of the movie to keep the average bitrate down

There is no reason why you can't burn movies to DVD.
The bitrate of an original DVD or AVI movie for that matter has nothing whatsoever to do with being able to fit it on to another disk.
When encoding what matters is length of the source not it's bitrate.
All commercial DVD's use a VBR (Variable bit rate) method of encoding, usually using bitrates between 2kb/s and 9.8kb/s. Some of these may not fit on to a regular DVDr disk.
The simple solution is to simply lower the max bitrate when encoding.
You will most likely not even notice a difference even with a max bitrate as low as 5kb/s.

As for commercial DVD's holding 9 gigs of data. This is simply due to all the extras included on the disk such as extra languages, subs, commentarys, angles and menus, all of which are unecessary.
To be honest most movies will easily fit on to a regular DVDr without even re-encoding once all the above has been stripped.

As for converting AVI's to DVD. Like I said just simply set reasonable bitrates and it will easily fit on a DVDr with hardly any loss in quality.

Okay so I'll use the default setting under DVD encoding (2pass VBR.....)

But would it improve the movie if I set the "motion search prrecision" to highest quality. And are there any other tweeks to set to improve the over all movie.

Thanks,

Steven

Constant Quality(CQ) is actually the best method to use for encoding DVD it's much quicker than 2pass and is the method commercial DVD's use, but it is harder to define the final output size.

Don't use 'Highest quality' for motion search as it has no benefit over 'High' except for almost doubling the encode time.
Also setting the quantize matrix setting to 'MPEG standard' gives better results.
If your source is progressive then encode it to 'Non-interlace' in the 'encode mode'. Not only will this improve the output, but will save some filesize due to the fact that interlace lines are harder to compress and use more bitrate.
'DC component' precision should be set at 10.

Okay I understand. But what suggestions would you have for the CQ settings? Assume the file is about 700mb divx DVD rip. Min, max and quality setting under CQ.

Also how do I know if the movie is Non interlace or not?

Thanks

If you load your File into Tmpgenc useing the "Wizard" it analizes the File to see if it is Progressive or Interlaced and if it is Interlaced it judges the Correct Field order and sets it to the correct setting so if you use the Wizard you will find out these things about your file...

There is no point in telling me the size of the source file. This has no regard to the resulting file size of the encoded MPEG. It is the length of the source which is important NOT it's file size.

Okay so I set the rate to CQ. Asuming the movie is about 1 1/2 hours long can I set the quality to 100 and what about the min and max 8000-1000? With padding or without?

I also set the motion to high and component to 10 is this correct?

Lastly why would a movie that was with VBR = 4gb be 2.5gb at CQ =100 .... as above?

Thanks

If you are creating a DVD you cannot set your bitrate below 2000kb/s if you want to keep within standard limits and to be honest anything below 1800kb/s will start to show noticible blocks.
You don't say what resolution your AVI file is?

I doubt there would be any need to set your max bitrate as high as 8000kb/s.
6000kb/s should be more than adequate. Actually TMPG's standard DVD settings create quite good results, but reducing the max to 6000kb/s and upping the slider to 80 or so will probably improve the image overall.

Setting the motion search to 'high' and including all the other tweaks I previously mentioned should improve things.
Also if your audio is already compressed in your AVI or is in AC3 format then there is no point in creating a PCM wav from it. If it's Ac3 then simply leave it as it is and demux it.
Make sure your VBV buffer is set at 224 and detect scene change is ticked.
If it's some other compressed format then convert it to MP2.

About the padding this depends on your DVD player. If it's quite tolerant with lower than standard bitrates then there is no need to check it as this will save on file size. If you machine does have problems when the bitrate drops low then you need to check this option.

Ok, i am using Adobe Premiere 6.0, and AviSynth as a frameserver so that i can directly export to TMPGEnc 2.5 to compress into a DVD format, it works fine, except when i have clips that play in slow motion (about 75% speed and less) the video becomes very jerky, is there anyway to avoid this??

I have TMPGenc 2.58. I created 40GB large AVI. When I open it in source range preview, there's no audio shown, not even straight green line. I tried crate smaller AVI (cca 1GB) and everything is OK. I have plenty disc space (60GB). Is it a bug or should I upgrade to newer version ? Thanks.

It would have been better if you gave more details about the AVI file. Since you said it was 40 GB I'm guessing that it is an uncompressed avi. I'm also guessing that the audio is in wav format and not compressed by some codec. Also, I'm guessing you are using WIN 2K/XP with NTFS that can handle large files.

You should split the streams so you have an audio file and a video file. I would recommend VirtualDub for this. Once you have the audio stream extracted from the AVI container try playing it using winamp or media player. This how you can verify if the audio stream is valid and not corrupt.

If the audio file works, load the avi file into the "video source" and the wav file into the "audio source". TMPGEnc lets you take the video from one file and the audio from another file.

This is not a bug in TMPGEnc as you posted a bug report. It more than likely it is your file.

Sometimes if you get no audio from an AVI with Uncompressed Audio it helps if you go to the "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the Priority of the "Wav File Reader"..

To Video Guy: The AVI is captured VHS casette. Video is compressed by Huffyuv codec (cca 1:2,2 ratio ). Sound is not compressed, quality is CD. All is captured via VirtualDub, last version. Yes, I use Win 2000, the used partition is 100GB NTFS. I didn't try to split Video/Audio in VDub so far. I do volume adjustment in GoldWave, simply opening AVI and saving adjusted WAV. But GoldWave also cannot hadle this large file. So I'll try the VDub splitting and post here how it went.
P.S.: As I said , capturing few seconds with the same audio/video settings gives me the file in which sound is shown OK.

To Minion: I'll try to rise the priority. We'll see...

Here's my observations:
Raising priority of Wav File Reader - no change.
So I tried to save WAV file from VDub. Resulting file was about 2.6 GB long. I tried to put it into TMPGenc as audio file - again no sound shown. So I tried to play WAV file by WinAmp - everything OK. But I tried to open WAV in GoldWave an before crash (better be said silent exit) it reported this 2 dialogs : "Wave file RIFF chunk size is incorrect" and "Wave file may be truncated or not properly aligned". I'm confused... I'll try to create (not record for the peresent) some WAV file (4 hrs) and put it into TMPGEnc. If it will be good, then the VirtualDub or SoundBlaster drivers (the recording process) are maybe to blame.

Use VirtualDub as Frameserver - your Problems will be gone...

@JN

You have an encountered an "old school" problem. Back in the day "wav readers" had a file size limition on 2 gigs. Since you are using Win 2k, this means that you installed an older program that overwrote or deregistered the newer wav reader. Winamp uses its own internal wav reader, that is why you can play your file. TMPGEnc uses the wav reader registered to windows. You can change the priority of some of these readers like Minion suggested, but in this case it did not work for you. I have never used GoldWave so I'm not sure if that could be the problem. See if you can remember installing any older programs or filters.

The old avi format used to have a similar file size limitation, but now OpenDML solves this problem.

Kika gave a good suggestion. If you can play the avi file in VirtualDub then the easiest thing to do is to frame serve it.

Last findings: I raised priority of DirectShow Mutimedia File Reader to maximum and BINGO! ... sound appeared ! But not everything is OK - when I feed to project Video (AVI) and Audio (WAV) separately, the sound is shown only above 2GB ! Below 2GB, there's only straight green line. Whole WAV is OK (proved by WinAmp).

i have encoded and avi to mpg using TMPGenc. When i play the file on a pc i get sound no problem, When i burn this to SVCD and play it in my stand alone dvd player there is sound to start with but only for about the first ten seconds, It then cuts out the picture is still going but there is no sound at all at any point on the svcd after this
the audio on the avi is standard of 44100htz i used the avi as the audio source as well
i have read on other messages posted here that i may have to extract the audio with virtual dub, but i have noticed the people who are p[osting this have not got sound on the mpg file
incidentally if i just drop the avi file straight into nero and let that do the encoding i get exactly the same problem. i have tried burning with vcd easy as well.
my DVD player is a multi region toshiba sd220, have played VCD on it before no problem, this is the first time i have tried a SVCD, But do not think the player is at fault.
Please help im a bit of a newbie with this.

What audio format is the audio in the AVI file???

The movie will encode right but after it is done the screen is blank after for about 2 hours, i try to edit it out but it will not let, anybody know what is wrong

I am getting the same, but only with a few divx avi files, also get no audio
Much help needed.

dear sir ,
i can convert avi to mpeg ,but when i convert mpeg to avi we only have a picture no sound ..can you help me please thank you

Probably because the Audio in your AVI file is Not supported By Tmpgenc, It is probably either "VBR Mp3" or "AC3" audio, you will need something like "AVI-Mux" to Demux the audio and uncompress it to Wav audio, then use the Wav audio as the audio source in Tmpgenc...

hi
can you help me to get avi-mux please . because i try to download avi-mux but non of them is works. thank you

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/avimux.html

hi
i did down load a avi-mux but it only open avi not mpeg i need some thing to use convert mpeg to avi i can do this by tmpge but there is no sound,, please please help me thank you

You want to convert MPEG to AVI?
Are you making sure that the audio box is filled before encoding to AVI?
Also make sure both fields are checked in the AVI compression box before encoding and that the interleave setting is set to 1.
What audio format are you encoding to?

Oh and by the way if you want to encode to AVI you are much better off using Virtualdub which is much quicker because it can work directly with YUV rather than having to convert to RGB first like TMPG.

Always a few seconds after starting play in preview or Edit clip window I got a message that my CPU ist not powerful enough. Than audio sound stopped.

I have Duron 1300 an no problems with mpeg2-playback when using other programs.

After doing some cuts in Edit clip window suddenly there was no sound when starting play. A message "Divided by 0." appeared

All the options such as video stream type are all greyed out. Im trying to save the file as an mpeg1, but the only way I can is if I change the profile to video cd film, then it goes to mpeg1, but the quality of course isnt good. Also when I save in mpeg2 then theres an annoying group of squares in the top right corner that arent there when I save as mpeg1.

Anyone help a noob out?
And if anyone can recommened a good tutorial read, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

OK, First Off that Anoying Block of Squares is Not in the Video, it is Because you have a Demo version of the "Elecard Mpeg2 decoder" installed on your System and it is Displaying it"s logo in the Top right corner..To Unlock All of the Settings you have to Load the "Unlock.mfc" template, You do this By clicking the "Load" button, then Navigate to the "Templates" Folder and in that Folder is a "Extra" folder and in that Folder is the "Unlock.mfc" Template, Just choose it and all of the settings will be unlocked.....

Hello, and I need help, please!

Problem:

TMPGEnc 2.513.53.162 refuses to open DVD quality MPEG files created with Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 for conversion to SVCD. Yet, these same files can easily be viewed/played in just about any PC without any problem.

TMPGEnc always tells me that "file.mpg" can not open, or unsupported. File.mpg can be any file name, of course.

These files have the following parameters automatically set by the Ulead program:

MPEG files
24 Bits, 720x480, 29.97fps (DVD-NTSC)
Video data rate: Variable (Max 8000 kbps)
LPCM Audio, 48KHz. Stereo


Here is what I have for conversion:

TMPGEnc 2.513.53.162 just installed; it contains the following codecs in the same folder for access:

TMPGEnc.vfp - Version 2.513.53.162
DVD2AVI.vfp - Dated 06/21/2002

I have tried raising the priority of the plug-ins, one at a time, starting with Vfapi but this has not solved the problem.

I have a new computer with a Pentium 4, 2.8GHz CPU in it and 1GB of RAM, so I know that is not the problem.

My main reason for downloading TMPGEnc is to see if this is a program that would work for me, so I am looking to find out what I am doing wrong that it is not working, or maybe I need additional codecs installed.

Any and all help before the trial version runs out will be greatly appreciated!

Well For Tmpgenc to Load Mpeg2 files You have to have certain Mpeg2 decoders installed on your System, But the Best way to encode Mpeg2/Vob files is to use "DVD2AVI" to make a D2V Project file and a wav audio file, then load the D2V file and the Wav file into Tmpgenc and encode to SVCD, This is the Method that 90% or poeple use because it is a better method of encodeing Mpeg2 file with Tmpgenc, and DVD2AVI is the Best Frameserveing tool for encodeing Mpeg2/vob files with Tmpgenc...

Thanks, Minion.

I have done just as you said in your previous answer with just one file, as a trial, but I'm sorry to say it still did not work that way either.

From what little I have been able to see in TMPGEnc and read about it, this program should be awesome, just perfect for what I need to do.

Anyhow, if you or anyone else has any more suggestions, I'll be glad to try them within the trial time allowed.

Thanks in advance!

Well if it didn"t work then you did not do it right Cuz this is the Method that Most experienced poeple use to Backup DVD"s, and this Method is Tried and tested vigorously and been Proven to be Flawless if done correctly, You never explained why it didn"t work?? Well I guess you can try it the Substandard way and install the correct mpeg2 decoders on your System, If you install "Power DVD" it will install the "Cyberlink Mpeg2 decoder" on your System and this is one of the decoders that tmpgenc can use so it can load Mpeg2 files ,The other Decoder is called the "Ligos Mpeg2 decoder" this decoder comes with some codec packs like Nemo and Tsunami.....

>I have done just as you said in your previous answer with just one file, as a trial, but I'm sorry to say it still did not work that way either.

You obviously have made some sort of error somewhere if it didn't work. As minion says there should be no problem doing it this way. Maybe you have an outdated DVD2AVI VFAPI plugin. Copy the DVD2AVI.vfp from your current DVD2AVI folder and place it into your TMPG folder.

Alternatively there is a good plugin made specifically for TMPG which should open your MPEG2 files no problem.
Download it here:
http://www.systranbox.com/systran/box?systran_lp=ja_en&systran_id=SystranSoft-en&systran_url=http://www.marumo.ne.jp/mpeg2/&systran_f=1055793569

Yes, it works now!

This IS a great program, and it does exactly the things I was looking for in this kind of program.

I installed the plug-in Ahsy suggested in her post, and that made it work great.

Thanks Minion and Ashy, for all the information and tips you have shared with me. I'll probably come up with more questions later on, but everything is good for now!

>I installed the plug-in Ahsy suggested in her post, and that made it work great.

His post mate, thanks.

This has probably been mentioned before but I've not been here long.

I'd like a 'pause and resume' feature for encoding just like internet download managers have. It takes hours to encode at the highest quality and so many time you need to use your computer for something else or switch off altogether. It should also cater for power problems as well so it can pick up where it left off.

You can pause encodeing by just clicking "Stop" while encodeing and just do not answer when it asks if you want to abort encodeing, then you can go a Do something else, and when you want to resume encodeing just answer "No" in the Dialog box, But you can not stop encodeing and Shut down Tmpgenc or your Computer and I do not think it would be possible to Pause encodeing and Shut down Tmpgenc or your PC and then resume encodeing at the exact point that you stopped because if it was possible then there would Probably be at leasy One program that does it and as far as I know there isn"t a Single encoder on earth that can resume encodeing in this way...But if you really have to shut down you can allways use the "Source Range" to start encodeing a New file a frame after were you stopped then use the "Merge & Cut" to join the 2 files together....