I am new to all this burning movies stuff I have downloaded an avi file now what are the steps and settings i should use so i can burn onto a cd-r using vcdeasy (they suggested your programme for encoding). Is there any step by step instructions i can use. As i am not that computor literate.

I don"t Know of a Particualr Guide, But there is a Site that has a Lot of Different Guides and has Explanations for most of the Basic Concepts you will Need to Know to get Started..It"s at "http://www.dvdrhelp.com/" ...There is Quite a Bit you will need to Know before you can really understand what you are doing..Like for instance, you will Need to know if you live in Pal land or NTSC Land (NTSC is North America and Japan and Pal is pretty much every were else, NTSC is either 23.98/24fps or 29.97/30fps and Pal is 25fps) and you will need to Know if your AVI file is Pal or NTSC cuz you can"t convert a Pal avi file to NTSC Mpeg or a NTSC AVI File to Pal Mpeg Useing Tmpgenc, and you will Need to Know what Codec your AVI file was encoded with and Have that Codec installed on your PC..You will need to Know what Format you want to Encode to, Do you want to make a VCD or do you want to make a SVCD..This decition would depend on what your DVD Player can Play cuz Not all DVD Players will Play VCD or SVCD and not all Players that Play VCD will Play SVCD..There are also a Whole Host of Different Problems that can Pop up that you will Have to Try to Figure out and the More you know about Digital Video and the Concepts behind digital video the easier it will be to Figure out what you need to do to solve Problems and the Best looking results with your Movie.....Good Luck

thanx minion for your reply. I have read quite a few questions/answers and suggest to go to a program called g-spot where can i find that program to download.

How about more integration with TMPGEnc? It's odd to have both progrmas running, when it seems they complement each other so well. Right now I'm doing the video encoding in TMPGEnc (Video Only ES with the low quality DVD template) and converting the audio to PCM with good ole' Windows Sound Recorder (sorry but TMPGEnc sucks at this). The thing is, I don't see why you can't just drop the video into DVD Author and tell it to convert for you using TMPGEnc's template. Seems so obvious a step to me.

very interesting question, and even more interesting WHY nobody responded to it.

TDA has all the important technical details mostly squared away. It's the finer touches that keep this from being a winner. I have used or own most of the sub-$500 DVD authoring tools and they all have their share of problems (most times related to bugs or irritating audio sync problems). I've dabbled in some of the more expensive commercial tools as well but these have a serious learning curve. TDA has the potential to supersede all of these. Here's my and most likely others wish list.

- Be able to insert background music in the menus
- Be able to insert any text in the menus
- Be able to control the size, color, etc. of the track/chapter title text (is there any way to eliminate the shadow??)
- Be able to alter the general menu theme format specifically the auto-Track/Chapter layout and buttons.
- A proper First play track (like production company stuff) that only plays on first insertion and then goes to the main menu (i.e. not part of the play all)
- Menu Transistions (okay that may be a bit much)

The current menu editor is a start but is still too restrictive. Loosen it up and this program will be more than worth it.

Hello, just ran into a bit of a problem that I haven't been able to figure out how to fix (hence why I am here).

Anyway, I have these 2 DVD's that I bought and I want to rip a local MPEG copy that I can watch on my computer from time to time. My computer sound system is better than my home system, so it is sort of a no-brainer for me.

Anyway, the first DVD works fine for me. I use DVD Author to extract the huge 3+ GB mpeg (with PCM audio detected) and then use TMPGENC to make the final much smaller. Awesome.

The second DVD has "Dolby Digital AC3" Audio that DVD Author detects and uses. Now, it also produces an mpeg that is 3+ GB. Fine. I can watch the big mpg and I get audio. Fine. However, TMPGENC doesn't like the audio of the file (meaning when I select the big mpg, it only detects a video file, and leaves the audio option blank).

I thought since both programs were made by the same company, that maybe there is something that I am doing wrong? Should I not be muxing the audio and video together into one file for AC3 audio, and if so how do I correct my error?

Thanks, and if you know the answer feel free to email me as well! Thanks!!!

Both programs don't have an AC3-Decoder. If you like to Re-Encode the Audio-Part, you have to use other Tools like BeSweet.

Thanks, will give it a shot!

I tried using an AC3 file created by BeSweet as an audio source in TDA,
but the resulting DVD has no audio. TDA recognized it as an AC3 file,
and I can play the file in Winamp. Any idea why the resulting DVD from
TDA has no sound? (I've tried it in both my console player and in WinDVD
and PowerDVD---there's never audio.)

Thanks.

>I tried using an AC3 file created by BeSweet as an audio source in TDA,
>but the resulting DVD has no audio. TDA recognized it as an AC3 file,
>and I can play the file in Winamp. Any idea why the resulting DVD from
>TDA has no sound? (I've tried it in both my console player and in WinDVD
>and PowerDVD---there's never audio.)
>
It must be something specific to the BeSweet AC3 file. I created an
AC3 file using Adobe Encore, and the disc created by TDA played just
fine.

FYI.

Try ac3fix.exe, run the ac3 file through it to create another one, then use that
This worked for me.

I am attempting to use TMPGenc v2.52 to encode a .mpg file which, when I look in G-spot, says the video src type 'MPEG2_video' audio src 'MPEG1AudioPayload' video path is 'Ligos mpeg splitter - Ligos mpeg video decoder' and audio path is 'Ligos mpeg splitter - Ligos mpeg audio decoder'

The file plays fine on WMP so I assume the codecs are installed but TMPGEnc seems to have a problem with it. I read a similar question and answer on this BBS and it suggested changing the priority of direct show in VFAPI Plugin to 2, but this did not solve the problem.

Has anyone any ideas?

You don't have the right codec installed to decode this MPEG. There are a list of compatible ones on the TMPG features page.
The one below is probably the best for TMPG.
http://www.marumo.ne.jp/mpeg2/m2v_vfp-0.6.38.lzh

Copy the files into your TMPG folder then follow the instructions for install.

I am getting more error codes with this thing. They are "Write error occurred at address 77F83AED of module "ntdll.dll" with 00000000 and "EAccess violation caused at 0000814F of module ntdll.dll. Read error occurred at 77F5814F of module "ntdl.dll" with 02662048"
I get these errors after I click on start and when I click on browse to select a file to convert. Does anyone know how to fix these and/or another program that I can use for converting to MPEG-2???

Ken

This is not a Bug, If it were every post in here would be about the same thing..You never left any Information that would help us determine the Problem..Like What are the Specs of the File you are encodeing???? But Since the Mind reading is a Little Rusty I"ll just have to guess what type of file you are encodeing...You are Probably encodeing a XviD or DivX file that you downloaded off the Net, and the Error you are getting is probably due to the Fact that Tmpgenc and the XviD codec have have Compatibility Problems...So what is best to do would be to get rid of the XviD codec and install the "FFDshow Decoder" instead...This should get rid of the error you are getting but remember you have to Configure "FFDShow" to decode XviD and DivX files....

I had a similar problem trying to archive a home movie to VCD using my Videum capture board. I used a proprietary codec supplied with the capture board to save the video to AVI. When I tried to convert the file with TMPGEnc, I got access violations in the codec DLL. However, in my case, I was able to solve the problem by using VirtualDub as a frame server for TMPGEnc. This is an experimental option of VirtualDub, but it worked great for me (and should work for other problematic codecs as well).

When I click on browse to select a file to convert the program just shuts down. Can anyone tell me how to fix this??? I am using the current version of TMPGEnc that I just downloaded from this site.

Ken

I simply want to convert m2v file to standard VCD mpeg-1 format...
The build-in CRI sofdec Mpeg plug-in doesn't seem to decode properly as it can't even display the frames of a simple Mpeg-1 file (that plays perfectly on win98 mediaplayer !!!)

I have a slow Pentium 133Mhz with 64Mb RAM.... I know it's old and slow... But I don't care if the conversion of a 5 minutes M2V to MPG takes 30 hours....
I don't need to play the Mpeg-2 format... only convert it... TMPGENC 2.52 PLUS seems to do the job as it does convert with any errors... the only thing is that the plug-in it-self can read either the M2V or regular Mpeg-1 format ! Even viewing it frame-by-frame (source range)...

I tried installing Cyberlink, another one from "marumo.ne.jp"... nothing works...Anyone has an idea why ?
Thank guys...
Ghyslain

>Pentium 133Mhz with 64Mb RAM

This is why!
Read the requirements for TMPG on the TMPG site. Yours doesn't even come close.

You could try raising the priority of the codec in the VFAPI plugins or install this codec instead: http://www.marumo.ne.jp/mpeg2/m2v_vfp-0.6.38.lzh

To be honest anybody even contemplating encoding on such an antique needs a check up from the neck up. I mean 30 hours for 5mins....LOL

Even an upgrade to something 3 times faster like a Pentium 3 500mhz wouldn't break the bank. I have one for sale for £50 on the motherboard with 128mb of RAM installed.

It's the one I used to use before I got my 2.8 P4.
The P3 500 would encode a 2 hour movie in 8-9 hours. My P4 2.8 which is O/C at 3.2ghz will do it in more or less real time.

To be honest with you I wouldn't hold out much hope for success on a machine with such low specs, it's time for an upgrade I think.

Hi i just downloaded TMPGEnc-2.520.54.163-Plus-EN-Installer-DL from this website and when i finished installing it. and try to convert some files with this program i get this error message : KERNEL32.DLL i dont know whats causing this problem can any one tell me what am i suppose to do?

...i get the same thing...the old vers. worked fine.....they "improved it" to the point it wont work at all.....of course when someone does get around to answering you (if they do) you can be assured it will be your fault...or your p.c's fault, or....well...it wont be because they screwed up.......sn

i have just started converting xvid files to dvd but do not know the correct settings i need to imply to get best results no blocks etc. please help i would be so greatful if someone could email the best settings. thanx mandy

email: gchris738@aol.com

Getting No Blocks Might be Impossible Depending on your XviD file, If your XviD AVI file has a Low Resolution and/or it is From a Low Quality source which would be about 90% of all Downloaded Movies then you Will Have a Low Quality DVD Mpeg2 file...Most Downloaded movies will Use a Low Resolution and Bitrate and even Frame rate so the Files are as small as Possible so they are Faster and easier to download, But that also makes the Files have a Much Lower Quality than they would if they were Made Properly..When you take a Low Resolution XviD file and you resize it to a High Resolution DVD File you loose a Lot of the detail and all of the Small Blocks that you can"t see in the Original get resized to Big blocks in the DVD Mpeg2 file, That is why Downloaded Movies are the Worst movies to Make into a Standard DVD...But there are Other DVD Standards that use a Lower resolution so you would do less resizeing and the Quality would be degraded less so you might get a Better Quality DVD..You can make DVD"s useing 352+480/576-Pal and 352+240/288-Pal which Might produce better Quality when useing a Low Resolution Source File..And make sure you use a High enough Bitrate and set the "Motion Precition Search" to "High Quality" But becides this there isn"t much you can do if you have a Low Resolution XviD File....Good Luck

I cannot open a .avi file in TMPGEnc, it is an Xvid Mpeg-4, it plays ok on my computer, is it posssible to get it to open?
Thanks, Zetor

Answer - Mr.

hi there folks get yourself to kazaa lite offical website and download kazaalite codec pack this will solve all.

All you need to Decode allmost any Format is One Codec, It is called "FFDshow Decoder" it will decode all DivX/XviD/Mpeg4/DV/Mjpeg/ECT. so there is Basicly no need for other codecs to decode in Most cases...

>hi there folks get yourself to kazaa lite offical website and download kazaalite codec pack this will solve all.

No, not unless you like to mess up your machine.
You should NEVER install these crazy codec packs, most of them cause more problems than they solve.
You don't need every codec under the sun installed on your PC and these codec packs just create problems and cause conflicts on your system leading to errors.

It's like saying to make your car run better just pour every type of oil, brake fluid and gas into it and it'll run great. Wrong.

I cannot open a .avi file in TMPGEnc, it is an Xvid Mpeg-4, it plays ok on my computer, is it posssible to get it to open?
Thanks, Zetor

Well you would need to Have the XviD codec installed to decode your File But the XviD codec has Problems with Tmpgenc so it is better to Install the "FFdshow Decoder" instead..But if you allready have it installed then go to "options" to "Enviromental Settings" to Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "direct show" to "2"....