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Is there any way for TMPGEnc to maximize/normalize an AC3 5.1's volume? It's very weird though. I burned it as is to DVD and all the voices and sounds are loud but the background music can barely be heard. On the computer, it's downsampled to come out of 2 speakers so it sounds fine there. I have a home entertainment system where the music is very faint. Is it possible to fix this kind of audio? :(
Yes, my receiver has a prologic selection. Isn't there a way to keep the 5.1 effect? :( Does the computer's AC3 decoder affect anything that's burned to DVD? I have the AC3Filter with the highest Master and Gain and have Normalize checked. I don't know why this is.
Somebody recommended that I decode the AC3 to a WAV, open it in Goldwave, maximize it (I tested it and 0db sounds pretty loud on the computer), and then convert that back to AC3. However, I found out that the decoded WAV is stereo and not surround. :(
I'm willing to go through the work to get the background music's volume increased. :( I tried using BeSweet to boost it up but still, it's too soft, I can't hear. :(
Ok, the thing is an AC3 5.1 soundtrack NEVER gets reproduced right in a prologic system.
Prologic is designed to achieve a 4 channel surround effect by decoding the information in a specially coded 2 channel sound track.
However with 5.1 when attempting to decode it with a prologic decoder some of the information either gets misrepresented or lost altogether.
For instance the LFE just never gets reproduced right on a Prologic system because the system attempts to push it through the left and right channel and this can create a muted audio effect of other frequencies in some scenes.
The LFE needs a dedicated channel through it's own dedicated Sub to really have an effect.
A Prologic decoder will handle a 2 channel AC3 track better than a 5.1 track as most of the correct downmixing has been professionally done for you and should sound better in a prologic decoder.
5.1 really comes into it's own with a true Dolby digital decoder and Prologic just doesn't do it justice.
If you feed a 5.1 audio track to a Prologic amp all it will attempt to do is downmix it to 4 channels losing some of it's original impact. Many times you can hear these decoding errors as the audio sometimes seems somewhat muted on some scenes when in fact it should be booming.
My advice is to simply downmix the 5.1 to prologic. You not gonna gain anything by fiddling with the individual channels.
Actually, at first, I don't really understand what you meant by a prologic decoder. I just noticed that my receiver has it as a selection. I have a normal home entertainment system with 2 front speakers, 1 center, 1 subwoofer, and 2 back speakers and it can play Dolby Digital 5.1 as well as DTS. The receiver has lots of selections such as Concert Hall, Disco, Rock Concert, Pro Logic, etc. To use the normal DD5.1 or DTS, I would have to set it at Pro Logic and it would then change to say it is Dolby Digital.
I have burned many 5.1 AC3 to DVD before and they all worked fine and showed spectacular sound. But this one, the background music is soft and cannot be heard over all the explosions and voices. I don't know why it is. When it's downsampled to 2 speakers on my computer, the music is very loud over the explosions and that is how it should sound. I have an official DVD (not the same one I'm making but it's in the series) where the music is also prevalent over the explosions/voices. So...hopefully I can get some help with doing this, no matter how much work it involves. Thanks. :)
I thought you had a Prologic encoder not a 5.1 decoder which is why I made the suggestions above.
However if you really want to do the messing about then fair enough.
Load the AC3 into the program as 'Dolby digital (decode to PCM)'
You should then see 6 tracks. Play the tracks to find the background music. When you have found the right track then right click on the track itself in the window and uncheck 'lock'.
Now adjust the volume control for the track. When your happy check the volume with the play controls at the top of the window.
If your satisfied the goto File>Save as and save as 'Dolby digital(AC3)' and your done.
I'm converting avi files from a digital camcorder into mpeg. If I play the avi file the audio sounds fine; the mpeg file has the audio in sloooow taaaaalk. The video seems to move at the normal rate, just the audio is messed up.
What do the Noise Reduction settings control exactly? I understand "Still Picture" is for spatial filtering, and "Time Axis" is for temporal filtering, but what does the value actually mean? I assume that since the range is 0-100 that it is a percentage, but a percentage of what? A better definition than what is available in the help would be appreciated.
i am having problems encoding using said program...
i had nimo codec pack 9 installed and all i could get was the video.
then i uninstalled that codec and just installed the dixv 5.02 or the most current codec and again all i could get with tmpgenc was the video.. so my question is what codec should be used to get the audio for the encode? i have used virtual dub to get the wav of the video and i get an error that the file is not supported which tells me its a codec problem.
The audio is likely AC3 or maybe VBR MP3.
The next time you extract to a wav you must choose full processing and select PCM.
You have simply extracted an AC3 file and put a wav header on it.
Scratching my head a bit here. I had been getting the old "Cannot open/unsupported" error and read through the threads here and nothing worked. As it worked fine last night I began thinking about what had changed on my system. I uninstalled a trial version of Cucusofts avi - dvd convertor. When I reinstalled this TMPEng works again!! Anyone any idea why? I dont really want cucusofts software on my machine so if I knew what it was I could probably keep whatever codec or whatever is making TMPEng work.
Eve
I had the same problem, what I done is to, import the avi into windows movie maker and save again as a .AVI, then I could encode to MPEG-1, it worked for me.
>Go to Options>Enviromental settings>VFAPI plugins then raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2 and ensure it is top of the list.
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>If that doesn't sort it then you need to install FFDSHOW.
The file was opened after I raised the priority of the 'Directshow file reader'. But it still can't be converted...
>Go to Options>Enviromental settings>VFAPI plugins then raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2 and ensure it is top of the list.
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>If that doesn't sort it then you need to install FFDSHOW.
By the way, I do have the FFDSHOW. but it seems not working on it..
What exactly is the error you are receiving and what is the problem you are experiencing.
What format is the AVI, is it XVID, DIVX etc.
Are you trying to convert to MPEG1 or 2. We need more details.
i've got the same Problem. To answer your questions: I want to convert a xvid-file with the ending of *.avi into a mpeg1 or mpeg2 file. The program tells me, that it can not find a videofile.
I would be very glad if anybody can help me.
Hello there folks from Ireland.
I have the freeware version of TEMPGnc and I need to adjust MPEG1 bitrate, the freeware version doesnt allow me to do this, or should it?
If I get the full version will it allow me to adjust MPEG1 bitrate..
In the main widow click the 'LOAD' button then navigate to the 'EXTRA' folder in the 'Template' folder.
Double click the 'UNLOCK.MCF' and all settings will be unlocked.
I captured from vhs tape, got .avi file with good result compared to original video. file I get is 1GB fo 5 minutes.
Now - I convert it to SVCD using tmpgenc tahy works nice, but final quality (when viewed by wmp9) is poor if I choose "full screen". Picture is small if I choose "center".
Any good advice?
So this AVI is only 5 minutes long?
If that is the case you can ramp up the bitrate of the SVCD if your player can handle it.
Try upping the bitrate to 4000 and then check the quality.
>So this AVI is only 5 minutes long?
>If that is the case you can ramp up the bitrate of the SVCD if your player can handle it.
>Try upping the bitrate to 4000 and then check the quality.
No, AVI is 1GB for 5 min, but I have 1hour tape and more.
so this isnt the case.
Waiting for other ideas, thanks
Izzy
Video:
Frame Rate: 23 frames/sec
Data Rate: 117 kbps
Video Sample Size: 16bit
Video Compression: DivX Codec
I am trying to convert this to VCD, NTSC. It turns out that the completed MPG file is more than 1GB, so I cannot burn it in a cd. I've never had these problems before, and I've been using TMPGENC for years (though I recently had to re-format my hard drive and do some re-installing). I'm using TMGENC v.2.58 with the VFAPI plug-in. Please help.
You seem to have misunderstood.
By 'length' I was refering to the play length in minutes of the source.
The file size means nothing and is completely irrelevant.
Hmm, strange the file size should be around 500MB.
Make sure there is no blank data at the end of the movie.
TMPG sometimes has a habit of misreading the length of the source and can sometimes double or even triple the actual length leading to just blank encoded data at the end of the actual movie.
Check what TMPG states as the length.
If it appears it has miscalculated then first try raising the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2 in the VFAPI plugins and make sure it's top of the list.
If that doesn't cure it then use the source range function to set the start and end points of the movie.