Help required please.

Using Vista, Authoring Works 4 worked great and almost any file type could be imported. But I have now switched to a new computer with Windows 7 and the FLV files will not import (they worked perfect before). The FLV videos play fine with WMP, Real Player and other free player software. At the moment I'm having to convert them into MPEG using FLVconverter and then import into Author Works 4. Other than go back to an old computer, any ideas??

Thanks

This is the way I convert an .flv file with TMPGEnc - YMMV
I use the following programs:
AutoGK 2.55 (also installs AviSynth)
QuickTime Pro (or VLC can be used) for audio conversion
FLV Extract 1.6.1 http://moitah.net/
DGAVCDec 1.09 http://www.videohelp.com/download/dgavcdec109.zip

use FLV Extract to demux the .flv

open the .aac audio file in QuickTime to create a .wav file
File > Export > Export: Sound To Wave > Options: (choose what you like)
now you have your .wav file

open the .264 video file in DGAVCDec
(learn how to choose your 'settings'...)
File > Save Project
now you have your .dga file

Save these 6 lines in notepad as an .avs file:
LoadPlugin ("C:\Program Files\DGAVC\DGAVCDecode.dll")

Video = AVCSource ("YourFileName.dga")
Audio = DirectShowSource ("YourFileName.wav")
Audio = Normalize (Audio, 0.93)
Audiodub (Video,Audio)

you can add features in this .avs file for exact control of your video:
BicubicResize (608,456)
Greyscale ()
AddBorders (16,12,16,12)
Trim (1236,35363)
FadeIn (12)
FadeOut (12)
and dozens of others.....

Keep all these files so far in the same folder.
TMPGEnc will now import the .avs file with all your editing features,
along with most other video programs that can handle an .avi import.
One of the few things you have to set is bitrate & quality. The added bonus
of an .avs file - you can drop it into other programs like VirtualDub
& all of your resizing, fading, bordering, etc... in the .avs - saving
you the time of having to reset everything in different programs.

GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY ENCODING!!

I am a new to this authoring and would be glad if somebody will help me.
I like to have a menu werein I will have a first play of 10 sec. Three tracks
with each chapters and would go back to the track menu.
Thank you in advance.

Greetings All. I installed Authoring Works 4 for the sole purpose of creating DVD-R's from non-encrypted DVD-RW source discs I have in the .VRO format (originally recorded on Sony Home DVD Recorder). Installation was easy and TMPGEnc has no trouble recognizing the disc and showing the disc's contents. However, when I attempt to create a file to my HDD, I don't get a standard DVD "TS" file. What I receive is a strange DVDDATA FILE that Windows XP does not recognize. The file carries this number (if it means anything):

DVD-C809F31FB9C9480084021EBA06B6129027724C9D-0000.dvddata

I se that the file is 4.24gb, which means it transferred all the content of the DVD-RW intact, but I can't open or create a standard DVD-R from this type of file. What am I doing wrong? Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

The .dvddata files are just the copy of the DVD data that TAW4 uses for editing and outputting in lieu of streaming the data off of the DVD.

Are you trying to just transfer the same exact data from a DVD-RW to DVD-R? If so, that's not exactly what TAW4 was designed for. However, I suppose you could do it in a roundabout sort of way. You'd have to go through the entire TAW4 project process from Start to Output and then it will create the Video_TS/Audio_TS folders you're looking for.

As long as the video is in MPEG-2 format, output will be fast since it won't rerender (assuming it's DVD-Video compliant). You can also choose not to make a menu to skip that section as well.

tkrave, yes I am just trying to transfer the exact same data from DVD-RW to DVD-R. Doing the whole project process from start to output just produces the same result as stated originally. Do I do something with the DVDDATA file once it's created? Do you have a moment to walk me through the steps?

Does your DVD have a menu? If so, do you want to keep the menu? Passing the DVD through Authoring Works 4 will not preserve the menus.

How are you burning the content to the DVD-R? Are you using Authoring Works or some other program?

If all you see is a .dvddata file after going through the Output stage, then you're not doing it correctly or you're looking in the wrong place. Upon output, you'll have a Video_ts and Audio_ts folder. Pay attention to where your output folder is, it won't be the same place as the .dvddata file by default.

You can delete the .dvddata file after you've properly outputted.

Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone has had the following problems:

I am trying to edit segments from a Pal compliant MPEG file with AC3 audio. Also I am trying to synchronise the video and audio. I get the following error message upon playback: AUDIO DECODING CANNOT FOLLOW.

There is sufficient storage and ram. SP3 on Windows Xp Pro with all relevant DotNet installed(1.0 - 4).

Version 3.2.0.127 of the MPEG 3 Editor.

Thanks for all/any replies/help.

Hi,

I used TMPGEnc Xpress v4.0 to encode video for my website. The website player is set up correctly and working when I use a mp4 downloaded from youtube.
Once I use my encoded files they buffer completely before they play. So no streaming is possible.

Since ther is no possibility making a difference while uploading to the site and the site is not changed the problem must be one of the file created.

I did encode my file exactly as the one I got from Youtube but it had no effect at all! Still no streaming while the youtube on is. I tried multiple files. No effect.


Here is the media info of the 2 Files to compare:
(Tried to rename the mp4 to flv, no effect as well)


1. The TMPGEnc one that is not streaming:

Complete name : C:\...\Example.MP4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 18.9 MiB
Duration : 1mn 6s
Overall bit rate : 2 396 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2010-10-23 22:45:48
Tagged date : UTC 2010-10-23 22:45:48

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 1mn 6s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 2 299 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.100
Stream size : 18.1 MiB (96%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2010-10-23 22:45:48
Tagged date : UTC 2010-10-23 22:45:48

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Format settings, SBR : No
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 1mn 6s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 96.0 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Stream size : 773 KiB (4%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2010-10-23 22:45:48
Tagged date : UTC 2010-10-23 22:45:48



2. The Youtube on that is streaming:

Complete name : C:\...\Ich pflocke euch.flv
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 161 MiB
Duration : 9mn 14s
Overall bit rate : 2 434 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2010-09-26 13:47:49
Tagged date : UTC 2010-09-26 13:47:49
gsst : 0
gstd : 554440
gssd : B4A7D0A82HH1287942535764773
gshh : v18.nonxt3.c.youtube.com

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 9mn 14s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 2 301 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 3 265 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.100
Stream size : 152 MiB (95%)
Tagged date : UTC 2010-09-26 13:48:31

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Format settings, SBR : No
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 9mn 14s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 176 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Stream size : 8.46 MiB (5%)
Title : (C) 2007 Google Inc. v08.13.2007.
Encoded date : UTC 2010-09-26 13:48:10
Tagged date : UTC 2010-09-26 13:48:31



ANY IDEA? I got no clue! Please help!

I'm guessing it has to do with the .flv container. 4.0 XPress can't output to flv so...

How about uploading your video to YouTube, then download it as an flv?

Thats no option. This is what I have TPGEN for.

Anyone from pegasys feeling the need to reply?Will never ever buy again if there is no help on this...

I`m pretty much pissed off! Wasted 2 months time looking for the reason. Shouldn`t a program you buy work?

In all fairness, it's not 4.0 XPress' job to make the video able to stream, so I'm not sure why you're expecting it.

The real question is, what is this website player that you're using and what are the video specs that it needs to make it stream?

Also, no one from Pegasys will answer you here; this is just users helping users. If you want a response from Pegasys, use their product support forms:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/support/support.html

I had the same problem with mp4 files encoded with TMPGenc Xpress 4.xx not streaming. After some research I've figured it out.

1. TMPGenc Xpress doesn't write the atoms in the mp4 file header in the order required for streaming. I use the the free command utility mp4box.exe to arrange the atoms in the correct order (mp4box -optimize file.mp4). There is also a free GUI for doing this operation named MP4 FastStart.exe.

2. Only the output of the Baseline profile has been streaming for me after the rearrangement of the atoms in the mp4 file header.

You might try renaming the file extention to f4v instead of flv, f4v uses an H.264 container, while flv files use either On2's vp6 or an older version of sorensen's spark codec. or also some freeware codecs will produce an flv file. google bought On2 and they are using what was supposed to be Vp8(also H.264 or perhaps x.264 like the upcoming version of Tmpgenc mastering works has. and open source codecs for the audio. regardless, the f4v extention might do the trick.

It doesn't works...why?

The product was discontinued before Windows 7 was released. If you can run it in XP compatibility mode, it might work.

It works for me (DVD Author 3 + Windows 7 64 Bit). However I have the problems mentioned in my own above question!

>It doesn't works...why?

Does AW4 use the same transcoding/encoding engine as is contained in Express 4?

Is there any image quality advantaage to transcoding/encoding files to DVD or Blu-ray formats using Express 4 rather than letting AW4 do it?

I just installed a GTS 450 Nvidia card, when I try to select overlay mode when I am adding filters it's greyed out, can someone tell me what I can do to get it working?

I forgot to mention Iam using Windows 7 with DX11

I forgot to mention Iam using Windows 7 with DX11

Do you have any other programs running that is using the overlay? For instance if you're using a program like PowerDVD, you won't be able to use overlay mode.

No Im only running the main program with nothing else taking up video resources in the background.

With my Radeon card I had the option to select it and if something else was using it I would get an error saying I cant enable it, but now with the Nvidia card it is greyed out.

Ive tried the last 3 versions and they are all greyed out.

Was doing a bit of research and it looks like Windows 7 handles hardware overlays in a different way than older verisons of Windows-- this is most likely why overlay mode won't work on your machine.

The 4.0 XPress overlay mode probably uses a DirectDraw API, but Windows 7 uses Direct 3D 9 for overlays.
Reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd797814(VS.85).aspx

I tried 4.0 XPress on a Windows 7 machine myself and sure enough, the overlay mode was grayed out for me too.

I'd have to run a virtualmachine and run virtual XP with Windows 7 to get it to work right? But wouldn't that be a huge memory hog doing it like that?
Well at least I could get my settings the way I want them and save the Txp4 file and re-open it again on Windows 7 in Tmpgenc.

Just thought I'd share my experiences of the past few days.
After using (and loving) TAW4 under 32-bit Windows XP for some time, I upgraded to 64-bit Windows 7. TAW4 installed just fine and works flawlessly - on NEW projects.

When I opened a project created under my old installation however, the only elements visible on the Menu pages were those I had added to the template myself (like extra text boxes). The backgrounds and buttons from the template itself were nowhere to be seen.

I had a hunch this was because the name of the programs directory has changed from "C:\Program Files" to "C:\Program Files (x86)" for 32-bit applications like TAW4.

Sure enough, when I copied TAW4's "Templates" directory:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Pegasys Inc\TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4\Template"
...into another location...
"C:\Program Files\Pegasys Inc\TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4\Template"
...all of my old projects started displaying correctly again.

Seems that TAW4 doesn't know it should be using the %ProgramFiles(x86)% environment variable instead of %ProgramFiles% when it identifies that it's in a 64-bit environment.

Hopefully this work-around will help some folks until a fix can be made in later versions of this excellent software.

The DVD will have 4 tracks (4 independent video clips).
It will also have a short first play video separate from the clips.

I want a top menu following the first play clip with links to the four tracks.
Two tracks are to play the video directly with no separate track menu
Two tracks are to have a track menu with links to 5 chapter points in their video and a return button.
Each video will also have additional chapter points that are not linked to menu buttons, but used to allow faster navigation withthe skip button..

Can I do this with AW4? Not obvious from its highly strcuture process, tutorials, or Help files.

Yes, this is possible. The key is to use the Global Menu Settings to set which menu pages are displayed.

So your process would be to first create your menus as normal, then go to the Global Menu Settings and uncheck the track 1 and track 2 pages so they don't appear. Any chapter points you set will still work when playing the actual movie.

You can set almost anything (buttons, thumbnails, etc.) to either visible or invisible with the global menu settings.

Try it out in the trial version if you can.

Thanks. Your response helped me a lot in developing an undestanding of how AW4 works and solved my immediate issue as well.

As a previous user of Reel DVD, Encore DVD, and DVD LAB Pro, AW4 is rather different. The big diffence in Menu building appears to me to be the concept that AW4 gives a near complete starting point, and I remove, hide or inactivate rather than add items.

I think every encoding tool now uses H/X 264 for HD encoding except you lot, why is this? This is the only thing that is putting me off buying this software. I would like to have a few HD movies on 1 blu-ray disc, and am currently using mulitAVCHD for this, but its not as easy as Authoring works.

I like this software because I find it user friendly so I can edit my videos. I've tried to buy it, but I'm told each time that there's something wrong with my credit card information. I've tried to find a phone number so I can purchase the old fashioned way by giving my credit card information to an operator, but haven't had any luck.

What's up with you people who make this software? Don't you want to make a profit?

EDDY

Try the Paypal option or fax your order.

Fax order form:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/shopping/OF_en_20100427.pdf

I know that some retailers have problems if your billing address is a PO Box, so if that's your case, then that might be the problem.