Just installed Tmpgenc AW 4 and am unable to open the Disc Writing tool. Keep getting the message the "writing drive is stopped". Everything else works. Tried removing things but still no luck. My two drives works with Nero just fine. Using XP64 SP1.

yeah ive been stumped by this myself as ive had many friends and clients sayin there is an issue.

i believe its a bug which should have been seen before the verison as released.

shame really as i hear that this tool was rather good.

Just to appease my curiosity I just installed it on my Laptop running on Xp32 SP2. Works perfectly! Wonder if it has an issue with Xp64 or SP1?

you say this, my system is also a xp x64

Writing tool does not work with XP64 system. I found out through trial and error on both my system XP64 and XP32

Right click My computer -> Manage->Services and Applications-> services there you can see B'S Recorder Gold Liberary General Serives...(you can see it must be stopped) you have not make automatic and start -> click ok..

Re-start tmpeg dvd authoring works.. lol....

Hi guys

Last week I filmed a concert production. I have it all on a single mpeg file and have set chapters (each song) with tmpgenc authoring works 4. I also have another track of a photo slideshow. My menu currently has 2 buttons doing the following:

Button 1: Track 1 (THE CONCERT) ---> chapter select
Button 2: Track 2 (THE SLIDESHOW) ---> plays the slideshow


I would like to have a layout as follows:

Button 1: Track 1 (THE CONCERT) ---> plays the whole show
Button 2: Track 1 (THE CONCERT CHAPTER SELECT) ---> chapter select
Button 3: Track 2 (THE SLIDESHOW) ---> plays the slideshow

Basically I would like to have a menu where someone can immediately watch the whole show or go to another menu where they could choose an individual song. Is this possible?


CHeers
Lambie

I think the only way would be to use a custom menu design.

In your top menu, you'll have to make the Play All button into "The Concert" button.
You can do this by either making your own button image and importing it into the program, or you can simply make it a text button by selecting the text button layouts in the Menu Wizard.

Then you can rename Track 1 to "The Concert Chapter Select" and that will link to your track menu where you can select the chapters/songs.

Hi, I am fairly new to TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 and I have a question on figuring out which source files go with which projects. I have a number of projects on my system, some of which have been burned to DVD and some of which have not been, and I'm starting to run out of hard disk space. I would like to be able to delete the source files for the projects already burned but I don't want to risk deleting the ones for projects I'm still working on. How do you identify which .DVDDATA files go with which project? I can't seem to find a way to do this in the program.

Thanks very much in advance.


Skip

easy, load the project and see what it is lol

Yeah, that was a real helpful answer. Thanks alot. :-(

I did a little more looking and found the Project File Check Tool under Advanced Project Tools.

Hi,

I'm authoring a DVD in AUTHORING WORKS 4 and importing a .SRT subtitle file. Everything is fine with the exception of this... when a sub goes onto two lines, rather than centring the second line it aligns to the left, in line with the first line. The whole sub is centred in the middle of the picture, so this isn't a problem, I just want to get the second line centred below the first Here's an example.

descending from your
august throne

whereas I want it to look like this...

descending from your
august throne

Now I've played around with all the alignment settings with no joy... Anybody have any ideas, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Regards

sorry that second example didn't work, but hopefully you get the idea.

Go to the Subtitle editor and click on the "Edit menu" button and select "Layout editor".

In the Layout editor window, uncheck the "Align text" box. That should make everything align correctly.

Hello all.

I am using tmpg version 3
I have created on track containing two avi clips both with subs. I have had a look at the simulation and no probs. But...as soon as i go into track settings and "link clips" i get an error when trying to run the simulation
"clip GOP too long for a DVD-video". This puzzles me as nothing has changed except linking the clips.

Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated.

I think this is a known problem that you can just ignore. You should be able to output your project and be able to play it with no problems.

Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a whirl.

hi there, when i am rendring bd project with english( srt file ) and arabic (text file unicode 7 ) subtitle the project stop and i get error massages ( not enough storage is available to complete this operation error code 0x8007000E )after passing 38% , i tried without Arabic subtitle it's worked good and the project finish as normal , so what is the problem with Arabic subtitle file ?? i tried first Arabic subtitle srt file but the programed doesn't load it so i tried Unicode 7 format but i still have problem.

thanks

This problem still exists with the Authoring program. While playing the video in the edit window or using the simulation, the program still crashes on my computer. It seizes up the computer and I have to use the End Task to close the program. I'm not sure why this happens, but the MPEG Editor 3.0 works perfectly and plays back fine while in the editor.
Has anybody else had this same problem.

this isnt a bug, as a bug would just crash the software.

for something to crash and the system to go down with it, would mean soemthing like not enough memory so that the system couldnt coupe so it shut itself down.

or most likley your motherboard northbridge/southbridge/cpu got too hot to handle so it shut down.


just the temps in bios .

my system is watercooled and i had the same issue, up untill i watercooled the northbridge and the temp went from 73* to 23* and the system was the stabel and back to normal.

if its he cpu that really hot you, may need to r do the thermal paste .

If that was thet case, why does it do it no matter what time, either its first thing that I do, or the last. It does it anytime. (I could just start the computer or it could be running 3 days.). Now when I run the mpeg 3 editor program, it runs flawlessly, and no seizes. Now one thing I may be onto it is that the AMD 2200 XP processor in a MSI-6330 Turbo2 motherboard might have a memory conflict of which this program accesses and cause the problem. What I can do is ask if anybody else has the same problem with the same motherboard.
(I have 1.5 meg of memory so that isn't the problem either).

I have found that if I avoid playing the dvd in the editor, or simuluation, that it works fine otherwise.
Processing doesn't seize either and I have really long periods (i.e. 24 hrs compilations)).

test your memmory with memtest

TMPGenc techs recommend disabling multi-threading since this places more demands on your memory and can eventually consume all available RAM which then produces the error you are seeing.

It has worked for me.

I think that was the problem.. I tried it after i disable the video/audio caches and it seems to work without being choppy, and played perfectly. More testing will follow. Thanks a million for the info

Well, I tried it again, and the problem is still there, (program seizes). I am now looking at the 3d now and another feature and disabling that. (The multi-threading isn't the problem so it has to be something else. I even added more memory for the multi-threading and that didn't work.) It has to be something in it that is extra in version 4, compared to mpeg editor 3.0.

I'll be posting more results as I find them.

2 things ,

as before use memtest to check the health of your memory.

2nd find what make your hard drives are and go to the makers wesbite and download their hdd health tools, test all the hdd's to see if they are starting to go, becuase if one is starting to go (if not the main drive) unplug the power to that, and do your testing ie do what you have been tryign to do.

if its still doing it i would say its the hdd , becuase when hdd's start to fail, the speed and funciton slows everythign down, and when that happens the software cant handle the commands and therefore crashes.

I just finished testing the memory and it passed with no errors (3 sticks same type). The hard drives are brand new, (i thought that was the problem, so I upgraded to larger drives.


Thanks for the input.
I will continue to test,

ok a hard drive being brand new means nothing as ive had many in the past and even 8 months ago that as soon as i had them i foudn i had to send them back for a replacement.

Ok,, I have done more testing with this and tried these settings:
(This seemed to help but I will continue to test...)

Disabled: CPU 3D NOW
Enhanced 3D NOW

Disabled: Multi-Threading PreFetch video while encoding
PreFectch audio while encoding
Enabled: File Caching

Stay tuned .....

Also,

I have noticed that between the simulation and the editor window, CPU usage jumps up quite high. i.e. 90 - 100%.
Is this normal?

I'll be testing some more...

Are you disabling multi threading in the CPU settings or in the MPEG encoder multi thread settings?

Using the trial versionof TMPGEnc Auth Works 4, I am editing a 1.89 gig dvr-ms file. All goes well until I look at the output where I end up with two vob files.

I've tried different transcoder settings on the Output page such as setting the target size to 'none', 'custom' and equal to the output file size, and 'single layer dvd'. However, I always end up with two vob files. The sizes vary but typically one is about 1 meg in size and the other is 0.2 megs in size. The addition of the two sizes is equal to the target size, but why two files?

Smaller dvr-ms files form one vob file so this appears related to the size of the input file. Using windows movie maker, I can form one output file for much larger input files.

Thank you, your advise is appreciated.

when importing the files did you select different tracks or all in one track.


how ever if its a dvd you are creating, then you will find that if the time length and quality of dvd you are creating will create 1024mb / 1gb vobs as thats how dvd's work.

Thanks for the prompt response.

In answer to your first question, I did not select different tracks but used one track.

On your second comment, I am not creating a dvd but simply saving the rendered file to my computer.

After posting my initial comment, I found TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress and installed a trial copy. Using the same input file that prompted my initial comment, I was able to generate one 431 mb file in wmv format. It took almost one hour to render, which is ridiculous, but at least it did the job. I prefer TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 due to its other capabilities, but it doesn't allow the creation of wmv files, apparently.

I'll accept vob format, but somehow get it to generate one output file rather than two.

Thanks again

sadly works 4 and versions before it, are not meant for conversion of that type. they are only there for dvd format and bluray from my understanding.

if you were converting with xpress straight from the disc drive, then that woudl explain why it took so long since the speed of the dvd drive compared to the hdd is so much slower.

Yes, works 4 might not be what I want.

Regarding the rendering time using Express, it was working from an input file on my hard drive, not a dvd drive. I tried it again last night on a smaller file and after 20 minutes and less than 50% complete, I halted the program. It was ridiculously slow, and I'm not using it.

I have another idea, which I'll try at home tonight before commenting on it.

Thanks again

what are your system specs and what reslloution along with time length is this file?

I'm running Windows Vista Premium on a quad core 6700 with 6 gig memory and about 200 gig of available hdd space.

File length, if I understand your question, in the dvr-ms format is 1 hour 11 minutes, and about 1.89 gig in size.

thats pretty good with what you have at the moment, unless of course xpress is set at idele and not high proity.

oh, and vista premium really really is bad for any system becuase it takes so much processing and memory, which woudl explain why encoding is taking so long. if you get to the vista basic that is better...but even better is xp x64

Windows movie maker processes this file in 12 minutes on the same computer. TMPGEnc Auth 4 processed it in a similar time frame (but made two vob files, which started this thread). The problem isn't Vista.

ok do the process again, but this time when it gets going right clikc on the preview window and make sure the process is set at high priority.

the speed should then kick in.

No change.

I do appreciate your responses, but my preference is TMPGEnc Auth 4 - if I can get that one file rather than two.

Thanks

problem being is that what i understand of your wants, you after a software that will convert into a different format...of which works 4 will not give.

how ever, becuase dvd vobs break up into sections due to size and structure of a dvd and the length you are asking it to do, it wont make into 1 single file.

unless you open the original disc into dgindex load the main vobs and go to save d2v and mpeg.

also make sure you select in the audio section (select all trakcs) so that the tracks will then also demux.

this will allow you to make a single mpeg file and a ac3 or wav , which you then just mux back with your software.

Thanks for my problem solve...

i face one more problem.,

aafter after out put........and i burn thd dvd..
and play on dvd player...on track menu option click the
play all button...
after finishing first track ...in 2nd track play first clip in this clip last track last clips ado play.

any how can i solve this problem plz guyz help me

thanks in advance
( note: its your guide in pictur format i m very thankfull to you)
raza
kchhkahoo4raza@yahoo.com

sorry but, are you using a online translation to use the english language as it seems this is the case due to your question not really being understood by myself at this time.

He's referring to this post I think:
http://bbs.tmpg-inc.com/bbs.php?board=en_taw4&page=2&tcnt=111#topic271

However I'm having difficulties figuring out what the current problem is.

Hi,

I have a problem playing BD disk created by TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 - only black screen with sound and subtitles. I'm using Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 and 9. Same problem with both players. When i open in file mode \BDMV\STREAM\00001.m2ts - everithing it's ok. In disk mode - only black screen.
Any idea ?

I have been using TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 for a while and have never had any problems with it. but all of a sudden, when I try to render a disc, it just says: "Status: Prepearing to rendering of Top menu page #1" and nothing happens. This happens in the Batch authorer and when I try to render them one at a time in the program. I tried disabling track linking and that didn't help. Any ideas?

It turns out that the problem was that the task priority was set to idle so it was just taking forever to do anything. After changing the priority to normal, the rendering returned to its normal speed.

if your running a quad core system and a good amount of memmory, i would select real time on the process s this will kick it into high high and wont damage the system

Can someone please help me with the audio filter section of this software program?
All I want to do is reduce the volume in a few clips of my home movie because they are too loud.
I select 'audio filters' within the editing screen, then select the volume tab and check the 'enable volume adjustment'. I select 'volume change' in the volume adjustment method and set the volume change to say 20% and click 'ok' at which point I return to the editing screen. But when I play the clip the volume is the same as before?
Other than the audio filter, I find this software far more user friendly than
Ulead, Pinnacle or encore.

Thanks in anticipation
Abidan

you would need to view the edited part in the preview tab just above the others

Thanks Mathew,
There are quite a lot of variables within the audio filter options, is it as simple as using the volume slider within the preview menu and clicking ok? or do the volume changes rely on user settings within the Audio gap tab/Noise & tone reduction tab/volume adjustment tab? I have searched through the help menu and tutorial but can't find any detail regarding audio adjustment.

Thanks in advance

ok the cvolume slider has nothign to do with the adjustment within the video you wish to produce, thats merely the same as your pc volume.

the volume filter is the adjuster not the gap tab.

you then increase the volume by %

i tend to increase by say 200

but limit is 500%, then you press ok, or indeed go to preview tab above and listen to it and then press ok