Is there a way to trim the source in and out points
before encoding so that one does not have to
cut the MPEG afterwards?

yes, you go settings then advance then click on source range

How do you encode a DivX file which includes a subtitle file (extension .srt) so that the output Mpg file will also display the Subtitles?

Tools needet:

srt2sup
VobSub
AVISynth

Or..
srt2sup
VobSub
Virtualdub

alright plain and simple i have a divx encoded avi which i want to convert to mpeg1 for (obviously) my dvd player. Anyways my question is this: The occasional blockiness created by the divx encoder, i have read is possible to eradicate by using the "sharpen edge" feature, is this true? if so how do i go about doing this? i.e. what do i set the vertical and horizonal to? if the sharpen filter does not fix this problem is there anything else that will??

Well if your DivX file is showing Blockyness then your Mpeg1/VCD File will Show a Lot of Blockyness...It seems that the DivX file was encoded with a too low of a Bitrate to remove the Blocks..And VCD will Usually Produce Blocks of it"s Own because VCD is a Pretty Low Quality Crappy Format...If the Blocks are Part of the Source Footage meaning your Divx file then it will be Impossible to get rid of them, You might be able to Disguise them by useing a Few Filters, Like maybe the "Soften Block Noise", and/Or the "Noise Reduction" filter, Sharpen edge will not get rid of Blockyness but Might be able to give a slight improvement in the Over all image Quality...The Way you use these Filters is Totally up to the User and up to the File you are encodeing, Just go to the Filter and Double click it and a Settings dialog will pop up with your File displayed in the screen, Just find a Place were you can see the Blockyness the worst then adjust the setting untill the Image looks better...

There is no way to remove blocks from a source file. You may be able to reduce them slighlty by using the noise reduction filters.
One trick that seems to work is to encode the AVI first in MPEG2 with a high bitrate so as not to introduce any more blocks then encode from the MPEG2 to MPEG1 VCD using the soften block noise option and the noise filter both times.
This will have the effect of softening the picture and thus making the blocks less noticible.
Also whoever or wherever you read that using the sharpness filter will reduce the appearance of blocks did not know what they where talking about. Using a sharpness filter will make it WORSE not better! All you will succeed in doing is sharpening the edges of the blocks making them MORE visible.

every time I try to use this one file as a source I get the error:
Read Error Occurred at Address 77FC9E8A of module 'ntdll.dll' with 9D000095.
and after I exit out of that if I try to select a source again I get:
Write Error Occurred at Address 77FCB5BF of module 'ntdll.dll' with 00000168.
I am very confused as to if this is a bug with tmpg or with my OS, altho I haven't had any problems with it thus far.

RebLaw

Is the File you are trying to encode a "XviD" file??? If so then I believe the error is caused by the XviD codec, You should install the "FFDShow Decoder" instead of the XviD codec to decode any Mpeg-4 formats, this should solve the Problem...

I have noticed a problem tring to get TMPGENC to load over 20 multi-segmented avi files. I have about 30 avi files from a 2 hour movie. When I select the first (00) file it only loads the sequence through file 19 (20 files). If I select any other segment, such as file 5 (segment 04) it will still load 20 files through file 25 (segment 24). Any clues?

Thanks,
Paul

It's not a feature, it's a Bug...
You can't open more than 20 Segments a time.

I recently download v2.512 and when I click on the audio input button to select a wav file, it displays a "cannot read address######## from kernal32.dll" message. Plus, during encoding, after the process is finished,(i.e. frames 41030/41030 and it reads 100%) how should it end? Nothing comes up and nothing can be clicked on. When I press ctrl-alt-del, it displays "TMPGenc(not responding)"
Thanks for any help

The first error seems like you may have a corrupt version of TMPG. Completely delete then download and install TMPG again. If you still have the same problem try raising the priority of 'Wav file reader' in the VFAPI plugins.

You second one sounds like it is just due to your impatience. When encoding reaches 100% TMPG hasn't actually finished. Even after the last frame is encoded TMPG needs to write the headers into the file which which takes a little while, so just wait it shouldn't take long.

Hi all

tmpgenc used to work fine and did everything perfectly......until yesterday!

now when i try and use it it will either not start(gives error message)or will give me the same error message when i start to encode:

MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ RUNTIM LIBRARY
Program: C:....tmpgenc.exe

The application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.

This is quite strange and has never happened before.

tried uninstall/reinstall to no avail.

please advise

thanks

Seems like you have installed something that has either corrupted your runtime libraries or replaced them with incorrect versions. You may need to reinstall them. Download and install this file:
http://www.indigorose.com/download/runtime/visualc60sp4_rts.exe
If it doesn't install there are two other ways to repair the files. One is to install the latest service pack or re-install your operating system over the top of you existing one.
This should overwrite any corrupt files or if you are using Win2000/XP type this command into the 'RUN' box: SFC /SCANNOW
This will replace any incorrect versions of system files on your system.

hi,
i am pretty new to encoding and i was wondering how the motion search option would affect my project. thanks

The Motion Precition search searches ahead for motion Changes, and the Farther ahead it can Search the Better the quality will be, But It also makes the encodeing take a Lot longer useing the Higher settings..Usually Normal or High Quality is best, The "Highest Quality" doesn"t seem any better that "High Quality" accept it takes twice as Long....

With avi2svcd, I normally use 795mb for cut point which means I don't have any problem to burn 795mb or around 800mb into 700mb/80min cd-r.

If cd-r with 80min allows far more data then 700mb, is it possible to burn 1.5gb(80min) svcd onto it?

Thanks.

Kisoo

No of cource Not, a Normal Data CD can only fit 700mb on it because it uses 100mb for Error Correction, but VCD/SVCD"s don"t use error correction so you get an extra 100mb on the CD-R..I believe the 80 Minutes refers to the Amount of Music you can fit on the CD-R in Wav format, and you can get 80Minutes of Standard VCD but I think this is just a Coincidance....

Certainly yes. Why not?

If there were drives which can burn far more data, and also were apropriate writing software, you can do anything.

Although, now I found only this item.

http://www.plextor.com/english/news/press/pr04142003.html

That's interesting.
About flextor cd-r/rw drive.
It means that data storage depends much on storage technic other than physical media.

Well You show me were I can get CD-R"s that will hold 1.5gb then I"ll eat My Shorts....

Well, maybe 1.2GB. From Geek.com:

The drive can fit 980 MB on a 700 MB disc and 1.2 GB on the not-so-common 880 MB discs. Plextor has achieved this feat by burning smaller pits on the actual surface of the CD. The pits are 40% smaller, therefore allowing 40% more data to be stored. The downside to this, however, is that the discs might not be readable on most drives due to other manufacturers' lasers not being able to recognize the smaller pits.

Plextor have always offered "more capacity" as a feature of its drives, but up until now that has been in the form of over-burning, which writes to typically unreadable portions of a CD.

I also found this item.

http://www.digital-sanyo.com/BURN-Proof/HD-BURN/index.html

Yet only 1.4GB data can be burned on 700M(80min) media.

I have heard of all of these Before But most have to do with the Burner being able to Burn the data Differantly as to get more data on a CD ,But very few if any will be recognized by Your DVD player so it isn"t a Option for most Poeple with a Regular CD-Burner and DVD Player..Soon they will have the "Blue Ray" Technoligy that will allow you to fit some rediculous amout like 50gb on a Single Disk (I guess a sort of DVD Disk), Which will be awesome, But It will Take Quite a Few years till they are affordable...Cheers

ok, been here before, but i am stuck once again. I have changed my enviornmental settings because i was getting a black picture after so many minutes of film. now i am getting interlace lines. which setting is it that i need to boost up to remove this?

Well Interlace Lines should not show up on your TV set...PC Monitors are made to display Progressive Images and when they Play Interlaced material you can see that it is Interlaced because you can the the seperation between the Fields and you can get a Bad Combing effect.. TV Sets are Made to Display Interlaced content so you will usually not see any Interlace lines on a TV set unless the Field order is Set incorrectly...But if you want to get rid of the Lines so you can watch it on your Monitor also then you go to "Settings" to "Advanced" then Double Click were it says "DeInterlace" and a window should pop up, in this window click the "Enable Filter" Box then choose the Filter that looks best, Usually the "Even Field" or "Odd field" will look Best depending on the Field order of the File....good luck

ok, maybe im not understanding...why would it have changed when i only changed my enviornmental settings? I thought that i moved a setting too far down the list and hence the interlace lines.

The Vfapi Plugins in the Enviromental settings have nothing to do with the Quality of the Video, All they do is give Priority to certain File Types..Interlace Lines are Part of the Video, Without the Interlace lines there wouldn"t be a Picture, If that is what you are seeing....

I have some avi movies I can watch fine using divx player, but can't convert to mpg using tmpgenc.

They load up fine in tmpgenc, but when I start the conversion it freezes after about the 5 second mark (meaning source position 5seconds) and the picture just freezes. Tmpgenc does not freeze, just the video. Audio is fine.

Have you maybe tried a Program Like "DivX Anti-Freeze" or "DivX-FiX" they are supposed to fig Frozen Divx files....

I'm converting VHS home movies to DVD (TMPGEnc & TMPGEnc DVD Author), and video quality is my primary concern. Audio is not. I've heard that TMPGEnc converts audio poorly, wasting space. How can I get around this to allow more disc space for video quality without buying more software?

Well there are 3 Formats allwed for DVD authoring ,they are WAV/PCM ,Mpeg1 layer 2 audio and Dolby Digital AC3 audio, Wav/PCM with Probably produce the best Quality Because it is Uncompressed But the File size is Huge ,The next Best Format to use would be "Dolby Digital AC3" this Format is a very Highly compressed Format But a Very High Quality Format and the Most common used with Retail DVD"s, You can encode to this Format with some Freeware tools Like a Program called "BeeSweet" or "AC3Machine", or you might be able to Find a Free version of "Sonic Foundry Soft Encode 1.0" which is a Good AC3 encoder but like all AC3 encoders they Take Quite a While to encode to AC3 ,especially if you encode to Dolby 5.1 surround sound, The Last Format is Probably the Lowest Quality format in DVD Authoring but also has a Really small file size, the Quality is Quite acceptable if you use a Good Quality Mpeg audio encoder,You can use Tmpgenc to make the Wav audio file then use a Audio encoder like "Headac3he" to encode it to Mpeg1 layer2 audio at 48000hz at 384kbs, and it should sound Pretty good, But if you can get a hold of an AC3 encoder then that would be the way to go....good Luck