How do I download something to convert XviD to MPEG or AVI? Is there a patch for v2.512?

What do you mean??? You just download it and Use it, there is nothing special you have to do Just download it and extract the Files to a Folder and Run the Program..And what kind of Patch are you talking about????

I have already installed v2.512 when I try to convert the file (which is XviD) I get a message that says "the file type is not supported". How do I convert the XviD file??? Is it not an MPEG-4 file in actuality? v2.512 says it only supports MPEG-2 files... do I need another codec?

Xvid Files are Mpeg-4 Files in the AVI container Format,The Xvid Codec causes a Lot of Problems with a Lot of Programs so it would be best to install the "FFDShow Mpeg4 Decoder" and configure it to decode Xvid and DivX files, and go to "Options" to "Enviromental settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct Show" to "2"..This should get the File loaded But the "FFDShow Decoder" will help Make it so you do not get Errors while encodeing, you can download it here : http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffdshow/ffdshow-20030424.exe ..Tmpgenc does Not Natively support Mpeg2 files, it supports AVI/Mpeg1/ASF files, it will Only accept Mpeg2 files as the video source if you have a Specific Mpeg2 decoder installed or a VFAPI Plugin But you don"t need to be concerned about that as you are encodeing AVI files...

thanks, I do appreciate it.

Tsunami is locking up when I use the wizard to make an mpeg-1 VCD. It advances a few frames (80-130) and then stops. The processor usage is zero after the enocding locks up, but the program still adavances. The elapsed time advances but nother else ever changes.

The only thing I'm changing from default is adding:
Frame clip
soften block noise
motion search - Highest

My source is a 3G MJPEG avi, 32 minutes, that encodes with Tsunami to SVCD or DVD mpeg-2 beautifully.

It won't let me edit the post.
Hardware:
Dual Pentium 3 CM - 650
512M of ram
Win2K service pack 3

What version are you Useing??? Either set the "Motion Precition Search" to "High Quality" (NOT Highest Cuz there is a Bug with Highest, and it isn"t any Better than High Quality), or Use the Very Newest Version "2.512" cuz the Bug has been fixed in that Version....

when I do dvd rips and make mpg I find its not as clear and the orginal.
can change the setting so not to have the lines in it.
Directshown multimedia file reader is on 2
AVI VFW compatibility reader is on -2
all the rest is 0

let know if I can change it to make it look clear.

Use DVD2AVI to Decode the DVD-Files, not the VFAPI PlugIn.

The Lines you are Talking about are Probably Interlace Lines and they are a Part of the Video and without them you wouldn"t have a Picture, They shouldn"t show up on your TV Set as your TV is Made to Display Interlaced content and a Computer Monitor is Not, Just make sure that the Field order is set correctly and if you still Have Problems with Interlace Lines then you can Use the De-Interlace Filter But it can take away some of the fine detail in the Image so I wouldn"t sugest it..When you say "DVD Rips" does that Mean that You are Ripping the DVD or that you downloaded an avi File that was Labeled DVD Rip?? If it is an AVI file that says that it is a DVD rip then it isn"t a DVD Rip cuz DVD rips are the Files ripped off of a DVD which are in VOB or M2V Format, if this is what you have done then It would be Best to Follow B_Racer"s Advice and Use DVD2AVI to Decode the Vob/M2V file then use Tmpgenc encode the Frameserved files, this is a Faster way of decodeing Mpeg files and the Image Quality seems better ...

I am ripping the dvd rip right from the orgnial dvd and I ripping with smart ripper then I use the dvd2avi then use tmppgenc to make the mpeg-1. But I find I the picture is not as clear as the orgnial dvd itself. wonder how to make as to get the best quailty.

Well of cource it isn"t going to be as Clear as the Original DVD, if it turned out as Clear as the DVD then Poeple would still be Buying CD Burners instead of DVD Burners..VCD"s have 1/4 the Resolution of DVD"s and up to only 1/6 of the Bitrate of a DVD so the Quality is Only going to be a Fraction of a DVD"s Quality...If you want better Quality Make SVCD"s if your Player can Play them as they have at least twice the Quality of VCD, or you can Try XVCD which is a Variation of VCD But uses either or Both a Higher resolution and Bitrate than a Standard VCD, But still your DVD Player might not play it properly, some can handle the Higher Bitrate and resolution and some can not, You can Probably Increase the Bitrate to say 1650kbs and keep the same Resolution which will Give you a less Blocky Image and a Clearer image But then you would only Fit about an hour on each CD-R Max, and your DVD Player should be able to handle it..VCD is not a Very high Quality format, and I don"t even use it because of the Lower Quality, So if your DVD Player supports SVCD then that is the way to go....

After succcessfully using TMPGEnc for a few weeks I now find that every time i start the program i get the erreor message "Read error Occured at address BFF7A of module 'KERNEL32.DLL' with 0079FFBO" I've tried un/reinstalling and using it in safe mode but i'm still getting the same error.... HELP I need to get my films on disc !!!

I would suggest searching for the kernal32.dll on your windows CD. and copy it into your system directory on your hard drive. this should take care of any corruptions that it may have sustained during use (viruses...) If not I would look at reinstalling your computer (Easiest for me since I have two hard drives (or partitions) and I just reinstall my C drive image with Drive Image)

When trying to convert an XVid avi file to mpeg TMPGEnc keeps on crashing, I've tried a lot of things as list below:

1) Checked file for bad frames and repaired if required.
2) I've ripped the MP3 audio into a wav file and used this as my audio source.
3) Tried to change the direct show media file reader priority (increasing it).
4) Tried to convert the whole avi instead of splitting it.
5) Formatted hard drive and installed only crucial codecs ie XVid and AC3.

Is there anything else I can do which might help? I'm running ME if thats any help. This problem has been going on for weeks but still can't fix it, please someone help me.

Thanks

Will

PS I'm using the very latest release of the software.

Poeple Have been Haveing Problems useing the XviD Codec to Decode there XviD files, Poeple Have been haveing Better success useing the "FFDShow Decoder" instead of the XviD codec to Decode XviD/DivX Files, you Just download it and install it and set it up to decode XviD files....

I am using XP home edition and when I use TMPGEnc (Free version) it crashes

a tipical error message is "write error at 77f5215c of module 'ntdll.dll',
I have reinstalled twice and still get the same message.

I have tried xvid, AVI (normal), Mpeg 1 & 2 as the sorce files and it still happens..


any clues?


L

I think I've sorted the problem with help from a guy from fastrack, basically I just use the templates and not the wizard, I've also had to alter the VFAPI to the following settings

Directshow multimedia file reader = 4
BMP/PPM etc... = 3
TMPGEnc Project file thing = 1
Mpeg 1 decoder = 0
Wave File reader = 0
AVI VFW comp' reader = -2

Try this to see if it helps, also don't use your computer whilst encoding

Will

Useing the FFDShow Decoder will probably get rid of the NTDLL.dll error, as the Error is Probably caused by the XviD codec...

right have tired two codex nimo and fddshow I still get the nt<thingy>.dll error.

I have altered my settings as ahown above......


what more can I do?



Liam

I am looking to convert to avi from mpeg.

I have tried to convert it and have succeeded, however, it will ad to the length and I want to make the file smaller. It is a movie file. I have tried it three times and still it gets bigger not smaller.

I have a friend who says you can use this program to make the files smaller but I am not having any luck. I have tried both raising and lowering the bitrate with the same result. He says his gets smaller but mine got bigger.

Is there anyway anyone could tell me what I am doing wrong? I am using tmpgenc 2.5, do have the divx 5.5pro.

Should the output file be something different?

Please help!!

You want to create an AVI from an MPEG2-File?
OK, TMPGEnc is able to do that, but it is not optimized for that.
Surf do vcdhelp.com or doom9.org, they provide Guides for Videoconverting.

Yes, I would sugest something like "Virtual Dub Mpeg2_AC3" it Supports Mpeg1/2 files and can encode them to any VFW AVI Format you have codecs for, But you must realize that if you are trying to Just Make the file size smaller through re-encodeing you will also Loose some Quality allong with a Smaller file size..

I try to load an OGM movie file into TMPG to convert it into a VCD compatible file and it accepts it but when I start to run it give me the error: "The error occurred when ACM was initialized."

What does that mean and how do I fix it?

Thanks

Tmpgenc Doesn"t support OGM Files, But you Can Probably use "Virtual Dub_Mod" to convert OGM Files...

it's true, tmpg does not support ogm

what you can do is to convert the video only with tmpg

you can rip the sound to a separate file with another program such as goldwave.

and then combine the two with tmpg in the mpg.

I am trying to convert Quicktime movies to DivX for use on my PC. I found that TMPGEnc can do what I want, which is get the audio out of MOV files (I am using RAD Tools to convert the MOV video to AVI video and plan on using VirtualDub to combine the AVI video from RAD Tools and the WAV audio from TMPGEnc).

However, I can't get the audio out of MOV files. I have the QT plug-in in C:Program FilesPegasisTMPGEnc (or whatever TMPGEnc's default install location is).

I get no audio on encoding. Just a blank WAV file. If I try to use the audio editor before encoding, there is no sound. There is sound if I try to use another file type other than MOV as the source.

HELP!

This has been Quite a Common Problem lately, I think it is Because the QT Mov Plugin hasn"t been updated since it"s release over a year an a half ago and the Author doesn"t do any Improvements on it anymore and The author of Tmpgenc has nothing to do with the QT Plugin,Maybe it isn"t compatible with Quicktime 6
??, You could try raiseing the Priority of the QT Plugin in the VFAPI Plugins and see if that Helps, I have used "Sound Forge 6" to Get audio out of Mov files, You could probably use it to Convert Directly from Mov to DivX....

I presumed as much. It's a shame that MOV conversion is next to impossible with QT6. I wish there would be a new plug-in or something. You know there are some coders out there that would want to convert a MOV file to DivX.

I'll give Sound Forge 6.0 a shot.

Thanks.

I did not test it on newer Quicktime-Files, but maybe radtools are a solution for converting MOV to AVI.

http://www.radgametools.com/

I had already tried RAD Tools. It converts the video fine. However, if I attempt to convert MOV audio and video to AVI at the same time, the program crashes. If I try to convert MOV audio to WAV audio only, it says it cannot find the audio stream.

I have learned that Quicktime has a form of audio protection that prevents copying or conversion.

I tried Total Recorder, but it doesn't seem to work very well. When I put the TR WAV file (from the MOV) in an AVI container with AVI video converted from the same MOV, the sound doesn't sync up if you fast-forward or rewind the video.

I'm at a loss here. I am going to try Sound Forge 6 and Adobe Premiere 6.5 next.

Hi, Um A Program called "EO-Video" also converts Mov to AVI/Mpeg, the Mpeg encodeing isn"t that good But I"m sure the AVI Encodeing isn"t too Bad ,Just another Think to put on your List of things to try....Cheers

@scottws
Oops, i missed your writing about RADTools, sorry.

@Minion
I tried EO-Video with one of those Animatrix-Videos. It did not work. Got the Video, but not the Audio-Part.

So the problem is Quicktime 6 then. Either Apple has done a great job preventing people from ripping the audio out of QT6 files or no one has made a program yet that takes QT6 into account.

Adobe Premiere won't work. It also only works with QT4 and QT5.

Success!

Sonic Forge 6 works perfectly!

I knew it would as it is an exelent Audio/Video tool, I"m glad it worked out...

Oops. I meant Sound Forge 6 not Sonic Forge 6.

Anyway, it works 90% of the time. However, it isn't working for the Animatrix MOVs. Those seem to have more than one audio track. Two specifically: one for the title sequence and one for the rest of the movie. SF6 seems to only find the latter track.

But it's better to have 50MB DivX files instead of 100MB MOV files for everything else I have.

Here I am again. Using AVI video capture card I have captured a video segment in MPG format (MPEG1). I am now using the Tools/ MPEG option to edit the clip. I hae identified the beginning and end of the clip to be saved. When I play the saved clip the audio and video are out of synch.

I have tried to then go through the wizard and manipulate the sound using the add/ detract sound miliseconds but this seems to do no good. What should I be doing?

You are Probably not doing anything wrong, The Merge & cut Isn"t the Most acurate editor there is and it oficially only supports the acurate editing of Files that were encoded with Tmpgenc, and it doesn"t acurately edit VBR Mpeg streams..You might best be off trying a Different Mpeg editor, if you are useing Mpeg1 then you can Probably find a freeware mpeg1 editor that will give you better results than tmpgenc"s editor..Another thing that sometimes can cause sync Problems in Captured Mpeg files after editing is that some Capture Software will add padding to the stream to compensate for dropped frames, so when editing/re-Muxing the Padding can get removed which causes the File to go out of sync, But I have only heard of this with PVR satalite cards...If you are Planning on Re-encodeing this File anyways you can edit out the Comercials by Useing the Cut editing feature in the "Source Range"......

There is no help available on the free version. I need to know which options to use under VIDEO ARRANGE METHOD and SOURCE ASPECT RATIO, on the Advanced tab in the Settings.

Download the Plus-Version, and you have all the Help you need. :)
You have not to purchase the Plus-Version to use the Help-Function.

The "Source Aspect Ratio" is NOT a Setting for YOU to Adjust, Tmpgenc adjusts this to the Correct aspect ratio automaticly, which is the aspect ratio of the file you have loaded into it..Usually "Full Screen Keep Aspect Ratio" is the Best setting in the "Video arange Method"....

@Minion
To be correct: It is the best setting, if you use TMPGEnc directly. But if you use a frameserving tool like AVISynth or VirtualDub, often Full Screen or Center may be the best Settings.

As an Example: If i'm Capturing from PAL VCR, i'm using the Crobbing-Function of VirtualDub to cut off the flickering lines at the Bottom of the Video (result: 704x560).
If i load this Video into TMPGEnc, it says, the Video has 1:1 VGA Aspect Ratio, which is incorrect. So Full Screen Keep Aspect Ratio is also incorrect. I have to use center to make it right.

Well that is Why I said "Usually", I personally use "Center Custom size" and set the Image to the Correct aspect Ratio, But everyone Does something different But as a General Rule your File will usually look OK with this setting But you can usually get something better if you Experiment a Little But Poeple Don"t want Long Drawn out Answers then want what will work...

Hi idownloaded a film from internet. It is part 1. I also dowloaded part 2 and i want them together on a dvd. The size of the dvd is 4,7 GB so each film must be less then 2,35 GB. I have tried several settings, but i cannot get the job done.

I have use the templates and i also used VBR (0 to 3000 average= 2520) but i cannot get it right. Can u plaese help me with the correct settings.

Eugene
Holland

Mpeg-2 480x576 25fps CQ_VBR 50, layer-2 44100HZ 224kbps

doesn't make my 680 AVI file small enough. Suggestions ??

Try 2pass-Encoding with the Bitrate, a good Bitrate-Calculator will give to you (like FitCD).

The Bitrate you need depents on the Play-lenght of the Video. For Example:
To fill a DVD with 2 Hours, 30 Minutes of Video, you can use 3900 kbps AVG for Video and 192 kbps for Audio (i suggest you to use AC3 2-Channel, can be produced by the Freeware BeSweet).

Possible 2pass-Settings:
6000 Max.
3900 AVG.
2000 Min.

If you are Makeing a DVD "480+576" is Not the Correct Resolution and you would have a Hard time Getting a File with that Resolution on to a DVD, this is the Resolution for Pal SVCD..You would have to use either "352+576, 352+288, or 720+576" ,And the Fact that your AVI file is 680MB has No bearing on how big the Mpeg file will be, your AVI file can Be 100MB or 1000GB, what Matters is How Long the Movie is, A 2 hour Movie at an average Bitrate of about 5000kbs should fit on a Single 4.7gb DVD-R with Mpeg or AC3 audio at 224kbs, Probably about 4000kbs with Wav audio, a Bitrate calculator would help you determine what bitrate you should use for the length of your Movie and size of Medium...

So many things wrong with what you are trying to do. A Dvd has to have a sampling rate of 48000. and you should use a bitrate of 384 for audio. Use the wizard to automatically adjust your video bitrate to fit on a 4.7 GB DVD. You can usally go to 103 to 104 % capacity and still fit it as TMpenc doen'y do a very good job of this

I just downloaded a ripped copy of "The Matrix" and I'm trying to get it so that I can put it on VCD. The original format was an avi so I downloaded a converter and now I've got a copy in mpeg that I have tested and works. Unfortunately the mpeg file is too big to put on a single disk so I need to split into 2.

Here's my problem. I used TMPGENC.exe and tried to see if I can get it to split. I set the exact split location I wanted and ran it. It should of then made a single cut of the mpeg for roughly 540MB's but when i opened up the cut. It was only 11MB's long and like 20 minutes into the beginning of the movie. No where close to where I had set it up to be cut. Now this is the second time this has happened with 2 different peices of software. Is this some sort of registration issue where i have to pay something in order to get a cut of the size i'm looking for or is something just not working right?

Also I'm curious as to how I'd convert the size of the mpeg down. Currently the dimmensions are around 640X4?? or something like that. If understood correctly, I need to cut it down to a 352x2?? to be able to be viewed right when played. How would I be able to do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If possible, email me with the answer. JHaigwood@Hotmail.com. If not, I'll just keep checking back for your help. Thanks in advance.

Well the Movie should be in Mpeg format and at 352+240/288-pal before you even tried to cut it in Half with Tmpgenc..You just take the Original AVI file and Load it into Tmpgenc and choose the Correct VCD template and encode it, then it should be at the correct resolution then you can use the "Merge & Cut" in the Mpeg Tools to cut the File in Half...

I used WinMPG to convert the original AVI to VCD so maybe that was my problem. I'll try it using TMPENC this time I guess.

Yeah, I've got the conversion running now. Geeze, when i converted it last night using WinMPG it took like 8 hours, this one only takes an hour and sets it in the needed format. Sweet! In case you hadn't noticed I've never done a VCD before. I'm gonna be making it with Nero. Did a test run using the new World of Warcraft trailer to see if I can actually make a VCD and have it be viewed on my DVD player. It works, unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to get the menu working. Hmm. Thanks for the help though.

its not converting the whole avi file to mpeg now, could it be that the version of TMPGEnc isn't a full version and only limits to so many megs of a file. Or did i do something wrong when trying to convert to mpeg and its only doing the first 30 megs of the file and wont do any more? I'm so confused now. :(

Well this Can Be From a Number of things..Did you get an error?? Did it Just Crash?? What type of AVI file is it?? Did you get it off of the net Cuz Many Downloaded Movies are Corrupted???If it is a Xvid File you might be better off useing the FFDShow Decoder to decode the file..As you Probably noticed there is a lot to makeing VCD/SVCD"s especially if something goes wrong which does quite often when dealing with Downloaded DivX or XviD files...

First TMPGEnc has no limit on mpeg-1 encoding but limit on mpeg-2(svcd/dvd). So you may have file error. Also if the source avi file has ac3 audio, tmpgenc can't handle it. I recommend you to use AVI2SVCD software which extract audio from avi source and encode it to mp2 audio and automatically encode video with tmpgenc and mux it using bbmpeg.

I found matrix 2 mpg file(svcd) but it was pal format. So I demultiplexed and encoded video as ntsc format and muxed them, burned them to 2 svcd. Now it works file. SVCD is much better than vcd.

Good Luck!