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The source was originally Pinnacle DV codec but converted with the Canopus DV file convertor (which claims to be lossless) to Premiere compatible Canopus DV so that AVISynth can read it ...
directShowSource("C:film.avi")
Bob() #You can use SmoothDeinterlace(tff=false, doublerate=true) too
BicubicResize(720,480)
ConvertFPS(59.94,zone=80)
SeparateFields.SelectEvery(4, 0, 3).Weave
convertToRGB24()
directShowSource("C:film.avi")
Bob() #You can use SmoothDeinterlace(tff=false, doublerate=true) too
BicubicResize(720,480)
ConvertFPS(59.94,zone=80)
SeparateFields.SelectEvery(4, 0, 3).Weave
convertToRGB24()
It's faster because i combined some commands. That's a trick, that will speedup AVISynth in generaly.
The Movement is smoother because ConvertFPS does not drop any Fields/Frames, it will combine it (blending). You can play a little with the Zone-Parameter, but Zone=80 works fine for me.
I want to convert some .avi files to .mpg so I can then burn them to VCD and play them on my TV. I'm limited to 700mb per disk, so is there some setting that creates multiple .mpg files from a single .avi file (whenever it hits the 700mb limit - then it should create another .mpg file)?
UM, Why are you limiting yourself to 700mb?? You can fit 800mb on a 80min 700mb CD-R, Just think of VCD"s as being 10mb per minute of AVI you are encodeing, if the File turns out longer then you cut the file into Parts with the "Mpeg tools" "Merge & Cut"...
I'm looking for exact "step by step set-up. I like to do the same things as far as editing my long movie files to fit into 2 cdr's..
Thank you for your advice.
I recently upgraded to the latest version (2.511) of the registered version. My machine is a dual 2.4 GHz Xeon machine, so it appears to have 4 processors. I am encoding a simple DV-AVI file and I'm getting a hang at various stages in the encoding process. It doesn't completely freeze up, but starts to move at an incredibly slow pace and is performing nonstop disk I/O. Did something change with the multi CPU behavior?
Both Xeons and newer P4 processors have Hyperthreading technology. This causes 2 physical processors to appear as 4 logical processors. The environmental settings screen also incorrectly states that there are 2 'logical processors' when there are actually 4 (Again, there are 2 physical processors). When watching the encoding process on task manager (My task manager shows 4 different CPU level graphs), I see that the analyze part of 2-pass VBR IS in fact using all 4 CPUs when I do motion estimation, but not when I use the highest precision estimation (it only uses 2).
I know that as I have one with Hyper threading But it is Still a Single Proscessor but it is acting as a Dual Proscessor because of it"s architecture..
Correct. But I have 2 chips for a total of 4 logical processors. It's an i860 Supermicro motherboard.
Do you know of any problems that could cause the 2-pass VBR to hang, generally somewhere between 60 and 70%. I can do some experimentation tonight and test the machine using the /ONECPU bootflag and see if that makes a difference. Note that I've never seen this problem before last night (that means it's either the .511 build or some fluke involving this particular .avi)
Well I came home and ran it again, this time it worked fine, so who knows. The only difference in setting was to put the minimum bitrate to 1000 instead of 0.
As a programmer, I completely understand. I'm totally satisfied with the product, but I'm going to provide more info here for other people having the same problem and also so that the developer can maybe fix the problem in a future version...
Even though I was successful once, I wanted to turn the bitrate up a bit so I encoded again. This time I froze up at 86%. I used FileMon (sysinternals) to see what the disk activity was... One of the threads in TmpgEnc is continuously reading 224k chunks from the source .AVI file. I believe that this disk IO is starving the other threads from getting any IO done. Note that this can occur in either the 'analyzing' or the encoding phase of the 2-pass.
Later, I will try to turn off multithreading and see if that fixes the problem as a workaround...
Correct. But I have 2 chips for a total of 4 logical processors. It's an i860 Supermicro motherboard.
Do you know of any problems that could cause the 2-pass VBR to hang, generally somewhere between 60 and 70%. I can do some experimentation tonight and test the machine using the /ONECPU bootflag and see if that makes a difference. Note that I've never seen this problem before last night (that means it's either the .511 build or some fluke involving this particular .avi)
Hello
In encoding SVCDs at low bitrate, I find that if I use VBR the resulting file size is not always the same as predicted. I tried to encode for a 90 min. CD and the result is an 814 MB file. If I use CBR the file size is equal to prediction. I am using either the bult-in calculator of the registered version or the FITCD caluclator for 90 min. CDs.
Anybody has an idea on why is this happening? here are the settings:
stream type: MPG-2 Video
Size: 480x576
Aspect ratio: 4:3 display
Frame rate: 25 fps
Rate Control mode: 2-pass VBR(VBR)
avg. bitrate: 950
max. bitrate: 2520
min. bitrate: 200 Padding is NOT enabled
VBV buffer size: 112
Profile: Main profile & main level
Video format: PAL
Encode: Interlace
YUV format: 4:2:0
DC component: 8 bits
Motion search: High quality
Here is a site selling the Retail version of TMPGenc Plus for £59.
As far as I can see the only difference is you get a manual with it.
Does anyone else think that a price of £29(equivalent $48) for the downloadable version and a price of £59(equivalent $95) for the retail version is a bit steep just for a manual?
is there any possibility to buy TMPEG Plus from Europe? I think Eurocard, Visa is not the real sollution! There are many users out of europe which whant to buy this program, but they could not....
What are you talking about?
You can pay by most major credit cards and debit cards. VISA, MasterCard, Amex, Discover. Surely you have at least one of these or do you not even have a bank account!
What are you talking about?
You can pay by most major credit cards and debit cards. VISA, MasterCard, Amex, Discover. Surely you have at least one of these or do you not even have a bank account!
Visa, MC, Amex, and Discover are American bank issued credit cards and are not always used world wide as most North American's are lead to believe in those lame Visa commercials.
How can I create true VideoCD mpeg file with TMPGEnc? When I play mpeg by software player in my PC - all is ok, but my VideoCD player play it with jerky (movie turn back at some frame approx every one second). Original VideoCD disk my player play with no problem. With avi2vcd by John Schlichthe I able to create true VideoCD mpeg that played in my VideoCD player correctly.
I try to use Wizard for creating PAL VideoCD, try to use template VideoCD (PAL) and have same bad result. I think that may be problem in GOP structure parameters or Quantize matrix but not sure.
Does anybody have the same problem?
The first could be because you are changing the frame rate of your original source when encoding.
The second is an authoring problem. Are you making sure you are selecting VCD burning mode in your burning software or are you just burning a raw MPEG on to the disk?
Third could be that you are splitting the final MPEG in to 2 parts but are not selecting the correct stream type (MPEG-1 Video CD)
My guess is that you have altered the frame rate of the original. Post the frame rate and file type of the original source here.
>There could be a few reasons for this.
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>The first could be because you are changing the frame rate of your original source when encoding.
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No, I don't change original frame rate (25 fps). I try to convert the same original source (.avi file with 25 fps) with TMPGEnc, avi2vcd by John Schlichthe and now with old Xing MPEG Encoder. Unfortunately, only with TMPGEnc I have the problem.
>The second is an authoring problem. Are you making sure you are selecting VCD burning mode in your burning software or are you just burning a raw MPEG on to the disk?
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For authoring I use VCDEasy and try to create disk with this 3 MPEG files encoded by different encoders. And I have the problem only with TMPGEnc encoded stream
>Third could be that you are splitting the final MPEG in to 2 parts but are not selecting the correct stream type (MPEG-1 Video CD)
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No, I don't split the MPEG
>My guess is that you have altered the frame rate of the original. Post the frame rate and file type of the original source here.
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.avi file with 25 fps, I try to encode any other source and have the same problem
May be this is my VideoCD hardware problem, but why other MPEGs played correctly?
How can I create true VideoCD mpeg file with TMPGEnc? When I play mpeg by software player in my PC - all is ok, but my VideoCD player play it with jerky (movie turn back at some frame approx every one second). Original VideoCD disk my player play with no problem. With avi2vcd by John Schlichthe I able to create true VideoCD mpeg that played in my VideoCD player correctly.
I try to use Wizard for creating PAL VideoCD, try to use template VideoCD (PAL) and have same bad result. I think that may be problem in GOP structure parameters or Quantize matrix but not sure.
Does anybody have the same problem?
I have got the same problem, I also have tried different, settings, like everything in high quality, but I used the same frame rate, but I still am having the problems, If you get any answer, please, let me know.
Everytime I try to put an mpeg2 video and audio source in, it says "cannot open or unsupported." I do not understand why it is doing this. I have Divx installed for codec. I have changed my Direct Show Multimedia File Reader from -1 to 2. What do I need to do to fix the problem?
Demultiplex the mpg stream using the MPEG Tools into the elementary streams (*.m2v and *.mp2) first. You should be able to load the resulting streams in TMpgEnc without problem. Works at least for me in this way.
Regards, Klaus
That will only work if you have a compatible MPEG2 codec installed either from a standalone codec such as the M2v plugin or from a PC DVD player such as PowerDVD.
>What about if the mpeg2-file opens and runs fine in the media player but TMPEG sais that it's unsupported?!
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>This does mean that I already have the right code, doesn't it?!
when i encode certain xvid movies i get a lot of error messages.to get past this i raise the direct show file reader to +1 and i can encode the movie.the problem is, when i try to watch the movie the motion is very jumpy,like there are frames missing or something.i tried to encode the vcd at 30 fps but it's still not much better.Any suggestions?
i normally leave the frame rate at 25 fps,but the movement is still jumpy,the source file says it is 23 fps.but when tmpeg encodes some xvid files succesfully i don't have any prolems with the movement of the image,the other xvid files have been less than 25 fps.with the direct show filter set at -1 the vcd is fine but +1 always makes the movement jumpy.
If your source is 23fps and your output is 25 fps then this is your problem.
You cannot encode 23fps to 25fps as this will cause jerky playback. TMPG is not able to do correct frame rate conversion. There are ways however to do this correctly.
As for your problem importing XVID files. Download and install FFDSHOW.