Im new to the whole VCD thing and I have Nero. I've burned enough compilation VCD's and they work fine. The problem is I downloaded a larger file, split it into two parts with TMPG and when I tried to watch it the audio was off by a lot. I tried making a new audio file but really I just don't know what Im doing. Im trying to sync up the audio and video but never know if Im doing it right. Please Help.

The way I do it, also saves like hours in encoding is to use audiodub or virtualdub(no link soz, cant remember which til I get home) and extract sound as a wav file. Then when using tmpgenc, use the wav file as audio, perfect audio every time.

I dont know if this is relavent to your situation.. but I had a problem with audio/video synching when creating SVCD's with Nero..
I found out that Nero suffers from a bin/cue bug which can cause synchronization problems with audio/video. I only experience the problem if I create a menu when burning VCD/SVCD's.
No menu, no problem.
The answer? DONT USE NERO.
To my knowledge they have not addressed this issue.
Hope this helps.

What version of Nero are you using? The sync bug was fixed a long time ago.
If this problem doesn't exist when you play your SVCD on the PC, it is more likely to be your DVD player which is causing the problem not Nero. What model do you own?


ASHY

Can anyone point me to a codec which will allow tmpgenc to load and mux ac3 files? TIA

There isn"t one I"m afraid, Well not one that is reliable, if there was we would have pointed it to everyone that says "What Happened To My Audio, Tmpgenc Sucks" but since there is No Such codec or filter you are Better off useing something Like "Headac3he" to encode your AC3 audio files to WAV or Mpeg audio , and use BBMpeg to Mux AC3 audio streams to Mpeg video streams, or supposedly the newest Mpeg2VCR supports AC3 audio now also..

TMPG doesn't need a codec for muxing Ac3 audio.
The codec is only needed for decoding the Ac3 stream. The best way is to extract the Ac3 to a wav first using something like AC3decode:
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/ac3decode.html

ASHY

I have successfully created a movie with Premier. Everything works great. I export w/ Cinepak codec to create an .avi file.. works great. I encode with TMPGenc, still, everything is fine. I create an SVCD with Nero 5.5 and the playback is great, (on the computer.)
The problem is when I play the SVCD with the DVD player. The sound quality and video quality is great. Everything looks great except the timing between audio and video is slightly off.
I have tried everything I can think of.. I have reworked from the initial .avi encode process on through..
What gives?
Anybody else ever suffer this?
PLEASE HELP.
I'm losing my sanity....

UPDATE TO PROBLEM:

I finally figured out what the culprit is.. it has nothing to do with any of the encode process... It only occurs when I create an SVCD menu. NO menu, no audio/video synch problems.

Anyone know what the story is?
I'd like to be able to use the menu.

Thanks in advance.

You can allways use a Program that does REAL Menu"s and even chapters and Titles like Retail DVD"s have...There are Lots of programs that can do this, like Most "Ulead" Software Programs Like DVD Workshop and DVD Movie Factory and Video studio 7..

I'm getting an error message when trying to encode an AVi file. After about 66% of encoding an error is coming up saying: Index of scan line is out of range(336).Does anyone know what is this? And how to fix this? Thnx

This error allways seems to pop up with Downloaded Files, this Is Probably because downloaded files are riddled with Corrupted frames and that is what is causeing Tmpgenc to Error out..What you can do is use the "Source Range" to start encodeing a New File a few frames after Tmpgenc gave the error, then when it is done you can join the 2 files together with the "Merge & Cut"...

Greetings;

I am trying to convert a .wmv file to a mpeg2 file suitable for burning into a DVD. While I am able to convert the video portion without a problem, I can't seem to get the audio to work.

I want to be able to insert one file into my dvd creation program that includes both the sound and the video from a short animated clip that is currently a .wmv.

I am certain that I am just missing how to do it, so any help you might be able to give me would be much appreciated.

TIA,

~bc

Tmpgenc has Problems with WMA Audio sometimes so your Best bet is to use something elce to encode the audio to Mpeg audio...I use "DB Power AMP" to encode the audio from WMV/ASF Files to Mp2 audio...Go to "http://www.dbpoweramp.com/" and download the Music converter then go to Codec central and Download the WMV/WMA Codecs and the Mp2 audio codecs then you will be able to use it to convert the audio to Mpeg audio...

I tried creating a separate audio file, which in and of itself worked fine. However, I still cant get the audio track to play with the video file. I am pretty sure I am doing something wrong in the settings. When I save the file the default is to save as myfilename.[m2v+wav] am i saving the file in the incorrect format?

Thanks again for your help,

~Bc




>Greetings;
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>I am trying to convert a .wmv file to a mpeg2 file suitable for burning into a DVD. While I am able to convert the video portion without a problem, I can't seem to get the audio to work.
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>I want to be able to insert one file into my dvd creation program that includes both the sound and the video from a short animated clip that is currently a .wmv.
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>I am certain that I am just missing how to do it, so any help you might be able to give me would be much appreciated.
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>TIA,
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>~bc
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> I tried creating a separate audio file, which in and of itself worked fine. However, I still cant get the audio track to play with the video file. I am pretty sure I am doing something wrong in the settings. When I save the file the default is to save as myfilename.[m2v+wav] am i saving the file in the incorrect format?


Your problem is that you are selecting the wrong option when using the wizard.

At the beginng of the wizard DO NOT select 'CBR Linear PCM audio'
Select 'MPEG1 Layer II Audio(MP2)'

Be aware that using this method isn't 100% compatible with all DVD players. Importing a seperate Video and Wav file ensures that your DVD will be 100% compatible. In any case it is still quite likely you will have no problems.


ASHY

I actually tried that first...I realize I should have indicated that I am trying to ultimately create this dvd in DVD Studio Pro 1.5 which is a Macintosh program. I have XP on another machine which I have been trying to use to convert the videos. So, #1, any help for the problem with DVD Studio Pro? It doesnt seem to like MPEG files. #2 is there a better (cheaper would be good too) solution I can use on my windows machine?

Thanks again,

~bc


>> I tried creating a separate audio file, which in and of itself worked fine. However, I still cant get the audio track to play with the video file. I am pretty sure I am doing something wrong in the settings. When I save the file the default is to save as myfilename.[m2v+wav] am i saving the file in the incorrect format?
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>Your problem is that you are selecting the wrong option when using the wizard.
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>At the beginng of the wizard DO NOT select 'CBR Linear PCM audio'
>Select 'MPEG1 Layer II Audio(MP2)'
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>Be aware that using this method isn't 100% compatible with all DVD players. Importing a seperate Video and Wav file ensures that your DVD will be 100% compatible. In any case it is still quite likely you will have no problems.
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>ASHY
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I have a video capture card and use it kind of like a PVR. I want to convert the shows (captured at VCD quality) to a smaller size mpeg to watch on my Pocket PC. I have been playing around with the settings trying to find a good comprimise between quality and file size. I noticed that no matter what changes I made the 1 minute 16 second long test file keeps coming up as 12.8meg. I have changed height and width, frame rate, rate control mode and settings for it, and the audio settings. None of them made any differece. I went from 32x16, 12fps, 2pass vbr, with 32kHz joint stereo 64k bitrate audio, all the way up to 320x240, 29.97fps, autovbr, with 41kHz stereo 96k bitrate audio. Both were exactly 12.8 meg in file size. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong here?

This is an easy one...You have to change the "System setting" to either "Video-CD Non-Standard" or to one of the Mpeg1 settings that aren"t VCD ...If Video-CD is set in the "System" setting Tmpgenc will Pad the stream so that the Bitrate stays VCD Compliant....

First of all why in the hell would you want to capture to VCD quality MPEG?
VCD MPEG quality = crap.

Secondly, why re-compress to MPEG?
You will achieve a much better comression to quality ratio by encoding the MPEG to something like Divx or XVID.

ASHY

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hello all i hope someone can help me im new to all of this.ive been down loading films avi,xvid and using tmpg enc and ulead to put mpeg on vcd,all well till today.when i try to view a film through my media player the colour has gone dull and it keeps saying send report then goes of.how could this be i watched this film before and worked fine.i have nimo and xvid codecs fine yesterday not today.PLEASE could someone help me thanks very much

This sounds like a problem with you graphics card drivers. Install the latest drivers for your card.

ASHY

This sounds like a problem with youe graphics card drivers. Install the latest drivers for your card.

ASHY

This sounds like a problem with your graphics card drivers. Install the latest drivers for your card.

ASHY

thanks for ur reply but were can i get the latest drivers from im a bit of a novice sorry thanks again

Well that would depend on your Graphics card ..But if you have Integrated Graphics you might need to go to your MotherBoard Manufacturers Web site..But it would be a waste of time if that isn"t your problem...good luck..

Try rolling back your system first using system restore to an earlier time. Is seems as though you have installed some software or codec which may be causing the problem.

Roll back your system to a time just before the problem started.

ASHY

thanks foryour replys i will try that thanks again

I am new to TmpgEnc. I have downloaded a multi part mpeg movie and tried to put it all together in TMPGEnc's "Merge & Cut". But with this particular movie I keep getting the "illegal mpeg video straem" error message so I cant do anything with the downloaded file. Anyone have any suggestions or know of another program that I may be able to join them with.

Thanks
Steve

This is a problem with the way the file has been mutiplexed. MPEG2VCR will join this file and should make it usable in TMPG again.

ASHY

Hi ASHY, I tried the program. But it would not load any of the mpeg files. All of the files are ok and play ok in windows media player, but I cant load them into anything to join them.

Steve

The Files are Probably Corrupt, I have had the exactly the same Problem with allmost every Mpeg file I have downloaded, They Play fine and most will Burn to disk fine(Some give errors when trying to burn) and Most play fine on the DVD Player...If you can get a Program called "M2-edit Pro 5" it has a Re-packetizeing Feature that should fix the File(Hopefully) but if not you can just burn the files as tracks on the CD but there will be a Small Gap between each part on the CD-r..If you want to re-encode them(I wouldn"t) you might get DVD2AVI to load them sequentially and Frameserve them to Tmpgenc as one Big file...just a Couple Thoughts....

Which version of MPEG2VCR did you use. The download version from the site will not allow MPEG2 streams to be opened. You need to find the full version to open MPEG2 streams.

If MPEG2VCR still won't open these files then they must be seriously corrupt because in my experience MPEG2VCR is very tolerant with MPEG's and will open 99% of these files.

Why do you wish to combine these files anyway?

As for burning the files with your burning program, the gap between tracks can easily be removed by changing the pause setting between tracks to 0.
In Nero this is accomplished by right clicking the file and selecting properties then just burn using the Disk at Once writing method.


ASHY

HI ASHY, Thanks for the help. Do you have any suggestions where I may get the full version ? Steve

Mpeg2VCR Is Fairly expensive to but retail, I do know were you can get an Old version that should be a Full version, I don"t know how well the old version works But you can get it here:_http://www.apachez.net/ ,In the tools section..If that version doesn"t work Properly for you you can e-mail me and I"ll see what I can do for you...

http://emil.alarmix.org/alwarez/womble.exe

Hello guys, is there a program that will allow you to store and actual iso image onto a cdr?

Any burning program will allow you to store an ISO image. Just burn as a standard ISO 9660 disk. I.E. just burn the ISO image as a normal file.
But what is the point?

ASHY

The iso image that I am trying to put onto a 99 min cdr(actual iso image not burn image) is about 866MB in size, in Nero it repots to be less than 850MB at the bottom on the file size bar. I keep getting the message that the there is not enough space on the disk for this compilation. Hmmm. anyway nero is configured for over burning, works great when I am burning an image to disk. to answer your question 'whatÃÔ the point' well I use a lot of 90 min/99min cdrs for vcd's and it would be better for me to get the actual image onto cdr so that I can put the cdr with the iso image into a DVD drive and burn the image from the DVD drive to multiple cdr writers. This way I can save the space on my computer and just burn images from cdrÃÔ but your prolly wondering why not just use the copy function, well copying 90 min/99min disk is problem matic :(

I don't really see where your problem is and yes I do realise you want to keep the ISO in it's original image format and just store it on disk.

An ISO image is just a normal file as far as Nero is concerned. As long as your burner is compatible with 99min Cdr.
Set the overburn to 99min, choose CD-ROM (ISO) and make sure you choose Disk at Once as the burn method (otherwise you won't get the option to overburn) then choose yes when Nero gives the you the option to Overburn.

ASHY

Thanks for your reply back Ash! To be more specific with what I am doing, is taken a vcd turning it into a Nero (nrg) file, then trying to put that nrg file onto a 99 min CDR. I have been over burning onto 90/99 min CDR for over a year now no probs there. Even though the nrg file is smaller than the target media, Nero keeps reporting that there is not enough space for this compilation. Humm, also i am doing cd-rom (iso), disc at once.

I think you are getting yourself confused here about the type of format you are burning.

When burning standard VCD MPEG data, a 99min disk will fit roughly 99mins of MPEG data on the disk or about 995mb. This is because MPEG doesn't need error correction bits added to the disk when burning. This is how you can fit 800mb on to a 700mb disk.
The 700mb size on an 80min disk indicates the amount of normal data which can be stored plus another 100mb for error correction which in total is 800mb per disk of storage capacity.

When burning MPEG data this extra 100mb of error correction space isn't needed so it can be used for extra data storage allowing you to store 800mb on one 80min disk.


This is the same for 99min disks.
Iam guessing you are attempting to fit more than 870mb on one 99min disk. While this is possible for MPEG data it is not possible for normal data.

Once you have created the .NRG image in Nero from the MPEG it then becomes normal data and hence when you burn this as a normal data file your storage capacity on the 99min disks becomes limited to around 870mb not 995mb like you would expect with normal MPEG data.


So just to make it a bit clearer, make sure your file size is no bigger than 870mb when burning the image as a normal data file.

To confirm what I am saying, check the amount of time in minutes which NERO gives in the pop up burning window when you click 'write'. It should say over 99mins.

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If infact your file size is less than 870mb such as 866mb as you have mentioned then the only reason I can see why the over burning dialogue is not appearing, apart from ensuring the overburn is set to 99min, is because you are not burning in DAO.

You must ensure you are not trying to burn this image with the 'Start Multisession' option selected as this will automatically set the burn method to 'Track at once' as default.
Select 'No multisession' and then 'Disk at Once' as the burn method.

This should make the overburn dialogue appear when you click 'Write'

ASHY

I was informes previously that it was most likely the "Angel potion Video Codec" that was causing the color distortion on my converted MPEG files, so i downloaded a new video codec and now i have no picture at all, i went back to see if i could get the Angel Potion back and when i did it made no difference, still no picture, only sound, i tried to re-download the program and that still made no difference. Plz help.

P.S. if i need to download anything, A link would be greatly appreciated, if possible.

Whatever you do Don"t use the "Angel Potion Codec"...Try this ,Go to "Options" to "Enviromental settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "Direct Show" to "2"...

raised the number, Still no diference

Well then Try Frameserveing it to Tmpgenc...Or you might try the FFDshow Filter , it is supposed to be better at decodeing Mpeg-4 files that the actual Mpeg-4 codecs are...

yea im having the same problem...trying to encode an .avi to .mpg and i get absolutely no video...just audio...and i dont know what you talking about ffd thingy...let me know

go on dvdrhelp.com all the software you need is on there for any films

I Downloaded ffdshow-20020617-src.zip and all i got was a bunch of files that my computer doesn't have the programs to run, i looked in the "instal" document and it told me to run ffdshow.exe which was not in the folder i downloaded, when i found ffdshow.exe i downloaded it and it wouldn't open. still no video, only audio, plz help. (P.S. i have no money so if it's not freeware don't recomend it unless it is the only way to fix this problem)

You downloaded the Source Code for the filter not the actual filter itself...Go back were you downloaded it and find the one that doesn"t say SRC in the name..And if you can watch the file but just can not get tmpgenc to encode it then maybe try a Different encoder with this file..There are a few that will Give you simular results as Tmpgenc...

How can you possibly have downloaded the wrong one?

It clearly states which file is which:

ffdshow-20020617-src.zip 523042 39710 i386 Source .zip = The source files

ffdshow-20020617.exe 325354 263296 i386 .exe (32-bit Windows) = The installer

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ffdshow/ffdshow-20020617.exe?download

Simply download the second one.

ASHY

FYI:By unistalling the "Video Server Wrapper Codec" from my machine, I was able to resolve this problem. I'm not sure what program uses this codec, but it seems to have fixed the problems with TMPGenc.

See question 21458

Thanks Everybody I Finally Got It Working, Thanks For All The Help

So, what did you do that fixed it, so it can help others.

ASHY

Is it possible to pause TMPGEnc while encoding- some of encodings take over 28 hours using 2P-VBR on a 1GHz/512MB/45G-HD7200ATA100.
Thx in advance

You are obviously using the 'Highest' setting for the motion search precision. this is pointless and will give results no better than 'High' except for the dramatic increase in time.

ASHY

I am- I did try on one of the very early versions with just high, and for some reason had switched to highest

I will try it on high

Thank you much!

I got a 16:9 AVI file and TEMPGenc converts it to a full screen (I guess 4:3) MPEG File. of course this makes the movie playing in a strange, warped format.
(too high or not wide enough) ... this happens in every setting TEMPenc gives to choose.

Any idea how to convert a 16:9 AVI in a 16:9 MPEG?

Thanks ...

Assuming the source is truly anamorphic (for NTSC that means 16:9 source filling the entire 720x480 pixel window), set the Advanced sheet/Video arrange Method to Full Screen. Set the Source Aspect Ratio to the proper 16:9 format.

In the Video sheet, set the aspect ratio to 16:9. Note that anytime you load an file, settings will pop back to non-16:9.

If an MPEG already has been encoded 4:3, use a program called DVDPatcher to correct the setting. Be careful to match all other output settings to the input file since the program does not do this in all cases.

Your problem is the 'Video arrange method' setting.

Set your input aspect ratio to 16:9
The 'Video arrange method' to 'Fullscreen (keep aspect ratio)'
Output aspect ratio should be set to 4:3 if the intended TV display is 4:3 or 16:9 if the TV is 16:9

If you are encoding to SVCD remember the ouput will be distorted anyway, but will be corrected by your software DVD player or your set top player.

ASHY