i have a message already on here but my other problem is when i try to encode and theni get a message that says tmpgenc will shut down error occured in MP43DMOD.DLL, does anyone know what that means and how i could fix it??? i would appreciate it alot. nicole

I'm (a newbie) using DVD2AVI with TMPG. I'm outputting the audio track as AC3 (whatever that is), and TMPG seems to recognize it fine, but the final MPG has no audio.

I've tried various other audio output settings from DVD2AVI. Decoding to WAV results in a playable WAV track, but it is not recognized in TMPG.

Am I missing something?

Tmpgenc in Most Cases will Not Decode AC3 audio, that is why you need to extract the audio as a WAV file from DVD2AVI and use that as the audio format..Tmpgenc encodes WAV files better than any other format..You should have the "Dolby surround Downmix" setting on in DVD2AVI when extracting the WAV file...

Thanks. I suspected as much, but I keep getting an "unsupported format" error when I try to encode the WAV file that DVD2AVI creates.

Any ideas?

>Tmpgenc in Most Cases will Not Decode AC3 audio, that is why you need to extract the audio as a WAV file from DVD2AVI and use that as the audio format..Tmpgenc encodes WAV files better than any other format..You should have the "Dolby surround Downmix" setting on in DVD2AVI when extracting the WAV file...

Can anybody please help!
When I convert avis to mpegs I often find that the picture keeps going purple,it then returns to normal colour. This cycle continues through the whole film at 5-10 second intervals.
Many thanks in advance.
Rob

This is caused from 1 of 2 things..You either have the "Angel potion" codec installed on your system..This codec is a Very buggy "Hacked" Codec which is Known to cause this problem, if you have the codec Get rid of it...Or you just need to raise the priority of the "Direct show" file reader.....

Is there a way to protect files from conversion? This one set of movies is really giving me trouble. TMPGENC tries to convert the file into a 72 minute video, when it is only 24 minutes long. Someone suggested using a bitrate calculator, but i dont know what to do with the results.

After further inspection, i realized that the audio bitrate is set to 127...while the successful conversions had bitrates of 128? can tmpgenc encode avi files of bitrate 127?

It doesn"t matter what the bitrate of the AVI files are accept that Tmpgenc will not encode audio streams that have "VBR MP3"try setting the beginning and end points with the "Source Range" in the advanced settings...

I'm converting an avi to vcd at the same time using Virtual Dub to frameserve subs to the movie, but after 2 minutes Tmpgenc closes down with no warning or error messages. Anyone has experienced anything like this and has a possible solution. It closes down at same spot in the movie, but there is no error when i watch the avi.

I have imported an "Pinnacle DC10+"-AVI file for converting it into MPEG1 for an VCD. But the result is much too dark. The changing of brightness and contrast (and even gamma correction) does not bring out the results i wanted to have.

What can i do for having an correct result. Other encoders are working with the correct brightness but the quality is very low. So i would be pleased to have TMPG work.

Thanks alot
Kind regards
Andrew / Germany-Hamburg

Try raiseing the "Direct show file Reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins"..

Thank you for the answer. I put the "directshow file viewer" to priority 0 (it was -1 before) and the result is the same.

Then i put it to priority 1 and the programm tells me "file can not open or unsupported"

So i put the "directshow file viewer" back to priority -1

What else can i do?

Hello!

In v2.59 there is a new feature, the chained files or "open sequence as movie". I enabled it, renamed the files to DV-0001.avi and DV-0002.avi, but TMPGEnc only encodes the first file!

Any hints?

Thank you very much in advance-
Peter

Hi

I also did a quick test and found it worked AOK

I renamed 2 avi files DV-0001 and DV-0002

Note I did not add the .avi as the files were AVI type already. Sorry if I state the obvious but it worked for me. All you then do is select the DV-0001 file and automatically found the second file and I assume any further ones had they been named.

HTH

Thank You for your advice, but it still won't work.

1. Under ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS I select "Open sequence files as a movie",
2. Then with BROWSE i open the first of three files called DV-0001.avi.
3. Then I LOAD a VCD (PAL) template.
4. I press START.
5. TMPGEnc encodes only the DV-0001.avi file and stops.

What's wrong?

Also just used the same file names and works fine here too.

If the files are chaining together properly then you should see this using the preview option.

ASHY

Sorry to state the obvious, but are both files the same type? What is different about them. We don't know enough about the new feature, but I can imagine if you're files are way different like different FPS, different type of codec, different resolution, etc. maybe that would cause TMPGEnc to refuse to chain them?

i have a huge problem... i had tmpgenc and it was working properly and then all of a sudden it stopped working it said there was an error and will shut down. under environmental settings it said i needed tmpgenc.vfp. is there anyone out that can help me????? pleaseeeeee! nicole

You download the Tmpgenc.vfp at the same spot as you downloaded Tmpgenc..You have to have the Vfapi Plugins installed or Tmpgenc will not work...

I saw someone else ask this question and I never saw the answer to it. I am using virtualdub to extract the audio wave file then using the tmpg2.9 to split the avi and audio into two mpg files but the second file the sound is a couple seconds before the video, how do I correct this?

If this is Just with the Mpeg file then you can use a Program like "Mpeg2VCR" to Mux the audio and video together Cuz it has a Feature to off set the audio to match the video...

Alright...I'm capturing my files in Premiere via FIrewire from my DV camera. Let's say I capture an AVI file, save it and open it with TMPG....opens fine, no problems. Now, I take the same file, edit it with files of the same settings, export it with the same settings, and try to open it with TMPGenc. It give me an error that says unsupported. Any suggestions why? If it's all the same settings shouldn't it be able to open it no problem??? Any help is appreciated. THanks

Have you tried to Raise the priority of the "Direct Show file Reader"????

Make sure that the AVI compressor is the same in all cases. Uncompressed
AVI files seem to work for me. The DV compressor in Premiere is OK, but
it seems that TMPGEnc likes to encode it at half-resolution (at least with
the codecs I have installed).

What I would recommend is to export from Premiere directly to TMPGEnc,
without writing out the intermediate AVI. You can do this with the
Avisynth program, which you can get for free. There is an Avisynth
plugin for Premiere, so all you have to do is set the export type to
Avisynth, set up a couple of other files, then tell TMPGEnc to open one
of them, and suddenly Premiere will be talking directly to TMPGEnc.
I'm running a compression process for DVD as I type this, which was DV video
edited in Premiere and sent directly to TMPGEnc for encoding.

in the setting screen video, changing the values maximum, minimum and average bitrate I always obtains the same final size...this does not happen with version 2.58

I think this has to do with the bug I have already reported.

See the 2 posts below for more info:

Bug report - Muxing rate bug No.30802
Question - tmpg 2.59 larger video files!!!!!! No.30774

ASHY

I am planning some projects that need the sequential files facility of version 2.59

How quick do you think this bug will be fixed? I do not want to start my work with the problem version release.

Thanks

The bug is easily circumvented by remuxing the encoded file with an earlier version of TMPG.

ASHY

Thanks ASHY

Muxing etc is one area of TMPGenc that I have never ventured into.

I have version 2.58 still on the PC and will have to try remuxing a file to see the effect on file size but I would like to think that the developers will be able to release a fixed version 2.59 as soon as possible.


Piccolo

Thanks ASHY

Muxing etc is one area of TMPGenc that I have never ventured into.

I have version 2.58 still on the PC and will have to try remuxing a file to see the effect on file size but I would like to think that the developers will be able to release a fixed version 2.59 as soon as possible.


Piccolo

Hi, I have an intermittant sound problem when using TMPGEnc. After converting AVI files to MPEG2 for DVD anything longer than 10 mins resuls in the sound dropping out for approx 1 second at exactly the same point 9mins 37 seconds. This happens on various settings.

Can anyone help!!!!!

Phil

Have you tried maybe to encode the audio with a Different Audio encoder????

Hi Minnion,

Thanks for you comments but I am relatively new to codec's and the way they work. I wonder if you could possibly explain to me how I go about using another audio encoder at the same time I am encoding the video.

Thanks

Phil