okay I have a SVCD compliant mpg file which I want to convert to a VCD mpg file, since my DVD player does not support SVCD files. The thing is when I click on the browse button next to video source on the main window - when I click ok after selecting my file - it gives me an error msg saying the file is not supported - surely a basic thing like this should be support, shouldn't it?

Encodeing Mpeg to Mpeg isn"t a basic thing ,Not many encoders support Encodeing Mpeg files to Mpeg files..But to your problem, you need to have a Mpeg2 decoder installed on your system to load Mpeg files into Tmpgenc, if you Have "Power DVD" installed on your system then you will have a Mpeg2 Decoder,Sometimes if you "De Multiplex" the Mpeg file you can load in the Mpeg Video file into Tmpgenc, and Just encode the video Cuz The Audio is allready in the Correct format, then after the encodeing is done you "Multiplex" the encoded mpeg with the "De-Multiplexed" audio..But if you still can"t get Tmpgenc to Load the Mpeg file use "DVD2AVI, you load the "MPV" file into "DVD2AVI and make a "D2V project File and use that as the video source in Tmpgenc, then encode it without the audio then after, multiplex the audio and video together.The DVD2AVI way works all the time...

there is a trick, to fool the dvdplayer, you can use the simple multiplex option in the mpeg tools of tmpgenc to make a mpeg2 that has vcd sequence headers. then burn a vcd with that file.
The player thinks it is a vcd, but it will choose the appropriate decoder when playing the AV. And since your dvdplayer has a mpeg2 decoder (dvd is mpeg2 too) this should work
However, this won't work on all player (although i only encountered 1 so far)
converting the headers doesn't take to long, because the videodata doesn't have to be reencoded, just new headers written. most people refer to this as the "header trick"

I downloaded a video and used Virtual Dub to extract the audio to a WAV. Unfortunately, the resulting WAV file is jumpy enough to be totally unintelligible. I actually neglected to test it before encoding with TMPGenc, and the CD's (burned with Nero) were great visually, but unintelligible, sound-wise. Both of the original *.avi's played well on my computer, though.

I looked at some of the AC3 posts that a search of this site turned up, but I am too new to this video burning thing to really understand what I need to do, to correct this.

Codec Viewer (that I only found, thanks to a guru on this BB!) reports the following:

Video: Divx Mpeg-4 3 (Low Motion) Audio codec: DVM or AC3

[I don't understand this at all!]


Can someone tell me what I need to do to get this onto vcd's? I need some SIMPLE TO USE audio decoders/converters, I guess.

Also, I don't understand what people are talking about when they say "mux or demux". What is that?

Kat

Mux is the same as "Multiplex" which is the joining of a Video and audio file, and "de-mux" is the same as "De-Multiplex" which is the seperateing of Video and audio streams..In the "Mpeg Tools" there are "Muxers" and "de-muxers"...It seems that the audio in your Divx file is "AC3" which is "Dolby Digital" you need to extract the audio and encode it to Wav...Look on a search engine for "AC3 Decode" and try to use that to get a wav file out of your Divx file...

THANKS Minion! I think you were the poster that led me to the Code Viewer. Can you point me to a REALLY SIMPLE AC3 decoder? I looked at the ones turned up in a Google search, and they seemed a bit complicated.

Also... will I still use TMPGenc to encode, after I extract the audio with the tool that you recommend?

Kat

Yes you would use Tmpgenc to encode, I haven"t been able to find an easy AC# decoder for you yet, AC3 is sort of hard to work with cuz there aren"t a lot of programs for encodeing and decodeing AC3...An Easyier one is "Soft encode" but it is hard to find and Expensive to Buy....

In response to the AC3 decoding process, I have found a really easy way to manipulate a few things to get it to work. First extract the audio from the avi file using virtualdub (just extract into a wav) then rename the extension to ac3. After all that is complete run you decoder, i use ac3decoder 1.0 really basic but it gets the job done, and access your extracted wave (ac3) file and decode.... GOOD LUCK!! zenxeon

another very simple but good converter is headac3he

http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav/svcdguide/svcd.html

on doom9 you can find a good ac3 coder/decoder (that's where codec comes from) bbsweet.
it allows for decoding ac3,mp2, mp3, aif and god knows what into ac3, mp2, mp3, aif, 5.1 wav and god knows what.
there is a nice gui for the package as well, BeSweetGUI 0.6b51
doom9: www.doom9.org

I encoded some South Park and Simpsons episode but they have tons of block noise. No matter how much I increase the quality and bitrate the blockiness doesn't go away. Is it just because the movies are animated? How can I get rid of the blocks?

Is the block noise there on the source file ?
If the source is blocky you can try using some of the filters to clean the output up, but ultimately you need a good source to produce really good output.

If the block noise is not present in your source file and is not present in the output when viewed through a software DVD player like Power DVD, it may be that you are burning at too high a speed, or that the media brand you are using is not fully compatible with your DVD player.

I am using tmpge 2.57 and everything seems to go fine with turnning avi to mpeg, i go to load and selet video cd (ntsc) and then select the movies i want to transfer and then i use easy cd creator 5 vcd program and i have an apex dvd player that plays anything, it plays perfect for about 20 to 25 minutes and then slowly gets choppy and then stops. Does anyone have any advice for me, i would much appreciate it.

Thanks

Well Is the Mpeg file like This??Is it just like this on your DVD player Or did it look good after encodeing??

Its not the dvd player, it does it when i play the recorded cd in windows media player to. I gave a copy to a friend and it did the same thing playing on his computer when he played it, it would play fine up until about 20 to 25 minutes and I have recorded other movies and it does the same thing. Does that help you any.

Thanks,
Jerry

All I can think of is to re-encode the file and see if it looks better this time but if it does the same thing at the same time then it is probably a problem with the avi file..

Does tempgenc works under win xp,i cant load any mpeg file tempgenc hangs every time please help.

the system is a p4 1,8 ghz with win xp instald

It Sure does work on XP, If you are loading Mpeg files into Tmpgenc you have to make sure that you have the proper Mpeg Decoder installed on your system..You need either the "Ligos" mpeg Decoder, or you need the "Cyberlink" Mpeg Decoder, if you have "Power DVD" then you should have the Cyberlink Decoder, sometimes De-Multiplexing the Mpeg file will get it to load in to Tmpgenc.......

Every time I try to encode I get error -272762914 859034592 and then the program hangs. Can you help????

Have you tried uninstalling TMPGEnc, downloading it again and re-installing ?
Failing that, make sure you don't have other applications running in the background and that you do not have screensavers or power management active

That kind of error could be because of

1. Bad source or codec
There may be error in the source movie or codec may be something wrong

2. Hardware error if you have different RAMs in your PC, or if your
system is unstable, the error may occure. Overclocking may cause it.
Even if you do not have any problem with other application, MPEG encoding
is one of most stressful work for PC, such error occures.

3. both 1 and 2.

I'm having a similar problem. No offense, but this is a completely useless error message. It doesn't even indicate what program it is associated with; it just says ERROR. Since this is a free version and has been running well for me so far, I can't really complain too much, but if this ever came through my QA, it wouldn't have made it out without at least an indication of what application it's associated with, and that's the bare minimum. Anyway, asside from my design frustration, my error has a different number: -537403781 98304. It reoccurrs every few seconds when trying to encode a VCD mpeg from a DiVX source file. The source file runs perfectly fine in Media Player, I don't have any problems when running it through virtual dub, and I have re-downloaded and installed TMPGEnc (TMPGEnc-2.57.41.146-Free.zip) and still have the same problem. My machine is well maintained and I've never encountered a BSOD or any other stability problems, I shut down all other applications, and no powersave or screensaver is currently activated. All hardware in the machine is of the same make. I've run through this same scenario with similarly encoded source files, and this is the first out of 5 that I've run into an problem with, so I seriously doubt it's a problem with my machine, or configuration. The encode continues to run after I click OK on the message, but it the error just keeps coming up approximately every second of the source file. It's always the same error number. I'm assuming it's a problem with the source file, but so far have not been able to come up with any information or solutions, which makes me so frustrated with the vague error message. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

just so you don't try this... :)

I actually stay awake all night and clik through all the pop up error... guess what?

the result is a completely useless file, it got no video or audio, just a blank screen with the same length as the source, imagine how frustrate i am now...

i also try shut it down and restart, it still pop up that same error, except it got the second number differently

After encoding my avi video is corect but there is not sound ! Can you help me please?

extract sound from avi using virtual dub....save wave as...and load the sound seperatley into tmpgenc

After weeks of using the latest tmpgenc(with no succes by my pc keep locking up)
ive down graded to an older version of tmpgenc without the wizard with the nice feature that will encode to a certain % of cd space.
Is there a way of calculating how much mb the finished vcd or svcd file will be? and do options on tmpg like, sharpen edge/reduce gost and even motion shearch speed alter the amount of mb?. What im saying is is it possible to work out how big the ecoded file(s) will be before encoding?
many thanks

You can download a "Bitrate Calculator" to figure out what bitrate to use so you will be able to fit the movie on a CD-R..but if you are just doing Standard VCD"s then you can figure out the file size like this ,Each minute of Movie is 10MB of Mpeg file, for a Standard SVCD is 20MB per Minute...

I have looked for the Angel Potion Codec. I don't see it. Is it in the Nemo Pack and if so, how is it listed?

Why do you want it. This codec is notorious for causing problems. You should steer well clear of this piece of crap.

ASHY

I don't want it. Minion said that it may be what is causing my color distortion. And since I have not downloaded any smr codecs. Only Divx 5, Nimo Pack, and the codec that come with Windows ME. I don't always have the distortion and wanted to know if it was possible that I got the codec in the Nimo Pack and if so how to identify it and Kill it. :-)

And who says divx 5 isn't causing the problem?
Do i have to remind you that open divx is still in developement?
removing the codec isn't that hard.
it might removable with remove software (if it is in the list of installed software)
I should be in the list of installed codecs
in every windows version you can find it in the device manager>sound, video, game controllers>video codecs.
open the properties and you'll see what codecs are installed.
from within the properties you can remove codecs that cause problems.
What that does is remove the keys for that codec from the registry thus removing it from the OS, not from hd.
good luck

BTW, early releases of windows ME have the wmv7 codec instead of wmv8 which is a mpeg4 codec and that will screw up any hacked divx codec.
The WMV 7 codec is part of the mplayer installation.
Later versions have the wmv8 codec that doesn't bother with any hacked codecs.

How can u encode clip after clip , instead of going to the computer after the next one is finish

Yes, It is called "Batch Encodeing" ..What you do is ,load in your file do the settings then go to "file" to "save project" and save the project file, then repeat for each file till they are all project files ,then go to "file" to "Batch encode" then load all the project file into the "Batch Encode" window" then click "run" and it will encode all the files in a row.

I am having some problems getting sound after encoding. If the source DVD is Dolby Digital 2 channel and I rip with Smartripper and DVD2AVI, the finished MPG created by TMPG looks and sounds fine. But if the source DVD is PCM, the resulting MPG looks good, but has no sound. I checked the wave file that DVD2AVI created, and it plays normally. Both DVD's were ripped to 48khz wav files. Any ideas?

Darksword

hi ppl,
i recently encoded couple of episodes of animes in order to put them into VCD, but suddenly, when i encoded one episode, the size of the mpeg file became twice bigger than the original and there is no sound.
I read a article that i have to use virtual dub to extract bla bla bla... Even after i do that, the audio is like lagging, and the audio is not synched with the video.

P.S. I have a strong computer, so i don't think the comp is a problem in that case!

Thank you

funny, I´ve got the same prob with an anime in DivX 5.0

To fix the sound try using external tools. Download scmpx (free)and then go to options, environmental settings, external tools, layer 2, browse, and then select scmpx. Im not sure but maybe you dont have the right codecs for the sound to play. Try to download a nimo codec pack and see if that helps. Let me now if this helps.

The problem with out of sync sound when reencoding avi's usualy appears when the audio codec that is used is mp3 or an obscure codec taht is derived from that.
Mp3 audio doesn't provide interleave with video it was designed to be a audio only codec and mowadays most people use vbr mp3 to make matters worse.
A trick is used to interleave mp3 audio + video in .avi files. I always have sync problems with mp3 audio in avi.
Try reencoding the sound to pcm wav first and use that file as input for tmpgenc when encoding to vcd, chances are that might solve the problem.

Well, this may look like the weirdest suggestion you've ever heard, but... I have encountered the very same problem (files getting twice as bigger as they should be). I have discovered that TMPGEnc has troubles encoding AVI files longer than 2 GB (most probably 2 GB... I haven't tested it that thoroughly, but 1.5 GB was okay, while 2.9 GB was not). What TMPGEnc actually does is that it doubles the framerate (!) of the file, making the MPEG file effectively twice as longer... and, as an extra "bonus", audio dies after a while... The only solution to this problem I was able to find was to break the AVI file into several smaller files (each one under 2 GB) and later plan to merge the resulting MPEG files. Everything works just fine with AVIs smaller than 2 GB. Does this help?