I had converted a avi file to mpeg file and then cut into a VCD using a PAnasonic CD - R/RW. There was noise disturbance when i was viewing the VCD. How can i reduce it.

Thanks.

- What is the quality of your source avi like ? noisy ?
- What bitrate are you using ?

I have a downloaded version of TMPG which is a 30 day version. I was given to believe that its a free software. Is there a free copy available.
Can you recommend me free encoding softwares which can convert avi to mpg

Cheers ! !

Tmpgenc is free for doing VCD"s it is just the mpeg 2 function that runs out in 30 days, there are free mpeg encoders but they are really slow like 3 times as slow as tmpgenc so it might take a week to encode a movie and the quality isn"t nearly as good as tmpgenc.....

Hi ! ! !

Just started using the TMPG software for conversion of avi files to vcd compatible mpeg format.
I converted a 150 MB file (avi to mpeg) and it got converted but the file size became 600MB. I think there is some wrong setting i have done which needs to be corrected.
Also can you recommend me any other conversion softwares. TMPG simply takes too long to encode.Please help.
Thanks.

get a faster computer, enable multithreading and pipelining, under environment settings... and TMPG is free, just the MPEG-2 (DVD format) isn't after 30 days.... read the notices more carefully


and don't say cheers, we might mistake you for a pink princess

There is nothing wrong ,Tmpgenc and any encoder does not care how big your avi file is, cuz the size of the avi file has nothing to do with the size of the mpeg file, what matters is the length of the avi file and the bitrate used, generally speaking if you are dong VCD then every minute of avi is 10mb of mpeg, with svcd it is about 20mb per minute and with DVD it is about 40mb per minute..As for finding a faster encoder you would have more luck finding a faster computer, at least it would be cheaper, the only encoder that will give you quality as good as tmpgenc with faster encodeing speed starts at about $800 and goes up to $2000 and none of them have the options than Tmpgenc has...

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THANKS FR THE PROMPT REPLY.. AND ALSO YOUR ADVISE..

In a previous post, I was having problems getting VCDEasy to import chapters from the DvD using Chapter X Tractor program. VCDEasy said there was only one chapter point available.I was making my first SVCD of Lord of the Rings on 3 80 minute CD's. The copies worked great and looked great, but I had no chapters.

The solution was to increase the bitrate to 2520. So in my SVCD setup when encoding, I selected "Constant Quality (CQ)" for the rate control mode, with a quality setting of 75, max bitrate 2520, min bitrate 0. So I was able to fit the 3 hour movie on 3 CD's of one hour each with a file size of 750 MB.

weird, chapter x tractor has nothing to do with encoding bitrates it only scans the dvd ifo file for the chapter info and with copy&paste you can read them into VCDeasy.
i have 1800 kbps VBR video files that i chaptered with the use of chapter x-tractor.
Must be something else you did wrong the first time.

im trying to convert some anime episodes from avi (divx 3.11) to svcd to play on my dvd player. i burned a couple of eps and they worked fine but i have problems with one ep. the avi plays good and i encode it using the same template i used with the other eps but after its done and it says 100% completed the TMPGEng program crashes and stops responding. Anyway since it said its completed i tried to load it into nero but it said "stream encoding which is invalid for a [super] video-CD". btw, the mpg created works in powerdvd.

any clues on how to fix the problem?

Tmpgenc probably crashed before it had a chance to wright the "sequence end code" on the svcd header, this is a bug in the 2.57 version but it can be corrected but you will have to use a different version of tmpgenc or you can burn it with VCDEasy cuz VCDEasy does not rely on the header to make it svcd compliant..but how you fix it is get a different version of tmpgenc and load the file into the "Merge & Cut" in the mpeg tools, then choose "Mpeg2/SVCD" from the drop down menu, choose your output directory and then click "run" then it will make a copy of your file and attach the proper svcd header...

hey thanx alot, it worked and it was quick and easy :)

where can i download the ulead dvd plugin, ive looked everywhere can someone give me the exact site ASAP please thank you

You can get it on Kazaa, you can only work it if you have either "ulead Video studio" or "media studio".....

I am trying to make a VCD with an MPEG2 file using the header trick in TMPGEnc 2.57, but everytime I try the audio is about 8 seconds out of sync and changes periodically. I ripped and encoded using DVD2SVCD with CCE. Any help is appreciated.

I the audio sample rate 48KHz by chance? or a different bitrate than 224 kbps?
if either of that is the case reencode the audio to stereo 44100 Hz 224 kbps.
procedure: demux the video, reencode the audio and mux them again.
also problems might occur if the mpeg2 video is vbr.
Due to the set CBR bitrate of vcd that might cause synx problems too

Newbie question,

Fairly new to the game and have downloaded most progs and codecs (at least all those recommended here), but having trouble in tmpgenc with a new download (Blade 2) ie blah, blah .....unsupported.

Is this a codec problem, and do you have to update them regularly?

Where is the best place to find out about updates if you do need to keep them up to date?

Cheers

If you can play the file on your computer then you probably just need to raise the priority of the "Direct Show File Reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins", you do this by going to "options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "vfapi plugins" and raise the "direct show" to "2".....

This is a "smc" avi file from Kazaa. For the first 20 minutes the video, even within the TMPG "Preview" does say: Do Not Duplicate. I figured I could live with that so I burnt it to VCD with Nero. When I went to play it about a third of the screen had a green bar running from top to bottom, obscuring that part of the picture.
Is this some form of copy-guard?
Is there any way around it?
Just out of intellectual curiousity....

When i play the avi in question the video freezes and the audio keeps going when TMPEG reaches this point it doesn't not encode any more and becomes non responsive......

..... How would i go about correcting this?

ty for your time and any answers that come

The only solution I can think of is to encode up to were it crashes then use the "source range" to start encodeing a few frames after were it crashed then join the 2 files together with the "Merge & cut"....

OOhh there are a couple of video utilities something like "Divx Defreeze" or divX fix" that are supposed to fix frozen areas of an avi file..try Doom9.. you might be able to find it there.....

OK I found the TBE (batch list) File creation program i had tried out before and was buggy- seems like the author, Andrew Doyle, has made some revisions since, and it seems to get the paths right.

One thing that is a bummer is that when you select a saved template to process your batch list through, it reads everything but what you have set under "advanced"

ie: if your template has filters like Sharpen or Crop setup, they wont show up in the batch list- you'll still have to add them in manually :(

A dark blemish on an otherwise SWEET little program

If Andrew Doyle or anyone else with programming skills is listening, this batch creation tool could be AWESOME if that was tweaked!

You can find it on this page:

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/tmpgenc.html

I am trying to convert ntsc video to pal, I set the end frame accordingly. TMPG Enc does decode but misses the end part of the m2v file no matter what I set the end frame to? any ideas please?????

Tmpgenc will not do a proper Ntsc to Pal conversion, you will have jumpy playback on your dvd player and possibly have out of sync audio..The only program that I know of that will do it right is "Canopus Procoder", I get from your post that you are trying to convert a NTSC Mpeg file to a Pal Mpeg file??if this is true you can try loading the "m2v" file into DVD2AVI and make a D2V file and encode that to Mpeg, then you don"t have to rely on Tmpgenc to do the mpeg decodeing......

>Tmpgenc will not do a proper Ntsc to Pal conversion, you will have jumpy playback on your dvd player and possibly have out of sync audio..The only program that I know of that will do it right is "Canopus Procoder", I get from your post that you are trying to convert a NTSC Mpeg file to a Pal Mpeg file??if this is true you can try loading the "m2v" file into DVD2AVI and make a D2V file and encode that to Mpeg, then you don"t have to rely on Tmpgenc to do the mpeg decodeing......


Thanks for your help it is much appreciated.............