Thanks for all the advice on the flickering titles. I downloaded AVISynth and am trying to figure out how it works (I had never heard of a frame server). However I have noticed that the title are flickering in the original AVI file that I have exported from premiere. So I will probably need to clean that up first. Any suggestions? I have been using indeo (at 90% quality) as my exporting compression in premiere. I export at 640 by 480 (4:3 aspect) Aspect ration is set to sqare pixels (1.0), and of course a 29.97 frame rate. Should I not use Indeo, or would an aspect ratio set to D1/DV NTSC (0.9) be better? Any thoughts? Thanks again

Hi,experts!
I capture with my digital8 videos with scenalyser life.
For editing I use Pinnacle Studio7 for easy projects,and for more fancy projects Adobe Premiere6.
After capturing I can all dv-avi files open with TMPGEnc.If I make a video rendered with Studio7, also no problems, I can open and convert the file with
TMPBEnc.
But if I make a video with the same material, rendered with Premiere6 TMPGEnc doesent open this avi file.
Please is there a answer to this problem?
Regards, Michael

First you can try to raise the priority of the "openDML file reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins" but if this doesn"t work then it is probably due to the codec that you are useing in premier to render your file, tmpgenc is compatible with most formats but not all so try to use a different codec in premier...

after reading your page, i to find that when encoding to mpeg i lose all audio within 15 seconds of the mpeg-1 starting.
u mentioned using virtualdub to extract the audio 1st, can you please tell me where i can download virtualdub.

many thanx

http://www.virtualdub.org

Hi All

I've encoded several PAL DVD's now but my latest one has a slight problem.
Encoded with VBR4000 and authured with Ulead MF.
After adding chapters and burning the DVD. Some of the chapter thumb neils do not correspond to the actual position i.e.if you click on a thumb neil, it will take you abaout a minute before that chapter actually starts.The DVD is 124min with 9 chapters with 3 chapters showing a minute error.

Any ideas on how to fix this. I hope it's not a TMPGEnc problem but down to MF problem as I don't want to encode this DVD again as it took 23 hours.

Regards
Martin

Well if the mpeg file was fine before you used "ulead" then it is a problem with "ulead" I don"t know if this is your problem but sometimes when ripping a dvd the chapters of the dvd get extracted in the wrong order so check the vob files(if you are copying a dvd)and see if the chapters are in the right order..

Hi Minion

Thanks for the input but no I wasn't ripping a DVD. What I was doing, was capturing a video 8 tape to avi via Pinnacle Studio 7,encoding with TMPGNec and then author & burn with Movie Factory. After selecting the chapter thunbnails in MF, all seems well. i.e click on the thunbnail and the video position is correct. So I burn the DVD with MF (have also burned with Easy cd creator) and when you play it in the DVD player that's when you see that some of the thunbnails are out by a minute or two.

I have seen some threads on the Pinnacle forum about time codes having to be corrected but that was in connection with DV tapes.

Regards
Martin

Been looking at the Ulead Movie Factory web board.
Seems the problem I've been having is down to MF and VBR.

Hope this link works ok.

http://news.ulead.com:8080/read?21267,73

Martin

Hi
Like you I use TMPGEnc with MF to burn my own DVD+RW from my Digital 8 Material. I experienced the same problem with the chapters being out when played on a DVD player, yet within MF it seemed to work fine. My fix was to play the coded MPEG2 file in Media Player or similiar locate the chapter points I wanted and note the timecode at each chapter point from within media player. Then back into MF and enter these timecodes for the chapter points required. MF has completley the wrong thumbnails, but ignore that. Burn the DVD and bingo you'll find all your chapter timings are perfect.
From this I concluded it's a bug Ulead Movie Factory and wondered if it's something to do with handling various GOP structures as it will only put chapter points on the I frames and the dafault GOP within TMPGEnc is variable, but that's a guess and probably wrong !
Hope it works for you.
Regards
Ray Keech

I tried the 'Merge & Cut'-Tool in order to split a mpeg into 2 files. The program only takes 900 seconds from the input file. Does anybody know why?

Noboby know"s why the mpeg tools have so many bugs in them and all you can really do about it is to use a different mpeg editor, if you are doing mpeg1/vcd there is a freeware program called "vcd cutter" that will edit your mpeg1 files.

the tool i have found 4 cut & merge of a video file is DVTool very easy to use to

download it from here

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

Anyone out there knows if I can select a range of pictures in the "Force picture type" rather going one by one and marking them?

Also, anyone tried to set the bitrate in there and can give some impression?

Hello, Im having an strange problem. I encoded a file using TMPGEnc V2.56 and everything works good except, about 5 minuets into the video the sound quits. Not a single peep for the rest of the file. Please let me know what other data I can provide to assist in any way, and thankyou for your time in advance.

Fox_k

If you use audio fromats that are not fully supported in tmpgenc you get no sound or cutting out sound,Tmpgenc seems to have problems encodeing compressed audio sources like mp3, mp2,ac3 ect, wav format is the best to encode so what you do is extract the audio to a wav file with virtualdub and use that as your audio source in tmpgenc,and don"t view your mpeg files with media player cuz it can play you mpeg files with audio cutting out and or out of sync, use dvd playing software like power dvd.

Ok, I have the similar problem , but not sure is it TMPGenc os DVD software.
My audio disappear in the end of movie, for example if the movie 1 min - after 40 sec,if the movie 3 min - after 2 min. I though that the problem with TMPGenc,because I adding some MP3 music in Pinnacle Studio 7 for editing. So,the problem just on my DVD. But if I checking my mpg file on hard disk before burning I have audio without problem. So, I'm not sure it's Tmpgenc's problem.
Sergey

i load a film that should be for example 68 minutes. when i go through the project wizard the program reports that the film is some stupid size such as 235 minutes in length

if i try to play clever and and input the begining and end of the film in the source range option when i click to start encoding i get an error message -537403781 263648.

if i click on ok the message keeps repeating on the screen and TMPGenc won't proceed.

hope someone can help me with this as i am new to all this and totally stuck

It seems that there is something wrong with the header information in your avi file, this is common with files downloaded off the net,and to my knowlege there isn"t much you can do about it you can try to make a copy of the file with virtual dub or frames serve the file with virtual dub but if the header info is dammaged then virtual dub might not read it correctly either but you can try...

excuse my english
when i convert avi to mpeg . after six or seven minutes this message arrive
"read error occured at address 0047310c of module tmpgenc.exe with 12618a8f"
please help me ?
thank you

Make sure you have the latest TMPGenc Ptoject File Reader Plugin.

Hi, when I utilise merge and cut I have an error 0x80040200 directshow.
In VFAPI plug in, DirectShow Multimedia File Reader is priority -1.
I use tmpgenc 2.56
Please, help me.

I have no idea why you are getting this error but I know that there are a lot of bugs in the "Mpeg Tools" and if you get errors while useing them there isn"t much you can do to get rid of the error that is why it is good to have a backup editor and multiplexor in case the ones in tmpgenc fail an I have noticed that it happens more often than not.....

I am just so excited about learning all this new great stuff. I was just wondering. What settings would I use to get the maximum picture quality for a VCD. So far my computer has encoded everything I have given it in real time so it seems to have plenty of power. I am just trying to understand all the settings. Thanks again.

Dan

If you Download the Plus Version the help manual has a detailed explanation of what the settings do....

Use avisynth with the CopyDuplicates function of the IVTC plugin
(ivtc.dll)to frameserve your video to the encoder.If two frames
next to each other are very similar,this will help to reduce noise
by replacing the second frame by the first one and helps saving bitrate.

Seems there are a lot of people looking for a solution for this error. After trawling the forum, came across minion's solution:

Go to Options - Environmental Control - CPU
Make sure only the MMX box (NOT MMX-2 or SSE) is checked and voila, should work

Many thanks to minion's entry on 06/24

Nev