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After encoding an AVI file into SVCD I want to cut it into two pieces for the right cd-r size.
My problem: I tried several movies to test, TMPGEnc splits the wrong time length, every time somthing between 400 and 500 seconds. It ignores my settings. For example if I set it to start 00:00,00 and end 45:00,00 - TMPGEnc encodes 451 seconds. If I leave it at 00:00,00 / END ... TMPGEnc encodes the same time... and so on...
When you set the start and end times you have to click the { } buttons.
I.E. Select the start position then click { Select the end position then click }
The part that will be cut is the the part indicated in blue.
This is probably what the problem is. It seems like it's not allowing you to set the start and end points.
I would advise you to totally delete TMPG from your system and download it again, this has been known to solve many unusual cases such as this.
If that doesn't work try installing an MPEG2 codec such as this one. http://www.plmovies.com/mpeg2codec_installer.zip
I just re-installed it, same problem... I don't think it's the installation. It works with files I haven't encoded myself. TMPGEnc just ignores my time settings with svcd mpeg2 files I encoded with it before.
its doing this for me i have a hour selected and it only spits out a 50 meg file for 310 seconds instead of a hour 600 meg file what am i doing wrong is this a feture in the demo do i need to buy full version to get the full file?
Hi when i go to convert some avi file si have it only converts the audio and not the video and i did try that envormental setting thing in a message i read and it then gives me erros that file isnt suported. What can i do?
thanks
if i got a bigger hard drive would that speed tmpg up? I have 21 gig now and i can get half a movie done in 12 hours or maybe 10 hours. would a bigger hard drive speed up the process? my other question is about pinnacle, is it any good or would i be wasting my money? what are the pro's and con's of it, if anyone knows. thank you.
When I split the Video from Audio, TMPEnc finishs the job at the half of the file, but without any message. 100% done, but only half of the file. Whatswrong here?
Chances are your source file has an error in it when TMPGenc gets to this it chokes. It possible it will recover if you give it time to finish if not you may have to encode using the new source selection feature you can deselect the bad source file spot this way.
After converting a Matrox DV avi from the Premiere timeline using TMPGEnc and encoding the audio using Export Timeline > Audio, when I put them back together in DVDit!PE, the audio and video are out of synch. It seems that the audio has one sort of false start at the beginning where it seems to start and then starts over. That seems to be the amoount they're out of synch. Both show 2:01:01 for duration but they seem to be out by a fraction of a second. Can anyone tell me what might have caused this and what can be done to fix it?
Sync problems are very common with captured files,you said there was a little glitch at the begining of the audio file ,that glitch seems to have ruined your audio file so I think you will have to do your audio over again,and maybe this time there wont be a glitch at the begining of it,but if they are still out of sync you can use a program like "mpegvcr" or bbmpeg or m2-edit pro"to multiplex the audio to your video but it has a feature that lets you off set the audio or video so you can sync them,but can you get program streams into DVDit?I learned my lesson long ago with DVDit and dumped it because it is way to picky with the files it accepts.........
Thanks for your reply. I had no problem getting the files into DVDit or ReelDVD (ReelDVD actually seemed pickier). I don't know where the glitch came from at the start but it seems to be the problem. I found sound I exported earlier that had no glitch and it synched fine. Any ideas what would have produced the false start on the audio? I used Export Timeline > Audio using entire project. The one without glitch came from a Ligos plug-in export.
Does anybody know why when I demultiplex an svcd file I seem to only get half the length of the original movie. Also when I downloaded the mpeg 2 codec as posted on this site, I get an error message saying it can't find a dll ( msvbvm60 ) I've tried downloading the exe file a couple of times but always get the same message. Any ideas. Thanx loads guys.
I'll start off by reapeating a reply I put in another post to you.
If your still using that EZ CD creator crap then get rid and download yourself a free demo copy of NERO from http://nero.com
It'll burn that SVCD without you having to convert it to VCD first, saving you time and quality.
I have a collection of avi clips that I have downloaded and want to encode them all to mpeg so I can burn them onto a vcd. About half of them are fine and I can encode them with no problems.
The other half however are causing more of a problem. The original files are about 100mb and if I try to encode them I end up with a 800mb file with no sound. I have found a way to get round this by ripping the sound with virtualdub and then selecting this file as the audio source but it is a bit of a long winded method, and there is no easy way that I know of to tell which files need the sound ripping and which don't.
Is there any other way to accomplish this through TMPG ie with a plugin encoder?
Load file, click Setting>Advanced, double click source range filter then check 'display audio'
The audio will be displayed in green under the display window. If it's blank then TMPG isn't able to decode the audio, so you will have to extract to a wav. If you see a green wave then TMPG can decode the audio.
Of course it is, for doing dvd"s 3000kbs is a little low for a max bitrate,the dvd standard has a max of 9.8mbs, but i wouldn"t go that high unless you want only an 1.5 hours per dvd disk,youshould try a "CQ" encode with a max of 6000kbs and a minimum of 500kbs with 75-100% quality,that should give you pretty good quality for dvd and still get a couple of movies on a dvd disk..What did you mean by "it didn"t work"?why wouldn't your file work,what did it do?With a max bitrate of 3000kbs should have been good for a svcd with a fairly small file size, that is if you didn"t check the "enable padding" box cuz that will make your file a lot larger than it should be....
What do you mean "shocking"?What do you play your mpeg files through?You better not be playing your mpeg files with "media player" cuz media player does not play mpeg"s correctly.Do you mean a jerky, stop start motion when you play it,That is caused usually by encodeing to the Wrong frame rate.Post the specs of your file(frame rate resolution ect) and we will see what we can do to correct your problem.....
I mean exactly that. post the frame rate and format of your avi file and what frame rate and resolution you are encodeing to.Because the jerkyness is usually caused by encodeing to an incorrect frame rate,and Im preety sure that it Doesn"t have to do with the "CQ" encodeing mode..That is werd that it plays better in CBR mode cuz most dvd"s are VBR ..You could allways try CBR but at 5000kbs and you might fit it on a dvd, but in reality you should be able to get more that one movie on a dvd disk,I do really high bitrate XSVCD"s with a max of 8000kbs and my movies are about 2.5gb each....
The xsvcd"s I make I don"t do with "tmpgenc" I use a different encoder for my mpeg2 projects.Tmpgenc is way to slow and the mpeg2 quality isn"t as good as the other encoder I use....
When I try to convert a SVCD to a VCD according to vcdhelp I run into a problem getting TMPGEnc to recognize my .d2v file. I have tried changing the environmental settings and I can't get it to work. I have tried to re-install both TMPGEnc and the VFAPI plug-in (on a different drive). When I extract the newly downloaded plug in I I am told the zip file is incomplete or corrupt. Please help.
There are a few reasons why this can happen,I"ll go through the most common,remember to not move or re-name any of the "d2v"or"vob" files or change any of the names of the files or folders in the path between "dvd2avi" and "tmpgenc",.And to make sure you have the dvd2avi vfapi plugin,and you can try copying and pasteing the "dvd2avi.vfp" file from dvd2avi to the tmpgenc folder..and if none of this works get the "vfapi converter" and load your "d2v" file into that and see if it makes a psudo avi file for you if it does then you can use that in tmpgenc but if it doesn"t then there is something wrong,maybe an error while makeing the d2v file..make another d2v file with dvd2avi and dont move or delete anything and try again I have never really had a problem with dvd2avi and I make Lots of svcd"s..