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I am not able to open DVD2AVI project file (*.d2v) in TMPG. It Gives "Illegal Stream Format". ANy help in resolving the situation would be appreciated.
Thanx
Just made my first mpeg 2. Used the DVD-NTSC setting, then changed to 2 pass VBR, avg bitrate to 6000, with max 8000 and min 2000. Left Motion Estimate on "fast" (which is probably why I have ragged edges on camera pans).
Main problem is I drag it to WinDVD 2000 and it won't play. However, it WILL play in WinMedia (7.1) which I didn't expect. Does this sound right??
Extension is .mpg Just built another short one using all defaults for [DVD-NTSC] and still same.
Original source is DV from Sony Digital 8. Using MS codec. Was captured using Scenalyzer Live. The latest test files were export from Premiere 6.0 ->MS DV AVIs.
Made mpg1 VCD files and they come out great. WinDVD appears to load it and it shows up in playlist, but when press "play" nothing happens. Just put a movie DVD in machine and WinDVD plays that fine... (Dell 8100 P4)
I tried non-interlace for encode mode and that didn't help jagged edges. Is another setting somewhere?
Try this, open WinDVD first then drag your MPG to the WinDVD window and it should play. If not I'd say a Windvd re-install was in order.
Choosing non-interlace won't get rid of your ragged edges.
Go to setting>advanced and double click the einterlace filter.
From the drop down box choose Even-odd field(field) and then find some action like a car moving or someone walking across the screen then click the righthand arrow a few times and observe the movement.
If it looks like it goes forwards then jumps back then you need to change the Field order in advanced. If it doesn't and it looks smooth then the field order is correct.
Now change the de-interlace option to even field and look at an action scene again where something is moving. The interlacing(ragged edges) should be gone, if not try the other settings until they are.
Extension is .mpg Just built another short one using all defaults for [DVD-NTSC] and still same.
Original source is DV from Sony Digital 8. Using MS codec. Was captured using Scenalyzer Live. The latest test files were export from Premiere 6.0 ->MS DV AVIs.
Made mpg1 VCD files and they come out great. WinDVD appears to load it and it shows up in playlist, but when press "play" nothing happens. Just put a movie DVD in machine and WinDVD plays that fine... (Dell 8100 P4)
I tried non-interlace for encode mode and that didn't help jagged edges. Is another setting somewhere?
Double click on the filter -- who'd a thought.... Cool. Didn't suspect you could do that.
Is there a file/document somewhere that tell all these little "secrets" for TMPGenc? Or should we just monitor this BBS for awhile to learn?
Thank you so much for your help!!!
I realize each video probably varies, but for a Sony DV indoor video, what would be your guess of the optimum settings to get the very best quality for a DVD-R? VBR? high bandwidth (8000 or so avg?) noise filter? and obviously the interlace filter...
I can't answer that question, the only way to find out is trial and error. Encode a little see how it turns out, if you don't like it try a different setting. The only thing I can tell you is that 'Constant quality(CQ)' will give you better quality than the other settings.
Try not to go overkill on the bitrate, 8000 is rather high for an average and could give your DVD player playback problems and you wouldn't need to use the noise filter unless there really is noise in the original movie, which is unlikely seeing as your source is DV, but that's up to you.
Set your VBV buffer to 224 and your DC component precision to 10.
Double click on the filter -- who'd a thought.... Cool. Didn't suspect you could do that.
Is there a file/document somewhere that tell all these little "secrets" for TMPGenc? Or should we just monitor this BBS for awhile to learn?
Thank you so much for your help!!!
I realize each video probably varies, but for a Sony DV indoor video, what would be your guess of the optimum settings to get the very best quality for a DVD-R? VBR? high bandwidth (8000 or so avg?) noise filter? and obviously the interlace filter...
After new instaaltion of windows and TMP Enc. i can¡t open my viodes.
Error "can not open, or unsupported".
Bevor i have to install all new it runs correct.
Is there an Audio codec i have to install?
Answer in german, please.
My enlish is not so good (you see) :-)
If problem is only audio, try to install Radium codec, even if you already have Fraunhofer IIS MPEG codec installed. I solved the same problem by this way.
Hi, I would like to convert wav files to mp3 using TMPGEnc because no other programs designed for just this, work, which is weird. Anyway, I go to the audio settings and only MP2 is available. What do I need to do to get MP3?
How do you mean no other programs designed for this work?
To answer your question, load your wav file in TMPG, go to File>Output to file and choose 'wave file'
Choose where you want to save the file and give it an mp3 extension. Now click the audio 'setting' button on the right and choose the mp3 codec and bitrate you require.
Now click save and your mp3 will be created.
I tried to convert DivX AVI to MPEG1. All is OK but video/audio sync : at the end of 85 min video the difference between video and audio gets as much as 5-8 sec.
What is wrong ?
DivX AVI parameters (according to VirtualDub's "File Info") :
THe problem is that whoever created your AVI has altered it in an attempt to sync the audio and video as it must have been out of sync originally.
There are two things which point to this. One, is the framerate has been changed to 24.031 fps to shorten the movie slightly (at a guess to try and make the audio and video the same lengths) and there has been a delay added to the audio of 0.18 secs, I know it's not much but believe me it DOES make a difference.
What you need to do is split the video and audio into two separate files, split the audio to a wav and change the framerate of the video to 23.976 fps before splitting then post back with the lengths of each one of the files here and I will advise you further how to fix it.
Just because they are same length it doesn't mean it will be in sync, this is the reason the creator of the AVI has changed the framerate and added the skew in the first place.
You can check the A/V sync quite easily with Virtualdub.
Load up your new AVI into Virtualdub and then click Audio>WAV audio... and find find your new wav.
Click the first play button at the bottom left and this will show you if the movie is in sync or not. Go right through to the end of the movie and see if it becomes async anywhere. My guess is it will. If it is in sync you should be able to encode no problem otherwise post back here for more info.
VirtualDub, AVI converted to 24.0 fps + extracted audio : audio 4 s later at end
VirtualDub, AVI converted to 23.976 fps + extracted audio : audio 4 s later at end
VirtualDub, initial AVI w. audio : audio 4 s ahead at end
mplayer.exe (not DirectShow mplayer2), initial AVI w. audio : sync OK
TMPGEnc, initial AVI w. audio, "Source range" at end : sync §°§¬
Today is enough for my (I am at GMT +3). I guess the best solution is just to not encode this movie at all :)
Try this you may get lucky.
Stick with your original avi which is 24.031 and load that into TMPG. Now load your new wav as the audio and go to the source range filter and add 180 msecs to the audio gap correct now check your movie for sync.
How do you use the batch encoding feature of TMPGENC ? Is there some documentation or help file somewhere ? I am trying to convert a bunch of quicktime files to MPEGs.
Set up movie as if you were gonna encode, when your set go to File>save project.
Do this for each movie then when ready to encode click File>batch encode. In the box that pops up add all your projects then click run.
To batch encode you just load in your files and do yer settings then go to "file" and save it as a project file, then repeat this for every file.Now go to "file" then to "batch encode" and a window will pop up and just load your project files into the window and you are ready to encode, that"s it.....
After all of the files are in the "batch box", do you have to hit ctrl+a to select all of the files before you hit RUN?
My machine stopped the batch process and exitied tmpg after 2 clips were converted....
When editing a mpeg2 file in merge and cut, the picture is blocky and pixelated.It is though it is not decoded properly.This also is the case when using Nero's playback option,although when burnt to disk, the file plays perfectly on my standalone. This problem is really annoying when splitting files because some frames cannot be viewed due to the blocky output. I'm presuming this is down to a codec problem. TMPEGEnc loads the mpeg ok and the picture is fine when using the source range option. Could anyone please assist?
I have the same problem when I try to view it in the editing window and when I use media player it is a wash of colors, and I do think it could be a codec problem but I haven"t figured out which one it is, I don"t know of any good solution for this accept that you could use different editing software ,i use a capture program called "power vcr" it edits and joins mpeg files with out giveing me the distorted preview but it is a big program to have on your computer just for editing...
Thanks for the reply Minion. Working on the codec theory I have actually cured the problem now. Like you I also had the problem with Media player. The solution was a simple un-install/re-install of the mpeg2 codec.
I have encoded PAL .avi (DivX 5)and DVD PAL to PAL VCD using TMPG 2.54a.
The file and VCD disc play fine on the computer (audio synch ok).
When played on a standalone DVD player, after 7 minutes audio synch is lost. The video appears to speed up slightly, then go slow motion, then normal speed. It repeats this cycle. Audio synch is still lost.
I have encoded videos using other encoders eg Panasonic, without this problem. I thought you should know about this bug. Nero accepts the MPEG stream as being standard VCD. I have checked my standalone (its a new Daewoo DVD player) and it works ok with other PAL VCD's
If it plays fine on your PC it isn't a bug of TMPG, it is NERO.
For some reason Nero isn't compatible with some players, this is usually due to using older versions of NERO which have this documented bug.
They corrected this in one of the versions a while back, but I cant remember from which version the bug was solved, so my advice is to go to the NERO site and download the new version.
If this doesn't solve your problem try another burning software such as 'VCDeasy' or apparantly this sort of problem has been solved when using 'Instant cd-dvd'.
Actually I have a late version of Nero 5558 and it burns MPEG's ok from using the Panasonic Standalone encoder
(unfortunately the Panasonic encoder has a bug in the audio so I only use it to produce a .m1v file and multiplex the audio in TMPG. This then burns and plays fine)
Perhaps there is an incompatability somewhere in Nero's interpretation of the TMPG's stream?
OK so I have a work around solution using Panasonic and TMPG. For those users with this problem I use Panasonic Encoder 2.51 for video stream only as the audio produces a silent gap every second. I encode the audio separtely to a .mpa file then multiplex them in TMPG.
It is Possible that the audio of the movie is VBR in that case you should
load the movie Virtualdub (Virtualdub will tell you if this is the case!)and save the audio uncompressed PCM.
Load the audio and video as separate files into TMPGEnc.
(or frameserve loading the new audiofile in virtualdub)
I got a problem when ripping DVD. I use SmartRipper then DVD2AVI. After that I use TMPGEnc to convert it into NTSC-VCD format. However, for some songs in the CD, the program, TMPGEnc, suddenly closed by itself when the encoding get around 98-99%. Can anyone help?
The abilty to read & import sequential VOB files automaticaly like DVD2AVI does.
Also repeat/loop and a fade in/out function for video would realy add a sweet touch to Custom Video.
I used to use tmpgenc with windows millenium and never had any problems but recently i changed to windows xp professional and now none of the files i wish to convert from avi to mpeg work, i get the message file can not open or file unsupported, as i said earlier, before i installed xp i didnt have any problem converting these type of files, does anybody know whether this software is compatible with windows xp professional? I downloaded the newest version of tmpgenc.
>This is not problem between XP and TMPGEnc. On your XP system, you do not have codecs which you had in WinMe system.
>thanks, do you know which codecs i need?
Actually, you might try going into TMPGEnc's Environment settings and changing the priority of the DirectShow filters to 0 or 1. They probably reset to the default if you re-installed TMPGEnc after your upgrade.