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Hi, I just spend 3 hours to encode to mpeg2 [svcd] with TMPG. And after I play it in a PowerDVD under information bitrate goes high up to 3.6Mbit !? .. I set CBR @ 2400 kbps as encode parameters sound 224 .. how is that posible? I presume that set top dvd player will have problems to play such nonstandard SVCD while video+audio should be 2748 kbps acording to standard? How is posible that CBR encode setting return VBR when playing.?
Your player won"t have a problem with it ..I have a totaly cheap dvd player like $100, and I do my "svcd"s at a average of 3000kbs and a max at 6000kbs..and my player has mo problems with it , my player even plays svcd"s with a resolution of "720 by 480".....but burn a single disk and see how your player handles it and if it does handle it try it a high resolution, and if that works then you can make your svcd"s look almost exactly the same as the original dvd with high res.it is good to see what you players limits are...
Thanks on feedback .. I but I will send that SVCD to my relatives, they live 300 km away, so I would like to burn a standard SVCD to I can be sure that will play it .. any way thanks ..
I am just getting into copying dvds for the purpose of backing up.
I have been instructed by a friend to use Smart Ripper to extract the VOB files to disk (which works very well), then I use FlaskMPeg to convert the vobs to a single AVI file, PAL encoding 352X288 resolution, 25fps, INDEO-5.1 CODEC, 44.1 KHz audio, interlaced etc.
When I play back the AVI, the results are very good indeed. Even the sound is nicely synced.
I have then been using TMPGEnc as recommended on quite a few web sites to do the conversion between AVI and MPEG-1 for making a VCD. However, I have found that pixelation occurrs very frequently in the MPG files when played. This seems to be when the brightness changes suddenly or when there is a lot of movement.
The Indeo-Movie is the Problem.
Kick Flask away and use DVD2AVI to create a d2v- and a WAV-File from the VOB (Save Project). Then use TMPGEnc for encoding this directly without saving an AVI first... and be happy.
I am just getting into copying dvds for the purpose of backing up.
I have been instructed by a friend to use Smart Ripper to extract the VOB files to disk (which works very well), then I use FlaskMPeg to convert the vobs to a single AVI file, PAL encoding 352X288 resolution, 25fps, INDEO-5.1 CODEC, 44.1 KHz audio, interlaced etc.
When I play back the AVI, the results are very good indeed. Even the sound is nicely synced.
I have then been using TMPGEnc as recommended on quite a few web sites to do the conversion between AVI and MPEG-1 for making a VCD. However, I have found that pixelation occurrs very frequently in the MPG files when played. This seems to be when the brightness changes suddenly or when there is a lot of movement.
You are totaly useing the wrong method for copying dvd"s, your method will take twice as long and loose quality..you don"t need to make an avi file ,doing so will make you loose quality and takes forever to do..what you need to do is get "dvd2avi" and make a "d2v" project file and a "wav" file from your vob files,it takes 15 minutes compared to a few hours makieng an "avi" file, you then load the "d2v" project file and the "wav" file in "tmpgenc" and encode... This method you are encodeing the information directly from your dvd instead of encodeing a copy of your dvd in avi format...Trust me use the "dvd2avi" method ,I do 2 or 3 dvd"s every day because this method is much quicker and the quality is great.....There are some manuals at "vcdhelp.com".......
i know how to brighten avis using virtuals dubs filters. Can a mpg be done the
same way. i really want to end up with an mpg at the end not a avi....perhaps
tmpgenc can do it?
Is there any possible way to create a SVCD with Dolby Digital 5.1???? I use smart ripper, DVD2AVI + Tmpgenc...
Also when im making SVCDs now they are often too big for two cds, so using the wizard i lower the bit rate and make it fill 100% of the CD, when i play them on my DVD player it shows about 78 mins of film on the clocl but there is only 45 mins of video. what can i do???
You can put "dolby ac3" sound on your svcd, but I don"t know if it will play on your dvd player.......for the ac3 sound you have to get a different program to multiplex the ac3 audio track to your mpeg2,I think a program called "m2-edit pro" will do it but it is quite expensive and not easily available and the demo version has no options.....look on the net and you should find some info on this...
i was testing tmpgenc with avi files about 4gig, everthing was allright. yesterday i forgot to turn of the videoplayer and i catured both movies at once a i got an avi file more then 8GB. it look so that tmpgenc can not handle it, because i can not start a batch, i even can not start a single process. i get the message:" write error occured at adress 77F43812 of module 'ntdll.dll' with 01070074"
i am using WINXP on an 1,7XP Athlon
thx for your answer
How do I convert a 16 by 9 film to 4 by 3 in order to burn a VCD for my TV? Having the black bars at the top and bottom is fine. How do I avoid the long, stretched, distorted images?
You file is automaticly converted to 4:3 from 9:16 when encodeing unless you change it...I think your problem is in the "video arange method" use the "full screen keep aspect ratio" option , or use the "center custom size" and choose the original resolution of your avi file...this will make you movie look as close to the original size as possible...
i was testing tmpgenc with avi files about 4gig, everthing was allright. yesterday i forgot to turn of the videoplayer and i catured both movies at once a i got an avi file more then 8GB. it look so that tmpgenc can not handle it, because i can not start a batch, i even can not start a single process. i get the message:" write error occured at adress 77F43812 of module 'ntdll.dll' with 01070074"
i am using WINXP on an 1,7XP Athlon
thx for your answer
I've had the similar problem before...
Create a temporary file using VirtualDub's frameserver and open it in TMPGenc.
That should work, although this may increase the processing time.
I'd like to create SVCD (MPEG2) files with a still image and high quality music in the background.
Off course I'd like to fit as many files as possible w/o any sacrifice of the quality of the picture as well as the music.
Can any one advise on the settings to use to create a SVCD file from a JPG (still image) and a MP2 file ?
When I encode an MPEG-2 stream to be SVCD compliant, the audio part is in sync at the beginning of the movie. It gets more and more out of sync the longer the movie is (ca. 1/4 sec after 1 hour of movie). This is only the case for ca 50% of the encoded movies (with the same settings). Movies all come from Hauppauge WinTV PVR with the same setting.
The only thing I can think of, is that you're doing a frame rate conversion on the video stream and not on the audio stream. Maybe you'd better handle these two seperate; first the video stream via TMPGenc and later the audio stream via a seperate encoder (or via multiplexing).
It may or may not be coincidence but I seem to be having similar problems with my Hauppauge Win TV captured mpeg movie (see posting below). When using TMPG to create a PAL VCD, the sound track is out of synch and 'clipped' i.e. the sound drops out from time to time though the picture is excellent. When using WinDVD to replay the orginal file, both audio and video play back fine.
When I have used a utility to create a .WAV file from the original mpeg file, the audio plays back ok but slowed down (i.e. everyone has deep voices). I'm not sure therefore whether this is a Hauppauge related problem with the sound capture or whether TMPG is not optimised for Haupauge output???