Can anyone teach me how to check if my video is correctly proportioned? I can't really tell. Here is what GSpot says:

AVI Resolution: 704x480 (1.47:1) [~16:11]

I want to put it on a DVD. What Video Arrange Method should I select if it's out of proportioned?

If the Movie is 4:3 and your Target is DVD at 704x480 or 720x480, just use Center, nothing else.

Is that Center or Center (keep aspect ratio)? Sorry, I'm dumb. :)

Also, my other files don't have the correct proportion either. Here's what GSpot says:

Resolution: 634x464 (1.34:1) [~16:12]

Should I still do the Center like above? Also, the audio codec is MPEG-1 Layer 3. It plays in Windows Media Player but in Virtualdub and VDubMOD, it said it could not decompress the audio. Why is that? Should I just convert it normally in TMPGEnc?

Center (without anything) is the best choice if TMPGEnc has not to do any resizing. If the Input size is the same than the Output size, always use Center.

Your second Movie seams to be 4:3 (something like that...).

For a propper fit i suggest to clip it to 628x464.
Use Center (Custom size) 688,464
Target size is 704x480 (NOT 720x480)!

Thanks. Is there a difference between Center and Full Screen? I thought the output size is 720x480 because that's the standard? Then the input size (704x480) is not the same as the output size...?

704x480 is also standard-DVD-Size.

Full Screen always trys to fit the Video to full size (resizing). But in this case, this will lower the Quality (and the Conversion-Speed).

Center takes the Video as is and does nothing to it.

Center (custom size) does a resizing to the given size - that's what you want.

BTW: It is better to do the Resizings in AVISynth and use always Center in TMPGEnc, because the Resizers of AVISynth are much better.

I agree I have recently been trying out the new LANCZOS4 resizer in AVISYNTH with excellent results.
Reduces mice teeth and stair stepping to a minimum and are hardly noticible when compared to some other resizing methods.

Are there any websites that contain sample avi's and their corresponding TMPGenc encoded mpeg2 files (along with settings used to encode) so that we could use them for comparison? I have been tinkering with video for over a year now and I have yet to produce an mpeg2 file that I am satisfied with the quality. It would be nice to see compare my encoded video with others.

I'm trying to convert a movie of mine (XVID... yes I have the codec), it's 2:02:12 long. Unfortunately, TMPGEnc thinks its 330+ mins long. Last I checked, 2 * 60 + 2 = 122 minutes. Is it me screwing up, or is this a known isssue?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Why can't I convert avi to mepg? It used to work fine until I rebooted my computer because of a virus. It say (File C:AnimeNaruto77.avi can not open, or unsupported). Any Suggestion?

Look at my answer to the post "cannot open, or unsupported", it might help. Sounds that you might have lost your mpeg2 codec.

>Look at my answer to the post "cannot open, or unsupported", it might help. Sounds that you might have lost your mpeg2 codec.

It's an AVI.....

I'm trying to convert a movie of mine (XVID... yes I have the codec), it's 2:02:12 long. Unfortunately, TMPGEnc thinks its 330+ mins long. Last I checked, 2 * 60 + 2 = 122 minutes. Is it me screwing up, or is this a known isssue?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Try applying a Source Range to the video, such that the final frame isn't -1, but an actual positive number.

On panel 3/5 of the wizard, click on the Source range checkbox. The source range window appears.

Click the Move to end frame button. Note that the End frame value is -1.

Press the Set end frame button. The value of End frame is now a large number.

Press Ok. Now continue with the wizard and perhaps the video length will be correct.

Cheers
Nic

Hi Nic. The file I'm converting (well, trying to) is a 22-min episode, with file size 177, 238 KB, which when I played using realplayer was ok. When I tried converting, the file size as noted in the counter was 600+ MB (63 min), when normally a file size that small would only be 200+ MB. Ok, I've tried the source range thing which you have advised but after converting, there was no sound. What steps should I do now? Thanks for your help.

I have exactly the same problem...
When encoding a 1hr30'ish movie TMPG wants to make it huge with about 8Gb of data rather than about 3.5Gb (which is normal) - this is usually Particular DivX movies (you know, the ones you REALLY want to watch) Perhaps i will try the '-1' thing the last port mentioned

Well.. i tried the change the video size from '-1' to 'last frame' business... and all i got was a small box in the middle of the screen with an error... the more i clicked on 'ok' the more another one came back !! i had to abort in the end...
Bugger !

I have been running into the same problems, video legnth being doubled, and no sound when selecting the video length. I found this advice on a forum it seems to work on the problem files I had.

["This is usually caused by the compression on the audio of the source file. If it is an AVI file it is very common. With an AVI file the easiest things to do here are set DirectShow Multimedia File Reader's priority to 2 or even better demcompress the audio!

To change the priority of DirectShow, this is done simply by clicking option - environmental setting. Click the VFAPI plug-in tab. You will see DirectShow in the list usually with a priority of -1. Right click on the NAME (not the priority) and click higher priority until the priority is 2 and it is at the top of the list. "]

can some1 plz help me here....

ive created some mpeg files with tmpgenc for vcd and i was wondering if its possible to make these file load as 1 or play as 1.

like not by file to file but all straight without pausing or requesting to load the other next file.

thanks a lot.

Name all the files in sequence like this for example: Movie001.MPG, Movie002.MPG, Movie003.MPG then open TMPG and goto Options>Enviromental settings>General then put a check in the box 'Open sequence files as a movie'
Now just load the first file in the sequence and the rest will automatically load.

I think I may have misread what you want.
It looks like you have already encoded the files.

You have 2 choices you can either join the MPEGs together with the merge and cut tool or just burn the MPEGs to VCD and just load each MPEG into your burning program in sequence then burn.

The files will play as one without pauses, but you must make sure that you instruct your burning program NOT to put pauses between file.
Most of them automatically put a 2sec pause between files, so make sure you set the pause length to 0

previously i had win2k and TMPGEnc-2.55.38.142-Free

i was able to import vob files without a problem after decrypting wit dvd decrypter.

i have just recently formatted and put WinXP in, i am still using the same version of TMPGE

now vob files wont read...

any help will be greatly appreciated..
[fyi...i do have WinDVD installed]

thanks in advance...

JAG

Install the MPEG2 codec you had installed on your Win 2000 system prior to installing XP.

i didnt have a mpg2 codec, all i had was WinDVD installed and DVDx 2.0, gonna try that, but i doubt that will help...

is there any codec that you can recommend?
or one that will make it work?
just installled DVDx 2.0, didnt help none..

http://www.marumo.ne.jp/mpeg2/m2v_vfp-0.6.48.lzh

Hi there,
I am using TMPGenc Plus 2.5 to encode from DV to MPEG2(for burning to dvd). I think I have all the best settings that I can possibly have for encoding to the Mpeg2 file. But the resultant MPEG file lacks the quality of the original DV, in that it is slightly more grainy and the colours are too bright. (I am using Windvd to compare quality) I have read in forums that the codec that tmpgenc uses for reading the DV file can effect the encoded output, if so does anyone know how I can check what codec that tmpgenc is using and also recommend the best codec to use?
Thanks in advance.

TMPGEnc uses the installed Codec, nothing special. But TMPGEnc always needs RGB24-Input and some DV-Codecs aren't able to provide a propper Colorspace-Conversion. Maybe you have to cange the settings from CCIR- to YCbCr-Mode (setting->advanced->Quantize Matrix) to get the correct colors.

You can't use such crappy Software like a Software-DVD-Player to compare quality because you can't be shure about the resulting Luma-Range and the Methode of Overlay-Video on your PC.

The Quality of the resulting Video depents on several factors, most important is Bitrate.

Also rememeber that Mpeg and NTSC DV use different color sampling (4:2:0 vs 4:1:1).

You will ALWAYS lose half of the original color samples when translating between the two.

This is why it is shocking that the DV standard has not been upgraded to 4:2:2. 25 Mbs is enough bandwidth to save virtually lossless production quality video (using mpeg2, 2 frame GOP, for example). If digital cameras kept the same technology curve as DV video, we'd still be using 0.5 megapixel cameras.

I've been encoding using TMPEnc lately, and i found for some files, they have 34000 frames but come to encoding, they have a massive 120k frames! to top this off, it has no sound, even though the original has, and it seems that the sound is encoded wrongly. whatever i do i cannot get the sound to work, even if i encode the sound separately. does anyone know how to rectify this?

oh, and its from avi to mpeg. all the other files i have are encoded exactly the same way, and they are near identical to the trouble file.

Get yourself AVICODEC then post us the properties of the AVI.

What does it mean when there's no sound under the MPEG Tools>Merge and Cut?

I used to always be able to make short scenes from a long and have audio, now rarely does the final result have that.

Anybody know why?

AC3 audio is not supported in the Merge&Cut tool.

I'm using TMPGEnc Plus 2.5, and for some reason when I try to load up an AVI of some DVD rips, it gives me a "cannot open, or unsupported" error... how can I get it to work?

thanks

My is doing the same thing I think I am missing the codec maybe the mpeg4 or something anyone know whats wrong ?

Hey guys, I had the same problem a couple of days ago. I redistributed my hard disk partitions and suddenly my TMPGEnc stopped working. I had some movie.d2v files that I had created using DVD2AVI before repartitioning and that I couldn't access with TMPEG afterwards. Yesterday I installed a new mpeg2 codec and created a new movie2.d2v file. Now TMPEG works fine.

I think you'll need to reinstall the same mpeg2 codec that you used when creating the avi files. Otherwise, you can install any mpeg2 codec and create the avi files again, TMPEG should then work.

Hope this helps, it worked for me.

Your problem you had was because you had changed the path to the soure files in the d2v by repartitioning.
You CANNOT move, rename, or delete the d2v, the source files or any of the folders associated with them until you have finished encoding.

As for the original question - cannot open, or unsupported
I refuse to answer this question any more. I must answer it almost every day and I alone must have answered it many hundred times by now. If you include all the others that have answered it then I would guess it must have been answered close to a 1000 times.

The solution can quite easily be found by getting off your ass and using the search function.

>If you include all the others that have answered it then I would guess it
>must have been answered close to a 1000 times.
>
>The solution can quite easily be found by getting off your ass and using
>the search function.

Gee, this sure sounds like a frequently asked question. Might it not be a bad idea to add it to the FAQ?

Firstly I am totally new to this Ive been using TMPGenc for a couple of months but I really dont know much about it.

Ok my problem is this, when I try to convert an AVI file to MPEG the video freezes on the first frame and doesnt move any further, the sound however converts fine and when I play the finished MPEG back its the first frame of the video with the sound playing as normal. Can anyone help me?

It might also be worth mentioning I used to have no problems converting AVI's to MPEG and I cant remember installing anything recently that would cause a problem. I cant play AVI files (hence me wanting to convert them to MPEG) using any program that I have (including divx player, windows media player and real player) and also MPEG's play in windows media player but really jerkily (itll play a couple of seconds then stop for a few seconds and repeat this cycle) so I have to play them through real player. Does anyone have any idea what I might have installed to cause this problem or does anyone know some codecs, files or programs that would remedy this?

I hope you guys can help :)