I just created my first SVCD using TMPGGENC. I think the quality is great and it took it acout 8.5 hours to encode. It plays just fine in my APEX AD-1100w DVD player but I cannot fastforward, rewind, seek, or any of that. Is there a setting that I missed or can you tell me what I need to do different to get that feature to work. I have other VCDs that I can do that with. Thanks for your help.

MoVieBoY

What settings did u use? This should not happen

Techno

Did you burn it as a SVCD? Their is a difference in making it a SVCD compliant format (movie settings) And actually burning it as a SVCD Disk. If I don't burn it as a SVCD disk instead I burn it as a file I have the same problem. My player Mintek 2110 plays MPG1&2 files saved as files. So just use Nero or another program campable of burning it as a SVCD Disk once your done making with TMPGenc. Check out http://www.dvdripguides.com/dvdmenu.html they have great info. Tmpgenc Rocks and soon DVD players will be able to play Divx I hope. ~NewtronX

Thanks guys. I think I found the problem. I will try NewtronX's suggestion and use Nero to burn as a SVCD. I just burned as a file. Thanks again. You guys rox!!!!!

MoVieBoY

Hi folks,
I have been reading lots of email about SVCD from this bulletinboard.
But I don't what the advantage is to using SVCD instead of VCD. Is it
faster, can it play on your tv/dvd, is the quality better? I would love
to learn how to use this if it will be better all around. Any help?

Thanks!!!

It is better quality but takes a lot of CD's

Techno

I'm using tmpgenc 2.52
When I try to convert pva files with 720x576 resolution,
the program terminates after a few seconds.

Converting other files with 480x576 works fine,
(with exact the same adjustments).

Any ideas?

Thank's,

Ray

Yeh, I noticed that today with myself.

r u trying to encode into MPEG 2?

Have tried VCD(pal) and SVCD(pal) profiles from TEMPEnc,
same problem on both.

ciao,

Ray

I am trying to cut a mpg into chunks to fir on a VCD. Each time I try to Edit the file (under the Merge and Cut section) I get a msg saying Not Responding.
I am running XP (I tried under W2k and my PC Blue Screened !!)

Any clues?

Apologies if this doesn't help but I use W98 and when I cut files it does pause a while between seeking audio and video and streaming the file (approx 3 mins or so).

If I do a CTRL ALT DEL and look at task manager it says TMPGenc is not responding ... it is running though .... so maybe you need to give it more time

pls help, if pssble;

i do run vers 2.53 on a win-xp-pro system
thats on an athlon 1400 system.

when i try to cut a movie just made into mpeg2svcd,
i always get the same error-msg as soon as i click on
ok or close:

at address 73ef1d04, read error has occured against address 73ef1d04.

has anyone an idea how i can still cut my movie ?`
maybe som other prog ?

Don't worry about that error, everybody gets it.
It's just a bug and wont make any difference to your movie, so just go ahead and cut it anyway.

Don't worry about the error.
Everyone gets it. It won't affect your movie, so just go ahead and cut your movie anyway.

I am trying to cut a mpg into chunks to fir on a VCD. Each time I try to Edit the file (under the Merge and Cut section) I get a msg saying Not Responding.
I am running XP (I tried under W2k and my PC Blue Screened !!)

Any clues?

I have tried and tried to encode DivX movies with the newest version of TMPGenc and every DivX movie I try to encode I get that damn Floating Decimal Point Error...I have tried every fix..(checking all boxes,unchecking all boxes,Removing QuickTime files and running frame scan on VirtualDub...None worked...Finally i downloaded a old beta version TMPGenc 12j and no errors..Yahoo!!...The older version works just the same but seems to take up more of my computers resources..So please Let me know if you find a fix for the new version...Thanx

Just check/uncheck all the boxes in the quantize matrix options

Techno

after clicking and unclicking all the boxes, i still get illegal floating point decimal, is there anything else i can do?

I am having the same problem, I have unchecked SSE and all the other boxes. Any help is appreciated.

I am trying to cut a mpg into chunks to fir on a VCD. Each time I try to Edit the file (under the Merge and Cut section) I get a msg saying Not Responding.
I am running XP (I tried under W2k and my PC Blue Screened !!)

Any clues?

can anyone help me understand why on the same program, run on my win 98 and

win 2k machines, the batch encode works fine, but on my win xp machine the

program always closes with like 3 seconds left in the first file? I'm trying

to figure it out but it doesnt make sense....let me know if there are settings

to fool with or if anyone else has the batch encode working on win xp.

Try using compatability mode

Techno

Download the latest version if you haven't already.
Batch encode works fine on my WinXP PRO system.

Yeh but depends on how ur system is configured SOMETIMES!

Techno

I have the same problem with batch encode under WIN XP Prof but not with WIN XP home, although the machines are nearly idendical. Help is appreciated !!!

It says you can add text to a file but I can not get this feature to work
I have tried mpg files and mpeg files but nothing comes up in the stream

hope you can help RICK

unable to open *.d2v files created by dvd2avi, using pionys' ripping guide (http://www.vcdhelp.com/)

please reply as to what i can do

From your DVD2AVI zip file, extract "DVD2AVI.vfp" to the folder you have the TMPGEnc.exe in. Mine is cslled "tmpge" if that helps.

Good luck!

one other thing I need to tell you to do - just found out about this myself - after you've placed the file as instructed in my first response, go to TMPGEnc, click on OPTION, then under Enviromental settings check the VFAPI plug-in tab and make sure the DVD2AVI project file reader is ticked.

that should get you rolling.

TMPGEnc is the closest tool I have found for what I need to do, but is still failing as I am trying to multiplex an .m2v video stream and a .DTS (or .VOB) audio stream.

Is there a way to get TMPGEnc to handle a DTS stream? If not is it expected in a future release?

Nice app :)

Regards
Jason

I had previously posted this with no response about 3 weeks ago, I can't seem find it on here anymore when I do a search...

<my old question from the BBS>
I use TMPGEnc to create DVDs from ripped VOB files. Sometimes there are scenes I want to remove from the VOB file. I typically demux the video and audio track I want, if the track is AC3 I re-encode to a wav or layer II format. I then mux them together into a mpg file. This mpg file I edit in the merge & cut tool. I have great success with this.

However there are some movies (VOB files) I want to preserve the AC3 6 channel audio track of. I don't want to re-encode it to another format (ie; wav or layer II).

Problem:
Even though the merge & cut tool will recognize the VOB file and allow me to set edit marker points, it ignores the AC3 audio track when it outputs the resulting MPG file. It clearly only cuts and merges the video track and completely ignores the AC3 track.

Question:
How can I edit MPG files that contain a AC3 6 channel audio track without re-encoding. I want to preserve the quality of both the audio and video track.

The only way I know how is to use this program :
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/dvd_cutter_merger.html
It will allow you to cut a VOB file at any point you wish preserving both the video and audio stream.
The way to do it is to find the points where you wish to cut in minutes and seconds then use the above program to cut at exactly those points.
Note: only use whole minutes and seconds when cutting because if you use decimated seconds such as 25.5 secs for example then it will cause the program to cut at the wrong place.

Hope it helps.

TMPG does multiplex AC3 and M2v files as long as the ac3 is a valid file. It must be correctly extracted from the vobs first.

AC3 is DD5.1 is it not?

I actually need to re-multiplex a DTS stream into a M2V as I need to separate streams out from the VOB (only need 2 of 7 streams) and change the bitrate of the video stream......alas both solutions above won't work for me.

Thanks anyway guys, I guess there really isn't anything available at the moment to handle this :(

I just burnt my first vcd and it took 32 hours to decode. Is this normal or do I need to adjust some settings?

it took u 32 hours to burn a VCD or to Encode a VCD?

Techno

Encode.
It seems it had 4 processes to do. I chopped the movie in half to fit on two disks (It came out to be like 1.3 gigs). It decodes the first half (12 hours) then the second half (12 hours), then it does the first half again (4 hours) and the second half again (4 hours). I still only end up with 2 files, one for each half. I've explored all of the settings and I just cant figure out what I might be doing wrong. I read about people encoding an entire movie in like 6 hours.....any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

try to use motion search estimate (fast)

use less of the filters if possible.

Techno

If you want to encode to VCD hust use one of the templates. It seems to me you are using 2pass encoding.
Go here for help: http://www.vcdhelp.com/tmpgenc.htm

Thanks, I don't know how I was using 2 pass...I tried using the template and shabamm....It works now...now it will take 3.5 hours per half of the movie and it only does 1 sequence per half, so once again, THANK YOU!

Questions:

1) The 2 pass method......That will probably greatly increase the quality of the vcd, correct?

2)Whats the quality difference between (fast) and (very fast)?

Usually the faster encoding method you use the lower quality the picture is. Also the file size will be different due to the fact that the slower method you use the better the bitrate is allocated.
Basically slower gives a smaller file size with slightly better quality and very fast will give you largest file size and slightly lower quality.
My advice would be to stick with the default and use Normal as your setting as this will give the best size to speed ratio.