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The AVI file I converted to MPG was generated by Camtasia. I chose Video-CD (NTSC) as the MPEG format and all the defaults for the conversion. The encoding process shows the video just fine. But when I burn the resulting .MPG file to CD-R using Adaptec CD creator and attempt to play the CD in my DVD player I get nothing.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Are you just trying to burn the mpeg to the cd? If you use nero and look at what it burns to the videocd using the wizard, you'll see that more than just the mpeg is being created. VideoCd's require several folders in order for a DVD player to recognize them. I apologize if you know this, but just thought i'd try to help.
Another thing to consider may be your DVD player. I include this link http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers.php
which has a list of reported DVD player that can play video CD's. Some DVD players that claim to play video CD's in the users manual may not. I spent several frustrating hours my first try. It turned out to be the DVD player. You might also try to play the video CD on your computer through a program like Power DVD" and another would be "Win DVD. If it plays on your computer, I believe it should play on the DVD player.
>Are you just trying to burn the mpeg to the cd? If you use nero and look at what it burns to the videocd using the wizard, you'll see that more than just the mpeg is being created. VideoCd's require several folders in order for a DVD player to recognize them. I apologize if you know this, but just thought i'd try to help.
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>Tim
I assumed the Adaptec CD creator software would handle that. What is nero? So what do you recommend I try next?
>Another thing to consider may be your DVD player. I include this link
>http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers.php
>which has a list of reported DVD player that can play video CD's. Some DVD ^players that claim to play video CD's in the users manual may not. I spent >several frustrating hours my first try. It turned out to be the DVD player. >You might also try to play the video CD on your computer through a program >like Power DVD" and another would be "Win DVD. If it plays on your computer, I >believe it should play on the DVD player.
I checked this site before I got started and yes it 'claims' my player will handle video CD. I downloaded a trial version of PowerDVD and it plays the audio, not the video. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
>Another thing to consider may be your DVD player. I include this link
>http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers.php
>which has a list of reported DVD player that can play video CD's. Some DVD ^players that claim to play video CD's in the users manual may not. I spent >several frustrating hours my first try. It turned out to be the DVD player. >You might also try to play the video CD on your computer through a program >like Power DVD" and another would be "Win DVD. If it plays on your computer, I >believe it should play on the DVD player.
I checked this site before I got started and yes it 'claims' my player will handle video CD. I downloaded a trial version of PowerDVD and it plays the audio, not the video. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
I'm getting further....
I originally recorded the .AVI with a custom screen size. When I record with a
standard screen size like 352x240, I can now preview/test the resulting .MPG file using PowerDVD. But I still cannot play the CD-R I burn in my DVD player.
Btw, The Adaptec burner does show messages about generating a TOC.
Thanks. I had pretty come to the same conclusion and have already downloaded and purchased Nero. Now I'm getting an error during the burn, but I'm hoping that's a speed issue. Thanks again.
i am trying to convert my mpg file to a avi file it went into the part where it says what output file do u want it in and i cave it set at avi but at the way botton it says MPEG-1 352x240 29.97fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 192kbps
please tell me wut i am doing wrong
Yes TMPGenc does create AVI.
Open up the file you wish convert to AVI.
Change all the settings to the ones you require. For example frame size, framerate, aspect ratio and so on.
Next click 'File' and choose 'Output to file' from the menu then click 'Avi file'
In the box which pops up put in a name for the file. Now if you look to your far right handside of the 'Video' and 'Audio' boxes you will just about be able to see the edges of 2 buttons. The top one is to choose your video codec and the one below it is for your audio codec.
Choose these then click save.
Ignore what it says in the main program window at the bottom. You will still end up with an AVI.
Yes TMPGenc does create AVI.
Open up the file you wish convert to AVI.
Change all the settings to the ones you require. For example frame size, framerate, aspect ratio and so on.
Next click 'File' and choose 'Output to file' from the menu then click 'Avi file'
In the box which pops up put in a name for the file. Now if you look to your far right handside of the 'Video' and 'Audio' boxes you will just about be able to see the edges of 2 buttons. The top one is to choose your video codec and the one below it is for your audio codec.
Choose these then click save.
Ignore what it says in the main program window at the bottom. You will still end up with an AVI.
Whenever I encode an MPEG-2 movie, then try to import it into ReelDVD, it tells me "ReelDVD only supports 4:3 or 16:9 video." But the thing is, I am selecting 720x480 video in TMPGEnc. Why would it tell me my video is not 4:3?
Whenever I import the MPG into ReelDVD it quickly says "The resolution is changed to PAL," then immeadiatly says "Error: ReelDVD only supports 4:3 or 16:9 video. 0 files(s) accepted, 1 file(s) rejected."
I just encoded a file in the PAL format and that didn't work, either.
I can encode files with Ligos LSX-MPEG and they import just fine, but it keeps erroring out on a few of my files, so I'm trying TMPG.
No, I set nothing special, just set the project up as PAL 4:3. I am using ReelDVD 2.5.
About the only thing I can think of that may be causing the problem, is your source DVSD files, (although Ligos obviously isn't having the same problem).
Are you able to TMPGencode from any other source? I am doing most of my encoding from Targa or Bitmap frame sequences.
Hope you get it sorted out, because TMPGenc does a very good job image quality-wise.
I just purchased TMPGEnc and am trying to record a dvd. In the project wizard, I don't know what video or audio source files to select, so I can convert them to MPEG format. When I click the browse button and the OPEN window appears, under FILES OF TYPE it automatically looks under COMPRESSIBLE VIDEO(or audio)SOURCE(*.avi,*.bmp,*.ppm,*.tga,*.ipg,*.ipeg,*.qt,*.mov,*.asf). Unfortunately, none of those types of files show up on the dvd. If I select ALL FILES @ the bottom of the FILES OF TYPE dropdown menu more files appear, but I don't know which ones to choose. And when I select a file to open I think shows promise, I get a ...CANNOT OPEN, OR UNSUPPORTED error message. Any help will keep me from pulling my hair out, thanks!
you need to go to "vcd help.com"to figure out how to do it,cuz it seems you have no idea what you are doing,you cant just stick a dvd in your drive and run "tmpgenc" and at the end have another dvd movie,It doesn"t work that way,there are at least two other programs needed between putting your dvd in your drive and useing "tmpgenc".you have to "rip" your dvd to vob.files first,then you have to make a d2v file and a wav. file and then you can think about useing "tmpgenc".....go to www.vcdhelp.com and there are dvd ripping guides there that will help you do what you want,it isn"t as easy as it seems..
i get an error: "could not obtain the length of the movie with directshow" when cutting mpeg2
also wmplayer won't fast forward the mpg. (it will with m2v b4 multiplex)
what's wrong with my direct show filter settings?
all play fine with PowerDVD and WinDVD.
movies played fine b4 reinstall winXP, and i was able to split and fwd; on the new os installation something screwed up.
Can you please explain how to do this in virtual dub,,I have the program but am not sure the steps to take in order to convert an avi/divx file to an avi file so I can convert back to MPEG2...The Virtual Dub program is a little confusing to me as there is no instructin manual to read( or I can't find it if there is)...I need to convert an avi(divx) file from that format to avi so I can use TMPGEnc to make an MPEG2 file
I have a 1.2 ghz computer with 786 MB ram.
I am trying to convert a roughly 2.5 hr movie to ntsc format, using the Normal setting. I've closed all other applications. It says it will take about 17 hrs to convert. Should it take this long?
Jaysus. It should take about 5 hours or less on your system, but it depends on the file your encoding. i'e original resolution whether it's Mpeg 1 or 2 or AVI.
Check to make sure you're not doing two pass encoding and change the Motion search precision to Normal.
Ashy, it's an avi, and I've got the motion search precision set to Normal. I can't find where to check if I'm doing 2-pass encoding. Oh - is it the Rate Control Mode? That is set to Constant bitrate.
Techno, what do you mean by "goto beginning and hit start frame, goto end and hit last frame"? Where do I do that?
thanks for the help!
(forgive me if this shows up twice -- I don't know how I'm doing that.)
load TMPGENC and avi, goto settings button and then in the advanced tab, double click on the source range tab.
The at the beginning of the movie, hit the start frame and move the position to the end and hit the last frame button then click ok and encode. encode using the motion search estimate fast.
load TMPGENC and avi, goto settings button and then in the advanced tab, double click on the source range tab.
The at the beginning of the movie, hit the start frame and move the position to the end and hit the last frame button then click ok and encode. encode using the motion search estimate fast.
I am trying to use toolame as a layer 2 external audio encoder, but I get the message that it can't be used as an external coder. What am I doing wrong? I downloaded the toolame that someone pointed to in another post, and I renamed the .exe to toolame.exe.
Have you actually downloaded this particular binary. They are not all the same and it works no prob on my system. If it still doesn't work make sure you have the latest TMPGenc.
*** This post is people having problems when converting Movies from one framerate to another e.g
29.97fps to 25fps which is causing the resulting movie to have jerky playback. ***
The first step is to install all the above software then the next thing is to start with your original AVI if you have one. If not then we are going to have to use either the MPEG file we want to convert that doesn't jerk or the MPEG file that we have already converted that does jerk.
I will outline all three methods below.
Step2.
First method:
**Starting off with a jerky MPEG which has already been converted.**
What we need to do is convert this MPEG back to it's original framerate to remove the choppy playback using TMPGenc.
Load one of the VCD templates either PAL or NTSC depending on your T.V. system.
Now click load again and this time choose the template which says Unlock.mcf
Load your MPEG and under 'Stream type' click Video only.
Click setting and under the Video tab change the framerate to what the original movie was. So if the movie you have encoded is 23.976fps and the original was 25fps then change the framerate to 25fps. Leave the size as it is, it should be the same as the source. Under rate control choose CBR at 4000kbps. (The reason for this is to preserve quality so make sure you have plenty of hard drive space).
Under the advanced tab choose the 'Source aspect ratio' either 4:3 625 line PAL or 4:3 525 line NTSC depending on you source movie.
Choose your output and we are ready to encode.
When TMPGenc has finished check the movie to ensure it plays smoothly again. If it's ok it then Goto STEP 3.
Second Method:
** Starting with an MPEG movie which doesn't have choppy playback **
Goto STEP 3.
Third method:
** Starting off with an AVI **
Goto Step 3
STEP 3.
Once we have our MPEG or AVI which doesn't jerk then we can begin to change the framerate of the movie.
Start up Virtualdub, click File and open your MPEG or AVI you created from the SECOND or Third method. In Virtualdub click File then click 'Save wav' and choose where you want to save then click save.
Next click Video and choose 'Frame Rate' and change the frame rate to the one you want to convert to i.e 25fps.
Now click 'Edit' and click 'end' from the menu.
Note what it says in the timescale box as the length of the movie exactly.
Now calculate what the total time is in seconds. For example 1:20:02.360 would be 4802.360 secs, write this down. Close virtualdub.
The next steps are continued in another post as this post was so long it wouldn't allow it so I had to split it.
Cont...
when i encode a movie to SVCD with aspect ratio "16:9 Display" and play it in my standalone dvd-player the picture is shaking!
what have i done wrong?
something with pal and ntsc(film)?
the movie have a framerate of 23.97. and that's ntcsfilm, right?