I've been trying for the last few days to use TMPG on my host sister's laptop (I'm studying abroad in Japan), but since her version of Windows 98 is in Japanese, TMPG defaults to Japanese and I can't figure out how to switch it to English. This makes it *very* difficult to use (my written Japanese, let alone technical Japanese, is not very good). Does anyone know how I can change this (a registry tweak, maybe)? Thanks!

As far as I know, Language setting of TMPGEnc can not be switched on Windows9X because of Windows9X does not have locale setting concept as Windows2000 or XP.
Under Windows 2000, I know I can swtich the language.

If you prefer to stick with one language, you can buy "TMPGEnc Plus" either English or Japanese version at 48$. TMPGEnc Plus supports only one language, English or Japanese.

I encode my DVD to SVCD but quality not so good. Some said that SVCD is near DVD quality but I just can't make it. What is the setting for it? What burning software for SVCD?

I tried VCD and SVCD as well.

SVCD is much better than VCD.

Comparing with DVD, I'm not quite sure it's same quality.

But not bad any way.(720x480 : 480x480)

I used Neo buring Rom to burn it.

In fact, I captured av-dvi(25Mbps) from my Sony dcr-7 dv 6mm cam(720x480) through IEEE1394.

Then I encoded it to MPEG-2(for SVCD) using TMPGEnc.

Hope it helps.

Kisoo

Sorry

dv-avi format...

Ivan I think you would benefit from trying out some of the DVD to SVCD guides out there.

Here are some:

http://www.vcdhelp.com
http://doom9.net

There are other links on those sites as well.

And SVCD is much better than VCD, the only differens with SVCD is that it's not as sharp picture as a DVD, you can see that when you view the aftertexts and compare a svcd to a dvd. But on the other hand, the picture is just as a DVD I think. And SVCD is supposed to be viewed on a TV and not the computer screen. If you view if on a computer screen it dosn't look as good as on a TV.

/Regards Dennis

i've had the same lack of video shoing up problem several other people have asked about and as instructed uninstalled divx5 and made sure i had 3.11 and 4 installed. however, it still isn't working. these are all with files that play fine. are there any other problems that may be causing this, or perhaps some residual stuff from the 5 codec that may be messing it up still?

thanks.

set directshow multimedia file reader to the top priority
it should solve ur prob no matter wat divx ver u installed
divx 5.01 works fine with me

when opening an avi. file in the video source i receive an error message saying,
file cannot open or unsupported. but, it is an avi. file. any ideas why this is occuring and how to fix it?

try raising the "Direct show" filter in the "enviromental settings".....

Hmm try checking the AVI file with Virtual Dub or maby the avi file is in some strange format that Tmpgenc can't read :/

Not all files that you can play in windows mediaplayer are able to open in tmpgenc but virtaul dub can I think and in there you can save it to a proper format.

/Regards Dennis

increase the avi vfw and the avi opendml filters to a higher priority.

Techno

When using an external Layer-2 encoder such as tooLame or SCMPX, TMPGEnc will call the external program successfully. Once the external completes, TMPGEnc returns an error "External encoder toolame.exe was not run properly" and the project is aborted. It does the same thing for both tooLame and SCMPX. Apparently there's some problem with TMPGEnc recognizing that the program completed successfully. I'm running on Windows XP Home Edition.

Okay, I downloaded a different executable as noted in some other messages... now toolame completes the encoding... or at least it seams.. it went fairly quick. The toolame screen goes away, TMPGEnc starts transcoding video with new ausio and returns an "Illegal MPEG audiostream" error. Project then aborts...

Hi there, i am from Germany

i downloaded an avi which is stuttering on my DVD.
Actually it is allready stuttering in avi format.

Is the reason for that that it is in NTSC mode??
Can i change it to PAL, how are the Rates for this???

Thx in advance!!

when useing the merge and cut function,I am getting the message "stream writing error" half way through the process.Any ideas what this problem is?

The file you are using maybe have corrupted frames.

:)

Techno

I am having the same problem when I try cutting an mpeg. Is there anything at all that can be done to avoid the error??

I have 4 SVCD's each filling a complete 80 min CD-R.

My DVD-player seems only to be capable of playing 74 min CD's, so I want to split join the movies.
When using the merge&cut utility I have some problem with the audio:
1) When taking the first 40 minutes (out of 45 minutes) from part 1 the last 30 seconds of the created SVCD contain no audio;
2) When merging the last 5 minutes from part 1 with the first 35 minutes from part 2 the first 5 minutes of audio are good, after this point the audio is out of sync.

Does anyone have a clue, or is there another way to do this?

Can anyone help.

I am trying to encode an AVI which has been created with the Divx codec, to a VCD MPEg.

The picture works fine but there is no sound.
I have the avi set as the audio source, I have checked the version of the DIVX codec that the AVi was encoded in and I have them all installed, yet still no sound.

can anyone help?

thanks

load the avi in virtual dub and save it as wav.

load the wav and video in TMPGENc and encode.

This should work

Techno

The reason for this is that the avi reader built into TMPGEnc, which is given top priority on the list of readers, doesn't know how to get MP3 audio out of a DIVX file.

To fix this, unselect it. In the environmental settings area, under VFAPI plugin. The one you WANT it to use is the directshow filter.

- Gurm

i could kiss you!! It realy works.This problem had cost me some nights (and some discusion with my girlfriend).I just changed the priority settings by clicking on the right mouse bottem.
Thank you!

Hi all,
I have a couple of mpeg's which i would like to cut a bit and join to fit on one cd. When opening the file(s) with TMPEnc's mpegtools-merge&cut or just plain in TMPEnc in video source i get the error message "Illegal MPEG video stream".
I can watch the file fine and burn it perfectly with nero, but TMPEnc, vcdimager, virtualdub all give me error messages. Any idea how i can convert the file to something i can open with TMPEnc to cut/join it etc...

Thanks

AutoBaud

Hi, i have the same problem as yours, i have posted the same topic today, let's hope that someone can solve this problem. if i know something i'll post it 4 you. good luck

I have win2K and when I try to trim the beginning of my MPG2 file to get out 37 seconds of VCR tracking the program starts it and then finished it up but its only 137mbs and the original was 3.4gigs....I played it back the cut played perfectly where I wanted it to but the file was drastacly shortend. Its not even a minuite of the film. What could I do to correct this.
My system specs are:
Intel P3-1ghz
768mb pc133 ram
40 gig hd just for video files
20 gig for operating system
Page file set to 6000

ANy help?

Hello I posted a thread earlier about a samller size file and some of the replies said to put the file on 2 cd's I do not understand how that will work, does it mean I will have half the movie on one cd and the other half on the second cd. if someone could help clarify this up I would appreciate it.



Thanks,
Matt Nichols

yep, that is what it means! :)

if your movie is less than 80 mins but file size is big, you can still burn this in nero as nero used timescale

Techno

sorry, uses timescale

Techno

No it F....ing doesn't for the last f....king time u little p...k!!!!!!!!!!!