I am trying to export a movie in Premiere 6. It is a collection of stills that I am making an AVI out of (later to encode to Xsvcd).All was fine until recently. When I try to export the movie(Microsoft DV AVI) it gets to frame 133 then I get "error writing movie (disk full?). The disk is not full. Any help would be great !

Thanks----Ron

the file maybe over 4GB therefor u must have FAT32, so convert to NTFS :)

Techno

Techno--How do I convert to NTFS??

To convert FAT or FAT32 to NTFS in NT/2000/XP, open command prompt and run this command:

convert c: /FS:NTFS

where c: is the drive letter you want to convert. If it is locked it will ask you if it should mark it as convert on next boot. Say yes, then reboot.

I met a problem when I tried to capture a VHS video(NTSC) using Virtual Dub.

Since Virtual Dub provides 'Overlay' and 'Preview' mode for capturing, I tried 'Preview' mode because I had problem to capture it couple of times.

It is 45 min tape.

After I finished it with overlay mode quite well, I tried it with WMP but I could only see a little upper part of it.

So I tried Preview mode. As soon as I start capture, screen shows only a little part of upper screen(1/15).

Why is that? Is it copy protected?

I captured many VHS tapes without any problem like this.

The reason why I'm trying to capture and make VCD is that video quality of this VHS tape is deteriorating rapidly since my wife use it every day.

I hope I could find solution^^

Kisoo

Is it why that it's copy protected by macrovision technique which I don't know well.

Any software to decrypt it?

Kisoo

If you have used the equipment you have now and been sucsessfull lot's of times before it's probably something with the tape. It could be a macrovision thing probably. Maby you need a filter that you put between your VCR and Capturecard in order to filter out the macrovision or maby it's just a copy protection. Try to copy the tape between two VCR's and if the copy is screwed up that's most lightly the problem, some sort of copy protection.

Other than that I don't know but I guess you could go to a stor and have them copy it for you if the quality is degrading and you really need a copy for safe keeping untill you have found a way to capture it to vcd.

/Regards Dennis

it has nothing to do with that.

try using avi_io to capture.

Then increase the avivfw and the avi opendml priorities to a higher priority in the environment settings and load the avi and make VCD!

:)

Techno

1. Thanks Dennis

Is there any software filter to clean it if it's related with Macrovision thing?

2. Thanks Techno

Is AVI-IO a program? Then where can I get it?

Kisoo

it is free, search for it on the web.

This also avoids the 4GB limit, by splitting it over several files.

Techno

If your are info VHS to VCD capturing maby you should think about getting some PRO equpiment then ?

Will probably save you lot's of problems and time :)

Well

I tried Techno theory that Nero accept and apply time scale than just file size.

I captured two dv-avi from 6mm DV CAM tape. Each has 160Mbyte and 620Mbyte size respectively.

And I had 700Mbyte CDR.

I burned them and I had problem with my system. It halted and I had to force rebooting. But I found 160Mbyte and 620Mbyte MPEG-2 on that 700Mbyte cd and the end of SVCD and what I encoded matched, not cut off.

I do not understand how it could happen. But it works.

Time is around 49min.

Kisoo

This is no voodoo =)

When burning an (S)VCD you can use the full ~800MB capacity of an 80 Minute Disk. When burning an iso9660 Data CD the missing 100MB are for checksums.
You can find more detailed information at www.vcdhelp.com

happy weekend

M.Bastian

Do you mean that I can burn 800Mbyte on 700Mbyte(80min) disk?

Also 160 and 620Mbye mpeg-2 files are already encoded using TMPGenc, not just captured dv-avi files^^.

Kisoo

It is possible to burn that YES.

I have burnt a 823Megabyte MPG file onto a CD as SVCD.

:)

800mb is the limit for 700mb cd"s in vcd and svcd mode........

I have used Smartripper to get a movie from a DVD and then passed it through DVD2AVI. Then I use TMPGENC (ver 2.53 lastest) to encode the video I am using Mpeg 2 with CBR at a bit rate of 4000. The result is the movie is too large to fit on a 4.7GB DVD-r.

I have tried to change the bit rate from 4000 to 3500. That did not reduce the size.
I have used the 2 pass VBR. That did not reduce the size.

Do you other suggestions?


Thanks in advance.

David

use auto_cq and quality should be set to 100
enter 8000 for max bitrate and 0 for minimum

Techno

I finally was able to download TMPGEnc that was a complete file. Now I am having difficulties with the vfp file. Everytime I download it, I get an "unexpected end of archive" error. Where can I find the complete file of this?

As mentioned in license.txt. TMPGEnc.net is only legal and official place which provides program and VFAPI plug-in.

I have been downloading so many times with different PC, browser etc., such as Win98, Win2000, WinXP, IE4, 5.5, 6, and Netscape 4, I have never faced any downlaoding/unzipping problem. I expect you to check your hardware, software configlation if everything is working properly.

when I try to download it, it tells me that it is a corrupt or split file. I have no problem dl'ing anything else, just these 2 files.

What I suggest, to make sure, is to go to a different system and download it and extract it. If it works, then part of your modem/nic is faulty which is corrupting the files.

Techno

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Ok. take a look at http://www.softdeko.8m.com/download_managers.htm

There are a lot to choose from GetRight and GoZilla are a couple of popular names.
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When I encode an avi for videoCD format elapsed times ocurs, that its to say, the motion is frozen a miliseconds

Hi,

I've transformed an .avi file in a dvd file.
Now how I can burn it in a cd?

burn it in a CD?

You can make a SVCD or VCD if you wish (to play it on a standalone dvd player)

But if you make a DVD in TMPGENC, you cannot play it on a standalone DVD player, you need a DVD burner, DVD-R media's and DVD writer software to burn this.

Techno

I´m a beginner in working with TMPGEnc and I need help. I tried to convert an AVI-file to mpeg1. there was no problem. but the quality of the video is very bad (audio is ok).
I worked with the standard settings for VCD, but what settings can I also do to get better quality???

VCD is not good quality.

another thing is to do this:

load the VCD template and don't encode. Load the unlock template then change the VBV buffer size to 224 and encode.

Also, try using "very high quality"

VCD will only be good if the source is good. :)

I hope it helps

Techno

VBV buffer size has absolutely nothing to do with image quality.
According to ISO/IEC 13818-2 the VBV buffer size is the hard limit of how much data is buffered bevore it goes to the decoder.
I dont have time to go in detail but ins very simple terms this means that if you choose the VBV size to low for the selected bitrate and GOP structure you will end up with an jerky movie in high bitrate scenes.

Regarding the original Question: Since I dont know how good or bad the quality of your avi file(s) is I just can give you the tip to play around with an typical scene(10 seconds or so)and see what improvements the filters give you.
Esp try under Advanced->Noise Reduction and Quantize Matrix -> Soften Block Noise.

For good info visit httpd://www.vcdhelp.com or just search with google.com. Search Terms like "Tmpgenc Noise filter" points to alot of good discussions and HowTo's

cheers

M. Bastian

Q.1

Is it possible to play in dvd player ( not support SVCD) ?

I made VCD format with movie with hi resolution than VCD Spec.
ex) Record CD with VCD format encoded MPEG-1 and resolution 480*480
or more higher resolution.

If not, let me know that why ?



Q.2

Can I play SVCD in VCD player ( DVD player not support SVCD) ? How ?

I don't know if this is any help,

Yes you can fool your dvd player to play SVCD's as VCD's. Goto the previous pages and there is a article on something like Play SVCD's on the dvd player by Dennis I think, I can't remember. Go check it out

Techno

I need help about Nero and VCD/SVCD:
I have burned VCDs with a LG writer, and I can see them perfectly in my player as VCD 2.0

However, at home, I burn with a Yamaha 2100E writer, and then my player recognizes yamaha burnings VCDs as 1.1
I have revised Nero version/options and they are the same (LG & Yamaha).

Furthermore, If I copy a VCD 2.0 (burned with LG) to other CD (burning with Yamaha) the final VCD is 1.1

Where is the problem?

Thank you in advance

To me, it has got nothing to do with TMPGENC (but this is my opinion).

TMPGENC only makes the VCD with the template you have choosen.

What version of TMPGENC are you running? Download the new version (v2.53 from this site or TMPGENC plus from www.pegasys-inc.com)

Techno

when i want to start the encodig of an avi to mpg the following message appears
-An error occurred when audio was decoded-

I have wk2 with dx80NT. Also divx 5.1 is installed at the system.

Any ideas?

load the avi in virtualdub

save the audio as wav

then load the wav and the video in TMPGENC and encode

Techno

Is it possible to acces the encoder using a command line interface or some api???

I am writing a server app that will serve work units to the encoder client on various machines, giving me a encoder farm

this is an academic exersise and not for any commercial use

its a project for a degree program i am doing

http://www.pegasys-inc.com/e_release02.html