Help me please someone!
I'm pulling my hair out.
Each time i generate an animated chapter menu in TSVC, the TMPG Enc pops up and says it cn't encode the file that TSCV has asked it to
Please help me as soon as you can please. I'm making a wedding video on SVCD for ,y sister who lives in spain and is going back to spain to live at the end of this week! i promised i'd have it done and looking lovely. there must be a way round this!
PLEASE HLP ME!!!
(What could I bribe you with? Hmmm...)
cheers for your time
rix

I am trying to convert avi to vcd but it comes out horrible. I get alot of blocks, blurred and the color seems like there is someone shining a spotlight. I am also trying to get full screen which I read that if you use no margins it is supposed to work but I am also having to crop it to achieve this. I try and change the settings but it seems like its not changing anything at all. I am loading the profile for ntsc and then changing the settings.
Can anyone tell me what the proper settings should be to achieve this?
Also I downloaded a .mpg video and it was great...how do I see what settings were used to encode this?

Jules

well, make sure the original source was good

load the vcd template
load the unlock template
change the vbv buffer size to 224
brighten the picture up a tad (+5 or +10)

Then encode

See what happens

Techno

Somebody mentioned stadard conversion. Is that possible with this software. Like going NTSC AVI to PAL AVI or PAL MPEG2?
Gene

yes you can.

I have done it all the time although I am in a PAL region.

Just basically load the NTSC/PAL template and encode I guess

Techno

I mean I used vitualdud to convert the audio to WAV file not AVI... like I said in my other message

Help I'm going insane. I'm so close yet so far.
I encoded a dvd rip avi and got video but no sound. so I used vitualdud to convert to AVI. and put that into audio source. Now I'm getting sound but no video! What be happening. I have the codecs cause I can watch the video. Can someone please help me. And does anyone no the absolute best settings for video for a US ntsc dvd rip! Thanks... Please e-mail me or post the help stuff here thanks
leglesscorpse@aol.com

It seems as if it a DIVX v5 avi.

Look down, I posted up a no video thread.

If u can't be bothered, here::)

uninstall DIVX v5 codec
install DIVX v4.11 or v4.12 codec
extract the WAVE in Virtualdub
load in the video and the wav in TMPGENC and encode

This should solve the problem.

Techno

what settings do i need to get rid of the blockiness on fast scenes. im coverting an avi from a dvd rip to xvcd.please help

increase the vbv biffer size to 224. and make sure it is on hgh quality/auto_CQ.

Techno

Try as I have in settings...."Quantize matrix" setting the "soften block noise" to about 80 each. I found that worked and I can use "Motion search percision" to "Motion estimate search (fast)" and it comes out good and encodes 5-7 times faster than "higest quality (very slow)" with a smooth video. I am using Divx DVDrips though.

Can someone help. After i have entered all my settings and click start, I get the error,, "X the error occurred when ACM was initialized". Its wont let me continue with the procces.. Im using version 2.53.35.130 my os is windows xp pro.

hmmm.

use vob2audio to extract the audio as wav and then load that in TMPGENC with the video and encode.

Techno

I have been trying to sync up my vidio and audio tracks forever and now I finally got it right but nero says 44100khz 2 channel audio isn"t compliant how do I make it compliant?????any help would be great......

well, it should be if u used the vcd template in TMPGENC.

what to do is to extract the audio as wave using virtualdub (making sure it is 44100Hz)

then load this and the video in TMPGENC and encoding it using a VCD temp and burning it in nero!


Techno

that is what I did accept I didn"t have to extract the wav cuz it was wav from dvd2avi,but nero says it isn"t compliant audio cuz it is 2 channel...

I figured it out ,the audio was 3 layer instead of 2,but now the audio just cuts out I have tried 3 different external encoders but the audio still cuts in and out,it seems once you fix one problem another one pops up......

try using ez cd-da extracter, it has a converter in it. convert it to MP3 then encode in TMPGENC and it should be fine.

Techno

I read somewhere(a link from vcdhelp i think) that in the next version NTSC to PAL conversion will be improved,making the converted vid MUCH cleaner(no dropped frames and so on).
Can anybody confirm this??????????
Cheerz

I have encoded 1 film into svcd but it is in 2 halfs how do i paste the 2 together???

use MPEG tools to merge them together

first load file no1 then file no2 then save them! :)

Make sure u select MPEG2

Techno

Whenever I have TMPGEnc merge two MPEG-2 files, there sound an the end of each section is either cut off or warped.

Merging MPEG-2 480x480 29.97fps CQ 100, Layer-2 44100Hz 160kbps files for SVCD production.

Hi! There~~
I have faced on the task of converting HDTV MP@HL(1920x1080i) Transport-Stream source files(.tp) to Direct-show Stream as MS-MPEG4, Divx, or MPG, etc..
I found that only TMPGenc opened the .tp stream files successfully with Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder v. 1.40(alpha) Direct-show filter.

After exporting the .tp to .avi file with TMPGenc, I have encountered with a problem on .avi have no sounds in spite of audio track presence !!

Some times later, I recognized that the .tp files have dual audio track.
as below.. (Mediaplayer with Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder v. 1.40 alpha)
http://myhome.hananet.net/~skylarkx/myhd01.jpg
http://myhome.hananet.net/~skylarkx/myhd02.jpg

As a result, TMPGenc utilize subchannel audio-track which have no sounds generally in order to make .avi... , and ignores the primary audio-track.


Now, TMPGenc needed,
1. Give audio-track(or device) selection if the source stream has multi-track audio..
or
2. TMPGenc should utilize primary audio-track on HDTV MP@HL Transport-Stream source files instead of subchannel as now.

Would it be possible for next update?
(I'll waiting with all my heart!!)

For reference, I leave HDTV Transport-Stream MP@HL sample file
(Estimated 15MB, running time is about 7sec.. WOW!!!)
http://myhome.hananet.net/~skylarkx/sample.tp

Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder v. 1.40(alpha) Direct-show filter
http://www.moonlight.co.il/download/EMpgDec140.zip
http://www.elecard.com/ftp/pub/mpeg/decoder/EMpgDec140.zip (Mirror)


from Rep of KOREA.. Sun-Jin Hwang

wow, impressive stuff! :)

Techno

Thank you for ur link of mpeg2 TS directx filter...I finally can open a sample.tp of BoA singing No1 on musiccamp...thanks a lot

Does it cause any problems to run other programs while tmpgenc is encoding?

yep, I answered...

Techno

On my system I can"t even hav the screen saver on without haveing it cause a error in my video file, so you pretty much have to encode and do nothing else....

Really Sherlock? wow! :) unusual

Techno