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When I play back mpg's created by TMPGEnc, the time is shown as approximetly twice the amount that I converted - i.e. 2 minute clip becomes 4 minutes after conversion. When I play the mpg back, it stops after the pre-conversion time. I have tried to go back and clip off the extra time using the merge/edit tools, but it does not work. The file size is not twice as large, but when trying to covert to VCD, time is the essential, and having half the mpg being blank time causes a problem. Is there a way to stop thig from happening?
Are you saying that you start of with say a 1hr movie which after being converted by TMPG ends up being a 2 hr movie with the last hour just being a blank picture?
I have no idea or have ever heard of this one, but you could try to use the source range filter under the advanced tab in settings and choose the start and end of your movie to see if it corrects it when you encode.
Or, are you saying that when you are encoding it is doubling the time and encoding the first part as blank.
If this is the case you probably have the two pass option enabled in the 'Rate controle mode' option under the Video tab in Settings.
For example - a raw 2min film encoded makes 4 minutes. But, there is nothing there in the last 2 minutes that it has tacked on during encoding. Although it has nothing there, the 2 extra minutes show up on the clock when I try to play it or when I try to burn it to VCD. Although, it plays normal when in Quicktime 5, which is odd. Usually I play it with Microsoft Media player, or with the media player that is included in ATI's AIW (version 7.1). If I try to open it to recoded with TMPGEnc (not mulitplex or cut/merge), it gives me a illegal floating point error. Any ideas?
I think I found the solution to my problem. I completely unistalled/reinstalled Microsoft Media player, along with it's codecs and shared resources. After doing that, I opened the existing mpg in VirtualDub and saved them as avi. I then went back to TNPGEnc and recoded them as mpg's. It seemd to fix the extra time problem.
Whenever I try to use an MPEG2-stream (SVCD-Format) as source-stream, I get the message: "File <name> can not open, or unsupported", even if I made this file with TMPGEnc. I'm using the TMPGEnc Version 2.53. Any ideas what to do?
I am getting the same error message -- but mine occurs when trying to convert .avi to mpg1. I can put it in the audio section but not the video -- and I am getting only audio on the mpeg. I am VERY new to all of this, so I've been going through the boards and have downloaded Divx 4.12... I can't seem to find a codec for SMR, but I really don't think this is my problem. Any advice???
Many poeple have had this problem trying to re-encode mpeg2,the way around it is to de-multplex the mpeg2 file and load the video and audio in seperately...I hope this works for you.......sherlock
sory I forgot to answer "Chantico,s" question,to get rid of the "can"t open unsupported" error for avi"s go to yer "enviromentel settings" under "vfapi plugins" and raise your "direct show" to "2" and keep every thing else at "0".This should solve your problem with unsupported avi"s...........sherlock
For quicktime you can try http://www.doom9.org in the downloads section. For rm you're SOL, there aren't any (although EO Video can do it). Im not sure about pinnacle.
When I create an Mpeg-1 file with TMPGenc using VBR my movies are playing perfectly with my Media Player 7.1. However, if I simply select to create the same movie with CBR instead of VBR then trying to play this movie will make Media Player crash somewhere in the middle of the movie.
Anyone have a solution to this? Some kind of setting I should change or anything?
The easyest solution for this is to not use "media player" I can"t stand the program it sucks for playing mpeg"s(on my system anyway)but if you get "power dvd" it plays mpeg"s really well, or you can try "xing mpeg player" it works pretty good too,and you can get a trial copy on the web if you look for it....sory I can"t be more help but it seems like a good idea to have a seperate mpeg player.........
I think the problem is that "media player"s mpeg2 codec isn"t very good, and it just won"t play most mpegs properly(with me anyway).Do you wan"t to distribute them as vcd"s ,svcd"s or dvd"s or do you want to distribute them as files to play on a computer,of you want to play them on a computer you might as well just burn them as data files in avi.then you know it will play on a computer.But when dealing with mpegs they will never play right for every one,cuz every one would have to have the proper codecs installed on there machine and as you know media player can be very picky with the mpegs it plays..
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I have problems encoding DV footage that I have captured with my Pinnacle DV 500. It crashes the program when load it as the source video. It does this on several different computers that I work on. Is there a reason for this? Is all footage captured from a IEEE 1394 card to a DV format not compatible with the TMPGEnc or is it just the DV500?
"TMPGEnc can not read AVI file with DV format."
The file is probably Type-1 DV format. The format is not supported by TMPGenc. Type-1format has different structure from AVI format. TMPGenc can not read the format since TMPGenc does not support DirectShow.
To solve this matter, try to save the captured or edited file as Type-2 DV format, however, there are still chance not to be able to read the file if you are using general IEEE1394 board without codec for VFW.
Hi,
I'm trying to encode Mini DV video on a SVCD using TMPEG. The quality seems very high to me, but there is a block noise on very fast scenes.
I try however what you mention in this post but block noise still remains.
You said "high speed scenes always give blockyness in TMPG which is why I personally don't use TMPG for MPEG2 encoding."
Well, what do you use for that then?
I wonder if anyone can help me?
I am trying to load a divx movie then convert to vcd.
i get an error come up saying "unable to decode audio".
Ay ideas???
Many thanks...
I¡Çve got a 20 Minute vacation movie I¡Çve assembled in Adobe Premiere¡Äand I¡Çve saved the ¡Èproject¡É as an AVI (3.99GB pcm) It looks great. [I¡Çm running XP, with a 1 GHZ Pent III.]
2 Things I¡Çd like to do:
[1] Create a ¡ÈVideo¡ÉCD of this that will look as good as possible, and play on a standalone DVD player. (I see many of the new models will play VCD, but can they handle a ¡Èbetter¡É compression format?
[2] Copy the movie onto VHS. (I¡Çm able to ¡Èsee¡É computer output—including the Media Player window, which can be dragged to a size big enough to fill the TVscreen—using the cable connections from my ATI Radeon 8500DV Video Card. But is this the best way? I know I¡Çve first got to convert that AVI down to MPEG-2, and am willing to allow for whatever time and CPU resources necessary to come up with something that will be just small enough to fit on and playback on a CD (using a DVD player).
I tried the ¡ÈCinepak¡É in the Export Timeline of Premiere. I cranked out 30 secs,and it looked a little blocky. So I downloaded and tried TMPGEnc, the newest version—but it claims that my AVI is not compatible?!)
Any advice on both/either of these topics would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Chris
[1] Video CD's have a standard compression and bitrate which I would say you are best sticking to if the disc is going to be distributed. I have never yet seen a DVD that wont play a standard VCD.
You can't use a different type of compression (for VCD it must be MPEG-1 and with SVCD you can use MPEG-1 or MPEG-2) but you can get away with a few tricks, such as using higher than normal bitrates for better quality. Others on this forum wil be better qualified than me to advise on this as I'm only a beginner in this area.
[2] Copy the movie to VHS
Don't enlarge the window, press CTRL-Enter or under the VIEW menu choose Full-Screen. It will tell Media Player to take over your entire screen display and play the movie to fill the screen (or as near as without changing the aspect ratio). It will also change screen resolution etc so you get smoother playback a lot of the time. If you plan to do this it's a good idea to add a few seconds blank to the start of the movie to give you time to press Record on the VCR. I've used a RADEON 64DDR VIVO for this and it works really well, and I'm only on a P3-450!
I'm using TMPGEnc Version 2.53. Whenever I try to convert an MPEG2-Video into another Format, TMPGEnc tells me, that it is not able to load the MPEG2-file or this filen is incompatible. Although if I have made this MPEG2 file from an AVI-file by using TMPEGEnc.
What can I do?
TMPEG will encode an avi or MPEG1 file to MPE1, MPEG2 or avi as these formats are already supported by directshow. Your problem, if you haven't already, is that you don't have an appropiate MPEG2 codec installed to decode the MPEG2 movie you have created as directshow doesn't come with native MPEG2 support.
There are two ways around this. Firstly demultiplex the audio from the video as this doesn't need to be re-encoded then download the appropiate MPEG2 codecs. http://dshow.narod.ru/video/mpeg2codec_installer.zip
or if you have DVD2AVI installed, just open the mpeg2 file in DVD2AVI and create a d2v project file without the audio and put this in TMPG.
When all is done re-multiplex the audio back with your new video file.
Note: installing the above MPEG2 codecs will also cause mediaplayer to use these codecs to play back MPEG2 files. This will affect the aspect ratio of the movie as the codecs don't seem to display SVCD's correctly.
If you have an MPEG2 software player installed such as WINDVD then use that to play back your files and not mediaplayer or just stick with the DVD2AVI method.
that grafic doesn"t come from "tmpgenc".Do you have the "elgard mpeg2 codec" cuz this leaves a grafic on the mpeg,try doing a file search in your system and look for "darim" and if you find the file try to get rid of it or replace it with another mpeg codec...I hope this helps?............sherlock
i get a "jerkyness" in some of my vcd"s to.They seem to be fine when I play them on my computer but when I burn them and play them I get the jerkyness especially when there is a lot of movement on the screen,but I think this has to do with my dvd player cuz if I play the same movies on some different players they are fine,I think it has to do with the buffers in my player....this isn"t a sollution to yer problem but at least you know you aren"t alone.........