after ruining 10 cds i realize i have much more to learn.lately my dvd player comes up as cd only when trying to play my vcds. is there any good way to look at your video both before its run through tmpg and after to see just what youve got? later would be helpful to see if it will burn correctly. thanx

You should allways look at your mpeg after encodeing to make sure that the encodeing has worked,I use "power dvd" to view my mpeg"s and if it looks good on your computer it will probably work on your tv......

Seems im missing the m2v.dll file, can any1 help me out plz ?

OK, basically i have a DVDrip svcd film. But it has a very narrow screen(widescreen). Is there any software that will let me re-encode it so i can make the screen size slightly bigger.Ive tryed tmpgenc-plus to split the mpg file, i got a mp2 and a m2v files, but tmpgenc does not support m2v files when i try to load them back in. what program should i use to merge the 2 files and allow me to alter the screen size? or is there another program to do this?

TIA

You can load your m2v and mp2 files in "tmpgenc" but you probabbly need the "mpeg2" plugin,I"ll send it to you in your email.I don"t think you will be able to make the frame size bigger but you can stretch the frame out so it looks bigger and you can cut the black borders off the top and bottom,but it you are turning a "svcd/mpeg2 to a "vcd/mpeg1" the frame should fill your screen..

Hi All

does anyone know of a utility or something which can be used to check that MPEG 2 streams are fully DVD compliant.

thanks

Bill

shouldn"t your dvd authoring program tell you if it is compliant,With "nero" after you drag your mpeg into the program window it scans the file for dvd compliance...so you can use that as a tool for telling you if your file is dvd compliant and use it as a damn good authoring program.........

Hi

I'm trying to convert divx file into video-cd mpeg. When I play the resulting mpeg in Windows Media Player I get no sound. I loaded settings for video-cd. And the divx avi file I got has good sound. Please advise.

The audio from your divx file isn"t supported by "tmpgenc"..get "virtua dub" and extract the audio from your divx to a wav file. then encode this file as the audio source, but if your audio in your divx is "ac3" you will need a "ac3 decoder" to extract the audio to a wav file......

I know there is such thing as xsvcd, but is it better quality than svcd? If it is, how? The bitrate is much smaller and same with video size. Are there any good templates out there? Thanks!

XVCD can be better than svcd,a xvcd is just a vcd with higher bitrate so any bitrate higher than the standard vcd is a xvcd.xvcd is the way to go if you are doing mpeg1,but if you are going to crank up the bitrate a bunch you might as well do super-vcd,the super vcd"s I do have a higher bitrate than the standard super vcd..if you have a svcd with a bitrate of 2500kbs and a xvcd with 3500kbs the xvcd could be better quality but a bitrate that high with mpeg1 just isn"t practicle mught as well do super vcd,I send you some xvcd templates in your e-mail...

Thankyou very much.

Im using a Sony CCD-TRV608 and saving the video via USB in MPEG format.
I have to use TMPG to convert the Default MPEG to a MPEG compliant VCD.
I have tried a number of differnet settings but get he same results. The video looks better but still the delay in sound. The default MPEG plays fine in WMPlayer but after encoding it has a delay. Im getting a 5 second delay between the video and sound once the video is burned to CD.

Im using Roxio5 to burn to CD
8.4.32 NEC CDRW

Athlon 1.0GHZ
60GB IBM ATA133
512 MB Ram PC133

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Help

You are trying to make mpeg1 into vcd compliant?there are a couple of things that could work the easiyest thing would be if you captured to 352 by 240 and just put the vcd headers on the file with the "merge and cut" feature, then you wouldn"t have to encode your captures just run them through the merge and cut to put the vcd headers on and burn it to a disk.there is a feature in the "source range" were you can off-set the audio or video to a chosen time so you can sync up your file,bbmpeg has a multiplexor that you can use to off-set the audio ....just a few sugestions....

oohhh, there is a program called "mpeg vcr" that has a easy to use "multiplexor" that you can use to sync up your audio and video stream.You should be able to find a demo of the program if you search through "google".and get different burning software"Roxio" sux the big one, get "nero burning rom"
you can download a fully functioning demo from www.nero.com ........

What format is the source MPEG you have captured?
I.E what is the resolution what is the audio format?
If the audio is 441000khz MPEG1 layer2 or mp2 to give it's short name then you can simply multiplex this audio with your re-encoded MPEG (if that's even necessary)
If the file is MPEG1 it may not be necessary to re-encode at all.
Just run it through the simple multiplex option or the Merge&Cut feature in MPEGtools in TMPG and choose the MPEG1 VCD option to add the correct headers to the file to make it VCD compliant and then burn in NERO or VCDeasy.

ASHY

Thank you all for helping out
This infom will get me in the right direction

THanks a Million

Ive used the plugin bat file yet TmpgEnc still cannot read D2V files. Any suggestions?

you have to have the "dvd2avi" plugin..go into your "dvd2avi" folder and look for a file called dvd2avi.vfp and copy and paste this into your "tmpgenc" folder,or re-install "dvd2avi 1.76" on your system, either of these should work..

all i see is black, i do not see the movie, how do i fix this

first you have to have the proper codecs installed on your machine,like divx 3x,4,5, and if this don"t work write back with all the specs of your avi file, like codec, frame rate ,audio format ect.and tell us what you are doing and tell us what you want to do......need lots more information..

When I went to cut and merge to cut my movie, it said illegal mpeg stream. What does that mean? The video is mpeg2,super video cd VBR and 352x240.

don"t quote me on this but i think that happens if you try to join two mpeg clips that aren"t the same bitrate framerate audio format or the same headers,or different in any way..

I was trying to split a movie. I splitted part 1 of it. When I was splitted the other half and clicked on run, then it said illegal mpeg stream.

It is just one of those stupid things that happen with all the "mpeg tools" I have certain problems with all of them accept the de-multiplex..use the source range and encode your movies into two or more parts so you don"t have to split it later.I even split my d2v files into parts so I don"t have to use the mpeg tools..

352x240 is a VCD instead of an SVCD resolution (SVCD is 480x480 NTSC or 480x576 PAL). Could that have anything to do with your problem?

Hi. I've been getting problems where I coudn't load some of my movies in TMPGEnc. It kept crashing. Then I installed Nimo Codec with everything in it. Finally I was able to load my movies but now every time I listen to any audio, I hear static noises coming from my speakers. my speakers aren't the porblems because when I converted a movie on to a cd, my TV was making static noises. I think there's something wrong with my codecs. Will anyone be able to help me?? Thanks.

Well I think there are two things you should do,first try useing a different audio encoder try "toolame" or "scmpx" they work with "tmpgenc" as an "external tool" and allways extract the audio from your avi files and convert it to wav,most audio problems can be avoided if you do this and a better quality can be expected....

Hey. Not only am I now having problems with converting audio, I can't convert videos properly because it makes static noises. I think it has to do with the codec I installed. See, when i updated to Win Xp, I needed to install an audio codec. But when I did, it started making static noises. I'm really messed up. Sorry. Can you help me??

Totaly un-install all the audio codecs on your system and just install the ones you need and know work,and don"t play your mpeg files with windows media player,use "power dvd" or "win dvd"cuz certain combinations of codecs seem to screw with the way media player plays mpeg"s,on my system the media player plays mpegs with fuzzy sound that cut"s out all the time ,and the picture looks grainy but powerdvd plays them great.......

Thanks a lot! I finally got some help.

Hi, is anyone out there using VIDEO-CD 2.0 toolkit as authoring software ?
If so, why are my TMPGenc-converted MPEG1 files reported as "invalid" when I
try to import them as "assets". They seem to meet all the requirements (size,
framerate, bitrate etc. for VCD, but nothing doin'. Also, the extensions used
by VCD2 are greek to me, ie : .mmd for MPEG files, .spa for audio and whatnot.

Any help appreciated.

The easiest solution and probably the best solution is to get rid of that crappy authoring software and get "nero burning rom" you can download it at www.nero.com .Most likely the reason why your file isn"t being recognozed as compliant is that it is just a mpeg1 file, and it has to be a mpeg1 encoded for vcd,meaning that is could have the correct audio format and the correct bitrate and frame size but it doesn"t have the proper vcd headers on it, to correct this you can load your mpeg1 file into the "merge & cut" feature choose the mpeg1/vcd setting on the top ,choose your output directory and click run, this will copy your file and put the proper headers on it......

This very old software and you should upgrade to something else.
It is a common problem with the VIDEO-CD 2.0 TOOLKIT and is the fault of TMPG.
The reason is TMPG doesn't produce 100% compliant video-cd 2.0 MPEG streams.
Most authoring programs will ignore this and burn anyway, but the VIDEO-CD 2.0 TOOLKIT is made to produce absolutely 100% MPEG1 VCD 2.0 compliant streams.

What you need to do is re-multiplex the file with VCDMUX in the TOOLKIT which will make it 100% compliant and then try again and it should be fine. (Ignore the 'Read past end of file error')

If you want my advice download NERO or VCDeasy to author and burn your MPEGs.

ASHY