Is there a way I can make a VCD that claims the same quality as an SVCD to play on a VCD compliant player?? and what are any possible reccomended settings for SVCD/ VCD?

Hello,

VCD = MPEG-1 stream video
SVCD = MPEG-2 stream video

A VCD player does not recognize MPEG-2 streams; you may try to increase the width and height of your file to match that of a SVCD, but this may not play on your VCD player.

Cheerz,
Bdzzld.

Hmmm,

I dont quite understand the question.

A VCD can never be the quality of an SVCD. Because of the much lower resolution of VCDs it cant match the quality of an SVCD. Even with an raised bitrate.
According to my encoding tests and the judgment of 3 friends which I showed the results making an MPEG1 stream with the bitrate/resolution of an SVCD will give slightly inferiour quality compared to an standard MPEG2 SVCD.(And vice versa)

I guess your file is an SVCD but your player only can play VCDs?
If so you can fool most players with changing the Header of your mpeg file to VCD (non-standard). I fear I dont have time to explain it in detail right now but you have to use File -> MPEG Tools -> Merge & Cut in TMPGEnc.
Basically you load your SVCD file, change Type to MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard) and write it out under a different name.

If you want to encode your own files and your player only can play VCDs you should raise the bitrate of an VCD to at least 1300 to expect reasonable quality. The best bet is to choose an 1-5 minute sample of what you want to encode and try around until youre satisfied(this includes burning to an CD-RW and trying it in your player). Nothing is more frustrating then to realize after 10+ hours of encoding that you made something wrong.

Minion,

Thnaks for the reply!!

I tried to start the movie converting and when I do a message pops up that it cannot load the P3Package.dll? What is the deal? I used this program before and never had a problem and when I cleaned my system and downloaded the new program I cannot get it to work?

Thanks,
B

You should really use the search engine at the top of the screen, cuz this question has been answered to many times, what you got to do is go in to your "tmpgenc" folder and copy the "p3p package" into your "system" and "system32" folder.......

Thank you I wasnt sure where to go?

I have a large (870mb) mpeg2 file sourced from a Hauppauge Digital TV capture device which plays back perfectly in its native format using Intervideo's WinDVD playback software.

When I tried to convert this via TMPG to VCD format, the picture is excellent quality but the audio track is plays back slow and therefore is out of synch with the pictures. The audio is also dropping out frequently.

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

Try an other great program called FlasKMPEG. It works fine with my Haupage files.

Ok, Im trying to make a 10min 30sec avi (42mb) into an mpeg with the following settings in TMPGE:

Video
160x120
10 fps
400 bitrate

Audio
441.hz / Joint stereo 64 kbit

The estimated file size for this is 35 mb , but everytime TMPGE finshes converting the avi into the mpeg the file ends up being 107 mbs. How can I fix this, its driving me crazy!
Thanks for your time =)

Who"s estimated file size?"tmpgenc"s estimated file size? ignore "tmpgenc"s estimates, you either cut the bitrate in half( would look like crap,at 400kbs it should look like crap) or accept the fact that your file is 107mb..

I guess he used System VCD for Multiplexing, and that's wrong in this case...

Hi I seem to be having a problem with batch encoding. I am ebatch encoding about 5 files at a time. It used to work fine, but all of a sudden once it has finished encoding the fist file it automatically shuts down. Any ideas as to waht could be causing this?

I have no idea, but try not checking the "shut down when finnished encodeing" box then it shouldn"t shut down, but this is a new one for me....

i get the same thing....i'm using xp pro and i cant get it to encode past the first file. the whole program just closes on me. it's done this for numerous versions now and strangly it worked the first time i tried it with the newest version, but now its back to doing the same thing again. if anyone else has the same problem or has fixed this let me know.

I have a svcd file and I want to convert it to a vcd. I used vcdgear but it chopped off 15min of video. Can you help me with this.

You mean you used vcd gear to burn it and the file was to big so it chopped off 15 minutes? what kind of help do you need?do you still have the full file? if you do chop it in half and burn it on 2 disks? you didn"t give me much to go on here some information would be nice.....

Winzip won't open it. It says something about it not being a valid archive.Could somebody please help?

First create a TMPGEnc directory where you want the install to go, like under "Program Files".

Or, create multiple ones under individual user accounts and/or work areas so auto-saved default settings don't step on each other. (Templates are easy to copy around)

Execute the downloaded .exe file and it will let you browse over to the directory(ies) you have created and do the unzip for you.

Create a desktop link to the tmpgenc.exe file and give it a better name.

But this is important: 14 days goes real fast and make sure you only purchase through Ifekx, if possible.

for some reason, when i encode a file, it just go slow as hell.

the problem is that it only hapen with this file, i have try other, and it doesn't take nearly as long.

when i go into task manager, what i see there is tmpgenc: not responding. but after every 15 secs or so, it runing again, and then back to not responding.

then when i finally finish encode the file to .mpg (take about 20 hrs) it play for about 15 mins into the movies, then i just stop. the audio keep goin all the way to the end, but the frame freeze all the way.

anyone can help??

The problem is that you probably downloaded this file off the "net" and a lot of files that are downloaded from places like "kaaza" are corrupted.There isn"t much you can do accept try to make a copy of the file with "virtua dub" but it might choke on it to...good luck

I'm trying to convert an AVI file to MPEG, so i can burn it to Video CD. No errors occur. When i run the MPEG file i get great picture but NO sound!!

I have tried using both MPEG layer 1 and 2 for the audio but with no luck...

Anyone got any good ideas?

Thanks,
SpunkMuffin

The audio format in your avi file probably not compatible with "tmpgenc" so extract the audio from your avi file with "virtua dub" and convert it to "wav" and load that file in tmpgenc and encode it then "multiplex" the audio and your video together..

what programs will extract ac3 from video and leave it as is, and or convert it to wave? thanx

Go to a search engine and look for "ac3 decoder" this program will do the job..

I am capturing with a DC10+ and Pinnacle Studio 7AV software. I am getting an error "can not open or unsupported". Changing the priority of directshow is not working for me. The proper codec must be installed because my windows media player can open the file with no problem. My version is 2.53.35.130. I am running on a Windows 2000, P4, 512Mb Ram.

First thing "media player "uses external codecs,and "tmpgenc" is only compatible with certain types of "dv"it works with "video for windows" and "open dml" but it is best to use un-compressed avi for best quality with "dv"....

hello.
I have a simple question.

If my encoded file (MPEG2 SVCD using tmpgenc) is still to big for a 80min cdr, ¿how I can reduce the size?, ¿maybe re-enconded again?, but how I do that ,if tmpgenc can´t open the MPEG2 file?

Thank you.

you can only get about 45min of svcd/mpeg2 in a 80min disk with any sort of quality,but if you want to get more and don"t care about quality just lower the bitrate, but don"t encode the svcd encode the original avi but if you deleted the avi file, you will have to "de-multiplex" the mpeg2 and load in your files seperately,but I think you will need thw "mpeg2" plugin for "tmpgenc" you can use the "vfapi converter" to turn your svcd into a psudo-avi file and load that into "tmpgenc".....