A handy tip for people encoding Widescreen films to VideoCD for playback on a TV. If you set the output format to 16:9 you get a stretched video when you save, but you can use the picture format button on your TV to squish it back to how it's supposed to be - even newer portables have this facility now!

Because you have a stretched movie you get higher quality (better vertical resolution for larger TV's) and you can also get away with lower bitrates. I just encoded Evolution at 825kbps with 160kbps sound and it looks very good on the 32inch screen.

I'm not sure about lowering the bitrate because lowering the bitrate would produce a blocky movie, but your right about the vertical resolution being higher when you use the format button to squish it back down to normal. Why waste those extra pixels on black bars when they can be used for the movie. Good idea.

I say reduce the bitrate because although you would get more blocks on the movie, they're squished so they don't notice as much - ie you can get away with a little more compression... only little bit but to me that makes the difference between getting away with 80 mins on an 80 min CD and squeezing 90 mins on. :-)

how do I spit a mpeg file into 2 parts because right now I have
only 1 big mpeg file and would like to put it on CD

"file" to "mpeg tools" to "merge & cut"....

Every time I encode on TMPGEnc, I get an error message that reads:
Read error occurred at address 00402f40 of module 'TMPGEnc.exe' with 65726460.
I never used to get this problem with the trial versions; happened after I have the purchased TMPGEnc(2.54). How do I fix this problem? Please let me know as soon as possible!

Thanks,

Moses

This error most likely is caused by corrupted frames in your avi file, try doing a "scan for errors" with "virtua dub" and find out if there is any bad frames...and if there is you can try to edit them out....

I did use Virtual Dub and scanned for errors but still didn't work. Also, NO files work. Every file I import in and try to encode, it does not work. I don't know the problem either. Please help me (also thx for helping) but I would appreciate it if I could fix this.

Do you mean by "import in" that you are frame serveing?are you useing "avi" files or are you useing "d2v" files?I guess i got to know more about what you are doing, you can e-mail me so we don"t have to wait for each others posts and i can try to help.....

Aight! I email you frequently so check the mail box of yours! Ok, thx.

Hey i was wondering if anyone could send me version 2.5 at my e-mail adress Skap8312@hotmail.com, because i dont know if it is a problem with my newer version, thanks!

2.5 what?
You should be able to find a copy if you do a search on google.com

ASHY

Hey, i am new at using this program and i was trying to copy a DVD. After using Claddvd XP to extract and copy the files, I then used DVD2AVI to save them as one file. They are saved as separate Mpeg audio files, and .dv2 video files. When i try to open The video file on Tmpgenc it says "'DVD-Fight Club.dv2' can not open, or unsupported." When that didnt work i went back to DVD2AVI and saved the movie as an AVI file, and it still didnt work, I would really appreciate if someone could help me out, thanks a lot!

Well there are a few things you should do differently, first use "Smartripper" it is a faster and better dvd decrypter,another thing your settings in dvd2avi are wrong you are not supposed to get a mpeg audio file, you supposed to get a "wav" audio file..plus you probably don"t have your dvd2avi vfapi plugin..There are a lot of things you have to fix before your going to be able to encode your movie,..You can e-mail me and I will send you some instructions on how to do it properly, there just isn"t enough time or space here to go through it all......

Four things you need to do.

In DVD2AVI
Change the Channel format to auto select.
Click help and make sure VFAPI plugin is checked.
Copy DVD2AVI.VFP from your DVD2AVI folder to the folder where the TMPGenc.exe is located.

In TMPG.
Click Option>Enviromental setting>Vfapi plugin and make sure DVD2AVI project file reader is checked. If it is and you still get the error raise it's priority to 1 or 2.

ASHY

I am getting a "Read error occurred at address xxxx of module 'TMPGEnc.exe' with xxxxx.

I am framserving out of Premiere using Avisynth.

Any suggestions?

I suggest not to frame serve and un-compress your avi file and encode that,"tmpgenc" encodes un-compressed avi files the best......

A feature that will fix corrupt mpeg1-files....
I've some files which have audio buffer underrun errors/
sync errors/ corrupt frame errors..etc Someknow if there is
there a prog that can already do this ie. drop the corrupt frame
and jump to the next correct one..? most of the editors like
ifilmedit just report the error and cant fix or do anything with
the affected file..

There is a program called "mpeg repair" that will repair corupted mpeg files.But the program is not easy to get and it isn"t free, but I might me getting a demo and If I do I will post if it is any good and were to get it...

Yeh ever tried to use it.
You need a degree in rocket science, a lot of time and a lot of patience.
It just 'aint worth it bro believe me.
If you wanna fix corrupt frames just try re-encoding the MPEG.
If you wanna fix sync probs use a program which corrects the sync as it multiplexes such as MPEG2VCR or BBMPEG.
Also BBMPEG can sort out your Bufferunder run errors by choosing a different mux rate.

I just got a full version of it , and it can scan your file for errors and re-encode portions of it but they are trying to sell this program for $3000,and the demo only works for a few frames, luckily I can read a bit of code, and re-write a bit to, so I got it to work to as a full version but I"m still trying to figure out how I would use it...i wouldn"t recomend it to anyone unless as elvis says you got a degree in rocket science..

The power in my apartment went out the other day and my computer works fine except now on this program, every time I try to use the source range on the project wiz it says that TMPGENC have caused some errors and needs to be restarted. I have already deleted the program, redownloaded it and instanlled it again. If someone knows the answer, please help

It's time you learned to be a man and do away with the wizard and do things manually.

Look here elvis. I I don't used the wizard unless I want to use the source range. I would use it at all I just want to use the souce range but it is screwed up. trust me I know what I am doing!!! don't make assuptions. It just shows me that you don't know the answer. So if you don't the don't reply my mesage

I have a problem with Audio, which I thought I had it sorted after my last posting/responses, but there seems to something else.

I am ripped off a NTSC DVD using smartripper. Then used DVD2AVI. ( had problems as the sound was at 48KHz), so after tthe responses on the BBS I managed to downgrade it 44k) all seemed fine as tried a short piece conversion and then took it into TMPGnc and I could see the video, audio and produced a mpg file with video an audio. I then did the whole movie with DVD2AVI and all went fine with rigth size files etc (sound at 44KHz). when I did the TMpgen there was no sound at all. Can't inderstand this.

I am sure Manion or Ashy would be able to pinpoint the problem stright away.

As a last resort, should I do each VOB file seperatly? and merge them in TMPgenc?

The movie is a long one - 230 mins!

Would be grateful for any help.

Thanks in antipication

Ramesh

I think your problem is that you are useing "dvd2avi" to convert the audio from 48000hz to 41000hz,"tmpgenc" will do this..but I would sudgest getting a different audio encoder for "tmpgenc" and a frequency converter, the one I use is called "SCMPX" it works with "tmpgenc" as an external tool,it is an encoder and a frequency converter and can be found on any search engine ,anothere good encoder it "toolame" these might solve your problem, but after extracting the audio from you vob files with dvd2avi try listening to the wav file and see how it sounds,....

Minion,

Thanks a lot. I'll try that. When you say us external converter, i take you mean get the audio via dvd2avi and then apply conversion and then take to tmpgen ?

I managed to use tmpgen on sepertate files produced by dvd2avi and i am now going to link them together. Just can't understand why tmpgen would not do it for the all the files to produce one mpg file!! - too big?

Thanks again

Ramesh

Hi.. i wanted to ask whether it is possible to save an existing movie backwards, or do you know a program that can save a movie backwards...

Changing 16:9 to 4:3. The ONLY problem with the finished product is that there are horizontal lines (typically in scenes with high motion). How can I fix the problem so the movie is basically the same quality as original?

Those horizontal lines are "interlace lines" to make them less noticeable use the "de-interlase" feature in the "advanced settings" there are a whole bunch of different de-interlace options so you have to find the one that works for the particular movie you are doing.....but to have a movie that look exactly like the original,that"s a long shot....

hi
i downloaded spiderman in avi form.and when i try to convert it to mpeg i get sound but no picture.
i have noticed i do not get a picture in preview window as it converts,i do with other avi files.
any advise i can get will be a big help.
thanks.
john.

Make sure you have all the proper codecs, you should have divx5 and divx4, becaude divx5 wont decode divx4, and make sure you "direct show" plugin has a high enough priority....