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If I join two mpg files with Tmpgenc and the audio of the first mpg file
is longer than the video of the first mpg file,will this audio be cut off
at the cutting point and the audio of the second mpg file starts(and therefore
the second mpg file audio be in sync with the second mpg video)?
This is a bit of a daft question isn't it?
Of course the audio will stop at the cutting point, you have cut it out haven't you?
The audio from the second MPEG file will start wherever ever you choose it to start and at the end of the first MPEG file you have have cut.
Why not just try it instead of asking, it only takes a few minutes. Seems a simple solution to me.
Has anyone any idea how to overcome the problem of Windows ME stopping at 4BG when capturing using WinTV PVR-PCI? I'm trying to get the best quality to burn to SVCD.
Use a capture program which allows you to capture to segmented AVI's or use the Divx 5 codec and encode at the highest quality setting. If your system starts dropping frames just change the performance setting to fastest.
This won't affect the quality, but will use less compression creating a larger output file.
Believe me, capturing with this codec at highest quality and using a decent frame size such as 640x480 in YUY2 format is almost indistinguishable from uncompressed AVI.
I have the same capture card and program as you and there is no way of getting the program to make more than one 4gb file with out stoping and setting it up..
I have had some fair results captureing with "virtua dub" and there are some others like "windvr" but the one I have been useing lately is "IUVCR" and it is free and makes sequential 4gb files with fair quality...
Use the program Scenalyzer Live. It can capturing real-time scene-detection, provides the solution for the 4GB problem, smart batch capturing and other features.
I use the program IUVCR and is an excellant program. In fact it is the best capture program I have used so far.
There are also some tweaked drivers on the site which work very well and allow me to capture with my WinTV Go card at full 768x576 frames which my original Happauge drivers wouldn't and would only allow 640x480.
Virtualdub is a decent program, but as far as capturing goes it is now outdated as it is based on the old VFW design and IUVCR gives much better performance and lower CPU usuage allowing you to capture at larger framesizes and higher bitrates.
If you you don't want to do any of this then the only other option is to upgrade your operating sytem to Windows NT/2000/XP and use the NTFS file system. There will then be no limit to your file size.
I often receive crash with the following error "read error occurred at address xxxxxx of module TMPGEnc.exe." It seems to happend if the motion search setting is set to High Quality. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Lerdman
I had someone e-mail me yesterday with the same problem , what i did is e-mailed him the "tmpgenc.exe" file from my version of tmpgenc and he put it in his folder and took out his "exe" file and he write back and said that it worked great, so maybe try re-downloading the program and re-install it cuz there could be an error in your "exe" file...
I Agree. I have found the tool to be excellent, but the lack of a fade-in/fade-out has been the one major lack. Thank you though for doing an excelent job on noise filters/cropping/start/end controls and audio fade in and out. And the mpeg encoding seems to be the best I've seen as well!
One small questions - I don;t know if anyone else has seen this.
Windows media occasionally seems to "mis-understand" the duration of a file created by tmpEnc - but ONLY if the file extension is mpg - If I give it the extension mpeg everything seems to work fine!
i am a newbie in trying to convert dvd to vcd. it seems that i am successful in
ripping the dvd and able to create the d2v and wav file but when I am in
TMPG and start creating the mpg, when I try to play the produced mpg file there is no sound. i am not sure if it is with TMPG or a previous step. I tried playing the WAV file generate by DVD2AVI and it seems okay. any suggestions?
Make sure your "wav" file reader in your "vfapi plugins" is at a high enough priority like at "1",make sure you have the proper codecs to play back the mpeg2 layer audio in your mpeg file..try encodeing the wav file seperately to mpeg audio, then listen to it and see if it is there, and if it is you can multiplex it with your video file and have a working mpeg/vcd file, make sure you set the audio frequency to 41000hz and a bitrate of at least 128kbs....
Give this a try to establish whether the audio is actually in the movie file or not.
Download a program called Virtualdub, load in your movie file assuming it is MPEG1.
Click File>File information and have a look at the info where it says audio track. It should say 44khz stereo,224kbps layer II.
If it doesn't then the problem is that the movie doesn't contain any audio.
If it does the problem is with media player.
Try to play the file in Virtual dub to see if you can here the audio.
I put tmpge on my other computer and when I try to encode it says this AVI file is not supported or something like that but it works on my first comp also it will do the audio whats wrong
It is most likely you need the relevant codec installed on your system to decode the movie.
If it's a DiVx movie then install DiVx 4.12. If that doesn't work install 3.11.
If neither work then you either have the wrong codecs or you may need to increase the priority of the Direct show multimedia file reader' in the enviromental settings to 2 and lower the others to 0.
I have the same problem with all mpeg2 files on my computer. I can not open them as a video source in TMPGenc. The error message is "The file ... unsupported". If there is a codec problem then why I can play that mpeg2 files in Windows Media Player or Ulead Video Studio without any problems? I set the priority for DierectShow Media File Reader to 2 and all other priorities to 0. But is did not help. I was happy with previous version and I payd for the TMPGenc Plus 2.54a. But I can not use it. What to do? Please HELP!
Because certain files will play on Media player, this is no indication whatsoever that you have the correct codecs installed which other software can use.
You most probably have a software DVD player installed on your system or other software installed which is allowing Media player to use it's codec.
Also Ulead probably has it's own codec for opening MPEG2 files.
Not all software can access and use these codecs.
As far as I can tell, nothing until you "clip" the movie.
If you clip the movie then the bit you are left with will stretch to fill the screen (keeping it's aspect ratio) with the first one, but with the 2nd you just get black bars for the bit you clipped.
Try clipping about 40 or so pixels off each edge of your movie and then compare the two - it'll become clear :-)
"Fullscreen (keep aspect ratio 1)"=Maximises window at the same time keeping aspect ratio..
Fullscreen(keep aspectratio 2)=Maximizes window at the same time keeping aspect ratio and displaying movie in full screen
That's just what it says in the tips, I think Magic is right.
Fullscreen (keep aspect ratio 2) shows you the movie in full screen with the parts that have been clipped.
When I try to encode a movie from avi/divx to mpeg1,I see an error message:"The error occured when ACM was initialized.I have a pentium 200 mmx with 48Mb.Thank you in advance.
Could be something to do with an audio codec you need or need to reinstall on your PC.
The ACM message refers to the windows Audio Compression Manager which is used to decode or encode audio using the audio codecs you have installed on your system.
Find out what the audio is in the movie file and install the appropiate codec or extract the audio to a wav file with a program such as Virtualdub and use that as your audio source.
Neither do I.
What is it you are attempting to achieve with IFOEDIT. I thought IFOEDIT was used for VOBS so how does it link with TMPG and why are you encoding the same MPEG again?
I'm making the Tmpg File in Ifoedit , which hold the information about
the I,B,P frames, just to be sure that my movie will be in sync when
i later remux it to a vob in ifoedit...
Well I'm still not quite sure what you are trying to achieve with IFOEDIT, because it seems you are doing things a long way round.
If all you are trying to do is convert a movie to MPEG2 and then author that to DVD then why dont you simply encode the d2v file from DVD2AVI using TMPG as normal and then import your MPEG2 file into a DVD authoring program.
There are many many DVD authoring programs out there now which seem far more simple to use than the slow and cumbersome method you seem to be using.
It even states on the doom site that this method you are using is sooo slow, so drop this method and have a look around for a good DVD authoring program and save yourself some hassle.
When I open a MJPEG-Avi the preview-window is black, also encoded Mpegfiles are black. I only can use the pinnacle DC10+ codec MJPEG with the captureboard. Any suggestions?
I made some tests in the "envroment settings/VFAPIplugin" and unchecked with success the AVI2(openDML)File Reader-Plugin, which is builtin the TMPEGEnc. Now also Mjpeg-Avis are shown in the window! Maybe this will help anybody else! It is the best Avi-Mpeg-Tool I ever tested, with very good results.
You mean you can only use Pinnacles own codec for hardware compression. Theres nothing stopping you from using a software compressor such as the DIVX codec.
I don't have the DC10+ so the following information Iam going to give is speculation.
Ok, seeing as the DC10+ is a hardware encoder which uses an internal MJPEG codec it is therefore sensible to assume you will need another software MJPEG codec installed on your system to decode the file, so media player and TMPG can open it correctly.
Heres a daft thing. Even though Media player may open and play the file using the drivers or codecs Pinnacle supply with the card it doesn't necessarily mean TMPG will open it correctly.
I would suggest trying to install another MJPEG codec on your system such as PICVideo MJPEG codec or Morgan Multimedia MJPEG codec and see what happens.
I don"t think you can use it as a plugin but I"m sure that you can import or export file from or to "tmpgenc"..I think "ulead media studio" uses it"s own mpeg encoder......