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With the PLUS version you can set bitrate settings higher than 8 Megabits. As a lot of my work is only 10 to 30 minutes duration the bit budget is not critical. Is there any advantage to encoding at higher bitrates (assume better quality) and what is the limit of streams that most settop DVD players can decode?
Also is there anyway to stop TMPGenc multiplexing the output streams? I see if you unlock the templates you can output separate audio and video streams. I suppose you could batch encode to produce the separate streams? I can't see any logical reason but I was concerned that encoding separately the two streams might get out of sync?
Actually the specs say DVD players are supposed to be able to sustain a bitrate of 9.8mb and can handle higer bitrates, but only for short periods of time.
I doubt you would ever even need to go above 9.8mb anyway as any higher would just give diminishing returns and you wouldn't see an improvment in quality.
As far as your concerns about sync go. I use a total of 3 programs to encode and combine the audio with the video as I don't use TMPG to encode the audio, just the video and I never have sync probs.
Thanks for the info. Makes you wonder why many of the hardware encoders out there offer compression up to 15 Mb/s? Must be for archival purposes rather than settop playback...
Hello. When i open the TMPGENC program, I try to convert an AVI file to a MPEG. However i always get an error saying that the type is unsupported. How do I make it be supported?
go to options environmental settings click the Vfapi plugin tab
change the directshow priority to 2 and the rest to 0 then load your movie
chang the priority by highlighting the text and right clicking
1. Load up your AVI into Virtualdub then click File>Save WAV.. and save the audio as a wav file somewhere.
2. Next click Video>framerate and change the framerate to 23.976. Now click Edit>end and note what the value is in the timescale box exactly. Convert this value into seconds, i.e. 1:20:28.842 = 4828.842 secs. WRITE THIS DOWN.
Close Virtual dub.
In the program click file>open and open the wav you created earlier.
Wait for it to finish then click 'Edit' and untick 'enable undo' then click 'select entire wave' next click 'Transform' and choose 'Time/pitch' from the drop down menu then click 'stretch'
In this box tick the following options:
Low precision
Time stretch (preserves pitch)
In the box that says 'Length' type in the exact figure you got in secs from Virtualdub for e.g. 4828.842 then click ok.
Wait for the program to do it's stuff then when its finished click 'file' then 'save as' and name and save your file as a wav.
4. Run Avi framerate changer an change the frame rate of your AVI to 23.976 fps
Now you should have a wav and an AVI exactly the same lengths.
5. Load your AVI and your wav into TMPG, choose MPEG2 and add 3:2 pulldown.
Now encode
I have been trying to convert divx/avi to VCDs, I tried it with TMPGEnc and Nero, with the TMPGEnc conversion I could see the mpeg file but when I open it there is good sound but no picture, and on the Nero VCD the same (except I couldn't find the mpeg file) I haven't "installed" TMPGEnc I just run the .exe is this correct? I have also run the TMPGEncVFP_Install.bat in the same directory and it seemed to register. I cannot see any ppictures on the prviews either and so cannot fix the frame easily. I have tried about seven different .avi files but to no avail.
There could be a few reasons for this,first make sure you have the correct codecs to decode your divx file,and make sure that your "direct show" plugin has high enough priority..What do you mean when you say you couldn"t find your mpeg file on the nero vcd?
When you create a VCD the video information is not stored with the MPEG extension. It's stored in a file structure that your VCD/DVD player knows how to access (in much the same way as DVD MPEG2 streams are stored in .vob files). From memory they are stored in .dat files?
Your "avi" file has corrupted sectors in it and that is why you are getting the error, to fix it first go to "options" to "enviromental settings" then to the "cpu" tab and un-check the "SSE" box, then go to your regular "settings" then to "quantize matrix" and un-check the "use floating point" box, this should get you through the encodeing without any errors....
I started getting this same error message after I went to version 2.54a. Unfortunately, I deleted my previous version 2.52 and so I can't re-test it on it. I've already disabled SSE and unchecked use floating point DCT.
Are the older versions like 2.52 or 2.53 available elsewhere for download?
Thanks for the links. Well, I did some further testing and it now seems to point to my overclocked processor. I ratcheted it back down to its normal rated speed and it works fine...even with "Use floating point.." checked and SSE enabled. I'm going to do some more testing.
Thanks for the links. Well, I did some further testing and it now seems to point to my overclocked processor. I ratcheted it back down to its normal rated speed and it works fine...even with "Use floating point.." checked and SSE enabled. I'm going to do some more testing.
What do you mean it doesn't show up?
Double click TMPGEncVFP_Install.bat. This will install the plugin.
To check click 'Option' in TMPG and you should see 'register TMPGenc.vfp to VFAPI is checked' in the menu.
Thats it.
I still don't know why you are assuming it isn't working, what are you trying to do?
I think you misunderstand.
What you are trying to do has nothing to do with the VFAPI plugin.
The VFAPI plugin is for opening TMPG project files not d2v files.
Have a look at your NEW post on this subject I have posted a possible solution.
One thing I would like to say first though.
Please refrain from making mutiple posts on the same subject.
Some of us have been using this board a for quite a while and read almost all of the posts and check back frequently.
The reason I am telling you this is that you will end up being ignored by the people that can really help you if you continue to double post just to try and get attention to your problem.
Created an mgeg 1 video (not latest version of TMPGEnc). It's 46:47 in length.
If I play it from the hard drive, the time shown in Windows media player (7.1)is 46:47. If I copy the file to a CD and play it from the CD, the time shown (upper right corner of media play) is 2:40. After the progress slider gets to the far right (at 2:40 into the program) the program keeps playing -- so it is all there -- just the time displayed is wrong when run from the CD. Tried copying to CD using both Nero and Roxia software.
I figured something wasn't getting copied correctly, but, now for the fun part: copy the file from the CD back to the hard drive, and run it from the hard drive -- yep, shows 46:47 for the total time. Sizes, dates, etc. show the same on both the CD and hard drive.
Another interesting twist: the "wrong" time shown on my computer at home is 2:40. When I run it from CD here at work, the time shown is 21:58. (but then shows the correct 46:47 if I copy it to the hard drive and run it from there).
Seriously, as ASHY asked; how long is it taking? Also do you know what processor you have?
You can lower the movement prediction setting to encode faster, but you'll lower the quality if you do.
1 hour of film typically takes me 4 hours on my P3-450 at the default settings for VideoCD(PAL) and if I put movement prediction up to the highest quality setting it can take twice as long. I think that I'm getting pretty good encoding speeds for my processor power.
TMPEnc is a great software but is it true that you are not able to add subtitles into the movies with TMPEnc?
If it's not true how do I do it?
And if it's true can anyone tell me how I'm able to do it then and with what?
To add subtitles, you have to edit the video and add text with video editing software. That's how I add subtitles anyway, there could be other methods but that's all I know...
You could do it with Virtualdub.
There is a plugin you can use with virtual dub which will add subtitles to the AVI, which you can then frameserve to TMPG.
I'm just evaluating TMPGenc PLUS (15 day trial)- but I can't get one of the features to activate. I want to encode at full 4:2:2 (8 bit) as opposed to 4:2:0. The comparison chart seems to indicate this is a feature of TMPGenc PLUS - but it's greyed out - exactly the same as in the free version of TMPGenc.
The .AVI I'm supplying is definitely full 4:2:2 (Avid AVI 2.02D (MJPEG codec))
This would be my one reason for buying this over my existing compression software (Cleaner 5) - so I'm keen to hear whether this feature actually works... and if so why it's not working for me.
Firstly you need to encode to MPEG2. Then you will need to unlock the settings if you have chosen a template, as the template automatically locks the settings, so they can't be changed accidentally.
To unlock, click 'Load' and find the 'Extra' folder inside your templates folder. Here you will find a file called 'unlock.mcf'.
Double click it and the settings will unlock.
I am sure that someone has also found the following problem. I have made some MPG files from original DVDs using the guides located on www.vcdhelp.com, (using SmartRipper, DVD2AVI and TMPGEnc) with success. However, when I try to make a VCD with either Nero or EZCDcreator 5, I am informed that the MPG files do not meet the White book standard.
Both Nero and Roxio report different reasons, but I guess they are different interpretations of the same thing. Nero reportsthat the "stream encoding is invalid for a Video CD", whereas Roxio reports that the "System Clock reference" is 1058 and that this is unnacceptable and the file will not play in a VCD player.
Can anyone offer any insights into what both programs are referring to and how to correct it in TMPGEnc before converting the DVD to MPG.
You have most probably created a non standard VCD.
VCD needs to be MPEG1 352x240 at 29.97 fps or 352x288 at 25 fps.
If these are the specifications of your file then you have most probably split the file using the Merge&Cut feature and haven't chose 'MPEG-1 Video CD' as the stream type from the dropdown menu.
The solution is to load the spilt files into the 'simple multiplexer' choose 'MPEG-1 Video CD' as the type and give your output a different name if you are putting the file in the same folder as the original.
Now click 'run' and your file should load fine in Nero.
Tip: Get rid of that crap Roxio, you will have all sorts of problems with it.
I had the same problem encoding SVCD MPEGs. Some files were okay, some gave this error in Nero. I followed this guide: http://www.vcdhelp.com/bbmpegedit.htm
Although it's written for SVCD, I'm (almost) sure it works on VCD also.
I try to convert a MPEG Stream into a VCD MPEG Stream.
Normally it works fine. Today the program created the error message:
Failed to create device context
There are a couple things you can try ,they both involve frame serveing, you can frame serve from dvd2avi, or what would be quicker is to frame serve from the "vfapi converter",I frame serve all my movies from the vfapi converter" with exelent results, if you use the vfapi converter ,first extract the audio from your mpeg, then load your file in the vfapi converter, and make sure the audio box is NOT checked ,then click convert and it will make a psudo avi file in about 2 seconds, then load the avi and the extracted audio in "tmpgenc" ..this might be a work around to you problem.....
Thanks you for your answer and idea.
On my second computer (a slow one...) i have succeded in encoding the same MPEG video with the same TMPGEnc Version.
Maybe a problem of the right codec???