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ME TOO...OUT OF THE 5 FILMS I WANTED TO CONVERT 3 ARE OK AND 2 HAVE NO AUDIO. HAVE TRIED DIFFERENT VIDEO FORMATS I.E PAL NTSC ETC BUT STILLNO JOY. ALL THE 5 FILMS ARE VIDEO COMPRESSION DIVXMPG4 V3 AND AUDIO FORMAT MPEG4 LAYERS. WOULD LIKE TO HEAR OF AN ANSWER PLEASE...
You guys have to realize that Tmpgenc only encodes certain audio formats, and a lot of divx files have either "mp3 vbr" audio or "AC3" audio, and these formats are not supported in tmpgenc, what you have to do is extract the audio to a wav file with virtual dub and use that as the audio track but if the audio is "AC3" then you will need an AC3 decoder to make a wav file....
I have a source DivX video in 608 x 320, approximates to 16:9,
I select the source as 1:1 VGA, Full size (preserve aspect ratio), and target output as 16:9
The result Mpeg2 frame looks right, streched high (or compressed thin...), whith ~60 black lines above/below the image, But WinDVD does not play it at 16:9 A/R, nor does Creative DXR3 (Hollywood+)
How do I make sure the correct AR is encoded in the mpeg2 by TMPGenc, or is there a bug in the software?
Well if your Source is 16:9 then obviously you should be setting your source aspect ratio at 16:9 not 1:1 and your output at 16:9 full screen(keep aspect ratio)
1:1 is for square pixels, your pixels are rectangular.
This works fine for 16:9 sources for me in WinDVD.
If you are not encoding your movie for widescreen TV you should set the source at 16:9 and the output at 4:3. This will give you correct aspect ratio in Windvd.
I didn't believe that to start with. What I got after I tried Src 16:9, Target 4:3 is what I expected. A padded video that still is skewed. The video may look allright on WinDVD (although it's still skewed from original), but it's also PADDED on top and bottom, bucause the encoder PADS the 16:9 video in the center with black on top and bottom to make the video 525 lines for NTSC...
In other words, if I want a 16:9 anamorphic MPEG2, I have to select 16:9 as target aspect ratio. The source video's resolution is already corrected for VGA display, so it should be 1:1 source AR
There is a program on the mac called Force Anamorphic, but I can't find one for the PC. Anyone knows of a similar program for PC?
I still don't believe you are using the correct settings for your movie. I have used all sorts of source aspect ratios and have always managed to create an almost identical output with TMPG which plays correctly in both any software and hardware DVD player.
Your right that TMPG pads the top and bottom to create black bars. This has to be done to create an anamorphic picture within a 4:3 frame.
16:9 does not fit within a 4:3 frame on a TV or a monitor without being stretched.
TMPG needs to know the original aspect ratio so it can add the required black bars accordingly otherwise it will stretch the picture. I don't see how your movie can be 1:1 if the framesize is 608 x 320. It doesn't make sense. As far as I'm concerned 1:1 would be a 16:9 picture within a frame size of 608x608 or 320x320. This is 1:1 as the pixels are square, your movie is not.
If you do use 16:9 as the output it is unlikely that any DVD player, software or otherwise will detect the 16:9 flag and adjust the aspect ratio accordingly.
This is only acheived by using a 16:9 TV to force the picture to anamorphic.
If you wan't you can send me a small 2mb sample of this movie as I'm absolutely sure I can acheive the correct output.
If you agree I will post my email.
I have captured HDTV anamorphically by telling the tuner my "TV" is 16:9. This creates a stretched 4:3, 720x480 capture.
I have then tried every permutation of input/output settings. Bitrate sees a 16:9 flag but Win DVD does not. It plays stretched in a 4:3 window until I manually unlock the aspect ratio and stretch the window to a non-exact 16:9. There is no way to go fullscreen, with black bars.
By the way, results of this on Leno show music performances are stunning.
No you have sent to the wrong email adress, you have missed out the first part of the name.
mark.ashworth1@ntlworld.com
There is a dot between mark and ashworth.
I just pulled some Simpsons episodes off of gnutella and am now trying to put them on a vcd so I don't have to huddle near my monitor. The only problem is that I keep getting an error that says " 'file' cannot be openned or is not supported." I get the feeling that this is due to it being a DV1 file as I cannot bring it into Premiere, yet it opens in wmp. Is there anyway to convert these files into vcd compatible format, or a format which can be run through tmpgenc?
You should see if "virtuadub" will load the file then you can frame serve it to tmpgenc, go to "www.virtualdub.com" and download it and see if it works....
Hi, I have experienced on three separate occasions complete system freeze on my Dell inspiron 8000/ 800MHz PIII 386MB Ram, 30 GB Disk system when the encoded MPEG file reaches 3.99 GB (4,294,963,200 bytes) on a Samba share. Does anyone else have similar experience? I have LFS support on my Linux kernel/libc, and Samba was compiled w/ the new glibc (otherwise, it would stop at 2GB). The last two freezes caused me a lot of reboot griefs on bootup errors. Will try again with a spare Win98 setup (slower box).
Please can anyone help, I am obviously doing something wrong (typical newbie!!). I am trying to rip a 695 Mb DIVX/avi file to create a VCD, when I use the same frame rate (23 fps) and non-interlace mode, I have tried different aspect ratio's and all tell me that the size of the output file will be approximately 367% of an 80 min cd?. Is there any way I can reduce the size of the output file so that I don't need to use 4 cd's for this one movie. Thanks for any help, it will b really appreciated.
Stevie.
I thought I should add more detail for help, the file size is 729,755,648 bytes.
I am using tmpegenc version 2.55.38.142
My DVD player plays all VCD's, SVCD's etc, I would be happy if I could fit this onto 2 CD's, but even three would be an improvement.
You left out a lot if information, like what are you doing???Are you makeing a vcd or a svcd or dvd or one of the many variations of these,The size of the divx file (in megabyt)doesn"t have anything to do with how big your mpeg file will be,it has to do with the length of the file and the bitrate you are useing,so what ever you are doing the bitrate is to high, you should be able to get a regular length movie on 2 80min cd-r"s,and if you use the CQ(constant Quality)in the rate controll it helps keep the file size down..go to "vcdhelp.com" in the tools section and download a bitrate calculator...
Hi thanks for the help, I am trying to create an NTSC film video cd, I have downloaded the calculator like you suggested and I entered the length of the movie (105 mins 01 secs) the audio bitrate on the movie properties say 139kbps, so I have entered this into the calculator also along with the info the film is on 1 CD (70mins) Is this what I need to enter, if so, I am unable to edit the bitrate when I try and create a new project, and click on expert mode I cannot edit any of the video settings apart from motion search position?
Alternatively if I need to enter the movie length and the amount of CD's (2x80min) I want to put it onto, and the type (XVCD/SVCD etc) I get the calculated average bitrate of 1869 kbits, but again, I still cannot change any of the video setting?. Please excuse my ignorance.
Marcel,
What version is this button on, I have 2.55 and cannot see it there, I have 3 buttons Setting, load and save, and setting brings up the video options but does not let me change them. Thanks
To Unlock the Template choose load and then go into the extras folder and chose the unlock.mcf
Also I suggest you download the Plus version and use the help file that comes with it even if you dont buy the plus version you can use the help file you will find the link at the bottom of the screen.
My third recomendation is you check out www.vcdhelp.com excellent information site.
Good luck happy encoding ~NewtronX
This started happening today for no apparent reason......
After I have created my VCD MPEG file and I want to chop it in half, I load MPEGTools and go to the Edit page. When I click the edit button to see the movie I want to chop I get an error message saying that it cant initialize direct show.
I also noticed that in the Environment settings on the VFAPI plug in page where it used to say Direct show with DVD2AVI.vfp it now says The file cannot be loaded.
i've been pocessing with constant quality and it has gone close to perfect: when the file reaches 100%, a 'comlete' sound can be heard and an encoding log is displayed. well, then i tried the same process that i'd been using many times and then all of a sudden the process would reach 100%, display no time left, but there would be no 'complete' sound nor encoding log. when using the constant quality option, i have learned that the entire process must completely finalize in order for the .mpg file to be of any use. (unlike other processes where you can stop encoding at any point and see the resulting movie clip up to the point where you stopped it.) now, all the movies i've tried to process leave me 100% with no time left ,but, somehow will not finalize. unfortunately, i downloaded a virus and had to reinstall my o/s. this oddly enough, did not solve my problem. any advice on this matter would be much appreciated! thank you very much.. PC
This started happening today for no apparent reason......
After I have created my VCD MPEG file and I want to chop it in half, I load MPEGTools and go to the Edit page. When I click the edit button to see the movie I want to chop I get an error message saying that it cant initialize direct show.
I also noticed that in the Environment settings on the VFAPI plug in page where it used to say Direct show with DVD2AVI.vfp it now says The file cannot be loaded.
I have an avi. file that is 700 Mb. I want to convert it to Mpeg 2 so Ican play it on a DVD player. When I try to convert it to Mpeg 2 file it bulges to 1700 Mb which is a great big file and it does not fit in a CDR. Can anyone suggest any help. Thanx.
I may be able to help, but I need some answers
1. How long is the clip?
2. What version of TMPG are u using?
3. What kind of DVD player do you have
4. What resolution is the original clip?
the clip is 716066 KB
I'm using the version 2.5
I have an Apex 1500
original clip is 480 x 304, 16 Bits, 175589 Frames, 25.000 Frames/Sec, 101 KB/Sec, DivX codec for video
and for audio is MPEG Layer-3,160 kBit/s, 44,100 Hz, Stereo
IF you are doing mpeg2 i guess you are doing a svcd?generally speaking you only get about 40min of standard svcd on a cd-r so you have to put them on from 2-3 cd-r"s, your divx film is about 101 minutes so there is no way you are going to get a svcd on to one disk, you can if you were doing a vcd and use the CQ encodeing method but the quality would not be very good compared to svcd or your original divx file, so you have to make a choice ,do you want to put your allready encoded mpeg file on to 3 cd-r"s or do you want to encode the divx again and put it on 2 cd-r"s and loose a bit of quality or do you want to re-encode the divx and put it on one cd-r and loose a bunch of quality? you are pretty much stuck to useing at least 2 cd-r"s if you want any sort of quality..
I encoded a movie that is 25fps and I have to break it up over two CDs. I noticed that it is PAL and I use NTSC. I don't know if my DVD player plays PAL since it's a cheapo player, so I keep encoding the video as NTSC in TMPGEnc. But this time I encoded it as a PAL, which came out better. Also, the sound is in sync right now with the video, but when I use Ulead to encode it, I choose NTSC VCD encoding and it throws the whole movie off by about 3-5 seconds. The audio can't keep up with the video. It starts out with the audio in sync with the video, but soon falls away. What do I do? Ulead is the only program I know that lets you do chapters and the quality is better than Nero. I have a lot of problems with Nero, so I don't use it anymore. How can I keep the audio and video in sync and have it broken up over two CDs? Also, when I use TMPGEnc to cut the movie into 2 parts, I notice that sometimes when it produces the audio stream, it is ahead by a tenth of a second. For example, if the video has 3246.54 seconds, then the audio is 3246.56 seconds. Then, the second half comes out evenly. Just the first half. What's going on? Does this have anything to do with it falling out of sync? Please help me with these problems if you can. Thank you.
The reason for this is the different framerates used for PAL and NTSC.When converting from one to the other,You in effect speed up or slow down the film. this just means that you will have to "stretch" or "shrink" the audio to suit. If you take a look at posting #8363 all will be revealled.The easiest way to find out if your player will handle PAL, is to encode a few minutes of PAL video, burn it to cdr-w and then just try it.
Best of luck,
Adey.
I have a major problem with an DivX AVI-file which TMPEGenc gives the following complains about: "An error occurred when trying to initialize ACM engine". I know the file has a superb audio and video tracks, so what's the problem with this?
I've tried every other software and everything complains about wrong formats, etc.???
Your divx file probably has a uncompatible or unsupported audio format probably "AC3", you need an "AC3" decoder to encode the audio to a wav file then use that as your audio source......
There is an external avisynth plugin called "ivtc",but it can't only
do ivtc but has also a function called CopyDuplicates.
When two frames next to each other are very similar,it replaces
the second frame by the first frame.That way noise can be avoided.
I appreciate that and will look into that....and I'd appreciate any detailed explanations that you or any others can tell me about plugins or how ALL the various TMPGenc. settings can be used to produce the very best possible VCD or SVCD videos.
There is a comprehensive help file in the registered plus version that will answer most questions cut there are so many things that can affect the quality of your mpeg files that it would take literally days to write it all down, but if you have a specific problem or question we will be more than happy to help out....
Hataian,
I found that, but it looked like a pluging for VirtualDub, not TMPGEnc. And does it work with MPEG files? It looked to be for AVI format, which I don't use. Is that plugin available for TMPGEnc.? Please help me understand.
Minion,
Specifics? I've got quite a few. But for instance, regarding VCD improvement: Is VCD captured from VHS tape interlace or non-interlace?, I'm in the US so I guess I would chose NTSC, but what Aspect ratio is right?, what noise reduction settings are best for use on a marginal quality captured VCD file?(and good quality VCD file?), do the duplicate items in the Other Settings/Advanced area that are the same as chosen in other areas also need to be checked?, does 2pass pretain to every filter or what funtion specifically?
I guess besides those, I'm just interested in which basic settings or filters would be best to improve VCD captured from a maginal quality source.
Thanks for answering. I'm looking forward to your help on those.
Instead of captureing to mpeg/vcd capture to avi cuz you loose quality when you capture to a highly compressed format,then encode the captured file to mpeg with tmpgenc, doing it this way you will achive much better quality then re-encodeing a captered and compressed file to mpeg again, the captured file will be quite large but after it is encoded to mpeg you can delete it,or you can capture to a compressed avi format , like Indeo, or even mpeg4/divx, cuz you can"t improve a mpeg file by re-encodeing it you loose quality every time you re-encode a file that is why you will get better quality if you captere to a format that isn"t as compressed as mpeg...