I am encoding a movie and it is going to take 9 hrs. Is there anyway to save it and continue later or do I just have to keep my computer running?

Search for a program named Mr. Shutdown in http://www.google.com

Start the program, go to bed, wake up in morning with a beautiful MPEG all ready and encoded.

Ok, if you don't want to do that, here is a round about way to acheive what you ask.

When you decide to stop the program just click the stop button, it will then ask you to confirm. Don't click any thing else. Now put your computer into hibernation.
When you decide to restart the encoding just boot up your machine and cancel the abort and TMPG will continue encoding.

ASHY

I know this questions comes back several times on the BBS but i'm having trouble opening my video source. When I select the avi-file i get the famous "can not open or unsupported" error. The VFPAPI plug-ins in the enviromental settings are all set to priority 0 exept for the Directshow Multimedia File Reader who is set to priority 2. I have the Divx 5.0.2 codec and working with Win2k Pro. Can someone help me ?

I am encoding AVI @ 23.976 fps to MPEG-1 for VCD, Error '-537403781 164192' I Press OK and encoding continues, but the error keeps coming up every few seconds.

i have got the same problem too. but the movie looks fine. is there any option to avoid this msg to be shown?

I am trying to use the TNPGenc inverse telecine filter on a 29.97 Quicktime movie (8-Bit 4:2:2 Component Y'CbCr (720x486) Quicktime captured via Adobe Premiere 6.0 (Windows 2000 Pro) with a Targa 2000 DDR card from DigiBeta). The frame count of the movie is 945 frames, but the TMPGenc IVTC filter sees it as 94599 frames!! If I perform the IVTC process, it takes much longer than it should (since it is processing phantom frames) and the process never really works. If I convert the Quicktime movie to an AVI first, the IVTC works fine. How do I get the TMPenc IVTC filter to recognize the correct frame count of a Quicktime movie and perform properly? Or is this a bug?

You could try opening the file with AVIsynth and then using that as your source for TMPG.

ASHY

AVIsynth will not open a component 4:2:2 Quicktime movie. AVIsynth will only open files that Windows Media Player (DirectShow) supports. Unfortunately, component (SDI) video is not on the list.

I have made an avi movie. The time is 42.59 min. If I start the wizard in version 2.53 and 2.54a the time is also 42.59 and decoding is ok. But if i start the wizard in version 2.55 and 2.56 (plus version) the movie is 66.32 min long (page 4 of 5 in the wizard) and the file is about 2/3 to long.

Yes, I've been having this problem too. It's been driving me bonkers.
I've spent the last week trying to use TMPGenc to transcode an MPEG-2
to a lower bitrate and it always ends up about 10 minutes longer.

HELP!

I have the excact opposite problem. All the files are far too small.
Im going back to an older TMPG since it works in that.
The ones i have had problems with so far are the 2 latest versions.

Oh..when I mean far too small I mean that it doesnt encode ALL of the
original video. That is with every file I try.

is there a way of getting better quality on the destination mpeg as i have some brilliant avi's but once converted onto cdr they are bity and quality is poor (images made of visible rectangles) i am recording the cdr's at 2x so that shouldnt be my problem

There are a number of things you can do, the main one is to raise the bitrate as much as you can while still creating a reasonable file size that will fit on 2 cd's.
You could try encoding in VBR using the CQ method.
Change the motion search precision to 'high' or do a 2 pass encode.
If your DVD player will allow you could also increase the resolution, but remember the higher the resolution the higher the bitrate needs to be.

ASHY

>is there a way of getting better quality on the destination mpeg as i have some brilliant avi's but once converted onto cdr they are bity and quality is poor (images made of visible rectangles) i am recording the cdr's at 2x so that shouldnt be my problem

What format of mpeg are you converting the avi files to? If it's mpeg 1 for VCD, and you're using a hardware DVD player, you're stuck with a constant bitrate. If you're converting to mpeg 2, and using a software player on your PC, then play around with the CQ settings. You could try doing a 2-pass encode, but from my experience the 1-pass CQ method gives better results.

Griff

Lets not start an argument about this Griff, but you may not realise that most DVD players will happily accept VBR MPEG1 VCD's.
DVD players are Variable bitrate machines by design and as such will accept VBR files in MPEG1 or MPEG2 format.
I myself regularly use the VBR CQ method of encoding for VCD and so do many others on this board and I agree it usually gives better results than a 2 pass VBR.

Trendym I will send you some CQ templates which should improve the quality of your MPEGs.
I have sent these to many others on this board and haven't had any bad reports about them, so give 'em a shot and see what you think.

ASHY

Hi Ashy

I to have been testing 2-pass VBR encoding.

There are two implementation of 2-pass supported by TMPGEnc Plus (2-pass Old type and 2-pass). Have you noticed any diffeence in quality between the two?

I am interested in CQ-VBR encoding but I have no idea how to acurately pre-determine the file size prior to encoding. Could you please send me these templates as I am very interested in the method. (saving time while increasing quality).

Cheers

Arnnie

Ashy

I read that you have CQ-VBR templates that work on stand alone players. Could you send those to me? I've been trying different settings and its getting pretty frustrating. It will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

They're on their way.
What are you encoding to MPEG2 or MPEG1?

There are two things you need to know if you have problems with the templates.

MPEG1 - If the VCD templates don't work correctly try changing the minimum bitrate to 300 kbps and enable padding as some players have probs with anything below 300 kbps.

MPEG2 - If the SVCD templates don't work correctly you may have to reduce the maximum bitrate to 2600 kbps. As above some players are fussy about bitrates.

ASHY

Hey Ashy,

I guess a lot of people is having the quality problem and im one of them. Can i also have those templates you were referring about.

thanks

i copied m2v video plugin into tmpgenc folder. i can open m2v file but audio file cant load when i try to encode it. any idea?

If the audio is mp2 why do you want to re-encode it? It's not necessary.
Just encode the video then multiplex the audio with it when finished.

ASHY

thanx for ur reply.how can i check whether the m2v file is svcd compliant? cos i can check mpg file with ezcd creator' video compression.

What do you mean?
If you encode it with the correct parameters for SVCD and then mutiplex it with the audio and then load it into EZCD creator it should tell you if it's compliant.

ASHY

let say i want to encode audio stream to 224 bitrate but i donno the video & audio bitrate of the m2v file. wat should i do?

Running the latest version of this s/w, and wanting to simply convert an AVI
downloaded from the web onto a VCD format. Hence in input-video and input-
audio boxes, both show same .avi filename. The output box is writing as a
.mpg file. On every file I convert - even those recorded myself with a
webcam - the resulting mpg file has sound, but no video (just a blank/black
screen).

(There's no preview available either during conversion)

I've looked at FAQ's, and old posts, and see problems with no audio, but
none with no video! What am I doing wrong?!

Neil

Actually this one has been answered soooo many times already and more or less gets asked every day, but here goes again.
Go to Option>enviromental setting>VFAPI plugin and right click the 'direct show multimedia file reader' and raise it's priority to 2 and the rest to 0.

ASHY

That fixed it. I did try finding a previous query on this - but obviously not for long enough! Thanks Ashy.

Hi, I have accomplished making a VCD, but the only problem is that the audio is very low. I have to turn the volume on my TV to very high in order to hear properly. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem???

In the audio tab go to "settings" and you can change the volume of the audio of the file being encoded you can do simple effects like fade in and fade out too, since your file is allready encoded you could de-multiplex your mpeg file and encode the audio in tmpgenc with the increased volume settings and multiplex it back to a mpeg file..

I had the same problem. TMPGEnc audio boost (in audio tab of settings) set at max boost just barely increased the level enough. A better solution, one that can raise the audio to the same level as on the the DVD, is NERO WAVE EDITOR (it comes with the NERO package - download a trail version.)

Before using TMPGEnc, open the .WAV file in NERO WAVW EDITOR, SELECT ALL from the edit drop down, then boost the audio level by around 20 DB and click on save. You can determine the correct amount of boost by listening to the DVD and then listen to the audio level in NERO WAVE EDITOR and change the boost to sound about the same (I found that a boost of between 16 and 22 DB, depending on the DVD, was about right).

If you change the audio level more than once in NERO, be sure to UNDO in the edit drop down - otherwise the changes are additive.

This is a common problem when ripping DVD's to VCD or pure audio. You need to normalise the sound. Dare I say this on this bulletin board, but Flask Mpeg will let you normalise the sound.

Griff

If you are using DVD2AVI then this is your problem.
For some reason DVD2AVI rips the audio to a lower volume than the original.

I use a program called VOB2AUDIO which will rip the audio to more or less the same level as the original.
It's also a bit quicker than DVD2AVI and more accurate due to it's use of directshow filters and can solve the sync problems sometimes associated with DVD2AVI.

ASHY

Let me know if you managed to solve this problem. I have the same problem too with my TMPGEnc Plus :

>TMPGEnc Plus unable to open file says
>"cannot open or unsupported" but file is able to open and play
>in Windows Media Player 7.1 using DirectX8.1 and Matrox G550
>dual-monitor video drivers 8.52. Microsoft DV PAL AVI file was
>made using Adobe Premiere 6.01. Problem only occur after
>installing DirectX 8.1 but that cannot be uninstalled.

Their response was:
Please change the setting of the TMPGEncPlus VFAPI plug-in.

"option$B"*(BEnvironmental Setting$B"*(BVFAPI Plug-In"
$B!&(BAVI2(OpenDML) File Reader
$B!&(BDirectShow Multimedia File Reader

Please replace these priority.

******
Unfortunately, it didn't help. May I ask if you are using DirectX8.1??



Jen

I'm using TMPGenc version 2.56.39.143 on Windows 2K.

I'm trying to encode mpeg1 for a VCD.

I have an avi file that was a capture from a miniDV recorder which is about 1 hour long. When I try to encode it with TMPGenc, it encodes the first 4 minutes and 47 seconds and that's all. This happens no matter what I do with the "source range" setting (turn it on, turn it off--doesn't matter). In fact, in the source range setting dialog box, it only reads in the first 4:47 (or 172251 frames).

The same thing happens with three different avi files.

Any ideas?

No idea why this is happening, but you could try loading the file into virtualdub and framserving it to TMPG.

ASHY

I have no problem converting to MPEG2, but after it is converted, the picture is upside down. Is there an option I am not seeing? Please help!

There are two possibilties for this.
One is that you have the wrong AVI codec installed. You need to find out the fourCC code of the AVI and post it here.
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/avifourcc.html

The other reason is that it could just be a media player problem. Media player isn't the best choice for MPEGs, so install a software DVD player such as WinDVD and try it with that. ftp://206.112.112.158/p008/Enu/WinDVD.exe

ASHY

I am trying to convert a movie from an avi to a vcd when I am encoding and when I am done there is no picture yet there was picture before I began whats wrong?