What is the difference between TMPGEnc Plus from pegasys-inc.com and Tmpgenc from here, both are evaluation versions and share version number 2.56.39.143. If I pay for one am I entittled to use both the same way or is there different licenseing involved?

Please excuse my typeing or grammer english and japanses are my secound languages, I speak korean but I did not see a korean forum so I am posting here.

The differance is that you cannot register the demo version but you can register the "plus" version and the plus version is faster and it has a better 2 pass encodeing function,When you buy "tmpgenc" you just get the registration number for the plus version and there is no way to register the demo....

The Plus version also gives you unlimited MPEG2 encoding once registered.

Excuse me for asking, but when you say that the Plus version is faster, do you know how much faster? I am attemting to rip my first dvd into vcd, and have encountered many read failures, and am also somewhat surprised at the time it takes to covert the vob files. half of a 135 minute movie set to hi quality and noise reduction gave me a rip time of 28 hours for a 68 minute rip. Is this normal for hi quality mode?
I am running an overclocked AMD XP 2000 with 512mg of 2100 memory. I would gladly pay for the Plus version, if the rip times were substantially reduced.

Thanks in advance,
Phil

Either something is wrong with your system or you are loading vob files directly into tmpgenc,I do vcd"s at high quality and svcd"s and xvcd/xsvcd with 704 by 480 resolutions which makes it take like 30% longer than vcd"s and it doesnt take more than 14 hours on high quality and I only have a 800mhz Intel with 512mb sdr-ram, a regular vcd only takes about 6-8 hours, you should be able to encode in close to real time so no more than 2-3 hours for a whole movie, just don"t use the "highest quality" cuz that takes forever, I don"t know how you are encodeing your vob files (dvd2avi or loading directly in)but with your killer system you should be encodeing really fast......

Hello. I get the following error message when trying to open Star Wars EP2 Centropy version (ctp-ep2a.mpg) with TMPGenc 2.56:

File can not open, or unsupported.

But, I can successfully create an SVCD from this .mpg and play it in my DVD player.

Any ideas on why I can't open this file? I wanted to re-encode it because the aspect ratio is off.


TIA

If it is a mpeg 2 file then you need the "mpeg2 plugin" installed on your system so "tmpgenc" can open your mpeg2 file and de-muxing the file and loading the audo and video seperately can sometimes get it loaded when you have problems loading mpeg2 files when you do have the plugin installed...

Thank you.

Where can I get the mpeg2 plugin? I don't see at your site.



Thanks again.

I'd like to know too:) i have a bunch of mpeg2 videos id like to atlest convert to anouther format so i can use them with things.:)

I found a the "mpeg2 file reader" had to serch a bit but you can get it here
http://www.vcdhelp.com/tools.htm .........

This seems to be the best one.
http://www.plmovies.com/mpeg2codec_installer.zip

The other alternative is to open your MPEG2 files with DVD2AVI and create a project file then open that in TMPG.

ASHY

I leave TMPGEnc to encode a vob file (via DVD2AVI project file). I check on it a few times, and all's going well. Then, while I guess it's at 80-something% complete, I come back and the window's not there. Alt-Tab doesn't bring it up, it's not showing in the Task Manager, so I assume it's finished. I go to open the file, and find it's not complete - this one (totally different from the last problem I had) has final length which is 89% the total length.

Nothing shows up in the Event Log so I can't give any more details.

I have avi files which have been captured from DV via firewire into Premiere6 using the MS DV codec. The file shows that it is DV type 2.

I am having problem converting this file in Tmpgenc; I get memeory errors or pic going blank.

Should I be using type 2 DV codec or should I get type codec. If I need to use type 1, where do I get the codec?

Type 2 DV is only supported in tmpgenc so useing a type 1 dvd codec won"t help.You should try raiseing the priority of the "openDML" file reader in the "vfapi plugins" this might get your file read properly, What type of errors are you getting ,are they system errors or errors in tmpgenc?certain errors in tmpgenc are caused by certain things so maybe leaveing the type off error you get might help someone help you find out what the problem is...

Hi
I get the following error "272762914 869648@ when trying to encode mpeg4 file
to mpeg2! Any thoughts welcome.


Chegmasterfunk

I have same problem, error -272762914 859034592.
Have tried all kind of things, nothing works. Have downloaded the last TMPGEnc, 19. Juli, trial version, and still no solution.

Hopefully someone knows??!

I have TMPG load without the wizard. The stream types are all greyed out and also when I click on SETTINGS I can't change the stream type or any options having to do with the one it is set to. I have some video without audio that I want to encode but I can not select just the video stream type.

Look in your template folder and find 'unlock.mcf' and double click it. This will unlock the settings.

ASHY

Thanks much, that did the trick.

Hello I have downloaded several movies that seem to contain no audio. I've tried several things but can't figure out what I should do to extract the audio.

Most probaly Ac3 audio is contained in these files. You need to install DVD player software or an Ac3 filter to play these files.
To extract download Virtualdub_ac3 and extract to a wav.

ASHY

For a good codec pack ...try installing the Nimo codec pack

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/nimo/

The audio is windows media audio V2. Where do I find the file I would need to extract the audio to a wav file for conversion?

Install Divx 3.11 then load the file into Virtualdub and extract to a wav.

ASHY

after encoding picture is not smooth i have tried changing number of i p &b pictures in gop, motion search to highest quality interlace to de-interlace bottom field to top field i even thought it might be a windows xp problem so i loaded win 98 again but it didnt help are their any filters that will fix this any suggestions would help

What do you mean not smooth. Does it stutter? Have you changed the framerate.

ASHY

the frane rate is 25fps for vcd and the video studders but the sound is perfect the movie seems to pause once every 2 seconds or so but only for about an eighth of a second. i have done other vcd conversions that have come out perfect and i cant work out why these ones dont. i was using win 98 then but ive tried that and it still didnt work. last time i used the vcd guide from flexion.org and they worked perfectly. i think i used a donald grafton filter and i dont know if that was why

I would guess that the original footage is not 25 fps.
Check the framerate of the original, if it is different this is your problem.

ASHY

Can someone please explain just what frameserving is used for ?
I have looked at articles on vcdhelp.com and trawled newsgroups but they mainly deal with HOW to framserve , not why ?

As I understand it, it is used when ripping from DVD and frameserving directly to TMPGenc.

I only ever take divx fils and convert to XVCD, would I use frameserving ... why ?


thanks

Frameserving is basically a way of fooling software, such as TMPGEnc into thinking it's encoding an AVI file, rather than (a portion of) the origional mpeg. This is because some software is only designed to read specific files - Virtual Dub, for instance won't read mpeg 2 files, but if you frameserve using DVD2AVI it will.

The only other alternative would be to create an actual AVI, which for best quality, would be absolutely huge.

Griff

Frameserving basically uses another piece of software to enable another piece of software to read files it wouldn't normally be able to read.
For example TMPG can not natively read VOBS but it can read project files which DVD2AVI creates and DVD2AVI can read VOBS.

What this means is there is no intermediary encoding step which will result in quality loss. All DVD2AVI does is decode the information in the VOBS and then sends it to TMPG in a format it can read.
This saves time and quality as you are no longer producing an AVI from the VOBS and then encoding that.
You are more or less encoding the VOBS directly through DVD2AVI.

ASHY

Thanks for the informative answer !!
So ... since I am only encoding Divx files to XVCD , frameserving is not relevant to me ..right ?

..since my source is an avi, not a VOB

No not really. It would only be relevant to you if you wanted to use a program such as Virtualdub to edit your AVI and then encode it to MPEG. Rather than edit then re-encode to Avi it makes more sense to edit with virtualdub and apply it's filters and then frameserve the file to TMPG.

ASHY

I thought frameserving VirtualDub to TMPG was very cool until I decided to always use 2-pass VBR with the awesome, but very slow, "High Quality Smoother" filter in VirtualDub. (This is mainly for short clips.)

The performance hit of processing the video twice is so severe it pays to save an intermediate AVI. Luckily, I splurged for 320GB 4-way ATA Raid storage. Huffyuv compression is excellent for this.

So here is what we REALLY need. TMPGEnc should directly support VirtualDub filters plugins and allow different filters to be applied on first and second pass.

NEED HELP!
WHEN TRYING TO CONVERT AVI. FILE TO Mpeg. I KEEP GETTIN THIS MESSEAGE P3Package.dll what do i need to fix this. I tried reloading TMPG AND IT STILL WOULD NOT WORK

Type "P3Package.dll" at the top of this BBS, then press search.

This question has already answered so many times.

Download TMPG again. If that doesn't work you need to use a different extraction program to extract the files as the one you are using is corrupting the files.

ASHY

I normally use TMPGE for encoding TV programs to XVCD which it does great.

Today I tried to encode one in SVCD with version 2.56. It encodes fine until it gets to the 1Gig portion of the AVI but after that the rest of the encode is black picture and no sound.

The source files is PAL 704 x 576. <2Gig in lenght. Created with MSPRO 6.51 and Morgan 3 codec. The AVI plays fine for the full 2 Gigs.

I also tried encoding it with an old copy of 12a that I found but the same results.

Is there some setting for this . I didn't think that there was any source files size limitation.

Thanx in advance..

There isn"t a 1gb limit for files in tmpgenc so I have no idea why it is stopping at 1gb so the only thing I can think of is maybe there is something wrong with your avi file cuz I have encoded 4gb files to svcd with no problem but if you keep haveing problems try frame serveing from virtual dub and if it stops at 1gb while frame serveing then you know that there is something wrong with your file, you can also try setting the begining and end points of your file with the "source range" and see if it reads the file.....

Does any one know why I get the error "stream write error"?

never mind, my disk was full.