How do I make my own custom templates. I have a dvd player that will not play minidvd's. It thinks it's a "vcd," and then it goes to a bluescreen. I've found the problem--the audio. I need to create a dvd template that does not use sound greater than 324. I can open mcf templates in worpad, however I cannot save them in the mcf format. What program allows me to edit mcf files?

If You just want to make a template so you don"t have to keep doing all the settings every single time you load a file in well that is easy you first load the "unlock.mcf" template, then adjust the settings to the settings you want the template to have then click the "Save" button in the bottom right corner, then you just name the template and save it and thats it......

Thanks for the info. Problem solved. You're a life saver, Minion!

Anyone succesfully made MPEGs for the JACKET_P folder. I know the size specs but it ain't happening.Must be doing something wrong.

Well what"s the problem??You got to make 3 files one 720 by 480 one 176 by 112 and one 96 by 64,Then put them in the Jacket-P Folder,What kind of files are you encodeing?What"s not working?I don"t know much about dvd-rom but Tmpgenc shouldn"t have a problem encodeing to those resolutions..

When I encoded one it was a garbled mess. Should I encode using CBR?

everybody say that amd is good in games blabla and intel is good for ripping ectect im here now to ask you professionals what is faster a amd or a intel for people that convert movies ......

I think for encodeing with Tmpgenc that a Pentium is a bit faster than an AMD because tmpgenc is optimized for Pentium processors with MMX,SSE and SSE-2 but then again AMD"s are optimized with SSE and 3D-Now which is supported in tmpgenc,So I think that any advantage either way is negligable accept that more programs are optimized for Pentium"s than AMD"s like dvd2avi which is optimized for MMX like a lot of programs are, but if you want to get the most performance for less money than maybe check into a Intel Celeron they can be up to half the price as Pentiums with compareable speeds and they have the same MMX,SSE and SSE-2 optimizations..You can download Benchmark programs that tell you how certain processors stack up against each other in many different catagories and you can see how the processor in your computer compares to other proscessors...

Sorry, with tmpgenc, there is a preview option while you're merging the wav and the avi to mpeg. My problem was that there was no sound in the preview, however, I burned onto a CD and played it in the dvd player and all was fine, there was video and sound. I guess I was just impatient. Thank you.

I'm completely new to trying to convert .avi to mpegs. The first time was a total waste of time. The second time I downloaded a whole slew of things and installed what I was instructed to on the guide....

I transformed part of the .avi to .wav format as was instructed and I played it...it worked. The video works too, however, when I use the preview option, the film plays and there is no sound. What do I do? Where did I go wrong? There have been no errors that popped up.

Thanks,

NewbieInNY

What do you mean by "when I use the preview option, the film plays and there is no sound." what preview option are you talking about?The only preview option I know of in tmpgenc is while you are encodeing and it doesn"t play audio while in the tmpgenc preview window while encodeing,But if you mean that you are just playing your mpeg file after you have finnished encodeing it and it has no audio then the problem could be from a few things but not knowing what steps you went through to make the mpeg so I couldn"t tell you what you did wrong but I can tell you how to fix the audio in the file, what you can do is first take the wav file that you said you made earlier and first listen to it and make sure there is audio in the file, then load the wav file into tmpgenc and leave the video blank, the make sure the "audio only" is checked in the stream settings then do your audio settings make sure the audio is 41.000hz then encode it , now you have to go to the "mpeg tools" to the "simple de-multiplex" and load your mpeg file into it and then click "run" it will split your mpeg file into the video and audio you can get rid of the audio from that file cuz it is blank, now go to "simple multiplex" and load the mpeg video file in and the mpeg audio file you made from the wav then choose the right setting from the drop down menu (mpeg1/vcd,mpeg2/svcd ect) choose your output file and click "run" now you will have a mpeg file with audio and video...Give it a try it works I just had to do it with 3 files I encoded last night....

I know what you're talking about. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you mean when you click "File > Preview...", you don't hear any audio, right? Well I think it's ok, because I don't hear any either, and neither does a friend of mine who uses TMPGenc. So I think you're ok!

One thing I shall try is to REBOOT after running WinDVD to see if the display card is reset. I gather from your comments that the display card is switched to overlay mode and TMPGEnc needs non overlay mode.

I'll report back.

I wonder also whether the make of the display card is involved with other manufacturer cards not affected.

i have a movie which seems to be encoded by DivX 5 codec :((
how can i convert it to svcd?
tmpgenc wont do it saying something about error starting up some module(
something related to ac3 sound), and virtual dub wont open it at all
saying it's unsuported format :(
any ideas what i could do?

The problem is that the audio is "AC3" and tmpgenc doesn"t encode ac3, what you need to do is either extract the audio to a wav file with an "ac3 decoder" or supposedly you can install ac3 filters to make tmpgenc read ac3 audio but I installed them and can"t get it to work, but you can download the "ac3 decoder" here http://www.mediatwins.com/products/1707-6.htm

Hi.

When I use TMPGEnc to encode a DivX (23.978) into a PAL SVCD mpg file, the movie gets jerky. The stops are very light and occur only every #1 second.

Must I use VirtualDub to do a framerate conversion first? I believe that TMPGEnc is able to cope with the video framerate conversion by itself, doesn't it?

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks!

Yes you are correct you are at some point going to have to use virtualdub to do the conversion as TMPG doesn't do proper framerate conversion.
There are a few recent posts regarding this explaining exactly how to achieve this.

ASHY

Have a look at this post.
Question - 20 fps avi conversion No.24813

ASHY

Thansk very much ASHY.

However the "AVI Frame Rate Changer" doesn't work for me since my source framerate is 23.978, which is non-standard. The readme also says not to use the program under such circumstances since it might ruin the source AVI.

What is an alternative way to change the framerate?

TIA

What do you mean it doesn't work?
Your framerate is not weird, it is just slightly, very slightly different from the norm and a lot of AVI framerates are like this. Don't worry it won't ruin your file so just go ahead change the framerate. If you are worried just make a copy of the original, but I assure you there will be no problem.

ASHY

1. "AVI Frame Rate Changer" works. It didn't read the AVI in my case initially because the file itself was still in use by VirtualDub (locked by filesystem). Sine "AVI Frame Rate Changer" did not show a warning message, I thought that the AVI file itself was somehow not accepted. But now, I changed the rate successfully to 25.000.

2. When I change the frame rate, the movie plays faster since no frames are added, doesn't it?
TIA

1. "AVI Frame Rate Changer" works. It didn't read the AVI in my case initially because the file itself was still in use by VirtualDub (locked by filesystem). Sine "AVI Frame Rate Changer" did not show a warning message, I thought that the AVI file itself was somehow not accepted. But now, I changed the rate successfully to 25.000.

2. When I change the frame rate, the movie plays faster since no frames are added, doesn't it?
TIA

1. "AVI Frame Rate Changer" works. It didn't read the AVI in my case initially because the file itself was still in use by VirtualDub (locked by filesystem). Sine "AVI Frame Rate Changer" did not show a warning message, I thought that the AVI file itself was somehow not accepted. But now, I changed the rate successfully to 25.000.

2. When I change the frame rate, the movie plays faster since no frames are added, doesn't it?
TIA

Correct, it will play 1 frame faster per second. This is negligable and you won't notice the speed up and is the same way 23.976 DVD's are converted to PAL.

ASHY

Is there no alternative way to change the framerate? I believe VirtualDub is calculating the missing frames by itself. Hence, the duration and speed of the movie doesn't change.

I tried the conversion of the first 5000 frames (there are 146000 in total), and ended up in a huge avi file. I used "Uncompressed RGB". I don't know which compressor I should use to reduce the size of this file. I don't want a lossy copmpressor since the source is already lossy (DivX) and the final SVCD mpg as well. If I select a lossy compressor for exporting from VirtualDub, I degrade the movie further (unnecessarily).

Which compressor isn't lossy (if there is any)?

TIA

I don't know what you mean by Virtualdub is compensating for the missing frames by itself. Virtualdub does not do this.
You seem to be doing things wrong.

The ONLY reason you need to load the AVI into Virtualdub is to extract the audio to a wav BEFORE changing the framerate of the AVI and then find out what the length of the movie is after changing the framerate to the one you want as this is required to adjust the audio.

You are NOT going to use Virtualdub to create another AVI. You should be using your original AVI and then changing the framerate of that with AVI framerate changer and then load the AVI into TMPG with your NEW audio and then encode.

This is what you need to do.
Load the unchanged AVI into Virtualdub and extract the audio to a wav.

Next close Virtualdub and then load your AVI into AVI framerate changer and change the framerate. Once you have changed the framerate then load the AVI into Virtualdub again and note the timescale and convert it to seconds. This will give you the new length of the movie which you can use for the audio in cool edit.
Then just follow the rest of the instructions for the conversion. This way you DO NOT need to re-compress the AVI which will preserve the quality.

ASHY

After I encode the AVI file to MPEG1 NTSC with TMPGEnc, how do I burn the new file to the cd? I tried to burn it with click-n-burn but my DVD player(apex 1200) would not recognize the disk.

Download NERO fron www.nero.com and use the VCD burning option.

ASHY

Have any of you guys ever come across an error labled "illegal floating point calculation" ??? I've got it a couple of times, and it's starting to annoy me.
Does anyone know how to get around it ?

-M

You get the floating point error when your avi file is corrupted or has corrupted sectors in it, there is a way to get rid of the error but it will make encodeing take quite a bit longer, what you do is first go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "cpu" and un-check the "SSE" box then go to "settings" to "quantize matrix" and un-check the "use floating piont DCT" box
this will stop the error from occuring but like I said the encodeing will take longer.You can also get this error if you do anything with your computer while encodeing accept encode......

Thanks ! I'll try that

Will there be any quality issues where the avi file was corrupted, such as missing frames, or sync problems between audio & video ?
As you can probably tell I'm a newbie ;)
-M

I keep reading that the floating point error is caused by corrupted AVI's, but I have found that is not always the case. I have an AVI that I can encode perfectly in version 2.54, but it consistently errors (floating point or read error) in version 2.56.

I have done everything I can think of to resolve the issues in 2.56 -- reinstall TMPGEnc, turn off 3D Now/SSE, remove all loading programs on boot, diddle with cache setting, lower my memory speed, turn off all power saving features... Nothing works and I still get one of the two errors. The AVI also encodes fine with other encoding software. Only TMPGEnc has a problem with it.

Msquared, one thing to check is where the errors appear. If it always happens at the same location, then I would think corrupted AVI... However, if the error appears to be random, then I would consider looking for a lower version of the software and giving that a try.

Hey, I am also getting floating point error, but I have none of the above set. Any thoughts?

hi - can someone tell me the preferred settings i should use for the software? i am converting from wmv file (which is at 130 kb/sec) to mpeg (NTSC option). thanks. also, how long will it take for me to convert a 1 hour 30 minute wmv file with a 866 mhz processor? thanks.

The only way to really find out what you want to know is to try it cuz every file is different so the settings can change for each file you encode but start with useing a standard template and see how it works and go from there but i warn you that "tmpgenc" doesn"t fully support wmv files so you might have some problems encodeing them to mpeg but give it a try....

Anyone have idea on how to make Mpeg file from the FCP Timeline? I have tried many times to make this file for burning to VCD. I was able to make but the video gets freezed. Please your comments are very much appreciated. I am also using Media Cleaner E5 for Compressing.
Tshechu Dorji Wong
Systimax Audio-visual
Thimphu:Bhutan
ASIA

Hi everyone,
I am getting a frequent number of reading errors when converting vob files to mpeg. This in turn stops the mpeg file at whatever size it was before the read error. It gets to be a laborious process to go back and fire up TPEGEnc, redo all the settings, find the area the encoding stopped and start again with another mpeg file; only to have it happen again 1 hr later.
With my first completed cvd it took days (literally) to keep restarting and resetting. not to mention that I had over 9 separate mgeg files of various sizes instead of the two that it should have taken.
The only settings I changed in the program were aspect ratio, motion sensor to high, volume increase, and noise reduction with high quality mode.
From a hardware standpoint, I have no problems. It also took about 36 hours to conrt from vob to mpeg. Seems really long. I would like to purchase the Plus version of this program, but untill I can solve this problem, It seems a waste of money.

Are there any settings in the program that I might experiment with to stop the errors?

Thanks,
phil

Well the first thing you should is stop converting VOBs to MPEG with TMPG, assuming this is what you are doing.
It is better and more reliable to use DVD2AVI to frame serve your VOBs to TMPG.
This may solve most of your problems and is usually the fastest way to do it and should take you a lot less than 36 hours.

ASHY

someone please help!!! after I finish running DVD2AVI my audio file is labeled as AC3 T01 3 2ch 448Kbps Delay 0ms.a3 , Why do my files audio have the word "delay" in them. It's causing my movie to play like and old kong fu flick, after I run TMPGEnc. I did two movies before this one and didn't have this problem please someone help!!!!!

It seems that you are extracting the audio in ac3 format instead of "wav" format, when you extract the audio to a compressed format you will get the amount of delay in the file name.Try extracting the audio to wav format then you shouldn"t get a sync problem and don"t watch your mpeg files in media player cuz it has a habbit of playing mpeg files out of sync, to set up dvd2avi to extract the wav file you go to audio and choose "decode to wav" and under "dolby digital decode" choose "dolby surround downmix" (this is with the 1.77.3 version) now your audio file will ba a wav file with out the sync problems....