Hello,

I tried to convert AVI's (23.97 fps) to a PAL (25 fps) MPEG2 file. When I play the movie on my DVD player the movie plays a little bit jerky (shocking).

If I set the option "Do not Frame rate convert", after encoding, the movie will play smooth, but the audio is out of sync (you cannot correct it because the length differs I think).

Can anyone help me?

Also the Frame rate settings in the program are grayed, so you cannot keep the 23.97 fps.

Thanks,

Marc

Search this board you will find the solution how to do a proper frame rate conversion.

ASHY

can you please tell me how to uninstall tmpg.

You just throw the tmpgenc folder with all the files into the recycle bin, There is no real installation with tmpgenc it runs as a stand alone application accept that it does leave registry entries after you delete it..

I process an AVI file into an MPEG-2 for DVD file and it looks very
good, except that when there is rapid motion the picture seems
to break up into blocks (unable to follow the motion). When the motion
ceases, the picture sharpens right up. I understand that this
probably is a "feature" of MPEG-2, but is there any way I can reduce
this characteristic as it can be quite annoying. The compression
I'm seeing is very good, the order of 40 times smaller than the original
uncompressed avi file, but I'm willing to sacrifice a little compression
if I can remove this "blocking" of the picture.

Thanks,

>I process an AVI file into an MPEG-2 for DVD file and it looks very
>good, except that when there is rapid motion the picture seems
>to break up into blocks (unable to follow the motion). When the motion
>ceases, the picture sharpens right up. I understand that this
>probably is a "feature" of MPEG-2, but is there any way I can reduce
>this characteristic as it can be quite annoying. The compression
>I'm seeing is very good, the order of 40 times smaller than the original
>uncompressed avi file, but I'm willing to sacrifice a little compression
>if I can remove this "blocking" of the picture.
>
>Thanks,

Shame, shame. You said you were NOT posting this over and over yet, here you are 7 hours later.

Use the constant quality setting (CQ), and choose a value between 65 -100%. Then go to motion precision and choose high or highest.

I transcode mpeg2's dumped onto my hard disk from a Nova-t digital TV card. Providing the origional mpeg stream doesn't contain artifacts, I get near perfect DVD compliant copies (with the CQ setting at 100% and motion search set to "highest").

Most people on this BBS seem to be using TMPGenc to encode mpeg1's; this is a shame, because at it's highest quality TMPGEnc produces mpeg2's to rival ANY DVD, and better some.

Griff

I am relatively new at "Backing Up" movies and hope someone can answer this question.

I create SVCD disks using SMARTRIPPER - DVD2AVI - TMPGEnc Plus - NERO.

I just had a movie where DVD2AVI would not produce a WAVE file. It seemed to run fine (but finished too fast). The movie was "From Hell" - the story about Jack the Ripper in London. This has happened once before (I don't remember the name of the other movie). DVD2AVI does produce a WAVE file for most other movies.

If I play the ripped .VOB files in WinDVD, there is no sound (at least in the Gateway OEM version of WinDVD V3.1). If I play it in Windows Media Player (with LSX-MPEG-PLAYER 4.0 installed), there IS sound in the .VOB files.

I then tried using DVDx to read the .VOB files and create the MPG files and it did work and the sound was fine.

So, in the few cases where DVD2AVI can't read the sound, I can solve the problem with the DVDx work-around, but it is a poor solution since that excludes TMPGEnc which provides much better quality, has many more filters and features, and is MUCH FASTER.

Is there a way to make DVD2AVI work in all movies?

There could be a bunch of reasons why the audio was not extracted,What you should do is look at the Text file that "SmartRipper" made and it will tell you what audio track is which and what format the audio is in, you can"t extract DTS audio but you can extract the Dolby Digital AC3 track, and make sure you have the audio settings correct like set to "decode to wav" and "dolby surround downmix", I did that same movie about a month ago and from what I remember i didn"t have a problem....

Yes I did this movie a few weeks ago and had more or less the same problem except I use VOB2AUDIO to extract the wav. It seems for reason that DVD2AVI and VOB2AUDIO just can't see the stream.
The way I got round it was to extract the correct audio stream with smartripper to an extra ac3 file and then encode the ac3 to wav with ac3dec.

ASHY

I found the problem.

Since ASHY had a similar problem, I knew that my particular computer configuration was probably not causing the problem. But Minion's comment about having the correct audio stream rung a bell.

I always use track 1 audio in DVD2AVI and I thought that that would work in all cases. But no.... that works in almost all cases, except a few movies where they apparently switch the track order.

In this case track 2 was needed. As simple as that!

I did check the info text file but there wasn't a clue to audio track number - streams were listed but track 2 turned out to be the next to the last (#4) audio stream listed.

if a movie is in DTS sound format...how do you produce a .WAV file from it?
-Don

Hi I am having trouble re encoding a ripped DVD film its using DivX mpeg 4 and Mpeg 3 audio, when ever it try to convert it to Video CD I get a good picture but no sound (the originals sound is ok) and every few second the error -537403781 704512 is displayed and have to click ok to resume.

can anyone help?

You need to extract the audio to a wav file with "virtual dub" and use that as the audio source.Tmpgenc does not like encodeing compressed audio formats and some formats just aren"t supported.There have been quite a few poeple getting that error you are getting every few seconds but it allways seems that they get the error from files downloaded from places like Kaaza so I think the problem lies in the files that are being encoded and not tmpgenc...

I need help...I downloaded a couple of movies off of Kazaa and whenever i try to convert them to MPEG1 it says "my file name" cannot be created somebody help me quickly please

Movies from kazaa are mostly DivX movies. If the one you downloaded is not, try saving it to a different folder then to the one that the video source is in.

I'm assuming you have the div3 and div4 codecs installed?

I dont know if i have the codecs installed...how can i find out? and if its not how can i install them.......

If you can actually play the movie, you should have the codecs in stalled. If not, then I urge you to download them at doom9.org or search for the divx 3 and 4 codecs in a search engine.

Hi when encodeing a movie at aobut 69% it goes black
the first part dose good and it set to HQ
This is my first time useing 2.57

Go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" and raise the "direct show file reader" to "2"

I am very new at this.I have downloaded movies in kazaa shared.when I am encoding a movie,shouldn't i see the movie as it is encoding?shouldn't i see it also when i preview??all i get is a black screen,after i encoded one movie,i burned it to cd with win media player,when i play it on my dvd player,tv,i get sound but black picture.i have the direct show file set on 2.please help before the sad rich people stop us from downloading...thanks

You also have to have the proper codecs installed on your computer so Tmpgenc can decode your avi file,DivX5 is supposed to be supported but some poeple have had problems getting tmpgenc to encode from Divx5 includeing me, and yes your movies should be displayed while encodeing and if it isn"t then there is probably no video in the encoded mpeg file.......

I'm trying to decode and everytime I get this message: Error occurred when ACM was initialized. What is this and how can I fix it?

See this post: Question - the error occurred when ACM Was initialised No.25092

If that doesn't help try extracting the audio to a wav and use that as your source.

ASHY

This morning when I tried to bring up TMPGEnc, I got the following error message:

Unable to connect to IPC
Frame server down??

I'm running W2K. Anyone know how to fix this?

I should add that I am using avisynth 1.0 beta and Adobe Premiere 6.01

Have you been using any plugins with TMPG such as AVisynth or Premier or any other 3rd party software with TMPG?

ASHY

>Have you been using any plugins with TMPG such as AVisynth or Premier or any other 3rd party software with TMPG?
>
>ASHY

Yes, to both. Used to work and now it doesn't. Reinstalled TMPGEnc and re-registered AVIsynth and still no go.

Make sure you are using AVIsynth v1.0 beta6. This version has many improvements.
If that doesn't work try disabling the 'directshow multimedia file reader' in the VFAPI plugins.

ASHY

Seem to be chasing my tail. I read some place that Make sure you are AVIsynth v1.0 beta6 wasn't compatible and that you should stick with V0.3. I'll go back and try V10. beta6 again.

>>If that doesn't work try disabling the 'directshow multimedia file reader' in the VFAPI plugins.

How is this done? I can't find any place to do this.

Thanks for your help...

option>enviromental settinf>VFAPI plugins

ASHY

Ashy -

I did as you suggested (disabling the 'directshow multimedia file reader') and it still doesn't work. I went back and tried both the 0.3 and 1.0 versions of AVIsynth, re-installed Premiere, and TMPGEnc, and it doesn't work. I seem to be out of options.

I'm trying to decode and everytime I get this message: Error occurred when ACM was initialized. What is this and how can I fix it?

Is there something wrong with the program? i open it, it opens for a split second and then closes. The program never starts. I have installed it over 20 times and restarted the computer over and over.. what is wrong with thh program?

What processor are you using? How much RAM? What version of Windows?

Have you actually tried downloading the program again?
If that doesn't help then go to the TMPG folder and delete these files: CurrentCfg.tpr and TMPGEnc.ini then try to run TMPG again.

ASHY

I process an AVI file into an MPEG-2 for DVD file and it looks very
good, except that when there is rapid motion the picture seems
to break up into blocks (unable to follow the motion). When the motion
ceases, the picture sharpens right up. I understand that this
probably is a "feature" of MPEG-2, but is there any way I can reduce
this characteristic as it can be quite annoying. The compression
I'm seeing is very good, the order of 40 times smaller than the original
uncompressed avi file, but I'm willing to sacrifice a little compression
if I can remove this "blocking" of the picture.

Thanks,

Are you doing constant quality, constant bitrate or variable bitrate? The way to reduce compression artifacts is to increase bitrate. If you're doing constant bitrate, try encoding at around 7700 kbits/sec.

It is not appreciated by the regular users of this BBS when you keep posting the same question over and over and over again. I'm suprised your posts haven't been deleted as of yet as they should be.

ASHY

I only posted the message once. If it is occurring
in the BBS more than once, it is due to some other cause.

Dave Forslund