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I have an uncompressed AVI that plays well im MS-player. After encoding to MPEG2 the end of the clip is placed at the beginning instead of the beginning and the picture is horizontally and vertically displaced. After a few seconds the MPEG clip continues playing well again.
ANY suggestion? Thanks to all halping me...
You can insert this MPG via Nero Burning ROM or other software and make a VCD by placing this logo as the last track - at the end of the Film, the logo will show up and inform you to change the CD (remember to remove any pauses between the two mpegs) http://www.dvd-digest.net/downloads/files/trailers/change_cd.exe
VCD does support stills, but is difficult to do and you will need the right software. Head over to VCDhelp.com they have some software and tutorials to accomplish this.
You're not doing anything wrong, this sometimes happens with DivX files. Use Virtual Dub to rip the sound stream in the DivX move to a wav, then use TMP to encode just the video stream. Re-multiplex the seperate video and sound streams in either TMP (under "mpeg tools") or use your authoring package to do the re-multiplexing.
It could be that your Divx contains ac3 audio. In this case you will need software able to decode ac3 to wav such as AVImux. Virtualdub will not do it correctly if it is.
You will then need to load your wav file as the audio source in TMPG and encode. If you already have the movie just encode the audio seperately and multiplex the result with your movie using the MPEGtools.
When i have done all the settings according to vcdhelp.com i press start and i get an error message that says "Can't load P3Package.dll" I have tried reinstalling TMPGEnc a few times but nothing seems to work. Any advice would be very helpful
Load in your file and click "start"....If you are haveing a problem use the "search engine" at the top of this BBS and if you can"t find your answer post a specific question about the particular problem that you are haveing..OOhh and if you are getting the "can not open or unsupported" error then go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" and raise the priority or the "Direct Show file Reader" to "2"...
It keeps telling me that the file i want to burn is to long to fit on one CD-R do i have to strech it to 2 discs or is there somthing else i must do. I am new to trying this so any help would be great. thank you.
You can only fix a max of about 795mb on a 80munute 700mb cd-r so if your mpeg file is bigger than 795mb then you will need to split it, you can do this by going to "file" to "mpeg tools" to "merge & cut" then it is pretty easy to figure out from there but in the future you can use the "source range" setting in the "advanced settings" to encode the first half(or third or whatever)of the movie then the second half so you don"t have to split it later.Generally speaking you will need to put pretty much all vcd"s/svcd on at least 2 cd-r"s, but if after encodeing you realize that your whole movie is only say 1gb then it is sort of a waste of space to use a whole cd-r for the first 795mb and onlt 205mb for the second so it is good to figure out before hand how long the movie is and how dig it will be so you can adjust the bitrate to make the file bigger so it will fill up both cd-r"s and the quality will be better as a result.....
thank you for the information.The movie i want to burn is 735 MB but it is 90 min long so i keep getting message when i try to burn it, Is there somthing very basic i am doing wrong i am useing the 700 MB CD-Rs but it says it only holds 80 min.
You must be useing "Nero" I have noticed that the newer versions of Nero have this bug in them that won"t allow you to burn more than 80minutes of video on a cd-r even if it is smaller than the cd-r..So try useing "VCDEasy" it is free and it supports chapters, as of late I have been leaning towards "VCDEasy" as apposed to Nero for ease of use and compatability.......
I would like to convert a whole bunch of 1/2 hour avi's to mpg for VCD archival. Can I get TMpegEnc to do this unattended? They are all the same bitrate size, etc, so can I just tell it to do 20 or so files and work for the next 10 hours?
Load them all into Virtualdub and use the append function after loading each file then framserve to TMPG. The files will automatically be joined into one.
>Load them all into Virtualdub and use the append function after loading each file then framserve to TMPG. The files will automatically be joined into one.
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Hope this isn't a retarded question...but won't that make one big mpg file? How would I then split the mpg's into manageable sizes?
Sorry I see now, I was assuming you did want to combine into one MPEG.
Ok the option you are looking for is TMPG's batch conversion.
Load the file you wish to convert and set up as you would wish to encode it then click File>save project.
Do this for each file you wish to convert then when you are ready to encode simply click File>batch encode then click 'Add' and highlight all the projects you have created and add them to the list. Click 'run' and TMPG will encode each file in the order of the list. You will also notice a shutdown option will appear allowing you to shut down the PC after encoding is finished.
my problem is I capture about 200-300 videos at a time... and also apply a volume controll... normalizing the mpeg at 75%
building a batch process like this utility does is 80% of the work done for me... is there anyway to make TMPGEnc also apply that volume nomilization before it encodes? automatically?
The only way I can suggest is to create your batch list then load up the list into TMPG. In the batch list you will see each individual file to be encoded. If you double click a file in the list you will be able to change the parameters for that particular file including the volume be able to add other filters.
Do this for each file in the list and then resave the list and your files should be encoded with the settings you chose.
I agree, but this would be the quickest method I know and is quicker than adding the normalization to a manually created project file, which is the only other way I can see of doing it.
I would like to convert a whole bunch of 1/2 hour avi's to mpg for VCD archival. Can I get TMpegEnc to do this unattended? They are all the same bitrate size, etc, so can I just tell it to do 20 or so files and work for the next 10 hours?
I have tried several times getting encoding a movie with an AC3 track. The result has been no sound on my pc or DVD player, and Choppy (play and pause non stop) picture on my dvd player. Im almost at a total loss. Also how do you keep the AC3 track when making a VCD/SVCD? Any help would be appreciated.
First off Tmpgenc doesn"t support encodeing AC3 audio and your vcd/svcd player probably won"t play it either cuz AC3 is not part of the svcd/vcd specification.But if you want to try anyways you will need an ac3 decoder to extract the ac3 audio then you encode just the video then you mux the AC3 audio to the m2v video file..But the reason that you are getting jumpy playback could be because the frame rate of your avi file could be differant than the mpeg file, Tmpgenc will give you jumpy playback if you use it to do the frame rate conversion, so chech the frame rate of the avi file and make sure it is the same as the mpeg file.......
>I have tried several times getting encoding a movie with an AC3 track. The result has been no sound on my pc or DVD player, and Choppy (play and pause non stop) picture on my dvd player. Im almost at a total loss. Also how do you keep the AC3 track when making a VCD/SVCD? Any help would be appreciated.
When converting a NTSC avi down to a VCD compliant PAL file destination file (mpeg) seems to glitch every few seconds - I feel this has something to do with the frame rates - any option on tmpg to solve this?? Cheers people.
Hmm, If your standalone player supports it to play NTSC CDs or DVDs on a PAL TV Set stay with NTSC. Its too much fuss to convert it.
BTW: If someone has an half decend way to make an 23 fps NTSC stream out of an 25 fps PAL stream tell us. :) I hate to say but bur getting more than 70 mins of film on an SVCD PAL stinks ;-/
Ok there is one method I have been testing that works quite well and is less fuss than the usual method of stretching/shrinking the audio to match the length of the changed framerate avi.
The method I have been testing uses AVIsynth.
Some people may think AVIsynth is difficult to use, but once you get the hang of it, it is really quite simple. This method is similar to the way professional converters do the job.
Now rename the file with an .avs extension.
Thats it, the only difference you will have is the paths to the files.
Then it is a simple case of loading the .avs file and the DVD2AVI wav file into TMPG and resizing and clipping as normal.
This method is much better than TMPG as there aren't as many motion artifacts, the only thing I have noticed is slight blurring in some motion scenes, but is really only noticable if you look hard and is typical of the effect you get with professional converters.
To convert NTSC to PAL is a little more difficult unless the source is 23.976 progressive frames, if this is the case then it is a simple case of following the instructions above, but obviously changing the framerate to the required one.
If the source is 29.97 with pulldown added then I would urge you to use DVD2AVI to remove the pulldown and return the movie back to 23.976 progressive frames.
If not then we will have to use AVIsynth to de-interlace the movie first. A script such as below is needed.
Doing Frame rate conversion with Tmpgenc will allways give you jumpy playback.It is quite difficult to do a frame rate conversion from 29.9fps to 25fps so if you can play ntsc movies on your pal set up then go for it cuz the alternitive is quite hard to do .It is a lot easier to do a 23.9fps to a 25fps or visa versa.,Dut doing a 23.9fps to 25fps is a lot easier you just use "avi frame rate converter" to change the frame rate of your avi to 25fps then you use a audio editing program like "cool edit" or "sound forge 5 or 6" to shrink the audio file to the new length of the avi file(the length shortens when changeing the frame rate) then you encode and mux the audio and video together..That is the very short way of explaining it but that is basicly it, if you wan"t a more explained way to do it use the "Search" function at the top of this BBS, cuz it has been explained quite a few times here...