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What is XVCD? (http://www.xvcd.com/xvcd.htm)
"XVCD is an alternate VCD format. The X stands for eXtended VCD, but unlike regular VCD, or SVCD, it is not an officially recognized format. XVCD uses a higher bit rate (max 3.5Mbit/second) as opposed to VCD (1150Kbit/second), which results in a better image quality, but this is at the expense of more time, which makes it impossible for the format to contain more than 25 minutes of material. This makes it great to archive a half hour TV show, but you would need at least four XVCDs to store the average feature film.
One of the main advantages of XVCD is its ability to accommodate higer resolution program material, such as PAL or NTSC as opposed to regular VCDs which can only play CIF format files.
Furthermore, since XVCD isn't officially recognized, manufacturers of standalone players aren't concerned with making their units XVCD compatible. VCDs are not commonly found in the Western world, but the they have virtually replaced VHS in China and other Eastern countries."
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XVCD stands for eXtendedVCD and is an extension of VCD 2.0. It tries to use the most power from the chip of the standalone dvd player. Some people speak from a mix between VCD 2.0 and SVCD. XVCD uses like VCD MPEG1 but it is possible to use higher bitrates and higher resolution.
XVCD PAL
Video:
-any kbit/sec MPEG-1 both variable and constant bitrate.
-352 x 288 pixels
-25 frames/second
Audio:
-32-384 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer2
Extra:
-Menus and chapters
-Still pictures in 704x576,352x288
XVCD NTSC
Video:
-any kbit/sec MPEG-1 both variable and constant bitrate
-352 x 240 pixels
-29,97 frames/second (23,976 frames/second NTSC Film)
Audio:
-32-384 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer2
Extra:
-Menus and chapters
-Still pictures in 704x480,352x240
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Most cheapest DVD players that plays XVCD discs have limits: Video MAX 2500 br - Audio MAX 256 br. i.e. Philips have's many DVD players that supports XVCD discs. List of all VCD,SVCD,XVCD,XSVCD supported DVD drives at http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers.php.
Now a days there is many many many DVD players on the market that has XVCD support, but the resellers are not advertising with those extra supports.
Anybody who feels they are accomplished enough to create XVCD shouldn't need a wizard and as far as the wizard goes I can set up TMPG much faster through the main interface than using the wizard which in my opinion is for amatuers and amatuers so stick to regular templates because they don't know what they are doing.
The Wizard provides something within VCD/SVCD/DVD standard, and XVCD
is totally out of them, so I think there is no reason why TMPGEnc
guides users (especially newbies) to "out of standard" / "on your own risk"
area. This may be another reason why TMPGEnc locks some patameters
not to create out of standard MPEG, although people can unlock them
with your own risk.
I have a movie I ripped using Smartripper, where I told it to split the vobs by chapter, which made it easy to play off the HD. Now I want to burn them to DVD-R, using the different vobs as chapter points.
I first tried using MyDVD 3.1. It plays fine, but after each file you have to go back to the menu, you canÃÕ play them in order. The nice thing about MyDVD is that it accepted the vobs directly once I renamed them to .mpg, with no re-encoding or demuxig.
I heard that DVDit could play all the files in order, so I tried it. Only problem is that when I preview the DVD I hear the sound. But once you build the DVD, DVDit demuxes and it looses the sound. I know I could use a program to demux ahead of time, but wouldnÃÕ that just be asking for audio sync problems? I love the way MyDVD takes the vobs/mpg directly. I just wish there was a happy medium. Any suggestions?
I would join them into One big Vob and put your own chapter points it the same spots..There is no differance at all useing segmented VOB files of one big VOB file if you put the chapter points in the same spots ..you can still use the same transitions and menues and it will look the same accept it should be a lot easier...and if you can"t figure out how to do it your way then it isn"t a bad alternitive...
When I encode any kind of video, the output is always really dark, ive tried diffrent versions and the same thing. It didnt used to do this it has just started. Any help would be greatful. thanks
Is it possible to create an MPEG-2 larger size than 720 x 480? I have tried using the unlock feature; however, when I go to encode, TMPGEnc says it's an illegal format for MPEG-2. I can do it in MPEG-1, but want MPEG-2.
Yes it is possible by changing the profile level to MP&HL, but be aware this will not be acceptable for most DVD players as most expect MP&ML which is standard for DVD.
Hi,
I¡m trying to split a 1.7 Gb mpeg File into separate files. But after selecting the first start and end position and trying to generate the first file the program crashes. I¡m using version 2.58.44.152 and core version 1.90.140
My system is: Duron 700 MHz , 30 Gb Harddisk 7,5 Gb free, Windows XP Professional
Does anyon know a solution for this ?
The only solution for this is a pretty easy one, use a different Mpeg editor...The mpeg editor in Tmpgenc doesn"t work very well sometimes and there isn"t anything you can do to fix it.....
There is probably a Error in the avi file at 12% of the way through the file..This is extremely common with files downloaded off the net, you can either try to frame serve it to Tmpgenc with V-Dub or try to make a Copy of the file with V-Dub and encode the copy..Of you can encode up to the point were it crashes then use the Source Range to start encodeing a few frames after it crashed then join the 2 parts together with the Merge & Cut.....
ERROR MESSAGE: File "xyz.mpg" cannot open or unsupported
This message occures if I want to load the audio of a functioning 1234.mpeg MPEG2 type file for encoding.
Has someone an idea ?
The same 1234.mpg file worked well with tmpgenc a few weeks ago.
do u need to encode the audio? if not just encode teh video and demux the audio from the source and mux it with the output mpg...what kind of audio is it? its prob mp2...i'm not so clear on the audio formatts of mpg2...i know there is ac3 and the usual mp2.
If you are encodeing a Mpeg file to a Mpeg file you Dont Need to encode the audio cuz it is allready in the correct format for mpeg, just encode the Video then mux the audio to the encoded mpeg file...Tmpgenc does not like to encode Compressed formats like "MP2", wav is the best format to encode to mp2........
Sorry all your tips didnot work sufficiently, so I had to solve the problem for myself. For all having the same problem, I tell you how to do !!!
My intention was to create SVCD compatible MPG-files (PAL) from MPEG2 files created with POWER-VCR II (640x480, NTSC, 5000kbp/s)
1. step:
Demultiplex the POWERVCR2.MPG with MPEG-TOOLS from TMPGENC, save the mp2 file, delete the m2v !!!!
2. step:
Use MPEG-Mediator to create an avi file (I tried uncompressed, Hufmann, MPEG4VIII codecs). As input file you have to use the original POWERVCR2.MPG and not the m2v file created after Demultiplexing, because u will run into sync troubles !!
3. step
Encode the avi file with TMPGENC, with settings compatible to SVCD standard, BUT ONLY VIDEO !!
4. Multiplex the resulting SVCD2 compliant *.m2v (from step 3)with the mp2 file generated in step 1.
The resulting MPEG is SVCD compatibel and has no SYNC problems.
That's just a waste of time and quality and is not necessary.
You need and MPEG2 codec to open MPEG2 files with TMPG or load the MPEG2 into DVD2AVI and create a d2v file and then load into TMPG.
The LIGOS codec works, but you need the right one called VOB Filters 1.04 which can be downloaded from here: http://www.dvd-digest.net/downloads/files/encode/VOB_Filters_104.zip
Much quicker and much simpler than messing about with intermediate AVI's.
That's just a waste of time and quality and is not necessary.
You need and MPEG2 codec to open MPEG2 files with TMPG or load the MPEG2 into DVD2AVI and create a d2v file and then load into TMPG.
The LIGOS codec works, but you need the right one called VOB Filters 1.04 which can be downloaded from here: http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/encoding_vobutils.html
Much quicker and much simpler than messing about with intermediate AVI's.
I have been using TMPGENC several times to convert avi files to VIDEOCD with no problem. Lately, however, I have encountered a few files which give me problems when played back on my DVD player (freezing and similar). They are low res (304x232 or so) black and white avi files, and when showing the average video bitrate with VirtualDub (after encoding with TMPGenc)I get a value lower than the canonical 1150 kbps which I get with the "good" videos. I guess that to obtain the standard 1150 kbps bitrate on files which have originally very low bitrate TMPGenc does some sort of padding, so maybe this could be the problem ?
Any hint would be greatly appreciated.
I doubt it will be the added padding as this should bring the low bitrate file up to standard VCD bitrate. The source bitrate does not affect the output bitrate and is irrelevant.
Are you actually using the correct VCD resolution or are you using the original source resolution and do these files only have this problem with your DVD player?
If you are encoding using the correct bitrate and mode and have padding enabled then your bitrate should be a constant 1150 kbps no matter what.
I am using the template which comes with TMPGEnc so resolution and all the rest are OK. The problem only arises with my DVD player (PC playback gives no problem) and only with these very low res black and white video clips, which brings me to think that in this case strict VIDEOCD compliance is not accomplished.
Hi,
I want to frameserver from VirtualDub to TmpgEnc. Accordingly I set (in my humble opinion) everything correct. Even adjusted some of the VpfApi settings, higher priority, on/off, but with no succes. Is there someone who knows what else I can do? I'm desperate...
VirtualDub starts the frameserver, but TmpgEnc still returns the error "cannot open or unsupported format" when trying to open the .vdr file. Also renamed it to .avi but it still gives me the same problem. Even Panasonic does give me the same error...
Please let me know, either in this BBS or via email.
Did you actually install the Virtualdub frameserver client first?
If you don't know what I mean then obviously you haven't.
Consult the Virtualdub help files for info how to install the client first.
>MidimasterIP:62.234.44.119 and AshayIP:62.252.224.5 is same?
What's your problem you pratt?
The I.P's are not even close you wally so what's your point?
As for AVisynth I know how to use it well enough and have been using it for ages now and I'm quite accomplished with it, so don't get cocky clever dick.
I probably know more about encoding than you have english words in your vocabulary and have used this BBS for quite some time.
Just to correct your silly attitude. Th Original question was how to use the Virtualdub frameserver not how to frameserve with AVIsynth.
>>MidimasterIP:62.234.44.119 and AshayIP:62.252.224.5 is same?
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>What's your problem you pratt?
>The I.P's are not even close you wally so what's your point?
ah, ok.
that's right,. my english is weak, however I understood The Original question, and know the answer.
However, beacuse my english is weak, I can't tell the answer to Midimaster.
I found out what is causing most of these read errors and privilege errors that have cropped up lately.It seems that setting the Motion Search Precision to Highest quality causes these errors.The dumb bastard purposely introduced this bug to force people to upgrade to the paid version.Very bad form!