Hello friends,
Now I have the trouble as follow:
I have Mpeg2 encoded by LSX MPEG Adobe Premiere plugin, and want to burn widescreen dics. My video is 2hrs long. My Source is 16:9 resolution. I exported to 16:9 Mpeg2 file but when I test to playback in WinDVD, it's just full screen not widescreen as I want (must have the black bar on the top and the bottom)although I adjust some options to see widescreen on this player. I don't know why ?

Now I use DVDiT PE to burn but when I select make DVD dics, immediatelly the screen of movie stretch to full screen, not keep the same size as when I import it.
I have Ulead DVD Workshop is good but I don't see it make dics widescreen. If you have any advice, please teach me more about this ulead.
I don't understand much about widescreen anamorph and widescreen letterboxed, but I WANT THE WIDESCREEN WITH BLACK BAR ON THE TOP AND THE BOTTOM. If possible, please explain to me. Thanks for this.

If anyone can help give me a way to get out of my above troubles, I am much grateful.
Any advice or idea appreciated.
Thank you very much in advance.

Thuydinh,

You need a authoring Program that supports 16:9 Widescreen format ..the Ulead DVD Workshop 1.0" did not do Widescreen movies but the new 1.2 and 1.3 versions do recognize Widescreen format...So upgrade to the 1.2 version and you problem should be solved....

Thanks for your guide and I'll do it.

Thuydinh,

WinDVD 3.0 (and probably earlier) does not recognize the 16:9 flag on mpeg file playback.

Version 4.0 works.

Also note that if you trim the beginning of a title in Ulead DVD Workshop, the 16:9 flag is lost.

A program called ReStream can be used to check and toggle the 16:9 flag on demuxed video stream files smaller than 2GB.

You Can also Use "DVD Patcher" to Patch a New 16:9 Flag on the file and you can get it to put the flag at the begining of each GOP....

>Hello friends,
>Now I have the trouble as follow:
>I have Mpeg2 encoded by LSX MPEG Adobe Premiere plugin, and want to burn widescreen dics. My video is 2hrs long. My Source is 16:9 resolution. I exported to 16:9 Mpeg2 file but when I test to playback in WinDVD, it's just full screen not widescreen as I want (must have the black bar on the top and the bottom)although I adjust some options to see widescreen on this player. I don't know why ?
>
>Now I use DVDiT PE to burn but when I select make DVD dics, immediatelly the screen of movie stretch to full screen, not keep the same size as when I import it.
>I have Ulead DVD Workshop is good but I don't see it make dics widescreen. If you have any advice, please teach me more about this ulead.
>I don't understand much about widescreen anamorph and widescreen letterboxed, but I WANT THE WIDESCREEN WITH BLACK BAR ON THE TOP AND THE BOTTOM. If possible, please explain to me. Thanks for this.
>
>If anyone can help give me a way to get out of my above troubles, I am much grateful.
>Any advice or idea appreciated.
>Thank you very much in advance.
>
>Thuydinh,
>
>The reason u aint getting the black borders for is because it is in 16:9 format this only makes put in it in widesceen full screen mode but if u want it with black borders on top and bottom then u have to put it in 16:9 letterbox
>

i tried to convert an avi file to mpeg using the video cd ntsc format. When it completed encoding it had sound but no video. I had the setting set to system with video and audio. Not sure why my video is not converting. do i need to convert the pal to ntsc first? All the avi files i have downloaded seem to be pal when the wizard picks them up. How can i find out if they are pal without using the wizard? I have yet to create a vcd. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Pal video has a fps (Frames Per Second) of 25 where if the video source is NTSC the fps will be 29,97 or 23,976.

As to your problem with sound and no picture, I have no idea as I am experiencing this problem to.

Yes..Pal are 25fps,NTSC Film is 23.9/24 and NTSC is 29.9/30..If the file is say 25fps Pal then you have to encode it as a Pal movie or use a seperate program to convert it to NTSC..Tmpgenc does not do proper Pal/NTSC Conversions so you will get Jumpy playback and the audio will go out of sync...You can use AVISynth to Do the conversion and frame serve the file to Tmpgenc, other programs that are good at Pal/Ntsc conversions are Canopus ProCoder and Advanced NTSC/Pal converter...

I purchased TMPEG Plus last night thinking I would be able to use the full version right away, since my trial version is now expired. I have yet to recieve acknowledgement of payment or my serial number. I really respect what this program does, but am I the only one who finds this out of line? I have sent 2 emails questioning what is going on and have yet to recieve a reply. I would hate to action against this company, but if I don't recieve what I already payed for and was under the impressions I would recieve "shortly"...I will be forced to.

So I guess my question is...how long did all of you have to wait to get your serial number?

This is getting ridiculous.

Hello,
I am new with this program. I have many video files that I need to delete because they are taking up way too much space on my computer. So I am very confused with this process. Can anyone completely guide me throught the process of burning them on a CD? Thanks

http://www.vcdhelp.com//

When will Multi-Pass more than 2 be added? its been so long. other programs do this already, and have better quality as result

Besides CCE what other encoders have More than 2 passes????

I've been using TMPGEnc successfully for months with MPEG and AVI files. Today I tried loading a QuickTime movie (MOV) just to see what would happen. The movie loaded into the preview window, but an error message popped up from TMPGEnc saying something to the effect "Component missing -- PAL.DLL file not found".

Where does one find the file PAL.DLL?

Do you have the "Mov Quicktime plugin" for Tmpgenc???

No, where do I get it?

Hi there, i just started working with tmpgenc. (I found it on vcdhelp.com)
I tried a to encode a small avi file into vcd(PAL) But while encoding i continually keep getting errors.

IT says ERRROR
-537403781 197008

I have no clue of what it means. When i watch the preview it is ok.

Does anybody know an explanation????

Post it or mail it to dcp@freebox.com

Thanx

/DcP

Why is the encoding quality in "highest quality" motion estimation search more worse than in "normal quality" Mode????

See the test report:
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/articles/tmpgenc_test.html

Regards,
Andi

Not this again...
Don't believe a word of that crap. I have done the tests some time ago and cannot find any foundation for the claims.
Do some tests yourself and I'm sure you will agree with me.

ASHY

Hehe, this idiot does not have any idea, what Motion Prediction IS (or how it works)!
If you are encoding DVD-Source to (S)VCD, the best Settings are Motion Estimate or High, but never Highest.
The only Thing, Highest can be used for, is to encode Interlaced Video.
Why the Hell are some people to dump to do a simple Test with CQ and different Motion-Search settings and having a lokk on the resulting Bitrates? They will say erverything!

I'm sure this is an old problem.

I have 11 .avi segments captured with virtualDub(50 minutes of video). I batch convert the avi files using the DVD-low template(system vid+aud). The first mpg file is fine, but subsequent mpg files have audio for only about the first 30seconds, then no more audio. Video is unaffected. I tried using an external audio compressor (toolame), but it didn't help, so I guess that TMPGencoder is blocking the audio.

I know it's possible to extract a wav file via virtual dub, compress it, then multiplex it back with the merged .mpgs in TMPGencoder, but I find I then get lip-sync problems.

Any reason why I should not be able to batch encode multi-segment avi's without lossing audio in the first place?

Many thanks.

First of all why are you doing it this way? It's no wonder you are having problems. Merging that many MPEGs is not a good idea.

The way you should be doing it is to frameserve the files from Virtualdub to TMPG.
Because you have already created the segmented AVI's with Virtualdub the segments will have flags which tells Virtualdub to look for the next file in the sequence automatically and saves you having to merge them together after encoding.
Doing it this way the segments will be encoded by TMPG as one file and will probably solve your problem.

If you need info how to set up the frameserver have a look in the Virtualdub help files.

ASHY

Works a treat with fileserving.

Many thanks.

Hi.

Is it posible to cut an mpeg file in small slises like 2 min eatch.

I have a mpeg file with is 20 mins long, and i want to cut it in to 2 mins slises, is it posible to do that in a bactch proses, or do i need to do it manualy ?

Thanks.
Morten

If you are attempting to create chapters then the easier solution is to use VCDeasy which will allow you to put in the chapters yourself without all that hmessing about.

ASHY

I'm sure this is an old problem.

I have 11 .avi segments captured with virtualDub(50 minutes of video). I batch convert the avi files using the DVD-low template(system vid+aud). The first mpg file is fine, but subsequent mpg files have audio for only about the first 30seconds, then no more audio. Video is unaffected. I tried using an external audio compressor (toolame), but it didn't help, so I guess that TMPGencoder is blocking the audio.

I know it's possible to extract a wav file via virtual dub, compress it, then multiplex it back with the merged .mpgs in TMPGencoder, but I find I then get lip-sync problems.

Any reason why I should not be able to batch encode multi-segment avi's without lossing audio in the first place?

Many thanks.

This should only happen if the audio is of a Compressed format like MP3, and I have noticed the same problem with sync when useing V-Dub to extract the audio, so what seems to solve the problem is to Use "Sound Forge" to extract the audio to wav, it will allways extract the audio to the same length as your video file so there for there is not Sync issues........

PS: Frameserveing might solve the problems...

I notice that, right before starting to encode, 2.58 now says "unknown media type" in the drop down box that used to list different sized blank CDs. The sliding bar that allows one to adjust the bitrate to fit a particular type is greyed....why? How can I get this back on again?
-Don