I am getting a buffer underflow while replacing a MPEG2-fileheader (SVCD-format) to a MPEG1 file header (VCD-format) with TMPGEnc, MPEG-tools section, single-multiplex tab. How come? .

You ask how come when you are doing something that is totally against the Mpeg specification??the reason is Because the Packet size for VCD and SVCD are different so the buffers overflow or underflow cuz the data packets aren"t the correct siZe..you should try useing the "Merge & Cut" instead of the Multiplex to add the VCD header..you just load the file in then change the setting in the Drop down menu then choose the "output" directory the click "run" and it should change the header without giveing you the error....

I have an AVI file ripped from a Canon DV camcorder using Ulead video studio 5. 1 hour of extracted video is about 12.5 gb filesize. When I try to convert using TMPG 2.58 PLus. It lets me, but the video quality bitrate is very poor. Ive tried numerous settings for customizatins and the usual DVD NTSC template. It encodes this file unusually fast. I need to burn this mpeg2 file to a DVD.

Anyone else having this problem? Please help.

Slaughter

What Type of poor Quality do you Mean???Is it Blocky or is there lots of interlace lines or discoloration??

Hey Minion,

It is blocky like lower quality than MPEG1 (VCD). It is like internet quality at 500k windows media type of quality if you know what I mean. Unacceptable especially when i know the original AVI is perfect.

Thanks

Sometimes Raiseing the Priority of the "direct show file Reader" fixes problems like that....

Minoin,

Thanks, your fix of raising the Directshow to priority 1 position definetly worked!

Slaughter

I downloaded the new Plus 2.5 version. I have XP. During the encoding process, it stops and I get this error "At address FFFFFFFF, Read error occurred against address FFFFFFFFFF. Please help. This never happened with the earlier versions of Tmpgenc.

Please refrain from double posting as your post will most likely get ignored and/or deleted.

To answer your question go to "options" to "Enviromental Settings"to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "direct show" to "2"...

ASHY

I am using XP, have the 2.58 latest version. Half way through encoding process, I get an error. What would cause this?

Unfortunately I have lost my crystal ball, so until you provide me with more info on the kind of error I am unable to assist you.

ASHY

Everytime I close out my TMPGENC program I see these annoying files that appear on my desktop...one's a 'notebook' file that says "tmpgenc" and another one says "current cfg.tpr" under the file. I know they belong somewhere, yet I have to delete them everytime!! what kind of files are they and how do I get rid of them for good so they don't come back up on my desktop anymore??

This happening because you have the TMPGenc.exe file from the zip directly on to your desktop.

The TMPG files should be in a folder not on your desktop. The files you are talking about are files which are created by TMPG to store the last settings used and will be created each time you close TMPG.

You cannot have the TMPGenc.exe file by itself on your desktop as ther are several other important files included in the zip which it needs.]

My advice is to delete the files you have on you desktop and extract fresh ones from the zip and leave them in the folder created.

To run TMPG from your desktop just create a shortcut to the TMPGenc.exe file.

ASHY

ASHY

...but all I have on my desktop IS the shortcut! I have the folder and all its contents in my 'C' drive folder, yet when I close it out, I keep getting these damn folders on my desktop....there's GOT to be something that's causing this....please help me out...please try to find another solution to this issue...I can't seem to figure it out!!

I took your advice ashy and that seemed to work...the problem was that I took the icon that was in the folder and instead of making it a shortcut, I made it a copy....so I made a shortcut and that seem to work.I didn't think that'd make a difference, but it did(weird huh???)...anyways, thanks for your help!!!

No not weird just normal.
Of course it will make a difference. You can't just copy a file and expect it to work as a shortcut because that won't work. You have simply made an exact copy of the original file which has no connection to the original file at all.

A shortcut points to the original file it was made from and runs it when clicked, a copy doesn't point to anything.

ASHY

It would be nice to make Macintosh version. Especiallily on dual G4 systems. But you need somebody for G4 Velocity Engine optimization.

There are No Plans At all to Make a Macintosh version...Seing as the author Has said so and Even If he wanted to he couldn"t do it by himself Cuz i don"t think Hori is Well versed in Writeing Code for Mac OS..And there isn"t a Huge Market For Mac software..well Not like Windows software...There are encoders for Mac"s though but I think they are Very expensive...

My advice is get a real PC.

ASHY

lets be nice now..

I own an iMac, Amigas, a large heard on Linux machines, and a single
token windoze machine (used for tmpgenc).

Each machine type has its own strengths in a particular area- but NOTHING
else can touch a mac when it comes to serious DV video work.

The trick is to get all these machines working together, each doing what
it does best.

ron

I want to know what adjustments (or steps) do I have to make with TMPGEnc to make it to where I can put a single WHOLE MOVIE on one (SVCD or VCD)disk? I've done it before, but since I've cleaned my hard drive I lost the proper adjustments to do so. I checked www.vcdhelp.com but it didn't give me the answer I need to get it working again. Somebody help me PLEASE!!!

You Must have Terrorable Quality SVCD/VCD"s...I and Most poeple who Like Quality SVCD/VCD"s have to put them on 2-3 CD-R"s..At such a Low Bitrate it must Be Pretty much Unwatchable...Well If you want to ruin your movies you just have to Lower the Bitrate..and if you are doing VCD"s you have to Change the "System" Setting to "VCD-Non-Standard" or it will pad the stream to make it VCD Compatible.....

One disk? I wouldn't even bother. Why compromise the quality for the sake of a very cheap disk. It's no hardship to swap disks either.
I'm guessing you are a beginner.

When you become more adept at encoding and eventually realise that you want the best quality possible while keeping the file size reasonable you will probably look at these crappy first VCD's you have made and never want to watch them again. So do yourself a favour, start as you mean to go on.

I have been encoding for a long time and still have my first efforts. I wouldn't show these to anyone as they are an embarassment when compared to the ones I create now.

ASHY

I have DVDit PE (Version 2.1). I have been encoding AVI files with TMPGenc (Version 2.58). When I attempt to create a DVD with DVDit PE, I receive an error message from DVDit: "Each GOP header must be preceeded by a sequence header". According to the DVDit website, it is necessary to setup the encoder used to create an MPEG2 file from an AVI such that a sequence header occurs prior to each GOP header. Does anyone know how to setup TMPGe (Version 2.58) to do this?

Go to "Settings" to "GOP Structure" and were it says "Output of Sequence Header" put it to "1"...

hi-

I used to be able to use toolame to encode the audio tracks, which is a bit
cleaner than the built in encoder, but the last few revs of tmpgenc report
'invalid mp3 stream' or such when i use toolame.

i'm using the same copy of toolame as in the past, only tmpgenc has changed.

ron

I"m sure the files have changed...Invalid MP3 stream Hey, you probably shouldn"t be encodeing Mp3 files to Mp2 with Tmpgenc Tmpgenc Has Problems On some systems with Compressed Audio...Extract the audio to a WAV File with "VIrtual Dub" then use that as the audio source and I"m sure "Toolame" Will Work....

I might have mis-spoke when I said MP2/MP3 error. In any case my input
file are regular-'ol 48K uncompressed WAV files. I used to use toolame as
the external level-2 encoder, which is one of the built-in choices offered by
tmpgenc.

I'm not doing anything different than I used to, in fact i'm just reencoding
the same wav files that used to work only a few weeks ago with an earlier
version of tmpgenc.

ron

That is a Strange problem...Have you checked the "Vfapi Plugins" for the "Wav File Reader"?? Cut if it isn"t there it probably won"t read the Wav file..or Maybe raiseing the priority of the Wav File reader will help...I dont use Tmpgenc to encode audio I usually use Headac3he or "DB Power Amp with the "Toolame Plugin which is very fast and free...

Hi...

I never had porblems with tmpgenc... great prog.

Well, actually, up to now...

i just installed winxp prof on my new amd 2000+, 512 ddr ram, 2x40gb raid hdds and just wanted... like the times before, to convert some avi films to mpeg2... so... i used nan dub to transfer the new sound layer and then used virtual dub to convert the mp3 sound to wav...
well... like aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the times before, i stepped to tmpgenc, adjusted the frames, bitrate and so on... put wave and avi to tmpgenc and pressed start... weeeeeell... and now... i get every 10-20 seconds real uncool pink pics... then the pic is normal for some seconds and then again pink...

whassup???

never had this prob before... the avi looks fine... but when i convert it to mpeg this damn pink colour is in it... and -no- it hasnt to be in the film ;-))

can somebody help me out of this?

greetz leifstyle

Well this sounds like a "Angel Potion" codec Problem...If you have this codec installed on your computer then Delete it..it has been known to Cause pink and purple discoloration on encoded Mpeg files...But if you don"t have the "Angel potion" Codec then raise the "Direct Show File reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins" to "2"...

Hi agian...

thx for the hint... just raised the directshow reader... works fine now! Thanks!

Can u tell me for what this Vfapi plugins are? Or what the raising chanced?
Coz, it worked all the time fine, also without raising!

greetz, leifstyle

The VFAPI Plugins give priority to certain File types..Without them you couldn"t encode anything...

I see... now i am again richer in encoding knowledge... hehe.

Thx a lot...!!

greetz Leifstyle

I have an automated renderfarm that creates a series of bitmaps. I use tmpgenc to encode to an mpeg file using /batch, however I cannot figure out how to have it exit afterwards. Is there a command line switch I should use, or do I need to edit the tbe file? The .tbe file that is created from tmpgenc seems to be in japanese unicode characters. Is there a setting to change that to english? I have downloaded a perl script for creating tbe files, but that did not seem to address my issue. I also tested the Tmpeg Batch List Creator v2.93 utility, but I could not get that to work with bitmaps. Is there documentation for this. Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks in Advance
Tom

Do you want to just exit TMPG or shutdown the whole PC.

If it's the former then I don't think it's possible as TMPG doesn't work from the command line yet. If it's the latter then that is possible.

ASHY

I would prefer it to just exit, but I will take what I can get. How do you do a shutdown with a tbe file?

When you start the batch encoding process a small checkbox will appear in the main window at top/right allowing you to shutdown the PC when the process has finished.

ASHY

I saw that, but I am trying to automate the process. No intervention, just a simple command line that can be called programatically. I guess I need to make a feature request.

Don't bother wasting your time. Due to the future release of TMPG server which will most probably incorporate the feature you desire it is unlikely the author will consider your request.

ASHY

Hi, perhaps this is the right place to ask this:
I would like to convert a downloaded movie (cinemascope, not letterboxed) to PAL 16/9 anamophic mpeg2 (DVD 720*576) an keep its original aspect ratio (cinemacope).
Which setting can I use to do this ? Tried different options but the result up until now has been a 4/3 PAL 720*576 with big letterbox bars. As I understand it the bars need to be smaller when the anamophic picture is expanded on a widescreen tv. thanks for the help
joe

I guess you can try useing the output 16:9 Aspect ratio , and set the "video arrange method to "Full Screen Keep Aspect Ratio" or you can try experimenting with the "Clip frame" Settings.....