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when I cut an mpg in two to burn with Nero, the first half is ok, and is seen in my DVD player, but the second half, which burns ok comes up unsupported in my DVD player, in my cdrom, it appears to be some sort of audio cd split up as mono, stereo and sub directoried by bitrate and frequency. I can view the second cut MPG with my creative player. Is that Nero, or something wrong with the cut.
One way to find out is to burn the same mpeg file with a Different Burning program like VCDEasy instead of Nero and if it does work then it is probably a problem with Nero and if it doesn"t work then it is a Problem with the file...
Does encode a mpg file with tmpgenc using a P4 (SSE2) give better quality than
encode the same file with a AMD Athlon ? or is it just the encoding speed
thats better with P4 (SSE2) ?
To say it this way
Is it possible to notice any difference in the quality of the video when encoding with a P4(SSE2) or a AMD Athlon ?
Im asking since cause of the claim of better Prossesing Precicison with a P4 (SSE2)...does this affect quality at all ?
Both Athlon XP"s and P-4"s are Fully Compatible with the SSE-2 Instruction set..And I don"t think it affects Quality But it sure affects the Encodeing Speed..So useing the same encoder on 2 different CPU"s will achieve the same Quality.......
Athlon XP doesn't have SSE2 at all. You're wrong.
AMD has an Intel license to introduce SSE2 on their upcoming K8/Opteron CPUs.
Next P4 core revision, Prescott, is going to have rumored SSE3 extensions.
I am using TMPGEnc to convert a DivX movie (have done the audio extract thing in VirtualDub already) to a VCD. However, it keeps getting to 1 or 2% and then I get the following message (or similar): -
"Read Error Occurred at address 0049E1A7 of module 'TMPGEnc.exe' with 400E0210"
Anyone know what this could mean? Is it just a bad frame doing this! I seem to remmeber this happening before, and I downloaded some program/file that seemed to fix it! I am very new at this whole thing, so the simpler the better ;o)
Im using XP Pro ... it's not having any of it! I have seen people talking about masking bad frames or something to stop them killing the program. But I have no idea how to find which frames are 'bad', or how to get rid of them??
What they were talking about is useing "Virtual Dub" to scan for Bad frames or errors in the AVI file then use it to frame serve the avi file to Tmpgenc and Virtual Dub can mask the bad frames while Frame serveing...Sometimes just frame serveing the file to tmpgenc instead of loading the file directly into tmpgenc will work better....
Okay, so I managed to get the VirtualDub to TMPGEnc frameserve to work. It got alot further (to about 20% as opposed to 2%), but it still brought up one of these "Read Errors" in the end!! Grrrr. Is there another way to get rid of these?
Were did you get the file from??Cuz if it is a Downloaded file from the net Then the file is Most likely Corrupted and Tmpgenc doesn"t handle corrupted files very well..You can allways use a Different encoder..Or you Mught be able to Repair the File with Virtual Dub By makeing a "Direct Stream Copy" of it but that might just copy the errors in it also..Downloaded Movies are the source of Most Problems when it comes to encodeing with Tmpgenc, then best way is to Get a DVD Rom and Rip DVD"s, that way you allways get the best Quality possible and hardly ever have problems...Sory I can"t help
Yeah ... it is downloaded I'm afraid! I'll have a crack at the direct stream thing, and see if I can find any other programs that are a bit more tolerant of dodgy frames!
Cheers for that ASHY. I have already tried raising the priority, but it didn't seem to make much difference. I am running it through Panasonic MPEG Encoder as we speak to see if I have any more luck with that?
I'm encoding DVD into VideoCD (I feed the d2v file obtained from SmartRipper ->DVD2AVI conversion to TMPGEnc and expect to get MPEG-1 VideoCD compliant stream at the end. Conversion works great, with no macroblocks (general picture quality is professional enough), the only thing that bothers me a lot is that there is often a lot of noise, represented by random dots around small objects in a scene, almost like little flies are circling around people. They usually do not appear in static scenes, only in dynamic ones. Now, I love the absence of macroblocs, but hate those artifacts. I can turn on the temporal filter to the maximum (100), but that blurs the picture a little bit. Any advice?
These random dots, do they look like a sort of haze around objects, almost like mosquitoes? If this is the case then I'm afraid this is just an artifact of VCD.
VCD bitrates are far to low to be artifact free and this one can only be removed by raising the bitrate higher.
I have a TMPGEnc-2.59.47 and try to open all the files like m2v or mpg but it's not working. It saying can't open or unsupported file and or illegal stream format. I can't open or Merge & Cut in TMPGE and can't even play on Window Media Player too. I could play those videos only in PowerDVD.
Need help....
Check your VFAPI plugins for the Cberlink codec. Power DVD should have installed this. If it's not listed then there is a problem with the Power DVD installation as media player should also be able to use this codec.
If it is listed then the other alternative is to load your file into DVD2AVI and create a d2v file then load that into Tmpg.
the streams may be also somehow corrupted or whatever like happened to me. Still sometimes Vobedit or Mpeg2VCR have been able to split streams from it to me.
i ripped the sound and put both to do the conversion. the firt part using the source range went perfect, now that im tryin to do the second part from the middle to the end it doesnt work there is about a 12 second lag. i put the delay in but still it doesnt work. anyone know a solution thanks.
This is sort of Common when useing the Source range..You can try starting to encode from a Different point or what will probably work better but take much longer is to encode the whole movie into one file then split it into 2 parts useing a Mpeg editor...
Use the MPEG Tools in TMPG, File>Mpeg Tools>Merge and cut.
Simply add your MPEG1 file, edit it select first half, pick a name and hit run.
Select the second half, change the name and hit run. Done
would like to know if it worked?
as i tried this,i thought it worked fine but the new halfs began with audio then the audio disappeared!!
so i suggest you check the audio to the end!!
I have read a couple of relevant posts that a search of this forum turned up, but I am still unclear exactly what I need to do, in order to encode a widescreen avi into a (S)VCD to view on an older, non-wide screen NTSC (American) TV. The widescreen avi's look great on my computer monitor, but after conversion, the picture is squashed vertically, and the actors all look anorexic.
Also, I read a few posts that suggest that the wrong settings could wipe out part of the picture that is on the widescreen version. I certainly don't mind the "letterbox" if that is the price of seeing all that the director meant for us to see.
I have done little more than use the project wizard to encode with TMPGEnc, so please tell me what settings I need to change, and where in the wizard I need to change them.
I have version 2.53. I can open a .avi file as 'Audio source' but when I try to open the same file as 'Video source' I just get the meassage "can not open, or unsupported" What can I do?
Go to "Options" to "Enviromental settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct Show File Reader" to "2"...and Make sure you have the correct codecs installed...
I have version 2.53. I can open a .avi file as 'Audio source' but when I try to open the same file as 'Video source' I just get the meassage "can not open, or unsupported" What can I do?
I can play VOB files in PowerDVD XP (with it's codecs) and correctly in WMP 8.0 only with Fraunhofer DVDaudio decoder and ELECARD mpg2video decoder but when I try to open the same file il TMPG it is unsupported.
I changed ELECARD mpg2video decoder with Fraunhofer DVDVideo decoder but also WMP and TMPG show in the time counter only half of the time last of the source VOB video file.
So when I try to encode the VOB at half time the enconding stops.
When I try to play the VOB in WMP at half time the time counter stops.
How can I use PowerDVD codecs with TMPG. The VFAPI box does not say anyting about PowerDVD or CyberLink...
You aren"t supposed to encode VOB files with Tmpgenc Or pretty Much any encoder, The Correct way to encode VOB file with Tmpgenc is to Use "DVD2AVI" to Frame serve the Vob files to Tmpgenc in a D2V file...Vob Files ripped from a Retail DVD"s have information in them Than Encoders Don"t know what to do with, and The Audio format in Most DVD"s is Not supported in Tmpgenc, which is Usually "AC3 Dolby Digital" and Tmpgenc in Most cases Can"t decode the AC3 and They usually Have Subtitles in them which Tmpgenc wouldn"t know what to do with them and They have Many Different Audio tracks and Video tracks which Tmpgenc Wouldn"t know what to do with...So the Established way of Makeing a VCD/SVCD/DVD from Vob files is to Use DVD2AVI to Make a D2V file and extract the audio track that you want, then Load the D2V file into Tmpgenc and encode it to the format of your Choice...It is Much faster doing it this way Cuz the Decoder that tmpgenc uses for Mpeg2 files(Usually Ligos or Cyberlink)is Not as Fast as haveing DVD2AVI decode it for you.....
Until you need only video and audio, tnpgenc handles vob's easy.
I use tmpgenc to split vob's 95% cases successfully. I split only video and audio from it. Splitted AC3 audio stream is suitable to convert with headac3he to any more common format and then to multiplex stream back to system stream.
5 % are somehow erratic vob's. Rippers have also produced somehow corrupted vobs or Chopper which I used earlier to split some vobs corrupted half of these.
Well once you "demux" the Video from the Vob file It isn"t a VOB file any more it is a Mpeg video file or a M2V file...So doing it this way isn"t encodeing VOB files it is encodeing Mpeg2 video files...
I have a file of 2,4 GB that I want to split in 3 to put on three discs. When I use mpegtools the error "stream writing error" comes up, always when the process of rewriting the svcd header is in progress. The files are ok to play in my computer, will the be ok even if I put them on disc, what is the purpose of the SVCD header? Why do I get these "stream writing error" problems?