Hi,

I have a small avi that I'm trying to convert to mpg, but I keep getting an unusual video output. The top 1/3 of the video will freeze on the first frame and the bottom 2/3 will play, but only in grey, inverted, and with several vertical distortion lines.

The avi is:
320*240
24 bits
29.97 fps
85kb/sec
divx codec

What's happening? Does anybody have any suggestions on how I could fix this problem? Thanks.

Alright here is my problem. I have the South Park movie, 403 Mb, and i want to put it all on one cd, but when i go to burn it on Sonic My Dvd it blows up to 5.33 GB. So i called HP and explained the problem he recommended tmpgenc, but i havent been able to do anything with it. I've encoded it multiple times with different settings and still it comes out to be 5.33GB. What do you recommend doing?

Specs: Image: 720*420
Audio: bit rate: 128 kbps
audio format: MPEG Layer-3
Video: frame rate: 23/s
data rate: 84 kbps
video compression: divx codec

Need to know anything else to help me?

Thanx for trying to help

BH

OK...How Big is the File After you encode it ???? Before you Load it into "My DVD"??? and How long is the Source AVI File??? The Size if the AVI file Does not mean anything it is the Length and the Bitrate used to encode it to Mpeg that will determine the Output size..

This really shouldn't be a problem. I posted what i do for this in Divx->(s)vcd thread. This will get you started as far as setting up your computer. You should be able to get 60 minutes of very good quality in SVCD format to fit one 80 minute CD-r. More than 60 minutes I go to another disk.

Rick

i've done it multiple times the lowest it was was i believe 2.23GB, the movie is 1:21:14, i don't know the bit rate for sure but didn't i already give you that. Rick we are talking dvd's here not vcds of svcds

OK...If the Movie is 2.23gb after you are done encodeing it with Tmpgenc then that is all it should take up on the DVD...Something Is happening with MyDVD that is Increaseing the Size of the File..Is MyDVD re-encodeing the File Before it attempts to burn it to Disk??? Cuz that is Probably what is happenning and MyDVD Could be Useing the Max Mitrate allowed for DVD and that is why the file is getting to Big..Cuz If the Mpeg file is only 2.23gb then it will only take up that much on a DVD...

ok i'll try it again but if it doesn't work what software do you use to burn dvd's

Generally speaking if your Mpeg file is totally DVD Compliant then it should Not get re-encoded By the authoring program ,But that is not allways true Cuz Some Programs are Pickier than others when it comes to what the Program thinks is compliant and Sonic Products are Extremely Picky..I usually use "Ulead DVD Workshop 1.2 or 1.3" it is Very easy to use and It seems to accept Most Mpeg files as Long as they are 720+480 and have 48KHZ audio ,were Sonic looks for a Sequence header before each GOP and it has to have the exact Mux rate and Gop structure or it will re-encode ..

We are trying out TMPGEnc 2.5 plus, and just purchased the retal version.

On my Windows 2000 machine at home, the program runs great!

However, at work, we have a NT 4.0 sp6a machine, which is the machine that will house our retail copy.

When trying to open a program stream .mpg with the "edit" button in "Merge and Cut", we get an error message that says "Unable to open with Direct Show" and gives a detail message that is a bunch of characters (assuming the detail is meant to be in Japanese).

I have no problems of any kind on my windows 2000 machine, and the merge and cut so far sems to be the only problem on our NT machine.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

I use TMPEnc to covert JPEG-Files of a digital camera to JPEG-Files, which should be used to burn a Video-CD.

The results are very poor. The quality of the JPEG-pictures is not good.

Can anyone help me please.

Thanks.

Do you mean JPEG to MPEG?

You don't need to do this.

Simply use the VCD or SVCD option in NERO and drag your JPEG files directly into the compilation window.
Nero will create a compatible Photo VCD CD which will work in your player.

ASHY

Yes i mean JPEG to MPEG.

I need this because i use VCDEasy to create the VCD. VCDEasy needs MPEG-Files as input.

Look, do yourself a big favor and download Nero. It's free to use for 30 days and will save you a lot of hassle.

It's just a simple case of dragging all your JPEGs from one window to another and burning, no encoding necessary and is quick and easy.

After the JPEGs are burned you will be able to step through each image on the disk as you please using the buttons on your remote and the quality is good.

ASHY

In VCD easy you have a converter under 'tools'.

Yeh but this is still harder and more messing about than just dragging all the JPEGs at once into another window and then clicking burn in NERO.

ASHY

Trying several different encoding parameters to get a feel of how I want to encode my DV video. I ripped some VOB files from a DVD to ensure that I was using good quality source files. When I attempt to import the first VOB into TMPG I get a runtime error. R6025 Pure Virtual Function Call is the exact message. TMPG is crashing. The second VOB file and all subsequent files work just fine. The VOB files were ripped from a DVD and are all from the same DVD. Using DVD Decrypter for the test files.

Just one word will solve your problem...'DVD2AVI'.

ASHY

a little bit longer :
Open your vob-file in dvd2avi (dont forget the settings) and save as XXX.d2v (Project-File). DVD2Avi produces a small d2v-file & the audio-part.
Open the d2v in TMPGEnc as video and the demuxed soundfile as audio.

Greetings from germany

I've been encoding afew videos using TMPGEnc. I notice that
the program does not do the actual encoding up to 50%...but it says "analyzing..." instead. My questions are what exact does it analyze? Why does it take that long to do it (the same amount of time to that of the actual encoding)? Is there a way to disable this to cut short the time?

Thanks for any inputs.

Flyby

I am trying to convert larger MPEG or DVD files to smaller files in order to play them on my iPAQ. I am a complete novice at this and any assistance would be great. I tried to use the TMPGEnc program but it always tells me cannot load P3package.dll. What does that mean? Thank you.

it means the the file P3package.dll is for some reason not in the same folder as your tmpgenc.exe file so it can't find it. Make sure u extract all tmpgenc files in the zip u donwload to the SAME folder.Ofcourse subfolders will also be created which is normal

How do you remove the 9 dots watermark when ripping a vob to HD

Uninstall the Elecard MPEG2 codec and do it the proper way.
You should not open VOBs directly with TMPG, use DVD2AVI to frameserve them to TMPG.

ASHY

does anyone one have this problem....when i encode a movie and playback the file it runs for 3 seconds and then theres a micro second delay then runs 3 secs and so on and so on.
this is only noticible when panning a scene in the picture ie form left to right slowly.most my movies encoded in TMPG do this an its probally just a setting ie bitrate or summit.
just wondered if anyone knew off the top of their head.

Have you encoded to a different frame rate from that of the source file?

ASHY

no ash havnt encodedto diff bitrate,i must have encoded at least 400 movies with tmpg and everyone of thems the same.

He Didn"t Say "BitRate" He said "Frame Rate" ...You have to encode the File to the Same "FRAME RATE" and the Source File....

sorry my fault...yes there the same framerate...

Does this happen on PC or DVD player ot both?

Please post some details of your settings.

ASHY

I am having the same problem. I have noticed however that the AVI's that I am trying to convert are 23fps. How can I set the application to write at the same rate? It defaults to 25fps, and the dropdown list is disabled so I can't change it. I am trying to convert to PAL 16:9

You cannot create a PAL 16:9 movie which plays at 23fps. The nearest is NTSCFilm which plays at 23.976fps.

The only way is to convert the AVI to PAL 25 fps.
Two ways you can do this:

1. Use AVIsynth to frame serve the AVI to TMPG and use the CONVERTFPS(25) command. (There is info on the Videotools.net site exactly how to do this.)

2. Use AVIfrate to convert the avi to 25fps. This desyncs the audio which should be extracted to a wav first. The audio can then be shrunk to the same length as the wav with cooledit to re-sync it. AVIfrate will tell you the new length of AVI to be used in cooledit.

Then use both files to encode in TMPG.

ASHY

i am having the problem that when i try to convert my AVI file to MPEG2 i get the error "index of scan line is out of range(272)" at the same time, i have tries a couple of times, does anyone have any ideas how to fix this, the avi file is Harry potter and the chamber of secrets...

Thanks Chris

I keep running into this error when I try to LOAD a file in TMPGEnc. No conversion has taken place yet, I cannot even load the MPEG File.

File "C:Example.mpg" can not open or unsupported.

Now I have used this program dozens of time for conversion, but this is the first time I have gotten this message. I started with .rars, converted that to a .bin/.cue, and then converted that to an mpeg file using vcdgear. It is an mpeg-2, not an mpeg-1, but I have converted from mpeg-2 before.

Does anyone know why this file isn't loading, or what that error means?

You need to install one of the supported MPEG2 codecs.

ASHY

Ok. but what exactly means one of the supported codecs? I have the same problem with mpg-files from a DVB-t setop-box (hauppauge/technotrend). It works before but now I get always the error msg.

Where can I find the appro. codec?

Regards Sascha

This is a snip from the TMPG features page:

Now TMPGEnc has priority of MPEG-2 decoders at VFAPI plug-in priority setting. The priority is fixed and can not be changed by user as follows: 1:Sony 2:Ligos 3:CyberLink

Basically this means you have to have one of the above software decoders installed. I suppose the most popular is the Cyberlink PowerDVD decoder.

ASHY

i noticed that when i demux a file the resulting audio and video file playtimes are off from the original mpeg. and the audio is usually from 1-2 seconds off. is there anyway i can stop this from occering ? the files are vbr mpeg1 format. thanks.