I have been using TMPGenc plus version 2.53 with no problems. I used rip the DVD, use DVD2AVI and then load the dv2 file for video and the wav for audio. I've no problems. I recently downloaded 2.59 and now I am getting no audio, even though I have loaded the wav file. I tried suggestion of increasing the Direct Show priority (in the environment settings), but it hasn't worked.

Any ideas?

Ok, have you set the stream type setting to 'System(Video+Audio'?
If so goto Setting>Audio>Setting then click the play button. Can you hear any audio?

ASHY

hy,
I´ve the same problem, but I´ve the version 2.54.
Okay, so I´m went to settings>audio>setting. But now I see that I can`t click the play button, because the button isn`t deposits. I really don´t know what to do. Please help

Stanley

The reason you can't click the play button is because TMPG cannot decode your audio or there is no audio loaded.

Use virtualdub or AVImux to extract the audio to a wav.

ASHY

And than???
I mean I have a wav file and an mpg2 file. But how can I bring them together???
Or should I first take the wave file out of my avi file and bring them by the encoding together???

Stanley

P.S. I must fixed the Browse

Sorry, but my English isn´t really good, isn´t it???

Yes, extract the wav file from your AVI then load the AVI as your Video source and the wav as your Audio source then encode.

ASHY

oki, I want to proof this!
See ya in an hour or so! ty

Stanley

So, I get AVImux. I don´t know how to serv.
Where are you from????

Stanley

Virtualdub I`have too. Which is better???
I don´t know how to manage, please help me!

Stanley

AVImux is more reliable as it can extract Ac3 to wav also.

Follow these instructions:

Load the AVI into avimux. Uncheck the Video, highlight the audio then right click it. Choose 'Select compression' from the menu and select PCM. In the next box choose the default which should be 44.100khz, 16bit, stereo.

Click 'Output AVI' and name your output with a wav extension then click 'Go'

If you have audio problems such as the sound breaking up in the extracted wav set the 'Pre-roll' and 'Interleave' settings to 100ms.


ASHY

Sorry I don´t understand your explanation

Stanley

Hi,

I used DVD2AVI and there should have been 2 files saved (I believe) .d2v and a .wav file. I can only find the .d2v file. There is no .wav file. What am I doing wrong?? There are also 4 files with the extension of .ac3 and I have no idea what these are for. This is my first time doing this, so any help is greatly appreciated. (By the way, I'm using the DVD Rip guide that was is located on www.dvdripguides.com)

Thanks!

Denice,
The ac3 files your getting are your audio streams (1 per language in the movie). Depending on what you're planning to do you can go ahead with them. If you absolutely need wav files, you have to select the "output to wav" option (or something like that) under the audio tab of dvd2avi.

You have selected the wrong settings in DVD2AVI. Choose the settings as follows.

1. Click 'Audio' then 'Track number' and select 'Track 1' from the menu.

2. Click 'Audio' then 'Channel format' and select 'Auto select'

3. Next click 'Audio' then 'Dolby digital' select 'Decode' and 'Dolby surround downmix' from the menu.

Now create your d2v again and you should have a wav when finished.

ASHY

Here is a revision of a previous question that i have posted. Origionally i was concered with the output of a 22 minute divx file converted to mpeg-1 being about ( approx 1h and 15min ) 650 megs. Now after making many attempts at different settings i have found that the video is converted properly for the most part. But the last frame is frozen for the remaining tie of the video, and no audio has been added or encoded.

thanks Fenix

Hi I found the angle potion codec on my machine and removed it. This elliminated some of the pink color from my MPEG-1's There's still some there.
I got this post from a different question about the pink color: "Have you Tried Raising the Priority of the "Direct Show File Reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins" to "2"?" Mine under the enviromental settings is set to 0 but it's uneditable. Can someone please help me change it to 2 ? I can't figure out how to do it!
Thanks,
Lisa......


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Right button click and select higher priority. This will add 1 to the value so if you want to add to do it twice.

Rick

Thanks Rick!
Will have to run another test to see if it makes a difference.
Lis

Here is a revision of a previous question that i have posted. Origionally i was concered with the output of a 22 minute divx file converted to mpeg-1 being about ( approx 1h and 15min ) 650 megs. Now after making many attempts at different settings i have found that the video is converted properly for the most part. But the last frame is frozen for the remaining tie of the video, and no audio has been added or encoded.

thanks Fenix

CPU useage on a processor system will be at 100% for both processors when not using the 'Noise Reduction' filter. When 'Noise Reduction' is used (makes VCDs look great BTW) the CPU useage drops to around 50% for both processors.

Would be nice to have 100% utilisation when using the filter.

Is there any way to encode MPEG2 PCM audio instead? I am using:

TMPGEnc Plus 2.58.44.152, Core 1.90.140
For DVD MPEG2 NTSC compatible:
MPEG-2 720x480 29.97fps CBR 8000kbps, Layer-2 48000Hz 384kbps (with error protection)
DVD+R disks
DVD using DVD Workshop 1.3 for authoring (w/do not re-encode)
Use a lot of WAV audio when editing DV, then authoring to AVI before suing TMPGEnc

Got any suggestions, please? PCM is more compatible in more stand-alone DVD players, right? Thanks.

It is Not nesessarily More compatible..Most players will Play MP2 and WAV audio and Dolby Digital AC3 audio...With the 2.59 Version it will let you out put the audio to Wav but I don"t think it Muxes the audio to the Video with this Option, I think it gives you a Mpeg Video file and a Seperate WAV file..

PCM audio may not even be a legal audio format for mpeg files.

To get PCM on a DVD you load it seperately from the video into most authoring tools.

It is annoying that you can't have an mpeg file with uncompressed audio, especially for music performances.

Thats too much time, so I am forced to encode using "estimate" in Motion Search. Then, using "estimate" search, I can encode a 50 minute movie and it takes only about 2 hours. I've used TMPGEnc before on "High" and it took only about 6 to 8 hours, but now with my new HHD, it says it will take 20 hours. I've never let it go ahead and encode at "high" because I don't want to wait 20 hours. I'm using:

TMPGEnc Plus 2.58.44.152, Core 1.90.140
For DVD MPEG2 NTSC compatible:
MPEG-2 720x480 29.97fps CBR 8000kbps, Layer-2 48000Hz 384kbps (with error protection)
DVD+R disks

When I encode with "estimate" search and author using DVD Workshop 1.3 with "Do not Re-encode", I get a good DVD movie disk that plays on my stand-alone DVD player, but the vidio is a bit jerky, not real smooth. I've tried 2-Pass VBR (8000, 6000, 5000) with "High" motion search, but again it says 20 hours or about, so I don't go ahead and encode it... too long time.

QUESTION: why so long time on "High" motion search? Or, is the program not telling the truth and it will, if I go ahead, only take 8 hours instead of 20?

You should Be able to get good Results just useing the "Normal" setting..But stay away from the "Highest" setting Cuz that will take forever...If you wait for a While the encodeing time should go down a Bit, But if you want to encode fast then use a Faster encoder..

There are a few things that will effect how fast you can encode. On the hardware side is the cpu speed (the faster the better and P4s are the better choice of the intels), ram (more the better), disk access time ( SCSI U320 probably the best single drive but raids of scsi is better and ide raids are good, Single ide start at ata 133 and go down as well as rpm and buffer size play a role. Software, if the drive supports DMA make sure it is turned on, shut down software that runs in the background such as Nortons System works or other virus software that might be monitoring the system constantly. I only encode SVCDs from Dvix and average 2 hours for every hour of movie at the highest quality setting. I have a 47" widescreen and that higher setting does seem to help. Hope this helps.

Rick

I doubt that the 'Motion search' setting is in any way connected to your jerky playback problem.

There is more likely something else causing this.
Have you set the 'Field order' abd 'Frame rate' correctly?
What are the details of your source file?

Secondly '2 pass' is not a good setting for encoding DVD.

If the source is reasonably good quality you will get better results in a much faster time using the VBR method 'Constant quality(CQ)'.
This is also similar to the VBR method CCE uses and, as anybody who knows anything about encoding will tell you, you can't beat CCE for quality.

The 'Motion estimate search' setting will give you good results if not identical results to the 'High quality' setting as long as the source is decent and shouldn't affect the playback.

Also I don't think it is necessary to set the Minimum bitrate so high.

ASHY

I was trying to convert a Window Media Video file (.wmv) to mpeg.
The video is encoded with Windows Media MPEG-4, which can processed by TMPGEnc successfully. But the audio is encoded as
Windows Media Audio V8
20 kbps, 22 kHz, stereo,
which cannot be recognized by TMPGEnc.

What shall I do? Any help will greatly appreciated!

One way is to Download "DB Power AMP" with the WMA Codecs from http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ , then Re-Name the WMV file to WMA then you will be able to encode the audio to WAV with DB Power Amp ,then you can load the WAV into Tmpgenc, after extracting the audio to Wav you can put the extention Back to WMV...

I am converting an Xvid (I think) AVI file to MPEG1. The AVI file is 24 minutes and 4 seconds long and is 29.97 fps. After I burned it onto VCD using Nero 5, the image quality is very bad, blocky. I did not multiplex it non-standard VCD! Below are the exact steps I took to convert the video.

1. I clicked on Load and seleced "VideoCD(NTSC)". Then I went back there and clicked on "Unlock".

2. In Settings, the Stream Type is MPEG-1 Video. Size is 352x240 pixels. Aspect ratio was automatically set to 4:3 525 line(NTSC), I didn't know what it was so I didn't change it. Frame rate is 29.97 fps. I set the Rate Control Mode to Constant Quality (CQ), the maximum bitrate is 2520 kbits/sec, minimum is 0. Quality is set at 50. P picture spoilage is 0 while B picture spoilage is 20. VBV Buffer Size is 40KB. Motion Search Precision is set at normal.

I did not extract the WAV from the source file and I did not multiplex it into a non-standard VCD. Anyway, I'm trying to make the quality a little better when I'm trying to fit 3 24-minute-4-seconds files onto 1 700MB-80MIN CDR. Also, can someone please explain to me the differences between the options in Rate Control Mode? Thanks!

Well it's no wonder your output is rubbish with those settings.

Firstly 352x240 is low resolution, so the image will look crap anyway no matter what bitrate you use.

Secondly 2520kb/s isn't too high either, but then reducing the quality to 50% will just cause the bitrate to average out at much lower than this, probably even less than standard VCD quality.

You are right using the (CQ) method, but your settings are not going to give you good quality.
Try these:

(CQ)Method: Max- 3000 Min-1200 Quality 80%

Audio bitrate- 128

Your VBV buffer setting is too low, it should be at least 112 for the bitrate usage.

Set 'Motion search' to 'High' not 'Highest' or 'Normal'

Multiplex or stream settings need to be 'Non standard VCD'

The settings above should improve the image abd allow you to fit all three movies on 1 disk (maybe with a little overburn), but to be honest you are asking a lot to fit three 24min movies on 1 disk with good quality.

You would be better off putting just 2 and encoding to XSVCD. With higher bitrate settings.

ASHY

Sorry the Minimum bitrate above should be 300kb/s not 1200kb/s

ASHY

Thanks! If not 352x240, what resolution should I use? That's the default for VCD NTSC.

You should encode to MPEG2 and use the default SVCD resoulution. This will greatly improve the image, but I would advise increasing the bitrates to Min-1800, Max-4000, Quality-65, Audio-128

To fit all three movies you will probably have to use the bitrate settings in the previous post.

ASHY

I don't think my DVD Player can play SVCDs. It comes out trashed in the past...

Does anybody know of software that is similar to ulead dvd workshop but free?

No... Not For Free But you Can Use DVD workshop for 30 days with Full Functionallity, E-Mail Me and I"ll Try To hook you Up with Something that should work Simular to DVD Workshop....

Is there any way a Rotate feature could be added I use TMPGEnc to convert video down to use on my Pocket PC it has a nicer output than anything I've used to date, but my Pocket Pc plays better if the video is prerotated 90 degrees instead of doing it on the fly, could this feature be added as a filter?

I doubt It will Be added as a Feature Cuz there is No Real Purpose to it Accept for maybe what you want it for, You can Use V-Dub to rotate the image and Frame serve it to Tmpgenc...