Hi,

I have an one-hour instruction video that I wanted to port to Pocket PC and view it as often as I can. I have used Dazzle's product to capture the content onto a mpeg1 file. However, while capturing the output option is limited to vcd quality (320x240, 30fps etc) so the file size comes up pretty big,

I use TMPG to open the mpeg1 source file, but all the selection on fps, bitrate etc are not changable.

Does anyone know how to transcode the mpeg1 file into another mpeg1 smaller mpeg1 file? (I could sacrifice lower quality for the space)

Thanks

Chi

Go to LOAD select extra and then choose Unlock. Now you can change the Template Settings

Thanks, it works now!

I have a 25fps AVI which is 100% , When using the new TMPGEnc 2.510 with a PAL VCD template the output is very jerky, Its not converting the frame rate correctly. I uninstalled and went back to 2.59 and all is 100%

Has this been reported ?

Not fixed then ?

I've been having a problem lately with tmpgenc 2.58 (plus)...I load a movie to encode(DVD format)and when I click start I get a message that says "write error occured at address 77f52109(sometimes #77f51024)of module 'ntdll.dll'with 00000000"....I've tried to change priority of "direct show" & "AVI VFW compatibility reader" in the environmental setting and neither doesn't work. The movie is NOT corrupted,I know.....maybe I'm not changing the settings far enough? help me out please! Oh,I also get an "invalid point operation" message at the end of the encodings when I DO get it to work...can somebody give me some feedback on these issues please??

I have the exact same problem but i have had no luck either hoping that someone can answer this.


PLEASE

K, having read all these messages at all the threads, I figured it was time to find a solution. Á solution, cuz it might not work for everyone. Think it depends on the diff used codecs in the movies.

What I did to get rid of the "ntdll.dll"-error.
I used a Xvid movie (being 8mile).
Opened VirtualDub, saved the .wav file. Renamed the .wav to .mp3 (cuz it's still compressed) and decoded it to .wav with MusicMatch (seems to be the fastest)
Then I set -> audio, to -> no audio. Set ->video, to ->direct stream copy.
And saved the video file.
Then I loaded the new video file, and set ->audio to ->wav audio and selected the wav-file created with MM.
Started frame serving it to TMPGenC and pointed it to the .vdr.avi file.
TADAAA.......error gone.

Finally, thought something was wrong with my PC..

Greetz L€UR$i0

All that re-saving the Video and Audio wasn't necessary.

Why didn't you just load up the XVID AVI in Virtualdub and frameserve straight to TMPG as it was or just use Virtualdub to convert the audio to a wav and load it directly into TMPG.


ASHY

euhm well yes, that resaving WAS necessary, cuz straight frame-serving it caused tmpgenc to tell me: "Not supported or unknown file format" or sumtin.

With 1 file I even had to reprocess it to another codec..........

I downloaded a compressed AVI, When I tried to convert AVI into a VCD format (MPEG-1) the video was choppy and not fluid. I found that breaking it into both Video and Audio and converting those files into a VCD format (MPEG-1) works a little better than direct convertion. The problem I'm running into is the video is still not fluid... its choppy (not as bad as before). I'm still hacking my way through TMPGEN, does anyone out there have any ideas or tricks to correct this. Any help would be great. Thanks in Advance for any help.

ROB

It sounds Like you are encodeing to the Wrong Frame Rate...You have to encode to the same frame rate as the source file....and don"t double post...

This Error will be shown when i going to cut an self encoded File.
What does it mean? At the editwindow i see nothing and than it crashes!
PLZ Help!

When I try to encode my audio and convert the frequency using toLame and SSRC in TMPGen. When I hit the Start button, I get a error message "TMPGEnc.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program." I am running Windows 2000. It also tells me an error log is being created. What is going on? Where is this error log?

Thanks

The error Log is Part of your Opperateing systems error reporting system, read your User manual...Maybe try useing a seperate audio encoder or not useing "Toolame" & "SSRC"....

When trying to encoded an MPEG-2 SVCD - I recieve the following error;
"Write error occured at address 77F536F7 of module 'ntdll.dll with 00000000'

Im using the latest trial version of TMPG with windows xp pro.

Can anyone shed any light on this?? Thanks for your time.

I get the same exact thing too, and im runnin win xp pro too. but im still able to use it if i open and close it several times later. try that.

can someone email me the answer at neo_born@hotmail.com please n thank you.

What do you mean????? the wizard has been there Forever!!

The wizard option was introduced as of version 2.50

ASHY

I have saved a project that I was coverting to vcd. But when I go to open the project then I hit the start button to continue it says that the file already exists do I want to overwrite. No, I don't want to overwrite it took hours to get it to the point where I am at. How do I continue from where I left off?

What exactly do you mean by "How do I continue Were I left Off"???? if you started to encode a File and you stopped encodeing for some reason you have to start over again...Once you start a encodeing Project you can not stop it and start were you left off......

That was exactly what I wondering.

I downloaded a compressed AVI, When I tried to convert AVI into a VCD format (MPEG-1) the video was choppy and not fluid. I found that breaking it into both Video and Audio and converting those files into a VCD format (MPEG-1) works a little better than direct convertion. The problem I'm running into is the video is still not fluid... its choppy (not as bad as before). I'm still hacking my way through TMPGEN, does anyone out there have any ideas or tricks to correct this. Any help would be great. Thanks in Advance for any help.

ROB

the frame rate of the output mpg must be the same as the avi (source)....

I have a movie called "The Gift". It is 700mb and the video is Divx3 Low-Motion, and the sound is MPEG-1 Layer3. The movie is 112min long.

Problem 1 - TMPGEnc will not convert the sound. The picture converts to a vcd file fine, but no sound. No error, just no sound.

Problem 2 - I used VirtualDub to get a wav of the sound but when using TMPGEnc to combine the sound with the original avi file the sound was out of sync and I can't find an easy way to correct this.

Problem 3 - In Environmental Setting (VFAPI plug-in), the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader is set to priority -1. If I make this any higher TMPGEnc will freeze immediately.

Problem 4 - I choose a bitrate of 750kbs so that I could fit the entire movie on one 80min CDR and TMPGEnc indicated the output file would be 790mb, however it came out over 1gig. I have tried samples with various bitrates and they all come out the same size no matter what bitrate I use (?). It's as though TMPGEnc ignores my choice of bitrate. I am using MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard) as the Stream type.

Any suggestions?

1. Yeah, that's nearly normal if you convert some AVIs with VBR encodet Sound.
Try a modified Version of VirtualDub to extract the Sound (VirtualDubMOD).

2. See 1

3. Maybe you have a conflict between some Codecs. If all is correct, TMPGEnc will not freeze.

4. That's a Problem with TMPGEnc 2.59. Use an older or newer Version for Multiplexing Non-Standard VCD.


> Any suggestions?

Yes! Read the Board! None of your Questions is new.

Problem 2 solved. I extracted the wave from virtualdub in a different way than I had been and it now is in sync with the video when combined with it.

Problem 4 solved. I was using version 2.59 of TMPGEnc.

Never mind about Problem 1 & 3 because with the other two problems solved I can at least get the final result I'm looking for.

Thanks.

P.S. I read the board extensively before posting my questions but there are A LOT of posts to go through, 99.9999% of which are bs.

My source files are subtitled and it goes below the TV screen. Is there a way to display the whole video on the TV without cropping anything?

Try useing the "Clip Frame" and "Video Arrange method" settings in the "Advanced settings" ,You can add Boarders to the Top and bottom of the screen so the Frame doesn"t get Cut off By the TV Screen....

Isn't that sort of like widescreen? And doesn't the picture quality in the middle get squished and look weird?

Actually, when you clip the frame, the frame doesn't get clipped. How do I make it so I don't clip anything? Also, TMPGEnc is acting very strange. First, when I clicked on the AVI file for video/audio source, it says it was unsupported! It worked in the past and I can play the source files. When I tried again, it only worked for the video source while the audio source is blank and the output is a m1v file. Argh! When I finally get it to work after a few tries, TMPGEnc closes automatically, or it freezes or it just won't encode or, it encodes the first frame and the rest are black leaving only the audio!!!

I forgot to mention, I'm using version 2.5! But please help me on the overscan first! Thanks a lot Minion!

Well it seems that you are asking the Impossible ,You want to change the image so you can see the Subtitles But not change the image ,this Just can not be done you have to take the good with the bad...You can use the "Video arange Method" to add boarders without squishing the Image it just makes the image a little smaller with Boarders on the top and bottom..You can"t Move the subtitles so they are higher on the screen or anything like that, it just can not be done....as for the "Unsupported" message you can usually fix this By raiseing the Priority of the "Direct Show File Reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins" to "2"...

Yes, how do I add borders to the bottom (and maybe left and right)? I tried selecting "center" but then the characters in the video seemed squashed. Same with "center (keep aspect ratio)". I'm making an SVCD for my friend so it is 480x480. I hope it works on her player. Is making an SVCD/VCD for a friend allowed?

You seem to be going about things wrongly here. Surely the subtitles can't have been added so far below the T.V screen area so that you can't actually see them. This would be a TV set problem with a severe overscan setting not a problem with the movie.

I take it this movie is full screen in the 4:3 ratio.
If so make sure you set the input aspect ratio to 4:3 525line(NTSC) and the output ratio to 4:3.
Select 'Full screen (keep aspect ratio)' as the 'Video arrange method'

If this still causes the subs to be below the Screen area of a known good working TV then shoot the guy that made this Movie cuz he obviously did not know what he was doing.

If this is the case then select 'center(custom size)' as the 'Video arrange method' using the 'Arrange setting' button in the 'Clip frame' filter and adjust the image as required.

ASHY

By the way if you are making a SVCD. You will have to set the output frame size as 720x480 first so you can adjust the image without the aspect ratio distortion of SVCD.
Once you are happy with the image simply set it back to 480x480.

ASHY