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I am trying to set the GOP structure for my video. On the GOP structure tab of the template settings dialog, I click the "force picture type setting" box and click the "Settings" button. On the force picture type setting dialog I click the "Auto-setting" button. I run this with a sensitivitu of 100 and the IPB entries are in the box on the left. I click Ok but back on the template settings dialog the GOP structure is as it was before. Even if I click Ok again, go back to the main window and enter template settings again, the Gop strunture has not changed. I can not seem to get the GOP structure set to the values created by the Auto-setting button. What am I doing wrong? Thanks...
One more piece of information - all of the items on the GOP Structure tab of the template settings dialog are grayed out and can not be changed. Thanks...
Are you trying to set the Gop structure for every Frame in the Whole Movie manually??? I can not see any Advantage to this what so ever But I can see quite a Few Drawbacks...You shouldn"t have to set anything other than the amount of I ,P and B Frames and the Max Amount of frames in a GOP, The structure of the Rest of it is Determined by your Source file and the encoder, If you want certain Frames to be made I Frames so you can do Frame accurate Chaptering then you can use the "Forced Picture" setting so you can force Pictures to be encoded as I frames, But any other manipulation of the Gop structure will surely be detrimental to the Overall Quality of the Resulting Mpeg File...
But I don't understand why I can't use the force picture settings window to set the GOP structure. Even if I just put in one I frame and press Ok, the GOP structure does not change. What is the purpose of this dialog if I can't change the GOP structure as I want? I understand that using the default GOP is the correct way to go but I want to test somethng with a complex GOP. Is this a bug in the program? Thanks...
Do you actually know what the force picture type setting is for and what the auto setting does?
I think not.
The auto setting is simply to set I frames at scene changes. TMPG will then use the GOP structure that has been chosen to encode the movie using the set I frames and TMPG will adjust each GOPs length according to where the scene changes are detected.
The GOP structure display under the GOP tab has nothing to do with the Force picture setting.
This is the GOP structure TMPG will use to automatically handle the GOPs if you DONT set them manually in the Force picture setting.
No matter what you put in the Force picture setting this will NOT affect the settings displayed under the GOP stucture tab, but TMPG will not use these settings if you set the GOP structure manually for the whole movie.
For example lets just say you want to set your GOP stucture in the force picture setting to IBBBPBBBPBBPBBPBBBPBB. You would right click the frame where you want the pattern to start then choose 'deal selected frame by selected pattern' put your pattern into the box that pops up and TMPG will use this pattern for the frames you have chosen.
If you want to use the auto setting then you would either have to set the GOP structure under the GOP tab and TMPG would use this pattern along with your set I frames in the auto setting or you could manually enter the pattern your self.
Either way TMPG will only force the frames you have chosen in the force picture setting. All others will be encoded with the automatic GOP pattern settings.
I'm trying to convert my .avi file to .mpg file. I've done it successfully. But when I'm trying to make an entry (by enabling GOP) in the .mpg file to use in authoring VCD with chaptering, VCDEasy could find any of entry that I've made, why?
i downloaded that xvid movie that obstinately refuses to be converted.
Each time it reaches 17% i have an advice saying that the program is going to close because of an illegal operation.
I have the ffdshow installed, i uninstalled the windows media player 9 and got the older version back, my directshow setting is up to 2.
I tried fixing the file with divfix (it had a lot of errors offset and corrupted data)including cutting the bad parts.
Nothing worked. Arrrggghhhhhhh.
Can someone help please?
Thanks in advance from a very frustrated me.
Have you tried Useing "Virtual dub" to scan for errors then Mask the Bad Frames and Make a Copy of the File with the Bad Frames masked?? or instead of Makeing a Copy you can Just frameserve from V-Dub to Tmpgenc..But if the File is that Full of errors there might be little chance you you ever being able to convert this File Properly, But this is Quite common with Downloaded files...
Every time I try encoding to mpg2, it does everything perfectly fine, but when I play back the video, every 10 seconds or so the video glitches and it looks like it replaces a frame with one that came about 1/2 a second before. It really is quite annoying having the screen glitch every ten seconds, anybody else have this problem or knows how to fix it?
Ive downloaded an AVI file from kaza and tried to convert it to mpeg using TMPGEnc. Ive followed the guidnace on dvdhelper. At one point it said that i could preview the moive so i tried to do this but it was play nothing. I then burned it to a cd using Nero, it played on the dvd player but it was blank space.
What am i doing wrong as the AVI file plays on my PC.
Well you should Never Burn any Mpeg File to disk unless you have watched it first on your computer..And if there is No Preview then there will not be an image in the file after encodeing...You probably just need to go to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the Priority of the "Direct Show Multimedia File Reader" to "2"..This should make the Preview show an image...
Can someone please tell me how I can encode avi to mpeg without 1st creating a wav file. Some of my avi file can be done that way but most of the xvid files cannot. Is there a missing codec or environment setting of TMPGEnc that I need to correct. I know I have all the codec bec the avi file plays all right. I tried changing the DDirectShow priority to 2 but TMPG crashes after.
Any Help? Thanks
The Problem is that XviD files usually have AC3 audio and Tmpgenc can"t handle AC3 audio, Not a Lot of Programs can...Some Poeple have claimed that they have been able to use AC3 in Tmpgenc useing the right combination of Filters but I have never been able to duplicate their success..And Tmpgenc does not like VBR Audio streams and some DivX and XviD files have "VBR MP3" .....
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john ( Mail ) 04/08 (Tue) 11:27 ( ID:ch3wja83ual ) [ Edit / Delete / Reply with quotation ]
any1 ????
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Ashy 04/08 (Tue) 12:59 ( ID:n3gjkhi6dvc ) [ Edit / Delete / Reply with quotation ]
Why in the hell do you have your filter priorities set so high?!
You very rarely have to even have any of the filters above 2 never mind anywhere near 7. Your settings are just crazy.
My advice to you is to first lower all those priorities. Change directshow to 2, and the rest to 0
ASHY
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john ( Mail ) 04/09 (Wed) 03:09 ( ID:ch3wja83ual ) [ Edit / Delete / Reply with quotation ]
OOh sorry i will try this hope it works
What are the best settings to use to encode an mpeg2 for a svcd.
I captured avi file using a fire wire card and dV camcorder.
It's about 60 min of video 13gb avi file. I don't mind putting
30 min on each svcd.
There is no "Best Settings", What is best is what looks good to you and what would work with one DV file might not work with another DV file..A High Bitrate is allways good, and allways remember to get your Field order correct when working with DV Files but other than that use your own Judgement and do some sample Encodes to see what setting produce what effect, Useing the "CQ" or "Constant Quality" setting usually produces the best results...
I've recently updated to the latest version of TMPGEnc 2.510 from 2.53 and have noticed that the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader (under VFAPI Plug-in) no longer supports .mov files.
Why has the support been removed?
Is there anyway to support it again in 2.510?
I've tried using the QT Movie Reader and that didn't help (not that I expected it would).
I don"t know what you are talking about , MOV support was only possible with the "QT Mov VFAPI Plugin" and it has allways been this way, at least since version 2.51..The only way to get Tmpgenc to support Mov files is to use the Plugin...
>I've recently updated to the latest version of TMPGEnc 2.510 from 2.53 and have noticed that the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader (under VFAPI Plug-in) no longer supports .mov files.
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>Why has the support been removed?
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>Is there anyway to support it again in 2.510?
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>I've tried using the QT Movie Reader and that didn't help (not that I expected it would).
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>If anyone can help that would be great.
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>Thank you in advance.
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I am trying to make SVCD's. My stand alone DVD player will not play them. I have made several hundred VCD's but the quality just isn't good enough for my taste. I do DVD's now but the blanks are still too expensive. I have run my SVCD thru Multiplex in Tmpegnc to create a VCD header that will "trick" my player to playing it. I have had success somewhat, but the video stops for several seconds then catches up to audio. it does it all thru the movie. It played perfectly with Win DVD on computer. I have 512 MB RAM and a 2.13 Ghz Athelon processor. I used Easy VCD to burn because it was the only one I found that would except SVCD with A VCD header.(Stomp RecordNow Max and Ulead Movie Factory are the two I have most success with in the past. ) Any ideas why the video stops and starts??
I have also tried making a bin/cue image and then burning it.
The Bitrate is to high. Some Players are not able to Play VCDs (also faked ones) with higher Bitrates. So, the Headertrick is no choice for you, no chance.
Can you tell me how you did this header trick ? I want to do something similar.
I want to make ulead moviefactory THINK that my 33khz and 44khz mpeg1 files are 48khz mpeg1 files so I can burn them to DVD without the HOURS longer conversion that this usually requires.
I used DVD2AVI to produce a video file and a wav file from the movie inspector gadget 2. The audio file is a conversion from ac3 to WAV audio. When I play the file the sound works perfectly. But when I run TMPGenc to create a mpeg2 movie the audio disappears. I try to play the file and I get error message_unsupported audio source. Why does it work fine, then when it's run through TMPGEnc it doesn't have sound? I have read it must be a wav file and it is. I have tried everything, even using an older version of TMPG. I have made other movies, with no problem using the same settings. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME, I AM LOSING MY MIND...I HAVE TRIED THIS 12 TIMES NOW...PLEASE, PLEASE HELP.
THANX, JEFFY
I am having the same problem. For some of the newer movies, when I go to create a vcd using TPMGEnc, the audio drops out. This has been happening to many of the newer movies. HELP!
I am trying to make SVCD's. My stand alone DVD player will not play them. I have made several hundred VCD's but the quality just isn't good enough for my taste. I do DVD's now but the blanks are still too expensive. I have run my SVCD thru Multiplex in Tmpegnc to create a VCD header that will "trick" my player to playing it. I have had success somewhat, but the video stops for several seconds then catches up to audio. it does it all thru the movie. It played perfectly with Win DVD on computer. I have 512 MB RAM and a 2.13 Ghz Athelon processor. I used Easy VCD to burn because it was the only one I found that would except SVCD with A VCD header.(Stomp RecordNow Max and Ulead Movie Factory are the two I have most success with in the past. ) Any ideas why the video stops and starts??
I have also tried making a bin/cue image and then burning it.
Your Problem is that the Bitrate for SVCD is to high for your Player to handle..I have experienced the Exact same Effect on My Player when trying to find out the Max Bitrate my Player can handle, in My case It could handle up to 5000kbs but mine is Made to play SVCD"s were your"s isn"t..There is only one thing you can do to fix this and that is to get a New DVD Player that Plays SVCD"s...Or you can try useing a Lower Bitrate in your SVCD"s but then that would defeat the Purpose of Makeing SVCD"s, you can also Try makeing higher Bitrate VCD"s or XVCD"s..