Hi

I have encoded a less than 2 hours video(PAL) to DVD(NTSC) using TMPGenc's Wizard.

The problem is that the final Mpeg file is slightly more than 7Gb and it can't fit into my DVD-R.

I thought the Wizard prompted me that it could record up to 155mins onto a standard 4.7Gb DVD-R?

Am I missing something here?

Thanks.

The Bigger Problem is that you can not Encode a Pal file to a NTSC File with Tmpgenc, Well you Can But the Outcome will Look terrorable, it will Seem to jump and skip Once every second when watching on your DVD Player..Tmpgenc can not Properly Convert Between Pal and NTSC..You will have to either Convert the Pal file to NTSC with a Program that can properly do it before you encode with Tmpgenc or you can Use AVISynth to do the Conversion while Frameserveing to Tmpgenc, either way you will Have to Re-encode Cuz the File you made will not be Worth Burning to DVD..The reason why it is so much Bigger could be because there Might be 2 hours of Black empty Space at the end of the 2 hours of Video, this Happens sometimes but it is easily fixed by useing the "Merge & Cut" in the "Mpeg tools" to Cut the Extra Off the end....

I think I will render the video to NTSC from Vegas first before encoding it in TMPGEnc again. Do you think this would be better?

I tried looking for the "Black empty Space at the end" but nope, it wasn't there. Hmmm....

Let me try the Vegas first...

Thanks..

Yes it would be much better to render to NTSC in Vegas Video 4 first, well if the File is too big and there isn"t any extra Video at the end then the problem is that you used a Far to High Bitrate to encode..Do not trust what tmpgenc says about the predicted File size, Get your self a Bitrate calculator..

I have re-rendered from Vegas and encoded using VBR(2-pass) and set the Average to 4000, Max to 8000 and Min to 2000. The mv2 are about half the size of the previous encoding. Now I am begining to see the light! Well, I have been at it for the last 26 hours already. It's starting to be hard for me to see the difference in the output quality. Man, I hope it will turn out right.

Great news! I have compiled the videos with DVDit and burnt it with my ^new^ A05. The result .... drum roll ...... Beautiful!!! All my dreams are in DVD now.

I"m Glag it Turned out....Cheers

I purchased a full version of the program last summer. Is there a upgrade for the full version of the software? Where would I find the link to download the same?

Thanks in advance.

Matt

If you bought it Last year I don"t know if you can upgrade it But you can sure Try, See that Banner at the Bottom of the Page?? It says "Tmpgenc DVD author"?? Well Click that then go to the Download Page on that site and Download the "Plus version" and Install it, if you are intitled to a Free Upgrade it will Install without a Problem or your Serial Number will will Activate it, But you better make sure you have a Copy of your Old version on Disk Cuz this version will Overwrite the Old version and if the New one doesn"t upgrade then you will have to Re-install the Old one again, there have benn a Lot of Improvements since Last year....

How do i check to see if the file i want to encode is not full of errors, so i don't waste time encoding something to have it get an error right at the end. This file is in Xvid format

Well if there are Corrupted frames in the File then you can use "Virtual Dub" to scan for errors, But a Lot of the Time with XviD file you will get errors while encodeing to Mpeg because of the Xvid Codec , it is a Good idea to delete the Xvid codec(Unless you are useing it to Make Xvid Files) and download the "FFDShow decoder" it is Better at decodeing Xvid and DivX files than the actual Codecs are, and it solves a Lot of problem when encodeing the Files with Tmpgenc...

How doi scan for errors and with this ffshow or what ever it is, once i download it is it jsut left alone or do i have to do something to it

Didn"t you Read My Post??? I clearly stated that you "Scan For Errors" with "Virtual Dub", and I said that a lot of the Times errors are caused by the XviD codec, and I said to Get rid of the Xvid Codec and Download the FFDShow Filter/Codec"..And NO you don"t Just let it sit on your Desktop your Supposed to Umm "Install it" ,It won"t do you any Good Just sitting there..It will Basicly Just take over for the Xvid Codec, when installing it will ask you what formats you want it to decode for you, Choose all of them..If you are Useing the Xvid Codec to Make Xvid Files you can leave it installed, The FFDShow will still work...

Slow down buddy, i didn't see any scan for errors, fuck off

Theres no need to be Rude, and watch your Language, I clearly stated everything and it seemed to go Right over your Head, I wasn"t trying to be rude(Unlike you)....

Does anyone know how to remove subtitles from an avi file?

If they are Part of the Actual Image then you Can"t Remove them Persey, But you can Cuz the Bottom of the Frame out so the area were the Subtitles are displayed is Not shown..You can do this in the "Clip Frame" settings in the "Advanced" settings...

In the new version of TMPGEnc when I transfer the avi file to mpeg the soundtrack sputters like an old film projecter. I've even switched the wave reader to toolame and the direct show is set at the highest priority in the environmental settings. Any ideas how to fix this? Oh, and I am running Windows XP.

Well you aren"t the only one Complaining about the Crappy audio Quality in this Version, I would either sugest useing the "High Quality" sample Rate conversion, or Just use a Totaly seperate Program to encode the audio, This is what I Allways do cuz Most encoders do not Produce Good Quality Audio..

Using the higher sample rate didn't work. But I used SCMPX as an external and that seemed to solve the problem. Thanks for the idea.

See my thread that talks about the same problem. My solution was to encode the AVI, then go back and use the conversion option in the File menu to do a separate AVI->WAV conversion. This worked fine for me.

I take it back... Using the file->Convert menu worked when I converted the avi to wav at 33.1 khz but when I tried to do it at 44.1 khz, I got the same stutter problem... What do you have in common with me?

-Dual CPU system
-Windows XP Professional
-AVI made with Movie Maker 2

Well then it IS a Sample Rate conversion Problem, You should install a Better Quality Sample Rate converter, Like as said By another Poster "SCMPX", you can use it as Tmpgenc"s Audio encoder and Sample Rate converter..I personally use a Totally Seperate Program to extract the audio and to do sample Rate conversions and encode and clean up the audio, and Fix any Sync Problems..I usually use "Sound Forge 6" for extracting audio then encodeing to Mpeg audio or Wav audio, and it has a high quality sameple rate converter..Tmpgenc has allways lacked in the Audio depertment...My Work Computer is a P-4 3.06ghz HT PC with Windows XP, But I don"t use it very much for Video stuff Cuz It"s work and don"t have time for my Own Projects, My Home PC is a P-4 2.53ghz with Windows XP, and I have Probably $15,000 worth of Video Editing and DVD/SVCD/VCD Production Software installed and another $20,000 worth on Disk, I have so much Software Cuz I have a Small software resale Buisiness, so if you even need any software for Really Good Prices Let me know....

I just want to add, I found out through this experience it only works if you change the default reader in SCMPX to another that is listed. Otherwise it uses the exact same default as TMPGEnc, and that was the problem in the first place.

I'm trying to encode an avi for a convention and they recommend using MPEG-2 with
Variable Bit Rate encoding with 12 megabits per second as the maximum. However, I can't seem to push it beyond 8 megabits per second. Is there a cap on the bit rate that was recently introduced?

There is a Cap on the Bitrate if you are Makeing a DVD, the Maximum Bitrate that DVD Standards allow is a Max of 9800KBS includeing all the Audio and other tracks combined, so if you are makeing a DVD then you Can NOT use 12000kbs as the Max bitrate, even if the settings did alow it (They actually do) the Disk would not play Properly on your DVD Player..But if you are Not makeing a DVD then you can Raise the Bitrate to Pretty Much anything you want But you will first have to load the "Unlock.mfc" Template from the "Extra" folder, Or you can simply click the word "Bitrate" in the setting dialog and choose "Unlock", it will Probably give you a warning saying that the File will be out of DVD Specs...

Thanks, that did the trick. :)

Can anyone help i am trying to convert an avi to vcd using Dvd2vcd and Tmpgne. When Tmpgne log says encoding test clip it does so by playing entire avi in window then starts again saying wanted kbs....... predicted kbs......... using CQ value it generates a higher CQ value and starts again this process continues over and over again. What am i doing wrong?

1/smart rip
2/dvd to avi (dolby downmix)
3/then tmpge (2dv vid---ac3 sound)
4/vcd convert

I have been trying to get TMPGenc to take the output of my ATI AllInWonder Radeon TV Capture card. The output looks good in Media Player but when I burn it to the DVD the result is dramatically less resolution than the original VCR (composite) or Replay TV (tuner) input.

DVD should have a much higher resolution than the off-the-air stuff I'm trying to save. All I want to do is capture my video tapes and replaytv shows to DVD without losing the original NTSC sharpness.

I've tried capturing at 720x480 but I think that I'm capturing at a resolution higher than the original source.

Can someone tell me what the original resolution of a VCR tape and a channel 4 (NTSC) replay TV would be and what I should be capturing the source at?

Specifically I know not to de-interlace and to use the maximum motion estimation but should I use 640x480? 352x480?

Also, what bit rates would be appropriate?

Thanks

For the Highest Quality you should Capture at the Highest Resolution and Bitrate you Possibly Can..NTSC TV Broadcasts uses 525 Lines of Vertical Resolution..so if you Can capture at the Highest Possible Resolution(720+480) and the Highest Data rate you can..You do not want to capture any Lower than that if you are going to Make a DVD out of it Because Up-Sizeing the Resolution will Degrade the Quality of the Image and as you Know standard NTSC DVD uses 720+480...your Movies will allways look beter on your Monitor than on TV because you watch movies on TV in a Much smaller Window that a TV and a Smaller window has a Crisper image because the Flaws in the Image are smaller also, you should probably encode at the Highest Bitrate you can (within DVD Specs) and use a Couple Filters to clean up the Image like a Noise Filter and maybe a Sharpen Filter and maybe a the "Soften Block Noise" filter, I use AVISynth Filter cuz they seem better than Tmpgenc filters and after I have encoded My Captures they look better than they did before I encoded them..I use a Simular Card as you But I use the "AIW Radeon 8500DV" and My Movies usually look Pretty Good after a Lot of Trial and error getting the Filters right and I Probably use a Different Capture Program than you also, MMC doesn"t give the Best Quality compared to some other Programs but it is a Good Tool anyways.....Good Luck

Am capturing tv input using ATI and saving it as a MPEG1 file (This gives me less frame drop). All (sound and video) works well and is synchronized on the original file. I then split the file into smaller (1 hour )segments using the TMPGEnc Project Wizard / Video NTSC. Sound becomes un-synchronized. I have added 500 mscs on the Audio Gap Correction. This seems to do nothing.

What am I doing wrong?

How are you spliting the File with the Wizard?? as the editor is Not in the Wizard it is in the "Mpeg Tools", and if you are useing the Wizard then that meant that you are Probably re-encodeing the File??Why if it is allready a Mpeg1 file??

I recently upgraded to Premiere 6.5 has anyone tried using Avisynth frameserver to TMPGEnc. I was using this with Premiere 6.0 and it was working really well. Do i use the same Avisynth file to use for Premiere 6.5.

I don"t see why Not...There is a Newer avisynth 2.5 that is Faster and Supports More colorspaces, that might be an improvement...

What should my VFAPI settings be for encoding an AVI file made with the Microsoft Movie Maker 2 application on Windows XP? I'm having problems with my VBR audio track coming out choppy and I'm trying to narrow down the problem...

Tmpgenc does not Support VBR Audio as the Source audio so that is why you are Haveing Problems, You will need to use something else to Proscess the audio...

No, the source is a DV AVI file that comes from Microsoft Movie Maker 2. I'm am trying to encode to VBR (Destination)

Thanks

That is strange I have been useing Tmpgenc since it came out and on this BBS Forever and Have Never seen a Setting in or even heard of a Setting in Tmpgenc that Makes VBR audio..Can you please Tell me were the VBR audio setting is??? ThanX

I'm just trying to make VBR video and the PCM .wav file that results is choppy and I can't figure out why. Last night I encoded the same .avi file in CBR mode, and the .wav file was still messed up in the same way, so it has nothing to do with VBR.

What VFAPI plug-in should be used for Microsoft Movie Maker? What are the optimal settings for the VFAPI plugins?

OHhhh the VBR you are Talking about Has absolutly Nothing to Do with the Audio, I guess when you said "Haveing Problems with my VBR audio Track" was some Sort of Typo?? Because the Video is VBR will have absolutly No effect on the Audio, and either will the VFAPI Plugin settings Accept for the "Wav File reader" and that only affects Wav audio as the Source audio..If you are Getting Choppy audio when Playing on your Computer then That could be from Poor Sample Rate Conversion, that is if you are Doing any Sample Rate conversion, if so then go to "Options" to "Enviromental settings" to "Audio engine" and Check the "High Quality" setting under "Sample frequency Converter"..The Built in Audio encoder in Tmpgenc is Not that good so you would Get better results if you Used one of Tmpgenc"s External Audio encoders like "Toolame" or SCMPX" or use a Total seperate audio encoder, the External audio encoder can be downloaded off of the Net for free and you can find them by doing a Search on Google for them and you install then in the "Audio Engine" tab in the "Enviromental settings"..The VFAPI Plugins that effect the decodeing of DV AVI files are the "AVI VFW Compatibility Reader" and the "AVI(OpenDML)File reader" depending on if the DV File is Type 1 or Type 2, if the Audio in the DV AVI File is DV audio then one of these Vfapi Plugins Might have an effect on the audio but if you are Getting Audio But it is Just Bad Quality then it Probably is Not a VFAPI Problem..Have you tried Loading in your DV File then going to "File" to "Output to " then "Wav" and extracting the audio before you encode the Video and see if the Audio Quality is any Different(Beter/Worse)??

Hi- Thanks for understanding and sorry for being unclear. I tried the File menu option to convert the .avi to a .wav and it worked well. This is a good workaround because now I can just replace the .wav that came when I did the video conversion. I was unaware of the menu option to be able to rip the audio without doing the video. For experiment sake, I'll try to turn up the audio quality and see if it works during a video conversion...

Thanks

Guys, I cannot get the video to stream to a single finished mpeg file
when using the tmpg wizard to convert mpg or avi files to DVD quality.
The box that you uncheck on the last stage of the wizard is grayed out
and I cannot unselect it.

What gives?

What exectly do you mean?? Are you saying that you are Getting a M2v and a Wav audio file instead of a Mpeg file after encodeing??? If this is the Case then that is Normal, You are supposed to use your DVD authoring Program to Join the Audio and Video together and Format the Files so they can be burned to a DVD, You will only get a Single Mpeg file if you choose Mpeg1 Layer 2 audio as the Output audio format...