I am trying to compress uncompressed AVI (captured home video) to S-VCD (NTSC). Since I am beginner in this, I used "Project Wizard" with default settings, which resulted in output file with equal width and height, as if original aspect ratio (4:3) was somehow changed to 1:1. I checked all the settings and found out that even though source file had aspect ratio 4:3 525 line (NTSC, 704x480), output had video resolution 480x480. I tried to change this setting in various menus but it was always greyed out. Does anybody know a way to achieve same aspect ratio as original file? Thanks in advance.

The Standard-Resolution for NTSC-SVCD IS 480x480. Don't worry, DVD-Players will stretch the Picture back into the right format.

If you want the Image size to be displayed in the Correct aspect ratio go to "Video Arange Method" in the Video settings and set it to "FullScreen Keep aspect Ratio" and another way that will Display it in the correct aspect ratio But with Black bars on the top and Bottom which Might look better depending on what you are looking for is to set it to "Center Custom Size" then set the size to I think "480+352" is the correct aspect ratio?? This way it will not be full screen but have 64 pixel boarders on top and bottom, you can see what it will look like if you go into the "Clip Frame" settings, but make sure the "Resized image for Preview" Box is checked...

I have downloaded a trial copy of TMPGEnc. I am using this in conjunction with dvd2svcd. When dvd2svcd is ready to launch TMPGEnc, I get "illegal project file". How do I fix this and what is the problem?

Well it seems that there is something wrong with the Project file that DVD2SVCD is makeing..Sounds like a DVD2SVCD problem, Maybe you should check out there forum as they would know more about DVD2SVCD...

Hi, i have problem here. My video has subtitle on it, but it's too low and when I covert it to vcd and I played it on tv, I can only see half of the subtitle. Is there a way that I can resize the video using simple program like TMPGEnc? I know how to do it in premiere, but it's too much hasle. Please advice. Thank you

Yes, You will have to Adjust the "Clip Frame" and "Video arrange Settings" in the "Advanced" settings..

Some AVI files, after the enconding in VCD have no sound. I extract the audio into a WAV file and i repeat the convert AVI2VCD. The sound now is OK but non syncronized with the Video. Can you help me?

Since TMPGEnc won't process my M2V files after they are ripped from a DVD, I have to run them through "Merge & Cut". I think it has something to do with the header, but anyways... I've only encountered this twice, but TMPGEnc only writes half of the file. The M2V is 2 hours long, but only 1 hour is written. The last time this happened I had a 3 hour clip that was only recognized as 1.5 hours. I've been using TMPGEnc for a long time now and rarely have this problem, but yet it's still a problem. My drives are all defragged and error free and the like. It seems to be only certain files/videos. Thanks!

UMMm, the Merge and Cut is really only supposed to be for Mpeg Files(Audio and Video) and only Files that were encoded By Tmpgenc in the First Place, and you really shouldn"t Load the M2V from a DVD Directly into Tmpgenc, there are Much Better and Faster Ways of Encodeing M2v files from a DVD in Tmpgenc, and that is Useing DVD2AVI to make a Project File and frame serve the file to tmpgenc, The decoders that Tmpgenc uses aren"t particularily that Fast,the Decoder that DVD2AVI is a Better Faster Decoder, I get up to 10% faster encodeing Frameserveing from DVD2AVI than Encodeing the Mpeg file just with Tmpgenc, Plus you get Much less Freezes and Crashes and other Problems...

So I encoded some MPEG1 videos using TMPGENC ver 2.51. I did them at a non-standard size of 640x320. They look and sound great on all of the machines I've tried them on until today. Today they were running on a compaq running Win 2000 service pack 1. For some reason the sound and picture ran at least 25% too fast on these machines. It did remain synced, just played too fast. The playback was from CD-ROM. I later took the same CD to another computer lab and the playback was perfect.... Any thoughts on what this could be?

Thanks,

Jay

IIt is because you are Playing them from a CD-Rom, if you drag and drop the Mpeg file to your Desktop, and Play it like you would a Regular File it should play Correctly....

NOPE, tried that. It played fast from the hard drive as well...

Also, all of my other testing was done from CD-ROM. Our final application will be delivered on CD-ROM so I'm careful to always test on CD-ROM.

If the issue was disk speed, shouldn't it play back SLOWER from CD-ROM, not faster?

How were they After you encoded them and before you burned them???? I"m sure you watched them before you burned them?? And if you did and they Were Playing Fast then I guess you wouldn"t have burned them, So I gather the files were either OK before you burned them, in which case I can"t see it being a Tmpgenc problem, Or you didn"t watch them before burning to Disk Which means I guess you"ll Have to try again... ...

Maybe I didn't explain myself well enough...

1. I encoded them as MPEG 1's at 640x320.
2. They play great on all the Dell's I've tried them on...
(that's many, many computers)
3. I had problems playing them on the Compaqs...
4. I'm not blaming TMPGEnc for anything... I'm trying to determine what exactly is wrong. If there's something else I need to do, I want to know what it is so that I won't do it again...
5. The CD-ROM is NOT the issue... I've tested the files on the Dells I have access to from the very same CD-ROM. They play without problem.
6. Yes, it seems that it's a problem with the Compaqs... why?

Jay

Beats Me....

Superb program. Only software out of about 20 that can do a go convert from mpg file with incorrect format to a mpeg with vcd format. Thanks for this really good software!

Hello, I'm using Tmpgenc for months now! I convert avi files to mpeg2 to burn DVDs that contain 2 movies..... Everything was fine until yesterday: don't understand why but a little white box is shaking on screen in my result mpeg2 files!!!!!!!!! Does anyone know how to remove this????????

This little White Box has absolutly nothing to do with Tmpgenc It is because you have installed a demo version of "Elecard Mpeg2 decoder"(Or some software that comes with this decoder), it isn"t actually in the Image it is Just displayed over top of the image by the decoder while watching the File, you will have to Delete the decoder to get rid of the Logo...

Posted this before, but did not see a reply (yet):
I have to start 5.11 several times before application really starts up.
If it is active, it often crashes and disappears without a message...
If it finally works, it works great, encoding is fine, mpeg without error, no probs at all...
System used is P4-2600 w/ XP, 512 MB mem. 120GB hdd, NTFS.

Anyone has a clue?

Well It could be From Many things, What would most likely solve your Problem and what I do when I encounter Problems like this is to Re-Format your Hard drive and re-install your OS, this Usually solves all software problems, But it can take up to 6 hours to do, but it is better than Not solveing the Problem and being constantly Frustrated..I had to do this a Few days ago Cuz a Bunch of my Programs were crashing for no reason..Another thing you can try is to Use a Different version of Tmpgenc....

I'm sorry, but TMPGenc 2.5.11 is the only unstable program on my system. All other applications are working perfectly! It is a new system (two months old) and no other application has failed yet.
I won't go formatting my harddrive just because a trial version of TMPGenc does strange things, especially when I've seen other postings on this BBS reporting the same problem!
And by the way, IMHO it's a really bad advice to let someone reformat his drive if one has problems trying a new application. Just to see, after hours of installation, the problems stays!
Maybe I'll install a previous version, as this was the first time I ever tried TMPGenc.

Hey I also told you to try a Different version, It isn"t Bad advice if it solves your Problem which It Probably would have unless the Problem is within the Tmpgenc code but then EVERYONE would be haveing the same Problem(There seems to be a Crashing Problem with Multi-CPU Systems).., If Tmpgenc is Important enough to you then It would be a Good to reformat as a Last resort, what is better, to look for an answer for days and not find one and still have the Problem and not get your Video Project completed, or just reformat and then most likely fix your problem and if it doesn"t at the end of the day you haven"t lost anything..Most Tmpgenc Crashing Problems are due to System Incompatibility"s and /or conflicting codecs or just a Plain Messy System...

I have trouble in mpegging avi files coming from Adobe Premiere after I edited it and exported as Microsoft DV format. If I try to mpeg original avi file coming from camcorder capturing software I have no problem. The message tmpeg shows me is * "X:mydirmyfile.avi" can not open, or unsupported. *.
How can I fix the problem ?
Many thx to you all

Try this, Go to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct show" to "2"....

Hello there, I have used the Encoder to convert AVI to VCD, Picture is ok but there is no sound. How can I solve this? Many thanks

The Problem is Probably that the audio format in your AVI file is Not supported in Tmpgenc, you will need to extract the audio from your AVI file to Wav format then use the Wav file as the audio source..You can Use Virtual Dub_Mod for this...

Hello there, I have used the Encoder to convert AVI to VCD, Picture is ok but there is no sound. How can I solve this? Many thanks