hi, i gota problem with my divx movies , mosy ov them are in wide screen and i try seting the video size to 320x480 it looks fine on the preview screen but wen i open the file on any player it comes out squashed verticaly, plez help me
i bet alot of ppl have the same problem

Why are you useing a 320+480 resolution as it is Not Part of any Standard, the Closest standard it comes close to is Half D1 which is 352+480 and even that looks Tall and skinny on a PC Monitor But gets stretched to full screen on a TV...Post back with the Resolution of your avi and the Aspect Ratio and Most importantly what you are trying to Make with 320+480 resolution...

What is the point of using these weird resolutions. You should be encoding to either VCD (352x240) ,SVCD(480x480) or DVD resolution if you intend to play the movie on your DVD player.
If it's not for your DVD player then there is no point in encoding it to MPEG at all.

I'm shopping for a new home theater system but I can't seem to find a site with a 'list' of SVCD ready systems. Don't know where else to turn. Anyone know where I can find one?

You Don"t need a "Home Theater" that Supports SVCD, Just the DVD Player has to support SVCD and Lots of them do, there is a DVD Player compatibility Chart at "http://www.dvdrhelp.com/" and it will tell you what Models Play what formats and how well they play them..I have noticed that The cheaper Non-Brand name DVD Players Are the Most Compatible, But if you can afford a new Home thearre maybe you should think about getting a DVD Burner then you don"t really have to worry about you DVD Player playing SVCD"s..I actually still encode to SVCD then I put the SVCD"s on to DVD-R but I use AC3 audio at 48khz and this way I get 2-3 full movies on a DVD-R, you can also do VCD"s this way or 352+240 Mpeg2 files....Cheers

No but I actually need a home theater. It's way too expensive for me to get a reciever and speakers separately. Recievers are real expensive. So I was going to get a whole system in one...

Does anybody know why, when encoding from a DivX or XVid file, the encoder always stops on 97%?

Because you probably downloaded them and downloaded AVI's are always crap and corrupt.

Hello Guys, a question about the bot thatÃÔ supposedly going around by the RIAA that supposedly scans your directories for music files is there anyway to protect yourself from this bot or to detect it? Thanks for you help!

If you believe that then you probably believe in Santa Claus and fairies too.
In my opinion it's probably all b......t spread by the RIAA themselves just to scare people.
It can only access your PC by utilizing the P2P software you are using and only if you let it seeing as it behaves as another user. You should be able to block it with correctly configured firewall software.
If you are worried you can use PeerGuardian or Kazaa K++ v2.40 which will protect you.

O I C, Thanks for the n4 Ashy!

The new "Kazaa Light" also has some feature that will Block RIAA from accessing your PC..I wouldn"t worry about it to much as I don"t think RIAA Has the Space to Lock up 50 Million P2P Users in Jail...

Hello..

I have tried to encode several movies DivX/Avi that I have downloaded off of the internet. After encoding I notice that the colors (specfically the skin tones) change back and forth from normal to magenta.

Has anyone had this problem and if so what have you done or what settings do I need to adjust to get rid of the problem?

Thanks..
sonshine in Texas, USA

This sounds Like One of 2 Problems, First you should check to see if you have a codec on your System called "Angel Potion" if you do then this is the Culprit, You should delete this codec and every thing should encode like normal, this codec might be listed in your device manager under Video Codecs as something like "apmpeg4v3.dll"...If you don"t have this codec then you might 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"...

Hello Guys, a question about the bot thatÃÔ supposedly going around by the RIAA that supposedly scans your directories for music files is there anyway to protect yourself from this bot or to detect it? Thanks for you help!

I have installed the program and purchased tmpgenc plus.,
now I cant work out how to activate the program using the activation code
please help

You need the Full-Version, not the Free-Version.

After converting an SVCD with the header trick so I can play it on my *#$Panasonic#$* can I burn the mpeg file to cd as a data file? My software only has data & audio options. Thanks.

NO.
There is no excuse not to have the correct software anyway. There are a few programs around which will do it for free.
VCDEASY 1.1.5.2 and below is totally free and one of the best for burning VCD/SVCD, so is VCDimager.

I have used TMPGEnc for months. I reloaded Windows and reistalled TMPGEnc. Now every time I try to load a file to convert, I get an error "file can not open or is unsupported". I have tried several versions of TMPGEnc with the same issue.

Have you Tried Raiseing the priority of the Direct show file reader in the Vfapi Plugins????

Thank you. That worked. But how high should I raise it to?

Raiseing it to "2" is usually good enough....

I'm trying to back up a movie to VCD. I've used this program many many time to do this, but for some reason I'm now gitting a problem. It's been awhile since I've messed around with VOB-VCD conversions but I created a D2V with DVD2AVI and extracted the WAV. Stuck both those into TMPGEnc and started the encoding. About 3%-5% into the encoding I get a few differant, yet similar errors.
- "Read error occurred at address 0049B45C of module 'TMPGEnc.exe' with 47464662"
- "Read error occurred at address XXXXXXXX of module 'DVD2AVI.vfp' with XXXXXXXX"

I've tried re-doing everything from scratch and still gitting the same problem.

Well if you are useing the very Latest version of Tmpgenc you can try something different..Use Smartripper to Extract the Vob files from the DVD to one Big Vob file instead of seperate Vob files, You do this by going into the settings and set it to Extract the Vob files to the Max File size and then set the Max file size to 9gb(If you are running a NTSF System) and now rip the DVD and you should have one fig Vob file, Now Use DVD2AVI to extract the audio to Wav, then Load the Vob file in as the Video source and load the Wav file as the audio source and encode to VCD, This should work as Tmpgenc now accepts Mpeg2/Vob files as source files, But if you can extract the vob files to one big Vob file then you can Try renameing the Vob files sequentially Like name the First "vob-01.vob" and the second "vob-02.vob" then do this for all the Vob files then load the first one into Tmpgenc and it should load the rest in order but it would be best to rip the DVD to one big File....Good Luck...

hi,
i just ripped a dvd video using this tutorial:
http://www.groenjes.com/dvdrip/ripping_dvd_to_svcd.htm
the dvd is pal and i followed the tutorial, expect parts that are for ntsc users.
After converting it to mpeg 2, i burnt it to a svcd with nero. The svcd and mpeg 2 fils plays ok on my pc, but choppy video and a few bad quality appears on mystand alone dvd player.
any ideas??

thanks

You probably burned the disk at too high speed. Lower your burn speed. 4x is best.

hey ashy thanks for you reply:)
i burnt it at 4x, but the problem still persists.
any ideas?

thanks

I had the same problem with a few VCD's. when switching to another brand of cd the problem was gone. perhaps this will help.
Cheers.

Yeh could be the disks also, which disk do you use?
Maybe your DVD player cannot handle the bitrate.
Do VCD's play ok on your DVD player? What make of DVD player do you have?

hey ashy,
i have a CellSonic dvd-m55a.
All vcds dvds, and svcds play fine.
I currently used a digimaster 10x rw burnt at 4x.
I also tried lowering the birate, but it still doesnt work.

any ideas?

thanks :)

In my experience some DVD players do not like CDRW even if the disk plays fine on the PC.
Do this happen with just this one SVCD or all?

I keep getting the message: "Can't load P3Package.dll
What does that mean. Is there a problem with the program or my computor?
PLEASE HELP!!!

You get this Error Because all of the Files that come with Tmpgenc are not all in a Folder and all of the Files have to be in the Same Folder and you can"t have the Main EXE File sitting on your Desktop as a Shortcut...