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When I try to convert *any* video to either MPEG-1 or 2, the output displays lots of corruption. Lots of randomly coloured blocks appear over the video, and render it unwatchable. However, this only occurs when SSE is enabled. I am using an AMD Athlon XP2400+ with windows XP Home.
Well This Could be because some of the Older Athlon XP Proscessors(Palamino) do not Support the SSE Instruction set so this might be the Problem and since you know what the Solution is (Disable SSE) it seems that you have the Problem Beat......Cheers
Looks like a Memory-Timing-Problem. Tried to change the Timing in the BIOS?
Hm, and your Speed is very low. My P4 1.9 with only SD-RAM(!) is faster than Realtime while producing VCDs.
Have you tried raising the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2 in the VFAPI plugins. This just looks like a decoding problem to me and raising the priority may well fix it.
Ok will try changing the memory speed settings in the BIOS. I have tried changing the filter priorities but I don't think that's the problem because my PC also has trouble decoding wma files. When I play these there's lots of digital popping so I assume it's a more general system problem. Thing is, I've already had the motherboard replaced once due to an AGP timing fault, so I hope it's not from a faulty batch :((
After changing the timing settings in my BIOS, I still haven't been able to solve the problem. I even managed to stop my system from booting once! (brown trousers time)
While looking through the TMPGEnc version history, I noticed this in v2.50: "For compatibility matter, SSE order for Athlon XP is not enabled at default setting. You can enable it with your own risk."
I wonder if this could be part of my problem (Even though I'm using v2.521 etc)? Perhaps TMPGEnc has a compatibility issue rather than my system being at fault... I may never know :p
What do you mean it's too short?
Do you want it to play over and over right until the end of the movie?
If so then you will have to use an audio editor to just copy the audio track and attach it to the end of itself as many times as you need to.
The limit is 800mb not 700mb and no it will not be split unless you use either the source range function while encoding or use the Merge&Cut tool to split it afterwards.
If dvd2avi tells me the aspect ratio of a dvd rip is 16:9, then i choose Source Aspect ratio: 16:9 in the "advanced" tab and in Aspect ratio: 4:3 Display in the "video" tab. I encode to watch movies on my DVD player.
Most modern movies are 16:9 anyway but one thing has been troubling me all this time. Somehow watching the vcd/svcd/cvd on my regular TV, it doesn't quite look 16:9. It looks as if the sides have been cropped off and I don't mean simply overscanning on the TV. The top and bottom are fine I think, just the sides are the problem. The rectangle looks a bit more squarish than what I would see in a movie theater.
When I burn a video someone else has encoded and posted to a newsgroup, their aspect ratio looks fine. The 16:9 looks proportional to a movie theater screen.
Any ideas/clues appreciated in what I'm doing wrong.
I am using "video arrange method" full screen (keep aspect ratio) in the advanced tab and "aspect ratio" 4:3 display in the video tab. Forgot to mention this in my first post.
I've tried using full screen (keep aspect ratio 2) but it doesn't seem to make any difference. What is the purpose of this option?
All this time I was guessing that when I get a 16:9 display TV then the vcd/cvd would display more correctly--that is, would simulate a movie screen better porportion wise but I'm not sure. What I'm seeing doesn't look compressed or stretched btw, it just doesn't look rectangular enough because the left & right sides seems to have been cropped. It's as if there should be bit more black area at the top and bottm too. I always feel it should be wider than what I'm seeing. Oh yeah, I'm not getting a 16:9 mixed up with a 2.35:1 like Die Hard or Alien Resurrection.
The DVD player is a Pioneer DV434 and it does fine in distinguishing between 16:9 and anamorphic widescreen when I play a DVD so I don't think Pioneer isn't at fault.
It seems others aren't getting this problem since I don't read about it so if it's some quirk in the combination of my Sony TV attached to the Pioneer, I might have to do a center (custom size) but I'm guessing this will take longer than svcd or cvd and it would also be noncompliant. In fact, won't a custom size defeat the purpose of encoding in 1/2 DVD to begin with?
Resolution: 480x480 NTSC SVCD or 480x576 PAL SVCD, 352x240 NTSC VCD or 352x288 PAL VCD
If it still doesn't look correct with the above settings then either your source has a different aspect ratio or your TV has a problem.
Regarding the custom size, this will not affect the speed of encoding or the compliance of the actual output at all.
It simply places the required image size inside the selected output framesize thus remaining compliant.
This happens when the audio format in your AVI file is on an Unsupported Format...What you will have to do is Extract the audio from the AVI file to Wav format then use the Wav file as the Audio Source in tmpgenc...You should be able to extract the audio useing "Virtual Dub"....
I have a question about TMPGE. When I try to convert from avi. to mpeg, a window pops up. It says (File"C:Documents and SettingsAdministratorDesktopNewFolderTriumph.avi" can not open, or unsupported.) What should I do to solve this problem.
Well I guess that would depend on the Type of AVI file it is But generally you should be able to solve this Problem By going to "options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raiseing the "Direct show File Reader" to "2"....
I am encoding to MPEG-2 on a hard drive. I find that using B frames decrease file size so I use 1,5,2 for GOP. I also find thay setting the Min bitrate to 0 also makes a big difference in file size. Of the encoding methods I have found CQ to be the best, even better than the new 2-pass. I was getting areas where the video was not smooth for maybe just a couple of frames. I tried increasing the bitrate from 2400 to 3400 in steps and this seemed to help but is still a problem.
Any sugestions on getting the file size down without losing quality? Any ideas on the places where the video is not smooth? Is this due to the B frames?
Hello,
I am running TMPGEnc 2.521.58.169 on Windows XP/SP1.
Everything was working well until I upgraded DirectX to the version 9.0b.
Now when I encode files or batch files (AVI to MPEG), the program shuts down after the first or second file.
Any Idea ?
Thank you.
Dominique Rey
When I convert it (from a 1024*768 avi to DVD PAL Mpeg2 720x576 25fps) and play the resulting movie afterwards, the image has been cut off. Is this normal for the free version??
Well it shouldn"t Cut it off But I have never Encoded files with such high resolution before with Tmpgenc...The settings that determine how the Image looks in the screen are the "Video Arrange method" and the "Clip Frame" settings, so generally speaking if you use the "Full screen (Keep aspect ratio)" setting your image should be displayed properly but if not just experiment untill it looks correct....Cheers
Hmm, apparently it's an on-and-off thing : I've gotten the created dvd-compatible video to be played correctly, but now it's cutting it off again.
I installed Media Player 9 (Win98SE version) and then for about a day it played correctly. Then I messed with the File Types options in MP9 and those in a previous version of MP and it cut off the sides of the video again, very strange. Mind you, I couldn't play ANY mpg anymore without cutting off the image. Now I got it again at the point where all but the TmpgEnc dvd-video play correctly. Or make that : this one AND every dvd movie I play which also get cut off now. Grrrrrr. :|
Ok, first off let me say that I love TMPEGEnc. Bang for the buck, you really can't beat it. But I recently purchased the plus version to convert my old home movies to DVD and am having huge mpg quality problems.
The original movie was done on Hi-8. I now have a sony Di-8 camera that can play back Hi-8 as well. So I captured via firewire and have a beautiful DV AVI file. I have been working with the AVI in TMPEGEnc for like 3 weeks now, trying all kinda of different settings and folowing all kinds of guides. Net result is a MPG file that seems very pixelated (is that a word?) and has a ghosting effect to movement. (I tried all the ghost reduction options and such)
But if I throw my AVI into Ulead trial software and burn the DVD, the result is a nice smooth video. Any clues as to what I am doing wrong? I paid for TMPEGEnc so I want to use it, but this is getting crazy.
Heck I will even take a clip and post it on my website if someone wants to take a shot at it and send me their settings.
Hello, I have had kind of the same problem myself converting DV camcorder to SVCD, both PAL. The DV tape and avi file looked beautiful on the computer and in the camera if i sent it back to the camcorder and hooked it into my TV. I found that a 2 pass VBR with the highest (slowest) motion detection resulted in the best quality SVCD but it is still not exactly as good as the DV but close enough for me. I always thouhgt that when I bought a DVD writer and started putting my home videos on DVD instead of SVCD this problem would go away but since, to the best of my knowledge, DVD and SVCD uses the same MPEG2 encoding I think I am hoping in wane. Good luck-Lars
I have some home movies that were taken off of my video cam. I turned them into AVI files and would like to convert them so I can burn to DVD. I do have tmpgenc plus. For some reason, this program cannot convert using the xvid codec, I end up getting errors with it. It works fine for the AVI/divx coded movies I've done, but so far, nothing with xvid. Can anyone offer some advice? I have found some programs that will convert it, but it also converts the aspect ratio and I want to leave that the same as the original file.
Thanks
Yes there is a problem with the XviD codec and Tmpgenc, They do not seem to get allong very well...One Possible solution is to delete the XviD codec and install the "FFDshow Decoder" and configure it to decode XviD files...FFDShow can be used to decode all Mpeg-4 codecs without the need for the actual codecs to be installed on the PC...Another Thing that I know does work is to use Virtual Dub to frameserve the Xvid file to Tmpgenc, and AVISynth also works for frameserveing to Tmpgenc.....Cheers