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Question Widescreen Help Sakuya 18 2004-02-04 09:05:57
Question SVCD to VCD - VCD Trick - Part of the file is missing converter 0 2004-01-28 15:58:03
Question AVI to MPEG; why is it mono? ses 1 2004-01-29 21:06:37
Question Pixelation converting .wmv to .mpg lina 1 2004-01-29 21:02:36
Question Download TMPGEnc 3.0 Xpress beta (20 jan 2004) mpegradje 3 2004-01-28 10:52:46
Question TMPGEnc Plus Not Responding while encoding mmoorecanada 1 2004-01-29 20:57:35
Question TMPGEnc 3.0 - Beta Test in Japan Video Guy 1 2004-01-28 02:05:55
Question subtitles kolbi 1 2004-01-29 03:04:48
Question Help converting divx to dvd mpeg2. retrev 0 2004-01-26 22:58:13
Question Progressive or interlace? Darrell 2 2004-01-27 03:51:05
Question MS DV Codec in DirectX 9 David 2 2004-01-30 03:32:55
Question Is this the program I need? Kenny Rogers 1 2004-01-29 21:14:25

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Question - Widescreen Help No.40758
Sakuya  2004-01-29 06:40:15 ( ID:6y4cusar5hr )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Hello. I have a movie sized 712x400. It's in widescreen because it is wide and the top and bottom black bars have been clipped out from the video file. The characters look fine, they don't look stretched out. So what settings for Video Arrange Method in TMPGEnc should I select to maintain the widescreen? I want to make an XVCD. Again, here are the weird settings I use:

Output Size: 480x480
RCM: Constant Quality
Bitrate: 2520 kbits/sec
Motion Search: Normal
Video Arrange Method: Center (420x420)

The reason why I have the VAM at center is because the side won't go off the TV screen. But it won't work for this widescreen because it stretches the video to drastic measures! Should I make it 420x400? Please teach me how you make the calculations in easy steps so I don't have to ask again next time (I have another widescreen movie that I might need help with next time). Thanks! :)



Sakuya  2004-01-29 07:56:15 ( ID:6y4cusar5hr )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Woops, I forgot to add. I need to add some subtitles to the video too. But, the subs have 2 parts, a SUB and an IDX file. The creator said that you need both in order to view the subtitles correctly and their filenames must be the same as the AVI file. While I know the subtitling process via Virtualdub, I don't get what to do with this SUB and IDX file. :( Help? Also, Virtualdub only accepts SSA files. :(


mickyjuice  2004-01-29 09:07:33 ( ID:zqigxf3uunk )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

>Hello. I have a movie sized 712x400. It's in widescreen because it is wide and the top and bottom black bars have been clipped out from the video file. The characters look fine, they don't look stretched out. So what settings for Video Arrange Method in TMPGEnc should I select to maintain the widescreen? I want to make an XVCD.

set ur source aspect ratio to 16:9(fullscreen keep aspect ratio) not centre


Sakuya  2004-01-29 19:28:20 ( ID:yjvzugeaiog )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

But I don't have a widescreen TV. And I need to keep it center at 420x420 for non-widescreen movies for overscans. So now I don't know what to do with this widescreen movie because setting it at that might turn out to be too wide.


mickyjuice  2004-01-30 05:53:34 ( ID:zqigxf3uunk )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

i dont have a widescreen tv either, do u notice that nearly all dvds are 16:9 widescreen, you dont lose any picture with a dvd do ya, you just get the black bars at top and bottom of screen which is fine yea?

thats exactly what you'll get if you do 16:9 (fullscreen keep aspect ratio), i promise you, ive encoded many widescreen xvids with this method and i never get any cut-offs

try encoding a little 30sec segment of your vid (so you dont have to wait a long time for end result) with these settings and you'll c what i mean



Sakuya  2004-01-30 20:04:53 ( ID:yjvzugeaiog )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Thanks, I'll try it. But will converting it that include overscans? Because I must leave a 30 pixel border on each site so my subtitles won't go off the screen...


mickyjuice  2004-01-31 08:39:40 ( ID:zqigxf3uunk )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

if you use the standard templates with the settings i said b4, you shouldnt have any cuts what so ever, although i havent tried with subs =/, but that shouldnt really make a differance

also my non widescreen tv only overscans when i 'dont' use the settings that ive said b4, it could b ur settings causing the overscan


Sakuya  2004-02-01 01:38:19 ( ID:6y4cusar5hr )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

No. Before I was using one of TMPGEnc's default VCD templates. And most of the times, long subtitles would go off the screen. Therefore, I experimented and found that setting the VAM at center 420x420 works best for me. The subtitles stayed on screen.



Sakuya  2004-02-01 20:20:26 ( ID:6y4cusar5hr )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

I think I know what you mean by 16:9. Before, I selected 4:3 525 lines NTSC under aspect ratio. So now, I selected 16:9 525 lines NTSC. Is that correct? Also, would that selection work for a video with a size of 640x360?


Sakuya  2004-02-01 22:31:56 ( ID:6y4cusar5hr )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

I tried that option with the video 640x360 but the widescreen is not appropriate. :( The characters turned plump! Any suggestions?


mickyjuice  2004-02-02 07:59:28 ( ID:zqigxf3uunk )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

for source aspect ratio there should be an option with just 16:9 (not 16:9 ntsc, pal, blah blah ect) then set the video arrange method to full screen keep aspect ratio

settings:
source aspect settings: 16:9 display
video arrange method: full screen keep aspect ratio

if you use standard templates and those exact settings you will have no cut offs


Sakuya  2004-02-02 19:42:25 ( ID:yjvzugeaiog )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Then what is 16:9 NTSC 525 line do? They're both 16:9 so wouldn't it be the same? I would understand that 16:9 PAL is different and I don't use PAL...


Sakuya  2004-02-03 04:03:51 ( ID:6y4cusar5hr )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Oooh! I get what you're saying. I had originally set SOURCE Aspect Ratio as 1:1 VGA. And then under Video Stream Settings for Aspect Ratio, I set it at 16:9 525 line (NTSC). Now that I know what the problem is, what should I set the aspect ratio under Video Stream settings?

Source Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Display
Aspect Ratio: ?
VAM: Full Screen (keep aspect ratio)


Sakuya  2004-02-03 05:02:08 ( ID:6y4cusar5hr )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Sorry, even setting it at 16:9 Display doesn't work. The characters are too plump. Just a side note, I downloaded this movie. It's a DVD-rip. So wouldn't it make sense to set the source aspect ratio as 1:1 VGA


mickyjuice  2004-02-03 08:02:06 ( ID:zqigxf3uunk )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

>The characters are too plump

but do you get any over scan?? is it fitting the screen??

>source aspect settings: 16:9 display
video arrange method: full screen keep aspect ratio
(use the standard templates)

if you use those settings and it still doesnt work, well im at a loss

i'll say this again i use those exact settings and NEVER get any troubles (cut offs, obscure picture ect ect). if you have actually done what ive said and you are having problems with cutt offs or whatever, then i dont know what it could be.

and by the way, if you dont already know this (you probably do) the coverted movie will have different resolution than the original movie, which may or may not be causing the 'plumpness' as you say, but if the movie is fitting the screen well i'd take plumpness over terrible overscan anyday


mickyjuice  2004-02-03 08:07:26 ( ID:zqigxf3uunk )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

>Output Size: 480x480
RCM: Constant Quality
Bitrate: 2520 kbits/sec
Motion Search: Normal
Video Arrange Method: Center (420x420)

whoa whoa whoa, your output size is standard compliant ntsc svcd resolution, are you creating a svcd or a vcd? (vcd ntsc res is 352x240)


Sakuya  2004-02-04 01:22:35 ( ID:6y4cusar5hr )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

I'm creating an X(S)VCD where the resolution is 480x480. And no, I don't think there is too much overscan, or there is too little overscan that I don't notice.


Sakuya  2004-02-04 01:24:31 ( ID:6y4cusar5hr )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Also, if I do this it works:

Aspect Ratio: 16:9 525 line NTSC
Source Aspect Ratio: 1:1 VGA
Video Arrange Method: Center (480x360)

It works perfectly well for some unknown reason. The reason why I set it at 360 is because the source video's height was also 360. It work well anyway.


mickyjuice  2004-02-04 09:05:57 ( ID:zqigxf3uunk )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

>It work well anyway.

excellent
i was running outta ideas



Question - SVCD to VCD - VCD Trick - Part of the file is missing No.40757
converter  2004-01-28 15:58:03 ( ID:eyyjidc5ovl )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Hi, I am trying to convert svcd (mpeg2) to vcd format using VCDTrick. It works great for most files. But I am seeing problems while multiplexing some of the files. While doing simple multiplexing, part of the file is missing. I am not sure the reason for this. I really appreciate if someone could help me on this.



Question - AVI to MPEG; why is it mono? No.40755
ses  2004-01-28 15:10:10 ( ID:vcdorthcrql )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

I'm new at this. I am getting mono sound from my encoding. Great picture but not stereo. I am assuming that I have to separate the audio, does TMPG do that itself first? What do I use to put the files back together afterwards. Not a natural english reader.


Minion  2004-01-29 21:06:37 ( ID:/d4nypdxsbj )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Well If your Source File is Mono you will never get True sterio..All you need to do is Choose "Sterio" on the audio Settings and you should get a sterio Mpeg file but if your source file is Mono you will get a Psudo Sterio File with the same Chanell being Played out both speakers.....



Question - Pixelation converting .wmv to .mpg No.40753
lina  2004-01-28 05:12:30 ( ID:csi6o2zwy6r )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Hi, I'm a new user and I'm trying to convert a .wmv file to .mpg to put a small 320X240 video on my webpage to have a variety of available video formats for the user to view. I've already converted many of my .wmv files except one older file [bit rate: 235Kbps; 320X240; 20 kbps; 32 kHz; mono 1-pass CBR] that comes out pixelated and choppy. Is there an appropriate setting or filter for this bit rate? Thank you!


Minion  2004-01-29 21:02:36 ( ID:/d4nypdxsbj )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Well Choppynes could because you are makeing a Mpeg files with a different Frame rate as the WMV Files..Tmpgenc does not convert Frame rates Properly, Pluss a WMV Files at such a Low Bitrate is going to be Quite Low Quality and even Lower when encodieng to Mpeg at a Low Bitrate, so you can either Raise the Bitrate which will help or deal with it, You can"t expect very high quality when the source is a Low Quality format Like WMV...



Question - Download TMPGEnc 3.0 Xpress beta (20 jan 2004) No.40749
mpegradje  2004-01-27 20:42:17 ( ID:dd/b3t6yhs. )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Browsing a little and found this:

http://download.pegasys-inc.com/download_files/te3xp_3.0.0.4beta_setup.exe

I will give it a go ;O)

Hendrik


mpegradje  2004-01-27 20:57:30 ( ID:dd/b3t6yhs. )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]


The current notes (translated) can be found here:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tmpgenc.net%2F.%2Fbetatester_jp%2F.%2Fdoc_whatis.html


jdacunha  2004-01-28 02:07:19 ( ID:gadl.4lgc7f )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

I was wondering why no new upgrades since September 03....now we know.


mpegradje  2004-01-28 10:52:46 ( ID:ih0d2stpmwc )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Doesn't work for me. You need tmpgenc 2.5 plus JAPANESE. I have English.
The Software is in Japanese.



Question - TMPGEnc Plus Not Responding while encoding No.40747
mmoorecanada  2004-01-27 15:11:08 ( ID:gd.kqjn4erl )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

I recently installed TMPGEnc Plus 2.5. I've used previous versions in the past and without any problems. I am trying to encode and avi(huffyyuv) file to mpeg2. When I choose the file I wish to encode and select next. A window appears with a progress bar. The window is titled "Judging field order...". THe progress bar immediately jumps to 8% and then stops. The task manager indicates that the app is not responding however if I leave it for 2 hours it does eventually complete. It normally completes at appox 8% every 10 minutes. Patiently I waited and returned to learn that my 2hr avi file had completed the "Judging field order..." in just over 2hrs :(. Then I selected the crop video in order to chop a few seconds of the start and end of the video. When I tried to advace frames the hourglass appeared and the app hung once again. I decided to closed the app and search for some info on this issue. Can anyone help with this?

I am running Windows XP Professional on an AMD Athlon 2800+ with 1024MB of Twin DDR333 Corsair Memory. I have three 160GB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drives with plenty of space.


Minion  2004-01-29 20:57:35 ( ID:/d4nypdxsbj )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Try this, Go into your HuffyUV Codec settings and enable the "Allways Suggest RGB Format for Output" option and see if this helps...OR ,Don"t use the WiZard, Tmpgenc only does the Judgeing Field order when useing the WiZard so if you don"t use it it will not freeze...Cheers



Question - TMPGEnc 3.0 - Beta Test in Japan No.40745
Video Guy  2004-01-27 13:27:35 ( ID:4yfrh0hqv72 )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

If you check out the Japanese version of the TMPGEnc web site, you can find out about the new TMPGEnc 3.0. It was released for Japanese beta testers who have a Sony VAIO last month.

The new features look exciting:

It will have a completely redesigned user interface similar to TMPGEnc DVD Author.

TMPGEnc can now handle YUV colorspace. (No more forced conversion to RGB24!!!)

The MPEG1/MPEG2 encoding engine were rewritten which gives better quality and a much needed speed improvement.

The filters have been done allowing for real time preview. The noise reduction filter has been greatly improved. Users now have the option of resize filters such as Lanczos, bilinear, etc.

These are just some of features listed in Japanese section.


Video Guy



jdacunha  2004-01-28 02:05:55 ( ID:gadl.4lgc7f )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

I was just about to post a note asking this question. Thanks for the info.



Question - subtitles No.40743
kolbi  2004-01-27 07:33:36 ( ID:u2m/5j.qhha )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

hi
I am creating vcd-pal ,and im using virtual dub for frame serving , but vhen i load virtual dub-s output file in tmpgc , there are no subtitles found. Hov can i include subtitles in these case?
Can i somhov include them in mpg file
Thanks


Sakuya  2004-01-29 03:04:48 ( ID:6y4cusar5hr )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

I know how it's so frustrating where you converted to MPEG but something's not right and you have to convert all over again. I did that once.

To add subtitles, you must first go into Virtualdub's folder and click on the auxsetup.exe. Click on "install handler" to enable frameserving (I guess you've already done this part). Then, go download the latest subtitle filter here:

http://www186.pair.com/vdub/virtualdub_filters.html#me_subtitler

Open the ZIP file and extract the VDF file into the Plugin folder (that's in the Virtualdub folder). Open Virtualdub, open your AVI file. Click on "Video" and then "Filters". Click "Add" and then click "Load". Go to your Plugins folder and double-click on the VDF file you extracted. Then in the list, double-click "subtitler" and then select your subtitle file in SSA format. After that, do your usual frameserving and then convert like you normally do in TMPGEnc. :) In Virtualdub, you can't edit the subtitles style though. Hope that helped!



Question - Help converting divx to dvd mpeg2. No.40742
retrev  2004-01-26 22:58:13 ( ID:dz7moa/u6zw )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

I'm trying to convert a divx file to mpeg2 for inclusion on a DVD. I use the NTSC (4:3) settings in tmpgenc and get an mpeg2 which plays in windows media player. When I try to create a DVD filesystem with dvdauthor, I get many warnings:

WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...

then I get:

STAT: VOBU 0 at 0MB, 1PCGS

Then dvdauthor core dumps.
I tried to demux the files with mpgtx then remux with mplex. dvdauthor gets further but then complains that the sound track times go backwards and I should remux. Any ideas? How do I get tmpgenc to include the VOBU sectors?



Question - Progressive or interlace? No.40739
Darrell  2004-01-26 07:45:18 ( ID:wsiilbqc0in )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

i have some divx/xvid movie with 23.976 fps.i want to create svcd (ntsc film)format. which format i should use, interlace or non-interlace?

btw should i select inverse telecine & 3:2 pulldown also?


B_Racer  2004-01-26 10:36:47 ( ID:0jd4rmr3tyn )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

It's Non-Interlaced.

The correct Settings are:
Encode Mode -> 3:2-Pulldown when playback

Frame rate -> 23.976 fps (internally 29.97 fps)


Darrell  2004-01-27 03:51:05 ( ID:wsiilbqc0in )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

thanks



Question - MS DV Codec in DirectX 9 No.40736
David  2004-01-26 00:28:24 ( ID:/xaewswq1l. )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Hello all.

Does anyone know how to turn off the deinterlacing for the MS DV codec in DirectX 9?

I just upgraded from DirectX 8.1 to DirectX 9.0b. I did this because I heard that DirectX 9 has a much improved DV codec in it.

There is one problem, it seems that the new Microsoft DV codec in DirectX 9 automatically deinterlaces the video. This is fine if you just want to watch the clip but this is really bad if you want to keep the interlace and encode the video to put on dvd. I thought that it would just deinterlace it in Media Player, but it also deinterlaces it when TMPGEnc opens the file.

I am guessing Microsoft now deinterlaces the video automatically because users were complaining about seeing the interlace lines.

Thanks in advance for any help.


Minion  2004-01-29 21:13:18 ( ID:/d4nypdxsbj )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Well I have never heard of This...When I create DV Files they are allways Interlaced even with DX9, I don"t use the Microsoft DV Codec because it really isn"t a very good codec but all of the other DV Codec I use have never had it be Deinterlaced On Decode...If you Load the DV File into Tmpgenc useing the Wizard it will actually analize the File for Interlaced/Progressive and for the Field order but if you Do Not use the WiZard then it will not analize the File and will leave the setting at default which can be Non-Interlace, so try loading into Tmpgenc useing the wizard and see if it really is Non-interlaced, You might try a Different DV Codec also, I get Good results useing the "MainConcept DV Codec" and "DVCPro".....


David  2004-01-30 03:32:55 ( ID:/xaewswq1l. )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Thanks Minion. I downloaded the trail version of MainConcept DV codec.

More specifically the MS DV codec performs a BOB on the clip. In my opinion it is very annoying because on clips that have straight edges(for example cartoons) are messed up. If you every used a BOB then you know the effect I'm talking about. When you analyze the clip frame by frame in TMPGEnc there are no interlace lines. When I had DirectX 8.1 and with the MainConcept you can see the interlace lines.

The only settings you adjust for the MS DV codec is the frame size, which I have set to 720x480 using Media Player. I went on the MS Knowledge Base and they talked about this issue. DirectX 9 uses VMR-9 which does an automatic deinterlace. The DV codec in DirectX 8.1 uses VMR-7. From what I can understand from the Knowlege Base is that the deinterlace settings are set at the programming level, in the actual program code. I have found nothing on how to disable the automatic deinterlace in the user settings.

David



Question - Is this the program I need? No.40734
Kenny Rogers  2004-01-25 21:23:16 ( ID:503vnkddlxj )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

I use FRAPS to record activity in Microsoft Flight Simulator. FRAPS creates very large .avi files. I wish to shrink these down to an acceptable size, in a format that can be read on any computer.

Is this program all I need?

Ken


Minion  2004-01-29 21:14:25 ( ID:/d4nypdxsbj )   [ Delete / Reply with quotation ]

Tmpgenc will Compress the avi to mpeg format ,If that is what you want done then it is what you need....



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