I've been looking for a conversion program for quite a while, and then came across TMPGEnc. I downloaded the free version and i love it. I've been using it for about 3 months without a problem. Now I have problems. When i try to cut my converted avi, it does the first half of the movie without a hitch. Problem is, when i do the second half, it goes through all the processes of cutting, but when i go to the folder where i saved it, it comes up as just a "file". It says the file size, which is about the size it should be, but that's all. I'm really at a loss here because it worked for me before. I've tried un-installing it and re-installing, and no luck.

I don't know what to do, as I always do the EXACT same way as i do all my other files that i convert. I've tried it with 5-6 different files and always the same result.....just the first half.

Any ideas?????

Have tried just renaming the file with an .mpg extension?

I was wondering how large MPEG-2 files are in terms of file size? And how many hours it took you to convert a 1 hour movie? How about a half hour movie?

If you're using a normal DVD template, the video size is set to 720x576 (I think). If I had a downloaded movie whose size is 712x400 or even 640x360. They're both widescreen movies where the black bars have been removed. Since the resolution is smaller, won't TMPGEnc have to resize it to 720x576 under 16:9 keep full aspect ratio? Won't the video lose some quality due to the resizing? :(

Yes any time you Resize an Image so the Resolution is Larger you Loose some Quality, I personally will Not Make a standard Full D1 DVD useing Files any smaller than about 576+360 ,Smaller resolution files I usually Put on DVD useing the Half D1 DVD standard or the Sif DVD standard....

What are those? Are those available on TMPGEnc Plus? Is there any other way of putting them onto DVD without resizing?

Hi. I know that when I convert to MPEG using the "Output to MPEG" feature, there is a checkbox I can check to shut down after the conversion is complete. But does it shuts down only TMPGEnc or both the program and the computer? Because I have a feeling my computer was on all night and I wanted it to shut down plus I checked the option. :(

It will Shutdown your PC....

Hi, I have a poroblem
I have a DivX movie which is 608*320 pixels.

My wish is to decode it from DivX to mpge, and that what i do.
But when I open the mpeg file, I see that Top and Bottom bars (black ones...)
are missing in mpeg.
This is a serious problem because the movie in mpeg is streched vertically...

What can I do to avoid the cut of the 2 black bars ?

I can not help you untill you tell us what you are encodeing to, VCD?? SVCD?? DVD?? Pal?? NTSC?? ...If you happen to be encodeing this File for Full D1 NTSC DVD then there will have to be some Black Bars on the Top and Bottom to keep the Correct aspect ratio and to Not distort the Images proportions....If this is what you are doing then go to "settings" to "Advanced" to "Video Arrange Method" and set it to "Center Custom Size" then underneath that set the resolution to 704+384...This should Displat the Video in the exact same propertions as the Original but centered within the Standard Resolution of 720+480 ,If you try to get rid of the Borders the image will be stretched Top to Bottom....Cheers

I am trying to convert avi to VCD PAL, and I don't want to get rid of the 2 bas, but to make them stay in the VCD itself.
Is it possible?

Actually I want to convert it to dvdr rather than vcd. which format in the TMPGEncPlus wizard to use for this 592x320 (1.85:1) [=37:20] file? DVD/PAL? or DVD/PAL(16:9)? TIA!

DVD/PAL(16:9)

hi,
i have a question regarding which is the best format to convert an xvid 592x320 (1.85:1) [=37:20] into using TMPGEncPlus for watching on dvd player? vcd? svcd? anybody know? also what aspect ratio and video arrange method to use? thanks!

Hi, For that Files it would look better as a SVCD ...Usually the "Fullscreen Keep aspect ratio" setting works best if it doesn"t look right to you can can adjust it so it looks the way you want useing the "Clip frame" settings....

TMPGEnc (version 2.53.35.130) suddenly will not run on my Win2000 computer. It opens, but when I try to load a file it just hangs up. It will accept a frame serve from virtualdubmod and display an image of the file to be converted, but non frame served files never get to that state...

All the files I am trying to open have previously opened, and they play fine in WMP.

I'm really not sure where to start with this problem. I suspect there may be a problem in the registry perhaps because if I "install" a newer version of TMPGEnc it knows which file I had tried to open in the earler version and hangs in exactly the same manner.

How do you "uninstall" TMPGEnc and clean out the registry entries?

I will sincerely appreciate any help anyone might offer to me!

Have you tried raiseing the Direct show File reader in the Vfapi Plugins????
Have you tried to upgrade to a Much newer version????

Thanks for your suggestions....

Yes I tried both suggestions with no luck.

In the meantime I did discover my problem. I'd forgotton that several days earlier I had tried to update Windows media player. After some checking I discovered that the update had not succeeded. Strangely WMP would still operate but the update must have messed up the codecs on my machine somehow. In any case I redid the update to WMP 9 and now everything works again

Hello! I tried converting a 640x480 video file to MPG and then burn it to disc using Nero's VCD function (without reincoding). I plopped the VCD into the DVD player and it works all fine and well except that the bottom and top parts of the file are cut off (there are subtitles at the bottom and I can only see half of them). I made the MPG file using all of the default settings so I was wondering what I can do to make the file burn at the right ratio?

I assume it has something do with MPEG Settings -> Advanced -> Video Arrange Method.

Thank you :)

I'm a retard :) This question was answered earlier. Sorry u.u

Hi!

Is there any Plugin for Tmpg to convert ".rm"-Files?

Thx for an answer.

Alphafly

>Is there any Plugin for Tmpg to convert ".rm"-Files?

NO

there are ways to get a rm file loaded into tmpgenc, but the loss of quality really isnt worth the time, its a long ass process

Some of the xvid/divx video files that I have tried to convert to dvd format TMPGEnc overcalculates the lenth of the video by like 3x. ie. a 24 min video file is calculated by TMPGEnc to 80 min. And after the encoding this perticular video there was no sound at all just the film rolling. Are there any plug-ins or solutions that i can obtain to solve this problem?

Some of the xvid/divx video files that I have tried to convert to dvd format TMPGEnc overcalculates the lenth of the video by like 3x. ie. a 24 min video file is calculated by TMPGEnc to 80 min. And after the encoding this perticular video there was no sound at all just the film rolling. Are there any plug-ins or solutions that i can obtain to solve this problem?

you'll need to set your start and end frames in source range, this means you tell tmpgenc exactly what to encode(the 24mins not the whole 80)

it sounds like your source vid has compressed audio in it, you'll need to decompress that audio to wav so tmpgenc is able to recognise it

there is a prog called avi2vcd(dont use it to create vcds, as it sux) but it has by far the best and most user friendly audio decompressor i've seen to date.

so d/l avi2vcd and you'll get decompressor.exe with the package, thats your bitch ;-)

thx a lot it works after the decompression of the video file

no probs enjoy ;)

and you dont have to triple post, we all saw it the first time

Some of the xvid/divx video files that I have tried to convert to dvd format TMPGEnc overcalculates the lenth of the video by like 3x. ie. a 24 min video file is calculated by TMPGEnc to 80 min. And after the encoding this perticular video there was no sound at all just the film rolling. Are there any plug-ins or solutions that i can obtain to solve this problem?