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I want to convert a b&w TV show from DV AVI to MPG1, and thought there'd be an option to convert to greyscale somewhere... is there? Reason: The resulting MPG would be smaller if it contained greyscale data only, rather than being a colour MPG containing just b&w footage? Or am I way off base here? :)
I don't think MPEG 1/2 supports greyscale data only.
There are only two colour space profiles available with TMPG that's 4:2:0 and 4:2:2
If there is a colour cast being added to the MPEG you can remove it with the colour settings, but as for producing greyscale only I think your out of luck.
Advanced
Custom Color Correction
Add
Mode = Saturation
Type = YUV
Saturation level = -255 (0 = default).
This changes the output MPG from color to B&W -- woohoo! :)
However, I did a test and the output size is the exact same
as a color version, so there's no real need to use it when
converting an already B&W AVI to MPG... all it would be doing
is adding filter time to the entire process. Useful to know
for changing color AVIs to B&W, though. :)
Hi again Ashy, I said: "I did a test and the output size is the exact same"...
Hehehe, I just realized this is what you meant by MPGs not supporting grey data,
ie. it's still a "color" MPG but just made up of greys from the 24-bit palette.
I have tried to convert AVI to MPEG but cannot get any audio on any of the files i convert, i am assuming this is to do with compression but have not got a clue how to go about fixing it, any suggestions will be welcome
>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 ;-)
I've looked around on the forums for this and there have been numerous problems with the audio being out of sync, I've tried some of the suggested solutions but without luck.
The original AVI that I am trying to rip to be put on DVDr is in sync.
When I extract the audio from a movie (big wav file) it is the same length as the length of the film. But I get an error at first saying
"VirtualDub has detected an improper VBR audio encoding in the source AVI file and will rewrite the audio header with standard CBR values during the processing for better compatibility. This may introduce up to 6042 ms of skew from the video stream. If this is unacceptable, decompress te entire audio stream to an uncompressed WAV file and recompress with a constant bitrate encoder. (bitrate: 115.7 +/- 11.1 kbps)"
what I do then go to full processing mode and save as WAV in VirtuaDub. Then in TMPGenc use the AVI as the source and the new wav file as. It's then out of sync, I think it starts off out of sync and gradually gets worse. I've tried to edit the file size in Adobe Audition as I read in other posts on this forum to stretch it using Cool Edit, but searching google said that it's now Adobe Audition. I don't know if you can use this? I did find the stretch option in this program but wasn't sure what to compress it as, or what settings to change. I found one where it mentions to choose a manual fps, so I changed that to 29.97 as that's what it says it is in virtuadub. But that just made it worse.
So what is a constant bitrate encoder? Is this what I need to do, use some other software to recompress the WAV in the bit rate of 115.7 +/- 11.1 kbps? Can someone help explain for me how to do this using a reccomended piece of software. Thanks
The point is that it will no longer be out of sync.
'Virtualdub MP3 Freeze' is specially made to handle VBR mp3 'Virtualdub' is NOT.
If 'Virtualdub MP3 Freeze' does not work then NANdub will and if that doesn't then it must be a problem with the audio itself.
In that case you will have to find how much delay has been introduced by simply reloading the wav back into Virtualdub with the avi and then use the delay correction option.
I'm just new at this I have just downloaded TMPGEnc freeware and I have converted and AVI file into mpeg1 then I burnt it onto a CDR I then tried to play it on my DVD Player which does DVD VCD and VACD but when I insert the disk it comes up with cant read disk, I also have an MPEG file on another disk that works ok on my PC but my DVD Player wont read the disk. Can anyone help me??
(My player is a Sony DAVS-500)
Sony DVD players are terrible for VCD/SVCD CDR compatibility.
You need to find a disk that will work with it. Try a CDRW, these usually work with the SONY DAVS-300
you need a newer dvd player. i have an older jvc that says it will play vcd's but it does not. i bought a new polaroid (sp) dual deck last month and every vcd i burn works great. i use the newest nero.
Yeh it's a con when some of them say they will play VCD. They mean commercial not home made.
Sony are buggers for this.
However many players that will play VCD, but not home made CDR, will actually play CDRW. This is because the laser wavelength reflected from a CDRW is closer to that of a DVD than CDR's.
TMPGEnc (free version) on P4 + Athlon 2000. Athlon works ok, initially it was coming up with an error message regarding the P3.dll. And the same AVI on the P4? i get the error message "*.avi" can not open, or unsupported.
I had a problem before with writing to SVCD on both with Nero 5. Then installed a different Plugin on both, the Athlon works fine! P4? you guessed it. nope. It's not completely messed up, as it does like some AVIs... just not all of them.
Oops... i forgot to mention that i am trying to create a DVD (MPEG2). And that i am converting from DivX AVI to MPEG. I may be doing something wrong, if so i welcome and advice anyone can throw at me.
A mi me pasaba lo mismo, así que prueba a hacer lo siguiente:
Option -> Environmental Setting -> VFAPI plug-in ->
localiza DirectShow Multimedia File Reader y haz click-derecho en el rat 05Ï sobre ñÍ, dale el menú que aparece sobre higher priority hasta que se ponga en el comienzo de la lista. Si no te funciona, te recomiendo que instales el ACE Media Codec Pack con lo que tendráÔ instalado los codecs principales y podráÔ ver cualquier pelùÄula.
>Oops... i forgot to mention that i am trying to create a DVD (MPEG2). And that i am converting from DivX AVI to MPEG. I may be doing something wrong, if so i welcome and advice anyone can throw at me.
>
>thanks again
I've been trying to create a good image out of a 640x480 single frame capture. I use Photoshop to clean up the image via (deinterlace, color correction, smoothing). But my efforts yield a very poor picture.
Question1:
How do content providers get those crisp clear images from movies? I notice some images are 1024x768 etc. and my ospry220 is only able to capture at 640x480. But I don't think 1024x768 is going to improve the quality. How do they get such clean images.
Question2:
What is 'slide scanning'? I have a epson1250 and was wondering if using 'slide scanning' is how they got those crisp pictures? And if so, where in the world would you get slides to a movie?
I apologize for this off topic question.
Any help is much appreciated.
Regards
Fess
Hi, i want to convert an AVi which is 750mb @720x576 to an mpeg of the same size etc, but when it gets halfway through converting it, it just stops dead and sits like its idel??
I have a 41:57 avi source i want to encode to svcd. I figured i need an avg bitrate of about 2358 to be able to fit it nicely on 1 80min CD. However, using 2 pass VBR it results in a much smaller file (~755MB), while using CBR it gives a nice 785 mb file. How is this possible?
I have a few movies i am trying to convert the video loads but the audio wont the movies have audio when i play them in Windows media player I have converted many movies with no problems im stuck any ideas?
When I play back my authored DVD-R on a domestic DVD player I encounter lots of stutters and jumps.
This seems to be a common problem as I have discovered from reading through this and other forums.
When the stuttering occurs the DVD player (Yamaha DVD-S520) can be heard to make unhealthy sounding noises which is quite unnerving. This does not happen on other DVD's, e.g. Hollywood type DVD's & other DVD-R's.
I created a second DVD and reduced the Max bitrate (2-pass VBR). Under 'Verify' in ReelDVD (3.0.3) it now reports the following:
Info === Verification 04-t ===
Info -- Total bitrate --
Info Main video bitrate = 7150000, data = "04"
Info Audio stream ID = 1, bitrate = 224000, type = AC-3, data = "04_1"
Info Sum of audio bitrate = 224000.
Info Total bitrate = 7374000 [ audio + main video ]
Info === Finish.[Verification] ===
The problem persists. I don't believe that it is a bit rate problem so what could be causing the trouble?
Sonic CinePlayer plays both the hard disk and DVD versions of the project OK on the computer.
In total I have 110 minutes of Video / Audio. Image Encoding Rate in ReelDVD is set to 7.0 Mbps. There is only one audio stream per track. There are no subtitles.
I don't believe it is a field order problem because the picture quality looks excellent in the parts where it does not stutter.
The following is a complete listing of the TMPGEnc parameters used
(TMPGEnc-2.521.58.169-Plus-EN-Installer-DL.exe):
Set the Stream type to ES (video-only) [Audio processed by ReelDVD into Dolby 224kbps].
VIDEO
Stream type: MPEG-2 Video
Size: 720 x 576
Aspect ratio: 4:3 Display
Frame rate: 25 fps
Setting -> 25 / 1 = 25
Rate control mode: 2-pass VBR(VBR)
Setting -> Average bitrate: 5150
Maximum bitrate: 7150
Minimum bitrate: 2050
Max pass: 2 pass
Enable padding not to be lower than minimum bit rate = Disabled
P picture spoilage: 0
B picture spoilage: 0
VBV buffer size: 224
Profile & Level: Main Profile & Main Level (MP@ML)
Video format: PAL
Encode mode: Interlace
YUV format: 4:2:0
DC component precision: 10 bits
Motion search precision: Highest quality (very slow)
ADVANCED
Video source type: Interlace
Field order: Top field first (field A)
Source Aspect ration: 4:2 625 line (PAL)
Video arrange Method: Full screen
No filter settings
GOP STRUCTURE
IBPBPBPBP
Number of I picture in GOP: 1
Number of P picture in GOP: 4
Number of B picture in GOP: 1
Output interval of sequence header: 1
MAX number of frames in GOP: 15
Output bitstream for edit (Closed GOP): Enabled
Detect Scene change: Enabled
Force picture type setting: Disabled
QUANTIZE MATRIX
Default
Output YUV data as Basic YCbCr not CCIR601: Disabled
Use floating point DCT (While using SSE, always ON): Enabled
No motion search for still picture part by half pixel: Disabled
Soften block noise: Disabled
First I would slow the burn speed down. If that doesn't work I would try different disks. Even though Verbatim are decent disks it doesn't mean your player will be compatible with them.
I would also try out the DVD+R format to see if it's a compatibity problem with the disks.
Which software are you using to author and burn the disk?
I would definitely use a different burning program.
Roxio (Easy CD Creator 5) is NOT known for being the best burning program and don't think it's too good for DVD either. I don't even think it will burn the ISO in the right UDF format.
I would try Nero.
You would be better just burning the authored files directly with NERO's 'DVD-video' mode rather than creating an image first with ReelDVD.
If that doesn't work then try TMPG DVDauthor to author your DVD.
I downloaded a demo version of Nero 6.303 and burnt a DVD-R in DVD-video mode. I also re-flashed the Sony DRX-500UL with the latest firmware (500A_20h) before hand.
Unfortunately it made no difference :-(
So I guess it's either poor media and / or the encoded MPEG file being at fault.
Incidentally I spotted this URL: http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?threadid=61142
which suggests using the DVD-UDF/ISO option in Nero to burn a video DVD (Step 5: DVDR Burning). This mode also has the option to select "Force DVD-Video Compatability Mode (Required for XBox)". I haven't tried it yet.
That advice used to be for the earlier buggy versions of NERO that used to burn in the wrong UDF mode.
That has all been taken care of now. The XBOX compatibility mode is simply to make sure the DVD is burned as a DVD-video.
The DVD-video mode will automatically burn for XBOX compatibility and will burn the DVD in the most compatible UDF mode.
I finally tracked down the source of the problem and it did turn out to be the media, although there is a slight twist to the story.
What baffled me is how the same media from the same stock that I had used on a previous project without problem suddenly started causing the stuttering and jumping.
The evidence did point towards the media but the only difference that I could see between the two projects was the parameters used in the MPEG-2 encoding.
Late Friday I created another test disc that contained a selection of encoded files with different MPEG values, mainly GOP related.
When I played the disc it still stuttered on each of the sections. This finally convinced me that the problem was not MPEG related.
Saturday morning I decided to watch my new test DVD again. This time the disc played perfectly!
It was then that I realised what the difference had been all along. Heat!! The DVD player and Amp had been switched off overnight and in the morning they were cold.
In the last project I had only played the DVD's when the system was cold.
When the amp is left on all day, like it usually is, the heat rises making the DVD player on top of the amp hot. The DVD player also generates a lot of heat when it is switched on but that is a separate cause for concern.
After 5 minutes of playing the heat built up and the same problem appeared.
The DVD-R's I had been using were the crazy looking Verbatim (Reorder 43207) which have the printable area nearly all the way into the centre of the disc.
Towards the hub of the disc, in the printable area, the name 'Verbatim' and 'DVD-R 2x' is etched in. I think this may cause the disc to run in an eccentric manner or alter the aerodynamics of the disc. It would appear that heat exasperates the condition.
The effect is similar to sticking Neato CD labels on a DVD. Some players, mine included, have trouble playing afterwards because the disc is imbalanced and / or the aerodynamics change.
There is also another version of these Verbatim discs with a slightly different reorder number that doesn't have the printable area going nearly all the way into the centre. The manufacturer ID is the same MCC 00RG200.
I tried one of these discs and it stuttered as well, but nowhere as badly as its sibling.
I also tried three other brand of discs, those with Manufacturer ID's TYG01, RITEKG04 & PRODISCG01. They all played perfectly, even when the system was hot.
Next step is to see how each play when they are printed on. Then it's time to move the DVD player :-)