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I use an ATI A-I-W videocard to capture TV shows as .mpg files. I use TMPGenc (just the MPEG TOOLS utility) to edit out the commercials, and save the edited .mpg files to a shared folder. The videos can be viewed on other computers on my home network.
Every computer with a "wired" network connection can play the videos fine. When I use a Linksys 802.11"b" wireless access point, all of the four computers that use wireless network connections can play the edited videos. BUT -- when I replace the 802.11"b" with a Linksys 802.11"g" access point (same location, same port on the network switch), NONE of the wirelessly connected PCs can play the edited videos (even though they can still play the UNedited videos). Three of the wireless computers have 802.11b NICs, one has a 802.11g NIC.
Stranger yet, I digitally recorded a videotape of music videos and used TMPGenc MPEG Tools to cut the digital file into 7 individual songs. Three of the video songs PLAY on the wireless machines (when streamed through the 802.11g), but four of them DO NOT play! What's the difference? What is happening here?
I've used FIVE different media players. The DivX player will play the edited videos, but not Windows Media Player 9, WMP7, Real, ATI or MusicMatch. The most specific error messages I get are from WMP7 and MusicMatch, which say "ClassFactory cannot supply requested class".
People in some newsgroups believe that something in the encoding of my edits is part of the problem. I don't know enough to diagnose this. Help?
Thank you -- WH
>I've used FIVE different media players. The DivX player will play the edited videos, but not Windows Media Player 9, WMP7, Real, ATI or MusicMatch. The most specific error messages I get are from WMP7 and MusicMatch, which say "ClassFactory cannot supply requested class".
Sorry, but you have me confused. You say the edited videos are MPEGs. I wasn't aware that DIVX player supported MPEG1/2?
Which format are these MPEGs in MPEG 1, 2 or 4?
If these MPEGs are infact MPEG 2 you do realise you will need to install an MPEG2 codec for these to play. Non of the above players you have tried will play the MPEG without installing an MPEG2 codec first or better still use a real MPEG2 player. I find WinDVD to be the best MPEG2 player.
Media player and it's variants don't properly support MPEG2 and in my opinion are rubbish at playing MPEG2.
So my advice is first download the trial for WinDVD an try and play your MPEGs with it.
I'm sorry I don't have much expertise here. What I do is open TMPGenc, click File then MPEG Tools. I choose the Merge & Cut tab, click Add to find my "raw" video file, use the buttons to isolate the first segment (from the show's beginning to the first commercial break). I press OK to save that, then load the raw video again and isolate the second segment, and so on. Once I've got the whole show I give the edited file a name in Output and click Run. That's it. I don't change any settings anywhere. I'm pretty sure that everything, both the raw video and the edits, are MPEG-1. One hour of video is about 612MB, the edited files (around 42-44 minutes) average 432MB.
I downloaded a player from divx.com yesterday, one of the suggestions I got from a newsgroup. Sure enough, the DivX player plays edited .mpg files that all the other players will not (through the 802.11g AP, that is). But, the player isn't the issue. If I copy any of these problem files to the local hard drive of any computer that's connected via 802.11g, ALL of the computers will play ALL of the files. I'm pretty sure this is a problem with the way they are encoded during editing and/or the specs of a 802.11g AP (or at least the Linksys model). These files will not be streamed through that access point. I just don't know why.
the wireless problem could be simply due to the routers firmware (the higher rev has a bug?) frankly wireless video streaming is still kind of lame and buggy IMO, the wire and card still rule for the moment.
on the large block you edited, you say 3 work but 4 don't, what 3 work?
If it was the first 3 that worked and the last 4 don't, and based on how you described your edit process, you might have a memory leak or some memory or resource related issue that will show up in the later half of your work session and corrupt your files.
if not, well then im not sure, sounds a bit wierd to me, try encoding on another workstation and check the results, heck even try streaming the ones that dont work from another machine.
Whatever you do, you are spitting into the wind if you dont rule out the hardware issues first.
cAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY MY POCKET P.C MEADIA PLAYER WILL NOT ACCEPT tmpgENC mpegs into its playlist when they play fine on desktop version?Thank you in advance
Mark
Ashy,Thanks v much for your reply,and ive followed the guide,but this does not explain why movies will play in pocket t.v ,but wont be accepted in to pocket madia player playlist via add to platlist command.Although they will play on the desktop media player.Pocket t.v seems to play almost anything
Hey everyone.
I just put a sequence header on my MPEG file using the Merge and Cut tool. TMPGEnc now accepts it but the file is to big. I'm trying to get my wrestling VHS to DVD. TMGEnc says it can't open it. How can I change my VHS to get VOBs and IFO etc to put it on DVD? PLEASE HELP
Hello, I have a problem with TMPGEnc's shutting down feature. I decided to test if it really shuts down because last time, I suspected that it had been on all night. Anyway, I selected a small portion of a movie to convert to MPEG. Then I clicked "File" and then "Output to MPEG." When it reached 100%, it displayed a green PC shutdown progress bar. It took about 19 seconds and then the PC began shutting down.
When it started to display the "It's now safe to turn off your PC" screen, the screen went black and restarted by itself! I did this 2 times with the same results. Please tell me how to make it shut down properly or at least make the computer stay at the "It's now safe to turn off your PC" screen.
You either have an absolutely Ancient PC or you don't have ACPI enabled in the BIOS.
Theres no point in using the shutdown option if you don't enable ACPI. Go into your BIOS and set this to enabled. Your PC will then power off not just display the "It's now safe to turn off your PC" screen.
You access the bios when the computer first starts up. Each computer brand uses a different key, but the two most common ones are delete and F8. Refer to your manual or website of your computer company.
If you are a newbie as you describe yourself, do not change anything in the bios as you could quickly get a nice expensive door stop that one day used to be a computer.
There are hundreds of websites about BIOS. Do a google search and start doing research.
Most BIOSes can be accessed by pressing the DEL key a few times while booting.
Once in there should be a menu, Menu's differ from one BIOS to another, but the one you are looking for will say something like ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES or ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES.
Just have look inside and look for anything which mentions ACPI or APIC. You should be either be able to enable it or disable it that's all. If it has any other setting it's not what you are looking for.
If it is disabled then enable it. usually this is done by highlighting the item then using the - or + key to change it.
Once enabled use the 'Escape' button to come out of that Menu and then make sure you select the option to 'SAVE AND EXIT' the BIOS before exiting the BIOS.
Now just reboot and it and ACPI should be enabled.
The different between "TMPGEnc free" and "TMPGEnc Plus" is "TMPGEnc free" is provided only 30 days MPEG2 trial using, so 30 days after, your application "TMPGEnc free" will not be able to create your source to SVCD source or DVD source etc. MPEG2 relative work. At this time you need a TMPGEnc Plus. Don't forget that MPEG2 never have freeshare, cause it require a license for this format......
Does difference in quality affect the output MPEG's file size? I use Constant Quality with a maximum bitrate of 2520 and a minimum of 0. Usually, I select 70% quality to put 3 half-hour episodes onto a CD-R that is 700MB/80 minutes. The MPEGs usually come out around 250MB, more or less. But this time, one of the MPEGs came out to be 292MB! I am worried that the third one won't fit. :( Should I lower the quality to 50? 40? 30?
In CQ mode, your bitrate desired quality is set below the maximum bitrate, in slide bar where determine the degradation of the P and B pictures, which determines the quality compare with I picture that 100% Max. bitrate. This will determine the quality of the video.
But if use this mode do not worried about file size, the picture quality became a first priority position for encoding. your encoded file sizes will be always depending on your source file.
I don't get it. So what must I do to bring down the file size a little even if it sacrifices the quality a little? If you want to know, the source's bitrate is 1148 kb/s.
I have many small SVCD encoded mpeg file I would like to convert to VCD format. Is it possible to have the tmpg project file format so that I can write a simple Visual Basic program to creat project files for all the mpeg files to convert?
Thank you in advance.
Feri.
Feri_b@yahoo.com
P.S. I would very much appreciate a response by e-mail.
After install go to Start>Programs>FFDSHOW and click Configuration.
Click 'CODECS' and make sure FFDSHOW is enabled to decode your AVI then click 'SUBTITLES'
Check the 'Subtitles' box then uncheck the 'Search' box now load your subtitles. Next click apply then OK.
Now just open your AVI in TMPG and you should see the subs.
This is just a little bit of info for those of you who get the 'Sequence headers' error in your DVD authoring programs.
If you happen to have downloaded or have made your own MPEG without sequence headers or your DVD program complains about no sequence headers then you can add the headers with TMPG.
Simply load your MPEG1 or MPEG2 file into the Merge&Cut tool and run it.
TMPG will then rewrite the headers into the file.
It should then get accepted by your authoring program.
Note: This will not work using the multiplexer. it only works in the Merge&Cut tool.
Hi,
Every .avi or .mpg created by Premiere 6.5 causes an "Illegal Stream format" error in TMPGenc. It doesn't matter which export settings I make in Premiere, every output is rejected by TMPGenc!
Jan
If that is not the case, first of all to get your AVI accepted install FFDSHOW then raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' in the 'VFAPI plugins' to 2
TMPG is a bit picky about MPEGs it also requires an MPEG2 codec installed for MPEG2 files, so first try to run your MPEG through the simple multiplexer. If it doesn't accept it then you will need MPEG2VCR 3.11, 3.12 or 3.14. Once you have run it through MPEG2VCR it will get accepted by TMPG.
You could also try running it through a program called MME.exe (never tried this yet but may work). You will find this program as part of an MPEG2 plugin for TMPG available for download here: http://www.marumo.ne.jp/mpeg2/