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I have this old movie, divx. I downloaded it.. and its got two audio streams. english, with german dubbed over(i think) anyways.. I'd like to get rid of one stream. Will this program do it? If so, how do I go about doing it?
You probably have English on one channel and german on the other.
You choose either channel in Virtualdub then just resave the AVI using direct stream copy.
In Virtualdub select 'Audio' then 'Full processing' then Audio>Conversion and select either left or right channel depending on the track you require and then just resave using direct stream copy for the video and audio.
Tried it, I did exactly what you specified.. only ran left channel and only output mode.. came out with two streams. Right Channel the same. does it work that way? or do i have to actually do the whole conversion to see if it came out right?
I've now got mcutter and avi-mux and i'm toying with them. I tried the splitting of the two channels didnt work. I did find two channels but they are the same. same length.. everything. Any way to split them up? or am i out of luck on this one? another thought.. maybe splitting high/low freq. seeing what happens.. haven't a clue how yet, but i'm learning.
First don't install any other codec packs other than the ffdshow decoder. this is all you need. Yes, subtitles supported. Get you latest version at http://www.ligh.de/software/mirrors.phtml
Lately I started using mainconcept mpeg encoder but the principle is the same with TMPGEnc. Don't use any filters or resize thingies from TMPGEnc. Just use TMPGEnc as a encoder (I use the MoleVCD 2.6 templates, look them up with google)
After installing ffdshow click in you start menu ffdshow -> Configuration. First select Tray -> turn on all switches. Then Postprocessing -> Presets MAX.
Then Select Blur and Noise Reduction (NR) -> Gradual Denoise (40)
Now select resize and Aspect -> 352x288 for PAL.
Now we have to save these settings. Select Image Settings -> new -> from selected. rename -> PAL.
Now select resize and Aspect -> 320x240 for NTSC.
Now we have to save these settings. Select Image Settings -> new -> from selected. rename -> NTSC.
For TMPGEnc 2.5 the color space should be 24 bit RGB. Select the Codecs (or Output in later versions) and only leave RGB24 on.
Open the movie you want to convert in TMPGENC and select Preview. The ffdshow icon should appear in the system tray. Select the PAL or NTSC profile.
That's all fine and dandy, but those settings aren't ideal for every movie.
For a start maximum post processing is overkill and using noise reduction may not be necessary.
With good clean sources such as DVD rips not many optimizations are required as they can infact reduce the image quality not improve it.
Enabling to many optimizations will only slow things down and if they are not required then there is no point.
That may be right. Find out the best settings yourself. It´s the method of conversion I try to point out here. Just want it to share with you guys here.
Now I´m into it you must give the audio filter a try. It can handle AAC and AC3 among others. Check the Mixer box and select your desired audio output. I haven´t tried it with TMPGEnc.
And: don´t forget to give the directshow a higher prio in TMPGEnc. Else it won´t work.
That may be right. Find out the best settings yourself. It´s the method of conversion I try to point out here. Just want it to share with you guys here.
Now I´m into it you must give the audio filter a try. It can handle AAC and AC3 among others. Check the Mixer box and select your desired audio output. I haven´t tried it with TMPGEnc.
And: don´t forget to give the directshow a higher prio in TMPGEnc. Else it won´t work.
It's not recommended to use the audio filter as yet in FFDSHOW as it is buggy and has some problems.
I have been using FFDSHOW and TMPG for a long time. I find FFDSHOW an excellant filter which usually works better than the actual codecs themselves and I have been recommending it here for a while now.
It is constantly updated and very rarely causes problems. In fact it solves many XVID problems with TMPG. It also fixes the latest problems with the new RC3 XVID codec which people have been having problems with such as jerky playback due to the new way it handles bitstreams.
The latest version is available here: http://athos.leffe.dnsalias.com/
help tryed every way possible to convert divx to vcd but no joy tried ripping audio off with virtdub then re-encoding with wav(dont work)still out of sink
tryed every frame rate 23.97.25.00 29.9 non work tryed dvd2vcd tnpegencplus
xingmpeg
all my codecs are installed
the original avi file has a vbr
so i did what it say rip the audio to wav use tmpeg input video then the audio wav set the load to vcd ntsc burn still no good sound out of sync
so i thourt its the avi file corrupt ???? no i downloaded 6 movies final destination 2 matrix 2 pluse more ever file after conversion is out of sync
some wok ok ate the start then go off sync towards end then outher go off sync all togeter
why in hell dont divx tell you how to do this proply
tryed all the avi to mpeg converters still the same
tryed procoder still the same
tryed tmpegenc free still the same
tryed avi to vcd still the same
tryed easy x video convertor still the same
tryed dr divx still same
what do i do
i start tmpeg
project wizard chosen ntsc film (23.97)
video file chosen o/r avi file
audio file chosen wav i ripped via virtudub
video type non interlace
Using virtual dub, check the file information. Then using video/frame rate check to see whether you have incompatible video and audio lengths. Check that the frame rate is the same as you will get after running it through TMPGenc (i.e. 25fps or 29.97fps)
If the AVI frame rate is not the same as TMPGenc is going to produce, your sound will end up out of sync. If TMPGenc changes the frame rate then the video will play back at a different speed but it does not alter the audio.
To correct this, you will need to either change the rate of the audio of video track. The audio track can be changed with cooledit, the only program I know of which will change the video frame rate without losing sync is winvideo - which is a Windows 3.1 product and has been obsolete for years but is a very good product and I still use it - I'm not sure if it will work with DivX files.
I have used TMPGEnc, along with a few other programs, to rip .m2v files from a DVD, for use in making anime music videos. However, when I attempt to use the files in Adobe Premiere 6.0, I'm told that it's not a file type that the program can use. This happens even when I rename the .m2v files to .mpg. I would appreciate any help that you can give me, so that I can make these .m2v files into a file that Premiere can read. I can give more in-depth information about what programs I've used and other specifications if necessary. Thank you.
Thank you very much, Ashy! The plugin worked perfectly, and now I can finally get to work. I appreciate your quick and very accurate answer. Thank you again!
the problem is i tryed every guide for tmpgenc non seen to work the audio is out of sync to the video
at the start of the movie the audio is fine the part way though it gose off sync bye about 3 sec i tryed ripping the audio decompressing it then saving it to wav exacly how the guide say locate avi(xvid) file the the audio file i ripped (wav)start it off conversion compleate's play the move smae again works ok for part movie the starts to go off sync please someone tell me what to do
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Your AVI has corrupt frames.
You can try using Virtualdub to scan for bad frames and fix them, but don't hold out much luck.
The only way to deal with it is to cut just after the point where it goes out of sync then resync it with Virtualdub. After that join the 2 pieces together.
My camera outputs MPEG4 (fourcc is mp4s) .asf files. I want to convert them to mpeg 1 or 2 files so I can edit them in most widely available programs. I figured out how to do this with TMPGEnc, but it changes the format to suit VCDs or DVDs. I don't want to change the size or frame rate or anything. How do I set up TMPGEnc to change codecs, but not touch the video format?
Also, can TMPGEnc rotate the video while it re-encodes it?
You need to unlock the settings first.
Click the load button in the main window then navigate to the 'Extra' folder in the templates folder. Inside double click the 'unlock.mcf'
This will unlock all settings.
Why don't you just convert the AVI to a regular MPEG 4 AVI.
It doesn't make sense to convert to MPEG1 or MPEG2 as they are not designed to be edited. If you do you may have GOP layer editing problems.
Virtualdub_ASF http://www.divxland.org/files/VirtualDub14c_asf.zip can strip the ASF container leaving just an MS MPEG4 AVI which any AVI editing program, such as Virtualdub itself (which is probably the best AVI editor), can open as long as the MS MPEG4 codec is installed.
Okay, I finally got the program to convert an avi to an mpg.
BUT, it converted it without audio! What happened to the audio?
AND, it turned the 350mb file, which would fit on a cd-r, into a 1.6gig file which will not fit on a cd-r.
So how do I convert a 350MB avi file into an under-700mb mpg which I can make into a vcd?
Also: when I tried to use TMPGEnc to edit the 350MB AVI file into 2 smaller files, before converting it to MPG, I get this message: "Invalid Pointer Operation" after I set an in and out point for the edit.
THEN, when I try to convert the edited file, I get some kind of message about how the edited file is not compatible. However, I do not get these messages if I do not edit the AVI.
You may need an AC3 codec.
This one works with TMPG: http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/AC3ACM/
The output size depends on the length of the movie not it's size.
VCD encodes at a rate of 10 MB/min which would mean your movie is over 2 hours long.
This does seem a lot though for such a small sized source file.
If your movie is not over 2 hours long post back here and I'll tell you how to fix it.
Thanks for the link to the codec.
No, the length of my original avi is only between 50-60 minutes, yet it's giving me over 1gig in the (audio-less) mpg.
As to the no audio problem, someone told me that I need to strip the audio from the avi using something like virtualdub first, then import that back into EMPGEnc before converting to mpg.
Is that correct?
If your movie is only 50-60 mins long and you are indeed encoding to MPEG1 VCD and not MPEG2 then it should be about 600MB.
Check to make sure that there is no blank video in the output file. TMPG sometimes has a habit of encoding blank video with somw AVI's, doubling or even trebling the size.
What does the wizard state as the final output size?
As for the audio ir isn't necessary to extract it to a wav unless you really have to.
The problems usually happens with AC3 or VBR MP3 audio.
Both can be solved by having the right codecs and raising the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2 in the VFAPI plugins.
1) Yes, there is 1 and 1/2-2 hours or so of blank video in the converted file, it just sits there on the last frame after the 55 min or so of program material. So how do I get rid of that extra video? (Cannot edit the file with TMPGEnc; see below)
2)You say the audio problem can be solved by having the right codecs:
Which ones are the right ones and how do I get them and install them? When I use gspot to look at the avi file it says the file uses the Ligos MPEG Audio Decoder codec. I downloaded the audio codec you suggested and that doesn't seem to help. I also downloaded a divx package someone else suggested, and neither is helping this situation.
3) When I tried to raise the priority of the Direct Show file reader, I get the message "The File Cannot Be Loaded".
Further info as to what is happening:
When I open the AVI file in TMPGEnc and go through the wizard, and try to make an edit (say, just the opening credits) so I can experiment with just a segment of the video/audio, as sson as I choose the start and end point and then go to the next step I get an error message "Invalid Pointer Operation".
Then, when I click that off and try to start the encoding, I get the error message "File [xyz] cannot open or unsupported."
However, the same file HAS, in previous attempts, if I don't attempt to EDIT it, encoded, and made the above super-long MPG with no audible audio.
I say no AUDIBLE audio because the gspot examination shows that the resulting converted mpg does have the Ligos MPG audio codec. Someone told me if I went ahead and burned the vcd I'd hear the audio when I play it on my dvd player. However I cannot test this theory since I cannot get the resulting mpg file edited down to a burnable length.
Whoever told you that last part doesn't know what they were talking about as they are talking B...shit.
The LIGOS MPEG codec is just an MP2 audio codec.
There WILL be MPEG2 audio in the output however it will be just silence because TMPG was unable to decode the audio in the source movie.
Then as I said before go into the VFAPI plugins. Click Options>Enviromental settings>VFAPI plugin and raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2. To do this you must right click on the name itself.
Now your file should load fine and the wizard should give you the correct size of your output file.
Do a test encode and check for audio.
If there is still no audio then download the proggy below and install it.
Right click the source AVI movie then from the context menu select 'AVI codec: detailed info' then copy and paste the audio info here.
>Then as I said before go into the VFAPI plugins. Click Options>Enviromental settings>VFAPI plugin and raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2. To do this you must right click on the name itself.
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Did that.
>Now your file should load fine and the wizard should give you the correct size of your output file.
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>Do a test encode and check for audio.
There seems to be audio, now, I see an audio graph where there used to be nothing... But...
Once I edit the avi to just the opening credits so I can do a test, it now no longer gives me the "invalid pointer operation" error, which is good, and I choose my start and end time and "cut except currently selected area", and then click OK and then Next and then I am on the final window where it says "specify output file name" and I click on Ok and that says "Doesn't exist -do you want to create?" and I say OK...
THAT'S WHEN I GET THIS ERROR MESSAGE (a new one, at least):
"Can't load P3Package.dll".
I seem so close to getting this to work; but NOW WHAT?
Thanks for getting me this far, and I hope you can take me the rest of the way!
Okay, I found the help file on this, so am going to see if it works. For anyone else who might find this thread and need the same solution, here is the link to the help file on P3Package dll:
<www.dvdrhelp.com/tmpgenc#problems>
I'll post back here if this thing will FINALLY burn my xvid file after this fix!
That procedure worked really well for me. I had used virtual dub to save the VBR encoded audio as a wav and then tried to convert the avi to mpg using the wav as the audio source. This didnt work well at all and the sound was off by as much as a couple seconds. Im not exactly sure what I just did installing the ffdshow and raising that priority level. Was it a decoder? Why was it necessary raise the priority? Just curious, thx for any help on the subject. Thx again for the advice it really helped.
FFDSHOW is an general AVI decoder, usually better than the original codecs themselves. It is open source and continually being improved and solves many problems with AVI's. If you lok at the configuration settings you will also find it is much more than JUST a decoder. It has many useful filters also.
FFDSHOW is particularly efficient at decoding uncompressed AVI and can make playback of these AVI's much smoother on less powerful sytems.
As for priority settings in TMPG. This is simply just the way TMPG handles installed codecs by giving codecs higher in the list priority for decoding than those lower in the list.
It prevents other codecs from interfering with the ones you use most.
I am new to this, never used a program like this before.
I have an .avi video file that I want to make into a vcd. I understand that I have to convert it into an mpeg first.
So I downloaded the free version of TMPGEnc and browsed to the video file with it, left the default settings and clicked GO or whatever the button was to make it start making the vcd.
It processed the video - it's about 50 min. so it took an hour or so.
When it finished - said "100%" - I thought I'd end up with a file that I could then burn as a VCD.
However, I see nothing. Where is the file it made?
In order to burn the file I have to know where it is, but it's not in the same folder as the original file is. Again, I changed no settings, so shouldn't it have made the new MPEG in the same folder as the AVI is in? Or am I missing something here?
Is there a FAQ somewhere or Help file that tells one EXACTLY how to make a vcd ready mpeg from an avi?
Thanks for any help you can give.
No idea, but you are right. This doesn't conform to the specs.
As you say the limits should 50 Mb/s and 11 bits.
The only way you will acheive those rates is to use 'High profile @ High level'
Using the wizard, i'm prepairing a DivX AVI file that is about 24 minutes long for conversion to Mpeg. However, the "Movie Info" in the "Bitrate Settings" portion of the wizard reports that the movie is over 66 minutes long and will take upwards of 90% of a 4.7gig dvd.
I've tried changing the dvd format (cbr/vbr settings), changing the aspect ratio, and lowering the bitrate settings, but none of that seems to reduce the length of the movie to the appropriate time.