I'm creating a DVD that has 1 16:9 video and 3 4:3 video. But, my authoring app. does not allow those combinations on the same titleset and has no simple way to create multiple titlesets.

My 4:3 videos are sized 640x480 but they have black bars at the top and bottom. Is it possible to crop out the black bars so it is 16:9?

I did find an authoring app. that can create multiple titlesets but they have many limitations for custom still menus that I cannot make it look nice. :( If only I can make those 4:3 videos to 16:9 then all will be well. Any help is appreciated!

I suggest DVDLab Pro for Multi-VTS-Authoring with unlimited Authoring-abilities.

640x480? That's not a valid Resolution for DVD. Even if you use black bars, the aspect ratio will be distorted.

What's wrong with using TMPG DVD author?
It can create multiple VTS's in either 4:3 and 16:9 or a combination of both.
It can also create whatever menu you can imagine as you are NOT limited to just the templates. It is possible to create your own and import whatever backgrounds and buttons you wish.

It can also easily create motion/audio menus.
In fact I have found TMPG DVD author quite impressive in what it can produce and so much easier and better IMO than DVDlab which I used to use.

The only limitation TMPG DVD author has as far as I can see is being unable to use multiple audio tracks.

I need to have selectable subtitles and TDA doesn't support them (and why don't they anyway?).

The MPEG files were released as trailers on the internet at a size of 640x480 with black bars on the top and bottom. They already have black bars there. They were made for computer viewing. But I want to put them onto my DVD.

That's why I want to CUT OUT the black bars and then resize the video to widescreen using AVISynth and then converting to MPEG-2 using TMPGEnc. Is that possible?

@Sakuya

Oh, OK, now i understand.
Yes, you can use AVISynth to crop the borders and to resize the Video, no problem. I suggest to use DVD2AVI or DGIndex to create the Project-File and the correct version of MPEG2Dec for opening the Video in AVISynth. This provides a much better Quality than DirectShowSource.
After that, you can use all the Filters of AVISynth to do with the Video whatever you want to do.

Authoring: I'm using TDA for my simple Discs and DVDLab Pro for all the others. Selectable Subtitles / Audiotracks are easy to do with this Tool.

I'm capturing VCD compliant video with a Hauppauge WinTV card and use TMPGenc for cutting the commercials and then joining the clips into a single file.

That part works perfectly every time.

I would like to be able to insert a 5 sec or so black screen 'video' to use as a transition between video segments but I'm getting response back from TMPGenc that the videos are not of the same 'type'.

Have tried using the original video file transitions and expanding the length but still getting the same response. Read elsewhere there is a 10 Mb minimum file size to get a VCD compliant video.

Any solutions to creating one of these?

WinXP - Home
512 Mb
120 Gb



Thanks !

Tmpgenc2.5, Mpeg2 output, Tmpgenc DVD author 1.5, DVD-R or DVD+R.

This dvd can played without any problem with powerdvd and newest version of ms mediaplayer. But in old version of msmp and in brand new desktop dvdplayer in case of fast object movement have trouble. In that case the object move with steps, not continously. May some picture element are dropped, but without any error message.
This problem are independent from CBR speed and output resulution and change of GOP frame limit has no effect.
But if I replace mpeg encoder to pinnacle stu 8 then all porblem is gone (but the picture quality lower).

What I can change in Tmpgenc setting to remove this poroblem?

So, no we have shoot from the effect who generate this problem in tmpgenc and desktop player pair. Ths picture is downloadable form http://ak52.fw.hu/dwl/mixed/tmpgprbl1.jpg link. This is a shoot of avi file. There you see in fast moving part of picture have some garbling, but only in this part of them. Thet source of them may some VHS tape effect or may some old digital encoding problem.

Those are interlacing artifacts.
You have the field order wrong. The field order should either be 'top' or 'bottom'

Whatever the field order is at the moment you need to change it to the opposite.

You can also de-interlace the source using the de-interlace options in the advanced settings.

The problem sourced form two subproblem. The first (and smallest) it is the interlacing problem. But if I use only the odd or the even frame then the output problem are same. So each frame (odd or even) cotaining picture multilexed from two half frame.
This is maybe special european problem. Here converted NTSC (30fps) to PAL (25fps). In case of some kind of hardware converter two ntsc half-frame merged to one pal half-frame. The result is contenet of two half-frame in one half-frame. Pinnacle may know this special PAL problem, and have algorithm to solve (or workaround) them...

Is this an AVI?
Looks to me like the fields have been swapped over. Simply changing the field order in TMPG wouldn't correct this.

You can swap the fields by running the AVI through Virtualdub and then selecting the extended options when loading the file.

The source file is avi. As you see in the picture http://ak52.fw.hu/dwl/mixed/nofilter.jpg if no deinterlace activated then the frame 1306 contain the flowing picture. After activate deinterlace, and only the even frame used http://ak52.fw.hu/dwl/mixed/evenfilter.jpg. You see the event frame itself is not sharp, but only some frame where fast moving object occured.
May Pinna do some sharping algorithm to bridge this porblem....

I can't see the second picture as the link doesn't work, but the first one is definitely interlacing artifacts.

The link is http://ak52.fw.hu/dwl/mixed/evenfilter.jpg .

I have now! This problem only eliminate if the coding set to motion eliminate search. May in that setup the object prioties are different, and the fast motion object have lower priority and of course this object do not eat the full bandwidth.

I have Real Alternative installed, so I can use TMPGenc to enconde .RM(real media) movies into .mpg format. However, the audio will not encode. It produces a blank audio track. Is there any way to fix this. Thanks.

The only way is to extract the audio to a wav first or use AVISYNTH to frame serve.

Like to know which version of Tmpgenc that u use to convert Rmvb files as i test only those old version 2.59.47.155 release year 2002 that manage to read RMVB files and the latest release 2.524.63.181 unable to read RMVB files. please advise.

As he said in his post you need to install the 'Real alternative' codec.

I already had Real Alternative real splitter install. but only Tmpgenc 2.59 can open rm or rmvb extention. tmpgenc version 2.524 or tmpgenc 3.0 are unable to open rm and rmvb extention even with Real alternative. Any explanation on this method ?

Sorry mate, but it works for me on ANY version. It's either likely that particular file you have or you need to raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader'

Thanks for the advice ashy.

and i'm using the latest version of tmpgenc, works fine with .rm video, don't know about .rmvb. Search for .rmvb or .rm conversion guide on videohelp.com, i saw one there.

Hi. I have this question, which can not be easily answered , I assume.
I've noticed that, demultiplexing the audio from a mpeg with TMPGenc from a 1h 55' movie, I obtain a .MP2 audio file about 190 MB large. Instead, if I re-encode that sound using BeSweet's profile 'MP2 for SVCD' I obtain the same sound (as long as before, and 44.1 kHz, too), but the size is 104 MB, therefore about half its size.
More, if I add thet MP2 sound to an AVI (substituting its one) with VirtualDubMod, the movie I obtain is excellent and very compatible to any TMPGenc's coversion. Instead, adding the TMPGenc's created MP2 file, I obtain an AVI which cannot be correctly reconverted to mpeg (the sound is un-sync with the video), and therefore cannot be a good AVI backup for my movie (because: [1] it's larger [2] it gives no correct mpeg).
What it the explanation for this? Do I do something wrong or it's TMPGenc 2.5 which is bad encoding the audio stream of all movies?

Just a point: if I load any MP2 with TMPGenc's 'audio input' the conversion AVI --> MPG goes well. The conversion is BAD only if the TMPGenc loads as input (video/audio) the AVI I obtain by multiplexing TMPGenc's created MP2 to the video with VirtualDubMod. It seems that in that way the audio input is NOT the MP2 file correctly used.

I've found it! The problem is that the 2 MP2 files have a different birate, even if BeSweet told a dirrerent thing: the MP2 desampled by the .MPG is, indeed, 224 kbps. Instead, the MP2 audio made by BeSweet with profile 'MP2 for SVCD' , which makes a working AVI (if multiplexed to the AVI video with VirtualDubMod) is, if read by HeadAC3ge, a 'MP3 2ch joint stereo 128 kbps'.
Therefore this returns, because the ratio of the 2 sizes is exaclty 224/128.
What I cannot understand is why using VirtualDubMod to add that MP3 128 kbps audio to the Video makes a working AVI and, instead, adding the MP2 224 kbps audio file to the Video creates a wrong (if watched, the audio is un-sync with the video) movie file.

>Therefore this returns, because the ratio of the 2 sizes is exaclty 224/128

What is?
If the bitrate is fixed then it is either 224Kb/s or 128Kb/s whether it is joint stereo or not. 128Kb/s is 128Kb/s and 224Kb/s is 224Kb/s no matter whether i'ts stereo, joint stereo or mono. The size will always be exactly the same.

Also as far as I know Virtualdubmod cannot mux Mp2 audio correctly as it will give it the wrong header.

You need to use AVIMUX04 for this.

Every time I try to convert an AVI to MPEG I get the message "can not open, or unsupported".
I have converted AVI files before.
Can anyone tell me what's wrong?

Frans

Usually it happens whan you don't have a proper codec installed on your system (or if the file is a mpeg-2 and you don't own TMPgenc Plus). Usually Xvid and DivX open 99% of the movies. Sometimes havinf the all-working decoder FFDShow is enough...but Xvid is free and the DECoder part of the DivX coDEC is free, too, so...

thank you may be able to answar my similar question. I captured a avi using VirtualDub with DivX5 (divX5.2.1 free version) compressed, it will play in Windows media Player (probably 9) and divX player---so the encoder/decoder shall be somewhere in the PC. but TmpegEnc (and VirtualDub) can't open this file. How to solve this?

The problem starts at the very beginning of encoding a simple avi file.
I get an error message right after I hit START???

Error message: "write error occured at adress 7783AED of module 'ntdll.dll' with 00000000"

The adress changes frim time to time but the module is always 'ntdll.dll'.

Does anybody know what I should do???

Strange you have a write error.. does the output name is = than the input file name is so, change it. This happens if the input file is a .MPG)? Or do you have forbidden access to that directory (disk full or admin directory and you don't have admin rights)?

This usually turns out to be a dodgy memorystick problem or incompatible sticks.

First try installing FFDSHOW if that doesn't work try swapping memory.

I d/led the TMPGEnc in the page Download, but i found that i can't register it. On the otherwords, I'm forced to not to use it within 30 days. Where can i register it? What can i do?

By selecting 'Help____About' does a new window opens for you?

You need TMPGenc plus to register.
It will ask you for the key every time you open it. You have 14 days trial use before you need to enter the key.

I'm making a widescreen DVD. However there are hardcoded subtitles are runs off the sides of the TV screen. What should I do to keep them in and preserve the widescreen?

Send your complains to the creator of the Video ...
You have to make the Video smaler in Picturesize.

I'm trying to use tmpgenc to convert some avis to mpg2, but everytime i do it, the program stops responding and wont do anything. This happens at the very start of encoding (the new file appears, but nothing works).

I tried encoding other avis from a different source and they work fine, but all of these new files I'm trying to do wont work...

any advice?

thx

Careful, your PC could lack the possibility to see a MPEG-2 file due to a failure in MPEG-2 decoding..this doesn't mean you encoded it badly (for instance: can your PC watch DVDs?).
Just for test, try making, with VCDGear, a SVCD into a CD-RW and watch it on a DVD player...

Just for being sure this is that AVIs problem, try to make a mpeg-1. It should fail, too...

Likely a decoding problem.
First try raising the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' in the VFAPI plugins to top of the list.

If that doesn't work install FFDSHOW.

What is the format of the AVI...XVID, DIVX, etc?

I am new on this post. I was able to successfully convert AVI to MPG format for both SVCD and MPEG2 format. The converted file is a single mpg file. I can not play this play on Power DVD and not even on my home DVD player. but I can play it in Realplayer. Have I done something wrong? I used Sonic Record Now for buring CD.

Is there any guide for encoding and burning process?

Making a MPEG-1 (for VCD) or a MPEG-2 (for a SVCD) is only the 1st step. Now you should make mpeg-1 ---> VCD or mpeg-2 --> SVCD.

Just be careful to split (e.g. with MPEG Tools ____ Merge & Cut) the movie into pieces < 830 MB [usually 2, for SVCDs you can also choose 3] and to use VCDGear or Nero or VCDEasy to make mpeg --> VCD/SVCD image [usually (S)VCD1.bin/(S)VCD1.cue plus (S)VCD2.bin/(S)VCD2.cue].

Finding the right settings for having a MPEG-2 file = 830 MB is a little tricky, I use FitCD and TMPGenc 2-pass encoding for this.

I have been trying to use TMPGEnc 2.5 to edit & cut some DVD videos but having problems. On the Project Wizard window I select DVD & try to load the ".vob" files but an error message "...cannot open or not supported." keeps popping up. So how do I go about editing & cutting DVD files into shorter videos to burn on a dvd burner? If it's possible please explain step by step procedure.
Thanks.

I never used TMPGenc for VOBs, but maybe you need TMPGenc Plus to open mpeg-2 files...

maybe you can open the VOB with VOBEdit first, then using TMPGenc...