I noticed that the highest sampling rate for video is 9200kbps. I would like to set this higher. I am encoding AVI files that are about an hour in length. Even when I use the 9200kbps setting the resulting file is much smaller than 4gig. If could set the sampling rate higher I think I could achieve better quality for one hour length files. Is there a way to adjust this to a higher rate?

You can try using "MPEG Output" template instead of "DVD" template

Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, I tried playing with all those options. That does affect aspect ratio, position, etc., but I essentially still have the same problem. What should be a full-screen or wide-screen image, like the original file, still appears as a smaller image in the center of the screen. Has anyone else had this problem?

Sorry, wrong thread!
Just ignore my last post.

Hi, I'm new to video conversion, and am having a problem with TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress. I'm trying to convert avi/mpeg files into VCD/SVCDs. The problem is, that no matter what I seem to do, TMPGEnc resizes and centers my videos, so they display as a fraction of the original size and surrounded by borders.

I've tried manually resizing, cropping the image, changing the resize options, but get the same result. More confusingly, TMPGEnc previews the file as being fullscreen (or nearly so, for widescreen videos) like the original, but the final result is just a small box of video in the center of my screen or TV. I've used older versions of TMPGEnc before, and had no trouble. I'm sure this is some obvious newbie error on my part, but i'm pretty frustrated at the moment. Any advice on what the problem is and how I can fix it?

Thanks!

I agree that the preview is not as good as the free version (2.5).

Perhaps, you can try setting the "Image position" option to "Full screen" or "Full Screen (No Margin)". The "keep aspect ration" checkbox might also affect your output.

Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, I tried playing with all those options. That does affect aspect ratio, position, etc., but I essentially still have the same problem. What should be a full-screen or wide-screen image, like the original file, still appears as a smaller image in the center of the screen. Has anyone else had this problem?

I have ripped a DVD using SmartRipper and when I play back the resultant MPEG2 file in Windows Media Player I sounds fine and the dialogue is in English. However when I load it into TMPGEnx Xpress 3.0 to create a clip the dialogue is in French!?!?!?!

Can someone point me at something that says either a) what I'm doing wrong or b) what I need to do to create the clip in XPress?

Thanks.

An mpeg file can be multiplex with multiple audio (and video) stream. Both english and french audio stream are availble in the file you pass into TMPGEnc.

You can try
1. VirtualdubMOD which handles mpeg2 and multiple stream
2. use SmartRipper to extract only english stream (not too sure about this)
3. demux the files so you have seperate video and audio files, then pass the correct one into TMPGEnc.

>I have ripped a DVD using SmartRipper and when I play back the resultant MPEG2 file in Windows Media Player I sounds fine and the dialogue is in English. However when I load it into TMPGEnx Xpress 3.0 to create a clip the dialogue is in French!?!?!?!
>
>Can someone point me at something that says either a) what I'm doing wrong or b) what I need to do to create the clip in XPress?
>
>Thanks.

I used to framaserve from VirtualDub to TMPGEnc plus, I cannot frameserve to TMPGEnc 3 Xpress.
Anyone knows whether it can be done? If yes, how?

You can try running "AuxSetup.exe" in virtualdub directory. Then choose "install handler".

Where is the support for Pegasys products? I give several "REQUESTS" for future enhancements for software. But Pegasys never responds to requests. They are very quiet. No support?

1) The BBS if for TMPGEnc Users, and there is basically no support via
this BBS.

2) Bug reports and features requests sent to the technical support,
are reported to the programers team.
In fact, most of the corrections or enhancements are made possible thanks
to these reports.

However depending on the difficulty, some requests might not be realized.
Thank you for your comprehension.

When I try to add files in the set source menu all my avi files are coming up with "Could not open the video part of the file C:path/video.avi Only the audio part could be opened?

Been encoding with TMPGEnc before and haven't had problems now both encoders don't work. Anyone know what the issue here is?

Thanks!!

If you download the Ace Mega Codecs Pack off Kazaa it will enable your TMPGEnc encoder to work

Are you able to play the video using windows media player? Is it a propietory codec? e.g. asf, real video?

I'm having the same problem. Xpress won't open avis encoded with xvid. It will open a few avis I have using Windows media video 9, and of course mpegs. The normal tmpeg will still open the files Xpress won't. I've tried xvid codec from the Cole2k, Ace, and Nero codec packs but nothing works.

I had this problem with tmpgenc 3.0 xpress..... even though i had the following codecs installed: ffdshow, xvid, divx - I could not open ANY xvid AVI into the program. It was extremely frustrating as I had the same setup on my old PC and everything worked.

After some tinkering about I realised it may be FFDShow causing the problem. What I actually did to fix it was to uninstall all of the codecs mentioned above, reboot, and then re-install ONLY the xvid codec - this appears to work fine in tmpgenc xpress now.

hope this helps.

Yetiman

I want to get a video clip from a DVD. I use TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.6 to read the DVD and create an MPG file containg video and audio. Windows Media Player plays this file OK, with the correct audio track. When I load the MPG file into TMPGEnc XPress and then cut-edit the file, I find that the audio that is played while in the editor and is written to the output file is the track which contains comments by the film actors and directors. I know the main audio channel is present in the input file because Win Media Player plays it correctly.

How do I specify the desired input audio channel to XPress?

Hello. I am having problems with TMPGENC 3.0 XPRESS batch tool. The batch tool is causing corrupt files. I place my AVI DV Type-1 files into TMPGENC 3.0, and convert using batch tool. I start batch conversion.

The first 2-3 files usually convert okay. But the other files have problems. They get corrupt or do not encode all the way. Some have only audio, no video. Some only convert half of the file. If I convert one file at a time, they convert okay.

Why are these files getting corrupt?

I thought it may be because I have 160GB drive and hit the 137GB drive barrier. But my BIOS and WinXP SP2 supports big drives above 137GB. I checked and the SP2 patch for big drive support is installed for my drives.

While the batch tool is very cool, I have verified there are some problems (especially with the latest version).

I wrote support, explaining that with the new version, some projects encode just fine from the application, but fail to encode from the batch tool.

My test case was verified on two computers. The test project ran successfully before update, and failed after the update. It also failed after updated if I rebuilt the project from scratch. I sent the complete steps to reproduce the problem.

Can you believe that support replied that my codec that was at fault?

Wrong!

Joe

same problem here. it's definitely NOT the codec, i have to start different encodings up to 10x before they get coded correctly. Definitly had not this problem with the version 3.0. THIS IS A BUG AND HAS TO BE CORRECTED, otherwise this software is simply useless.
I am also not able to go back to the elder version, because i cannot retrieve a license with my (purchased) code anymore.
This is really extremly annoying.

Same problem here, any response from support ????

Answers from Support???

What support? Are you kidding?

In my experience, the "support" is rather poor, and they have no real interest in hearing bug reports.

Interestly, I knew the guy that wrote TMGEnc from back when I worked at the company that produces the compiler tools he uses to make TMGEnc (Borland Delphi). As senior support engineer, I can tell you for a fact that I have sent very well documented bug reports to these guys (complete with steps and always verified on multiple computers), and they always reply with the lamest answers I can imagine.

Well, I take that back. Pinnacle is worse. When I enquired to Pinnacle as to why (after upgrading to Suudio 9Plus), I could no longer hear the audio during a capture (although the capture was perfect), they insisted my VCR was not plugged in! I tried to point out that if the capture was perfect, that the VCR had to be plugged in correctly!!! They would not listen :(

FWIW, I have two computers with the upgraded TMpgEnc that have this same problem with the batch encoder. I also have uncovered yet another bug in the new version (dealing with inaccurate filesizes for ES streams). I'm not going to waste my time reporting it. After seeing that the MPEG tools have been stripped out and remarketed as a rather poor MPEG editor for $48, I feel like all these guys want is my money.

I am reverting back to the older version. FWIW, you have to uninstall and reinstall to go back.

I have learned my lesson regarding upgrades to TMpgEnc: If the last verison works ok, dont upgrade.

Joe

>Hello. I am having problems with TMPGENC 3.0 XPRESS batch tool. The batch tool is causing corrupt files. I place my AVI DV Type-1 files into TMPGENC 3.0, and convert using batch tool. I start batch conversion.
>
>The first 2-3 files usually convert okay. But the other files have problems. They get corrupt or do not encode all the way. Some have only audio, no video. Some only convert half of the file. If I convert one file at a time, they convert okay.
>
>Why are these files getting corrupt?
>
>I thought it may be because I have 160GB drive and hit the 137GB drive barrier. But my BIOS and WinXP SP2 supports big drives above 137GB. I checked and the SP2 patch for big drive support is installed for my drives.

Yes, so no answer yet from Support? Where is Support for TMPGEnc products? When I make a request for future enhancement, I would expect to see response from Pegasys team, saying they will look at request.

But Pegasys seems to have no support for customers. They are very quiet.

Just want to add my name to a list of users having the same problem with the batch tool. While I am otherwise satisfied with this version, the batch tool problem is about to drive me crazy.

My symptoms are the same as every one else. When files are converted on at a time, I have no problem. During a batch process, however, something like 1 of every 3 files results in an output file with no video. The output format seems to make no difference here--I am converting to both DV AVI and MPEG2 files.

I suspect there's a problem with the input file reader not flushing itself properly when it moves from one file to the next.

This problem is the same for all TMPGEnc Encoders:

"DV type 2" is supported, but not "DV type 1". You might be able to encode "DV type 1" source files (via DirectShow). However the encoding is not stable, it often fails, especially when using "2pass" or "batch encode tool".

So it is recommended to first output to "DV type 2" when possible. Otherwise, convert "DV type 1" to "DV type 2" using a DV converter (Some companies distribute very good free DV converter). This conversion is generally a quick process. And then encode "DV type 2" to MPEG format.

Dear Support,

Same as always, you simply do not listen to your customers.

I have reverted to the 3.0.24 release, and all is once again perfect.

This sure blows your reply out of the water, and again, shows how lame your support really is.

Joe

It is very good that your encoding actually worked.

1)But again, concerning "DV type 1". None of our encoders includes
engine that can decode and encode it. The encoding is proceeded via MS Directshow. And it also depends on the PC environment. The bottom line is
that "DV type 1" is not supported, and even if it might work, its encoding
is unstable. So we recommend to use DV converters first and change "type 1" to "type 2". The process is quite short compared to average encodings.
Ulead, Canopus sites,for instance, offer free DV converters.

2)This BBS if for TMPGEnc Users, and there is basically no support via
this BBS.
Thank you for your comprehension.

Has anyone managed to get the batchtool to work reliably? I queued up about 12 batch jobs and 50% generated garbage output, it looks like the job quits about half way through the encoder and leaves a video output file that is all black, and about 150k in size.

All the jobs would submitted form a tmpgenc express 3.1.70 project files that would just find if I encode them using express, it's just the batchtool that has the problem. If fact, resubmitting the failed ones to batchtool again some will work and some won't.

I contacted Pegasys support and got the old "it's something I'm doing wrong." answer. It was like they never even read what I wrote and sent back a canned response about what I'm doing wrong. Well if they read my email they would have seen that I had already tried everything they suggested.

I could see if the same job keep failing, then it could be the way I setup the encoding. But it seems like you have a 50/50 shot at the batchtool successfully encoding your job. Not very good odds if you ask me.

Well I installed the Xpress 3.1.5.82 update today and it does indeed appear
that the batchtool is working correctly now. So far every job in the queue, about 10, have worked correctly, unlike the batchtool shipped with 3.1.3.70.

John

Hi! I had TMPG 3 on my computer before, then it XP died and i had to reinstall everything again, stupid windows.

Now when i try to encode to XVID or DIVx, or anything for that matter, i am unable to use MP3 compression because it wont let me choose anything but 56 kb (i could choose lower but 56 is bad enough)

But before windows XP crashed i was able to encode full rate MP3 into Avis, and now i cant can anyone tell me why, because im really confused :(

You need to install the lame codec
goto rarewares.org and get the codec (.inf)

Cannot find the "Do not frame rate conversion" in this new version of TMPGEnc. Any help on this?

Lapoli

cheers guys!

i just browsed the specs of xpress3. looks like a REALLY good prog. so i wanna report a typo-bug :)...

- on the specs-page, under -> Windows Media File （Audio） output setting:
- Audio CODEC Widnwos Media Audio 9 (Professional Lossless)

maybe someone could switch the 'dnwo' to an 'ndows' ;)...

sincerely yours,
NG

How do I get AVI file to play on a home dvd to tv player.
cna AVI be converted to be played.

Yes, with TMPGEnc. It will convert the AVI files to standard MPEG2 files for DVD player. You then can use authoring software, like DVD Author, to make the DVD from the MPEG2 files.

Demo versions of software are here to try out and buy:
www.pegasys-inc.com