I've always wondered why TMPGEnc3.0 and now 4.0 XPress [i'm using 4.2.3.193] never had a mpg joiner built into them under the MPeg Tools part of it. All it has are the Multiplexer and DeMultiplexer tabs but in the freeware version, the MPeg Tools has the Merge & Cut tab.

if i have a bunch of mpg's i want to join back together then i end up using the freeware version of TMPGEnc.

since it would make sense to put that function into XPress as well.

tnx for reading.

It would make sense to have this option, but its not necessarily the correct way. MPEG joining or any type of video joining will cause problems down the line and isn't very accurate. On the surface level it might sound easy if you have 2 MPEGs with similar setting so naturally you would think its ok to join them, but what if the GOP are slightly off, what if the audio and video are variable bitrate? how would the program know how to correct these differences to create a smooth video. Ultimately, you may end up with audio/video desync or degrade in quality. Professionally, you do not want to ever merge two separate clips, you would want to re-encode them to have a consistant video.

So to put it simply, I can understand why TMPG would remove a feature that could cause problems because they want to maintain high standard like the Pro's for a commercial software. Freeware = anything goes.

I'm pretty new to TMPGEnc Xpress.
I have an avi I want to convert to DVD.
The avi has 2 audio tracks, track 1 is ac3 in English, and track 2 is mp3 in French.
When I've tried to convert it, I'm not seeing any way to lose track 2.
And when I've tested how I have it configured, the output has no audible audio, although Gspot, and other utilities say it has an audio track.

Can someone give me a clue, how to do this?

Thanks for any help!

TXP4 will only import the first Audio for any AVI video.
Best way to get the 2nd audio is to demultiplex all audio from your AVI file then manually add it in the clip property when you import your video.
Use VirtualDub to demultiplex or extract your audio to WAVE. Theres really no other way to have TXP4 show two audio for AVI.

Thanks for the tip, nTekka!
Very much appreciated!

Hi!

I tried your solution.
Problem is, I cant even add a second audio source in the clip properties (using TMPEGEnc 4.0 Xpress), only replace the one included in the video source.

How can I add a second audio tab?

Regards,
Chris

i have not been able to find this either, i don't get how some of the more basic features get left out of this product, like 5.1 audio, and multiple audio tracks, as these are features supported by the formats tmpgenc outputs to, so while it works for 90% of the files i work with, i have to get and learn a whole different program for the other 10%

We are trying to encode WMV format video. Video consistantly lags behind audio. Original has it just fine, once we encode to WMV it lags.
How can we fix it?

It would help if you can tell us your source format, from my experience, AVI container has the most audio sync issue. You have a few options if its AVI,
1. Extract the audio and convert it to WAVE (TXP4 doesn't handle VBR MPEG Audio very well) then import it as your audio source under the clip property when you import the video.

2. Find out how many seconds your video lags behind audio and use TXP4 audio delay and see if that helps assuming this lag is consistant and not progressive.

3. If it is progressive lag then you may have a faster or slower framerate for video compared to audio. This site may help you work out your problem, http://www.gromkov.com/faq/faq2004-0064.html

4. Lastly, if it plays fine for a certain time then starts to get out of sync then your video may have been joined or encoded at separate times which might be harder to fix but do-able, just use VirtualDub to split where the problem is and try to sync it back up then do a re-encode of both parts for a complete file.

Is there an audo delay in TMPEG Xpress Pro 4.0? Where is it haven't been able to find it.

It's in the "Cut-Edit" section, to the left of the big Undo button. "Audio gap correction" it means the same as Audio Delay. Type in a negative number to slow down the audio.

I am wondering if there are any plans to add support for HD-DVD sources
(EVO files), and support converting them into WMV-HD? This would be a tremendous feature that would make TMPGEnc product unique from all the competition.

There is a number of us looking for ''one-click'' process to
do HD-DVD to WMV conversion (mainly to obtain Xbox360
compatibility). If you look at this thread on Doom9, the
current process involves 10-12 steps and is highly complex:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=996428#post996428

This would be an awesome feature but I think you might be asking for too much. Theres a big war going on with AACS copy protection and fair use issues, I don't think it will be easy to have a commercial program get the required licensing to convert ripped EVO files from HD-DVD/Blu-Ray.

The guide doesn't seem all that bad, only 5 steps, the 10-12 steps you mentioned were just a list of software you may need, but for some video enthusiast that ventures into HD probably already have 70% of these software installed on their computer and ready to do the 5 steps to convert an EVO file.

Hi,

I've been trying to take a divx file and make from it an mp4 video that will play on my ipod. I've tried a few different configurations of the mp4 settings in TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress (Ver. 4.2.10.211), but I always end up with my ipod only playing the audio and not the video. I have a fairly new 80GB model.

Is there a trick to making this work? I'd prefer to use TMPGenc for this, as it's my favored software for all other encoding.

Thanks.

You might want to try ISO MPEG-4 template and make sure to change the output container type to iPod Video with the default settings, this should create an iPod compatible video.

(Experimental) Try using QuickTime template to create a .mov file using H.264 codec, once it finishes encoding, rename the extension to .m4v.

I did some videos to ipod 5.5G h264 and they are played but I don't like the block in scene change. I did a conversion with mainconcept h264 with the same settings and I don't have these blocks. Maybe you are using a old version of mainconcept codec.
Also, you don't enable all options avaiable in mainconcept h264. Can you resolve these problems?

There is a trick to making work. I like TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress too.If you use ISO MPEG-4 not a problem,but when you use MPEG-4 AVC /H264/ you can't transfer video file to iPod via iTunes I don't know why is a maybe some restrictions with iTunes or iPod.
You do video file MPEG-4 AVC /H264/ =Baseline=Level 3=640x480=Average Bitrate 1500kb/s =1 or 2 pass your choise= The other settings are not important.
To transfer this video to your iPod you need Anapod Explorer do the some function like iTunes,then you may need to do some work with the tag.
That is the trick transfer with Anapod Explorer........
http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/featpw.php

You Andre Crespo you did 320x240 with Mainconcept- when you do 640x480-1500kb/s and you transfer this file to iPod via iTunes callllllll meeee.....

I'm having the same problem but ONLY when using the "iPOD Video" container. iTunes doesn't even recognize the file then. If I do normal video, then make sure the bitrate is appropriate on the output, iTunes/iPod/iPhone see it and play it just fine...weird.

How much does the Tmpgenc products utilize duel core CPU`s at the moment
especially in mpeg2 encoding...

Thanks

Not sure, but I have found that dual processing seems to fall back to single core, at some point. Having a bunch of files, it starts out with 100%, but then later comes down to about 50%, and the second core seems to be just idling. Not working for the tmpgenc process anyway.

Has anybody else noticed the same? I havent spent much time investigating this, dont know what triggers it.

Quick update - this fall back to single core seems to happen when TMPGEnc moves on to the next file in the list. Testing done with 4.2.3.193. Is there somewhere where I can report this as a potential bug?

Hi there. I downloaded the Trial Version of TMPGEnc4 XPress (Vista upadte version). The problem i seem to be having is when i'm trying to encode a Xvid/Divx file to WMV video/audio, teh audio side of things is just all hiss and crackles.

I've used WinAvi and RiverPast converters with no problems, they just dont have the great options TMPGE has, like output size etc.. Also the fact that it appears a decent bit faster for myself as well.

I just wanted to know if there is a fix i can use or is it a problem with the program. I would buy the full version if i knew this wasnt an issue at all.

My setup is,
Vista Ultimate 32bit
Intel Q6600 Quad Core
4Gig Corsair Ram
Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6
2x150gig Raptors Raid-0
2xSamsung 500gig

Any help ideas would be apprecaited.

You may want to double check your Xvid/DivX audio file. If its AC3(maybe MP3 too, I haven't checked MP3) then you'll need an external AC3(mp3) decoder or TXP4 won't be able to read the audio portion and you get hisses/crackles.

What are the typical settings to convert MPEG2 transport NTSC to MPEG2 transport PAL and how to increase the video brightness?

Hi

One big problem we have using the software with any Quicktime codec is that you cannot set the bitrate for Quicktime codecs for audio or Video. This would be a very welcome addition to any future updates etc.

Chris Vermaak

Hallo,
is there a way to process only audio stream in TMPGEnc4?
(I want to keep original video stream and process only audio as output format)
I see a bunch of templates, but non of them says "direct stream copy" for video :(

I know that i could do that by "demux->process audio->mux back", but its really a pain in the ass, especially if you have like 50+ small files to process.

btw,
It would be nice to have a batch demux/mux feature in TMPGEnc.

Ive jst bought this and tryed to convert some xvid files to mpeg to make a dvd and each time i try to convert my whole system just crashes, im using Windows Vista , does anyone know what the problem is?

If anyone does or if you have had anyway of resolving this let me know mine just started to do this today and when it starts encoding it does fine and after a few minutes crashes the whole computer.

I'm having problems converting HD to DVD. I capture free over the air HD mpegs and use "Tmpgenc 4.0 xpress" for the conversion. The problem is this, Either the video is some what herky jerky or there are jagged edges.

I'd like to convert the High Def mpegs to a 16x9 format. I use Nero to burn it to DVD. I've also used tmpgnc dvd author as well.

I don't have these problems with non-high definition mpegs.