This is more of a question and if the answer is NO, then a request.

Is it possible to utilize 100% of all four of my CPU cores to encode a movie? I can see that during the encode all four cores are being used, but the encoder never uses their full potential. Even when encoding 2+ movies at a time (while running one instance of the batch encoder) it never goes above 50% utilization of all four cores. It uses nearly 100% of core 0, and about 33% of core 1, 2 and 3. I would really like to be able to fully utilize all the power of my quad core to reduce my encoding time.

To clarify, I CAN fully use 100% of all four cores by running two instances of the batch encoder and then setting the affinity of one batch encoder to cores 0/1 and the other batch encoder to cores 2/3. This is a lame work around that I shouldn't have to do, but works fine for encoding more than one movie at a time. My main complaint is when I only want to encode one movie. It takes twice as long as it should because all cores aren't fully utilized.

Is there some setting I missed to fully use all four cores? If not, I would really like to see a fix for this in the near future.

Thanks

I think this is not consern from the application speed regarding the cores, its about codec's speed so it depends on the codecs used and its features.
For example by encoding with QT the speed is not full since QT codec does not or supports to use all the cores.
good luck

I am running TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress 4.6.3.267. When I load a .m2ts stream (for example after ripping one of my Blu-Ray disc) it shows the video and audio stream as eg 0001.m2ts). Now in some cases I am good and it plays english audio and I can convert the movie. However many times yo get frensh or spanish as language. Any idea where I can select the audio track or how to make sure I get an english audio stream ? The help file does not give any info about it.

You have 2 options;
1st-- Download the Editor 3 Trial version;
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/tme3.html
and try this:
-1 Open the MPEG Tools [Demultiplexer Advanced] from Editor 3, and
input your .m2ts file by drag 'n drop into the "Input" part.
-2 Click the "Start" button to demultiplex your file (the output files
must be in the same folder).
-3 Input the video and audio files in XPress 4 at the Clip properties
window you can set and choose the Audio English file already
demultiplexed from from Editor's 3 Demultiplexer Advanced.

2nd-- Look in Google or other portal this freeware application "tsMuxerGUI" and tri it.
good luck

Hi There,
I have trouble to encoding my video to VCD format, the result still have bad result of movie, what is the best codec for used under Tmpgenc

Thanks
jak

Why dont you try to output with the MPEG-4 AVC output template?.
good luck

Hi all ! Any ideas how to add 2'nd audio track or its not possible at all ???

At the moment I think this is not possible.
good luck

I remember way back in Tmpgenc Xpress 4.2.3.193 I can import AC3 audio with full 5.1 channels by plugin TSP-AC3-1.3-install-EN. Now I do the same with Tmpgenc Xpress 4.6.2.266 but this time it does not accept 5.1 channels but just 2 channels. Does the new Tmpgenc Xpress supports old plugin? Or is there any other way to enable 5.1 channel support in Tmpgenc Xpress?

If my memory isnt bad, TXP4 does not support to output in Dolby Digital 5.1 in anyway.
good luck

I create Windows Media Video output files in High Def (1920 X 1080) with AC3 5.1 audio using Xpress all the time. You might want to consider installing AVISYNTH, K-Lite Codecs Package, and Windows Media Encoder. All of these are free and support numerous codecs that may not be available in the standard installation of Xpress 4.0. Then you can output all types of video resolutions and audio configurations.

Yes you may be able to choose 5.1 surround under audio WMA 10 Advance, but when you check it in any audio receiver it will only register as 2 channel/stereo. They need to fix this issue as everything now days is in surround sound. What good is ripping your Blu Ray, and only to get it played back in stereo. That's a joke...

I have installed the latest evaluation version of TMPGEnc on a Win XP Pro system, with a 8800GT card and nVidia drivers v180.48. Under the administrator account, it has no problem identifying the CUDA capable card and using it. However if I log on with a limited user account then running TMPGEnc gives a "insufficient geforge version" message, specifying that CUDA needs v178.13 drivers and above. Is this a bug?

I don't think it's a bug; the system requirements say that you need to run it under an administrator account.

That's something maybe they should look into, I am interested in buying this for the company I work for, but I cannot allow users to logon to workstations with admin level access accounts, which is common logic I suppose. I don't think it would be so difficult as to make it possible to run under limited user accounts.

Is possible to save a layout for subtitles using Tmpgenc 4.0. There are ADD and DELETE buttons in the layout editor, but they don't seem to anything.

When I click on Add layout or Delete layout it DOES do something.

Clicking Add layout adds a new layout. By default it will be called "05: Layout #5". You can then edit the layout to whatever you want. Then, whenever you add a new subtitle, you can select Layout #05 from the Layout dropdown menu.

>When I click on Add layout or Delete layout it DOES do something.
>
>Clicking Add layout adds a new layout. By default it will be called "05: Layout #5". You can then edit the layout to whatever you want. Then, whenever you add a new subtitle, you can select Layout #05 from the Layout dropdown menu.

The problem is that the layout doesn't get saved. Once I close Tmpgenc and then reopen it, the layout is gone. I tried the ADD routine using both Layout #05 and a custom name, and in neither is the layout available in another session.

It only saves the layout for that particular project. So if you start a new project, you'll have to recreate your layouts.

Demux the chapters information from your DVD or Blu-ray. Strip out the chapter names so only the time and text is left. Save it as a text file. Rename the text file moviename.subtitle. Then select edit and import subtitles to bring in your subtitle list.

I just purchased the software. However, the help feature keeps crashing.....so, I am turning to you for help. I have an MPEG2 .vob clip that I need converted to MPEG1 for use in Sanction. Can someone walk me through this? I tried using the multiplexer, however an error message comes up. Thanks in advance

Hi,
Anyone knows of plans to support CUDA for AVCHD input files? Badaboom is already doing it.

thanks in advance
Stefan

The newest version has CUDA Functions but i dont know specifically if it support it, all you can do is try with the newest version.
good luck

I've created a "DVD Standard MPEG-2" file using TMPGEnc 4.0 Express, with the audio set to Dolby Digital. When I play this file on the PC using Windows Media Player, there is no audio, but there is audio when I use VideoLAN.

I encoded this file onto a DVD using TMPGEnc DVD Author 2, and found that the DVD plays fine (with sound) in a DVD player, but there is no sound when the DVD is played on the PC using Windows Media Player. Again playing it with VideoLan gives audio. TMPGEnc DVD Author's Simulation screen also played without sound.

The same PC can play commercial DVDs that have Dolby Digital audio without problem, again using Windows Media Player, so I don't think the problem here is the standard "missing AC3 codec" problem. This wouldn't be a problem, as I can just use VideoLAN on my PC, but I also need the PC to play on other PCs where VideoLAN cannot be installed, so I have to be able to get files playing with sound using Windows Media Player.

Is there something non-standard in the Dolgy Digital audio that TMPGEnc 4.0 Express produces?

Thanks.

This could be about decoder, may be your output file needs other codecs to be decoded by WMP or viceverse, try to update Directshow to the latest version.
good luck

When I encode from dvr-ms hd 1080i source to 1080 using mp4 encode, the video runs at half speed. The audio runs normal speed and runs out long before the video ends. If I endode the same job to 810, 720 or smaller, there is no such error. Advice would be appreciated.

i have turned on CUDA options (3 check boxes) to convert from .ts to .wmv
but i always fail when the size of output file (.wmv) is up to 2.8 G
the error messages are "storage violation...", or "access deny..." (something like that; sorry, i forget the exactly words)
but, if i turn off CUDA, it works fine and finished the converting tasks, would you please tell me why?
my OS is Vista Ultimate SP-1, 32-bit, nVidia 9600GT

by the way, will CUDA help me when converting .ts to .wmv?
because besides to the encoding message (ex, CPU 30%, CUDA 70%),
i didnt see any different performance (including encoding time, and CPU usage from Task Manager of Windows) of the converting tasks with and without CUDA
is it normal? or what should i do to make CUDA acclerate the encoding process?

Thank you

Don't know about the storage violation error, you should contact support and let them know of the problem.

For now, CUDA will only accelerate MPEG-2 decoding and video filter processing. So if you're not doing either of those, you probably won't see a performance increase.