Hi folks,

I am currently evaluating TVMW5 for encoding HD .m2ts footage to x264 mp4 format.
My problem is that TVMW5 does not seem to import my m2ts files correctly.
When I import m2ts files "as is" I end up with the audio channel only with no video track.
When I import m2ts using the TS importer I get the error: "Could not find any valid video titles in the TS file"!

My m2ts files are:Video AVC 1440x1080, Audio AAC 18kHz
My OS is Windows 7 (I tried on both 32 and 64 bits flavor -> same problem)

What is most surprising is that all other software I tried; VLC, xmedia recode and even TmpGenc TSMR4 can load those m2ts really fine.
It is rather frustrating that I can't seem to use TvMW5 on my file.

Is this a known limitation?

Thanks for any help on the matter,

Best,

Theo

I had this problem as well. One way round it was to leave a PGS (subtitle) stream in the .m2ts file then everything was fine. Removing all the PGS streams seemed to cause the problem.

I just tried importing my m2ts footage using the latest TVMW5 build (5.3.3.95) and I'm glad to report that it now works very fine. Thanks for the fix.

best,

Theo

Hello,

When I set up more than seven mask layers TMW doesn't let me select end edit the ones below 7 seven.
When I select 8 or 9 the selection always jumps back to 7.
7 is the number that is still visible without scrolling down.

Win7 64 bit
TVMW 5.3.1.85
1280x1024 screen resolution

Regards
Philipp

Bought it yesterday and i it poped up a dialog that it wanted to dissable AV software during install or req a reboot after install, witch i found a bit odd sence this is the first software that ive installed asking this.
Any ideas why? compabillity problems?

Probably because it wants to communicate with the validation server to validate your license. Some AV software think it's a virus or something.

Hey Guys,

I´ve got a bad problem with my encoded videos from TMPEG.
When I play this video with VLC the video stops at a time of 40 seconds.
If i set an other time to play this video (maybe one an a half minute) it runs normally till end.

There is a time between this two times where I can´t play this video. If I switch between this time VLC will start the video again from 00:00.

That problem often occurs.
What causes that?
What can I do so that does not occurs again?

Your Svaartberg

I have recently started getting this error when I try loading newer MP4 files:

MS Visual C++ Runtime Library

Program:...
File: .\mkvparserstreamvideo.cpp
Line: 417

Expression: stop_ns > start_ns

I have tried reinstalling the runtime libraries and several codecs. The files load and play fine in bsplayer.

I am on version 5.3.1.85

I just purchased MW 5. Some of my work involves sound upgrading audience-shot live music concerts. I've been using Apple iMovie/iDVD for the editing/authoring and would like to use MW 5/AW 5 if possible. Here's the process I use with iMovie:

1. Import the video, which typically has cuts and shaky or obstructed parts and inferior sound.
2. Import alternate superior audio.
3. Line up the alternate audio and the video in the timeline.
4. Fill missing parts of the video with stills or movie clips while maintaining a/v sync in the timeline.
5. Exporting to iDVD for the authoring.

I see that MW 5 has a timeline setting, but don't see how I can use a similar process to sound upgrade the audio. If anyone has experience with this, I'd like to hear from you.

Thanks.

Put the video in the track in timeline mode. Add a track. Drag the audio file with good sound in the new track. Align the video track and the audio track. Expand the video track to show the 'V' and 'A' buttons. Press the 'A' button to mute the audio. Encode.

I'll give it a try. Thanks.

Would be really useful if TMPGEnc could decode all WVC1 streams.
I've completely failed to find anything that can do this so far.

I haven't found a way to set the 16:9 aspect ratio when outputting a 720x576 PAL anamorphic project to Avid SD codecs, e.g. outputting to Quicktime / Avid DV codec or Quicktime / Avid JPEG 2000 codec.
The result is that no matter what I do the video comes out as *cropped* to 4:3, instead of horizontally "squeezed" (anamorphic 16:9).
Important note: the source video is edited in timeline mode and has a (variable) resize filter applied to it. (the goal is to do pan & zoom a SD 16:9 frame inside a HD clip)

Unlike in Normal Mode, in Timeline mode the "keep aspect ratio" does not allow to work around this problem: no matter what I choose, it is impossible to get an anamorphic 720*576 image (at least with the Quicktime formats) - please help !

experimenting a bit more, it looks like none of the AVI or QuickTime codecs will allow anamorphic 16:9 SD video: for those codecs where a 4:3 / 16:9 option is selectable, the net result is identical.
How can I output 16:9 anamorphic video using QuickTime or AVI ????

Once you have chosen your output format, then you come to the page with Video, Audio, GOP and Other choises.
In Video, change setting at Aspect ratio to: Display 16:9
Then the image will be forced to be in 16:9

As I explained in my previous message, that does NOT work.

(note: problem exists only in Timeline mode)

It may have to do with your timeline setting. Click on the timeline setting button and choose the proper video aspect ratio, dimensions, etc. and try it again.

I bought-in to the NVIDIA craze/hype about CUDA a few years ago & bought a 285 card thinking in no-time I would be encoding a top speed. Well, I never saw much if any improvement except maybe in some filters, but I never compared anything side by side...

Has anyone done some serious testing to find-out where CUDA really shines in which filters???

From my recent reading about CUDA 2/2013 my impression is no video encoders are producing top quality image output using CUDA. Maybe some speed is gained, but the image quality is poor vs CPU encoding...

Sooo, what have you learned about CUDA? What filters really "shine" using CUDA for both higher quality video image & speed improvements.

This is just to add a little more to the previous post... Unfortunately, there is no edit feature to correct the original post, so I have to add more details with a 2nd post. Sorry for that...

From my recent reading about CUDA 2/2013 there is a serious trade-off in image quality for the limited speed gained by using CUDA. If you know of actual image quality improvements, then please post to this thread or start one about it detailing exactly how to do this.

I've yet to read where CUDA is 'improving' image quality at the high-end of HD.

I'll ask the same about filters too... does anyone know which CUDA filters equal or improve image quality over CPU vs GPU/CUDA saving time but getting a lower quality image.

I'll also mention, the CUDA SDK is up to version 5.0+ at the NVIDIA website, but I think TPMG5 is only using version 3.1 SDK CUDA as of 2/2013... anyone know otherwise?

Anyway, please report about image quality improvements using CUDA and saving encoding time. Which filters specifically... which NVIDIA card you need to do it too... will an old 285 card do just as well in quality output but 'only' be slower time wise.

I'm currently very skeptical about CUDA having read a few detailed articles of recent CUDA software reviews. That's 3-4 years now of development time without much gain, if any, in high-quality output from the reviews I read.

having any gpu wont increase quality of your project but will enable a speed increase IF its up to date. your 285 is 6 years out of date and even back then only had a pultry 200+ cores. heck ive had a card like that expecting shit to shien and was gutted when it did nothing. and it only did nothing because that spec card isnt really designed to do much, especially since its now 6 years old.

I clean installed Windows 8 & have the latest WHQL NVIDIA driver for my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 video card. This driver is dated 12-29-2012 version 9.18.13.1090.

For some reason I can't get Preferences to work and "see" this card to setup CUDA encoding. This card did work/do CUDA before with your software, so I don't know why not now?

Anyone know of a fix for this?

I've tried System Restore to uninstall and reinstall the drivers & TMPGE... but I can't get it to "see" this card to do CUDA.

Thanks for any suggestions/help... :)

When I try to export I get this error everytime unspecified error 0x80004005. I have tried different source files, still happens?? Tried on different computers, still happens

I suggest you try to read the system requirements on the TMGPEnc home page for TVMW5. Many computers out there does not live entirely up to all the requirements.
Some where on that list, there might be one or several requirements that these computers does not live up to, even though the builders claim they are ready to go "multimedia computers".

My computer runs Xpress 4.0 with no problems. I have a I7 Extreme processor with 16gig of ram. I highly doubt the computer is the problem

TVMW5 is not Xpress 4.0 They have different system requirements.
Read system requirements for TVMW5

>TVMW5 is not Xpress 4.0 They have different system requirements.
>Read system requirements for TVMW5

I am having the same issue after updating to 5.3.2.86. Did you ever get yours resolved?

I have such problem only because I get the source file frameserved from Virtualdub, I have found a workaround for it, refer to my post 67645.

>When I try to export I get this error everytime unspecified error 0x80004005. I have tried different source files, still happens?? Tried on different computers, still happens

Did you ever get this resolved? I'm having the same exact problem.

Long time TMPGEnc user, but just trying timeline mode for the first time...
When a clip is deleted or trimmed, the following clips are not automatically shifted: a blank space is created.
Is there a way to avoid that ?
Perhaps a command to detect & clean up all blank spaces in the timeline at once ?