I have DVD-rips that are all around 700 megs....but when i try to convert them to NTSC video the file size prdiction is like 7 gigs.... is there anyway to make the file size smaller but burnable and be able to paly on standard dvd players....?

Please answer ASAP

I guess either this movie is like 4 hours long or something or more than likely TMPG is reading the length of the file wrong.
Have at look at the 'Movie info' total play length TMPG detects in the last window of the wizard. You will probably find it much longer than it actually is.
To remedy this go to Option>Enviromental setting>VFAPI plugins then raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2 and make it top of the list.

Also make sure you select 'MPEG1 layer 2' as the audio output in the wizard.

If that doesn't work, try this bitrate calculator to ensure that your movie can fit on the DVD.

http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm

Select "DVD" for Type at the top right. Select your DVD-R type. Get your movie's time and then add about 5 minutes more to it to ensure it fits. If your movie was 1 hour and 10 minutes, I would put in 1 hour and 15 minutes. If you have multiple movies, add the total time and then add 5 more minutes. At the bottom where it says Calculated Bitrate, record that number. In TMPGEnc, select Constant Bitrate and then below that, put in your bitrate you just got.

Woops, forgot to mention this. If you have AC3 audio, get the bitrate from GSpot or Vdub and then select that audio bitrate in the calculator. If it's AC3, don't input it into TMPGEnc. Otherwise, select 384 because that's standard DVD audio bitrate.

Can some one help me with this problem when i used TMPGEnc 3.0 Xpress

1) I go to "Add Source Wizard",
2) I choose "Add Source from a File"
3) I choose an AVI file
4) It give me the details on it (Format type, etc)
5) I go to the Cut-Edit Tab at top
6) I drag the slider along and I get the following error

{An error occured during a transmission with the VFAPI Frame Server.}.then i press ok

When i use TMPGEnc 2.5 it does't have this problem

What causes this, and can it be fixed? is it a problem with AVI, or a
Codec, etc

Hope some can help me .....
Thanks

Its usually the audio causing the problem. Uncompress the audio part of the .avi using something like VirtualDub, but leave the video as it is (is VD you resave the .avi with "Direct Stream Copy" in video and "Full Processing Mode" in the audio).

Try and enter the newly saved .avi in Xpress 3 and it shouldn't have a problem.

Now if someone can tell me why VobSub wont attach subtitles to DivX files in TMPGEnc 3 i'll be very happy.

C

Interesting question. Am struggling with this problem also. Tried with -ffd? or something of that matter. If you give your .srt or .sub subtitlefile the same name as your .mpg you can see the subtitles in WinMedPlayer and in DivX player, as you may know, but you don´t see them in Tmpgenc xp 3. I tried it with Avisynth scripts using `DirectShowSource` but crashed. I´m now starting off to try a DVD2avi project way and then with `AviSource` in the Avisynth script. Who knows ?

>Its usually the audio causing the problem. Uncompress the audio part of the .avi using something like VirtualDub, but leave the video as it is (is VD you resave the .avi with "Direct Stream Copy" in video and "Full Processing Mode" in the audio).
>
>Try and enter the newly saved .avi in Xpress 3 and it shouldn't have a problem.
>
>Now if someone can tell me why VobSub wont attach subtitles to DivX files in TMPGEnc 3 i'll be very happy.
>
>C

does anyone know a way of rotating a movie 90 degrees whilst encoding to vcd/mpeg1 using tmpgenc free, at the momemnt I have to preprocess the files which have been taken in portrait mode with other software before encoding, it would be much more convenient do it all in one step.

AVIsynth or Virtualdub can do it. Then just frame serve to TMPG.

I am encoding multiple JPG images into an MPG file. I was wondering if some of the gurus could advise me on the settings I have listed below. I plan on making a template and a little FAQ on how to make DVD compliant slide shows with TMPGENC. I know there are other tools out there for this task but I like the one step encoding here. Plus a template will make it painless. I will be muxing a separate audio track later using the MPEG Tools menu.

For my template each picture will be display for 5 seconds and the following settings.

Source JPG: 1536x1024 (landscape Aspect Ratio: 1.5)
Desired Picture Interval: 5 seconds
Media and Player: DVD and stand alone DVD player (NTSC)
Intended Display: 4:3 TV NTSC

Video Settings
**************
Stream Type: MPEG 2 Video
Size: 720 x 480
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Display
Frame Rate: 0.1998 fps (internally 29.97 fps)
Rate Control Mode: CQ65, 2000-4000
Bitrate: N/A
VBV Buffer Size: automatic
Profile & Level: MP@ML
Video Format: NTSC
Encode Mode: Interlaced
YUV Format: 4:2:0
DC Component: 10 bits
Motion Search Precision: lowest

Advanced Settings
*****************
Video Source Type: Progressive
Field Order: N/A
Source aspect ratio: 1:1 VGA
Video Arrangement Method: Full Screen (Keep Aspect Ratio)
Source Range: N/A
24fps Conversion: N/A
Ghost Reduction: N/A
Noise Reduction: N/A
Sharpen Edges: N/A
Simple Color Correction: N/A
Custom Color Correction: N/A
Deinterlace: N/A
Clip Frame: N/A
3:2 Pull down: N/A
Do not convert frame rate: N/A

GOP Structure Settings
*************
Number of I picture(s) in GOP: 1
Number of P picture(s) in GOP: 5
Number of B picture(s) in GOP: 2
Output interval of sequence header: 0
Max number of frames in GOP:
Output bitstream for edit (Closed GOP): Yes
Detect scene change: Yes
Force Picture Type Setting:
I Picture Only:
I, P Picture Only:
Standard:

Quantize Matrix Settings
************************
Output YUV data as basic YCbCr, not CCIR601 : No
Use floating point DCT: No
No motion search for still picture part by half pixel: Yes
Soften block noise: No

Audio
*****
N/A

System
******
Stream Type: MPEG-2 Program

As you can see I have left out some settings out as I am relying on the system defaults in those cases. If you would like to suggest an optimum value let me know.

Jake

I'm at a loss as to why you would want to go to so much trouble to create a slide show on a DVD with TMPG when there are far more simpler and in reality better methods using other software.
You can fit thousands of JPEGS on a CDR, never mind a DVDR, with great quality and at high resolution.

The most simplest method being to simply create a photo CD with NERO.
Just load the JPEG's into Nero, create the menu and burn. However for more effects more sophisticated software is required, but not hard to find.

In any case what you are attempting is not possible with just TMPG alone.
TMPG will simply create the MPEG from the JPEG's for you with each JPEG taking just one MPEG frame, but it can't add any effects such as intervals.

You would then need to import the MPEG into another program to create the slideshow itself and the transitions otherwise your JPEGs will simply play as one whole movie and flash across the screen in an instant.

Maybe I have read you idea all wrong, but I can't really see how your gonna make it work with just TMPG.

I think I see how you will create the delay between each frame using the frame rate.
Even though it does seem a rather simplistic approach to creating a slide show it likely will work.

You could even create a menu by adding chapters to the MPEG where the I-frames are created for each JPEG.
This would then at least give the user some control over the slide show apart from using the Pause and Frame advance buttons.

The only thing that I can really see from settings that I would change is the encode mode.
I would leave the output as progressive. There's not much point in encoding a progressive source to interlaced.
A DVD player will handle either, but a progressive source is preferable for still images and it compresses better.

Thanks Ashy. A few points. I don't need any transitions. For my particular project I am adding the stills to an existing DVD project so it has to fit into the DVD spec. I am still tinkering with the idea so I may give it up and use Nero as you suggested or SSMM seems promising.

Jake

Any plan to add a command line support so that it's possible to convert one file to another in 'background' mode, ie. without showing a Gui ?

I have noticed that if you type in
TMPGEnc.exe -batch from the c: the system starts the batch mode process. I have made (1) batch file in the batch editor. Then, after the process is complete, I save the newly created .AVI file and I can just overwrite my input file with a new file and run the DOS batch again.

If you find any other DOS commands, please let me know
HH

I have encoded a load of xvid/divx films into pal VCD format to put on cd's to take on holiday to watch on a portable DVD player ( 6.5" screen)

Each of the films is coming out at about 950mb which means 2 dcd's per film.

I dont really need the quality as the screen size is so small.

I could probably get away with losing a bit of resolution to fit them onto 1 cd

How do I do this?

There have been numerous posts concerning TmpgEnc crashing or failing to complete more than one encode in a batch list.

I have skimmed through various BBS's looking for a solution to this problem and did not find one. So I had to experiment myself.

I found on my dell laptop (Inspiron 5150, Win XP) the solution was to disable the "Use hyper threading technology" option on the "CPU" tab from the "Environmental setting".

True, the encoding process is slower, but at least the batch mode works now.
Also, in this mode the processor is not getting thrashed as much, which reduces the overheating problems I was having when the option was enabled.

Hope this helps some people.

Dave

I like TMPGENC DVD author for its simplicity. However I would like to be able to select certain track menus to be OFF (not shown) whilst allowing others to be visible.

e.g. My holiday movies DVD's usually need just a main menu entry when they consist of a single day. For a weeks holiday I want the holiday to appear in the main menu and the track menu to let me select days / events.

I would also like a play first track then show main menu option without having to resort to the work around.

R

2 questions actually

1) If i want to convert a movie that isn't fullscreen (ie that format that isn't quite widescreen that a lot of tv shows use... i forget the term at the moment), what options do i select so that TMPGnc doesn;t stretch it to fullscreen?

2) If I'm converting a file that's, say, 700 Mb, does it matter how big I set the output file to be? ie is there a quality difference in making it 700 Mb vs 1 Gig since the original was only 700 mb?

thanks

I have a strange problem. I used TMPGEnc to convert a JPEG menu I have along with an MP3 file. It worked the first time. Then, I thought that the audio was too soft so I used Goldwave to maximize the volume and then plugged it back in TMPGEnc to convert. This time, it won't accept the MP3 no matter how many times I try! It says this error:

File "filename.mp3" can not open, or unsupported.

That's so weird! :(

Hi, im having an issue with TMPGENC dvd author writing tool, any VOB files I create an ISO file for, it hangs on 19% and then displays an error message "file not found or", thats it! I can't even see what is after the or!!! I have tried various methods, but still it crashes, used various different DVD vob files, but with no luck. It's abit strange that it crashes on 19% every single time, any clues on how to fix this?

Thank you

sugar! put in wrong title, apologises.

I'm trial user.
When I select in Video settings "2-pass VBR" and "Highest quality (very slow)" program closes after 1st pass with no additional message.
Output files are empty (0kb).
It happens for different files.
All files are DV files.
With "slow" precision everything is OK.