I've been tinkering around with the Ghost Reduction settings, trying to figure out how to best put them to work. I've ended up with some pretty nasty looking results a couple of times.

I have a collection of TV capture MPEG1's that I am tring to clean up as best as I can and convert to 352x240 MPEG2 so I can make a DVD out of them (I can fit 8+ TV episodes on 1 DVDR), but there is ghosting in the files I would like to remove.

Can the authors of this software or anybody else with some good info about using the ghost reduction filter settings provide some documentation here of how to use the feature? I plan to register this product but I really do need to use the ghost reduction feature on a set of files, and believe that software I pay for should come with good documentation. ;)

I saw a post way back in March where somebody else asked for information about this and it was never replied to.

Thanks,
vinnie

When you Get the "Plus" version it comes with a Quite extensive Help File, all you need to do to use this Help file is Go and Download the "Plus version" by Clicking the Banner Below(I know it says DVD Author But you get the Plus version at the Same site), The "Ghost Reduction" filter will only work on Mild to Moderate Ghosting, and the Way the Filter is used depends on the File you are encodeing, and sometimes some Ghosting can be cleared up with the Help of other Filters Like Noise Reduction or a type of Bluring...The Filters in Tmpgenc are Ok for some things But if you really have Really bad Ghosting and Noise you should maybe use a Differant Program to Clean up the Image, Like Maybe some Vitrual Dub Filters or AVISynth Filters, or clean up the Image in a High end Editing Program Like AVID, Premier Or Vegas Video, these Programs have Features that are good at Cleaning up Images or at least disguising any Defects..One thing that would really Help the Video Quality would be to Not capture to Mpeg1..The way I capture TV Shows and other Stuff is Capture to Full Reasolution (720+480) Low Compression AVI like HuffyUV or even better Uncompressed AVI, then I use AVISynth to add Noise Filters and what ever other Filters I need to use to clean up the Image and resize the Resolution, then Frameserve the File useing AVISynth to My encoder (Not Tmpgenc but it works Fine) But I would use the Resolution of 352+480, you will get Much better Quality with a Higher Resolution , and useing this resolution and a Bitrate of about 2500KBS you should get close to 4 hours of Video on a DVD-r and 352+480 is a DVD Compliant Resolution..Captureing to Mpeg1 is a Very Lossy Format so you are Looseing a Lot of the Image detail, captureing to Low Compression AVI will give you a LOT Better Quality and you should have less Ghosting also...well Good Luck

Because the last version that I have found that works with no problems for me is 2.59. This is the version of Plus that I would like to purchase (as the download version) but the only one on Pegasys is 2.512. I would have asked them but couldn't find any way to contact them except if I was already a registered user or wanted to be a retail seller.

Thanks.

Sory But the Pegasus site only sells the Most rescent versions....

I would like to request a option to cut a movie in half. With out having to guess on vbr its a big pain. Takes me 2-3 times befor i can even get it. Thanks

Tmpgenc"s Editor does not Support VBR Files, But you can use the "Source Range" to choose the First and second halves so you don"t have to edit the files, But what would be best would be to get a Real Mpeg editor like "Mpeg2VCR".......

Why don't you use the cut/merge feature of TMPGEnc? All you have to do is select mpeg tools , select the merge/cut tab, load the file using the add button then click on the file and select edit, then move the slider of the preview to where you want to start and end and run it, clear the file afterwards and repeat these steps for the second half. Hope this helps.

That is What he is Useing, And that is what he is explaining that he is Haveing a Problem with, the "Merge & Cut" does not Support Acurate editing of VBR Files pluss is Seems to crash on poeple all the Time...

Why don't you use the cut/merge feature of TMPGEnc? All you have to do is select mpeg tools , select the merge/cut tab, load the file using the add button then click on the file and select edit, then move the slider of the preview to where you want to start and end and run it, clear the file afterwards and repeat these steps for the second half. Hope this helps.

The DVDAuthor's cut and edit interface is *awsome*. Wish its interface was in TMpegEnc.

I think the problem is that both programs will only cut on an IFrame, thus cutting in TMpeg requires a lot of trial and error, since there is no indication of what frame is an IFrame in the merge/cut/or source range setting.

Its a lot more steps, I do my cut/join/merge in DVDAuthor, blow out a DVD folder, then rip the folder into one big VOB.

Joe

>That is What he is Useing, And that is what he is explaining that he is Haveing a Problem with, the "Merge & Cut" does not Support Acurate editing of VBR Files pluss is Seems to crash on poeple all the Time...

I guess I've been fortunate then, as I usually just cut by moving the slider to the half mark, or to a scene where it's the ending of a subject matter or a silence. I've never had a problem with the cut/merge feature.

MenderOne you don't seem to understand what the problem is.
Sendkeys encodes his MPEGs using VBR (Variable Bit Rate) because of this there is no way of knowing how big each part of a cut file is going to be. For instance lets say we have a 2 hour movie and we use TMPG to cut it at 1 hour so as to split it in half.
The problem would be that the first half may not be the same size as the second half and there is no way of knowing how big each part will be until cut because a different bitrate has been used in each part therefore making each part a different size.

Sendkeys my advice to you is to use BBMPEG to multiplex your video and audio. BBMPEG allows you to set a size in MB for each part.

Hello. I'd like to offer my services to translate TMPGEnc's user interface into spanish.

Just send me the files with the strings and I'll do the rest.

Thanks for you reading this.

If you do not get the files, get a resource editor (I use resource workshop), and you can edit most all the strings in the program. The author did a very good job of seperating the strings into stringtables (as opposed to hardcoding them).

Of course, if he put a CRC checker on the exe file (to prevent machine code hacking), the program will probably do something (like no longer start).

Anyway, this should be easy to do, the author seems to want to support multiple languages (however, the support and code maintaince goes up with each language added.. ie: Download in Spanish, French, etc.. takes effort - hopefully someone else does the web page design, since we really want the developer working on improvements to the code).

Joe

Thanks for you answer.

I'm sure the author will have a separate file with the strings. It would be easy to have that file, translate it and send it back to the author.

Also, that way the program itself would have an option to select "spanish" as language.

UPDATE:

I've tried the "hard" way: open TMPGENC.EXE file and see what I find.

The problem with this is that many words have just different sizes:

English: "File" ~ Spanish: "Archivo"
English: "Option" ~ Options: "Opciones"

And so...

It's easier (I think) to have the original source strings file and modify it, so when it compiles just the strings are there.

I'm editing in Avid Xpress DV 2.0 My client wants for his WEB page my final product to be in MPEG1. Avid creates 2 files one for audio and one for video if I export in Mpeg. My client wants just one that combines audio and video. I'd like to know will this product let me export into a QT reference file and use that file to put out a MPEG1 file combined to give him on CD?

Thank you for your time.

All you need to do if you have one Mpeg audio file and one mpeg1 video file is simply Multiplex the 2 files together, It takes one a Couple Minutes, To do it with Tmpgenc just go to "File" to "Mpeg Tools" to "Simple Multiplex" then Just load the Mpeg1 video in and Audio in then Choose "Mpeg1 Video-CD Non-Standard" from the Dropdown Menu, Then Click "run", then it will Join the audio and Video files into a Mpeg1 file....

> I recommend CLEANER for your web output. This software is excelent to optimize and make the 'file smaller'.
D

When i try to start the free program I get error in kernal32.dll! The program worked fine when i had XP, but my computer crashed so now that i reformated and installed Windows ME it just gives me error in kernal32.dll and wont start up !

Has any one else had this problem ? And how did you fix it >?

Thanx, Karri

Good product with a nice start.

I prefer to have support for adding atleast one Subtitiles.

Also an option for importing chapter points.

I agree with you.
I like this product.
The menues management will certainly improve in the future.
I would like to be able to define default behaviours (profile).

REALLY need subtitle support!!!!

Since I use Tmpgenc 2.512 for more than 2 hours, it crashes my norton firewall.
I receive this message: "Norton Internet Security has encountered a program error. Desinstal and reinstall Norton Internet Security to protect your computer".

It's the 3rd time I receive this message and I'm fed up with desisnstalling/reinstalling and then reconfiguring all my firewall.

With the previous versions of tmpg I didn't have this problem.

I run TmpgEnc on:
Windows 98 SE in French
Tmpg Enc 2.512 in English.

My Firewall is Norton Internet Security 2003 in French.

What Can I do ????
Thanks.

It appears that your resources are being depleted as the encoding process goes nearing the 2 hour mark, i.e not enough memory, or hardrive space, as windows needs enough hard drive space for caching, when your hard drives free space becomes more and more depleted, resource intesive programs such as nortons antivirus and Internet security run out of it's needed resources, so it would cause a crash. If you are encoding into 2 hours or more , then my guess is the caching of such a lengthy the encoding process, is what's causing this, which leads me to believe you need to free up some resources , avail more harddrive space by getting rid of what you don't need , and see how it goes from there, if not then increase your memory.

I haven't used it in maybe three months, but when I did try to use it again (today), all I got were error messages. Then I installed the latest free version, and it gave the same error messages, then froze up and won't work at all. Can anyone help?

Well it might be good if you told us what the errors are and what type of file you were trying to encode, meaning what codec was it compressed too???

It was a variety of errors, is now frozen up to where it won't work at all, and is an avi movie file.

I had the same trouble. I was trying to demonstrate the program to a friend and I got error in kernal32.dll and invalid pointer errors galore. I showed him a game instead.

When I tried the next day, it worked fine, even in batch processing mode which I have always had trouble with.

Try deleting the config files that TMPGEnc creates when you run it and try it again.

Please excuse my not knowing, but what config files?

I just tried running it again, and now get the "illegal operation" message as it then shuts itself off.

Never mind I found the problem, an dit was "none of the above." A rampant spyware made it's way onto my computer, and first only the TMPEG was acting up but soon enough everything was crashing because of the spyware. once I got rid of it, the TMPEG worked perfectly.

Hi, i'm having a major problem with converted avi files having stuttering or jerking audio after about 30 minutes. its not the source file i checked. please help!!!

Did you burn the disk at high speed?

No, its not when i burn it it becomes jerky its after coverting to mpeg the mpeg file has jerky audio.

It is reported that the conditions below cause audio problem in Japanese version.

1 Version of TMPGEnc 2.511 or 2.512
2 WindowsMediaPlayer9 installed
3 Use Directshow related VFAPI plugin to read source file
4 Do cut-edit in "source range"
5 Option related Multi-thread is set (This condition may not be neccesary)

To workaround this problem, use version 2.510.

So this Jerky Audio condidion is On your Computer and Not on your DVD Player Or you just haven"t burned it because of this Problem??? What are you useing to Watch the Mpeg with, Is it media Player, Cuz a While Back I was haveing a Big Problem with Trying to Play Mpeg files with Media Player cuz the audio Kept Cutting out on me, But after I installed a Software Mpeg Player like "Power DVD" the Audio was fine....Just a Thought

PS: it it is happening while on your DVD Player then it can be caused By a few things...

Thanks for your comment, but i got the audio problem solved with virtualdub to a wav file. however the video soure file is high quality and after conversion with the fixed audio the video is jerky and blocky in alot of spot on play back in my dvd. Any way to fix this new problem. Thanks,

There can be a Couple reasons for this Depending on how it looks, If you suddenly get a Lot of Discolored Square Blocks that totally distort the Image then it might clear up for a Bit then it comes back with Really distorting Blocks then this sounds like either Burning at to High of a Speed, if you experience this you should try burning all of your VCD/SVCD"s at 4 times speed, VCD/SVCD"s have no Error correction data ,that is why you get 800mb on a 700mb CD-R, but without error correction you have to burn really slow or you will get errors like this, I have had it happened to me a Few times also..I also noticed if I used VCDEasy to burn my Disks I would get this Problem more often than with other Programs.....

Is there a size limit in editing the MPEG source? I get a little past 60 minutes and the editor goes nuts! Pressing next frame once and the editor becomes un-responsive - next framing to the end of the file. I know I can break the file up but I should not have to.

I am experiencing a crash, when converting a DIVX 5.05 avi. To recapp , First I encoded the first part of a two part avi to an mpeg 2 SVCD and all went fine, when I went to convert the second part, 47% through the encoding process it crashed, I retried from the beginning, and it crashed again at 47%, I used avi dub to check for bad frames and it didn't report any . Could this be a bug?

use the source range to carry on after the 47%

King John, I tried using the source range and when I move the slider to the 47% mark it causes TMPGEnc to crash I am using the latest version. GSpot shows the video source as codec =4CC mp43 S-Mpeg 4 version 3, Stream Type A/V= Open DML AVI Direct Show renderer shows video type as MP43 and Audio Source type as MPG3.
I set the Environmental settings accordingly Prioritizing Open DML first, then Direct show renderer second and vice versa, and it still crashes for some weird reason at that particular point. I'm begining to wonder if it may be a bug, hopefully the programmer can load a vid of this type with these codecs to see.