I capture a file mpeg1 useing these settings:
- Video standar line : PAL(625)
- Size: 352x288
- Audio: 44,100KHz, 16bit stereo
- Video Bit Rate: 3Mbit/sec , Constant Bit Rate
and the captured file is perfect OK, but is very big so I use TMPGEnc-2.510 to make it VCD and to make it small. But when in the video file appears some motion scenes TMPGEnc insert lots of square. In the original file everything is OK.

Can u tell me what I do wrong?

That is pretty much an average vcd if it has pixels/squares during high quality action scenes a vcd compiant file has a 1150 video bitrate so if your other file is 3000 bitrate then you have to lose quality in order to make the file size smaller.

If you use 2-pass encoding for a vcd/mpg in tmpgenc then it will use a higher bitrate for action scenes when it's needed and less for scenes with little motion in which a lower bitrate can be used.

Also you may want to try to make an SVCD in my opinion a bitrate of 2200 CBR is near dvd quality and good enough for any average movie.Svcd gives more detail but most dvd players will not play SVCD.

check svcd compatibility at www.vcdhelp.com

Useing the CQ Method will give better results than CBR and take less that half the Time of 2-pass VBR, and setting the "Motion Precition Search" to "High Quality" will help with High Motion scenes...

"Useing the CQ Method..."

sorry what this mean?

and

"If you use 2-pass encoding for a vcd/mpg in tmpgenc..."

how do I do that?
tnx

i deleted my tmpgenc in error. i have my license #. i dont know how to restore it. please help.
thanks dragon

Download i tfrom the website, reload it then register it on the registration pull down. That will reactivate it. Sometimes it remebers because your registry still has the key with the serial number.

i have a dvd screener that i downloaded. in one part on the movie the video hangs and the audio continues to play. so now when i try to encode it the video hanging up keeps it from encoding the rest of the video. any way i can fix this or at least cut that little section out of the avi file?

You should try to split the video with virtualdub by selecting stream copy for video source.

Or just select the SOURCE RANGE when encoding with tmpgenc you should encode it up to the damaged area and then start right after that part with the second encode.

virtualdub is easier though

When i tray encode an avi to mpeg appear an alert can't load p3package.dll

For crying out LOUD! search this goddam BBS before posting bug reports that aren't bug reports.

I am editing a movie and I need to force a few GOP headers where the chapters are going to start. Any thoughts?

Specifically, can I leave "Detect scene change" on while I also add manual GOP headers? Will they work together?

I want it to do most of them, and I will add the ones that correspond to chapter start positions.

When changing an AVI to MPG to burn on to VCD, it does it perfectly, apart from the fact it misses out the sound.

Any ideas?

Thanks

You probably need to extract the audio from the AVI file to a WAV file then use the WAV file as the audio source..The audio was Probably AC3 and Tmpgenc has Problems with AC3 so you can extract it with something like "AVI_Mux"...

I had the same problem and used VirtualDub to extract the audio from the .avi.
Then I used the .avi and the .wav to create the .mpg file.
The result of this was that all of a sudden the audio and the video were completely out of sync. I have tried it several times and also with different .avi files. I get the same result everytime...

Any idea?

Try useing AVI-Mux to extract the audio from the AVI file...

Hi !

When I try to convert an audio stream of a MPEG 2 file ( 44khz to 48khz ) I get an error :

http://www.dasdunkle.de/fehler.JPG

Can someone help me ?

dArKvIsIoN

Since I don"t read German I can"t tell you how to fix the error But You can try De-Muxing the audio from the Mpeg and useing something else to Change the sample Rate like "Headac3he"...

I have an XVID Divx, 640 x 256(2.5 to 1) at 23.976 fps.

What should I set the aspect ratio to for this film? It will be kept
at wide screen format. Should I unlock and manually set these to the above
resolution?

Why is the default always set at 1:1 when loading files?
Isn't this for showing on a computer?

There are other settings for 4:3, 16:9, 2.11:1 towards the bottom of the
drop down window. Are these for something special?

1:1 is not the Default Aspect Ratio it is Probably the aspect ratio of the File you are loading into it...Tmpgenc analizes the source file for the aspect ratio and set"s it accordingly.it isn"t allways right though..do a Few Test encodes of a few seconds to see what one looks the way you want it to, But don"t use Media Player to view the Mpeg file cuz it doesn"t play the file with the correct aspect ratio...

after encodeing from dvd format to vcd mt computer locks up and i have to reboot any suggestions on how to fix this problem

What do you mean By DVD Formats????

when I try to convert from 700x 400 (a hi res format) to a vcd format. when the conversion is done my computer locks up and i have to reboot

So is this an AVI File you are encodeing or a Mpeg or other Format??? You say this happens at the End of the Conversion?? does it only happen with high resolution files??? and the Encoded Files OK after it locks up???

please bare with me i am new at this I am converting i file that i digitized from my vcr in mpeg2 format. when i convert it to a mgep 1 format it run until the conversion is done and then lock my machine up I have to reboot (power off) my computer. the converted file runs fine. so any ideas why my computer locks up?

Thanks
tom

got a black screen trying to go from divx to mpeg, and then downloaded the codecs for divx, but they do not appear in environmental settings.

will the raising the direct show up to 2 detect these codecs?

or am i totally lost :)

Codecs Do NOT appear in the Enviromental settings, only VFAPI Plugins do, and Yes raiseing the Direct Show to "2" Can help Tmpgenc connect to the Codecs you have installed so tmpgenc can decode the File..

thanks much :)

maybe a little more help...

no sound and have already used a wav file for the movie with veedub.

what next?

Well first Make sure that there is audio in the WAV file..and if there is then Just load in the Wav file then go to the Audio settings and there you can listen to see if tmpgenc is reading the audio, if it does you just have to encode it to Mpeg audio and Mux it with the Video you allready have encoded, but if for some reason tmpgenc still can"t read the wav audio go to the "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the Wav file readers priority and see if that helps, and if for some reason that doesn"t work then use a different program to encode the audio to Mpeg audio like Headac3he.....

I just did a fresh install of Windows XP from a 98SE OS. I can no longer load avi files, get the old unsupported messages. I have raised the direct show and DVD2AVI priorities with no results. I noticed that XP Service Pack 1 retail version OS no longer includes the Ligos codec, my previous OS had this codec, and I see it is no longer installed in TMPG. Could this be the reason why my AVI's aren't loading?

I see you now have to buy the Ligos codec, I don't want to make the investment if it's not going to solve the issue. Hey do you think it's extractable from my old 98SE disk?

Greg

Have you installed all the proper Codecs so Tmpgenc can decode the AVI files???and Don"t install Media Player 9, this will cause Problems like this..And the Ligos Mpeg2 decoder is Free..I"m sure ALL of you Problems will be solved if you install a Codec Pack like Nemo or Tsunami and Both of these Codec Packs have the Ligos Decoder and NO the Ligos Decoder has Nothing to do with AVI Files it Just decodes Mpeg2 files..

Do I just install the codecs to Windows program files or do I need to install them into TMPG. IF I need to install to TMPG is there any special method I need to use or just install them to the main TMPG folder in a fashion similar to the VFAVI file (dvd2avi.vfp)

I will also try unistalling Media Player 9. Do you know why there are conflicts between these two applications?

G.B.

I keep hearing about problems with Windows Media Player9.0. I have had it since almost day one. Most of my friends have had problems with it because they needed to update their video display drivers or they have not upgraded Direct X to 9.0 also.

I have been in contact with someone from the Windows Update Web site and he said that there is a Problem with WMP9 and some older Mpeg-4 codecs and there will be a Fix for it on the Windows update web site some time in the near future...And No you don"t install the Codecs in Tmpgenc you have to install them in your Computer, Download a Codec Pack like Nemo or Tsunami and you will have Most of the codecs you will ever need and you will have the Ligos Mpeg2 decoder...

So I'm trying to simply convert an AVI I made with Quicktime Pro to mpeg and it of course told me I need to set the window height and width to 8x8 or a multiple thereof. Fine. Says something similar here on the FAQ. Now how would I go about doing this? Can't find the option....

With Tmpgenc you should usually use the project wizard since you don't seem to have a lot of knowledge about this.

If you want though without the project wizard click on the SETTINGS of the file and I usually use a 352X240 setting and never have any problems for VCD this is the usual setting tmpgenc assigns when using the project wizard.

Make sure if you have to clip/crop the movie make sure you use KEEP ASPECT RATIO from the pull down menu because a lot of people and myself have made the mistake of using full screen and this usually makes the aspect ratio mess up.

It will usually make the people in the movie look tall/stretched LOL.

hope this helps

Damn, I'm too anti-wizard for my own good. Went back and tried it and it went through fine, thanks for the info! I sifted through the settings and couldn't understand a thing, guess I have some learning to do...