I use dvd2avi, smart ripper and Tmpgenc to back up copies of my DVDÃÔ. I donÃÕ have any Problems with the DVDÃÔ that have a frame rate of E9.97Ebut when itÃÔ E3.976Ethere is Problems with the audio on the finished product is there any way to change the frame
rate on the DVD to 29.97 ??

Thanks in advance guys!!

What sort of audio problem are you having?

What do you mean 23.976? There are no DVD's which are 23.976. All NTSC DVD's playback at a rate of 29.97 fps.

The only way you will end up with a DVD which is 23.976 is if you have used the ForcedFILM option in DVD2AVI.

This removes what is called telecining from the DVD and returns a 29.97 fps interlaced DVD to it's original 23.976 fps progressive frames.
This should not affect the audio in any, but DVD2AVI has been known to create out of sync audio files.


Switch off the audio option in DVD2AVI then use a program called VOB2AUDIO to rip the audio from your VOB files to a wav then use that as your audio source for TMPG.

Doing it this way is more accurate and yeilds better results than using DVD2AVI to rip the audio.


ASHY

Hi, Ashy, I have a DVD titled 'momie dearest' and when i run it through dvd2avi the frame is 23.976 and the audio problems i am having is during play back of the back uped dvd the sound/audio is just in and out-sound plays for a second then there is no sound-does this through out play back. and as far as the forced film feauture it doest show up in the static window and i dont think that i am using that feature because i cant find it in dvd2avi anywhere-unless i am over looking it. i WILL TRY VOB2AUDIO thanks Ashy!

In DVD2AVI goto Video>Field operation>ForcedFilm

ASHY

I see it now Ashy-force film was not checked-none was checked-so i checked swap field order and ran the dvd through dvd2avi without audio-which i will do with vob2audio-it did change the frame rate to 29.97:) thanks ashy for your help your great!

It is Phisicly Impossible to Have a DVD with a Frame rate of 23.9fps..It just Is not Part of the DVD Standard and if it did have that frame rate it would not play in your DVD Player...So somewere down the Line something is going wrong...The only way DVD2AVI will report a Frame rate of 23.9fps is if the "Forced Film" is Enabled....Ripping the Audio with "VOB2Audio" will Not make the Movie 29.9fps But it might rip the audio so that is in Better sync with the Video..I personally haven"t had sync issues Atributed to DVD2AVI But it has Happened with others...

A program I just found on doom9.org called PULLDOWN.EXE will convert 23.976 video streams to 29.97 by inserting repeat field flags.

I have not tried authoring with the result yet but passing through DVD2AVI seems to indicate that it works.

You have to demux/mux to run through this program.

Hi, I'm new to this, so plese be patient. I am trying to import completed AVI files from Premiere 6.0 (meaning the video has been edited, with transitions, etc). TMPGEnc says this type of file is unsupported. However, if I have raw footage from my Sony PD150, that I have not done any editing on, that is taken fine my TMPGEnc. Am I able at all to import the finished Premiere files into TMPGEnc? I have MYDVD, and the transcoding on that it terrible, especially with movement.
Thanks for any help

Have you tried to raise the "Direct Show File Reader"????Go to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "Direct Show" to "2"....this should work..

I had to export my movie from premier to Microsoft DV AVI. Then TMPGEnc would read it. It would not read the Pinnical DV format that I captured everything in.

Where can I download older versions of TMPGEnc?

I don"t know of any place that specificly carries Older versions ,I have a Few older versions Like 2.52 and 2.53 and 2.57, But you might be able to Find some old versions on Kazaa, But no gaurantees..

TMPGEnc-2.59.47.zip

Will you add feature to produce MPEG 2 Multichannel Audio (coded from AC3 or separate WAVs) please? SVCD supports this (5.1 sound) and I want to make such SVCDs. In addition, SVCD supports more (up to 4?) sound tracks and subtitles. What about this feature?

You seem to be under a misconception.
SVCD can support up to 4 channels of mono audio or 2 stereo tracks.
To add these extra tracks to your SVCD you would use the multiplexer in the MPEGtools to multiplex the tracks to your MPEG.
You cannot encode 2 audio tracks at once and don't know of any encoder that can.

As for MPEG 5.1 audio. This is hard to implement and complicated to create and is really beyond the scope of a general pupose encoder to produce such files which aren't fully supported by DVD players anyway and will probably have problems with playback.

If you want to have a go ReMPEG can apparantly transcode Vob files or AC3 files to 5.1 MPEG audio or you can use this program.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/hypercube/html/hypercube_transcoder.html

ASHY

Your Player Will In Most likelyhood NOT Play Mpeg5.1 audio, the Players that do support this will have a "Mpeg5.1" Logo on the DVD Player....

I have tried many different settings and even though I have found settings that have a minimum of motion artifacts, I always seem to get a vertical color bleed on color edges. I've tried it on 3 different DVD players and they all show the same problem so it's not the DVD player. It does not seem to be related to interlacing, as it is not a horizontal effect. It looks more like an encoding problem.

I have tried the settings found here http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0165394101/TMPGEnc_Template.html
And did not like them at all...too many motion artifacts. I have been going with CQ of 100 and a bitrate of 8000

Here are screen shots of what I'm talking about:
http://64.239.100.203/video/ss1.jpg
Its hard to see on such a small picture and it looks worse on a regular TV, but look at the transition from his shirt collar to neck. There are vertical 'smears' of the blue and skin tone.

http://64.239.100.203/video/ss2.jpg
There is a vertical line right through the edge of the subjects face.

It seems more noticable when it's playing then when looking at still shots.

All source material is miniDV.

Any help would be appreciated...trying to gove this a a Christmas present.

TIA,
Mike

Here is a third screen shot.
http://64.239.100.203/video/ss3.jpg

Its a blow up of the first. You can see the bleed on the collar. Also look at the skin tone bleeding off his ear into the green background on the right.

Is this something to do with the Quantize Matrix settings?

-Mike

I don"t know what it could be caused By but sometimes little problems like this can be solved By reaiseing the Priority of the "Direct Show File Reader" in the "VFAPI Plugins".....there are a Lot of settings in the "Advanced Settings" that help with color correction so maybe you can fiddle with them...?

Thanks. I rasied it from -1 to 2 and it did help some, but it's still not that great. Going any higher didnt have any effect.

I took one 30 second video clip and encoded it multiple times with different settings so I could compare them all.

A lot of people seem to like the 2 pass VBR, and while it makes smaller files, I do not like the video it makes. CQ at 100 handles motion much better.

I've tried playing with just about all the settings and cant get the bleed to go away. I'm just about to give up...

-Mike

Well Maybe you should try a Different Mpeg encoder...There are A Few others that give exelent Quality, a couple give even better than Tmpgenc But not many, if you e-mAIL me i can Sugest a Few that you should be pleased with...

hi, i want to ask you , how can i change avi files to mpg files?
when i download, it's avi, when i watch with window media player, it wont work, there are just only sound no screen......why is that?
please tell me

Are you saying that you downloaded some AVI file But when you play them in "Media Player" there is no Picture But there is sound???Well first you have to make sure you have the correct Codecs installed on your system...And if you do have the right codecs and you still don"t see a Picture in the Downloaded AVI then the AVI File could be corrupted..To make an Mpeg out of a Good AVI file you Just load the file into tmpgenc and follow the directions that the "Wizard" gives you...If you have a specific Queastion about encodeing then Please Post it....

I have a dual Xeon system, XP professional, and have enabled hyperthreading.
Now I have four processors on my System properties.
But Tmpgenc 2.59 just sees two of them - not four - and I have indeed no advantage of using hyperthreading.
So why should new 2.59 be hyperthreading-aware?
I could be aware of it only for single processor machines?
Please, let me have your dual xeon impressions...

Anybody has dual Xeon with Tmpgenc?
Nobody?

i have matrox rt2000 non linear editing card with adobe premiere v6.0. Yestarday
i have download your tmpeg encoder v2.59 from your website. How i can encoding avi file from adobe premiere timeline to mpeg-1 vcd file. please give me some detail for install tmpeg encoder on adobe premier.

You CANT install Tmpgenc as a Plugin for Premier...What you can do is use the "Premier Video Server" or "AVISynth" to frame serve from Premier to Tmpgenc But Tmpgenc will not be a Plugin...You can learn about the Premier Video serve and AVISynth at : http://www.videotools.net/

TMPGEnc worked fine before I installed windows media player 9. Now, it cannot open window media format files anymore(MPEG-4 Video Codec is ok). Why?

WHY??? Because Media Player Sucks the Big one, and Probably the only way you will might able to get it to work like Before you installed it is to do a "System Restor" to Before you installed Media Player 9...Your WMV Files are probably encoded with WM7 or WM8 and the New Media Player installs the WM9 codecs....

Hi, I was about to create an SVCD, but before I started converting the file from AVI, I noticed that TMPGEnc defaults the resolution to 480 X 480 on its SVCD template. Will this fit my tv screen properly without everything being stretched?

Thanks

The Standard Resolution for NTSC SVCD is 480+480...It should look Pretty Close to the source File as Long as you have the "Video Arange Setting" set to "Fullscreen(Keep Aspect Ratio)"...and Depending on the Source file"s resolution and aspect ratio there Might be Black Borders on the Top and Bottom..You can Also customize the Way the Image looks in the Frame By Useing the "Clip Frame" settings....

when I cut an mpg in two to burn with Nero, the first half is ok, and is seen in my DVD player, but the second half, which burns ok comes up unsupported in my DVD player, in my cdrom, it appears to be some sort of audio cd split up as mono, stereo and sub directoried by bitrate and frequency. I can view the second cut MPG with my creative player. Is that Nero, or something wrong with the cut.

One way to find out is to burn the same mpeg file with a Different Burning program like VCDEasy instead of Nero and if it does work then it is probably a problem with Nero and if it doesn"t work then it is a Problem with the file...

Does encode a mpg file with tmpgenc using a P4 (SSE2) give better quality than
encode the same file with a AMD Athlon ? or is it just the encoding speed
thats better with P4 (SSE2) ?

To say it this way

Is it possible to notice any difference in the quality of the video when encoding with a P4(SSE2) or a AMD Athlon ?

Im asking since cause of the claim of better Prossesing Precicison with a P4 (SSE2)...does this affect quality at all ?


thanks

Jan

Norway.

Both Athlon XP"s and P-4"s are Fully Compatible with the SSE-2 Instruction set..And I don"t think it affects Quality But it sure affects the Encodeing Speed..So useing the same encoder on 2 different CPU"s will achieve the same Quality.......

Athlon XP doesn't have SSE2 at all. You're wrong.
AMD has an Intel license to introduce SSE2 on their upcoming K8/Opteron CPUs.
Next P4 core revision, Prescott, is going to have rumored SSE3 extensions.