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.

Hi there,

I am using TMPGEnc to convert a DivX movie (have done the audio extract thing in VirtualDub already) to a VCD. However, it keeps getting to 1 or 2% and then I get the following message (or similar): -

"Read Error Occurred at address 0049E1A7 of module 'TMPGEnc.exe' with 400E0210"

Anyone know what this could mean? Is it just a bad frame doing this! I seem to remmeber this happening before, and I downloaded some program/file that seemed to fix it! I am very new at this whole thing, so the simpler the better ;o)

Cheers, THM

I am having the same problem. What OS are you running? I'm using Windows ME, will Windows ME support the XVid codec?

Im using XP Pro ... it's not having any of it! I have seen people talking about masking bad frames or something to stop them killing the program. But I have no idea how to find which frames are 'bad', or how to get rid of them??

Grrrr

What they were talking about is useing "Virtual Dub" to scan for Bad frames or errors in the AVI file then use it to frame serve the avi file to Tmpgenc and Virtual Dub can mask the bad frames while Frame serveing...Sometimes just frame serveing the file to tmpgenc instead of loading the file directly into tmpgenc will work better....

Cool .... I have both of those programs!

Can you point me towards a guide/or post some newbie style bullet points that I could follow?

Much appreciated, THM

Okay, so I managed to get the VirtualDub to TMPGEnc frameserve to work. It got alot further (to about 20% as opposed to 2%), but it still brought up one of these "Read Errors" in the end!! Grrrr. Is there another way to get rid of these?

Cheers, THM

Were did you get the file from??Cuz if it is a Downloaded file from the net Then the file is Most likely Corrupted and Tmpgenc doesn"t handle corrupted files very well..You can allways use a Different encoder..Or you Mught be able to Repair the File with Virtual Dub By makeing a "Direct Stream Copy" of it but that might just copy the errors in it also..Downloaded Movies are the source of Most Problems when it comes to encodeing with Tmpgenc, then best way is to Get a DVD Rom and Rip DVD"s, that way you allways get the best Quality possible and hardly ever have problems...Sory I can"t help

Yeah ... it is downloaded I'm afraid! I'll have a crack at the direct stream thing, and see if I can find any other programs that are a bit more tolerant of dodgy frames!

Cheers, THM

Open TMPG, go to Option>enviromental setting>Vfapi plugins and raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to '2' and put the rest to '0'

Try your file again.

ASHY

Take a look at this page for advice using XVID with TMPG.
http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/userguides/119019.php

ASHY

Cheers for that ASHY. I have already tried raising the priority, but it didn't seem to make much difference. I am running it through Panasonic MPEG Encoder as we speak to see if I have any more luck with that?

Cheers, THM

I'm encoding DVD into VideoCD (I feed the d2v file obtained from SmartRipper ->DVD2AVI conversion to TMPGEnc and expect to get MPEG-1 VideoCD compliant stream at the end. Conversion works great, with no macroblocks (general picture quality is professional enough), the only thing that bothers me a lot is that there is often a lot of noise, represented by random dots around small objects in a scene, almost like little flies are circling around people. They usually do not appear in static scenes, only in dynamic ones. Now, I love the absence of macroblocs, but hate those artifacts. I can turn on the temporal filter to the maximum (100), but that blurs the picture a little bit. Any advice?

These random dots, do they look like a sort of haze around objects, almost like mosquitoes? If this is the case then I'm afraid this is just an artifact of VCD.
VCD bitrates are far to low to be artifact free and this one can only be removed by raising the bitrate higher.

ASHY

Can anyone help, please?

I have a TMPGEnc-2.59.47 and try to open all the files like m2v or mpg but it's not working. It saying can't open or unsupported file and or illegal stream format. I can't open or Merge & Cut in TMPGE and can't even play on Window Media Player too. I could play those videos only in PowerDVD.
Need help....

Check your VFAPI plugins for the Cberlink codec. Power DVD should have installed this. If it's not listed then there is a problem with the Power DVD installation as media player should also be able to use this codec.

If it is listed then the other alternative is to load your file into DVD2AVI and create a d2v file then load that into Tmpg.

ASHY

the streams may be also somehow corrupted or whatever like happened to me. Still sometimes Vobedit or Mpeg2VCR have been able to split streams from it to me.

i ripped the sound and put both to do the conversion. the firt part using the source range went perfect, now that im tryin to do the second part from the middle to the end it doesnt work there is about a 12 second lag. i put the delay in but still it doesnt work. anyone know a solution thanks.

This is sort of Common when useing the Source range..You can try starting to encode from a Different point or what will probably work better but take much longer is to encode the whole movie into one file then split it into 2 parts useing a Mpeg editor...