I'm pretty new to this stuff, but so far almost everything has worked out fine. I can convert an avi to a mpg and keep the screen ratios the same. The picture looks fine and it plays in the same ratio on my comuter. However, when I pop into my DVD player and try to play it on TV, the picture gets adjusted and is squashed to fit fullscreen. Is there any way to get it to play the same in the DVD player as it does on my computer? Please help.

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Does anyone out there have a text file they can forward to me that explains how to convert DVD onto DVDR using one DVDR disk for all movies. I have tried VCD helper guides but they seem to leave out details. I would be thankful if anyone has a guide they can share-also prefer guide that uses TMPGEnc as the encoder. THanks in advance Guys!!!

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Thanks! A380

i downloaded the nemo codec pack. he started the wizardof tmpg. when he starts to encoder he brings the message of unknown or unsupported.

Hello..
I'm currently going to make several formats of my home movie clips.
one is VCD, DVD, Divx, and a WMV format.
I applied noise reduction filter that really is a time consuming, and I thought it would be nice if TMPGEnc could output to multiple formats (like mentioned above) right after it prefilters the image to avoid redundancy (re-filter each time I encode to a different format).
I know one current solution is to output to an uncompressed AVI first, but that would be a waste of space if it's a full movie.

I hope this feature would be added very soon!
Thanks!

What? how many other encoders do u know that do this and how long do u think it would take to encode a movie when doing what u ask.

It would take an enormous amount of CPU power to do what u ask and is just not feasible.

ASHY

The Only encoder That I know of that Can output that Many different formats at once is "Canopus ProCoder" and it is "REALLY SLOW".....

I use original MP2 or AC3 Streams of DVD or DVB.
So my suggestion: A Audio "direct Stream copy" (Similarly as VirtualDub)

Thus I would save the muxing of m2v + AC3 Files!

Very nice request!

The option already exsists and has done for a while.

Simply enable the feature in the enviromental settings under the CPU tab.
Use the command 'mux://' before the file name to mux the stream rather encode it.
For example:
VIDEO: C:movie.avi
AUDIO: mux://C:movie.mp2

This will result in the Video being encoded and the audio just being muxed with the Video and not re-encoded.

ASHY

>Simply enable the feature in the enviromental settings under the CPU tab.

sorry this should say the 'General' tab not the 'CPU' tab

ASHY

Oh, that's it! But it isn't comfortably :(

How I can use the TMPEnc program to make a compressed file with MPGEG1 using images JPEG from an photo album ?

Simply the JPEG-File as video-Source and go...

Around long VCD to provide I used the P and B Frames very highly. Therefore the GOP is very large. Extent of utilization causes a high memory. If the memory is not enough it must be swapped. That drives the computing time up.

I kwon I can limit with "MAX number of frames in A GOP".

My suggestion: A mechanism that choose automatic the "MAX number of frames in A GOP":

maximum use of RAM <-> "MAX number of frames in A GOP"

Buy more ram. It will encode better and faster than any software cahange.

Nice!
But I have two old P-II Computer with BX-Chipset, too... More than 512MB is not supported :(

And I would use gladly different software at the same time! But if TMPG use all Memory... :(

wouldn't it make the file a non VCD comliant?
I've read somewhere that there is a max number in GOP limitation also in VCD..
I could be wrong though.. :)

I don't know about a GOP length limitation. My DVD-Player play all SVCD CD's a made :)

My question is, I have mpeg files bigger than 4gb, acquired by ATI AIW7500 from satellite channels, and I would like to cut, converte and others by TMPGenc but I can't. It seems that TMPGeng doesn't support mpeg files bigger than 4gb. It's true?? How I can fix this problem??
Thanks

Try frameserving from Virtualdub or AVIsynth.

ASHY

Also try DVD2AVI. It has the best decoding quality available.

Load the Mpeg. Save project to get a d2v file. Play with audio settings until you also get a wav or mpa file. If you captured film material with ATI's Inverse Telecine enabled, set video "force film" mode.

If audio is mpa, load it into TMPG or any audio tool with a decoder (I use Ulead Audio Editor) and save as a wav.

Make sure DVD2AVI.vfp file is in the directory with TMPG executable.

Load the d2v file (Video) and wav file (Audio) into TMPG and play with encode settings. Run a few test segments with reduced source range.

If ATI inverse telecine/forced film did a good job at converting to 23.976fps, use the "3:2 pulldown when playback" encode mode setting to get DVD compliant 29.97fps with repeat field flags (progressive). Otherwise go back to DVD2AVI and disable force film and encode as interlaced.

thanks for your answers, I'll try soon.

hi all, solution proposed by WCPAUL works !!! I'm happy, the only "problem" is that for a 4,9GB file (1h49min) it take about 22hours.
Doesn't matter during the night I sleep and pc works.
bye

Need help trying to convert .avi to .mpeg? Tried using tmpg but keep saying "cannot open or unsupported"? Also, someone told me to go to "Option" then to environmental setting, then click on VFAPI plug-in and change the settings of "DirectShow Multimedia File Reader" to a priority of "2" (previously a -2). This as well did not work - for would not let me change the priority settings. Please respond a.s.a.p. I appreciate anyone that can help in assisting in this matter.

Thank you!
Black Window

trie the AVI in VirtualDub.
Can it be looked at there???
Used Codec installs???

use dvd2avi (there is an option in there to convert avi to mpeg)

Nope, convert avi to mpeg with TMPGEnc, cause it has the best Quality.
Try avisynth and frameserve the video to TMPGEnc. Solved alle my problems.
Use google and search for avisynth

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A380

If it won't let you change the priority settings then obviously you are not doing it correctly and this will most probably solve your situation.

First of all click on the actual filter itself and highlight it, don't click on the actual priority setting (this will bring up the menu, but won't change the setting)
Now right click the highlighted filter and hey presto you should be able to change the setting.

ASHY

I am only new at this but could abyone tell me what this error message is

Index of scan line is out of range(240)

I am trying to convert and avi file to an mpg

Thanks

Lyn

Corrupt AVI.
Probably downloaded from the net.

Try to frameserve it from Virtualdub.

ASHY

i have recently converted an avi file to mpeg file using tmpg enc and was wondering, the file became 3 gb when converted my question: is there any way to get the mpeg file to become smaller using tmpg enc or is there another way to make it smaller using another software (compress maybe) without splitting the file?

Depending on the length of the video.
30 min is about 480MB in SVCD.
SVCD: Resolution 480*576 max datarate 2,6kbps audio+video
A380

Of course you can compress it futher, just lower the bitrate.

ASHY

I just recently reinstalled my OS and updated to the latest version of TMPG (2.59 if I remember correctly). Whenever I try to open a clip to convert, it gives me a "[enter file name here]is not supported or corrupt". Now I know for a fact that those files worked fine on the older version of TMPG, but I just can't seem to get it to work with the new version. All the videos I tried to open are either encoded with Divx5, Divx4 or Xvid. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Well do you have the Full versions of the relevant DivX codecs???And did you raise the priority of the Direct show Filter??

Try out frameserving with avisynth, hit google for it!
A380

Frameserving ISN'T the answer!

ASHY

I figured out what the problem was. It turned out that the Divx 5.0.2 codec could not decode the audio properly. After locating a copy 5.0.1 and installed it, TMPG opened the files without issue.