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Hi. I've had no problems with TMPEGEnc... until now. Any .AVI I produce with Adobe After Effects causes problems in TMPEGEnc. TMPEGEnc compress to MPEG-2 without error. Then I demux. But, BbMpeg will not mux. It says "cannot read input file." Also, DVD player software cannot play the .mpg file from TMPEGEnc. This is ONLY with video that originally came from After Effects.
I would also like to add that if I demux and remux in TMPEGEnc, the result is the same -- Software players cannot play the resultant system stream. In fact it appears that it plays video of the first GOP, then stops. The audio continues for a few seconds, then stops.
What format are the AVI files you are inporting to Tmpgenc...Try raiseing the "Direct Show File reader" that sometimes helps Tmpgenc read certain files better..or you can try to frame serve the file with Virtual Dub..
Are you saying that once encoded to MPEG from the AVI that the files cannot be played or re-muxed?
If TMPG can encode the file to MPEG then it doesn't make sense that you can't play it unless the AVI's you are exporting are at some weird resolution or something and you are encoding the MPEG to the same resolution.
This is the way I make Vcd's!!!You will have to find and download some of these programs yourself
After ripping the vob files with Smart Ripper I use DVD2AVI to create my dv2 file for frameserving to TMPGEnc for the Video only. In Audio>Tracks>(select)NONE.
After opening the vob file(the first one) under video>FIELD Operaton>(Select)Force Film.then File>Save Project. This will create your dv2 file for the video in TMPGEnc.
Then I use VOB2Audio to create the Wav file.The program is pretty straight forward. Hopefully you will have ripped a lst file(if you ripped the movie and not a backup(in SmartRipper)) If you don't have a lst file you need VobListMaker from AD Software.
In TMPGENc load the template for VideoCD NTSC FILM,change the motion search presision to HighQuality(slow), Highest quality doesn't do much but takes way longer.
Change the Video Arrange method to Full screen(keep AspectRatio) in the advanced TAB
In Options>Enviromental Settings>External Tool, check external Audio Encoder Layer2and browse for your exe. for SCMPX(which I like better than TooLame for an external audio encoder).
Check USE by Sampling frequency converter and browse for exe. for SSRC(a good sample rate converter)
No your ready to encode. Good Luck!!!
I have spend about 2 years testing and trying different programs and settings, This way works great. If you have any questions you can emailme.
just a suggestions but there are much better quality compression codecs to use than mpeg1.
if you want to watch your movie in a dvd player, then mpeg 1 is probably the most convenient since you will use less cds. mpeg2 (SVCD) will give you much better quality and still allow you to play it in a DVD player but you can only fit so much on one cd, and your movie ends up spanning 4 cds...
however if you have tv-out in your computer , or just want to watch movies on your computer, DivX is definitely the best way to go. You can fit a whole movie onto one cd and you won't notice the lossy compression if you output it to TV. www.divx.com. you should be able to find a bitrate calculator on vcdhelp.com to help you work out a bitrate, and there are plenty of guides around on how to get the best quality out of the least size.
I personally wouldn"t advise you to use the "Forced Film" option, which only works on Film sources..If you plan on Makeing Chapters or Menue"s then you Can"t use the forced film option cuz most Good VCD/SVCD authoring programs that allow you to do Chapters and menues don"t allow you do Use Files that are 23.9FPS, and if you live in NTSC Land Why not use the Higher Quality Interlaced video instead of Film, but I guess it is a personal taste...
First of all if I'm reading your question right then you wish to make DVD's not VCD/SVCD's.
Your best bet to preserve quality and save time is to us IFOEDIT which can strip all the unwanted menus and files from a DVD. Leaving you with a smaller file, but with the main menus intact thus allowing you to burn to a regular DVD.
If you really do wish to create VCD or SVCD then DVD2AVI is the way to go.
Iam going to agree with dgold1009 here. It is best to use the FORCEDFILM option with DVD2AVI if you are using NTSC disks. This will return the DVD back to it's original progressive state as long as the original DVD is originally 23.97 film which most are.
This will save you a whole host of problems. One of them most importantly is interlacing artifacts. A progressive movie has no interlacing artifacts whatsoever and should be of better quality than an interlaced movie.
The second reason is file size. A 23.97 movie is smaller than a 29.976 movie.
Once you have created the project file with DVD2AVI all you need then do is encode to MPEG2 and add 3:2 pulldown to make the movie 29.976 fps. Choosing the 'SuperVideoCD (NTSCFilm)' template will do this for you and your movie will be re-encoded to 29.976 which is the correct framerate for NTSC.
what sort of video file are you trying to open? something from a DVD?
if its from a dvd you probably need a VFAPI plugin to be able to read mpeg2. otherwise search for a VFAPI plugin to open that specific type of video you have.
You have to have the DVD2AVI Vfapi plugin properly installed ,Go to "Options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" and look for a DVD2AVI.vfp plugin..If it isn"t there then go into your DVD2AVI folder and copy and paste the "DVD2AVI.vfp" file into the Tmpgenc folder then the plugin should appear..and the you have to make sure you don"t move or rename or delete any of the D2V files of VOB files from were they originaly were...
Has anybody experimented with settings on you DV camcorder that produce better MP2 results when later converted? For example, I can change the shutter speed to decrease smearing on fast camera or subject movements. However, increaseing shutter speed means you need more light which lowers you depth of field which can make non-subject areas of the shot out of focus, etc. etc.
Wondered if anybody had done some work in this area to find optimal config. I understand that the movie makers had to send their directors and camera operators back to school to learn how to shoot film for optimum DVD results. Different techniques from the old celluloid days.
I am having problem opening a AVI file created by Premiere. I added some title
to the original film (avi also, and tmpgenc had no problem with it), and exported to the following format:
what error does premiere give when you try to open the file?
what codec are you using to encode the file in tmpgenc? sounds like premiere is not happy with the format your video is in..
I am trying to convert an AVI file to VCD format and I get the error message "Illegal floating decimal point calculation order." with both TMPGEnc 2.58.44.152 and TMPGEnc Plus 2.58.44.152. I have searched these forums and in accordance, have tried the following to no avail:
- Unchecked all the Environmental->CPU settings (MMX, MMX-2, SSE, etc)
- Increased the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader Priority to 2
- Unchecked "Use floating point DCT" under the Quantize Matrix settings
This file was captured with VirtualDub 1.4.10 build 13870 (using PICVideo MJPEG compression) and I have done "Scan video stream for errors" in VirtualDub which hasn't found anything.
I have tried more than one AVI file that I've captured and all give the same error message at one point or another. Note that the frame it fails on seems to be random: sometimes it will only run for a few seconds and sometimes it will run for 15 minutes or more without failing.
My machine is an Athlon XP 1800+ with 512 megs of RAM, running Windows 2000.
Now here's an interesting part: I have found an old copy of TMPGEnc, version Beta 12i (0.11.27.111) Core version 1.76.112, on my machine and have tried using that to convert the files. All of the files convert perfectly with that version, even with all the options like SSE and "Use floating point DCT" on. I have tried each version many times so I think the results are probabalistically sound.
Does anyone have any suggestions of anything to try? If there is some way of turning on some debugging mode I'd be happy to try it and email or post the results. Also, if anyone has a link to an older version of TMPGEnc but newer than Beta 12i I can try that and see if I can identify which version starts having these problems. Thanks for any help.
If you want maximum quality during fast motion for replay on an interlaced display (TV), do not use the deinterlace filter. The resulting file may look worse on a progressive display (computer), depending on how well the player software does deinterlacing.
Deinterlacing is a compromise and you have to decide which type of display you want the best result on.
Use a two step process here. Archive the camera footage with least amount of loss and then do all authoring from that. This allows you to go back and work at a higher quality levels in the future, even if the tapes are lost.
Archival settings would be 15Mbs/CQ_VBR/qual=100 and interlaced (bottom field first, I believe, for DV). Audio should be 384Kbs, or even save a wav file.
One gotcha: TMPGEnc seems to clip all black and white levels outside the CCIR limits (8-235) no matter how the CCIR checkbox in the quantization sheet is checked. Serve through Virtualdub "levels" filter to accurately get your footage within the 8-235 limits (you can also cut unwanted footage here.)
Discard the larger AVI files and use these archives as source for DVD compliant encoding. Burn them to DVD-R as raw mpeg files for backup. These can even be decoded to Huffyuv AVI for future editing with no visible loss.
I've worked with the former versions of this product and had no probs whatsoever.
Now I installed the latest version and tried to put Lord of the Rinds (AVI format) to SVCD again (it worked in the former versions without any problems).
Now I get this Error -272762914 98304 that pops up every 3-5 seconds. When I click OK it goes away, tmpgenc starts encoding again en stops 3-5 seconds later with exact the same error.
I run an Athlon 850Mhz with 384Mb RAM and 5Gb free on the temp folder and 8Gb free on the partition the SVDS's are written to.
Hey..
i was trying to convert some .avi files
(actually, i dont even know if they are .avi. they are the
warcraft 3 cinematic files, they came as .mpq, but in WMP they work
ok when renamed to avi...)
well i wanted to convert them to mpeg to create an svcd, and what i got is
tons of green fields in the movie (so there's some part of the movie, but
lots of it is covered with green).
i tried filters, but i didn't change anything...
Depending on whether the files are MPEG or AVI, try raising the priority of the MPEG1 decoder or the directshow multimedia file reader in the VFAPI plugins to 2 as it seems this is simply a decoding problem.
this is what i figured..
the file is some sort of a divx file, with a codec called blizo or something
(as in blizzard, the warcraft developer).
and ashy, i don't see where im supposed to set the settings u told me to..
That is not how you Make a VCD from a DVD...You are doing a lot of stuff that does not need to be done and you are looseing Quality in the Proscess..You do NOT need to make a AVI file to encode to VCD..You can encode straight from the Vob file useing DVD2AVI to frame serve to Tmpgenc it is a totally easy proscess and the Quality is MUCH Better and it is a Much Faster proscess cuz you don"t need to make a AVI file first...You need to Download "DVD2AVI" then all you do is after you have ripped your VOB files to your Harddrive you load the VOB files into "DVD2AVI" and make a "D2V" project file and a WAV audio file then you just load the "D2V project file into Tmpgenc as the Video source and the WAV audio file in as the audio source the encode to VCD...This is the Best way to encode DVD Rips and get the Best Quality Possible and it is way easier and faster..There are Tutorials for useing DVD2AVI and doing DVD Rips at "http://www.vcdhepl.com/....
after ripping the dvd, i get a pop up window saying batch encoding, start 00:00, finish 00:00, when i press ok or try to close this window, another screen comes up and says, you new file is in "my folder" but it has disappeared when i try to search for it.