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i had this problem.. as some others have... and the responses were wonderfully complex.. so in case anyone was like me..... here was my fix....
in dvd2avi , i had to set under Audio , under 48-> 44.1 khz .. mine was normally set to "off" . i set it to "Low". . and it took twice as long to create the project.... but in the end. i now have audio.. and i receive 0 errors. whether it be 2.53 or 2.54 tmpgenc . :) man i love this place.
turns out it wasnt that easy..... i had tried only a sample in dvd2avi. and it had worked in tmpgenc and audio was good... however when i did the whole thing in dvd2avi... no sound anywhere... so i took 8 random samples. and all had audio. . so now im gonna split the projects in dvd2avi. 3 hour movie anyways. so i will produce 3 seperate (.wav's) and (.d2v's) . approx one hour long each. and i will hope that they will have audio. if not i will narrow it down to a problem section of the 3 hour movie..
forget everything i said. part 1 of 3 is good. part two is jumpy as hell... i give up. . ive spent over 24 hours trying to work this movie.... blood in blood out or otherwise known as bound by honor.... i quit.
If your problem is the "an error occured when audio was decoded" or just the lack of audio in your video files,then use a different audio encoder, try the ones that work with "tmpgenc" like "toolame or scmpx", or just use a seperate encoder all together, I use "db power amp" to encode problem audio files, just encode the wav file that you got from "dvd2avi" make sure there is audio in the file by listening to it, then encode the wav file to mp2 and mux it with the mpeg video...It just occured to me that your problem could be a simple one, do you watch your mpeg files in "Media Player"? If you do this could be your problem, media player sucks when it comes to mpeg play-back, all mpeg play through my media player with no sound accept for a couple of seconds at the beginning....Use "power dvd" it is great for mpeg playback...
I have the PC-DVD from creative to play DVDs and MPEG-2 in my TV.
If I encode MPEG-2 with other program, the video quality is not too good, but the sound synchronization is ok in PC-DVD or in the MSN Media Player.
But, if I encode with TMPGEnc, the video quality is VERY,VERY good, but the synchronization is not(the sound gets in a low tune, like monster`s voice).
I tried to play that same file in Media Player and the sound was OK.
Question: A DVD-R with that file will run OK in a standard desktop DVD Player?
So what you are saying is you have a file encoded by tmpgenc that sounds bad in PC-DVD but the same file sounds good in "media Player" and you want to know if that file would play correctly in your dvd player burned on a dvd-r?Well that depends as to why it sounds bad in PC-DVD, is it a problem with the program that is playing the file or the file it"s self that has A problem with it..What I would do if I were you just to be safe is to de-multiplex your mpeg file and save the video, then encode just the audio from you original avi file, the best way would be to extract the audio to wav format from your avi file with "virtua dub" then load that in tmpgenc useing the "audio only" in the stream setting, and encode your audio .After you have encoded the audio listen to it and make sure it sounds good ,then multiplex it with the mpeg video file that you encoded and de-multiplexed allready..now you will know that the audio is good in the mpeg file.Maybe try an external encoder like "toolame" or "scmpx" they work as "external tools" in the "enviromental settings" and can be found on any search engine, these audio encoders give far superior audio quality compared to the built in audio encoder in tmpgenc....
I put asf file on video source and
put wav file (which converted from asf file)
on Sound source then encoded to mpg file...
but when i play the mpg file, my video source
is going more faster than my sound coming out...
what should I do?
P.S
I converted asf to wav file by using
dBpowerAMP.
When I try and import encoded mpeg's from the program it loads and then says that it cant's find a legitamate decoder. I paid for the program am i missing something, I'm using DVDIT LE and TMPG was the encoder recomeded by the DVDIt homepage as best encoder to use.
I think this either has to do with "DVDIT" or your computer configuration..I think either you need a mpeg2 codec to decode the mpeg file so dvdit can read it, or there is a problem with the mpeg decoder that is in dvdit...Tmpgenc just makes the mpeg, it is up to your computer or your applications to decode the mpeg stream..I think if your mpeg wasn"t dvd compliant you would have gotten a "This mpeg is not suitable for dvd authoring" error,That"s the error I get on my version of DVDIT, but mine is the DVDIT PE 2.5 but they should be pretty much the same.I don"t use "DVDIT" anymore because it is very picky with the types of files it will accept and it is some what limited .Now I just use "nero" to burn and I can add Chapters to my mpeg with the encoder I use,or I use "Ulead dvd workshop" which isnt so picky with the mpeg"s it finds suitable.
Hi,
Had same problem. I found some solutions in some forums.
The first one. Try to get the newest Update of DVDit. The problem
seems to be well known to sonic.
Second. What I did was creating not a program stream. Go and create Video and audio seperatly. Then Import AUdio and video to DVDit. Tis fixed my problem.
Every avi file has it"s own characteristics there for each file needs to set up differently,but there are a few basic things that will give you a positive result.To biggest thing that will help you get a better vcd is to raise the bitrate,raising the bitrate will give you a larger file size so you will be fit less on a cd,you can get 60minutes of good quality vcd on a cd if you raise the bitrate to 1650kbs,and you could get a better result if you used a "VBR" encodeing mode like "CQ"..Doing these things will make your vcd look better but they will make your "vcd" out of the vcd standards but I haven"t ever heard of a player that could not play them...but the rest you will have to figure out for your self cuz most of the settings change from file to file depending on the avi"s specs.....
What you are referring to is called an XVCD. Actually, I've seen lots of players that don't support this. Most players do support VCD, and about 2/3 of those also support SVCD. I would say about half of your average consumer DVD players will support XVCD. If what you actually want is a VCD, then your bitrate for video has to be 1150 and your audio has to be 224. Those cannot be changed, so VBR cannot be used to make a VCD. You have to use CBR at 1150.
If you go to "www.vcdhelp.com" in there dvd player section they have hundreds of different models there and "Most" support xvcd,In the electronics store I work at we sell over 75 different models of current dvd players from the cheapo $75 ones to the $600 super expencive ones, and i would say that 85% of them support xvcd and xsvcd, most of the more expensive ones seem to be more picky than the cheap ones..but maybe things are different in my corner of the world, but I doubt it...
heres a quickie for anyone that knows.....how come the audio advance and retard in tmpg doesnt work?????....i stripped the audio using virtual dub and the inserted in tmpg along with the avi movie (as usual) but the audio is too far behind.When i advance it in source range..it doesnt work???? it stays the same....any ideas...im probally doing summit wrong.
I have installed TMPEnc 2.5 (last version). Once converted the avi file (divx) into mpeg archive (VCD PAL format), this mpeg has perfect pictures but NO SOUND!!!!
tmpg only supports certain sound formats...u need to extract the audio file from the avi using virtualdub and save it in wav format then insert it in tmpg along with your avi file...
Is this a problem with only newer AVI files? I've converted many episodes of Farscape previously without incident. The last two have resulted in "no sound" as well. I think there is some sort of codec or something I am missing, as these last two attempts were done on a new computer.
Yes most newer divx files on the net have audio formats like "AC3" and "mp3vbr" these formats and others like "wma,ogg,ra ect" don"t usually work either..
when i encode a an avi movie to mpeg 2
the movie gets to big and cant burn it to cd
i can lower down the birate to 5000 but then the movi doesnt play well
Use "CQ" and set the min to 4000kbs and the max to 8000kbs with a 75-100 quality level, for most scenes of a movie you don"t need 8000kbs to make a good picture, but for those high action scenes you will need that extra bitrate to get the best possible picture, with these settings you will not loose quality but your file will be much smaller....
What do you mean "convert divx to a useable format for vcd" divx is a useable format for vcd, tmpgenc is for encodeing divx/avi to mpeg/vcd/svcd/dvd..I bet you were getting a "can not open or unsupported "error..use the "Search" at the top of this page and type in "Unsupported" then you will find a solution.....
Hello,
I'am just starting to make my first SVCD movie with my pinaccle studio program.
After visiting a lot of internet sites I found out that there are many way's to get the best results.
Virual dub and TMPG are mentioned a lot.
So my first question is, what is the way to get good results?
Must I make my avi file non-interlaced an if so must I use use Virual dub or can I use TMPG for that to? (I found a setting to do so but I don't know if its the same)
Also because virual dub doesn't work propper here, after using command; start frame server, and typing the file name, the frameserver mode pop-up just stands their doing nothing.
And second question, are there more things I have to do (know) to get the best SVCD?
First test creating SVCD (directly) with pinnacle studio 7 without tmpg seems ok but there is some compression and some "interlaced" and buring the studio 7 AVI file with Nero 5 (with MPG2 codec) can also be better I think.
What do you mean "Must I make my avi file non-interlaced an if so must I use use Virtual dub or can I use TMPG for that to? (I found a setting to do so but I don't know if its the same)"
Do you mean de-interlace the AVI when encoding? If so you would use the TMPG de-interlace filter to do this not Virtualdub.
You should always capture to progressives frames and not interlaced, this will save you a lot of messing around having to de-interlace and things when you come to re-encode to MPEG.
MPEG1 Movies are always encoded to progressive frames. When you encode to MPEG2 the output should be interlaced.
The other thing you mentioned about the frameserver just standing there. Have you actually loaded the file it creates into TMPG?
Also don't use Nero for encoding, it looks crap. Stick with TMPG, your results will be far better.
Yes you;re right yesterday (after sending my own message) I made a MPEG2 file from a captured AVI file (pinnacle studio).
I have used settings input file interlaced output interlaced. And filter deinterlaced. (something like double even)
I burned the MPEG2 file into a nero svcd "template" the end result was realy good.
Only one thing was seen at the end.
It ends with a dark scene and on the bottom was a green line witch doesn't belong there. How can I remove this.
<You should always capture to progressives frames and not interlaced>
I don't know what pinnacle studio captures as default but it seems to be progessive frame's. Maybe you can tel me how I can see this.
It depends on the codec you used. I think most AVI codecs capture to progressive frames as default, but the DIVX 5 codec allows you to capture to either progressive or interlaced and can also perform it's own de-interlacing which is pretty good by the way.
Anyway you would know if it was interlaced or not because if it wasn't you wouldn't get the interlacing artifacts and wouldn't need to de-interlace.
Another point is that you would have been better off using the 'Even-Odd field(field)' de-interlace option instead of using the 'double' option as this tends to make objects blur when they move.
As far your green line is concerned, this is usually an error in your source AVI and is due to incorrect resolutions being used.
You should always make sure that resolutions are in mutiples of 16 or you will get this problem.
You could have clipped this out using the 'clip frame' feature in TMPG.
AVI and is due to incorrect resolutions being used...
hmm it is the default capture avi file in DV quality setting.
Maybey I can try some other setting in the preference.
Crop is working, so if I can't find the right resolution setting this wil a solution.
Thank's a lot again answering my question. I hope I will learn a lott in the next few days about making a good video.
Hy, i only asked me if I still can get better results. I use 2-pass vbr, max 2520, min 300, 1600-2000 in the middle, estimate motion search and no filters, when i produce SVCD. And what is dual channel at the sound settings? Someting like surround or dolby? What about the field order?
Dual channel is like takeing sterio and mixing it into one channel and playing it out two channels,it seems that you could probably raise the bitrate a bit ,it"s a bit low for svcd,unless you don"t want to go over the svcd standard..
That would be mono wouldn't it?
I thought Dual channel was a form of stereo and was just two totally independent channels of audio where there is no bit sharing between the two, where as with ordinary stereo there is still some bit sharing between channels.