Hi folks,

TMPGEnc crashes with an "unknown software exception" if I open an MPEG Audio file or an *.mpa audio file from dvd2avi.
What can be wrong ?

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JT

I don"t know what is wrong but you can just encode your mpa files to wav files, tmpgenc does not like to encode mpeg audio, but encodes wav the best, I use "db power amp" cuz it is free and fast with good quality and it extracts audio from most video files, I use it rather than "virtuadub" for audio extraction.....

I have encoded like 15 Divx movies into SVCD with TMPEGenc with no problems, but suddenly when I tried to start encode another DivX avi to MPG it reports .vdr (virtualdub frameserver) unsupported....So I can't get the program to work anymore ? Does anyone know the problem ?

Are you saying you are frameserving from Virtualdub and it has suddenly stopped working?

Try uninstalling and re-installing the frameserving client, if that doesn't work try raising your direct show filters to 2.

ASHY

Thanx for the tips...I installed VirtualDub again...I works fine. It serves the DivX, but TMPEGenc doesn't support the .vdr format anymore...I also tried to rise prioritys from environmental, no go still.....everything is on 0 position and I raised Direct Show filter to +2, +3 and +4 ,b ut it still reports that the format is unsupported. I can't believe it stops supporting the formats without doing nothing........

I found the problem....It was because somehow msvcr70.dll was disappeared from my windows/system32/ folder.....I downloaded the dll from the web and copied into that folder and now everything works again ? I'm just wondering where the file have disappeared and why ?!?

I have had exactly the same problem once or twice and I thought that it was just my system that had the problem. I solved it the same way as you, I downloaded the file and installed it into my system32 directory and everthing works fine after that.

Just one of those funny things I suppose, but it could have been caused by uninstalling another program which was using that .dll and has uninstalled that file as well.

ASHY

i have a problem when i demultiplexing i video file.
The video file with exstention *.m2v it's with the same quality to the original video,but if i put this file into PREMIERE 6.01,the quality of the video is BAD!!!

Is the quality so bad in Tmpgenc,too?
If not,the program you mentioned probably has wrong settings.

I have some downloaded mpeg files(320x 240, 24fps), and some convert from asf(320X240, 25fps), but downloaded mpeg is not the same size to others, so i need to rebulid it? for merging.

What's the different between 1:1 VGA, 4:3 PAL, 4:3 PAL 704x576?
I input my downloaded file 4:3 PAL, and output highest quality, 4:3 PAL, but the output video is shapeless than the original video. How can i make the same qulity mpeg output file for vcd?

Thanks^.^

Tom.

I made with the template: Super VCD a mpeg.
But now a can't read it in any player.
Also not in my DVD-player which is PowerDVD 3.0.

Hi,

A problem I often encounter when encoding scenes in mpg (especially from
tapes) is that certain sections of a scene have different colours from the
rest.

It would be great if there was an option to specify, per colour filter,
which section of the input video to apply it to
(all, min x - min y) etc.

Graham

I don"t exactly know what you mean, do you want a color filter just to filter the color on the top half or bottom half of a frame or do you just want to have controll of the intencity of each color filter?You can have total controll of all aspects of the color filters, you just double click on the color filter and adjust it , brightness ,contrast, r,b,g,hue,saturation and many many more, "tmpgenc" has more color filters and controll over them than any encoder or allmost any other program of it"s type.......

True. The filters are wonderful.

I will give an example of what I mean; I have an avi with drap colours so I use a filter to enhance green and red for instance. But between 1min50sec till 2min34secs the avi is very dark, so for that section I would like to add a filter that makes the video brighter (without making the whole avi file brighter)

So if each filter had an extra option:
{use for whole file } or
{use from [framenumber] until [framenumber]}

then I could get the colours of the whole avi any way I wanted them, regardless of the quality of the input material.

True. The filters are wonderful.

I will give an example of what I mean; I have an avi with drap colours so I use a filter to enhance green and red for instance. But between 1min50sec till 2min34secs the avi is very dark, so for that section I would like to add a filter that makes the video brighter (without making the whole avi file brighter)

So if each filter had an extra option:
{use for whole file } or
{use from [framenumber] until [framenumber]}

then I could get the colours of the whole avi any way I wanted them, regardless of the quality of the input material.

Yes I see what you mean, I think that would be extreamely hard to write a those features into a program, but you can allways wish for it...

I use dvd2avi and then when I use tmpg to encode the movie I also get no sound. If I start encoding and then stop it after a few minutes and then play that small bit back using windows media player the sound is OK. Any suggestions?

First thing that might be your problem is that you are useing "media player" to play your mpeg"s,When i first started encodeing I would try to play my mpeg files in media player ,it it would play about 20 seconds of audio and would cut out, but when I play it in "power dvd" the audio is perfect...and make sure you have all the proper codecs to decode the audio from your movie..

I had similar problem kinda, make sure your audio file is NOT bigger than 2 gigs.

while trying to encode to vcd I am recieving an illegal floating decimal errorand the encoding stops . sometimes the audio continues .

This eror is caused by corrupt sectors in your avi file,this is very common with files downloaded of the net, to not get the error you have to first go to, "options" then "enviromental settings" then to the "cpu" tab and un-check the "SSE" box, then go to your regular"settings" to "quantize matrix" and un-check the "Use Floating Point" box. now it should stop giveing you that error..

After I encode an Avi to an Mpg the video works fine but I do not get any audio with it!
I do not know what to do.
Please if you have any information tell me
Thank you

and feel free to email me at okcshawn@juno.com with any information

Thanks
Shawn Ostler

Me too. no audio.

source is AVI/Divx. 480x304.

Want to convert to SVCD MPEG2. I selected Centered so it will be 480x480 but it will letterbox since the original is 480x304. Also reduced CBR bitrate to 1640 so it will fit on 2 VCD's (video length is 116 minutes). I did not mess with sound settings and most of it was greyed out anyhow. (224k rate on the sound.) Did my changes mess the sound up? I can't imagine.

No audio on MPEG1 either.

I opened my AVI in Windows Media Player and hit properties.. said audio was MPEG3. Could this be it? How do I fix this?

sorry forgot one thing. I have already installed that Freihoffer MPEG3 codec (hopefully I have the name close to correct). This does not fix the issue.


I am trying to use Virtualdub to extract the audio to WAV and them TMPGenc to put it back together when encoding my MPEG2 file.

Any suggestions? Or is this the only way?

The AVI will play in Windows Media Player just fine, even before I installed that MPEG 3 codec mentioned above.

same here I'm using d2v & wave file made by dvd2avi to make a vcd but I get no audio after encoding. The wave alone works fine in winamp, i checked my vobs and everything I don't understand what's wrong. help!

The reason most likely is that the audio in your avi is not supported in "tmpgenc" you said your audio was mp3 and it is probably "mp3 vbr" , vbr mp3 is not supported in "tmpgenc" so you should extract the audio to wav with "virtual dub" and encode that, as a general rule you should usually extract your audio to wav, if the audio isn"t in in wav allready..allways make sure that encode your audio to 41000hz or it might not play in your dvd player,and for better audio quality and less errors use a different audio encoder with tmpgenc, try "toolame" or "scmpx" they work with "tmpgenc" as an external tool under you "external tool" setting in "enviromental settings"..and make sure you have the right audio codecs to decode the mp2 audio stream.

turned out that Virtualdub would not extract the audio. I'm on the hunt for other tools. otherwise I'll just need to find a different copy of the video that does not have MPEG3 audio in it.

virtualdub 1.4.10 worked.

Hello.

When I try to open a AVI file into the program it says "can not open, or unsupported." I don't know how to fix this...please help.

Thanks very much.

Go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" and raise the "direct show" to about "2" and lower everything else to "0".....

Awesome it loaded! Thanks a lot!

Hi,

I had the same problem. Testing your solution lets TMPGEnc go into Nirwvana, means it crashes (just away). This is only when opening a DivX 5 File, DivX4 works.
Who can solve this problem?

Thanks, Marc from Germany

I am not able to open DVD2AVI project file (*.d2v) in TMPG. It Gives "Illegal Stream Format". ANy help in resolving the situation would be appreciated.
Thanx

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ASHY

Just made my first mpeg 2. Used the DVD-NTSC setting, then changed to 2 pass VBR, avg bitrate to 6000, with max 8000 and min 2000. Left Motion Estimate on "fast" (which is probably why I have ragged edges on camera pans).

Main problem is I drag it to WinDVD 2000 and it won't play. However, it WILL play in WinMedia (7.1) which I didn't expect. Does this sound right??

Man, I have a lot to learn...

Oscar

No this doesn't sound right. It's usually the other way around.
Has it got the extension .mpg.

Your ragged edges are interlacing artifacts, nothing to do with the motion estimate search setting. What is the original movie source?

ASHY

Extension is .mpg Just built another short one using all defaults for [DVD-NTSC] and still same.

Original source is DV from Sony Digital 8. Using MS codec. Was captured using Scenalyzer Live. The latest test files were export from Premiere 6.0 ->MS DV AVIs.

Made mpg1 VCD files and they come out great. WinDVD appears to load it and it shows up in playlist, but when press "play" nothing happens. Just put a movie DVD in machine and WinDVD plays that fine... (Dell 8100 P4)

I tried non-interlace for encode mode and that didn't help jagged edges. Is another setting somewhere?

Try this, open WinDVD first then drag your MPG to the WinDVD window and it should play. If not I'd say a Windvd re-install was in order.

Choosing non-interlace won't get rid of your ragged edges.
Go to setting>advanced and double click the einterlace filter.
From the drop down box choose Even-odd field(field) and then find some action like a car moving or someone walking across the screen then click the righthand arrow a few times and observe the movement.
If it looks like it goes forwards then jumps back then you need to change the Field order in advanced. If it doesn't and it looks smooth then the field order is correct.

Now change the de-interlace option to even field and look at an action scene again where something is moving. The interlacing(ragged edges) should be gone, if not try the other settings until they are.

ASHY

Extension is .mpg Just built another short one using all defaults for [DVD-NTSC] and still same.

Original source is DV from Sony Digital 8. Using MS codec. Was captured using Scenalyzer Live. The latest test files were export from Premiere 6.0 ->MS DV AVIs.

Made mpg1 VCD files and they come out great. WinDVD appears to load it and it shows up in playlist, but when press "play" nothing happens. Just put a movie DVD in machine and WinDVD plays that fine... (Dell 8100 P4)

I tried non-interlace for encode mode and that didn't help jagged edges. Is another setting somewhere?

Double click on the filter -- who'd a thought.... Cool. Didn't suspect you could do that.

Is there a file/document somewhere that tell all these little "secrets" for TMPGenc? Or should we just monitor this BBS for awhile to learn?

Thank you so much for your help!!!

I realize each video probably varies, but for a Sony DV indoor video, what would be your guess of the optimum settings to get the very best quality for a DVD-R? VBR? high bandwidth (8000 or so avg?) noise filter? and obviously the interlace filter...

Oscar

I can't answer that question, the only way to find out is trial and error. Encode a little see how it turns out, if you don't like it try a different setting. The only thing I can tell you is that 'Constant quality(CQ)' will give you better quality than the other settings.

Try not to go overkill on the bitrate, 8000 is rather high for an average and could give your DVD player playback problems and you wouldn't need to use the noise filter unless there really is noise in the original movie, which is unlikely seeing as your source is DV, but that's up to you.
Set your VBV buffer to 224 and your DC component precision to 10.

The rest is up to you.

ASHY

Double click on the filter -- who'd a thought.... Cool. Didn't suspect you could do that.

Is there a file/document somewhere that tell all these little "secrets" for TMPGenc? Or should we just monitor this BBS for awhile to learn?

Thank you so much for your help!!!

I realize each video probably varies, but for a Sony DV indoor video, what would be your guess of the optimum settings to get the very best quality for a DVD-R? VBR? high bandwidth (8000 or so avg?) noise filter? and obviously the interlace filter...

Oscar