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This is a difficult one to answer because it all depends on your burner and player. Some burners work better with certain disks than others.
I have tried many disks and have had good ones and crap ones. Usually the best disks are the Taio Yuden manufactured disks,Phillps,TDK,Kodak,Sony.
The disks I'm using at the moment are the best I've used so far. Which has really suprised me because they are actually made by Ritek and are the DATASAFE brand or the WHITELABEL brand. These disks are excellant on my player for VCD.
I used to have a problem with some cheaper disks causing jerky playback and I could never burn a disk higher than 4x or it would jerk like hell.
With these disks there is never a jerk, a stutter a pop or anything, they play perferct 99.9% of the time even the more expensive disks didn't achieve this and these diska are quite cheap to buy.
Ritek used to have a bad name for CDR's but I have done some research into these disks and they have apparantly improved the quality now as they are aiming at the professional sector with these disks.
I certainly approve of these disks so maybe they would work for you.
I used tmpgenc 2.53 to encode an AVI-movie captured from a camcorder. Although the result on TV is reasonable I expected a better result compared to the original DV. Especially in the moving scenes I see a lot of pixels/snow. I used the standard SVCD-template (PAL). Is this normal or are there any better SVCD-templates or perhaps XVCD-templates available? Can someone help me by providing such templates resulting in higher quality or give me some hints.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks again for sending the templates. I have used the SVCD(PAL) but now my TV shows a jerky movie. I think, this has to do with the DVD-player (Grundig 5100). What to do now, should I lower the maximum bitrate?
I have done some checking and there are mixed opinions of what it can handle. Some say it can handle bitrates up to 4000 kb/s others say only up to 2600 kb/s.
As a test set the max bitrate to 2600 kb/s and see what happens and most importantly make sure you burn your MPEG at no higher than 4x as this can and does cause the movie to jerk.
By the way are you using CDRW or CDR for your MPEGs. If you are using CDRW then try it with a CDR. CDRW always play back jerky on my player, but the same movie plays fine on CDR.
I tried it on a CDR instead of a CDRW but it still resulted in a jerky movie (4000 kb/s). Decreasing the max. bitrate to 2600 does work, but the result is the same as the standard SVCD-template of tmpgenc: when the camcorder is moving and following a subject the background of the movie is full of pixels. Is it possible to improve this?
I'm afraid it's down to what your player is able to handle as the blocks are just an effect that using lower bitrates than the particular scene requires causes.
There isn't really much you can do about it, all you can really do is do some tests to find out how much bitrate you can use before your player starts to choke.
If you are more concerned about image quality than audio quality then you could sacrifice some of the audio bitrate so you could up the video bitrate slightly. If you reduce the audio bitrate to 128 kb/s you can up the video bitrate and extra 96 kb/s, not much I know, but it will help and remember the total bitrate your player can handle is the audio bitrate plus the video bitrate.
Setting the motion search precision to 'high' will give slightly better quality, but don't bother with 'highest' as it doesn't make a difference and doubles the time of the encode.
Also make sure you have 'soften block noise' checked in the quantize matrix tab.
Whenever I try to merge mpeg files together with the "merge/cut" tool of Tmpgenc I get a high pitch beep/chirp at each join point. I even try using the "correct" option and still I get the audio noise. I use VirtualDUB to capture the segmented files so there is really no way for me to merge at a differnt point. I can seperate the video from the audio and then edit them back together but that is too much work.
When will they fix this problem in Tmpgenc and make this problem go away and make the "correct" option automatic?
Your main problem is that MPEGs are not meant to be edited and is not a fault of TMPG.
You shouldn't be joining them anyway. What you should be doing is using the option in Virtualdub to join the segmented AVI's together and then frameserve them to TMPG. This is much simpler than the way you are doing things and will prevent the beep you are having problems with.
You don't merge them. If you have captured them with Virtualdub to segmented AVI's then Virtual dub will automatically open all the segments as if was one one file. You would then start the frameserver by clicking File>start framserver and then you will be asked to name an output for the frameserver file. Name it and give it an AVI extension then open that file with TMPG and encode.
If you need more info on setting up the frameserver go to http://www.vcdhelp.com it will tell you everthing you need to know.
Can anybody help? I've got an DivX (5.0.2 Codec) 23fps, 125kBit/s 24Bit, file with MPEG Layer-3 - sound (126kBit/s). I can play this file with Windows Media Player and diverse DivX players. But if I try to encode it in TMPGEnc using a SVCD or VCD template I get no sound in the output file. This is already the second DivX file I cannot encode to MPEG with sound. Please help!
By the way, do anybody know, what a file format a *.ogm file is?
Could be something to do with an audio codec you need or need to reinstall on your PC.
The ACM message refers to the windows Audio Compression Manager which is used to decode or encode audio using the audio codecs you have installed on your system.
Find out what the audio is in the movie file and install the appropiate codec or extract the audio to a wav file with a program such as Virtualdub and use that as your audio source.
What other programs have you got instlled in the computer, as i had a simliar problem and i uninstalled tmpgenc and uninstalled one of my other copying programs, then reinstalled tmpgenc, and that solved the problem
There is probably something wrong with your avi file, you can try to frame serve it from virtua dub but you still might get the error, these types of problems are common with movie files download off the net......
thx Minion,
I've just run it through VirtualDub and now TMPGEnc can encode it into VCD (But the avi file is not playable anymore; sound is out of sync. But VCD is alright, so it doesn't matter ;-)
thanks!
After succesfully encoding, I've tested to make a SVCD, but everytime I start following message comes:
hey...
im the guy who having trouble
with video coming faster than
sound coming out.....
and you told me to convert
asf file to mp2 file...
i downloaded codecs and trying
to convert but how do i setup
frequency and bitrate?
its on 44100 Hz and 256 kbps
do i need to change that?