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Can someone please tell me how to get rid of the color distortion that I have in my wmv files? When a friend of mine converts a wmv that has color distortion to mpg, TMPGEnc takes away the color distortion but when I do so, the color distortion is still there. Can someone help me?
Does anyone know how I can make the quaility of my videos better. When they are playing in a small window in Media Player they are great, but when I transfer them to a VCD and play them in the DVD player they are very blurry.
Any help would be great thanks.
What are your problems with the sound ? I also have problems encoding a ripped dvd with tmpgenc. i take a .wav file and the .d2v file from dvd2avi into tmpgenc and the result is a very good video quality but a "noisy" sound. in the background you can hear a permanent "shhhhh" ...difficult to describe...sounds like something affects the sound quality during the encoding process. But i don't know what it is.
I have a new pc and a friend of mine has only a new mainboard,cpu and ram.we both have now a P4 with 1,6GHz running at 2,154 GHz overclocked by the Asus P4B533-E mainboard and 512 MB RAM. Overclocking could not be the reason because the problems still exists at 1,6 GHz !
The easiest way to make the quality better is to raise the bitrate, the bitrate for a regular vcd isn"t high enough to get rid of all the artifacts and macro blocks,I"m a total Quality Nut, and do xvcd"s and xsvcd"s and the quality of this is pretty close to the original file that I am encodeing,I encode at a resolution of "704 by 480" with the CQ encode method with a minimum bitrate of 500kbs and a maximum of 5000kbs with 85-90 Quality, and these look Very good, accept not all DVD players will play vcd/svcd"s with these bitrates and resolutions, but if you don"t wan"t to go for a higher resolution you can raise the bitrate and if you use the CQ encode method the file will not bee that much bigger that it was with the CBR method...
Thank you for you input... I am not having any problems with the sound just the video. I guess the real thing is the movies I am copying I shouldn't. I have a compliante DVD player and will try the higher bitrates. Hopefully this works
I ve been having the same sound problems for some time now (WITH EVERY VIDEO). My sound gets staticy after every encoding session. Ive tried using SCMPX and modifying the settings but the quality never gets better. Are there any other solutions? What could be causing the problem? Please help!
What are your problems with the sound ? I also have problems encoding a ripped dvd with tmpgenc. i take a .wav file and the .d2v file from dvd2avi into tmpgenc and the result is a very good video quality but a "noisy" sound. in the background you can hear a permanent "shhhhh" ...difficult to describe...sounds like something affects the sound quality during the encoding process. But i don't know what it is.
I have a new pc and a friend of mine has only a new mainboard,cpu and ram.we both have now a P4 with 1,6GHz running at 2,154 GHz overclocked by the Asus P4B533-E mainboard and 512 MB RAM. Overclocking could not be the reason because the problems still exists at 1,6 GHz !
Is this sound happen on your computer or on your dvd player??How about useing a Totally different encoder for doing the audio, Ashy said the "mpegdj encoder " was a good MP2 audio encoder and really fast, I use DB Power Amp sometimes to encode to MP2, they have a MP2 codec that produces vcd/svcd compliant audio files and it is free, it would actually be quicker to encode with no audio and the audio encodeing with DB Power Amp will only take 10 minutes.....
You can download MPEGDJencoder from http://www.xaudio.de/pages/encoder.html
It produces high quality VCD compliant mp2 files in lightning fast time from wav files. What it takes TMPG 30 mins to do and DBpoweramp 15 mins to do this program does in 2-3 mins.
If you encode the video and sound separate how do you get them back as one file or at least burned to the same disk without video and audio being off????????
Once you have created seperate Video and audio file it is just a matter of using the simple multiplexer in the MPEGtools to combine the two together as one file.
File>MPEGtools>simple multiplexer
When you do ensure you choose 'MPEG1 Video CD' as the stream type if you are creating a standard VCD and 'MPEG1 VCD(non standard)' if you are creating a non standard VCD.
strangely when i encode anything its always blockily weird .. and no matter how i boost up the bitrate or any other settings its always the same result .. is something wrong with my cpu maybe ?
I have an .AVI file that is definitely interlaced (comb effect on high motion screens). I want to create a VCD from this AVI file.
I'm not sure on what to set in TMPGEnc's options. I'm confused because it looks to me like more than one option seems to control the same thing (It's probably because I don't have a clue):
- Encode Mode (Video Tab) - does this only affect the MPEG header or does it
do something to the video stream itself?
- Video source type/field order - if I select my video is interlaced, what
does TMPGEnc do with this information? Is it used if I don't select the
Deinterlace filter as well?
The encode mode and video type are settings that Tmpgenc sets so in most cases you don"t touch them unless you were planning on doing a "3:2 pulldown", as to the correct field order if you load your file into the "Wizard" then Tmpgenc will analize the file and adjust it to the correct field order, if you are doing mpeg1/vcd you don"t have to worry about de-interlaceing because mpeg1 is a non-interlaced progressive format........
When I make a *.d2v file, TMPGEnc open the file without problem, but if I record this file in a CD-ROM and open in other PC, TMPGEnc said "File *.d2v can not open or unsupported". I like make a database of *.d2v for make VCD or SVCD in anytime.
ArtShips is totally correct, the D2V file does not have any video or audio on it it is a frameserver file, it acts as a middle man between the encoder and the vob files transfering information to the encoder from the vob files .You will notice that the D2V file is a very small file not enough to store enough information to to contain video or audio......
Why doesn't TMPG use the full VBR that is specified, for example, i specified a VBR min2000 average4500 and max9000 he never goes to the limit of 2000 or 9000, the 2-Pass-VBR that TMPG uses is just a little bit better "constante" bitrate and 2-Pass Encoding is not enough in my opinion. The 9-Pass Encoding of CCE is very good, but i could never afford CCE (1995,00 $) ... by the way TMPG has a lot more features then CCE, so TMPG is the better Program in my eyes, but i can be a bit faster, and should have a Mutiple-Pass Encoding (i think 9-Pass should be enough) and a better VBR code.
That's all, i hope you can include/improve these things in the following versions. Bye Peacemaker2000
I was looking at the Features of Tmpgenc Pro and it said that it will support 24 pass encodeing,But if you are useing good quality source files there isn"t that much noticeable differance in quality between CQ vs 2-pass vbr in tmpgenc or One Pass VBR in CCE and 9-pass VBR,but every one has there own opinion of what looks good and what works for them.......
im encoding different .d2v files and every so often the pc will lock up during encoding, either VCD or SVCD encoding locks up. Ive tried defragging the hdd, scanning with nortons ect, but still no luck, ive been all over the net for days looking for a solution, think this place is my last hope!!
thanks for any help provided!
Thanks for replys, im running windows 98. version of tmpgenc is ...2.56.39.143
1,1 duron, 256 mb ram, 40 gig hdd. ect
just tried again on a different .d2v got 3 hours into it and crashed. Not very impressed seeing as i paid for the licence, ive tried emailing the company, but that was 3 weeks ago and no reply. :(
One possible reason for TMPG freezing up is that you may have some hacked versions of the DivX code on your hard drive. ... I used Virtual Dub a few days ago for the first time and the very first message I got was a warning about some specific files on my hard drive that could cause system freeze-ups.
A second reason for a freeze up could be a problem with the avi code and the audio and video streams (if that is the correct word). I was trying very hard (for 3 weeks) to make a VCD of Vamoire Hunter D "Bloodlust". One AVI file went thru TMPG nicely enough, but the mpg it produced had no audio. When I posted the problem here "Minion" jumped up and down and shouted "VIRTUAL DUB"!!! So I downloaded that program, installed it, and printed out the manual. At The same time I found another copy of "Bloodlust" on KaZaa that was dubbed in english. I downloaded that AVI file and deleted the former one. When I used TMPG to make an mpg from the avi it stopped at 32% done. Some sort of write error. I then went to Virtual Dub and watched the entire program... thinking that somehow just running it thru the Virtual Dub program would fix any kinks in it. It did NOT. The second run thru with TMPG also stopped at 32%.
Now I was pissed off... 3 weeks on and off trying to make a simple amine VCD was getting on my nerves! I tried something that Minion had suggested before, regarding the first (and now deleted) avi Bloodlust file... I went to Virtual Dub, and after making Bloodlust the active file, I clicked on "make a .wav file"
Then when I had a .99 gig .wav file I went back to TMPG and tried again... using the original Bloodlust avi for my video and the new Bloodlust .wav for my audio.... Son of a Bitch, but it worked! I just got thru watching my newest VCD. I don't know why it worked, but then again, I don't understand the inner workings of my car either... so I guess that's OK.
Thanx for the reply! I thought it was just me going mad! lol
Ill give that a try with virtual dub, and ive also got an older version of tmpgenc to try out.....
Can you please tell me how to convert an avi file to an mpeg1. I have tried using the wizard and this requirs an audio and video file. When going thro the main prog I cant sem to find the way to do it. I want to encode the avi to mpeg and burn to CD. Any ideas please??
They cover all you need to know but heres a couple more tips
- Always decompress the audio before converting. You can do this with various tools like VirtualDub, but I use the decompress utility that comes with the avi2vcd application (use google to find it)
- TMPGEnc will allow you to specify different audio and video sources but generally unless you are doing framerate conversion outside of TMPGEnc your audio and video source will be the same avi
why does it say it cant load cant load p3package.dll when i am trying to finally rip a dvd? i have gone through all of the steps up until where you fill the video and audio directory, and i hit start and it doesnt work, it gives me the previously stated message
Language like that isn"t going to get you question answered but might get you ignored or banned...What my learned Colegue was trying to say is that if you use the search function at the top of this page you will get your question answered more quickly cuz this question has been answered many times.......
I think that it would be good idea to add bitrate/GOP/etc. analisys tool. Until now found only one program that can do that, and I think it costs too much for what it does. In theory it should be easy, after all, alot of info is already saved into the log files, all needed to be done is to present it graphically with statystical info...
BitRateViever is also a good tool and the price is ok, too. But why have thousands of tools, when you can have it all in one tool together. By the way, i think TMPG is allready a good combination of good tools, look at all the MPEG-Tools TMPG has (Multiplex / Demultiplex / Merge / Cut). But i think this can be extended, i would like to have a "Bitrate Viewer" included in TMPG too, and also a Multi-Pass Encoding feature, as i wrote above. There were not many NEW features in the last version, most of all was bugfixes. I would like to see more new ideas (even from this board) put into action.
I really did reffer to BitrateViewer... I would like something similar that would give me a graph with info on bitrate and similars, but if TMPGenc costs 48, then spending 25 for some graph program is a bit stupid I think...
Maybe I'll just try to make myself (using very primitive tools) a program that will read TMPGenc log files and display the info in graphs... Though wouldn't be much help for anything else if no log is present...