I used to be able to open a SVCD file and then using a VCD template convert it down to that format. Now recently I can no longer open SVCD files - I get an error saying file ""xxxxx.mpg" can not open, or unsupported". I bought TMPGenc Plus - so I have no limitations - I used to be able to do this now I cant - anyone know why? Direct show filter has a 2 priority - so I dont know what else to do?

If you are using 2.57, you need read "Revision History" carefully.
Make sure the file can be played with Windows media player.

With the 2.57 version you don"t raise the direct show for mpeg files you need to raise one of the Mpeg filters.and you need to have a mpeg codec on your system like the one in "Power DVD"..

I have WinDVD 4 installed - so i presume it should use this codec to do the work! Which mpeg filter do u reccomend to raise?

I'm encoding 1080i files for conversion to transport streams then transfer to D-VHS tape. BBMPEG works fine. TMPGenc has failed with every file. I've tried all combinations of settings. The elementary streams are fine. The best I can get with TMPGenc - after muxing to a transport stream - is AC3 audio and a black screen.

Any ideas why TMPGenc is creating video files differently than BBMPEG even though the settings are similar?

Thanks,
Joe

hi all,
a friend told me the following:
play a vob file with flask and if all is alright (no blocks etc...) the dvd is progressive, if you see blocks, the dvd is interlaced...(he said, 95% of all dvds are progressive)

and so you have to set the settings in tmpgenc...

i never changed these settings before and i had no problems and the svcds are pretty good...
have i made all my svcds wrong the whole time?

and when:
have i set (under settings - encode mode it also to "non-interlace" and under advanced to "progressive) ???
i'm a litte bit confused...

(sorry for my bad english, hope you understand what i mean...)

It is easy to figure out if your file is "ntsc interlaced" or "pal progressive"
just look at the frame rate, 25fps is Progressive and 29.9fps is Interlaced...as for 95% of all DVD"s being progressive that is total crap, It depends on were you live, if you live in Germany you would use Progressive and if you live in North America it is interlaced.......

hm,
made a test with a small vobfile...
can't see any difference if i set all to standard settings (interlaced)
or set both settings to non-interlaced

btw: i'm from germany...

DID You Read The Post??? Your answer is There!!!! you will not notice any differance on your monitor but you WILL notice it if you burn it to disk.Those settings are not for YOU to adjust, the encoder puts those settings to the right ones when you load the file...."PAL=25FPS=Progressive/Non-Interlace" and "NTSC=29.9FPS=Interlace"

i read it...
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Those settings are not for YOU to adjust, the encoder puts those settings to the right ones when you load the file
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i use dvd2avi to make a project...i don't load vobfiles...
so if i load a project in tmpgenc (from a PAL DVD) there are all settings "interlaced"...

the first answer of you i understood as: i have to change the settings to "non-interlaced (progressive)"

now i understand the second answer as: leave all settings "interlaced", because tmpgenc does it for you...

maybe my english is too bad or you don't understand what i mean...sorry

You said in your first post that the "encode mode" is set to "non-interlace" and under the "Advanced" set to "progressive"?? That should be correct for a pal file.

Recent problems:

I get a message now that says AVI file cannot open or is unsupported.

I am sure this is common. How do I fix this. I think it has to do with compressed AVI files.

You are right this is the Most common question asked on the forum and has been asked and answered thousands of times...You need to raise the priority of the "direct show file reader", you do this by going to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "Direct Show" To "2".....

When i encode as DVD PAL the average and min bitrate cannot be set to less than 2000. Is there a way to make this possible. I use latest version of the program. I dont want to encode as Super VCD since here the max bitrate is limmited.
jvm

To change the bitrate settings you need to load the "Unlock.mcf" Template from the "Extra" folder........

Works fine
Thanks a lot.
Does nay one know if file splitting by size is a planed feature or will we have the time based one as is.

I have a 880 MB avi file that I want to cut down to fit on a writeable CD. What I'd like to do is cut out frames within the file. Not just frames at the beginning or end. How can I do this and it be a smooth avi file? What I'd love is for there to be simply a "delete" button that you can click and elminate frames as you go through them. This way I could simply delete out frames I don't want. If this isn't possible, can I simply tell it which section of frames to edit out by picking a start frame and an end frame and then the program edits that part out and connects the remaining together. Could someone tell me how to do one of these ... or a better way? Thanks!

So what is the Purpose of Writeing the AVI to a CD-R???and what does this have to do with Mpeg encodeing??And Tmpgenc isn"t really an AVI editor, and if you were to re-encode it to avi but say changeing the frame rate to a lower frame rate to make a smaller file, who is to say that the file won"t be bigger than the original,..You should post Why you want to put the AVI on a cd-r instead of makeing a vcd or svcd so you can view the file on TV and why you are useing Tmpgenc to work with Avi file instead of Mpeg files..

The file is a avi. TMPG says it can edit avi files. The file I want to edit was one I downloaded from WinMX and is a comedian's stage act. It is too large right now for a CD so I'd like to cut out a few of the lame jokes so I can make the good ones fit on a CD. I plan to make a few copies and give it to friends. Unfortunately, the lame jokes are sprinkled throughout the act.

I believe Avisynth has commands that would let you drop every nth frame, but that would be a real pain. And the audio might be difficult to sync back up.

Virtualdub good for simple AVI editing. Set IN and OUT points and hit delete. Save with direct stream copy to avoid recompression.

Or, recompress to a format with a lower bitrate. This would mean encoding to MPEG or "save as AVI" choosing a different codec, like DIVX.

You do not mention the length or current codec of the clip so it is hard to make a call. Cutting out frames and then saving with the wrong codec could blow the file way UP in size.

You Right ...If you want to edit AVI files Tmpgenc is not the best one for the job, because with Tmpgenc you have to re-encode the file to AVI to edit it, you should download "Virtual Dub" it is a proper AVI editor, and it will allow you to do a "Direct stream copy" of the file instead of Re-encodeing it so you don"t loose Quality...

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check out Virtual Dub.

Help new user

I ve converted some holiday avi files created on a fuiji finepix camara
I download them to my pc and then converted them ready to burn as dvd so
that we could watch them on our TV.

I used DVD PAL . I had no trouble in converting them but silly me i deleted
the avi versions both on the PC and the smartcard. When i play them it
tells me they are not supportted and onmedia player it goes looking for a
codec which it fails to find.

it also will not burn the dvd.

Is there some way i can convert them back i've tried video-cd and
super video cd but to no success both tell me cannot open or unsupported

So you are saying that you encoded your avi"s to mpeg then deleted the avi"s but then realized that the mpeg files don"t play in your media players and you wan"t to get your avi files back or get the mpeg to play??? Well if you are useing "Windows Media Player" then it might not play it because Media player needs a special mpeg2 codec to play mpeg2 files, so you need to play the mpeg file with a software DVD player like "Power DVD" ..If there is no image in your mpeg file then there is no way to extract an image..You can"t extract what isn"t there..but if you CAN get it to play with Power DVD but for some reason can"t burn it to DVD-R, you can re-encode the file by de-multiplexing the file and re-encode the video to mpeg...

Thanks but how do i re-encode the file using what software

>So you are saying that you encoded your avi"s to mpeg then deleted the avi"s but then realized that the mpeg files don"t play in your media players and you wan"t to get your avi files back or get the mpeg to play??? Well if you are useing "Windows Media Player" then it might not play it because Media player needs a special mpeg2 codec to play mpeg2 files, so you need to play the mpeg file with a software DVD player like "Power DVD" ..If there is no image in your mpeg file then there is no way to extract an image..You can"t extract what isn"t there..but if you CAN get it to play with Power DVD but for some reason can"t burn it to DVD-R, you can re-encode the file by de-multiplexing the file and re-encode the video to mpeg...

How do i do this using what software? and where do i get power dvd

If there is a Picture in the file then you can encode it with Tmpgenc but if there isn"t then you are out of luck........

During encoding a AVI file to an MPEG2 file, i get the next error :

-272762914 859034592

After the error the ecoding stops.

What is this error, and what can I do about it ?

Stef

my avi files will not open it says can not open or is unsupported

I get a simular message after i've converted some video from my fuiji
finepix camara.
I converted it to mpeg2 on pal and now it wont read or be burnt for a dvd
video

Any ideas

hello,
i have been using this program from sometime now,i have converted about 60 movies and have had no problem with the sound.now for no reason there is no sound when i convert.i even tried to convert a movie that i did once before that had sound .now it does not have sound...please help...i have never converted to wav before.it always worked before.

Well if you never had to extract the audio to wav then you have been lucky ,Untill now, I know the earlier versions seemed to be compatible with more audio formats, but It is the only solution that there is for audio that doesn"t encode......

go to your sound properties and make sure the correct recording input is selected. on windows, open up the play control dialog (usually the speaker icon in your system tray), go to options -> properties, click the recording radio button, then ok. the play control dialog changes to the record dialog. from here make sure you have the right input selected (usually line-in if you have a capture card like i do), hope that helps...

Hi,

I tried to encode an AVI file but it's taking way too long. For just 5 mins of it (only 11%), 11 hours have elapsed and the indicator shows that 83 more hours are required to complete the encoding!

I have encoded other AVIs with no problems - this is the only one giving me problems. Most likely it's because of the source file. Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong/different with this particular AVI?

Thanks and regards,
GeeK

There are few things I can think of.

1. The AVI is corrupted.
2. The AVI is divx or something but you have not installed proper codec.
3. Both 1 and 2.

If you got the file from somewhere and do not know the file format in detail
it is hard to solve the problem.

I had some extremely newbie questions for anyone willing to help.

I just wanted to convert some avis to mpegs so I can watch them on my dvd/vcd player (was planning to burn them in Nero).

1) interlace or non-interlace?
2) aspect ratio at default 1:1 (VGA)
3) do I need to change source range, clip frame or noise reduction, or leave them unchecked?

Anything else I should know.

Thanks!

Montage,

Try this link
http://www.afterdawn.com/articles/archive/dvd2vcd_with_smart_dvd2avi_tmpgenc.cfm?wide=true

The website is called afterdawn.com and it shows you in exact details on how to use the software including TMPGEnc.

Sweet, thanks alot. I'm checking it out right now.