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Please help!
When I use TMPGEnc Plus to encode the movie and then burn it with Nero, everything works fine. If, though, I cut the MPEG in half to fit it onto a CD, then Nero invariably needs to reencode files, which takes huge amounts of time. What am I doing wrong? What should I change or set to avoid this lengthy reencoding?
I am certainly no expert, being a rank amateur and "newbie", but the same thing has happened to me, and I just hit the Nero "turn off standard settings" (or something... don't recall the exact language, but basically I told Nero to go ahead and burn the CD without reencoding.)
The result was fine every time I have done that. Now, my DVD player is definitely one of the less picky ones. I bought the cheap Apex at Circuit City, because it takes just about anything. Your DVD player may be pickier, but I would try that at least once, to see if it works for you.
That is, unless Ashy, Minion or one of the other experts here say otherwise, that is! LOL
Cutting the movie seems to mess up the VCD or SVCD type of the stream.
Use "Simple multiplex" to fix this on the two parts you cut from the original. Use video and audio part from the same mpg file and set the desired streamtype. Create a new file that has the correct VCD or SVCD Structure again (You may notice the new file differs in length a bit). Your burning Program should accept the new file ...
Hope that helps, at least that fixed my problems ...
You probably had the stream type set to the wrong setting when you cut the file, and if you burn it without the correct header the file won"t play properly, and the newer versions have a bug in them were they have a problem writeing the svcd header on the Mpeg2 file, so the best thing is to use an older version ,one before 2.57 and it should work for cutting correctly...
This is most likely because u dis not change the stream type to the correct one to add the VCD headers when cutting as minion said.
The default stream is 'MPEG1 system (automatic)' this is incorrect for VCD and will give an error in your burning program just as Nero has done.
For VCD the stream needs to be 'MPEG1 VideoCD' or 'MPEG1 VideoCD (non standard)'
For SVCD the stream needs to be 'MPEG2 SuperVCD (VBR)'
Run your already split files through the simple multiplexer with these stream settings to add the headers.
If you are doing mpg2 svcd, then nero will not like 48,000 audio. some players will support 48,000 audio, but it is the in spec with svcd compliant files. turning off compliant svcd in nero could do the trick however, but on the other hand, if you are making mpg1, or cutting, then like the above post, make sure you use mpg1 vcd, and not mpg1 automatic.
>If you have a P4 and Win2k or XP, you can increase the Speed by switching Mulziprozessing on (no Joke!).
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Please explain. I have a p4 @2.4ghz with 512Ram, also a p4 2.0 with 256. What can be done to speed this up.
I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has helped me on this board - especially Ashy and Minion (you guys are a valuable asset to the community and a 'thank you' doesn't even begin to thank you for all the hard work you put in in answering all the replies you post in an informative and friendly manner). Over the past few months I have perfected the art of converting DIVX to XVCD and couldn't have done it without the help of people on this board
I have recently got a new laptop which has svideo out and will be watching most of my DIVX movies directly from my laptop on my TV, so I will be converting less and less.
The main reason is really because my player doesn't handle high bitrates too well and being a perfectionist I want the best quality output. Maybe I'll buy a cheapo player sometime soon that will handle high bitrates, but for now Im going to try the svideo connect.
People were asking here why do one needs the System Audio only and System Video only. Well here is the deal...
Anyone here into making VCDs or SVCDs? Well, if you are deep into this then you know that (S)VCDs have what is called "Segments" directory. This allows you to have, in addition to the Video tracks, MPEG stills, Audio only tracks and Video only tracks.
Now let's say you are making a VCD and you'd like to have an Audio only track. If you take a program like VCDEasy (who is a GUI for VCDImager) it won't accept an Audio only MP2 file for the segments section. However, if you encode the Audio into System audio only, and under system type select VCD non-Standard, it will accept the file and make it into playable segment item.
Now, there shouldn't be any problem with Version 2.58 that removes this option. As much as I tried in version 2.57, you can encode to an Audio only MP2, and later in the "MPEG Tools" under "Multiplex" browse the MP2 and multiplex it as VCD non-standard and will make same results.
VCD with "audio only" items is good solution if you want lot's of audio on one CD and your DVD player doesn't support MP3. with MP2 at 160kbps you can have something like 10 or 11 hours of audio per CD and quality will be great...
As for Video only it's probably the same thing, as adding it as segment item, but can't tell much as I have never tried this thing (who needs video only anyway, unless you encode a silent movie :-) )
Good morning! I have an avi file that is a dvd rip. When I checked it for video errors (using Virtual Dub) I got the message: 5 masked frames, i undecodable frame. What is the best way to handle this. - My intent is to use TMPG to make a mpg file and then burn it to CD-R.
The reason I ask is that the last time I had a file with similar "undecodable" frames TMPG just stopped and did nothing more. I ended up doing a crude edit job with virtual dub and then used TMPG, but it took a lot of time.
Using Virtual Dub, can I just re-encode the avi in some manner that will "fix" the problem frames?
You may just be able to simply frameserve the file from Virtualdub to TMPG as Virtualdub will probably handle the dodgy frames better, but you may have to mask the undecodable frame also before doing it.
Since installing Windowws media player 9 i am unable to convert avis to mpgs, when i try i get an illegle operation!!!. Does anyone know a way round this???
yeah I'm having the same problem at the moment. TMP is converting the avis ok as it tells me, yet no player is capable of playing them, and TMP is unable to even load them in the mpeg tools without crashing.
if you are using XP there is a facility called system restore. this will give you the option of restoring your system configuration to how it was b4 u installed media player v9 without losing any of your saved work.
It seems to me that the headers are not being written correctly, and it also appears to me that media player 9 needs a lot of work before it upgrades from beta, as the only files i can now play with it are mp3s.
I have been useing the Media Player 9 for a couple days and it plays everything Fine for me, mpeg files avi files AVS files, the only problem I had was scanning through a Mpeg file the audio goes out of sync but that has been a problem on most Media Player versions....
bit jealous that you have media 9 working nice and sweet.
the system restore is a bit odd, as although it removes the player, it doesn't restore the old one !!*!*!, so when you open a media file it begins the installation procedure of media 9 player again..
Since i did a system restore though my system has been fine, and haven't seen any problems converting dvd to avi, avi to svcd or dvd to svcd !! quality !!!
p.s. was there not a media player 8 for XP? I can only find media player 9 beta on the microsoft site or player 7 for win98, me etc.?
When splitting an MPEG2 file both halves do not complete re writing the SVCD header, an error message "unable to write SVCD header" appears and the process stops. The files when converted to SVCD still play okay.
Any suggestions as to why this error message appears?
Thank you
Thank you for your responses. I don't have any version before 2.57. Where can I get an older version and will my registration number work with an older version.
I have a problem adding subtitles in slovenian language.The problem is, that i can'tdisplay my local characters in tmpgenc.I can see "Equot; and "Equot;, but i can't see "È" instead of "È" it shows "'E".
Can anyone help me or advise me what subtitle convertor i must use to get rid of that problem.
Thanks to Minion and Ashy & a few other gurus here, I was able to successfully convert the AC3 audio stream in my downloaded DIVX movie to a WAV (using VirtualDub to extract the audio stream to WAV, then changing the resulting WAV file extension to AC3, and then using HeadAC3he to convert the AC3 file into a "real" WAV, that TMPGEnc could use.
Next, I used TEMPGEnc's wizard to create the MPG.... using SVCD, and NTSC 704X480 templates. 2 hours, 49 minutes later, I tested the resulting MPG. (It looked approximately the right size... the original AVI was 717,480...the WAV was 810,121, and the MPG was 1,469,776..... and this was just "CD1" of the downloaded file! I still have another one to process! Obviously, I would need to merge and cut the two CD downloads to put them on 3 or 4 CD's, eventually (which seems excessive, actually).... But the quality of the picture and sound of the AVI was awesome on my computer, so I persisted!)
One message that I got from TEMPGenc after the MPG was processed, that I wondered about, was "Stream read error". I didn't know what that meant, but I am guessing that it means that I can't getting any picture! But I had to test that anyway, with 2 hours, 49 minutes, and a Gig and a Half already invested.
I cannot get any picture in Windows Media Player, Divx player, or VCD Cutter players. The sound is fine in all players (my former problem, before using HeadAC3he was that the sound was too jittery to comprehend on the MPG, but the picture was still awesome.)
Am I skipping some step here? I am wondering if I need to somehow extract the video stream and merge it with the audio stream created by HeadAC3he... but I am not sure this is what I need to do... and if I will be able to maintain synch, if I do that, before encoding with TEMPGenc.
Please keep replies at "newbie" level. I have read a great number of posts here, but there are 159 pages, so I don't understand a lot of the terms yet... even though I look them up at another site that has a glossary.
Kat (slowly, but surely learning how to do this stuff, thanks to my friends on this BBS!)
I am trying to convert an .avi file to a .mpg file so that I can burn it to SVCD. Also, are there any "newbie" guides on how to do this, or maybe a different program to try? I will be burning with Nero. I have successfully made SVCD backups of DVDs, but this is my first attempt at making an SVCD from a .avi file I downloaded. Also, the .mpg file that I do get from this attempt has no sound. Any ideas on this one? Thanks for any advice ya'll can give!
My source .avi has 25 fps. However the frame rate in the "Source range" window shows 30 fps if the "DirectShow File Multimedia Reader" priority is set to 1 in the "Enviromental settings" (VFAPI plug-in).
It is only a bug if when you start encodeing it encodes it at 30fps instead of 25fps...After you have done your settings and you go back to the main screen, what does it say the frame rate is set to at the bottom of the Tmpgenc screen??
Check out the latest version of the TMPEG Batch List Creator. The New version makes it even easier to select multiple video files to convert using TMPEG.