I have backed up several DVD's now using TMPGEnc for the final conversion to MPEG-1 prior to burning the video CD. In all of them, when playing back on my home DVD player, the video seems to speed up and slow down at times out of sync with the audio which continues playing at a constant rate. This does NOT happen when playing the VCD on my PC. Anyone have any suggestions? Could the problem be that I am stepping down from 29.97 fps to 23.976 fps when encoding the video? The audio stream has been ripped as a separate WAV file, so would be unaffected by the stepdown. Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks.

Hi, i try to convert a divx to svcd with Tmpegenc. After converting audio to wav everything seems to work fine, but tmpeg crashes after a while. Mostly in the middle of the conversion job. No erroro message or something. it simply crashes.

I tried to turn two avi files to a SVCD mpg file, but for some reason, the video doesn't work. I con't open it. On another post it said to try raising some direct show or something to 2, and I did that, and now I see the video as it converts, but will that change the end product? Do I have to convert the files again? I'm trying to change a video that was split into two parts into a video that I can play on a dvd player. I had it set up so that I could merge then cut them. I merged them, but I don't know how to cut them, but the file won't play anyways. How do you work this program? I think a help file is needed...

Take yourself over to VCDhelp.com for tutorials how to use TMPG.

ASHY

Hi,
i have been try to get some help about doing batch processing in TMPGEnc.i have just not been able to find any help on this.i want to do batch process of diffirent files in TMPGEnc.so that multiple files are processed even when i am away from the system.i will appritiate any help on this.thank you.

The way you set up the "Batch Encodeing" is to load in your file then do your settings then go to "File" to "Save Project" and make a project file then repeat as nescessary..The go to "file" to "batch encode" then load the project files into the "Batch encode" wondow, then click "run"...thats it...

Why not using File -> Add current project to batch list ?

ok here is my problem when i convert a mov file to an mpg i get no sound what am i doing wrong?

Hello.
I'm under Win98SE, with TMPEGEncPlus 2.58.
Xvid codec : Koepit XviD-04092002-1 _ALPHA_ Release
I'm having very big problems with Xvid AVI file.
Here are the several thing.

- When i chose an AVI XVid file in video input, i made a patch MPEG file process,
after that, when i chose an other AVI file (not Xvid), when i want to make
the project "Add current project to batch -> MPEG file", the windows where
you select the destination file doesn't appeared, and the program is frozen.
When i do CTRL+ALT+DEL to kill the process, after a long time, i've a blue
screen with an error in VMM.VXD.

- I open TMPEG, i chose an AVI Xvid file in video input, i close TMPEG.
I re-open TMPEG, wich make the current AVI input file an Xvid file, i go
to "Batch encode", and then, i've the following error message :
"BatchEncodeForm.Icon.Data reading error : Read error occured at adress
BFF7A125 of module KERNEL32.DLL with 0078FF78"
If i want to chose an audio file, the program froze when i chose "Browse".
I've tried to kill the process by CTRL+ALT+DEL, but after doing that, the
PC have frozen, i've been obliged to do a reset.
It seems that with an AVI Xvid file in current input video file, after
a boot of the PC, you can call only once a function wich make apperead the
file selection windows. The second time, the program froze.

-I've been very hardly able to make my batch processes. When arrived at
the Xvid file, there has been the following error :
"Read error occured at adress 0048E326 of module TMPEGENC.EXE with FFFFFFFF".
Of course, all the following batch processes have failed.

There have been a few poeple complaining about haveing problems with the XVid format and Tmpgenc, I might be wrong but I don"t thing that Tmpgenc fully supports the XVid format...

I had the same problem - "Read error occured at adress
BFF7A125 of module KERNEL32.DLL with 0078FF78"

I removed the Xvid codec and TmpgEnc works correctly again. That causes a problem, though, if you want to transcode from Xvid to Mpg, since you'll need the Xvid codec installed...

Here's my workaround
1) install the Xvid codec
2) recompress the avi using ANOTHER avi codec. For example Divx 3,4 or 5. I use VirtualDub for this. It seems to have no issues with XVid.
3) de-install the xvid codec (uninstaller included with the release that I have)
4) run TmpgEnc as normal to transcode the new avi to an mpg file.

Now... the avi has been transcoded twice, introducing the possibility of more encoding artefacts (blocky picture etc). To counter that, when transcoding from Xvid avi to Divx avi, choose an abnormally high bitrate - for example 3 Kbps or 5 Kbps. This will produce a large file - but hey, it's only a temporary file anyway, and choosing the high bitrate will minimise artefacts. Make sure you choose a CONSTANT BIT RATE codec, and NOT a variable one (e.g. NOT fast motion, or 2-pass) - you don't want the codec to try and do it's normal job of efficiently compressing - you want a FAT avi file.

Hope it works for you.

Regards, Postman
(and thanks to the authors for TmpgEnc - a SPARKLING program)

Does the new version of tmpgenc have the ability to shut down the system after encoding? I was able to check a box in my previous version...

I believe if you use the Wizzard you get a 'shut down after encode' option box, but not if you make your choices through the regular menus.

To enable the shutdown option you either have to use batch encoding or after setting TMPG up begin the encoding by clicking File>output to file>MPEG file and the box will appear.

ASHY

I'm converting Lord of the Rings with TMPG Enc by running Dvd2svcd. It in turn calls TMPG Enc. The estimated time to run is 54 hours. Is this normal? I have a 800 mhz Dell with 384 meg of memory and plenty of disk space. Running win2k and have plenty of virtual memory setup.

I don"t know about useing DVD2SVCD but when useing DVD2AVI to Tmpgenc it only took about 7-9 hours, on my old 800mhz Intel Celeron with 512mb-ram...What version of Tmpgenc does DVD2SVCD Use??If it uses a old version then mabe try a newer one...Or you can do it the other way with DVD2AVI to Tmpgenc..I Think that DVD2SVCD uses AViSynth were DVD2AVI uses VFAPI to frame serve and Tmpgenc uses Vfapi so the other method should be faster, or you can use CCE 2.50 with dvd2svcd and I know that CCE is up to 5-8 times faster than Tmpgenc..

I'm still a bit of a noob at this.. but its the latest version as I had to go get it rather than dvd2svcd providing it.. The commandline that dvd2svcd uses to launch TMPGenc is

"D:MediaTMPGEnc-2.58.44.152-FreeTMPGEnc.exe" "E:DVDTMPGEnc_Project_file.tpr" /Encode /Close

I did some messing around with converting to AVI, the issue was subtitling. I'm kinda deaf so I need the subtitles and all the software I used resulted in bad subtitling when I split the avi during encoding. So DVD2SVCD is an attempt to try something different since it encodes the subtitles directly (or rather TMPGEnc does). So I could use DVD2AVI to do the same time but throw in the VFAPI to speed the process? Will DVD2AVI do direct subtitle encoding while breaking the created file up so I can save each AVI on a CD?

It is most likely the setting you have chosen for TMPG. If you have chosen the highest quality setting then this will seriously slow down the encoding and is no better than the high quality setting. Also make sure you don't have 2 pass enabled.

To be honest with you using DVD2SVCD is more complicated than just using Smartripper>DVD2AVI>TMPG as separate programs. All that messing about setting it up is a waste of time and using the programs individually will give you more control and is really quite simple.
You can find a tutorial how to to use these prgrams at VCDhelp.com

ASHY

I'll mess around with it some more... I've actually done dvd -> avi with smartripper and vidomi. I got hung up trying to figure out how to split the subripped subtitles into 2 for 2 cd's. On to read that tutorial you mentioned :) Thanks for the help!

I am using the tmpgenc to vfapi to cce 2.50 for encoding.

I am using in tmpgenc
CQ
Min = 750
Max = 2520
Q = 100

Of course, I am saving this as a project file and serving it to vfapi to cce 2.50

Yet when I get into CCE im only left with CBR, One and Multi Pass

Is there a way I can encode tmpgenc's CQ with cce 2.50

Thanks

The bitrate settings in Tmpgenc have nothing to do with the way your project file is read or the way CCE encodes the psudo avi file..So it does not mater what you set the bitrate in tmpgenc cuz Tmpgenc is not doing the Encodeing, it is just resizeing the resolution and applying any filters you might have used..The "One Pass VBR" method is the same(but better) sort of method as the "CQ" method in Tmpgenc accept the lower the "Q" level in CCE the better the Quality..If I were you i would use CCE 2.62 or 2.64 if you are useing the Vfapi method cuz those version give better quality than the 2.50 version, pluss if you are useing the 2.50 version you can use "AVISynth" or "Virtual Dub" to frame serve to it and it would be a bit Quicker than the VFAPI Method.

Why on earth would you want to use TMPG's CQ encoding settings for CCE. What would be the point as this would mean you would simply be using TMPG's engine to encode.
The whole point of frameserving to CCE is that you use it's superior MPEG2 encoding engine (forget MPEG1 it's crap) with that of another frameservers settings.
CCE uses the CQ method already for encoding so all you have to do is just use the same bitrate settings in CCE as TMPG except for the quality slider which as minion points out works in the opposite way. A setting of 60 should produce high quality movies.

As a note the bitrate settings you using are quite low. If you want high quality and your player can handle it a setting of Min- 1800 Max- 4000 Q- 60 will give superb reults and should fit a 100min movie on 2 80min cd's

ASHY

hello friend!
I am having problem when i encode to vcd (mpeg1) from divX(avi) , I am getting almost continious small around 10-15 red blue and white small dots in out put video. which I found very annoying..
please help me someone what to do for removing that

Sounds like "Macro Blocks", this usually can be cured to some extent by raiseing the bitrate, but this will increase the File size..The bitrate for standard VCD"s is way to low to give optimal Quality...

Are these little square blocks?

ASHY

yeah very small and some times it seems like raining of this three colors dots

no matter what i do this video is still pixelated as all hell..any ideas?

This can be caused by a few things, like if you are encodeing to a low resolution like "VCD" and you play it at Full screen you will get Pixelation, or just not haveing the bitrare high enough...The standard Bitrate for VCD is to low to get rid of the Macro Blocks, so the solution is to raise the bitrate..I usually encode VCD"s at 1650 to 2000kbs, and get anyware from 50-60 minutes on a CD-R and most of the Macroblocks are gone..another thing that can cause this is if you have a low resolution source file and you Increase the resolution, this will cause that effect also.and haveing the "Motion Precition" set at "High quality" can help but the encodeing will take a bit longer...

Hi, I've tried to convert many AVI files to MPG but the end result is blank video, just audio. Tried every setting I could think of. The AVI plays just fine, but won't convert to MPG without losing the video.

What am I doing wrong? It's not just one bad file, it seems like this happens with every AVI that I try to convert to MPG. My goal is to take these AVI files and convert to MPG for use on VCD format.

Thanks!

You probably just need to raise the "Direct show file reader"..Go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "direct show" to "2"...