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Whenever I made a scvd with tmpegenc svcd wizard, I have problems with large moving objects. For example if camera moves slowly from left to right or some large object, maybe a car moves through the screen slowly it jerks about every 1 second.
Anyone know what setting I should try to change to get rid of this problem. My source is mainly divx.
Yes I was creating a standard scvd with tmpgenc wizard. Changin field order doesn't solve the problem. Please take a look at my sample file which shows what the problem is.
Ah, Princess Mononoke, a PAL-Version.
Did you do a Framerat-Conversion?
What exactly was the Source (Framerate)?
My Version of this Movie is made with iVTC to 23.97 FpS and has a SpeedUp to 25 FpS, there's no jerky Motion.
i cannot see any display when i encode . i have tried changing the settings
in the preview menue but i still get nothing
please help!!
t.i.a (thnx in advance)
hozay
I am having serious problems with the quality of my DVD movie. I have created a movie into AVI format. I use tmpgenc to encode this to mpeg2 for DVD quality and use dvdit se to create the disc. Problem is the color is no longer sharp but more dull, I notice some blurriness to the video, screen transitions dont run smooth and the video doesnt run smooth. After looking for proper settings on the net, i cannot find any good recommendations on proper settings in tmpgenc.
Any suggestions on general settings for ntsc format on a 4:3 screen?
I feel your pain brother!!!! I can get a great loooking MPEG-1 file and play it on my home dvd player useing a standard CD, but when i try to make a DVD it looks a blocky and runs like its POPPING or hesitating. I have tried raising and lowering the BITRATE settings and even trying different methods, such as VBR and CQ settings and NOTHING, helps!!! This just plain out right sucks. I myself and LOST.
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I had no audio when I tried to convert, so I used VirtualDub to extract the audio. Still no audio when i tried again. I looked at the .wav file and I realized it is half as long as it should be. No matter how I extract it with VirtualDub, it comes out half as long. When I try to completely re-encode the avi with VirtualDub, the audio is missing from the last half. This has happened with two very professionally done fansubs I have downloaded lately. Both show up as Divx MPEG-4 when I look at the file info in VirtualDub.
Any ideas? I have converted hundreds of avi files to vcd compliant mpg, but this has only happened to me twice, and in the past month. Are there any new codecs that I should be aware of, or any new formats? I really want to get this stuff off my harddrive and onto disk.
just to add a little oddity, when I drag the AVI files I mention above over with Nero, it doesn't complain. I haven't wanted to waste a CD to try, but shouldn't it say that they aren't vcd compliant and offer to reencode?
What details does Virtualdub give about the audio?
Why not try a different program to extract the wav such as AVIMUX which is free and can handle all sorts of types of audio inculding Ac3 and is able to simply extract or extract and re-encode to another audio format.
I tried extracting the wav in full processing mode, and it worked, I got the whole thing. I have no idea why. I am gonna go back and try it with the other file I had the trouble with. The process I am using is:
1. Rip the audio in full processing mode (~70 meg wav for a 7 minute clip).
2. Save the AVI as "Direct Stream Copy" with NO AUDIO in VirtualDub.
3. Assemble the wav and avi in TMPGEnc to make the VCD.
In a series of 15 clips, I only had to do this with the last 3 or 4, so I dunno if they changed settings upgraded to a different codec or what. Freaked me out though. I was to the point of re-downloading the clips... Hope this helps someone else.
if the audio in an avi is not in wav forrmatt then u HAVE to use full processing mode and select uncompressed or u will just be extracting the audio format as is.look in file information in virtual dub to see what formatt the audio is. ALso, i don't think u have to demux the avi to use it as a video source only unless thats the only thing that worked for u.....intersting
Lupy is absolutely right on both accounts. You must use Full processing and set the decompression to PCM otherwise you will just be extracting the audio as is.
Also as Lupy says there is no need to demux the avi, just load it as is into TMPG and load your extracted wav as the audio.
Hey does anyone know how to add thumbnail chapters to cd's? I want to make my cd's look like the DVD's with a thumbnail pic of each chapter sceen. I use VCDEasy is there a better program, with more features?
A good Authoring Program For adding Chapters and Menue"s to VCD/SVCD/DVD"s is "Ulead DVD Workshop" it has an easy to learn Interface produces fairly good Quality Movies and is a Easy program to find..There is a Functional Demo version at the ulead Web site at :www.ulead.com/
VCDEASy is a Very basic authoring program that just offers options for chapters were Ulead Offers Unlimited Chapters and Menu"s and Motion titles, motion Menu"s and lots of other stuff that a basic program like VCDeasy doesn"t have..
After loading a file and clicking on it, then edit, I get a blue screen with a fatal exception error message. It has only just started to do this. I've uninstalled and re-installed TMPGEnc but get the same result. Any advice greatly appreciated.
I've got tmpgenc installed on a pc (P3, 500 MHz) and on a Notebook (1200 Mhz Celeron). When trying to open the same *.avi on both conputers, the program on the notebook does not recognize the audio-source and the created mpeg does not contain any sound. What can I do about this problem? It's the same tmpgenc-version and the same *.avi-file.
The biggest problem people have with avi files is they don't realize avi is a generic term. It is the most widely used audio/video format on Windows platforms. However it is not at all the easiest file to play. Because it is not compressed with one specific codec, rather it is a file that can be compressed (or completely uncompressed) with any one of hundreds of codecs (examples: divx, MPEG-4v2, Indeo 3.2, I263, Cinepak etc.).
AVI means "Audio Video Interleave".
So you need to find the codec for the avi, probally Divx. You must have it installed on Pc and not Laptop
thanx for your answer. The problem is not the codec, the problem are two different pc's with (almost) identic software that don't work with identic movies in the same way.
After choosing the video file the notebooks program doesn't show the automatically selected audio file like the program on the other pc does. Watching the same *.avi on both works, but using temgenc does't work on one of them. What could be wrong?
Your problem is that the audio in your AVI file is not supported in Tmpgenc ,Most audio formats aren"t, you need to extract the audio from the AVI file to a WAV file with something like "Virtual Dub" or "sound Forge" then use the WAV audio file as the audio source...You should do this with ALL files...
I'm trying to change the mpg file size. Some files are to large and some are too small. When I change the quality setting the file size is about the same? I have it set to 65% if it dosent change the output file why not have it set higher by default. Whats best to change when you want to make the file bigger or smaller.
My current settings are:
svcd
480x480
cq 65% 4000x1800
Haveing the Quality setting on 65% is way to low, up it to 85% , but there is no way to predict the final file size with CQ so it is a lot of Trial and error..
I have to disagree here.
65% is ideal for the bitrates you are using. I know because those are the settings I use and have tried and tested them many times.
With that Q setting your bitrates should should stay at the lower end yet still be at a comfortable bitrate to prevent macroblocks in most scenes and only needing to go up to the higher end when needed.
This will allow you to fit a regular movie on 2 disks. I would think 85% will take the bitrate to high unecessarily causing the file size to be too large for 2 disks and it will make a difference to the size depending on the type of movie you are using.
If you wish to reduce the file size slightly then why not reduce the audio bitrate to 128 kb/s. If that won't be enough then reducing the min bitrate by 200 kb/s and the Q slider accordingly by 5% should roughly give about a 100mb reduction in file size.
Minion the reason you are getting macro blocks is because you probably have the Min bitrate set too low even though you have a high Max bitrate and a high quality setting.
Anything below 1800kb/s WILL result in macro blocks. 1800 kb/s is the lowest you can go without noticable macro blocks appearing in normal scenes.
So then when your never use less than 1800, even if you need to reduce the file size. What about using the CD's that hold larger amounts like 90 or 99 minutes?
Are you planning to develop an international version of the program, I mean with the interface in French, German,.. and others languages. This would expand the range of your customers, not everybody fully understands english !
A good way to do that is text based language files, that means that you program uses a text file for all the text of the program, when you or someone else wants to make a translation they just copy and rename the file and change the text according to their language.. more and more programmers do that because it's so easy and many internet users help you and translate the files because they want to be using your great software in their own tongue !
as in, have several files and create a playlist? yes.
setting --> advanced --> source range. select the in and out for your first chapter, file menu and go add current project to batch list. go back to source range and choose the in and out for your next chapter... etc.
But WHY???? any authoring program worth useing Will have an option to manually set the chapter points your self without Butchering the file into Pieces...
Split files usually end up as different titles on the authored DVD. This causes a hesitation when going from one to another on most players.
Dazzle DVD Complete has the best chapter/thumbnail/motion menu selection method I have seen. (But it doesn't accept 16:9 so I went to Ulead and have to live with MUCH clunkier motion menu setup.)