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What settings should I use to get the very best quality on SVCD from a DVD source.
I tried using the DVD setting and burning it as an SVCD using NERO, it played on my standalone DVD player but the sound broke up. Picture quality was good though.
I am also very unsure as to what difference the 'motion estimate' and VBR,CQ etc make. I just use the standard defaults.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
The reason Why the Audio Cut out is Besause the Bitrate is Much too high for your Player to Handle..If you are going to Make a XSVCD there are 2 ways of doing it , useing Higher Bitrates and resolutions and Just useing Higher Bitrates...I would sudgest Makeing Just ones with Higher Bitrates but if you are going to use Higher resolutions then Use the resolution of "704+480" NOT "720+480", and Mosyt Players that will Play XSVCD"s will not play with Bitrates Higher than 5000kbs without the Audio cutting out and the Video slowing down from time to time..But I actually get Much better results Useing the Standard SVCD Resolution of 480+480 and a Max bitrate of 4500kbs and a Minimum of 1750kbs, and Useing the CQ method will Give you just as good results as the 2 pass method with Clean Source files....
It is now generally accepted on this board on other encoding boards that in most cases the 'Constant quality(CQ)' method will give superior results to the 2pass method (yes honestly).
Only in certain odd cases will the 2 pass method be better.
Try it yourself and you will see what I mean.
Encode 2 test samples with exactly the same minimum and maximum bitrates, one using 2pass VBR and one (CQ).
You should find the (CQ) method produces a better picture (i.e less macroblocks) and a better file size.
every time i transfer avi files to mpg files i keep getting this error: illegal floating decimal point calculation order. does anyone know whats wrong??????
This error Is Usually Cause By Bad AVI files...There are Probably Corrupted frames in the AVI file that Tmpgenc can not read..You can try to encode up to were the error happens and use the source range to start encodeing a few frames after were the error happens thn Join the 2 files with the merge and Cut...
I am using Adobe® Premiere® to create avi files and then using TMPGEnc Plus Ver.2.59.47.155 (2.59)to encode them to a MPEG-2 file. Everything works well except that there is a momentary cutout of the audio on every file exactly between 9 minutes and 27 seconds and 9 minutes and 28 seconds. This drop out seems to occur no matter what settings I use. Files shorter that 9:27 are fine.
I am creating the avi in Adobe® Premiere® and then loading the avi file into TMPGEnc Plus. The MPEG is great with the exception of this cutout of audio for a split second at 9 minutes and 27 seconds into the clip.
Well the Way to fix it Would be to Extract the audio from the AVI and encode it seperately then Mux it with the Encoded Mpeg Video file...You would save a lot of time and Quality if you Frame served the File from Premier to Tmpgenc instead of actually Makeing an AVI file and loading it into Tmpgenc...
Keep getting this error message when about to encode - also sometime getting runtime errors when opening files.. Using XP Pro SP1 - had no problems in Win2K Pro, juts wondering if ne1 else has the same problem and if it is something to do with XP???
In this package, there's a tool called: "AviC (FourCC Changer)". With this tool, you can change the "codec signature" of the file from XVID to DIVX.
Once this is done, TMPGENC will think that the AVI is a DIVX and the convertion process will than work... I'm no expert in the matter, but I've read that DIVX et XVID are a lot alike. All I can say is that this trick worked for me!
I'm using DVDx for ripping DVD's into AVI's for TMPGenc. Suddenly, subs in movies are transparent and almost unreadable. I cannot find any setting for subtitles, even in registry. Any suggestions?
I convert my avi's to SVCD with Tmpgenc, Adobe Premiere and Premiere Videoserver. OS - Windows 2000. After about 20 minutes, sound goes out of sync, at the end of the movie (40 minutes) for about 1 second. What the problem, what am I doing wrong. Is is a problem wiht Tmpgenc? Reading your BBS suggests that I am not the only one with this problem.
In Most cases Sync issues are caused by the Source file..The AVI might play in sync But after you encode it to mpeg it goes out of sync ,This is because some AVI files don"t play at the exact same frame rate that they are supposed to..This is Quite common with Captured AVI files, there is an easy explanation why they don"t play at the correct frame rate But to explain it would Take a While and I don"t have the time at this Moment to explain it in detail..Maybe I"ll come back later and Explain it when i have more time...
OK ...I"ll try to explain Why It happens But there is No gaurantee that This is exactly what is happening with you, and explaining why It happens doesn"t mean that you are going to Be able to Fix it..Usually with Bad sync I just leave it alone and try something else Cuz Fixing Sync Problems Is Very difficult or Impossible...There are Usually 2 or 3 reasons why Sync Problems happen with Captured files, and These Usually have to do with Analog captures Not DV Captures.the First reason is because of Dropped Frames while Captureing. another reason Why sync issues happen Is Because while Captureing the Audio and Video are Captured On seperate Time Clocks..The Sound card when the audio is captured Runs on One Time Clock and the Video through the Capture Card is on another Time Clock, and In a Lot of Cases these Clocks are Slightly Different so Over a Period of time the audio goes out of sync with the Video..The reason why the AVI file will Play in sync is because the Audio and video are Interleaved with the Audio being the Master stream, so the Video will play at the same speed as the audio and the Video speed will be slightly different the the specified Frame rate..But when encodeing to Mpeg the audio and video are seperated and the Video is encoded to the Exact frame rate that is specified, and the audio is encoded at it"s regular speed..So this is How it goes out of sync...Premier Does not have a very good method for Keeping sync if there is a Time lag between the Sound card and the Capture card..I would sugest useing a Different Capture Program then you can take that file and put it into Premier to edit and add effects and transitions and whatever..What I"ve been useing that seems to Keep Exelent Sync is "Virtual Dub"..What it does is resample the audio so it exactly matches the Video or it will add or remove a Frame from time to time to keep sync with the audio....I hope you Understood My explanation of why sync problems happen with Certain Capture programs??
The Supported Mpeg2 decoders are "Cyberlink, Logos,Sony" You can tell if you have the Right Decoders installed if you go to the "VFAPI Plugins" and one of the Mentioned Decoders will be listed there ..If you have "Power DVD" Installed then you should have the Cyberlink Mpeg decoder installed..Many poeple have problems with the editor so if the problems persist then try a different mpeg editor...
@ minion - I do have PowerDVD and WinDVD installed but neither of the decoders are list in the "Environment --- VFAPI Plugins" section ? ? ? Even with these installed - i wasnt able to open MPEG2 files for editing with TMPGEnc.
Though I managed to find a different decoder that works with TMPGEnc - I was from a codec pack i found on a site SLD but i have another problem - i manage to open the file for cutting and successfully cut a mpeg2 file - but the output file - it has 7-9 seconds of audio missing at the end of the clip.
I'm not sure, could someone explain what might the problem, please.
Well there Lots..One easy one to use is "Womble Mpeg2VCR" But I have been useing "Power Director" Lately and it seemd to work Pretty Good..You can download an Older Full version of Mpeg2VCR at ___http://www.apachez.net/___ in the Tools section....
when doing merge and cuts, sometimes i get unexpected results in my output file
sometimes the audio will cut off later on in the movie. this has only happened once though and is probably because of a corrupted original (sound plays all the way through in the original though)
secondly, i often get output files that are not what i set them to be
example: the movie ends after where i set the mark out point while in merge and cut
Tmpgenc can only cut files at the beginning or end of a GOP so if you set it to cut in the middle of a GOP then it will moove the cut to the end or beginning of the next GOP, and the Editor does not work correctly with files that are VBR...To avoid this use a Different Mpeg editor...
I'm using Tmpgenc to do a large number of conversions from the Divx format to NTSC VCD format. If I add a good number of projects to the Batch Encoder and let it run overnight, I find that the program has unexpectedly closed itself. No error message. It always happens after a file is finished converting, and it usually happens after only a few files were processed. When I open Tmpgenc again and take a look at the Batch Encoder window, it still says "Working" under the last item processed's status tab. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Could this be a bug?
I'm using Tmpgenc to do a large number of conversions from the Divx format to NTSC VCD format. If I add a good number of projects to the Batch Encoder and let it run overnight, I find that the program has unexpectedly closed itself. No error message. It always happens after a file is finished converting, and it usually happens after only a few files were processed. When I open Tmpgenc again and take a look at the Batch Encoder window, it still says "Working" under the last item processed's status tab. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Could this be a bug?
This happened to me once but the reason was that I tried to encode into the directory that didn't exist (it remembers the last directory used, and I deleted it since the last encode).
Hope it helps.
Unfortunately, that does not seem to be the problem. The directory does exist, and previous files encoded there properly. Then it just stops. Quite annoying.
I have the same problem. It will do ONE file (I am batching with sequential files as one movie option) and when finished with one, it will sit there and not respond. When reloading the "working" is there as well. If I don't do the sequential, it works fine (but the sequential save me massive time!). I have plenty of mem 512k 1.8 GHZ and over 20 gigs of hd space. Any suggestions?
I recently reformatted and reinstalled my OS (Win2K) and after reinstalling TMPGEnc 2.59 I am no longer able to completely finish encoding mpeg2 files from AVI files that I created. I get the following error:
Read error occurred at address 00481AA5 of module 'TMPGEnc.exe' with 06C94CA8
(The address numbers vary)
MPEG1 files encode perfectly, without any trouble. I've tried different AVI files, all of them experience this error when converting to mpeg2. Prior to reinstalling Windows I was able to encode these same AVI files just fine.
The time it takes for the error to occur varies, even with the same AVI file. Sometimes it's 5 minutes, sometimes it's after 1 and a half hours, but it never gets beyond 25%.
I have tried setting the priority of the Directshow filter to 2 and the rest to 0 like Ashy has described in other postings similar to this.
This is very annoying because I've used TMPGEnc dozens of times without any problem.
Are you sure that you reinstalled SVCD codec, too?
It looks like you are trying to reencode into the format you don't have the appropriate software for.
MPEG2 requires SVCD codec to be installed prior to any viewing or conversion.
If you reinstall OS, your codec is gone which means that you must install it again.
I'm not sure what you mean by SVCD codec, unless you are talking about the mpeg2 codec in general. I do have Cyberlink PowerDVD XP software installed to plays DVDs.
The job of TMPGEnc is to encode mpeg2 not decode it (which is what the PowerDVD software does). I was under the impression no additional software was required to do that.
I've been having this exact problem. Seems that there are alot of 'dodgy' frames in downloaded movies. Try frameserving to TMPGEnc with VirtualDub ... I got alot further with this, but it still gave the error in the end!
Finally had sucess by encoding it with Panasonic MPEG 1 encoder though!
Cheers, THM
Try scanning the movie for bad frames with Virtualdub. If it finds any you have the option of masking them. This will replace a bad frame with a blank one.
I don't understand how just by reformatting/reinstalling my OS the AVI files that I personally created (through DV, no "downloaded" files) which encoded fine in TMPGEnc before, now are giving me these error messages.
Also, the same AVI files which give me the error messages encode just fine in TMPGEnc with mpeg1. For example, if I batch two jobs for the same AVI, the first job mpeg2 and the second job mpeg1, the mpeg2 job will stop at some point, but then it will perform the mpeg1 job for the same AVI just fine.
Also, the points where the crashes occur are NEVER the same, they are always different. I would think if it was a bad frame, it would always crash at the same place.
I will continue to try different AVI files (my personal ones that I created) and test this issue further.
Perhaps the codecs that come with PowerDVD were replaced by something you installed afterwards. Un- then re-install PowerDVD. Let us know if that works.
I created a highlight basketball film and it looks great except for the titles which seem to block fade or stutter. They arent smooth and there are beeps in the audio. If I put a little video behind it they seem to work fine but i am unable to have a black or transparent background with white titles fade nicely like they do on the computer. When I watch the mpeg2 file on my computer it seems to play ok, but when I put onto a DVD using DVDit 2.5 PE it doesnt work correctly. At first I thought it was DVDit but I then encoded the same video in Cleaner 5 (which is terrible) the titles played fine. They faded nicely with no beeps. I hope this helps find the root of a problem.
Thanks, Alex