I tried to make a VCD with Tmpgenc at 700 Kbps bitrate (because my movie is 96 minutes), but the software won't make it, only at 1150 Kbps. I tried many ways. Where is the problem?

Please help me,
I don't want to make 2 CD movies :))

Thks!

Hey, 1150 is a standard for Video CD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you use different bit rate than 1150 kbps your DVD player WILL NOT play it!!!!
I can assure you of that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can change bit rate for your VCD but you have to use manual mode (for experts only - no kidding) - DO NOT use Wizard. It will give you then ready, preset options. Disable it
In TMPGnc in the file menu open new project. Then in lower right corner click on button "Settig". You can manipulate all the possible options there.
I don't recommend that. Once again - if you change standard bit rate for VCD from 1150 to another your DVD player won't recognize the disc.
Have fun and try.

Don't worry your DVD player may play the disk. There are many players which can play lower than standard bitrates no problem. I have 2 different players that do and a friend who also has a player which plays non standard VCD's.

The reason you are having this problem could be due to the reasons below:

a. You have loaded a VCD template and just unlocked the settings and simply lowered the bitrate.
To lower the bitrate you need to change the stream setting to 'MPEG1 VCD Non standard' otherwise TMPG will pad the bitrate to standard regardless of how low you set the bitrate. You can find the stream type setting under Setting>System

b. There is a problem with muxer in the latest version of TMPG. When creating VCD MPEGs the muxer is using the standard VCD muxing rate and padding the stream to standard VCD bitrate whether or not you choose the 'Non standard VCD' stream setting or not.

To remedy your problem above simply remultiplex your MPEG in an earlier version of TMPG using the 'MPEG1 VCD Non standard' stream type setting. This will remove the padding.

ASHY

>If you use different bit rate than 1150 kbps your DVD player WILL NOT play it!!!!

I can assure you that most DVD players will play non standard bitrate VCD's being that they are variable bitrate machines by design and are usually only limited by the type of drive used as higher than normal bitrate VCD's need a faster drive to cope with the higher spinrate needed.
Yours must be one of a few that won't.

ASHY

Thanks Ashy.........it was a good lesson for me to read a little more about DVD players, however there is one thing I do not understand.
Why lower standard VCD bit rate which is actually very low already? Isn't obvious that this will affect the quality of the movie file? I belief that anyone wants to "produce" the best quality movies, much better or equal than VHS, in order to watch them afterwords on DVD player. Doesn't it?

Yes thats True But some Poeple Don"t care what crap that they watch on TV...I personally Try to get the best Possible Quality ,But others just want to Squeeze as Much on a CD-R Cuz they are to cheap or lazy to change the CD half way through the movie....there is no accounting for Taste...

I absolutely agree with you and Minion. Why anybody would want to reduce the standard VCD bitrate even further is beyond me just to save a disk. VCD is bad enough and it's no hardship to swap a disk over and the quality increase is dramatic.
I usually encode to MPEG2 and I can fit a high quality movie without macroblocks on to 2 80min disks using the right settings.

ASHY

Is there any way to stop encoding and later continue. It may help during long lasting encodiung process, you would likr to do something else.thanx in advance, Gacserus.

yeah, that'd be cool if I could pause TMPGEnc to resume later and turn off the computer in some rare cases.

You can Stop encodeing and continue later But you can"t turn off your Computer.....You just Press "Stop" then a Dialog will pop up asking if you really want to abort encodeing , and you just don"t answer and go do what you have to do and when you want to resume encodeing you just answer "NO" and it will resume encodeing....

I want to know the same thing

Yes, this would be a very nice feature to have. I would love to be able to pause/save the intermediate encoding results to play some games or whatever, and then fire up TMPGenc and resume the batch job.

hello,

i have a problem with merging three mpeg streams.
after merging the audiostream from the first and the last
mpeg file are not present.
what is there wrong?

I have Had this Problem Before also and I didn"t find a setting or some other thing that fixed the Problem ,But what you can do is Just use something else to merge the files.....

Hello!

I have splitted separate streams from clips and merged audio clips with vobmerge. Then I have multiplexed the streams again together.
My audio has been in mp2 format.

After I convert, how do I go and make the MPEG file a non-standard VCD file? Do I go to "Multiplex" in TMPGEnc? What happens if I don't make it non-standard?

A non-Standard VCD is any VCD that has a Different Bitrate than 1150kbs for Video 224kbs 44100hz for audio and 352+240/288 as the Resolution so any VCD that doesn"t meet these specs is a Non-Standard VCD...If you can explain what you are trying to do or what problem you are haveing then we will be able to help you better...

Oh I was just wondering what would happen if you didn't go to MPEG Tools>Multiplex>VCD Non-Standard.

The main point what will happen if you don't use the NON STANDARD setting if you have created a non standard VCD, I.E. you may have created a VCD with lower than standard bitrate, is that the VCD will be padded by the muxer.

If you use the 'Standard VCD' setting on a 'non standard' VCD, this means that the lower bitrate will be padded to comply with standard VCD bitrates. This will result in making your file size larger.

ASHY

I've been having trouble in the last few days with some VCDs I made from VHS. I've been doing this for a while: Capturing with VirtualDub; encoding with TMPGEnc; and then burning with VCDEasy. I've had much success. The last few days, though, I've started getting VCDs with no sound after about 1:42. (I get the problem on two different standalone players and on my computer's player.) Somewhere in there, I moved from TMPGEnc 2.55 to 2.59, and I also moved from VCDEasy 1.1.2 to 1.1.3. I'm about to run some experiments to see if I can identify the cause of the problem, but I'm reasonably certain, having already tried a few other things, that it is the move to TMPGEnc 2.59. Can anyone confirm having had similar problems? There is, I see, one previous note that may reflect a similar problem.

Richard

I used Nero5 to make a VCD menu but it didn't turn out the way I want. And there's no back option once you click on New to create a new VCD. Is it possible to delete the menu file once you made your VCD?

Not after the VCD is Burnt to the VCD...Unless I misunderstood your Question...?

Well...you know how you insert your VCD into the CD-ROM drive? You open the CD-ROM drive and you see all these folders? Shouldn't the menu be a file somewhere in those folders? And when you delete that file, the menu won't appear. Or is that impossible?

Well, you can't delete a burnt file, but you can allways just copy it to your HD, remove the CD-XA headers and re-burn it...

Well, you can't delete a burnt file, but you can allways just copy it to your HD, remove the CD-XA headers and re-burn it...

>And there's no back option once you click on New to create a new VCD. Is it possible to delete the menu file once you made your VCD?

If you was not happy with the menu why didn't you just delete the menu or disable it or close the whole project first before burning and start a new one? Or are you saying you weren't happy with the menu once it was burned, if that's the case you should have used the preview option in NERO to view your Menu first.

You can just simply copy the MPEG from the MPEGAV folder on the disk to your hard drive. The file will be named something like AVSEQ01.dat

You can then usually burn this directly again with Nero without the need to remove the headers.
If you do have any problems getting nero to accept the .dat file then just run it through the TMPG multiplexer using the VCD stream setting. This will remove any unecessary headers.

ASHY

hello
i have done the virtual dub sound but the file is to big to fit on 1 cd. i know in mpeg tools you can cut it in half but i dont know how to so far it has not worked i must be doing something wrong how do i work it??????
thankyou

What has this to do with TMPGEnc .... or i must misread your question completely

I understand you have a sound file (wav ?) that is too big to fit on one cd ?
In that case why don't you cut the file with an audio-program like Cool Edit ?

i had asked a qestion about the sound before
now i want to know who to cut the joint mpeg file in half so i then can put it on 2 cds sry

If you can"t get the Tmpgenc Editor to work then use something else to edit with....

with tmpgenc ver 2.59 it's not possible to create a "non-standard video cd". for example: mpeg1 video, pal, 25fps and mpeg1 sound, 96 kbps.

tmpgenc will build everytime a standard vcd! this feature was working fine on version 2.58

thanks

greetz
desmo8

You say: "in version 2,58 it was working fine"

Sure about that ?
I don't want to question your writing but i thought i had read that it is not possible to use 96 kbps as soundbitrate for a MPEG-1
Lowest for mpeg-1 one was 192 and for a mpeg-2 160 if my memory serves me right

This is a Well Known Problem with the Latesy version of Tmpgenc, You can remove the extra Padding by running the File through the Muxer of an older version....

Your right the problem is with 2.59 only and is a bug in the muxer adding padding to standard VCD bitrate to non standard VCD's. Using any other version to remux will remove the padding.

ASHY

I also experienced the "kernel32.dll" error when trying to encode a xvid movie in tmpgenc
As always when i have a problem with tmpgenc i search this forum and it hasn't disappointed me yet

So i also found the answer to this problem in an answer that you can alter the xvid-avi into another codec-avi by using VDub and a HUGE temporary file

BUT .... i found another, much easier, way
Just FRAMESERVE the movie via VDub into tmpgenc and you shouldn't have any problems

Thought i would let you all know :)

straight with 2pass makes it for sense, if i can make a resume after a "Stream writing error"... Hours worked to 50% (2pass) and then comes the abort, if Tmpeg cannot write. That is very annoying!

Hello!

Does anyone knows how reliably TMPGenc handles 3:2 pulldown video streams?
May 3:2 pulldown be the source of my problems?
Still searching for a solution to author and burn clips onto DVD+R.
Thanks to anyone in this group who have helped to generate new ideas what else to try. :-)
Most of these clips didn't have any problems, but there is some amount what failed. TMPGENC multiplexing behaves oddly. As usually it starts muxing immidiately, this time it reads the HD sveral minutes like searching something from my m2v stream before muxing starts. Then the muxing process bar starts and goes normally. After the process end TMPGenc still doesn't stop but still writes something for several minutes. Finally There appears 200.000 buffer underflow warning for a 5 minute clip.
BBMUX is capable of multiplexing my m2v amd mp2 audio into viewable program steam with Windvd, but still my DVD authoring Ulead's DVDWS fails to accept these mpg streams. Checking m2v with Dr. M reveals that there is problem with duplicate frames.
The clip and stream is from commercial DVD and elswhere there isn't any known problems with this. And it isn't the only DVD title with the same problem.

Below is extract from Dr. M results:

* GOP (01:01:22:27) has 13 duplicate frames
* GOP (01:01:23:10) has 13 duplicate frames
* GOP (01:01:23:23) has 13 duplicate frames
* GOP (01:01:24:06) has 13 duplicate frames
* GOP (01:01:24:19) has 13 duplicate frames
* GOP (01:01:25:02) has 13 duplicate frames
* GOP (01:01:25:15) has 13 duplicate frames
* GOP (01:01:25:28) has 13 duplicate frames
* GOP (01:01:26:11) has 13 duplicate frames

Currently I install TMPGEnc Plus Version 2.59.47.155 Core Version 1.92.142 on my system running:
OS : Win XP Home Edition
CPU : Intel Pentium 4 1.7 Ghz
RAM : 240 Mb
Divx Codec : 3.11, 4, 5.0 & 5.02

My problem is when trying convert file Divx (5.02)to MPEG, TMPGEnc Plus quit without any error after a second.

Source file:

size : 707 502 Mb
Frame rate: 25 f/s
Data rate: 160kbps
Video Sample size: 24bit
Video Compression: DivX ver 5.02
Duration: 1:13:40
Bit rate: 96 kbps

After quit TmpGEnce create output MPEG file around 2 Mb (< 1 min duration) only but I can play that file with no problem. I mean audio and video play correctly.

please help me !
p/s : sorry broken english :)

It is more my guess than advice.
What I have noticed is that many programs "DO NOT LIKE" files compressed with DivX codec higher than 4.12 !!!!
For instance, VirtualDub is one of them. An excellent software to manipulate audio (multiplexing) along with its filters.
I use to have DivX codec 5.02 Pro installed on my computer. It resulted only with trouble when trying to work on compressed file. Quickly got rid of it and I reinstalled DivX codec 4.12. Still works best.
I recommend you the same :o)