I have tried several different ways and 2 other mpeg encoders to try to eliminate red blocky mosiac-like output from my DV500. The original DV in my editor looks great, no artifacts, and the output to VHS is great. After converting to mpeg2 using TMPGE, I have noticed, along with several other Pinnacle owners, that blocks appear on red colors, i.e. red signs, red flowers, red clothing, etc, and that it takes on a mosiac-like pattern.
This output is annoying and degrades the overall quality of the video, especially when there is movement.

I saw that there is a tab for canopus AVI files to lessen that effect. Why only canopus? Is there a way to eliminate the blocks aside from Noise Reduction and inter/intra block softening? I have tried those options with no change in the blockiness of the output.

Could it be that Canopus has a better AVI codec than Pinnacle? Any comments would be welcome. I'm trying hard to understand why this might be taking place and Pinnacle, after stating that they would look into the problem, has not offered any explanations.

Never mind...

I dumped the Pinnacle product and bought a DVStorm2.

I'm getting an error trying to open a avi (divk 5 format) to encode intoa mpeg. is there a way to solve this problem?

What error....????????

"Can not open or unsupported"

Yea i get the same problem how do you fix this.

Try this, Go to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to VFapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct Show Multi-Media File reader" to "2"...This usually works...

I have a 1,280mb mpg1 file that I am trying to cut into 2 files >800mb. When I use TMPGEnc's merge & cut tool, I get the following error Read error occured at address 1d1c4e860f module'mm switch.ax with 0000,0000' The file plays fine in Windvd4 player. Does anyone have any suggestions . This is my first atttempt at DVD to VCD, I am so close yet still so far away!

I'm not quite sure, but it looks like this could have something to do with the Morgan stream switcher or the audio in your MPEG.

Is the audio standard in your VCD and do you have the Morgan stream switcher installed or have you installed any codec packs?

ASHY

Do any of you have an opinion on whether it makes any difference to render out to an avi file then convert to mpeg or render directly thru a mpeg codec.
I've heard some say that when Premier renders out to an DV avi that some loss occurs in the video, verses rendering directly out to the final mpeg? I haven't tried to test the results because I don't have a premier mpeg2 plugin.

Well obviously you are going to lose some quality.
No matter what format you render to there will always be some quality loss. Encoding then re-encoding to any format will cause loss. So keeping the times you need to re-encode will always be preferable. So to answer your question render directly to MPEG.

ASHY

Don't use DV format unless your original source was DV. That has 4:1:1 color sampling versus 4:2:0 (or 4:2:2). Use Huffyuv Lossless Codec for AVI output if input and output formats can't be exactly matched.

Lately, I have been trying the AVIWrapper plugin from videotools.net with Ulead MediaStudio. It creates a dummy AVI file and frameserves uncompressed video from the editor. There is also a Premier version. (To use it for free you have to solve a random addition problem each time!)

I want to convert mpeg2 file in mpeg1 file. How can tmpg do it?

The Same as encodeing any file to Mpeg1...But you need to have the Proper Mpeg2 Decoders installed, or you can use DVD2AVI to frameserve the Mpeg2 files to tmpgenc...

is there any way i can load my movies to be encoded. To let the computer encode one movie after another by it self thanks

Yes..It"s called Batch encodeing, Just load in the File and Do the Settings then go to "File" to "Save Project" then repeat for all the Files, then go to "File" to "Batch encode" and Load the Project files in and encode...

When I try to convert a wmv file (not tried any other format)I get the error message "Can't load P3Package.dll" althoguh it's there cos i've checked. What am I doing wrong?

Sorry, just found answer.

Reinstall the TMPGEnc! It will be OK!

can tmpgenc fix the blurry parts of the video that i ripped using ATI card?

No Not really, You can Maybe try the "Sharpen Edge" filter??

is there anything that i could use to take the blurry parts off the video aside from tmpgenc?

Blurry parts?
What do you mean by blurry parts, are talking about interlacing lines?

ASHY

send me your personal e-mail address and ill send you the screenshots.

I converted an avi to mpeg using version 2.509. I had chopped it into smaller bits in preparation for a VCD. In my haste I forgot one part. When I went back the next day I was told that the audio "can not open, or is unsupported." Like I said... I converted the same file the day before with no problems. What can I do?

Apparently this software isn't compatible with my PowerMac. Does anyone know of a good software for the Mac that I can covert a mov to a mpeg with?

Thanks.

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http://www.discreet.com/products/cleaner/cleaner6/index.html

Ashy

I posted this in a other message.
Ok the file is a xvid with ac3 sound.
i extracted the sound with avimux, for a 1 hour part of the movie it's 80 mb
Now i am trying to convert it with tmpgenc to a mpeg 2
and i get a invalid pointer operation...what does this mean, vcd works...but svcd doesn't

For anybody interested VCDhelp.com has now changed it's name and it's web address to: http://www.dvdrhelp.com/

ASHY