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Hello,
I've been using TMPGEnf for some time now and it seems there is a problem with the framerate conversion. (Not sure if I am correct here) But it seems that when encoding an source file (usually AVI) with a non VCD standard framerate the high motion scenes in the resulting mpeg look jerky as hell. I've searched the forums and found that one way to get around this problem is to not change the framerate when encoding. But lets say the AVI file has 23fps and VCD needs 25fps will DVD players play the VCD since it has wrong fps?
Almost all DVD players will play either NTSC or PAL format VCD's but depending on the DVD player you may need the right kind of TV set to watch both types.
If you do convert it with TMPG you will get motion artifacts as TMPG does not do correct framrate conversion. There are however other correct ways to acheive this which you will find somewhere in the archives of this BBS.
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.
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!
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.
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!)
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...
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?