Is there a tool to positively identify whether a file has been encoded
as interlaced or progressive? I generally use GSpot to identify the rest of
the items but cannot find anything on the above.

Hi Everyone... I am really confused on the correct process for fileserving thru encoding a SVCD. I am using the following programs:

SmartRipper
DVD2AVI
FitCD (Bitrate Calculator)
TMPGEnc Plus (Registered)

When using DVD2AVI and the Preview says: Frame Rate is 29.97, Video Type is FILM, Frame Type is Progressive. Should I use the "Force Film" option? Or when I encode should I use "Inverse Telecine" instead? Is the video NTSC cause the framerate= 29.97 or would the video be FILM cause the "Video Type" = FILM?

Ok... What if in DVD2AVI the preview says everything from above but it reports the Video Type as FILM 95% should I still use the "Forced Film" Option? Or again... should I leave this option disabled and use "Inverse Telecine" instead? I have noticed that when I leave the "Forced Film" option disabled and then fileserv the files when I get to the encoding stage and use the "Inverse Telecine" that sometimes you can still see some horizontal lines where the original "Telecine" lines were. I have read 4 articles on the web but none of them really explain when to use "Forced Film" and most of the articles only explain the PAL system. Is there a step by step article that can explain the proper way to Fileserv and Encode these types of NTSC, FILM, and FILM95%?

That brings me to another question... If I don't use the "Forced Film" option above when I choose my encoding settings for SVCD should I choose "NTSC", "NTSC FILM"? If I choose "NTSC" then the wizard asks me if the movie is "Video", "Film", or "Video and Film" So is it Film? Is it really Video? Or is it combined. LOL

I'm sure I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill. All I want to do is make a High Quality SVCD Backup!

P.S. Ashy or Minion... If you guys have a detailed step by step txt file that I can download from you guys that would be GREAT!

Sincerely,

chris.

DVD2AVI should not be displaying the File as Progressive Unless the "Forced Film" is selected,Because at 29.97fps it is Interlaced and at 23.97fps it is Progressive..What Many Poeple Do is if DVD2AVI says it is Film then Use the "Forced Film" option and encode it as a 23.97fps NTSC Film File and After encodeing use a little Program called "Pulldown.exe" which will convert the file to 29.97fps Interlaced..This works Fine For most poeple but with Me for some reason any Interlaced Movie I do allways ends up with a really bad Combing effect when Played on my TV so I am forced to Encode at 29.97fps and Use a High Quality Deinterlace filter to remove the interlace artifacts, I usually use the Telecide command for the Decomb.dll filter for AVISynth , it seems to only remove the Combing artifacts without affecting the picture Quality..But I"m sure Pulldown.exe should work fine for anyone else...

look here:

http://www.divx-digest.com/articles/dvd2avi.html

ASHY

Thanks Guys for your Follow Up!
I think I finally have a hand on fileserving and encoding now. ;)

Thanks again guys!

chris.

I have been trawling the net recently looking for alternative mp2 encoder so I decided to share some of the better ones which I have found.

MPEGDJencoder - (shareware) Extremely fast encoder with good quality (the one I use at the moment).
http://home.t-online.de/home/sahin.tepe/mpegdjencoder.exe

MPEG Encoder - (Free) High quality mp2 encoder using the Fraunhofer codec. Only encodes the sample rate to the same as the original. Not a problem if you use something like DVD2AVI to create your WAVs from VOBs.
http://ftp.yars.free.net/pub/software/multimedia/mp3/encoders/mpegenc_v007a.zip

Awave Audio - (Shareware 30 days) High quality encoder which can encode to and from most formats including mp2.
http://www.fmjsoft.com/awaveaudio.html

Qdesign mp2 codec - (Included in Tsunami filter pack, full version) Very High quality fast mp2 encoder which can be used with any suitable windows encoding application. TMPG can be used to encode wavs to Mp2 with this codec or use this application.
http://www.geocities.com/f_pixel/exemples/acmao11.zip

MPEG Suite 2001 - (Free) Very fast good quality Mp2/Mp3 encoder. Sample rate is encoded to the same as the original.
http://ec2000.xperiment.net/bluecom.php?filename=MPEGSuite


Complete Audio Converter Pro 2.0 - (10 day Trial) Good quality, reasonable speed.
http://www.audioi.com/


The best one out of the bunch as far as speed vs quality is MPEGDJ encoder. For quality it is either MPEG encoder or Qdesign which is faster.

ASHY

Hi,

I'm attempting to encode a .AVI file to .MPG, but when I push "start" an error comes up that says the mpg file cannot be created.

I tried bumping up the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader, but it still says the same thing.

Any tips?

Thanks.

I have the same problem. Are you using a file created by Pinnacle Studio Software using the MJPEG codec of the DC10+ videoboard?? Since that is the problem no one can give any solution. I hope mr. Hori is reading this and provide us with a solution !!!!

Hey,

I actually just downloaded a .AVI from kazaa, so I'm not sure about the MJPEG thing. But yes hopefully someone can help us.

You most likely have an AVI 1 format and need to convert to 2. or just the oposite.there is a way to convert these files but I use Media Studio Pro to do so and am not sure of what you might use in the way of freeware or shareware.

I had the same problem with TMPGE until I bought a CD-R/RW that included Nero Software that has the necessary software/codecs required to convert to MPEG1 FORMAT. Haven't had a problem since. FYI- The Nero software is Nero 5.5.8.13
good luck!

>I had the same problem with TMPGE until I bought a CD-R/RW that included Nero Software that has the necessary software/codecs required to convert to MPEG1 FORMAT. Haven't had a problem since. FYI- The Nero software is Nero 5.5.8.13

LOL... you do realise that the VCD files you are creating are using NERO's internal encoder and produces absolutely awful quality VCD movies.
TMPG is the best and highest quality MPEG1 encoder there is and NERO doesn't even come close. NERO is a good burning program but forget it for encoding to VCD.
Do yourself a favor learn how to use TMPG and stop using NERO to encode crap VCD movies.

>I'm attempting to encode a .AVI file to .MPG, but when I push "start" an error comes up that says the mpg file cannot be created

As for this error, this is usually because you are trying to write to a drive which doesn't have enough space or your drive which is set as the Temp drive in TMPG doesn't have enough space.
DO NOT try and encode the AVI directly from a CDR. Copy it to your hardrive first then encode.
Also make sure the output name is not the same as the input. For example an input with a name such as C:moviesfile1.mpg and an output of C:moviesfile1.mpg will cause this error.

If you can see the movie in the preview, File>Preview then it must be a problem with your output settings and not a decoding problem as suggested above.


ASHY

I recently downloaded many .avi's but none of them had audio while few others (from the same series) did. I tried to play with divx decoder and windows media but with no audio still. These no audio avi's are the same size as the ones that do have audio so I'm sure its not the file. What may be wrong?

Maybe you need to install an AC3 Filter....

How do I make the audio go at the same speed as the video because sometimes the lips move but theres no sound or theres talking but there is a fight scene on.

CAN ANY 1 HELP?

www.DVDrhelp.com

ASHY

ASHY were do I go on this site

It sounds like you have A bad Sync problem, Look for a Tutorial on Fixing Sync Problems, there are Quaite a few steps involved and many different methods for fixing sync problems depending on what type of sync problem it is, so it would take a Lot of in depth explaining to tell you how to fix it here, But I"m sure there is information on DVDrHelp.com that should help you...

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/tmpgenc.htm

ASHY

I encoded half of a movie and in nero I put it on a VCD but it does'nt play on my dvd player or my Computer. How can you help.

First of all try converting the entire movie without splitting. Otherwise, it may be a problem with the cd media. Some dvd players can only read cd with certain dyes.

And did you watch the Mpeg file before you burned it to Disk??? You should allways Play the file on your Computer before you burn it to CD..

Hello.

How can I make only a color correction in TMPGEnc without changing the bitrate?

Any hints?

Thanxs,
Darthbach

I don"t exactly know what you mean..Do you mean that you just want to change the Color of your File without haveing ro re-encode the file?? Well you can"t, Anytime you take one file and want to change it in any way you have to re-render the file ...

MPEG2 Multiplexing and joining:

Is it possible to use the excellent MPEG Tools that are build into TMPGEnc from the command line?? (ie. TMPGEnc.exe /multiplex video.m2v audio.mp2 output.mpeg)

If not - it is possible to que/batch "MPEG Tools" jobs?

If not - it there another tool from Pegasys (or another company) that offers this feature?

/Hobbit

Excuse me...Can anyone help me how to convert the AVI file with sound in a MPG type??? I have use TMPG to convert it...but i don't know why i can't hear anything from the new MPG file that i set up....PLS HELP!!

Have you Tried Extracting the audio to WAV format and used that as the audio source??

I am having the same problem. There is no sound with my video file, can anyone help please. When going through the wizard to create the mpg. file it shows the sound being there in part of the editing process, but no sound appears on playback once encoded.

Thanks

I repeat, Have you tried Extracting the audio to WAV and useing the Wav file as the audio source???

OK now when i even try to open the source to start the step by step, the whole program closes down. Does anyone know whats happening here???????????????

Ok just when i try to make my mpeg i have an error, of write error occurred