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They Are Very Simular to those KVCD Templates, I have Tried them As I Like to Try anything That Claims to Get up to or over 2 hours on a CD-R(Never saw a Template that Gets 3 hours) They Use An Extended and Modified Gop Structure and Matrix, But Like anything that claims that they get 2(Or 3 in your Case) hours on a CD-r with VHS Quality is Usually overstated, as at 3 hours on a CD-R you would need an average Bitrate of 475kbs and No Gop structure or Matrix can make 3 hours look like a VHS Tape at 475kbs ,as a Regular VCD is Only VHS Quality Or Probably less, But I suppose a untrained eye on a Small TV Might Find it watchable..Pluss with the GOP structure that these Templates use they Have Very Few I Frames which Makes the VCD allmost impossible to Accurately chapter and Edit, and Not all Players will Play them especially with the Long Gop and Low Bitrate..But I"m probably Spoiled as I am a Quality Freek and Will Not(I actually Cant cuz it is so anoying) Watch a Movie that has even the Slightest Hint of Blockyness which with these Templates there is a LOT Of Blockyness especially when there is a Lot of Movement, even Regular Standard VCD"s Have to Much Blockyness for me...Cheers
I've just done a conversion from 2x700 Mb Divx avi to 1 800 Mb VCD Mpeg-1 (Betty Blue, Editors cut- 179 min). And I'm a quality freak as wel. I'll take a look at those KVCD Templates.
The only thing you have to be cautious about is not to set the quality to high for a given bitrate. I use CQ 65 with 2250/270. I don't use 2-pass VBR.
I don't use MPEG-2 since not everyone can play that AVSEQ01.DAT file.
It's pretty good quality (depending on the source avi) and on 1 CD, playable on PC and DVD.
It's a tradeoff between quality, portability and convenience.
Look, what you may call good quality and what I call good quality probably belong to 2 different worlds.
There is no way I would ever put a regular whole movie on one disk never mind a 3 hour one.
All my movies are MPEG2 and split between 2 disks and the quality is excellant (near DVD).
For the sake of switching a disk half way through the movie is it really worth watching a bag of crap for 2 hours just because it's on one disk.
These templates my be ok for those that like watching garbage, but I'm a quality freak and that's what is more important to me. I'm the same as minion, I hate blockiness.
People are always impressed with the movies I create, but I doubt I'd get the same reaction using these templates.
I did many tests a long time ago with the very similar KVCD templates and found that regarding file size V quality they still couldn't beat a correctly tweaked CCE.
If you like 'em then use 'em, but I think it's very unlikely any kind of third party template will ever be included with TMPG because they are just not standard and could lead to compatibilty troubles.
Regarding the changes made to the actual templates, the ones I downloaded only had a change in the bitrates and a different matrix. There was nothing really special done to the GOP layer.
Well I just wnnt and Downloaded the Newest MoleVCD 2.5 templates Cuz It"s Been a While since I have Tried them and Did a Little Test, and I was surprised that at such a Low Bitrate that The Quality was OK, But definately Not Good, watching it was Like there was a swarm of Mosquitos flying in Front of the Screen..and the Gop Is Made up of 20 P frames 1 I Frame and 3 B frames allmost exactly like the Kvcd templates with a Min Bitrate of 275kbs and a Max of I think 2750kbs, they even have a Mpeg1 720+480 template that Uses the Exact same Gop and Bitrates and the Quality of those Tests were Just awefull..But the Differance from these Templates and a standard VCD isn"t that Dramitic in Quality So I"d say that these Templates are Pretty Good if your Goal was just to get as Much on a CD-R, and I suppose for Most poeple they are Watchable But definately not for me....Cheers
When I make a DVD I can navigate the menu system ie: I can click on a film on the title page, then browse the chapters. But when I click on a chapter to watch the DVD hangs my player. This is only with my Matsui dvd110 player on to my tv not software on my pc (my pc works with the DVD fine). If there a problem with this program and a Matsui dvd100 or do other people get it. Is there a fix?
i have a dvd2avi project that i have loaded into tmpgenc, i just want to know if there is anyway to rip the sound to wav from the dvd, the reason being that i want this movie in 2 languages and i don´´t want to have to reencode the whole dvd
Well that is What DVD2AVI is For..If you Did it right DVD2AVI should give you a D2V file and a Wav audio file for the audio Track that you choose in DVD2AVI...
Look, for a start I already told you that you could rip the DVD to a d2v and a wav with DVD2AVI or do you not read the answers to your many other posts.
Which is my other point.
Please refrain from creating multiple posts about the same subject.
You could have just posted this question in the same thread as your previous post. You are breaking the terms & rules of this BBS and will not have your posts answered any quicker.
If you continue to multiple post you will find that the ones who can really help will start to ignore your posts, myself included.
When trying to convert an XVID to MPEG2 i get the error
"Write error occurred at address 77F83AED of module 'ntdll.dll' with 00000000"
I have the latest XVID codec installed and ffdshow. I an using TEMPENC version 2.513
Here is some info about my avi file:
Video: 627 MB, 1129 Kbps, 25.0 fps, res. 608*256 (2.21:1), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4, Supported
Audio : 72 MB, 130 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 chan., 0x55 = MP3, Supported
I initially see the error when setting the source range and then again as soon as I start encoding.
Have you Got FFDShow Configured to Decode Xvid?? as this error will Only happen if you are useing the XviD codec to decode, If you download GSpot and Load your File into it it will tell you what it is useing to decode the File, if for some reason you can"t get it to decode useing FFDshow then Get rid of the XviD codec..You can also Use Virtual Dub to frame serve the File to Tmpgenc which Should stop the error also...
Ok, I'm quite new at encoding. I downloaded Gspot. Where exactly do i see what is being used to render xvid once i load my file? (under the video heading in Gspot, in the name field i see Xvid) Is this it? Or under Direct show renderer, video path i see (S) --> AVI Splitter --> ffdshow MPEG-4 Video Decoder --> (R) How do i configure ffdshow to decode my xvid?
I uninstall the XVID codec and now only have ffdshow on my system. I am able to watch my XVIDs in media player and windvd, but when i try to load it as the video source in TEMPENC, i get the error "cannot open, unsupported"
The Unsupported error can Usually Be easilly fixed By going to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Faise the "Direct Show" to "2"...This should work...
does the aspect ratio affect whether or not it will play in a dvd player?
the vcds i have created are all 1:1 which is just like a square, this looks good on a normal tv but i wonder how it would look on a wide screen tv?
also, how does a vcd look like in a 16:9 aspect ratio
1:1 is the WRONG aspect ratio To watch anything on TV, 1:1 is Mostly for Watching on your PC, All Regular TV"s Require that you use 4:3 Aspect ratio and if you are Not useing it then you are Not getting the Best looking Image as Displayed on a Regular TV..You can Watch 16:9 on a Regular TV But it doesn"t look Right, 16:9 Is Mostly for Widescreen TV"s...1:1 will Not look Correct on Any TV, and Some DVD Players will Not Play 1:1 Aspect ratio VCD"s and Will NOT Play 1:1 Ratio DVD"s...So I would Advise you to Switch to 4:3 as your Picture will Look Much Better Actually It will Look Correct as 1:1 is Not correct for TV...
Are we talking about the input aspect ratio here or the output aspect ratio.
If it's the input you are talking about then it depends on the source you are using whether it should be 1:1 or not.
As for the output aspect ratio Minion is correct. All VCD's have to have an output aspect ratio of 4:3.
From what I have heard there are No Plans to make Tmpgenc compatible with Different Platforms, But I have heard of Poeple Running Tmpgenc under Linux..
I have been tring all day to copy my DVD "Robbie Williams Live At The Albert" into a VCD video as to save repeated playback of the original DVD.
I tried creating a project using DVD2AVI, I set the audio to
Dolby Surround downmix and the video YUV-RGB to TV Scale. This project saved as a .d2v file and a .ac3 file, but when i try loading this to TMPGenc it tells me that it is unsupported, I have the VFAPI plugin installed, I have the DVD2AVI.vfp file in the TMPGenc folder but it still does not work. I can however using the VFAPI plugin directly load each VOB file but then I get no audio and I will end up with a bunch of files instead of the one mpeg file i want.
Can anybody help me out?
Firstly you cannot load an Ac3 file into TMPG you must let DVD2AVI convert it to a wav.
Make sure that the DVD2AVI.vfp that is in your TMPG folder is the same as the one from the DVD2AVI version you used to create the d2v file and is located in the same place as the TMPGenc.exe
If it still doesn't work then make sure the plugin is registered and checked in the VFAPI plugins.
If it is try raising it's prority.
I have been tring all day to copy my DVD "Robbie Williams Live At The Albert" into a VCD video as to save repeated playback of the original DVD.
I tried creating a project using DVD2AVI, I set the audio to
Dolby Surround downmix and the video YUV-RGB to TV Scale. This project saved as a .d2v file and a .ac3 file, but when i try loading this to TMPGenc it tells me that it is unsupported, I have the VFAPI plugin installed, I have the DVD2AVI.vfp file in the TMPGenc folder but it still does not work. I can however using the VFAPI plugin directly load each VOB file but then I get no audio and I will end up with a bunch of files instead of the one mpeg file i want.
Can anybody help me out?
Go to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Driect show" to "2"...This should help If it is a DivX or other Direct show Format...
is there a quick way of doing this, i am sick of using flaskmpeg to convert it to avi, is there no shortcut using tmpgenc?
or if not could somebody recomend a quick way to acomplish this task of converting dvd to vcd using tmpgenc
This is Totally Simple and there is No need to Make an AVI first as that is useless and Quality degradeing Step that shouldn"t be done in Any Circumstance..Well First you Rip the DVD in "Movie" Mode with "SmartRipper" then you use a Program called DVD2AVI(No it will not make an AVI file) you Load the First Vob file ripped from the DVD into It and the Rest will load automaticly, Now you go to "Audio" and set "Dolby Digital" to "Decode" and set it to "Dolby Surround Downmix", then under the "Video" tab set "Yuv/Rgb" to "TV Scale" now go to "File" to "Save Project" and Gibve the Project file and name, Now DVD2AVI will Make a D2V file and a Wav audio file, Now take the D2V file and Load it into Tmpgenc as the Video source and load the Wav file as the audio source and then Just encode it like Normal...If you get an error saying that the D2V file is Unsupported then Copy the "DVD2AVI.vfp" file from the "DVD2AVI" folder and Paste it into the Tmpgenc Install folder ,now restart Tmpgenc and Load the D2V and Wav files in again and it should Load...
i have saved the project from dvd2avi and it did produce a d2v and a wav file, but tmpgenc won´t open it, i put the dvd2avi.vfp file into the tmpg installation folder and then when i go to select the video source i can at least select it but it gives me an error saying it is unsupported, i also tried the open project option but that did not work either
If you're lazy ... extract the contens to your Tmpgenc directory.
The file DVD2AVI.VFP must be in the tmpgenc dir ... other files don't matter.
Open Tmpgenc, go to options -> environmental settings -> VFAPI plug-in
and make "DVD2AVI Project file reader 1.77.3" the second entry from the top.
(Dunno if that is really needed ...)
I have had this problem before ,and What solved it is To Just Make a New D2V file and Try again...And Make sure the DVD2AVI.vfp Plugin has a High enough priority in the Vfapi Plugins..And I have allways Had the Best results with DVD2AVI 1.76 But 1.77 should work Fine also...
i finally did it!
what i ended up doing was unzipping all the contents from the dvd2avi archive to the tmpgenc installation folder, running dvd2avi, create the project, then in tmpgenc it opened up straight away, wierd how it did not work before.
Anyway, i have just finished encoding robbie williams live at the albert and it took a total time of 3 hours (dvd ripping included)