Whenever I start the program, the same Video source file is always loaded.
How can I have the program start with video and audio source being blank?
I didn't have this problem with the previous version.

Um...is this really that important? Maybe you can delete what's written in the fields or replace it with the file that you want to convert?

When re-encoding a batch of mpeg files, if you delete the completed files from the list, the current file being encoded will have an error and abort. v2.513 and below did not have this problem.

>Tony Wong ( Mail ) 2003/08/16 (Sat) 01:21 ( ID:4bbk5n9bato ) [ Edit / Delete / >Reply with quotation ]

>When re-encoding a batch of mpeg files, if you delete the completed files from >the list, the current file being encoded will have an error and abort. v2.513 >and below did not have this problem.

Worse than this, EVERY time I try to run Batch encoding for a bunch of SVCD MPG2 files, it crashes after each and every one. Never did this in earlier versions. Just to make sure I went back to the previous version and tried to run the same Batch encode, and it worked perfectly fine. Something in 2.520 is totally broken with Batch encoding.

How come HTML won't work in subtitles?! It came like that when I extracted it from the OGM file. I thought the italics will work since it's included so I did not remove the italic tags in SubtitleTool! And now it's frameserving in TMPGEnc and I just found out on the progress window. :( Is there a way to correct this? I don't want to encode again, I already did 2 times! Boo-hoo!

Ok, I'm willing to encode again. Is there a subtitle editor that can edit the subtitle colors, size and move it up a little? Because on the VCD I just made, the subtitles go just a bit below the TV screen.

After I edit the range from the source DVD disc and output the result. The subtilte is gone. Please help!

There is no help yet. TMPGEnc DVD Author supports only on Video an one Audio-Track, no additional Tracks like Sub-Pictures or more than one Audio-Track.

Maybe IFOEdit is the solution for your Problem.

I have just been a japaneese web site to download the codecs that are sugested on the options page but when i try to download them i get a blank page. Does anyone know where i can download a good set of video codecs?

Google.com
There are loads.

Hello,

I recently upgraded to Windows XP from Win98. I have a Miro DC30 capture card with an XP driver I obtained from www.mirosupport.com and have been capturing VHS material for storage onto DVD. When I encoded in Win98 (after with the standard Win98 Miro driver), the MPG2 files were fine. However, I now notice that there is a type of strobing effect (For example a zoom in will not appear steady and smooth, it is jerky). The source MJPEG file plays fine, but the MPG2 is aweful. Furthermore, there is an occassional double image in scenes where movement occurs. I have all settings on highest quality, using the DVD PAL template. Any ideas?

Thanks

Dwight

Just an addition: I have read repeatedly on this board about frame rate settings, and I would like to know if anyone else uses the Miro30 card in XP, and if I am overlooking something in capture. Also, if anyone who uses the Miro DC10 card in XP could you tell me how that functions?

Thanks,

Dwight

You have set the field order wrong. Whatever it was set the first time you encoded it you need to set it to the opposite.
You can do this simply with a program called pulldown.exe and it's GUI.

Yes, pulldown.exe and ReStream are both able to change this. But the Motion Vectors are not be corrected. So that's not the best way. It works, but reencoding with the correct Field Order is a lott better.

Well using Pulldown.exe has always worked perfectly when I have done it with no artifacts whatsoever.

Thanks for your help! I realise there are many field-order FAQs, I just needed to make sure I was doing everything right given that under Win98 it was fine. I ended up capturing with Virtual VCR rather than Amcap, and that has given fault free MPG2 files after converting. Virtual VCR allows several addition tweaks and the like.

It's rare when I experience error messages in TMPGEnc. I am converting a long movie to MPEG and I feel that the computer shouldn't be up all night so I'm going to convert the first half and the second half separately then join them together at the end.

The first half was converted fine yesterday using Source Range. But today after I moved the starting/ending points and pressed "Start", TMPGEnc lagged. When I tried to preview, it gave me an error message. I aborted the process, another error. When I closed TMPGEnc, more error messages! Gah! How do I convert the second half? :(

Well if Tmpgenc Crashes while scanning through the file useing the "Source Range" then try Useing "Virtual Dub" to Frameserve just the second half of the Movie to Tmpgenc..This should work without much problem...

Is it possible to add panscan information using this encoder?

No.

No, but MPEGRepair can insert this information later without re-encoding.

How can I tell if an AVI file is widescreen or not? I have this AVI that's a DVD-rip and the characters on it seems squashed. The size is 640x352. In TMPGEnc, should I convert it to 352x240? If it is widescreen, what should I do?

Actually, after I emailed the person who encoded it,he said he encoded the wrong size so it is a little squished. :( What should I do now? Let's say it's not widescreen..

I always use "Full Screen (Keep aspect ratio)" or "No Margins (keep aspect ratio)" regardless of the input. Use Preview to see what the result is. The frame rate of the source avi is more important. For NTSC (23.976 or 29.97 fps) I always use 352x240 (MPEG1) and for PAL (25fps) 352x288. My advice is to check the frame rate with avirate.exe and encode with the same fram rate. Let your DVD player deal with the fps conversion.

What is the "No Margins" one for?

Hmmm...when I did the "Full Screen (keep aspect ratio)", black bars appeared at the top and bottom making it widescreen but the video was a bit squashed. But "Full Screen" seems to work fine as it makes the video full screen and the characters don't look like potatoes! Thanks though.

That's because (Keep Aspect Ratio) is mostly the wrong Option.
Which one to use, depants on the Source.

Your Video is 640x352. OK, that's a wrong Aspect Ratio (1.616:1). If you use (Keep Aspect Ratio) the resulting Video also has a wrong Aspect Ratio.

>That's because (Keep Aspect Ratio) is mostly the wrong Option.

This option is usually the right one to choose as long as you choose the correct input aspect ratio for your source that is if you intend the output to look the same as the source.
With any other aspect ratio apart from the preset ones you would have to use the Center(custom size) option to set your own source aspect ratio.

Center (custom size) is a bit tricky, because if you use it, and the Source has not the same size than the Target, it uses the Resizer of TMPGEnc. And that's not the best part of the Program.

I prefer to use AVISynth to to all the Resizing and then to use Center or Full Screen. But there are many way's leading you to Rome... ;)

Yout right AVIsynth is a better way of resizing, but for simplicities sake and ease TMPG can do a decent job of resizing ( I would still like to know from the author what sort of resizing method TMPG uses and why we can't have options included to choose the type we require)

The easiest way to do the resizing with AVisynth is to use GordianKnot, this way you have a visual reference then I would use the Fullscreen(keep aspect ratio) option in TMPG. This way TMPG will NOT resize the image.

Sorry for my intromission, but my question is somewhat related to this thread:
how can I determine the aspect ratio of the source AVI file to use for encoding with TMPEG, when I don't know it?
That is important because I use Keep aspect ratio to have the Output look the same as the Source.
Thanks for help.

Well it's not really that hard to tell is it?
If it's either 16:9 or 4:3 it should be obvious when you play it back, but if that's not good enough then download one of the many utilities that will tell you the properties of the file such as Gspot or even Virtualdub.

>Well it's not really that hard to tell is it?
>If it's either 16:9 or 4:3 it should be obvious when you play it back, but if that's not good enough then download one of the many utilities that will tell you the properties of the file such as Gspot or even Virtualdub.

Sorry again, but in VirtualDub 1.5.3 I don't find where that info is, infact in File Information I don't find anything that is similar to Aspect ratio (there is Frame size of course, but, as I know, this doesn't determine in a unique way the Aspect Ratio...). Must I use Gspot?
When you say "play it back" you mean with a software player like Windows Media Player on the source AVI file or, once converted in mpeg 4:3, with a desktop DVD player?
Thank you very much.

GSpot would give you Much More Information on the File....

Ok download this app. It should tell you what you need to know.
http://avicodec.duby.info/ftp/avicod11.exe

>Ok download this app. It should tell you what you need to know.
>http://avicodec.duby.info/ftp/avicod11.exe

Great, it was what I searching for! Thank you a lot!
One more question on this argument(hope the last one): I've encoded a video (which his Aspect Ratio is reported to be 16:9 by AVIcodec)with frame size 512x288 for a standard VCD, setting Advanced/Source aspect ratio to 1:1 (VGA), Advanced/Video arrange Method to Full screen (keep aspect ratio 2) and Video/Aspect ratio to 16:9 625 line(PAL), when I play the resulting VCD on my DVD desktop player (which is set to output 16:9) and on my 16:9 TV set, it looks fine only when I choose the 4:3 mode on the TV, while it looks "stretched" if the TV is set to Widescreen (16:9). Can you tell me why?
Is because I choose 1:1 (VGA) as Source aspect ratio? If so, what kind of relation must be between this parameter and the "true" aspect ratio of the source video?
Thanks fo your patience.

Why did you choose 1:1 VGA if your source is actually 16:9. This is NOT the right option. 1:1 is a square pixel aspect ratio 16:9 is not.
You should have selected 16:9 PAL as the source ratio.
Set your output to 'full screen (keep aspect ratio)' and the output ratio to 16:9.

>Why did you choose 1:1 VGA if your source is actually 16:9. This is NOT the right option. 1:1 is a square pixel aspect ratio 16:9 is not.
>You should have selected 16:9 PAL as the source ratio.

I've used that option before I knew the correct source aspect ratio (that is before use of AVICodec)...
Anyway, I'll try your suggestion, thank you.

Be aware that to encode to 16:9 you should use MPEG2. Mpeg1 does not have support for anamorphic flags and therefore may not be correctly detected by your player. Also ensure your player is set up for 16:9 output.

I am trying to load the video source but it comes up with the message "can not open, or unsupported". Is this something to do with the codecs?

Also, how can I find out what the details (e.g. the codec used) for each AVI file I have?

The big picture is that I am trying to create Video CD's of files I have downloaded but with little success..... Any advice would be appriciated.

Thanks,
ZAK

To find out what codec your AVI files were compressed to you can use a Little Program called "G-Spot", it will tell you what audio and Video codecs you files use...To get rid of your "Can Not Open Or Unsupported" error you should try this..Go to "options" to "enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the priority of the "Direct Show File Reader" to "2", this should get your file loaded...Another thing you should know is that downloaded movies are the worst files to try to make (S)VCD"s or DVD"s out of cuz Downloaded files usually use Wierd Resolutions and Non-Standard Frame rates and Audio formats, Plus they have a tendance to be corrupted or have corrupted frames in them which makes them difficult if not impossible at times to make Proper Mpeg files out of them....good luck

Thanks a lot for ALL the advice given...it now works!

Cheers,
Zak

i have the same problem as above. i have tried to switch the priority to 2, this did not work. i ran the clip in g-spot and it shows the clip is mp43 codec.
is this my problem? i think mp43 is nero codec. thanks in advance for any and all help.

Mp43 is Not a Nero codec it is Just the Microsoft Mpeg-4 version 3 Codec,if you install the FFDshow Decoder then you should be able to decode this File..

hey minion thanks alot.had it on hard drive just not installed. it did work perfect. thank you for your help.

My file codec was "div3" and I raise the TMPGEnc file reader to "2" but it still showed the same message. Can you plaese help me out?

Try What I said before ,Install the FFDshow Decoder, It is a Decoder for allmost all Formats , You can configure it to decode any Mpeg-4/DivX/XviD format and Mjpeg and DV and Mpeg and it does Many other things also....

can you give me the link? can't seem to find it. thanks

nevermind, I found it but I don't know how to use it. Can you tell what to do?

I have avi's captured off of a camcorder via firewire (i.e. all digital). I have been editing them by using Showbiz 1.1 and Ulead Videostudio 5 and using TMPG to convert to MPEG2. I encounter an error using Showbiz.

I edit them by adding features (transitions, titles, etc) and resave as DV files in AVI uncompressed format. The Ulead files, TMPG has no problem with--it splits them into the audio (PCM) and mpeg2 video (m2v). However, when I use Showbiz, TMPG does its thing but the audio is out of sync/distorted with the video when I author the DVD. It isn't just a time lag, but a "squashing" of the audio as everyone sounds like they are on helium with a slight jitter.

I have tried 2 different computers and this is consistent with EVERY file output by Showbiz. Does anyone know why this might be? Does Showbiz use some wierd format? I don't get any "errors" throughout the process--the files are just screwed up in the end.

Have you Maybe thought of Useing a Totally seperate Program to encode the audio...You can use Something like "Virtual Dub" to extract the audio from the AVI file to wav and then use that as the audio source in your DVD authoring Program..That way you will know if Tmpgenc is screwing up your audio or if it is allready screwed up..You should also consider useing a Different audio format than Wav as Wav audio takes up a LOT of Disk Space that would be better used to Video, Converting the Wav audio to AC3 would be the best as it is a Very high Quality format and the File sizes are very small....Cheers

Have you Maybe thought of Useing a Totally seperate Program to encode the audio...You can use Something like "Virtual Dub" to extract the audio from the AVI file to wav and then use that as the audio source in your DVD authoring Program..That way you will know if Tmpgenc is screwing up your audio or if it is allready screwed up..You should also consider useing a Different audio format than Wav as Wav audio takes up a LOT of Disk Space that would be better used to Video, Converting the Wav audio to AC3 would be the best as it is a Very high Quality format and the File sizes are very small....Cheers

Thanks, that is a good idea, I'll try to split it out separately with a different program. I would really like to know if Showbiz is using a non-standard header that I could just eliminate.

ron

>Have you Maybe thought of Useing a Totally seperate Program to encode the audio...You can use Something like "Virtual Dub" to extract the audio from the AVI file to wav and then use that as the audio source in your DVD authoring Program..That way you will know if Tmpgenc is screwing up your audio or if it is allready screwed up..You should also consider useing a Different audio format than Wav as Wav audio takes up a LOT of Disk Space that would be better used to Video, Converting the Wav audio to AC3 would be the best as it is a Very high Quality format and the File sizes are very small....Cheers

Is there anybody who can give me
a direction how to do such profile?

First, you have to own the full product. Trial versions (at least the older ones) have this disabled.

Then you have to unlock all feature selections (load the extras/unlock template). Options will be in the Setting/Video sheet.

4:2:2 is a little bit of a pain because most decoders can't play it. WinDVD does not and I don't know about PowerDVD. Some DirectShow codecs (e.g. Etymonics) handle it but playing with through DS codecs is a pain. Decoding 4:2:2 Mpeg (or any other Mpeg) for offline reencoding to other formats should be done with DVD2AVI.