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Hey everyone.
I just put a sequence header on my MPEG file using the Merge and Cut tool. TMPGEnc now accepts it but the file is to big. I'm trying to get my wrestling VHS to DVD. TMGEnc says it can't open it. How can I change my VHS to get VOBs and IFO etc to put it on DVD? PLEASE HELP
Hello, I have a problem with TMPGEnc's shutting down feature. I decided to test if it really shuts down because last time, I suspected that it had been on all night. Anyway, I selected a small portion of a movie to convert to MPEG. Then I clicked "File" and then "Output to MPEG." When it reached 100%, it displayed a green PC shutdown progress bar. It took about 19 seconds and then the PC began shutting down.
When it started to display the "It's now safe to turn off your PC" screen, the screen went black and restarted by itself! I did this 2 times with the same results. Please tell me how to make it shut down properly or at least make the computer stay at the "It's now safe to turn off your PC" screen.
You either have an absolutely Ancient PC or you don't have ACPI enabled in the BIOS.
Theres no point in using the shutdown option if you don't enable ACPI. Go into your BIOS and set this to enabled. Your PC will then power off not just display the "It's now safe to turn off your PC" screen.
You access the bios when the computer first starts up. Each computer brand uses a different key, but the two most common ones are delete and F8. Refer to your manual or website of your computer company.
If you are a newbie as you describe yourself, do not change anything in the bios as you could quickly get a nice expensive door stop that one day used to be a computer.
There are hundreds of websites about BIOS. Do a google search and start doing research.
Most BIOSes can be accessed by pressing the DEL key a few times while booting.
Once in there should be a menu, Menu's differ from one BIOS to another, but the one you are looking for will say something like ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES or ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES.
Just have look inside and look for anything which mentions ACPI or APIC. You should be either be able to enable it or disable it that's all. If it has any other setting it's not what you are looking for.
If it is disabled then enable it. usually this is done by highlighting the item then using the - or + key to change it.
Once enabled use the 'Escape' button to come out of that Menu and then make sure you select the option to 'SAVE AND EXIT' the BIOS before exiting the BIOS.
Now just reboot and it and ACPI should be enabled.
The different between "TMPGEnc free" and "TMPGEnc Plus" is "TMPGEnc free" is provided only 30 days MPEG2 trial using, so 30 days after, your application "TMPGEnc free" will not be able to create your source to SVCD source or DVD source etc. MPEG2 relative work. At this time you need a TMPGEnc Plus. Don't forget that MPEG2 never have freeshare, cause it require a license for this format......
Does difference in quality affect the output MPEG's file size? I use Constant Quality with a maximum bitrate of 2520 and a minimum of 0. Usually, I select 70% quality to put 3 half-hour episodes onto a CD-R that is 700MB/80 minutes. The MPEGs usually come out around 250MB, more or less. But this time, one of the MPEGs came out to be 292MB! I am worried that the third one won't fit. :( Should I lower the quality to 50? 40? 30?
In CQ mode, your bitrate desired quality is set below the maximum bitrate, in slide bar where determine the degradation of the P and B pictures, which determines the quality compare with I picture that 100% Max. bitrate. This will determine the quality of the video.
But if use this mode do not worried about file size, the picture quality became a first priority position for encoding. your encoded file sizes will be always depending on your source file.
I don't get it. So what must I do to bring down the file size a little even if it sacrifices the quality a little? If you want to know, the source's bitrate is 1148 kb/s.
I have many small SVCD encoded mpeg file I would like to convert to VCD format. Is it possible to have the tmpg project file format so that I can write a simple Visual Basic program to creat project files for all the mpeg files to convert?
Thank you in advance.
Feri.
Feri_b@yahoo.com
P.S. I would very much appreciate a response by e-mail.
After install go to Start>Programs>FFDSHOW and click Configuration.
Click 'CODECS' and make sure FFDSHOW is enabled to decode your AVI then click 'SUBTITLES'
Check the 'Subtitles' box then uncheck the 'Search' box now load your subtitles. Next click apply then OK.
Now just open your AVI in TMPG and you should see the subs.
This is just a little bit of info for those of you who get the 'Sequence headers' error in your DVD authoring programs.
If you happen to have downloaded or have made your own MPEG without sequence headers or your DVD program complains about no sequence headers then you can add the headers with TMPG.
Simply load your MPEG1 or MPEG2 file into the Merge&Cut tool and run it.
TMPG will then rewrite the headers into the file.
It should then get accepted by your authoring program.
Note: This will not work using the multiplexer. it only works in the Merge&Cut tool.
Hi,
Every .avi or .mpg created by Premiere 6.5 causes an "Illegal Stream format" error in TMPGenc. It doesn't matter which export settings I make in Premiere, every output is rejected by TMPGenc!
Jan
If that is not the case, first of all to get your AVI accepted install FFDSHOW then raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' in the 'VFAPI plugins' to 2
TMPG is a bit picky about MPEGs it also requires an MPEG2 codec installed for MPEG2 files, so first try to run your MPEG through the simple multiplexer. If it doesn't accept it then you will need MPEG2VCR 3.11, 3.12 or 3.14. Once you have run it through MPEG2VCR it will get accepted by TMPG.
You could also try running it through a program called MME.exe (never tried this yet but may work). You will find this program as part of an MPEG2 plugin for TMPG available for download here: http://www.marumo.ne.jp/mpeg2/
I have tried to encode PAL surce (720x576, anamorphic transfer, 16:9 aspect ratio) into NTSC (for DVD).
I am looking for a list of settings which I should paste into Tmpg to proper PAL --> NTSC conversion (in Video, Advanced, GOP structure and Quantize matrix tab).
I am doing something wrong, because final file always haven't got fluent motion (it have frames drop or something).
Any suggestion?
Sorry, but you can't do proper frame rate conversion with TMPG which is why you are experiencing jerky playback.
To convert PAL to NTSC you need to use the slowdown method.
First of all you will need to demux the VOBS with VOBEDIT to an .m2v
Then you can use Re-stream to alter the frame rate to 23.976.
You will then need to use pulldown.exe to add 2:3 pulldown to the file which will make it 29.97 fps.
After that you will need to create a wav from the audio and use Goldwave5 or Cooledit to stretch the length of the wav to match the the Video length.
I have done PAL --> NTSC conversion as you have described above but when I am trying to import new ntsc m2v file into Maestro it give me window: Illegal Picture Resolution for DVD Video...
What now???
Sorry I should have expalined that you would need to re-encode the file to the correct resolution.
I thought you may have realised this as the instructions I gave where how to create elementary files for re-encoding.
I have reencoded it using Tmpg ofcourse, and now I have the following:
1. On PC side - everything is OK - I cannot see any difference between PAL source and encoded NTSC - no matter which kind of software player I am using,
2. When I am playing it on my standalone DVD player - there are problems with black level (black is almost purple with a lot of color distortion) and encoding distortion of picture appears - it looks like very poor DivX - I don't know why - my standalone supports NTSC (SONY DVP-NS900)...
Is there something else which I must set during encoding proces (in Tmpg setup) to proper play enceded NTSC on my stand alone?
Seems an unusual problem.
Post the properties of the MPEG here and I'll take a look.
You can use 'Bitrate viewer' to do this. Just copy and paste the details.