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I have burned several episodes on a dvd, and it seems everytime I always get errors playing the last episode. But, it's not just that particular episode, if I burned a completely different set of episodes, then the last one would still be having problems. All the other ones play fine. They are all originally .avis but I encoded them with TMPG, then used TMPG DVD Author to output them into a folder than use Nero to burn. I have no idea what could be the problem, I was thinking maybe to encode them using the Highest Quality, I'm using Normal right now, but I'm not sure if the encoding is the problem, and don't want to waste the extra time encoding and waste a disc.
Hang on..more details are required...what exactly is the problem?
Are you experiencing this problem with the actual MPEGs on your Hard drive or do the problems only occur after burning to DVD.
It sounds to me liky you are simply using cheapo disks.
It seems the last thing to play on the disc always ends up buggy. Just to experiment, I put several copies of the same episode on a disc, they all play fine except for the last one. I'm using TDK DVD+R discs.
TDK are usually pretty good disks, but you may simply have a bad batch.
The problem you have is usually symptomatic of cheap disks, where errors usually appear at the vey end of the disk.
Deos this problem happen on the DVD player only or on the PC also?
Try burning at a lower speed. If that doesn't work change your burning program, I recomend NERO for DVD's.
If you still get no joy then I would go out and buy some RITEK GO4's. These disks are just about the best and most compatible you can get.
If these don't work then it likely your burner or DVD player is at fault.
Which burner and player do you have?
I was just wondering if there was any way I can make my own frames for the thumbnail images. So far I have found no program that makes *.tme files. Any help would be appreciated.
You have the EXE file right? Or was it ZIP? I think you can burn that ZIP/EXE file to a CD-RW data disc and then install it onto your laptop. It should work.
Is there any way for TMPGEnc to maximize/normalize an AC3 5.1's volume? It's very weird though. I burned it as is to DVD and all the voices and sounds are loud but the background music can barely be heard. On the computer, it's downsampled to come out of 2 speakers so it sounds fine there. I have a home entertainment system where the music is very faint. Is it possible to fix this kind of audio? :(
Yes, my receiver has a prologic selection. Isn't there a way to keep the 5.1 effect? :( Does the computer's AC3 decoder affect anything that's burned to DVD? I have the AC3Filter with the highest Master and Gain and have Normalize checked. I don't know why this is.
Somebody recommended that I decode the AC3 to a WAV, open it in Goldwave, maximize it (I tested it and 0db sounds pretty loud on the computer), and then convert that back to AC3. However, I found out that the decoded WAV is stereo and not surround. :(
I'm willing to go through the work to get the background music's volume increased. :( I tried using BeSweet to boost it up but still, it's too soft, I can't hear. :(
Ok, the thing is an AC3 5.1 soundtrack NEVER gets reproduced right in a prologic system.
Prologic is designed to achieve a 4 channel surround effect by decoding the information in a specially coded 2 channel sound track.
However with 5.1 when attempting to decode it with a prologic decoder some of the information either gets misrepresented or lost altogether.
For instance the LFE just never gets reproduced right on a Prologic system because the system attempts to push it through the left and right channel and this can create a muted audio effect of other frequencies in some scenes.
The LFE needs a dedicated channel through it's own dedicated Sub to really have an effect.
A Prologic decoder will handle a 2 channel AC3 track better than a 5.1 track as most of the correct downmixing has been professionally done for you and should sound better in a prologic decoder.
5.1 really comes into it's own with a true Dolby digital decoder and Prologic just doesn't do it justice.
If you feed a 5.1 audio track to a Prologic amp all it will attempt to do is downmix it to 4 channels losing some of it's original impact. Many times you can hear these decoding errors as the audio sometimes seems somewhat muted on some scenes when in fact it should be booming.
My advice is to simply downmix the 5.1 to prologic. You not gonna gain anything by fiddling with the individual channels.
Actually, at first, I don't really understand what you meant by a prologic decoder. I just noticed that my receiver has it as a selection. I have a normal home entertainment system with 2 front speakers, 1 center, 1 subwoofer, and 2 back speakers and it can play Dolby Digital 5.1 as well as DTS. The receiver has lots of selections such as Concert Hall, Disco, Rock Concert, Pro Logic, etc. To use the normal DD5.1 or DTS, I would have to set it at Pro Logic and it would then change to say it is Dolby Digital.
I have burned many 5.1 AC3 to DVD before and they all worked fine and showed spectacular sound. But this one, the background music is soft and cannot be heard over all the explosions and voices. I don't know why it is. When it's downsampled to 2 speakers on my computer, the music is very loud over the explosions and that is how it should sound. I have an official DVD (not the same one I'm making but it's in the series) where the music is also prevalent over the explosions/voices. So...hopefully I can get some help with doing this, no matter how much work it involves. Thanks. :)
I thought you had a Prologic encoder not a 5.1 decoder which is why I made the suggestions above.
However if you really want to do the messing about then fair enough.
Load the AC3 into the program as 'Dolby digital (decode to PCM)'
You should then see 6 tracks. Play the tracks to find the background music. When you have found the right track then right click on the track itself in the window and uncheck 'lock'.
Now adjust the volume control for the track. When your happy check the volume with the play controls at the top of the window.
If your satisfied the goto File>Save as and save as 'Dolby digital(AC3)' and your done.
I'm converting avi files from a digital camcorder into mpeg. If I play the avi file the audio sounds fine; the mpeg file has the audio in sloooow taaaaalk. The video seems to move at the normal rate, just the audio is messed up.
What do the Noise Reduction settings control exactly? I understand "Still Picture" is for spatial filtering, and "Time Axis" is for temporal filtering, but what does the value actually mean? I assume that since the range is 0-100 that it is a percentage, but a percentage of what? A better definition than what is available in the help would be appreciated.
i am having problems encoding using said program...
i had nimo codec pack 9 installed and all i could get was the video.
then i uninstalled that codec and just installed the dixv 5.02 or the most current codec and again all i could get with tmpgenc was the video.. so my question is what codec should be used to get the audio for the encode? i have used virtual dub to get the wav of the video and i get an error that the file is not supported which tells me its a codec problem.
The audio is likely AC3 or maybe VBR MP3.
The next time you extract to a wav you must choose full processing and select PCM.
You have simply extracted an AC3 file and put a wav header on it.
Scratching my head a bit here. I had been getting the old "Cannot open/unsupported" error and read through the threads here and nothing worked. As it worked fine last night I began thinking about what had changed on my system. I uninstalled a trial version of Cucusofts avi - dvd convertor. When I reinstalled this TMPEng works again!! Anyone any idea why? I dont really want cucusofts software on my machine so if I knew what it was I could probably keep whatever codec or whatever is making TMPEng work.