I have a mpeg-II file that is 15000Kbps in bitrate. I would like to use Tmpgenc to chantge the bitrate to 9800kbps so I can burn it on DVD.

But, when i try to open the file to encode it, tmpgenc shuts down with an error message from WinXP. What could be wrong? is this a bug?

//Anders

Do you have an MPEG2 coded installed?

Or you aren't using the Plus version, which is the only one able to load mpeg-2 files? (just a try)

Hi, I have done a search to no avail, but just wanted to know if anyone has had any problems with Windows Media Player 10. I read that WMP9 didnt work with TMPGENC so did not bother with it. Thanks.

How can I put 16 chapters on 1 page? How can I delete the title?

If anyone knows, please tell me: Can 16 chapters be put on one page, and how?

Ever clicked on the Button "Edit menu theme"?

"Edit Menu Theme" does not work, but what does work is starting with a theme that has more than 16 chapters!
Problem solved.

Does anyone know what can be causing my encoding speed problem?

What happens is that after a while of "normal" encoding, I find that the speed of the encoding drops off dramatically. When I stop encoding & start again, its still slow. The only way to get the encoding back to "normal" is to reboot my XP machine.

I've tried setting the priority to low & even setting the affinity in task manager to one cpu (intel p4) with no effect. Under these conditions it will encode at a good rate for a while, but eventually the speed drops dramatically.

Any suggestions?

A suggestion: use motion search precision = highest quality (very slow) and encode at night, while you're sleeping. TMPGenc's output mpeg quality falls when you decrease the motion search precision.

I don't understand why this happens but when I open & run TMPGEnc it starts encoding very quickly. After a short while, the encoding speed drastically drops. For example it is initially estimated that it would take, say 30 minutes, to encode. It encodes at this rate for about 5 minutes, then it slows right down & takes hours to complete. I don't know why!

I'm able to "fix" this issue by opening TMPGEnc 2 times & only using 1 to encode what I want encoded. Now it will take less than 20 minutes to encode a 20 minute video, whereas before it would take many hours.

Can anyone explain what is going on? Has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks, in advance for any knowledge & maybe my "solution" might help others in this situation.

:-)

I have several clips that are good quality & I wish to convert them to DVD
The problem I am having is TMP 3.0 readears will not open the video portion of the files
I have tried different combinations of the mpg readers & priories with no sucsess.
G spot identifies it as "MPEG 1 payload" codec; NTSC 4:3 VCD format
codecs already installed.

These files play fine on any media player
does anyone know of a plug in or codec that will allow TMP3.0 to read these files?

Thanks

I have an AVI file in wide screen format - I don't know the exact ratio, but I believe it was ripped from a "wide screen" edition DVD. The pixel dimensions measure 576x240 according to the Summary tab in the windows Properties sheet. When I play the AVI in PowerDVD (or any other player) it displays correctly on the screen.

When I attempt to encode this AVI to an MPEG for DVD burning, the video is _always_ the wrong size. Most often the width is correct (576 pixels), but the height is stretched out to fill the screen, giving the image a tall, stretched look. Though occasionally I get video that seems in the correct proportions, but is cut off on the sides.

I have tried just about _everything_ in the TMPGEnc settings to change this output video. The video looks correct in the "preview" window in TMPGEnc, but is always incorrect in the final output file. What is it that I am missing? I'm happy to try to provide any more information that might be helpful in solving this problem, provided that I know the info.

Thanks in advance for any help!

That's how it should be.
As long as you select the output resolution as 16:9 when you play it back in a DVD player or DVD softwer player it will be resized to the right aspect ratio by the player.

Thanks for the information. As I'm still pretty new at this I did a little more poking around after reading your reply. The encoded MPEG video still plays stretched along the vertical axis in my PowerDVD player, but on a whim I did an image capture using the software's built in utility and pasted that capture into Photoshop. The pasted capture was the correct size and dimension. I assume that if I write this MPEG to a DVD that it will indeed play correctly on my DVD player, but do you know why PowerDVD is stretching the video? I have used this software to play all sorts of video on my system and have never encountered this problem before. I've reviewed the PowerDVD settings and cannot find anything that would cause this. Any ideas?

Thanks again in advance for the information!

-randall

PowerDVD should be resizing the MPEG correctly.
Check your settings.
The source is PAL anamorphic. TMPG input aspect ratio should settings should be:
16:9 525 line (PAL)
Full screen (keep aspect ratio)

Output should be:
MPEG-2
16:9 Display
720x576
25fps

If you are still getting distorted images, you could try my method, which uses a 4:3 ratio screen. Under the aspect ratio setting, choose [Centre] - Custom Size. You can now enter parameters for the height and width of the video. What I do now is scale up the proportions to fit DVD video, so if you want a final output of 720x576, you would take your original dimensions ie 640 x 320 and divide 720 by the width ie 720/640 = 1.125. Now multiply this result by the height - ie 1.125 x 320 = 360. Now in the [Centre] Custom Size width and height boxes, enter in 720 x 360 (the scaled up amount). This method will give you video footage in perfect proportion every time.

If you want to burn off a 1/2 duplex dvd (KDVD for example)work it all out as before, but when you enter in the final amounts in the [Centre] Custom Size boxes, enter in your 1/2 duplex width instead. So using the above example it would be 352 x 360 (for a KDVD).

i have encoded many avi usi tmpge but encounter some files when i'm using tmpgne becomes double or more than the playing time and size. I never change any of the bitrate

ex:problem Avi file 169 mb (24m) use tmpge with setting VCD Mpeg 1 Ntsc 4:3 525
Video Highest qaulity. Advance ;Ghost reduction ;noise reduction ;sharpen edged;simple color correction; clip frame; all check. Bitrate 11150

becomes Avi 48m & 483 mb!!!

any help n solution is very welcomed

That's the old VBR-Audio problem.

Convert the Audiopart to WAV fist by using VirtualDubMOD

or

use Source Range in TMPGEnc

Try raising the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to top of the list in the VFAPI plugins.

You have to make the mpeg using audio and video not just video i had this problem when i just tryed using "system video" but as soon as i put "system audio and video" instead of just video it worked correctly

Where can i finding the directshow file reader? is it under options or setting?

thx for the reply

>You have to make the mpeg using audio and video not just video i had this problem when i just tryed using "system video" but as soon as i put "system audio and video" instead of just video it worked correctly

Not necessary, but it probably worked because it took the length of the audio into account.

>where can i finding the directshow file reader? is it under options or setting?

Options>Enviromental settings>VFAPI plugins

Thank you!

I've been searching for a solution for the same problem and until this I'd only come across "yeah, everyone asks that" and "try a search". Ironic, since I'd already checked the FAQ searching was what led me to that post.

Thanks for actually providing the answer!!!

Tmpgenc2.5, yuv2 avi input with 720*576pal. I see ligting colnums (may 10) in left side of the frame with preview and in the output mpeg too. But tis only occured if the output is 720*576. If I decrease resolution to 352*576 the this colnums are gone. If I try to mask it then the colnums going to left to right (during the icrease of the left mask value), but always there...
If I check the source avi file with msmp or powerdvd then all of this colnums are normal...

First of all, what in the heck are lighting columns?! Have you got a pic?

What format is the AVI, XVID, DIVX, e.t.c.? What is it's original reolution and which command are you using in AVISYNTH to open the AVI?

Sorry, but this is not tmpgenc problem. The VGA card has problem. In the screen lines in case of sharp dark->light changes we got may some refelction. This is what generate the light colnums in the left side of the screen....

Hello, is there a way to normalize (or adjust the volume) of the audio only in avi video without touching the video part in the file. The problem is that the file size is multiplied by 4 even though I use the same codec as the original file had, this is why I would prefer to leave the video part untouched.

Alternatively is there a batch process to replace the audio in avi with the correspongin wav files that have been processed by audio editor.

Hi!
I hope you can help me. I have a 1.01 GB MPG file. I want to burn it on a CD, so I tried to reduce the file-size with TMPGEnc 2.524. The problem is, I can type in the size i want, but the resulting video is still 1.01 GB big. So it's not reduced. What have I done wrong?
Greetings Michael

My advice is to just split it to 2 disks otherwise you will reduce the quality to an unacceptable level.

If you must reduce the size then make sure you select 'MPEG1 VCD (non standard)' as the type.

A MPEG-1 's size is 10 MB * its length (in minutes). Therefore I assume you're encoding a approx. 100' movie (nothing strange).

You have to split the mocie on 2 CDs or to ude the KVCD template gotten in http://www.kvcd.net/portal/index.php, exactly in http://kvcd.net/dvd-models.html (for me the quality worsen, but if you like it)

im trying to put in a video file and it ses Can't find "P3Package.dll"

i have no clue how to fix this i am not very good with computers could i please have some feedback as to what i should do BTW im trying to put in a video recorded from a Game

i did further research into this and found a person having the same problem as me and matt (post further below same problem) and he said he uninstalled his version and then installed it again and the problem was gone i decided to try this and what do u know it worked :D hope i helped matt down below

Good Luck to everyone on there problems

I faced the same problem, and what I did was, make sure your 'P3Package.dll' is in the same folder as your application file folder (TMPGEnc.exe). I think what happen ed was your TMPGEnc software cant detect the .dll file. I hope this solve the problem.

Tis my first time encoding with TMPGEnc.

However, the first 5% of the econding causes my Pc to hang..& i will have to restart the whole encoding again..

can someone pls advise me on the settings or wad codecs i need ..or wad could have gone wrong.

My suggestion is to test TMPGenc with a different file. It might be a problem - corruption? - of the input movie (I don't think your HD hasn't any free room for the output's mpeg)