Hi! I have an avi file which was encoded with AC3 audio. It plays back fine using the freeware AC3filter. I can't seem to get it converted to an mp2 file for dvd burning through TMPGenc. (I have the TMPGenc AC3 installed as well).
Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!

I have the same problem. GSpot says the .avi's AC3 is 2-channel stereo, and it does play fine with the freeware AC3Filter, but I have not had any luck getting a DVD made with the Pegasys tools (I bought the AC3 plugin too), which was the only reason I bought the AC3 plugin. I just don't get any audio on the resulting DVD.

user comment on the AC3filter forum indicates that TMPGenc will not work with AC3filter. AC3ACM is suggested as a possible decoding codec which will work with TMPGenc. http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/AC3ACM/index.html

an alternate method to retain full quality is described in the AC3filter forum
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1112870&forum_id=223837

since the program is very slow, can one interrupt the encoding process and resume it at the same position of file?

If you stop/interrupt the encoding process you will then need to restart the encode from the beginning.
Try using BATCH MODE, that way you will not have to reset everything, just restart the batch mode.

I have used TMPEnc before without problems, but for some reason now, whatever avi I choose to encode, it will not extract the audio. I have Divx 5, FFDshow, AC3 audio, Xvid codec, all installed, I have tried multiple times with different combinations of these codecs, and at one time, I can't remember what combination I had, it finally showed the source location of the audio, but when I would start to encode, TMPEnc would just hang and had to be shut down via Task Bar. I am so frustrated. Can anyone give me a list of necessary codecs for TMPEnc to work properly? I tried the search field, but to no avail as my question is too broad I guess. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I forgot to add that these AVI's I am trying to install were created with the Xvid codec, not divx, so if that makes a difference please let me know.

If the audio is AC3 then you will need to install this codec.
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/AC3ACM/AC3ACM.zip

Thanks Ashy, I guess that was it. This is what I have installed, Divx 5, ffdshow, Xvid, ac3acm. Now should that be good for most avi's I get? One last question, I have in my environmental settings, directshow on priority 2, and the 2 listings of AVI priorities on 1, I left the others alone, does this sound right? I want to know so I can write it down incase my pc crashes again so I can remember how to set it all back up, thanks for you help.

Why do you have DIVX5, FFDSHOW and XVID codecs installed together?
FFDSHOW takes the place of all these codecs and is quite often better at decoding than the original codecs themselves.
Unless you actually do any AVI encoding yourself I would uninstall all AVI codecs except FFDSHOW. This will maintain better compatibility and cause less conflicts on your system.

I would set all priorities to 0 apart from the 'Direct show file reader' which I would set to 2. This will ensure that Directshow is used before any other method of decoding the AVI. If you do any encoding from MPEGs then I would set the MPEG decoder you have installed, I.E. The 'CRI Sofdec decoder' to 1.

If you get any problems with decoding AC3 in AVI's then set the 'AVI VFW reader' to 1 if not then leave it a 0

If you need to save your settings for TMPG then simply save the TMPGEnc.ini somewhere then put it back in the TMPG folder if you ever need to reinstall TMPG.

Awsome advice Ashy, thanks, that was a cut & paste reply forsure. So what you are saying, is that I should only have FFDshow and that AC3ACM* (the one you told me to get earlier)installed to convert avi to mpg?? Ok, I will try uninstalling DVIX and XVID as I am about to go and try now, I will let you know how it turns out, and thanks for the info about the Environment settings.

So far so good.

Ive been using this program to author some of my dvds, mostly they are composed of 2 files/tracks (each mpeg file being approx 600-700mb) resulting in the total size of the two mpeg files being around 1.3GB.
However, recently Ive been noticing that after converting the mpegs to the dvd format, the VIDEO_TS folder is only around 900mb in size, sometimes less.

This doesnt happen all the time but regularly enough to be annoying as it takes just as much time to produce this as it would a full 1.3gb normal one.
Even TMPGEnc states the capacity of the file its just outputted to be 1393mb.

Has anyone else experienced this problem with TMPGEnc DVD Author?

Same problem here:(.
1 mpg (1gb) = 1 vob (690mb). Why?

My problem was just the opposite...the project said it was 4.1gig and when I authored the DVD files it was 4.5 and apparently too large to burn to a blank disc. Very frustrating!

Spass

Same here, and I noticed that the video quality of the vob files were worse than the original mpegs. This has been killing me for weeks now and if anyone knows why please, I'm beggin' help. Thanks.

Peace,
Joe

The same here, the program changes the bitrate of the original mpeg. Any ideas ?

Unfortunally our studio who produce DVD for cinema (screen spot television programs etc) decide to improve the newest version of xpress 3. Probably for the low cost and the good results obtained using the previous version of tmpgenc plus. But Serious and gravous probles appears.
Usually wu encode our jobs in xivd with a special automatized procedure and on a special digital tape we trasfer at the pc for the encode in mpg2.
Last time xivd regulary displayed and heared on the original format freeze and the program block the encode process at the last 200 frames no DVD so...
And previusly, a more gravous problems an other video was encoded but audio and video walks on their own ways... Why ?
We expect to resolve our problems, but in effect we spend our money withouts good results for our production.
How long we well espect and what are the causes of this problems? This errors, cause long time to expect the final job and low affairs.
Thanks
Mediavideo - Italy

Hello i am trying to encode files i ripped through smart ripper then put through DVD2AVI the problem lately is that everytime i try to run the DVD2AVI project which is a .dv2 file tmpegsays it is not valid or an unsupported file.This only started happening a month or so ago can someone point me in the right direction to fix this issue

Copy the DVD2AVI.VFP from the DVD2AVI folder into the TMPG folder.

I copied the file and it is reading it in the menu when browsing video sources but it still gives me the error of can not open or unsupported..Like i said this never happened till about a month ago

Are you using the .d2v that Smartripper creates or the one that DVD2AVI creates itself?

The .d2v file that Smartripper creates is only compatible with DVD2AVI version 1.76 and not 1.77.3
If you are using the .d2v that DVD2AVI creates then try the following:

Open TMPG and go to Options>Enviromental settings>VFAPI plugins and make sure that the 'DVD2AVI project file reader' is checked. If it is raise it's priority to 1 or 2.

Ok i will try to find version 1.76 is there still a site that offers it

http://www.avisynth.org/warpenterprises/files/dvd2avi_176.zip

Thanks Ashy i will try this now i know that 1.773 you had to set the audio to decode to waive is it the same on 1.76

Grrr still no good LOL i am about to give up

OK, try this.
Completely delete version 1.77.3 from your drive. Install and use 1.76 only.
Delete the DVD2AVI.VFP from the TMPG folder then copy the DVD2AVI.VFP from the DVD2AVI 1.76 folder into the TMPG folder.

Now, make sure that the files you have ripped are in a folder in the root of your drive and make sure it has a short name. Next load the VOBS into DVD2AVI 1.76 then create a .d2v file in the same folder as the VOBS.
Run DVD2AVI.
After DVD2AVI has finished load the d2v into TMPG.

IMPORTANT: *DO NOT* under any circumstances MOVE, RENAME or DELETE any of the VOBS, the D2V or any of the files and folders associated with them until you have finished encoding.

Ok no good i am at wits end i am just going to give it up LOL thanks Ashy

Hopefully someone can help me with this problem. Why is it that some movies that I download, which should only be 90 minutes and should fit on two CDs end up way longer when converted to VCD and would fit on four instead? I there something that I can do? Does this mean that the file is corrupted. I get this problem with probably 50% of the movies I download.

Thanks,

Mike

Hopefully someone can help me with this problem. Why is it that some movies that I download, which should only be 90 minutes and should fit on two CDs end up way longer when converted to VCD and would fit on four instead? I there something that I can do? Does this mean that the file is corrupted. I get this problem with probably 50% of the movies I download.

Thanks,

Mike

Well the size of the original has nothing whatsoever to do with the output size.
Output size is determined by the length/bitrate ratio.
The longer the movie and the higher the bitrate the larger the size will be.

I just re-read your post. Are you saying the output is longer then the original source?

Thanks for the reply ashi. I'm not to good with the technical stuff, but a standard motion picture will normally fit on two CDs. My original file is .AVI and when played with my player is 90 minutes long. When I convert this file to MPEG (or VCD) it becomes more than 5 hours long with video first, then audio. Almost like video and audio are not put together.

Mike

I too am having the same problem. Reducing the bit rate helped reduce the file size marginally. I am not sure what is the least permitted value. Need to do some experiment.

Hi Ashy,
I have the same problem again as to last time... (WHich is: TMPGEnc will encode for first few 4000-7000 frames, it will claim it is finished. (but it was not...) This will always happens on the 8 - 10 minutes video capture. In worst cases, the Operating System hangs.)

I made the piority of 'AVI2(Open DML) file reader' to 3 and it don't seems to work for this particular file.
Anymore way to solve this problem...

It seesm like you are still having some size issues. Why don't you make your program capture to segmented files instead of one big file. This will make it more compatible.

Thanks Ashy, now I got a cure.
I encode the big files into 2 to 3 smallers mpeg files. Then I merge them with TMPGEnc. But I got a problem now, how to remove the "beep" sound at the point of merge?

Splitting the MPEG is not what I advised.
Almost all capture programs have a setting to capture to segmented files.
This means that when the file size (set by the user) reaches a certain size it will automatically create a new file continuing from the previous one. This allows to circumvent the AVI size barrier which is 2GB. Set the capture program to segment the files at 1.99GB

If you use TMPG's 'Open sequence files as a movie' option the files will automatically be joined as one complete file which you can then encode as normal.

Quick question... I have an older version of TMPGEnc and would like to download the newest, but I cannot find a way to uninstall my older version (2.53.35.130). Can I just simply delete the old files without comprimising my system??? Also too, I bought InterVideo's DVDcopy2 Gold thinking it woud be a faster way to encode to MPEG 2 but it seems alot slower than TMPGEnc!!! Any feedback on this subject too please? Sincere thanks.

Please disregard the preceding question. After posting it I did a search and found very many previous questions regarding this same issue. Apparently TMPGEnc is not actually even installed, it is just unzipped and then ran. So deleting the folder to the old version is appropriate after all. I apologize for the redundancy. Sincere thanks.

To be correct: There are to entries in the Registry, written by TMPGEnc.
But they are used for Registering, so i can't tell which entries...

I suggest you not to delete the older Version. In some cases it might be more usefull than a newer Version. I have them all since 0.11b ;)

For the 2.5 Version I have written a tool (CQ-Tester http://www.boraxsoft.de/CQTester_eng.shtml ) to optimize the CQ setting for a TMPGEnc project to fit on a specific size (usually one CD). This tool uses the possibility to run TMPGEnc with the commandline parameters encode and close.

1. Do these commandline parameters still exist in the full version?
2. I was told that there is no possibility to save (and load) a project in an ascii file format. The trial version has no possibility to save a project in any format. Is this new (binary) file structure documented anywhere? Otherwise it is not possible to create/use a tool for file size prediction in CQ mode.

I will not buy version 3.0 if it is not possible to do a prediction of the final file size!

>For the 2.5 Version I have written a tool (CQ-Tester http://www.boraxsoft.de/CQTester_eng.shtml ) to optimize the CQ setting for a TMPGEnc project to fit on a specific size (usually one CD). This tool uses the possibility to run TMPGEnc with the commandline parameters encode and close.
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>1. Do these commandline parameters still exist in the full version?
>2. I was told that there is no possibility to save (and load) a project in an ascii file format. The trial version has no possibility to save a project in any format. Is this new (binary) file structure documented anywhere? Otherwise it is not possible to create/use a tool for file size prediction in CQ mode.
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>I will not buy version 3.0 if it is not possible to do a prediction of the final file size!

Is this an answer???

I have found that there are a little difference between encoding duration in connection with motion search precision.
In standard option for examle encoding MPEG2 - MPEG2 takes 6h, in high 6,5h in Highest with error detection 7h (using the same source)
The same in 2.51 version is 6h, 12h and almost 24h...
In highest quality mode version XPress is 3 times faster than version 2.51...
I don't know what am I should thinking about???
And in fact quality improovement between this settings in version XPress is very poor.
I have been using in my encoding process intel P4 with HT at 2,4GHz.
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