I have TV that can play AVI files from a thumb drive plugged into a USB port. I have some home movies I want to convert to AVI. I found that the format that works is Xvid AVI with MP3 video.

When I use TMPGenc to encode the video to Xvid and MP3 it didn't work. The TV displayed an error "Unsupported audio format".

I tried another AVI file and it worked fine (Xvid/MP3).

Using a program called Gspot I was able to determine that the only difference was the Mp3 audio in the working file was encoded with Lame encoder.

My question is how can I get TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress to use Lame encoder instead of Advanced Acoustics Engine Mp3?

Hi again,

I have encountered another problem with TMPGEnc Xpress, and that is when you import an original DVD, the playlength of the movie is incorrect..

For example:
Monsters Inc shows playtime of 39h 19m
Matrix shows playtime of 58m 3s
Time Bandits shows playtime of 28m 13s..

Why is that?

Thanks in advance..

PS. All the movies are original DVDs from my own collection that I wanna backup to DivX..

Hi,

I have a problem with importing certain DVDs into TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress.

I get an error-message which says "Unsupported file (error code 0x80048003)"

What does that mean?

Thanks.

Is this a store-bought DVD? I get this error on store-bought DVDs; it most likely refers to the fact that it's copy-protected. Remember, you can't import copy-protected DVDs.

now for some reason this error doesnt happen with all files, and i say this becuase i had this exact error every single time i tried to do project, no matter how tried to solve it , it just wouldnt like the files.

how ever try load another file and it was no issue.

so its one of those unknown bugs , becuase sadly xpress held the info as to why it didnt like the files and wasnt telling me.

oh and sometimes it would even do this when i had spent hours cutting the damned thing, and then started the encode.

Yeah, they are "store-bought" DVDs.. However, this should be irrelevant, as i always remove the protection with DVDdecrypter or similar..

At this point I have 8 original DVDs in my collection that TMPG can't read. I get this unsupported file-error, or it can't find the main movie :-/

And I should probably mention that other converters read those dvds just fine.. So, it's strictly an issue with TMPG.

I suddenly started getting this message on my laptop. -R dvd's we recorded work on. Couldn't get software to work. But when I took very same DVD and put it in an external DVD player, all worked well. I'm wondering if maybe the the internal laptop DVD player doesn't maybe just need a good cleaning.

do you have to uninstall onld version before installing new update version or can it go over top thanks

I usually just install the new version without uninstalling the old version. It'll delete the old version automatically.

thanks tkrave thought so was not sure yhought i would check

I want to ask if anyone has experience the same problem.
I compile the dvd and burn it after that.So far everything is o.k.
But when i insert the dvd in the player when it starts there is a flick with the image from main menu.
Also when i click on any button the background picture in the main menu goes from 4:3 to 16:9?
Any ideas.
Thanks

Hi
I want to convert an uncompressed avi at 720p (1280x 720) into an mp4 file but I can't, the maximum size it'll let me is 720x576. is there a way to do this in tmpgEnc 4.0 express?
thanks
Fabrice

When selecting your output format, there's a drop-down menu to select between ISO MPEG-4 and MPEG-4 AVC. Select MPEG-4 AVC and you'll be able to choose HD resolutions in the settings screen.

I have an AVC1/H264 mp4, with AAC audio, I've tried converting to MPG2 (DVD) format. The output is purple... I can barely see video. Audio is fine.
I've tried checking & unchecking the mp4 file reader, as well as the avchd reader.
I keep getting the same purple output.
The source video plays in any player (wmp, mpc, zoom, gom, etc.), so the source is fine.
What am I missing? Is there a way to get TX4 to use CoreAVC to read the file?
Any ideas?
Thanks!!

By the way, I was able to convert the source to DVD with ConvertX, but would prefer using TX4.

Can anyone tell me why the subtitles setting is set to subs1 all the time.
When i press subs 2 and then restart the player again it goes to 1
Also if i put default none subs does it mean that if i put subs 1 on it wont show?
Cheers

when i try to create a blu-ray disc from a over the air capture in mpeg-2 ts format author works 4 crashes unless i allow it to render the file first then it works but this takes over 8 hours when i authour a dvd it does not require to render the video so i can create the dvd in a matter of 10 minutes or so
any idea why it want to re-encode the video for blu-ray?

I have a large HiDef file I want to edit with XPress (AVCHD format; m2ts extension). I can load it into XPress OK and edit out adverts OK.

But then I only want to resave the file IN THE SAME FORMAT without conversion or re-encoding - only minus the cuts I have made. Is this possible? If so, how?

I don't see any template to output the file in the same format as the input format?

Thx
NigelS

There's no AVCHD output so no, it's not possible. Even if there were an AVCHD output, it would still re-encode everything...at least, that's what happens if you take a DivX file and output as a DivX file for example.
Conversion is its main purpose after all, not editing.

Yes, it is mainly for conversion, but it does have a really nice setting of editing tools that make editing out TV ads really easy.

you can do it to the extension , by select either hd or bluray output, select the mpeg output on the right which will bring up a new settings (if you then look on the left colum you will have 2 selections, the top one is the main default so right click and delete)

then its a case of messing with the settings

it will still encode slightly becuase of the cuts to the file.

As per title...

can You 'smart render' AVCHD' and output to a folder (not a BD disk)?

Don't think so...my AVCHD footage is set to full-render by default, which means smart rendering can't be applied. Most likely it is because AVCHD uses MPEG-4 AVC/H.264. Smart rendering will only be applied to MPEG-2 video for BD output.

Thanks for the confirmation.

I think AVCHD was just an after thought with Author Works 4.

Can't understand why there is so much emphasis on BD output when AVHCHD to <ANY OTHER MEDIA> is quite standard now with domestic hd camcorders.

Author Works is way behind it's competitors as far as AVCHD is concerned.

I think it's more the limitation of their smart rendering engine being limited to MPEG-2/DivX. I think that's why they don't have H.264 Blu-ray output.

Remember that using smart rendering depends on your output format. You can output your AVCHD as a DVD or DivX but it won't be smart rendered (even if their engine supported H.264) since H.264 is not compliant with the DVD-Video or DivX Ultra format--it would have to re-encode it regardless.

I think they only mention blu-ray and AVCHD together because they figure if you wanted to shoot something in HD then you'd most likely want to keep the HD quality. You can output your AVCHD as a DVD or DivX (and not burn) but it would never be smart rendered.

I have a JVC Everio HD300 (AVCHD) camcorder,i am annoyed with the MTS files, for they counldn't be edit on Adobe Premiere but now i found out a fastest and easiest way to solve it-just use a professional HD Video converter which can convert MTS/TOD/MOD to wmv, mov, mp4, avi, etc. without any problem.The software seems to do a decent job. I've had good results converting the .mts files to .mov, with the settings mpeg2, 1200, 1280*720, 25fps, aac. The files look good on my PC running Adobe Premiere, edit easily, and convert well to DVD format.
http://www.pavtube.com/hd-video-converter/

I would like to ask if i import a vob which doesn't need to be re encoded and in the cut edit timeline cut some parts ,is it going to re encode the vob (since i have trimmed it)?

If it doesn't need to be re-encoded, then it won't re-encode the whole thing, it will only re-encode the few frames around the area you cut.