Hello,

This is probably not the right messageboard but may be there
is someone out there who can give me some advise what the
best way is to convert VHS video to MPEG after it has been
past your capture card? It's difficult to find some good info
on this subject. People are telling me that converting VHS
to MPEG is a hard job to achieve.

Thanks,

Marc

Encodeing the video to mpeg1/2 isn"t hard at all, no differant that any other avi file, but getting good quality can be hard so your source files have to have really good quality..And it is best to capture to the same or larger resolution than you are going to encode to and the same frame rate that you are going to encode to...

Hello Minion,

Thanks for your reply.

Do you know what the best way it is to encode to MPEG (for example
via frameserver to TMPGenc or first encode it to AVI wich is a
very large file). I want to make SVCD to play it on my DVD set.

Thanks,

Marc

Frame serveing if Possible would be the fastest way and give you the best Quality cuz you aren"t rendering it to avi which will decrease the quality of the finnished Mpeg file.

It's very easy for best quality & compliance on all DVD players:

Capture AVI Virtual Dub 352x480 Huffyuv AVI best quality
Frameserve AVI from Virtual Dub to TMPGEnc
Use low resolution DVD or normal DVD template
Import .mpg movie created with TMPGEnc into DVD authoring program & burn

Hello,

Is it possible to convert a DivX movie to MPEG SVCD without those
blocky backgrounds? Mostly you see this in grey/dark backgrounds
(smoke, fog, clouds). Normally the movie is very sharp except the
backgrounds.

Regards,

Marc

What you see on the Monitor, watching an DivX is not what TMPGEnc is seeing. Because he can't use overlay-functions of your Graphic-Card.
Most of the Blocks are inside the DivX-File, but are filtered while watching.
Setting the Contrast to a slightly higher Level will help (advanced -> Custome Color correction).

Or use VirtualDub as Frameserver and use also the Filter 2D-Cleaner 09 optimized.

Thanks B_Racer,

I am watching the movies on my television and then I see a blocky
background. I think it has something to do with the encoding
algorithm.

Marc

You did'nt understand me corretly: The Blocks are inside the DivX-File, but DivX does a filtering to "hide" them, using functions of the graphics card.
If you are reencoding this Videos, the blocks are Visible for the encoder, because no encoder can yous DirectDraw-Filtering. DivX-Files ARE that bad (no joke).

Hi.

Aha I see, then I understand what DVD2AVI is. Great :)

Just a few questions or if you have any tips for me. Im thinking of encoding some of my dvd movies to SVCD. And I have done it before, but just for testing etc.

So Im wondering if the method im using is good. I can give ju a guide for it on the net, but I will just tell you in short.

I copy a dvdmovie to Harddrive( unenctypted). Use dvd2avi (as you said to me) and extract the audio with Graphedit (there are some codecs you can use and so on, never mind) and it's verry fast. Get a wav file that is 48Khz. Then load the SVCD templats in Tmpgenc and then you can select automativ VBR or whatever but I stick to the SVCD standard. Then encode the stuff. For splitting I use Tmpgenc splitting thing, tankes a long time but good anyway.

I have tried BBmpeg or what it's called for splitting but it's not stable on my computer. And I let Tmpgenc put the sound down from 48Khz to 44Khz, I know, might not be good or maby takes longer time to encode.

Is the method above a good one ?

Do check out this link, that is the guide im using. Everything works out and is fast, except the encoding.

http://www.dvdripguides.com/dvdrip2a.html

Im not using his templates but, It's seems like a easy way to do SVCD and the quality is good I think.

P.S. I can't use CCE since I have a AMD cpu and it's much harder to get that working and so on.

/Regards Dennis :]

CCE should work with NO Problems at all on a Athlon computer..The 2.62 and 2.64 versions have been test on Athlons and have been deemed fully compatible with CCE...

You are wrong, I have tested the program, it don't work om my K5-2 500mhz that's the thing. It totaly stinks, I mean, it's up to the person using CCE how thay use it I think, so therefor what do they care that it takes me for ever to encode. I just want to be able to use it. :(

So I guess I have to stick to TMpgenc.

Your method seems fine and the audio extraction is a good one with Graphedit because as you say very fast, but there is an alternative which is simpler and just as fast, and works in the same way Graphedit does at extracting the audio as both programs use directshow filters to extract the audio. The program is called VOB2AUDIO. Give it a try.
As for your encoding method using SVCD CBR, I would encourage you to try using the 'Constant Quality(CQ)' method of encoding as it will allow you to use higher bitrates and produce smaller filesizes and thus produce much better movies than CBR and is well known as the best encoding method for SVCD.

This all depends on what your DVD player can handle, but try starting with bitrates such as Min- 1800 kb/s Max- 4000 kb/s Quality- 65%.
This should give you very good results and should get a 90-100min movie on 2 disks.

ASHY

I would like to know what kind of resize function tmpgenc uses, as I can't find it as setting anywhere.

I hope it's a precise bicubic, but as there is no setting for it, it might just as well be nearest neighbour, which would be less accurate.

does anyone know?

Pomax

I don"t know if it uses Bi-cubic or preciseresize or what but all the Re-size settings can be adjusted to the way you want it..There are the resolution settings that controll the frame size and the "Video Arange method" sets how the movie is placed into the frame, and there are the "Clip Frame" options in the "Advanced Settings", here you can basicly adjust all aspects of how your movie is re-sized...

But that's not what I meant =)

I really did mean does it use bicubic, bilinear, or nearest neighbour pixel-recoloruing when resizing.

I ask because I have to enlarge a large movie with about 40 hours of processing on it, and using anything but a precise bicubic repixeling function would result in a fairly crummy alrger image (bilinear is not too good, nearest neighbour is seriously horrible).

Hence the question.

If anyone knows, I would love to hear.

Pomax

I would say try it out..But from my experience with Tmpgenc anytime I have taken a Low resolution immage and tried to raise the resolution I have gotten terrorable results, you can use AVISynth to frame serve to Tmpgenc and let AVISynth do the resizeing, I believe it has the type of re-size filter you are looking for...

I would have thought TMPG would use Bicubic as TMPG is a quality not speed based encoder as said by the author.

To be sure you could either use AVIsynth or Frameserve from Virtualdub and use it's Bicubic filters.

ASHY

I want to encode CVD (MPEG-2 VBR 352x576 48KHz) with TMPGEnc Plus

- Wich parameters I must use for buffer VBV (40 is for VCD, 112 for SVCD, 224 for DVD) ?
- The flux must be MPEG-2 'Program' or 'Super VideoCD' ?

Tx in advance for answers

For CVD all parameters should be like S-VCD except the slightly lower resolution.

P.S
And like S-VCD, audio needs to be 44.1Khz not 48Khz...

It's better to use 48 kHz if the Player is able to play it (most Players do), because 352x576 MPEG2 48kHz Stereo MP2 is a PAL-kompatible DVD-Standard.

I have always thought the bitarte limit for my player was 2300 (trial and error method).

Using Ashy's template and Minion's advice that DVD players often handle VBR better than CBR I have managed to do the following:

- Encode to MPEG2 using max 4000, min 1800 CQ at 65
- Used the header trick to write a VCD header


No audio/video stutter and a fantastic image quality

Thanks lads !!!!!!!!!!!

No prob Ollie keep it up.

ASHY

Glad to be of service...

i have download some .ram files that play in RealOne player when I try to encode them using TMPG I get a message saying "unsupported" can anyone help please.

Thanks

Tinra.

ASHY

I beleave that Canopus ProCoder Encodes Real Media files to mpeg, but it costs quite a bit......

The Program EO-Video (eo-video.com) can encode RM to AVI or MPEG directly - if RealPlayer is installed on the PC.

When I try opening certain .avi files I get the message
File "c:10lah10lah10lah.avi" can not open or unsupported.

Is there some later version of .avi that is not handled by EMPGEnc?

Anyone have any ideas?

This is one of the most common Questions asked when poeple first download Tmpgenc...This can usually be corrected by raiseing the priority of the "Direct Show file Reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins"..You do this by going to "Options" to "Enviromental settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "Direct show" to "2"...

OK. That's a great idea. But how do you actually "raise the value to 2"? The field is non editable.

Right click...

Minion,

Thanks for that. It works perfectly. If this is the most common question, maybe there is somewhere that you can put your answer so that idiots like me don't have to keep pestering you. It isn't in the FAQ. It should be.

Thanks again

Dave

error 256 180624. This error keeps coming up.

Is there a way of turning error messaging off or does any one know how to git rid of this as it keeps coming up like every other Sec.

Please help. Only have 29 daysleft to try this program.

Tkanks.

I think the error is caused by a Bad AVI file...This error seems to pop up all the time with files downloaded off the net..There is no real fix for this accept you might be able to frame serve it with Tmpgenc or correct the errors by makeing a Copy of the avi with Virtual Dub...........

Thanks for your help.

Virtual Dub fixed the problem.

Does anybody know why an error message comes up saying can't load P3Package.dll when I try to encode dv2 and wav to mpeg2? It gave me the error the first time I used it and I clicked on everything and it finally encoded the file. Now that I am using a different file, it keeps giving me the same error. I do have an Athlon XP 1700+, so do I need to have a different driver?

That is strange that you are getting the "P3P Package "error on a ATHLON system, the "P3P Package" optimizes Tmpgenc for a "Pentium 3" computer but i guess it works on any computer that uses MMX and SSE..On the FAQ sheet for tmpgenc it says that if you get this error to download a new version of Tmpgenc, but you should be able to get it to work if you look in your Tmpgenc folder and look for the "P3P Package.DLL" File and copy and paste it into your System & System32" folders, but if there is no "P3P package" in your Tmpgenc folder then re-download Tmpgenc and this should correct the problem....

Thanks a lot for the advice. I didn't have the right dll, I guess I must have deleted it. When I redownloaded tmpgenc, I made sure to put the dll in both windows folder. It worked like a charm. Also, thanks for actually telling my how to fix the problem, instead of just redirecting me to the search topic.

hi
can i change mpeg audio file to mpeg 3 audio???

thanx

Yes, why?

ASHY

I want to encode CVD (MPEG-2 VBR 352x576 48KHz) with TMPGEnc Plus

- Wich parameters I must use for buffer VBV (40 is for VCD, 112 for SVCD, 224 for DVD) ?
- The flux must be MPEG-2 'Program' or 'Super VideoCD' ?

Tx in advance for answers

What I generally use for Mpeg2 files is 112,but putting it on "Automatic" or "0" is probably best cuz that lets the encoder choose the best Setting..as for the "System" setting that should be on "Super-VCD/Mpeg-2" cuz that is basicly what it is, a SVCD......