I am trying to run TMPGEnc to encode to MPEG2 from Premiere 6 via Avisynth. I had to reinstall TMPGEnc when I rebuilt my computer and now I get this error message "Can't load P3Package.dll" when I click start encoding. Never a problem before, what is this message and how do I fix this?

Hi David

This is a common question and has been answered many times before.
If you type P3Package.dll in the search box at the top you will get a number of replies on how to fix this

i have used virtuldub and now have wav files but it still doesnt seem to be in sync with the movie and i have tried to change the movie from pal to ntsc and still have nothing please help......... :o('''''

It is probably out of sync Because you are encodeing a Pal movie to NTSC.....

.......but i have tried both ways.....i've encoded a few minutes and then watch it and it is still out of sync

If the file is the same amount out of sync the whole way through the file and you have allready encoded it to mpeg then you can use a program like "Mpeg2vcr" it has a multiplexor that lets you off set the audio to sync up the video to the audio......

thank you very much

and another thing don"t use "Media player" to play mpeg files cuz certain combinations of codecs can cause "media player" to play mpeg files out of sync....

TMPGenc 2.55 Plus. Premiere 6.02. WinXP Pro. U.S. NTSC
Just upgraded P4 1.3GHz Dell 8100 to XP Pro. Installed all XP updates. Installed TMPGenc Plus and Premiere. Open a project in Premiere and export as standard MS DV 48KHz to .avi

TMPGenc says "can not open or unsupported" Can play file in WinMedia just fine. Although I mostly used Avisynth before XP upgrade, I believe I could still directly read DV file into TMPGenc.

Any help appreciated.

Oscar

You Probably need to raise The "AVI VFW File reader" or the "Open DML File Reader" in the vfapi plugins.But if you raise one of them disable the other...

Guess I know even less than I thought.... Is there a post or instructions for doing this. Probably simple, but not sure where to start to do this.

The dumb guy.

OK. Found it in Environmental settings. Raised priority of each one clear up to 1 while disabling the other (they both started at -2). No combination allows me to open the MS DV .avi file.

That is strange ,I know Tmpgenc does not support either type 1 or type 2 dvd formats but I"m not sure which one...You can try to see if you can load it into Virtual Dub and frame serve it to Tmpgenc..And one last thing you can try is to raise the "Direct Show" file reader in the "vfapi plugins" to "2" this works for most avi formats but not sure about DV....

That did it. Directshow at 2. Thanks!

Another quick one:
Had been using Avisynth to frame serve prior to loading Windows XP Pro on this machine. You mentioned using VirtualDub to frame serve. Is VirtualDub a bit better or easier to use than Avisynth? Or are they about the same deal...

Virtual dub is easier to use cuz you don"t need to Type out Scripts, you just have to install the v-dub frame server...I don"t use Virtual dub to frame serve I use the Vfapi converter and tmpgenc to frame serve to CCE which works great...

First question

I have some videos that are just over 800mb they are like 820mb. Its annoying when i have to put the ending on a second disc for so little space. Do they make cdr's bigger than 800 mb. If they do where can i get them?

Second question

I was watching the x games recently and saw how they would freeze the picture then zoom in on a small portion of the screen to make it full screen. The zoomed picture had perfect quality. When i play videos on the computer they are in a small portion of the screen but when they are enlarged the video quality gets worse. I thought why cant i make that original size video play full screen by zooming in without stretching the video out and distorting the image. is there any program that allows you to play in full screen without stretching the picture out???????? Please help!!!!!!!
thanks in advance

If you have $100,000.00 to spend on High tech video hardware then you can Zoom in and have good quality but You are out of luck if you want a little freeware utility to do this for you...There are 900mb CD-R"s but I do not have an idea were they can be found and they are supposed to be much more expensive and I have heard of some compatibility issues with some burners and players, what I do when i encode a movie and it is a bit to big to fit on a CD-R I just encode the file again till I get it right, which can suck if it take 10 hours to encode a 2 hour movie but for me it only takes about 3 hours so it isn"t a big deal ,i can encode 3 movies while I"m sleeping.......

this vcd stuff is pissing me off i spend so much time making them. If i just got a summer job and worked during that time i could just buy the videos i made and save a little time even.

ahoi...
can anyone tell me the difference between "full screen (keep aspect ratio)"
and "full screen (keep aspect ratio2)"???
can't see any difference if i use it..
what's the best/right for svcd??
thx
Thobo

If you hold you Mouse over the were it says "Video arrange method" a dialog box pops up explaining all the different settings...I use "Fullscreen (Keep aspect ratio)" it all depends on your movie........

i know the popup...but my english is not so good to understand the different...
maybe in other words???

Why don't you try both of them with short file such as just 1 or 2 min
file?
I think it is best way to learn it.

read my first post: "can't see any difference if i use it.."
so you see: i tried both versions...

wel, i need to divide the film in 3 parts and dunno how to use the source range. i need ur help!

Its simple. Double click on it and you will come into an Window where you can set/change the start and ending part of the stream with both sliders and number of the frame.

Its just me but usually I split my projects with bbmpeg after the encoding.
Imho its much less fuss when you want to convert the audio stream(s) with an external programm like headac3he. The quality of the audio encoding part of tmpgenc is not good anyway.

Normaly I let smartripper separate video and audio streams then I make an project with DVD2AVI. The resulting audio/video streams will be muxed and cutted in bbmpeg.

Happy Weekend

M. Bastian

Several weeks ago Griff made reference to the super high quality obtained from the Nova-t Card. Well, his comments didn't go un-noticed by me. I immediately bought the bundle and set it up on one of my machines.

To say that I was Gob-Smacked by the quality of the recorded TV programs would be an understatement. They are superb. Pure DVD quality.

The quality is retained even after burning to DVD-R via Ulead's DVD Workshop.

If you get to read this post, Griff, thank's a bunch. A really brilliant piece of kit.

Hey, how does that card work and exactly what does it do. What movies can you use it on? Also where can you get one and how much is it?

thnx

http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/html/digitaltv_prod.htm#novatpci

Hey,

I want to convert many JPEGs into many MPEGs so that I have several MPEGs that only exist of one frame.

Every time I want to convert one JPEG to MPEG TMPG takes all the images of the folder the image is located in and converts all images to one slideshow.
How can I disable that TMPG takes all images? And how can I convert many JPEGs to many MPEGs? Batch encode?

Tmpgenc takes all the jpegs cuz they are named sequentially, so you need to change the names of the files, and yes you can use the "batch encode".........

Trying to encode a movie file download from kazaa but Tmpge 2.57 stop at 30% of encoding. Use the media player to look at the movie and there is not a problem, the movie looks ok to the beginnig and to the end.

Just because "Media Player" will play it does not mean that there isn"t anything wrong with it.Media player will play pretty much anything as long as it has the codec and the header is partially intact..Try useing the source range and go to the spot were it crashes and use the "cut editing" feature to cut out a few frames before and after were it crashes then see if it will encode the whole movie or you can just start encodeing were the encoder left off then join the 2 mpeg files toghether with the "merge and Cut"....

Hi,

I have a movie spread accross 3 SVCD format cd's (each disk just under 700mb and encoded in mpeg 2 with a bit rate around 2500 kbps) that play ok in my standalone dvd player.

I have a 2 part avi movie that I would like to convert to svcd format and put onto 3 cds with a similar bit rate. Each of the 2 parts of the avi is under 700mb.

When I put the first avi into tmpenc is says that the resultant file size is huge - into gb's. Ideally I need it to be around 1gb - enough to fill 1 and a half disks. However, the only way I can do this is to reduce the bit rate down to a level that would give poor picture quality.

Can anybody help ?

Don"t tell me you are useing the "CBR" encodeing method????This is not the best method for encodeing mpeg files, the files are much too big and a lot of the bitrate is wasted and the quality is not as good as it could be...Useing the "CQ" method you can get better quality and smaller files sizes with a higher bitrate,generally speaking most scenes of a movie do not need the bitrate to be 2500kbs to produce a good picture but you do need the high bitrate to give good quality for high motion scenes, so if you used the "Constant Quality" setting with a minimum bitrate of say 1500kbs and a maximum bitrate of 5000kbs with the quality from 80-90, with these settings you could probably get 45-55 minutes on a CD-r with as good or probably better quality than the CBR setting..Useing this method is arguably as good or better than the "2-Pass" method, and you probably won"t need 3 cd-r"s unless the movie is over 100 minutes...

Hi,

I have a registered version of 2.56 and I downloaded the 2.57 free version as an upgrade. Thing is that it gives me the "30 days left" dialog. I can't seem to find a way to input my serial number to unlock it. Any suggestions?

You can not register an "free" version, you can only register a "Plus" version, you should know that seeing how your a registered user but anyhow double click the banner at the bottom of this BBS, then go and download the "Plus" version, if you are intitled to a free upgrade the new version should register itself automaticly........

Just go to Pegasys's webpage, and download "TMPGEnc Plus 2.57",
I am using both 2.56, and 2.57, and working both of them without
problem.(I am also registered user.)

With the latest version (English) it won't register on my system either.
I am told my trial period is over so I downloaded the Japanese installer
(I run NT4 J) and it installed no trouble and registered itself with my
serial.

Thier English version installer is screwed.
I've contacted support in both Japanese and English but they are SLOW in replying!

I've tried everything suggested here and at Afterdawn. Nothing is working. I was able to use an older version of TMPGenc just fine. I've recently upgraded to XP and had to download all the supporting software once again to create VCD.

Someone help me. I can't get past the "cannot open, unsupported" error message when I try to open a video source. I used SmartRipper and dvd2avi. It worked before, why not now?

So what I think your problem is with loading in "D2v" files???You didn"t really say what your problem is .Well if it worked before and you haven"t done and major software installations or deletions, and the "dvd2avi project file reader is set to a high enough priority , and you haven"t moved or deleted or renamed any of the "VOB" or "D2V" files then you just might need to just run the vob files through DVD2AVI again, and if for some reason that does not work and you are at your wits end then try useing the "vfapi converter" you can download it from "vcdhelp.com" what you do it open the "vfapi converter" folder then install the "vfapi codec" by double clicking the "vfpset.bat" file, then load the "D2V" file into the "vfapi converter" then click "convert" then it will make a psudo AVI file that you can load into Tmpgenc then load the audio from DVD2AVI into Tmpgenc then encode like normal...It is a very handy tool to have to overcome little problems like this..........

Thanks Minion, I guess I left out a few things.

I'm trying to work my way through afterdawn's new "DVD to SVCD" guide. I've used their "DVD to VCD" guide successfully but I'm stuck at the TMPGEnc step, so that is why I'm here.

I've checked all my settings and have tried all the suggestions from this BBS as well as afterdawn's. I have done a major upgrade. I've moved from Win98 to XP and have upgraded all the software needed for this project. I've ripped the movie twice and done the dvd2avi twice and I get the same error message when I try to load the video source into TMPGEnc, "not supported". I'm looking at vcdhelp.com for the converter you suggest and can't see it. Can you give me the direct link?

You can download the "Vfapi converter" here :http://www.divx digest.com/software/vfapi.html ..I just upgraded from "Win Me" to "Win XP" and I didn"t have any problems with encodeing files, and I just upgraded from "Win XP" to "Win XP Pro" and everything is even better...But the "Vfapi converter" should give you a work around for this problem....

This is the link:http://www.divxdigest.com/software/vfapi.html

Sory that one won"t work either, just go to "www.divxdigest.com" and look for it ,it seems they don"t accept links.....

I've attempted to get dvd2avi to work with Windows XP Pro on NTFS wiht no success. If there is a way to make it work, I'd like to hear about it.