When I change the VFAPI settings TMPGEnc hangs and I have to end task on it.

How do I convert my avi, with uncompress audio to mpg-2 video with uncompressed audio?

You use uncompressed audio and encode the audio in Tmpgenc to mp2 audio...

I know this is a tmpgenc page but some of you also use Virtual Dub and this is the best help page. I want to put a couple of the Simpsons episodes on one cd. Since you can't fast foward on vcds i was wondering if i would be able to make each episode a separate chapter. If you can use virtual dub or any other programs to do this please tell me about them. Help is appreciated.

Virtual dub does not do that kind of stuff, if you want to put chapters in your vcd you need to use a authoring program that supports Chapters, VCDEasy supports chapters but it is a little difficult to place them were you want them with vcdeasy, "Ulead DVD Workshop" supports Chapters and menues and is easy to use, I use the "Ulead DVD Plugin" cuz it supports xsvcd also.....

I use vdeasy ..good little prog.
Oh and .. you can fast forward vcd's .... at least you can on my player (Sony DAVS300)

Is there documentation somewhere that describes the range of settings for each TMPGENC option and the effect of those ranges on output?

I found this: http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0165394101/TMPGEnc_Template.html

which tells how to get DVD compliant output from TMPGENC. However, by using those settings I have yet to get output that will work on my < 1 year old progressive scan JVC player. I think its the max bitrate causing the problem... I get output, but its horribly choppy. VCDHelp.com shows most JVC players at 2500 Bits/S and I have been setting that to 7000. How damaging is lowering the bitrate to 2500 to the overall picture?

I have a prosumer level camcorder (Canon GL-1). When I connect the camcorder direct to my RCA hidef TV the picture is incredible... nearly hi-def quality, seriously!

I need to burn that kind of quality onto DVDs... but so far have come up short.

I've used ULEAD, MGI Videowave, Pinnacle Express, and TMPGEnc as encoding software and Sonic DVD, MyDVD, and Pinnacle Express as the burning software.

I am getting "good" results with all of them, not much difference in them actually. But what I am getting falls considerable short of what I see when connecting the camcorder direct to the TV.

NOTE: I have only tried SVCD & XSVCD so far. I am trying to get the settings right before burning DVD's at $8 each!

I'll try some DVD's this weekend and see if the results are better.

Sorry for the long post :-)

Troy

It's possible (nay, likely) that the JVC doesn't like your non-standard SVCD attempts (7000kbps!!! std SVCD is 2600 max). But you should indeed try making an SVCD at 2500kbps--if your player plays SVCDs at all then this is an acceptable bitrate, and you might like the quality OK, at least if the source is from broadcast TV. Note XSVCD is not a standard--I'd suggest you try to make some "standard" VCD, SVCD, or DVD before venturing into experimentation.

Re: your goal of DVDs I have a couple of ideas:
1. Get some DVD-RWs to practice with (I assume you have such a burner)
2. Author to your hard drive first (to VIDEO_TS level) for testing
3. Get a Hollywood Plus MPEG decoder card (Sigma Designs). You should be able to find for <$30 and will show you true quality of your work b4 burning.

If your encodes look good on your computer and your DVD-RWs either don't play or look bad w/your JVC, try another player first before writing-off TMPGEnc.

Other things I've tried:
1. Pinnacle Express does lousy encoding
2. ULead DVD Workshop works well but is expensive
3. DVDit! chokes on non-compliant video/audio

My Mpeg File doesnt work properly. It plays sounds but u cant see anything at all. I used TMPG but i wasnt sure how 2 set it up. I burnt it on to VCD and it still doesnt play video although the sounds works fine. WHAT SHOULD I DO!!!!!!!

OK, we can di it!

start tmpgenc and go to "options-enviromental setting- vfapi plug-in" and set the direct show multimedia file reader at +2. press the right mouse button and set higher priority.

But you must encode your movie again!

How Do I change it to +2

Thanxs For Helping Andref4

Right click it and select 'higher priority' - will raise it by one.

I know how to save an ac3 audio stream via Vdub and convert to wav via heac3che, but I have a couple of points Im not sure about ....

- How can I tell if a particular file is encoded with an ac3 audio stream ? Is it a case of saving as a wav from Vdub and if it errors with unknown compression format, it must be ac3 ?

- Whne converting to wav with heac3che the file encodes but I always get a message about the last frame being corrupt. Is that normal ?


thanks

Olli

P.S I tried getting Vdub ac3 but the links I found did not work. Also I wasnt sure whether that would allow me to convert to wav.

Currently I just do a direct stream copy, rename the wav to ac3 and convert with h3ac3che.

hi
can someone please help here.,...
i just downloaded a .avi movie and im trying to make a vcd out of it so i can watch it on a tv.
now, every time i try to open the file it says "cannot open or unsuported"
but yet if i open another .avi file to use its ok.
what am i doing wrong??

thx

i forgot to mention that i have changed the VFAPI pluggin as suggested in other posts but still no good.
i have tried so many different combinations at the VFAPI = no good!
i have read litterally 100's of posts to try to find an answer
any suggestions would be grateful...
thx

Does the avi play OK in media player ?

Try to find out what Codec it was encoded with, cuz certain DV formats are not supported......

I am having the same problem. The AVI plays fine, and I can convert it using beta12a, but it won't open in this version.

It was encoded using a Canon S110, I think it's a MJPEG format favored by Quicktime.

Any suggestions?

I have the same problem with an avi file comressed with the PICVideo MJPEG Codec. The codec is installed on my computer for encoding and decoding. Both ways work with other programs. I can record in this codec and burn it onto a VCD using Nero Burning Rom.
Isn't this codec supported by TMPGEnc? Will it be some day?

We use tmpg 2.57 for converting avi-->mpg. There is a problem with sound quality: sound is high pitched and nasal in quality. Can someone help us!!

Use an external encoder e.g.

- toolame or scmpx for external layer II encoder
- sscrc for sampling frequency converter

These encoders can be found via a google search.
Specify external encoders in TMPGenc via 'Option' 'Environmental Setting' 'External Tool'

regards

Olli

Personally I use SSRC and Toolame, I think they have great sound, easy and very stable...

Hi all... i have a problem encoding. whenever i encode AVI to VCD, everything starts perfect, and it takes some time too, so i always encode, and in the meanwhile, i go to sleep... but every time i wake up (i mean all the 3 time i tried encoding) the encoding halts somewhere around 29% with an error 77F532BB and mumbles something about NTDLL... can someone help me? =(
i have enough HD space available (more than 4.5 GB), so i dont think it's the probelm. foretheremore, the output file has no sound at all (if it this information helps anyway, but generally i suppose TMPEG encodes the sound in the end of conversion...) my specs:

PIII 600, 256 ram, and a Geforce 2 MX 400 64.... (if these specs helps =)

thanx ppl......... . . ... . .... . .. . .. . . . . . . .

As to your error it could be caused by any number of things, usually something with the avi file, but as to there being no audio that is because the audio format in your avi file is not supported by Tmpgenc, you need to extract the audio to a wav file with "Virtual Dub" and use that as your audio source...

i am trying to encode a avi to mpg1 for vcd and i want to make it on full screen how can i do that and still have a great picture quality

What do you mean by Fullscreen do you mean that the movie is set up so there are black bars on top and bottom and you would like them gone? Or you you want a larger resolution? If you want to get rid of the Black bars go to the "Advanced settings" then double click "Clip frame" and here you can get rid of the black bars.....

i have 1.5 mins of vision & audio that i want to convert(to mpeg2)for playback on dvd players (as a svcd). the vision is a tga sequence and the audio is wav. i'm a newbie but have managed to get pretty good results using cbr and a high bitrate (have gone as high as 15000 but is that necessary?). however i can notice compression in certain areas of the vision during playback. i realise this will always be the case, but would really appreciate any advice from more advanced users on what settings i might use to get maximum image quality out of this program. below are some details of the project.

video source =

non interlaced tga sequence (2500 frames)

4:3 aspect ratio

720 x 576 image size

A bitrate of 15,000kbs will not play on a dvd player cuz the dvd standard is a max of 9800kbs so that is close to double the max allowable by dvd, and as a svcd you might not be able to play a resolution of 720 by 576 the max probably for a svcd(xsvcd) in Pal would be 704 by 576, for some reason svcd"s won"t play with horizontal resolution greater than 704...depending on your dvd player some can handle bitrates up to 5-8mbs and some can"t handle more than the standard 2520kbs, mine can handle up to 8000kbs for short periods of time but a dvd player has problems spinning the cd-r that fast, that is 3 times as fast as it is meant to spin for svcd...If you are just doing a short film you could try the 2-pass of use the CQ method cuz it is as good as the 2-pass or sometimes better, but for bitrate that would be determined by how much your dvd player can handle....if you go to "vcdhelp.com" they have a section on dvd players and should tell you what bitrates you dvd player can handle....good luck

sorry for my bad english, hope you understand what i mean:
i made a project with dvd2avi and the dvd is about more than 3hours20minutes...
so the wav file became 2.14gb
but tmpgenc won't open the file when i try to use sound edit with tmpgenc...
i thought tmpgenc can read wav files more than 2gb?
hope you can help me...

I load in bigger audio files into Tmpgenc all the time, like 3-5gb from captures, you might need to raise the priority of the "Wav file reader" in the "Vfapi plugins"...Go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" then raise the "wav file reader" to "1"...this should work but if for some reason it doesn"t then encode the audio to a mp2 file with a audio encoder......

i've already set the priority to 1 and higher...doesen't work...
what's a good program to encode wav to mp2??
when i encode the wav (to mp2) with tmpgenc, i hear no sound...and tmpgenc loads and loads and loads...

hm...converted the file from 48khz to 44.1 so it's now 1,96...
but same problem...
?????????????????????????

Thobo/Minion,

I have similiar problem, but it originates differently.

Using DVD2AVI 1,76 or high( tried up to 1.86). I created a D2V project with the decoded audio in a wave file. The origin was the sequenced VOBs.

If my files are a wav below 2GB, then you can see the audio in Source Range Edit.Using source range saves the headache of whether you go audio since the audio is displayed with the video file.

I went into the tmpgenc.ini to look at the wave reader priority, changing it has no effect when you launch the program. I am using 2.56Plus.


Additionally the only way I can get audio sync with the video is use either 2PASS or CQ.

Not sure what the fix is. Is the problem DVD2AVI or TMPGenc