My copy of TMPG shuts down without warning during encoding. I also own LSX3.5 from Ligos which does the same so I'm not blaming TMPG. Something must be wrong with my system - but what? I tried it on another machine and it did exactly the same thing. Could it be my AVI files? They are produced from my Pinnacle DV200/Adobe Premiere setup. I can't be the only person this is happening to.... Can anybody help me? Please!

I don"t really know why this is happening to you.Are you useing the pinnacle "dv" codec?I have heard that the pinnacle codec isn"t compatible with tmpgenc try de-compressing your avi files then encodeing them..

Ligos Codecs are the mainspring in most of Pinnacle Systems editors and yes they do cause problems in the later versions of TMPGEnc....The way I got around the problem was to record the edited footage back to my camcorder, then re-capture using Uleads VideoStudio 6 which uses Uleads own Codec. The resulting MPEG or AVI is willingly accepted by TMPGEnc. (Earlier versions of VideoStudio use the same Ligos Codecs as still used by Pinnacle.)

Thanks guys! I tried the producing my AVI's with Pinnacles DV Codec, Cinepak Codek by Radius & Indeo 5.10. The only one it could get it to work with was the Indeo Codek. Well, problem solved! :)

Tmpgenc is only compatible with "Video For Windows" codec"s and "open DML Direct Show" codecs so if you load up a bunch of those codecs you will be able to have a better choice....

hi

i have a
stream writing error
after starting to encode a avi file

what would this mean ??

You probably ran out of disk space...

could it be something else ?

i have 2,7gb free ....

no disk space on c:

thats the problem

thx :)

Why are VCD not 100% compatible with "White Book"?

I am useing a program called "VCD 2.0TK" From Philps. The program gives me an error that my MPG are not a Valid VCD Fromat. I can get around this problem by useing "VCDMUX" but this means I have to make a Video Stream and and Audio Stream. Is there anyway to make the MPG 100% VCD Compliant??

(I have tried the Teplates and they do not make it 100% VCD Compliant)

This is just a little quirk of TMPG.
If you wanr 100% VCD 2.0 compliant yiur gonna have to remux it with VCD 2.0TK, but why bother using that old, dated and by now past it program when there are many other programs out there for authoring to VCD which won't give you this error and are better and easier to use.
TMPG MPEGs will play fine in just about any player you can think of when using the right software.

ASHY

Hey ASHY

Do you know of the names of any programs Like VCD2TK? I like all the features it lets you have. I have been Makeing VCD Using Nero and I am tired of the simple menus

Stephen

Try VCDeasy http://forum.vcdhelp.com/userguides/84327.php
or one which is a bit more comprehensive, TSCV
http://www.vcdhelp.com/sefy/?id=chapters1.html

ASHY

Hias,

after I finaly made an firmware update of my Yamakawa 715 player to make the kvcd templates work I discovered that my player now sort of detects anamorphic encoded streams on VCDs. All I have to do is to insert an 16:9 DVD bevore I insert my VCD.
I dont know If that would have worked bevore the firmware update. I think its worth a try on other DVD players too.

M. Bastian

hi
while running vcd on dvd player time menu is avialable like track,
but i cant make the dvd move to another time ,
how can i make dvd to skip to another scene ?
to cut the mpg to several mpg's is good enought.
am i missing something ?
i use nero & tmpgenc
thanx

if you cut the mpegs and burnt them in tracks like an audio cd then pushing the skip chapter should skip another chapter.

works for me

'Sex is like space. If you dont have a good partner all you need is a good hand'
-Someguy

Use VCD easy to create chapter points then you will be able to skip through these chapters with ease and is much simpler than messing about creating multiple MPEGs.

ASHY

the sequence is this:

-Captured via firewire from the camcorder using adobe premiere
-selected a portion of that capture using source range in tmpgenc
-compressed that capture using tmpgenc DVD ntsc 720x480
this was done succesfully

the noncontinuable error appears when I try to open this file with the wizard trying to compress it to Super VCD or VCD (any of the entries)

any hints

PS: why not compress directly to SVCD or VCD you ask, because I like to keep for archival the best compressed quality.

forgot to tell the following:

athlon 1200 w/256mbram tnt2 video board
camcorder JVC 320, firewire board SIIG

If you are trying to just store these files and not burn them to disk then you would get the same or better quality with smaller file size if you just use a divx format.mpeg format is pretty useless unless you are burning to disk or maybe streaming from a video server but there are better formats to stream from.....

Ohh I allmost forgot,are you trying to encode your mpeg2/dvd ntsc to svcd or vcd?you might need to get the "mpeg2 vfapi plugin" so you can open mpeg2 files in tmpgenc cuz tmpgenc will not open mpeg2 files unless tou have the plugin installed and you still might have to de-multiplex the file to load it..

Hi,
I downloaded TMPGEnc-2.54.37.135-vfp.zip and the ran the TMPGEncVFP_Install.bat but the message still appears.

Do I need to download anything else?

Do I need any codec?

heeeelp

well, I demultiplexed the DV file into two streams: a mp2 audio file and a m2v video file.

when I load only the m2v file, the svcd process goes smoothly.

I checked the mp2 file in winamp and it plays fine, so there is no aparent corruption here.

But when I load both the mp2 and the m2v files in tmpgenc to create a svcd file, it crashes.

So here is my guess: tmpgenc doesn't accept compressed audio while going from dvd to svcd.

Why im sure? I uncompressed the mp2 file to a wav (using winamp for this), loaded the m2v file, then the wav file and the process runs without a glitch.

any ideas?

Drwatson blames these functions in the automatically generated log:

function: NtWaitForSingleObject
function: ZwReplyWaitReceivePortEx
function: NtWaitForMultipleObjects

hope this helps

hello, i wonder if you can help. i'm trying to convert an ntsc .m2v file to a pal file. but when i try it comes up with the error file unsupported.

any ideas anyone??
thanx in advance.
jamie.

You probably need the "mpeg 2 vfapi plugin" you need it to open mpeg2 files in tmpgenc,I"ll try to e-mail it to you....

when i take a avi file which is about 200 megs, and 39 mins long, it gives me an error message saying file unsupported. i have no idea what to do can anyone help me out. i would really appreciate it.

I am trying to multiplex an svcd file (size 740mb)
I am changing the type to mpeg1 video cd so as to fool
my dvd player into thinking its a vcd. The file runs about
halfway through and then stops with this message
154557 s packets cause buffer underflow.
this then leaves me with 350 mb playable file with half missing.

The movie plays all the way through on windvd with no problems
and if I dont change the video type when multiplexing
it still runs through only half way but without the error message

I have tried converting the mpeg to vcd with the project wizard
but tmpgenc wont even load the file that way , it says can not open
or unsupported.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Chris.

There is a much better way to put the "vcd" headers on your mpeg2 file than de-multiplexing then multiplexing,doing this seems to actually cause the error you are getting, what you have to do is go to "merge and cut" load your mpeg2 file in and choose "mpeg1/vcd" from the drop down menu, choose your output directory then click "run".This will just make a copy of your mpeg2 file with the vcd headers on it to fool your player, and you wont get this error and it is faster than de-muxing then re-muxing..

That works without any errors but it still only
produces a half length file.

Sorted it. I used womble to demultiplex
and then tmpgenc to multiplex with no problems

When I get to project wizard 2/5 how do I get the video and audio source file
so I can go to project wizard 3/5.

What Are You Talking About?Can you please explain your question properly,tell us what you are trying to do and what errors you are getting when you try,and what steps you have taken to correct the problem,but first use the "search" at the top of this page to find your answer first cuz every question there is on the subject is answere on this site if you look..

hey quick question. first, LOVE tmpgenc, second, to make my life easier, is there a setting in the .mcf files to automatically set the video arrange setting to "full screen (keep aspect ratio)" every single time? right now, when encoding 16:9 movies to 4:3 SVCD's, i have to set the source to 16:9 NTSC and video arrange method to full screen (keep aspect ratio) every single time. i would love to be able to set up a new template that does this for my 16:9 movies by default so i don't have to worry about it. thanks!

Not that I know of.Even when you program it into the template it doesn"t work.Tmpgenc is supposed to set the "source" aspec ratio for you but it seems to go to "704 by 480 525 line ntsc" when your file is "16:9", but I did some experiments and if you leave it to "704 by 480 525 line ntsc" the finished mpeg doesn"t seem to be any different than if you set it to "16:9",I"m sure there is a differance but I can notice it....

Well, all looks real good except my audio and video are out of sync. Can't find a control for this...

Any suggestions???????????????????

Depending on what type of de-sync you have would warent a different method to fix it,if you have a simple case of the audio starting before or after the video causeing de-sync.with this type of de-sync you will have to download a multiplexer that allows you to off set the audio,There are a few that do this ,the multiplexor in "mpeg2vcr" or "m2-edit pro" will let you do this but i use the one in "bbmpeg" cuz it is free but it is a little bit more complicated than the others.so first you will have to de-multiplex your mpeg file then load it in to the multiplexor ,and the use the off set option to try to fix the de-sync..

Three of my videos dont have sounds as a result from encoding from .avi to .mpg. I believe the problem lies in the fact that the .avi files are streamed with an MP3 audio. I know that TMPGenc cannot encode MP3 audios (it says it in the FAQ page) so how would I extract the MP3 audio from this .avi so I can get it to work. Any help would be great!!

You need to download a program called "virtua dub" and with that you can extract the audio from your avi to wav format then "tmpgenc" will encode it to mp2...