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I have razor edges to my action video....I am tranfering video from a Sony
TRV-230 DV camera to Windows Movie Maker(XP) with the DV template.
After I encode with TMP to get MPEG, I have these razor edges to most movement.
I have read about interlace/deinterlace.....I thought we want to have the MPEG file interlaced for VHS or DVD playback...but it disappears when I use
several deinterlace options.
Well, if your video has "lines/streaks", then just use the DVD template and encode. The problem should be solved, if it is still there then, load the encoded DVD video and then select the de-interlacing options and choose the correct one.
If it does not work, the MPEG2 filters you have will not be working correctly, try installing the LIGOS filters
I've tried several times to convert .avi (a Divx file) to a VCD and SVCD .mpeg but SVCD gets about 30% done and VCD gets to about 70% done and it locks up. The file is about 280meg animated and I have 19gig free. Using 4.12 Divx codec, was 5.0. Tmpgenc 2.5. have tried CBR and VBR Motion search set to highest. Same results. Any advise?
Try loading the avi in virtualdub. If it pops up saying it has a variable bitrate soundtrack that might be your problem. If it does set the audio to full processing, goto file, save wav. Use the resulting wav (will be about 1-2 gigs as the audio input.
Another thing you can try is DivFix. MAKE A BACKUP of the avi first then run it through the program, it should fix any corrupt frames that might be causing problems.
You can download both programs (both are freeware) from http://www.doom9.org in the downloads section.
Thanks for the replies. I will try today. I did want to add that I have tested on 2 min clips and it works fine. I have VirtualDub and will run with your advise and will get back !
Well.... I set my priority up to "highest while active" in "options" "task priority". Also in "Enviromental setting" "VFAPI Plug-in" my "Tmpgenc.vfp" was set to priority -1 and I upt it to 0. Now it seams to complete the file conversion.
I am new at this, but I have some detailed instructions that I have followed to the letter. Anyway after I rip my dvd and use flask program, I go through the steps for Tmpg and when I choose the folder for my files and try to cut it into sections I only have 1 minute an 40 secsonds of movie and another thing how do I know I am getting the correct audio the audio on one of the 1:40 clips I burned for test is the directors commentary and all the list say main movie?
I have been using TMPGenc to convert asf and non-compliant mpeg files to VCD. I have several files that would run fine for a while (ranging from 2 to 50%) and then slowed down almost to a halt. It seemed like the conversion would take forever to finish. I checked the CPU usage and it showed the CPU was not very active (spikes of 30% to 50% every once in a while) but TMPGne is still working. When TMPGenc is working smoothly, the CPU usage is 100%. What is slowing it down? Any ideas??
Is there anything wrong with the files or TMPGenc 2.53 (I believe mine is the latest version) or a combination of both? I have also tried to demux and remux with TMPGEnc's mpeg tools and use ASFTool and other tools to repair the files with no improvement. What is wrong here? Should I cut the file into pieces and encode separately and then merge them? This could mean a lot of editing and time. Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks.
If asf is not supported, that means I may have to convert asf to avi before converting to VCD with TMPGEnc. Is that a fair assumption for any asf that does not work?
Something you may want to try first is going into tmpgenc configuration and UNcheck the avidml option and raise the directshow priority. This has always worked for me. You can usually do a quick check by going to the Audio setup and see if you get audio there AND that it is the correct size.
You could allso try extracting the WAV file from the DivX with Msgraph, I do it that way. Takes 7min or something for a whole avi file, and boom, I have a uncompressed wav file that I just load up into tmpgenc with the avi (divx) file.
And just encode, perfect sync and sound results etc :)
I trying to make a backup copy of Titanic. I have a .dv2 file and a .wav. When I convert with TMPGEnc, there's no sound. I played the .wav with Winamp, and it's there. What do I do?????
Of course it bloody does!
There is no reason why TMPG can't convert WMV or ASF files. As long as the file can be read by Directshow (basically played by media player) then there is no reason why TMPG won't be able to open and convert it. And yes I have converted both ASF and WMV files in TMPG with success.
yes I have converted wmv. files before but I had to re-name them to asf.I did have problems with the "floating point" error but you can get around that...
hmmm.... wierd! Sorry, I thought it didn't cause I tried it, even with ASF and locked up and I have been seeing things like "TMPGENC does not encode WMV or ASF files".
I read a question before on this issue, is it possible to get rid of black bars from a AVI (DivX) file (widescreen thing) if you are re-encoding to a SVCD files ?
Hold on a minute. Do you mean the black bars at top and bottom? If so, the only way to remove these is to crop the movie, but you will lose information from the sides.
Use the 'Clip frame' option in advanced.
I have a type 2 avi file captured via firewire. It is 40 minutes long.
When I put it through TMPGEnc, the process gets started butafter 13 minutess video goes black. When TMPGEnc finishes there is a mpg2 file which has video upto 13 minutes but then just audio to the end.
I've noticed that TMPGenc can read the .d2v files from either SmartRipper or DVD2AVI. Their overall structure (# of lines, header) is similar but the fine detail is completely different.
Does anyone know a URL that discusses .d2v (its standard, format, etc)?
What fine details are you referring to? One that you may be thinking about, and that I have discovered, is the GOP structure.
You may already know this but, to find the GOP structure of any VOB file extracted by SmartRipper, simply open the *.ifo file associated with that chapter (since the *.ifo file is just a text file, you can open it with WordPad or similar text editing program. Most of the time though, the file is too large to be viewed using NotePad). Enter the same GOP structure in TMPGEnc as indicated in the *.ifo file (IBBPBBPBBPBBPBB; or I=1, P=4, B=2). Matching the GOP structure seems to keep jitter and sync offset in the encoded file low, or in most cases, at zero. Hope that helps.
Here are two snippets of d2v files. The first is from SmartRipper, the second from DVD2AVI. They are identical in the number of lines and that is about all. They are both read equally well by TMPGenc and the output files are nearly identical.
Other than just curiosity, I'm trying to cluge an algorithm that would allow me to estimate mp2 filesize. That is, TMPGenc in auto-bitrate is highly dependent on the percent quality as well as total runtime. (It appears to be sweeping over a gaussian distribution of incremental bitrates).
My guess is that the 0's -- 3's in the data below could yield bits or bitrates but I'm not sure. That is the reason for wanting the d2v structure.
On Windows NT or 2000 the latest TMPGEnc. is freeze. Windows ME says unsupported fileformat. It is a *.avi but in file properties there is no information about the format. I can play it with ThePlaya and windows Media Player. I'm unable to create a video CD.
Thanks for any information.