Ok here is the deal, after many of hours I got the mpeg to display in TMPEenc and was happy, went to Easy Cd creator to make the VCD which it does but after making the the VCD I got a great video but no sound. Been trying to figure out why I get no sound on the video.

Also I know there is a way to preview the the video, is there a way to preview the sound.

Thanks

no preview with sound...

erm..

I would use nero if I was you but...

try extracting the audio as wave using virtualdub and encode in TMPGENC along with the video.

Then try to burn as VCD and see what happens.

Also, try nero if poss.

Techno

If you go to the "audio" tab and click on the settings tab next to "audio edit" there you can play the audio from your movie file and change the volume in the encoded mpeg file,and if you go to the "source range" in the advanced settings there you can see your movie and see your audio in a wave graf by moveing the slider but you can"t hear the audio here.........sherlock

ps: try encodeing just a minute
of your file and see if your audio
is there before doing the whole
movie.....

Can any one help me to access TMPG from Premiere time line?

Sure...
what is your problem?
Search for Avisynth, with this tool you can play from timeline into tmpgenc.

Good help can be found at www.vcdhelp.com or at www.adobe.com support.

Take a look at:
Video Server Plugin v0.93 for TmpgEnc in Premiere plus others
Together with the video server plugin and AVIsynth/AVIWrapper codec, you can use programs with the Adobe Premiere interface (Premiere/FlasK/Xmpeg/DVDx) as a frame server. This is very useful if you want to code your edited video from Premiere or FlasK with an external (MPEG)-encoder e.g. TMPGEnc or Cinemacraft encoder. To achieve this, the plugin creates a small AVI file. The created AVI can be loaded into the encoder as a normal AVI. This resolves the problem of making a time and space consuming intermediate AVI. If you load this small AVI file into an encoder, the client (aviwrap.dll) makes a connection with the plugin. When an encoder wants to read audio or video, this request is passed to the Premiere Video Server Plugin. Instead of reading the data from disk the plugin fetches the audio/video and sends this to the encoder. Link to the Guides pages. The guides are fully illustrated and are excellent for an end user. The product is Free to private users but Commercial users must register. Also development contributions are sought. Visit the Home Page for information on the various other plug-ins available.

Link: http://www.softdeko.8m.com/video_encoder2.htm

SoftDeko

When trying to encode an MPEG, I cannot get source range to exceed 10000000 frames. As a matter of fact, the frame numbers are all screwy. I am trying to encode a video that ends at 01:14:45 and it reads the frame number as 13443999. It should be more like 133425.

Is this ONLY with 1 file or all of your videos?

If it is with 1 file, then the file maybe corrupted in some sort of why.

Techno

Newbie here...I'm getting the following error when I attempt to open an mpg file in TMPEnc: The procedure entry point ThunkConnect32 could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll. Any ideas for me?

what I would sudgest is to re-download and install "tmpgenc"........

Hi

I need help about encoding a AVI.file(DV-format). okay here's the problem:

I load the AVI.file, and Im starting to encond it to a MPEG.file. But when I press on the button start an error Occures the message was:"An error ocurred when audio was decoded" what's the problem??? HELP PLEASE!!!!

Here is some info about the AVi.file:

MPEG-1 640x272 23,976fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 48000Hz 192kbps

I think the problem is the audio, because when I encoded the "Video only" no problem ocurred....

load virtualdub
load the avi
goto file > save wav and save the audio

then load this and the video in TMPGENC and encode

This should solve the problem

Make sure the audio is 44100Hz.

Techno

I"m really starting to get pissed off here,every movie I encode with "tmpgenc" I end up with a audio file that is longer or shorter than the original the same with the video,there fore the two files dont match up,and the sync is really bad ,I have done well over a hundred movies with only one comeing out properly,and another problem I allways get "buffer underflow" error.and the audio allways cuts out,and the video is totally jerkey it looks like every one is break danceing...I know this program inside and out and have tried every possible setting,you would think that out of so many times that I would get it right just out of coinsidance,but no such luck.maybe the authors could work on getting the audio and video to mach up better instead of picture quality cuz what use is a good picture if the audio don"t match up........

Hi Sherlock,

Time for a tease... do a little detective work on this Forum and you might find others with the same problem ... and the solution mentioned also!

Ok... tease over....
The problem doesn't really lie with Tmpg... more likely it lies with the file you're trying to convert.

Suggest you split the audio and the video - use a prog like Virtual Dub http://www.softdeko.8m.com/video_encoder.htm

Then bring the a and v back together in Tmpg.

This is only a suggestion and if you care to look as suggested a fuller explanation might be found.

SoftDeko Reviewer - check it out - http://www.softdeko.com/subscribe.htm

Other Tmpg linking progs http://www.softdeko.8m.com/video_encoder2.htm

I read every post in this forum and answer quite a few to and I know its"t my files cuz you can"t have the same problem with over 100 files....they are all dvd rips..but thanx any way,I think my problem is I am useing seperate audio and video streams and "tmpgenc" cant sync them properly.I need a program that will multipex avi files or rip vob files to avi and merges the video and audio streams...so if any one knows of sutch a program let me know....

I was able to fix it by of-setting the audio track by 1.65 seconds I will have to do this for all the movies but it still gets choppy at high motion parts.........

Why won't TMPGenc accept a 16x9 file that I rendered out of after effects? It's a true 16x9 image, but when i pull it in, it reads it as 1:1. Then when i try to encode it, it gives me some error about it having to be between 8x8 and 4088x4088, and multiple of 8.

Thanks!
Collin

Hmm, don't bother with the 16:9 format. I think tmpgenc says 1:1 becaus it will encode it wo 16:9 anyway. If you have a scourc that is widescreen it will be encoded to 1:1 with the black bars anyway.

Just try and encode for a bit and see what it looks like, some of the functions in tmpgenc are a bit strange to understand, don't get to worryd about them.

yeh, that's right Dennis

Techno

Techno--How do I convert to NTSF ??? I believe you are correct in saying that the file is over 4gb

NTFS can only be used in Win2K and XP you can not use it in win98 , I'm not shure about millenium or NT...If your running 98 you can install 2000 as a secon OS on your machine and do a duel boot. thats nice because you can have 98 aswell as 2000. A second HD or additional partition will be nessasary to instal and when you install just select NTFS to partition /format it. Good luck

That is correct.

Windows ME is not with NTFS

Windows NT/2000 and XP have NTFS

Techno

>That is correct.
>
>Windows ME is not with NTFS
>
>Windows NT/2000 and XP have NTFS
>
>Techno

I'd like to convert to NTSF without formatting or losing all my data. Is there a way?

i just downloaded an avi movie and the pixel size of that movie is 640x272. i just finished converting that avi file to mpg, but it's not the same size as the original avi file that i downloaded. i tried every option in the "source aspect ratio" and "video arrange method", but nothing seems to work. i want the vcd to have the same output size as the avi file, but the conversion files i've been trying just stretches the picture and it doesn't look good. is there any way i can change the video file to 640x272 pixels? please help me...thanks

when makeing "vcd" your aspect ratio gets converted to 352 by 240 so I don"t think you will be able to keep the resolution to look exactly the same but do this and it should help,under the "advanced" screen in "settings" under "video arange method" choose "full screen custon size" and change the settings to
640 by 272 this should work for getting the screen to look the same size as the original......hope this helps....................Sherlock

what is the best settings to use to take a DVD and make it into a VCD? I would also like to know about the GOP structure and what if any changes to make would it do. my home player only supports vcd and xvcd but not svcd.

thanks

well, use xvcd.

use these settings:

load the vcd/xvcd temp

load the unlock temp

change the vbv buffer size to 224

set it to 10 bits

set it to very high quality

brighten up the picture a tad

That is really all, u can't change the GOP structure, otherwise it is not vcd/xvcd compliant!

Best of luck

Techno

I've a mpeg file which is about 100 MB and if I play it with Windows Media Player it shows that the mpeg file is 1:38. But the player plays the mpeg file beyond 1:38...Is there any way to fix this size/time difference?

Btw: I tried to convert it with TMPG, but TMPG sees only the first 1:38.

well it must be that long then! try re-encoding it.

make sure u haven't got the source range filter checked in the advanced settings.

Techno

you can try to "de-multi plex" and then "multi-plex" this way the file statistics will be re-writen and hopefully the the proper length.......

After may weeks I sucessfully burnt my first SVCD. I did this by using TMPGng and the used Mpeg tools to convert it to a VCD (my DVD player does not play SVCD).

I set CBR=2000, interlaced... and at all the ther setting in VCD help.

I use this to make home movies with a JVC DL320U (780 x 480 pixels) capture the AVI file in this format.

I get fuzzy edges to all the high motion frames. Looks awful.. Please can I get some help on how to overcome this.

Thanks

hmmm.

What settings did u capture in?

use these:

NO RECOMPRESSION
YU12
320*240
25/30fps
CD quality audio

Then convert to VCD

Techno