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VBR should work in most DVD players if not all as DVD players are VBR machines by design anyway.
The quality should be better when using VBR as this method allows you to use higher bitrates when needed yet keep the file size down.
when i encode avi files into VCD or SVCD format the screen goes pink and then goes away and then turns pink again... any idea why it does this and most importantly how do i stop it? thanks!
The "pinnacle dv codec" is not supported in tmpgenc, the formats that are currently supported and "direct show" formats "video for windows"formats and "open DML" formats, which covers most codecs accept usually specialty codecs made for certain capture and editing softwares like "studio 7 dv" try any other codec accept those that are "pinnacle" like "Indio" or "microsoft mpeg4" or pretty much any other ones......
The line "pinnacle dv codec is not supported in tmpgenc" means exactly that, you can not encode "pinnacle dv" avi files to mpeg in tmpgenc..Tmpgenc can not decode the pinnacle studio 7 format so that is why tmpgenc will not read your avi files, so use a different codec to render your avi files, one that is not pinnacle studio 7.......
The other opinion :
Sudio Dv7 works fine for me . I have NTSC and doing capture and editing with Studio7. Then I'm doing encoding with TMPGenc-works fine.
Hi, I need your help.
When I open a file in TMPGEnc program (Ver.2.54), the error message was shown. But the error doesn't affect following work. I still can convert avi to mpg. But I like to know what is the error? Anybody can help me on this? Thanks,
Need some advice on getting Pinnacle Impressions to work with files created out of TMPGEnc.
I just installed Pinnacle Impressions on my new 1.8 Ghz P4 Windows XP computer, but it won't accept any of the files created from TMPGEnc. I have successfully created NTSC 720x480 29.97-fps AVI files from captured video using VirtualDub, created AC3 files using SoftEncode, and created various MPEG files using TMPGEnc (video & audio, video only, CBR, VBR), and all of these files are played just fine by my software players, but Pinnacle Impressions either won't open them at all, or it opens them and says they have a length of zero and won't do anything with them.
I tried changing the file extensions because Impressions says it accepts MPEG-2 video files with .MPV and .MP2 extensions, and TMPGEnc creates its video files with .MPG or .M2V, and audio-only as .MP2. But none of this has made any difference.
The only file I can get Impressions to work with is a .WAV file. So far, I am not impressed (arg-arg-arg).
Do you import audio and video as a program stream(multiplexed)
or each one seperately?Try doing it the other way.
Check again the parameters you used encoding for them and compare
them to what the help file of Pinnacle Impressions says.
I heard somewhere that the MP2-sound-format is only supported by PAL
but not by NTSC DVDs.Maybe that is the reason for your error.
If you want to create an NTSC DVD,I think you can only use WAV instead of
MP2.
I can't unzip it, no matter under win98, or xp. Is the file name is TMPGEnc-2.55.38.142-free.zip? Can you email me & attached the file? Thanks.
My mail address is: haitang@ca.slr.com
Dear tmpgenc users,
I've got a weird problem with tmpgenc; with some avi files after 2.03 minutes the audio stops... and goes on after approx. 25 minutes exactly where it stopped (a 'lag' of 23 minutes). Obviously the encoded MPEG does have the same problem.
I noticed that Tmpgenc does not recognise the audio in the not-yet-encoded source-AVI file while it is certainly there according to other avi players. (You can see this before encoding in the audio bar of the advanced/source range setting.)
So, it has nothing to do with the encoding process, it has something to do with loading/reading the source avi file by tmpgenc!
Sometimes it does recognise the complete audiostream, but most of the time it won't.
Does anybody recognise this? What am I doing wrong?
Is it maybe Windows XP setting or buffer or other programs which have been installed (ulead mediastudio 6 has been installed for a while) or the used picvideo codec?
Best regards,
Marco
PS also other Tmpgenc versions (also 12) have this problem on my PC
Maybe also worth to mention:
All avi's have been cut to smaller sizes with virtualdub direct stream copy.
The size is then not recognised correctly by tmpgenc (the size of the original avi is given), the correct size of the cutted avi file is recognised only after using the source range setting start frame/end frame.
Maybe it has something to do with the virtualdub cutting tool?
It seems that "virtua dub" is not writeing the header information to your edited avi files but it seems that you have found a way around that problem by useing the source range .As to your audio problems I think the reason that your audio is not showing up is because virtua dub hasn"t writen the header information for the audio track in your avi file either, the way to get around that is to extract the audio from your avi files to seperate wav files and load them in for the audio source this should fix your problem and it might give you better audio quality to....
Thanks minion, I think you are right, maybe other avi players/editors are less critical to the avi header information written by virtualdub than tmpgenc.
Also these 'other' avi editors (such as ulead) are certainly less critical regarding the produced quality, for that tmpgenc really "rules big time"
Hello,
I use studio7 from pinnacle for videoediting and creating a avi-file. when I convert this avi-file to a vcd-format then the video and audio-quality is good. When I convert the avi-file to a svcd-format then the video-quality is poor (more bad than vcd) and the audio is missing. What could be the reason and what can I do?
I don"t know if this is your problem but when encodeing to svcd as opposed to vcd the bitrate you have to use is at least double that you would use for vcd this is because svcd has a higher resolution so therefore you have to use a much higher bitrate to achive simular quality, as for your audio problem I don"t know why it worked with the vcd and not the svcd but you should extract the audio from your avi file to a wav file with "virtuadub" and encode that as your audio source and it should work.......
hello,
I use the standart values, which are given when you select vcd or svcd. And at this standart values the svcd-bitrate is higher than the vcd-bitrate.
I'm using tmpgenc on trail to convert the avi's from my DV-cam to DVD-quality mpg's. That's all working magnificent, but I still have one small question about it.
One tape generates about 40 to 60 avi's, which I then manually have to add to the batch list to encode in tmpgenc. To generate a batch-list, I spend about half an hour to feed the avi's to the list, allways with the same settings (DVD-PAL, noise filter on high quality).
Is there a way to select all the files you want to convert at once, one time give in the settings how to convert, an click on "run at once"?
I've found a add-on program which generates such a list, but that converts in VCD, not DVD. I've mailed the autor, but got no reply. And I don't know any programmers who could make such a tool for me.
Anyone?
As I know TMPGEnc allows to encode from a sequential number of avi streams to one mpeg stream. I got a advice to rename the input avi stream as follows to enable loading sequential avi files:
file00.avi
file01.avi
file02.avi..
But looks like this is not working as was suggested. Which way is the correct way?
Who ever gave you that advice didn"t give you good advice , you can not do sequential avi file in tmpgenc you have to frame serve them from "virtua dub" that method that you were trying only works with image files like "bmp,jpeg" the next version is supposed to have that feature, to find out to encode sequential avi files through frame serving with virtual dub go to "www.virtuldub.com" and download the program and then read as much as you can on the subject and there is information available at "www.vcdhelp.com" that wiil assist you in setting up your frame server.....
TMPG will only allow sequential files to be opened which have been created using the Canopus DV codec not ordinary AVI files. The only way to do that is frameserving from Virtualdub.