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Hi,
I have downloaded TMPGEnc 2,5 and Strated the Encoding of an AVI file to a VCD mpg.
After having encoded the File I have in the VCD File red shaves.
So I send the AVI to a friend of mine, and he tooked the same settings as i did and got a super Quality mpg.
The Only differenc was that my Sysytem was an Laptop Intel Celeron 660 with 128 MB ram, an the Computer of my friend an Intel P4 1,5 GH with 512 MB RAM so it seems, that it depends on the CPU.
Is it normal to have a jittery playback when panning? I capture the source from handycam and get an AVI file. There's no jittery in AVI file, but when encoding to PAL VCD the jittery is there. I test with the correct field order. I try to encode to SVCD, the jittery is gone.
Is it because the deinterlacing field on VCD? How to get smooth picture on VCD, especialy when panning or fast movement? Please help. Thank you.
Tried last night but it says that it cannot read it, do I have to have special software installed? I have PowerDVD installed and I "thought" that was all I needed.
I opened a 1GB vob file in TMPGenc and even though it has a ton of video in it whenI get to the end of the wizard it says its only gonna take a few mb of space (i'm trying to lower its bitrate) So I encode and it a split second its done... with only a few seconds of video... what gives? A few problem vobs do this others work fine. I've also had it happen with a M2V file.
Smartripper, it seems the problem is because there is a slideshow contained inside the vob... now I just need to find a way to extract only the video from it... but I have no clue how, by the way thanks for the assistance. I'm new to TMPGenc and it seems like the product I've been looking for for a long time.
What should work is go to the source range and set the begining and end points of your file this has worked in the past for avi files with the same problem, but Ashys totaly right you shouldn"t load vob foles directly into tmpgenc from my experience it takes a lot longer to encode vob files than d2v files, another thing you can try is to load the vob files into the "vfapi converter" and then load the psudo avi into tmpgenc and see if that works....
Strange thing is I've been to the source range and it won't let me adust it since it thinks its only one second long... I put the M2V and AC3 files back together into an MPEG and if I play it as a mpeg it will play the sideshow, the trailers, THEn the movie, but if I try to skip anything in the file it will act like it can't read.... very perplexing... anyways thanks for the assistance everyone.
What does "dvd2avi" do with this file, does it see the whole file ?it should and if it does then there shouldn"t be a problem, but you can allways try ripping the dvd again....
Dunno... haven't run DVD2AVI on it yet. The entire point was to get it to MPEG and not AVI so I haven't tried that yet, but I will. If I can get to something I can cut the extras out of manually that fine, I just need something i can work with.
Far as reripping it goes it will do it everytime, it has something to do with the fact that they shoved some extras into the original vob, and I haven't found a way to get them out.
Whenever I have a problem ripping a movie with Smartripper I then use Vstrip.
The always seems to sort any problems out and will allow you to rip to an MPEG2 file if you wish.
If you say it is the trailers and the side show which are causing the problem then why don't you find out what the chapters are for these trailers using a software DVD player such as WinDVD and then uncheck the relevant chapters in smartripper.
Problem is solved!
Loaded the VOB file in questions into vstrip and it will hang, BUT if you have it split the vob at every cellid it will rip out the extras and then you can encode it.
Iam having trouble with audio synch in some recent Vcds created from avi source
sound starts out well but after 35-40 min it ends up a few seconds early.
Iam already extracting source sound to a seperate wave file using virtualdub which is used for encoding have tried multiple different templates also. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
Jman
If your audio is in sync with video and justs ends a few seconds too early,
then try capturing some seconds more of your source.Maybe the audio will still
end too early,but you won't notice it since the last seconds you captured
are black screen anyway.
In the source range setting screen there is a audio gap correction setting so you can make the audio start encodeing earlier or later so you can correct the de-sync, or you can use a program called "mpeg2vcr" it has a multiplexor that you can offset the audio or video to fix sync problems..
>In the source range setting screen there is a audio gap correction setting so you can make the audio start encodeing earlier or later so you can correct the de-sync,
wouldnt offset the audio on the entire file?? as I said earlier tha sound is perfect for the first half hour then goes out of synch will this help that.
I'm trying to write a mcf template to encode a MPEG file like PocketMovies does. I've started by modifying the VideoCD-NTSCFilm mcf, with 176x120 (half each of 352x240) and reduced CBR to 350000. But when I encode it its file size is exactly the same as a normal 352x240 1150000 VCD - I'm expecting it to be around 1/4 the size. Can anyone help? What am I doing wrong?
PS
Can TMPGEnc rotate a video 90, 180, or even 270 degrees?
I just did an experiment after reading your question and I encoded a 30minute clip at 160 by 120 at 500kbs and the 30 minute clip(no audio) came out to 46mb even though the quality was terrorable and it only showed a small square of the middle of the screen(the original is 704 by 480)the only real differance is that I used the CQ encodeing method at 55 quality with 500 max and 50 minimum, and I was surprised at how small the file was, but in reality your file should be 1/8 the size as normal cuz just lowering the resolution that much would make it 1/4 the size then you lowered the bitrate by 3/4 which would have lower the file size again to 1/4, so the over all size should be 1/8 th the regular vcd size ,so you should have gotten simular results as I did, so why don"t you try to encode useing the CQ encodeing method it is a much better method for keeping file size down and quality up(not in this case), one thing that surprised me was that I encoded the 30 minute clip in about 10 minutes..try looking at the file through a bitrate viewer and see what the bitrates really are cuz the "cbr" method is not allways very constant ,it is known for causeing large bitrate spikes...
You must click the 'system' tab and change the stream type to 'MPEG1 VCD(non standard)' before you encode otherwise TMPG will just add padding to the MPEG file to try and make it a compliant standard VCD.
If you have already encoded your movie then you can remove this padding by running the file through the 'simple multiplex' option in MPEGtools and choose 'MPEG1 VCD(non standard' as the type.
This should reduce the file size down to what it should be.
Seems like after I encode a file to mpeg2 (svcd) it goes to 100% done for a 50 minute segment in about 1 hour and a half. Then it sits for another 10 minutes or more with the disk light on and the program keeps counting time and wont release the file yet. The disk light isn't "cranking away" that much, just on flickering constantly. Any idea what it's doing? Something I dont need it to do that I could turn off?
Well I don"t know about 10 minutes but on my system it sits for about 2-4 minutes while tmpgenc writes the end code on the header information, it says it is 100% done but it isn"t actually done until the stop tab is greyed out and the time stops running, the actual encodeing is done but the header information isn"t compleated being writen, patience my friend patience.....
Yes just wait and it will finish. I suppose it depends on the speed of your system on how long it actually completes writing the headers.
If you don't want to wait this long then you can prevent TMPG from writing the VCD headers by encoding the video only as an elementry stream and encode the audio separately. This way you won't have the wait at the end and all you will have to do is multiplex the two files together.
Yes and no, some poeple have had limited success encodeing "wmv" files, usually to get your "wmv" file loaded into "tmpgenc" you have to rename it to "asf" but every "wmv" file I have tried will only encode for a few minutes before crashing, you can encode your wmv file to avi ,I think a program called "asf tools" will do it, you can find it in the tools section at "vcdhelp.com"...
I convert WMV from time to time with very good luck.
What seems to be the bigest thing of importance is the Audio stream in a WMV TMPGenc doesnt like it so what must be done is the Audio needs to be seperated from the Video. I do this with total recorder http://www.highcriteria.com/ I out put the file as a mp3. The go back and select the file for video source. and the mp3 for audio source.
I'm in the midst of a VCD making project and perhaps someone could help me out. I have 2 950+MB mpeg files all set to burn to VCD but they're obviously too big. I want to put the two of them together, then split them into 3 pieces so that I can burn them onto 3 separate discs in VCD format.
I'm assuming it can be done by using MPEG Tools (in the "File" menu) but as yet I havent found any guide/instructions/help.
Can anyone give me a few pointers or push me in the right direction?
It is simple load part 1 in then part 2 ect into the merge and cut choose "mpeg1 vcd"from the drop down menu choose your output directory then click run, and god willing it will make a file with all files merged, then you take that file load it in the merge and cut choose "mpeg1/vcd" from the drop down menu choose your output directory click edit then a window will come up and you move the slider to the end of the part you want to cut click the tab that looks like this } and then the part you want to cut will be darkened then click "ok" then click "run" and it (god willing) will make a file for the first part, then you repeat for each part useing the mark in and mark out tabs { }..thats it, the reason I say god willing is cuz the merge and cut are notorius for not working correctly so make sure you view each cut and merged part before burning to disk to make sure that the mpegs are playing correctly...
Has anyone successfully tried converting SWF (Macromedia Flash) files to Mpeg-1 in order to burn to a VCD? The video comes out OK but there is no sound.
I do not know a single thing about Macromedia Flash Files, but the reason audio is not in your encoded mpeg file usually is because the audio format in your source files is not suported in tmpgenc so the encoder can not decode the audio format, what you have to do is extract the audio from your file to a wav file then use that as your audio source, I don"t know what software you would use to do this cuz I don"t know that format but seeing as you are experienced in Macromedia Flash you probably know the software to do it with.....
I've done it before, I used Quicktime Pro to convert the SWF to MOV and the to MPEG-1 with TMPGEnc... Is really easy and with good Quality.... Just remember to have the SWF with a good FPS.
Does anyone know how to make chapters using TMPGEnc or Nero Express? Is it possible to burn a VCD with chapters using one of these programs? I used Ulead Video Studio, but it has its problems, so I switched back to Nero. Also, I was wondering why Nero's status bar overflows past the red (80 minute marker) when I used the KVCD 120 min. template for 1 CD. I had to split the file into 2 mpgs to fit half on 1 CD and half on the other. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could get me back on these problems. Thankyou.