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You guys have always given me good advice. I intend to buy a Video Capture card tthis week. I am using a Pentium 3 running at 933mgz. Windows ME. I went to VCD Help and read the reviews there, also NY Times in Tech section 2 weeks ago had some info. Given that Circuit City has priced them at $150. apiece, is one notedly superior or easier to use than the other? Ati All in Wonder Radeon 7500 vs Win Tv Personal Video Recorder (PVC)
Being able to record a TV show AND work on other computer projects at the same time is not an issue.
The All In Wonder Radeon 7500 would probably give you the best quality but where I live they are 3 times the price as the Win TV PVC, What i would do is to buy one of them and if you don"t like it then return it and try the other one but I think the Radeon will probably be the best....
That board in the link above is quite expensive and there are software encoders that can encode at twice real time with as good or better quality but then again they cost more than twice what that board costs but software is easier to aquire than hardware.
I use almost exclusively the 352x480 Plus template, and indeed, I get 90+ minutes for every CD. So I use it because I can get every movie that's around 2 hours in 2 CD's. Has not failed once!. The new Skvcd is worth a try too. I have used CVD and SVCD's, but now I'm trying out the Skvcd template. It looks just as good as a SVCD, but you can fit over an hour on each CD. They put a new sample yesterday on the download page where the templates are.
A file has 25 fps and 151.520 frames in total. While loading it into TMPGEnc, the Source Range shows a max. of 181.824 frames, which is exactly 151.520/25*30.
The loaded settings are SuperVideo (PAL).
Why is TMPGEnc not showing 151.520 as max. frames in the Source Range?
I was just wondering if anyone else has a problem with TMPGEnc always freezing. I have TMPGENC plus but i cant barely use it because it always freezes. I have a 1.6 gig pentium 4 with 256 DDR memory so it shouldn't be a problem. No other programs freeze, just this one. Does anyone else have problems with this?
The only time I have ever had problem with Tmpgenc freezeing up is when i try to encode WMV files but other than that it has allways ran smoothly for me, I have pretty much the same system as you mines a Intel 1.7ghz 400mhz FSB 256mb-DDR-Ram, these is probably a conflict with Tmpgenc and some other software on your system, There have been reports that some Ulead products can have an effect on the performance of Tmpgenc, are you getting any error messages? What would probably work but would be a really big hassle would be to do a clean install of your OS, or what might work and what has worked for me to fix system problems is to use "Norton System Works" to scan your system for errors and fix them, this has solved many problems i have had in the past.....
my tmpg-enc always freezes too when about 70-80% of the film is converted. haven't found any solution but would apriciate every help I can get. think it might be some kind of codec-problem? using tmpgenc2.53 on a P3 550mhz with lots of HD and 256meg ram.
Thanks for the help! I'll try the Norton thing. I also have a problem with the sound getting worse on the encoded video. Do you think that could also be a conflicting problem?
After a series of email exchanges with Kenzi at Pegasys (difficult at best since English is definitely not his primary language, and I do not speak Japanese at all), I think we have established the problem I've been seeing with TMPGEnc Plus.
According to Kenzi, who ran some tests, Quicktime video that is imported via the QTREADER.VFP plugin, is reported to TMPGEnc as running at 600 fps -- regardless of its actual framerate. When TMPGEnc converts this to 29.97 fps for DVD, frames get repeated every couple of minutes due to the fact that 600 and 29.97 are not evenly divisible.
I did a little research and it appears that the plugin was written by a James Hoderness (see http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4942/svcd.html) as freeware. Holderness evidently does not wish to be contacted by anyone, and has no email address or contact info anywhere on the Internet. Consequently there is no way to tell him the plugin has this problem, there is no way to get it fixed, and there is no way to obtain the source code so someone else can get it fixed.
The problem for us is that the video we're trying to encode is coming out of a $150,000 Avid Symphony edit system, which is based on Quicktime. It can output AVI files, but there is a 2GB limit on an AVI output from an Avid, which amounts to about two minutes of video, plus it takes nearly as long to output an AVI as it does to render the MPG file itself, so it's effectively useless. We don't get enough call for DVD work to have it make sense to buy an expensive encoding solution -- I do maybe three or four custom DVD's a year, for corporate videos to be used at trade shows by clients. I'm trying to avoid paying $thousands for another solution, since TMPGEnc Plus creates terrific looking files if this one bug could just be fixed.
If anyone has dealt with the author of the quicktime plugin, or has any other suggestions, I'd be most grateful.
>Can you not export Targa frame sequences from the Symphony?
Sure you can, but it's not practical: the export would be about 1MB per frame. At 30fps, a one-hour export would be 1.8GB per minute, or 108GB for a one-hour program. To say nothing of the export time. And the fact that the export is IN ADDITION TO the video already in the edit system, on the drives.
The way the Symphony is designed to work, when you "export" a Quicktime, the export is actually a little file -- about 100K -- that contains pointers into the video that's already inside the system. So if you have 150GB of video spread across four drives, you're not doubling that amount by copying it into another file; you're just exporting a reference to it. With four 70GB drives, I don't have enough storage to have video inside the edit system AND export a huge file like that.
And what's killing me is that it ALMOST works. TMPGEnc can read the file and does a beautiful job of MPEG2 encoding. But due to the fact that QTREADER doesn't accurately pass the frame rate, there's a hiccup every couple of minutes, and that's enough to make the file unusable, at least as something you could send to a client. (My DVD projects are typically edit projects that would normally be copied to VHS tapes, but if a client wants it to run endlessly in a kiosk at a trade show, they want a DVD because it can be programmed to loop over and over again). If QTREADER was a commercial program, I'm sure I could prevail on the manufacturer to fix it. But it seems that it was written by a reclusive author who doesn't want to support it.
This could be caused by the divx files them selves,I used to get that same error when I used to download movies off kazaa, or I would get a "floating point decimal" error, It seems that when downloading large files off kazaa they seem to get corrupted through the long downloading process,I have no idea if that is where you got the files from it is just a guess from the error you are getting but what you can do is load your file into "virtual dub" and "scan for errors" and it will tell you how many corrupted frames there are in the file(if that is the problem)..If you wan"t to make good quality xsvcd"s that are trouble free then the best thing to do is get a DVD-Rom and start ripping, you can get one for about $50-$75 or less.......
I do mpeg2 files with the same resolutions but with different bitrate settings, i usually use a minimum of 500kbs and a max of 5000kbs with a quality of 85-100 with no padding and can usually fit 50 minutes on a cd-r with good quality but I use the high quality setting in the "Motion Precition Search"..I don"t encode Divx files anymore so I don"t know if there is a problem with Divx and the 2.57 version...
I have a video in asf format,i tried to convert it normally using the wizard and the file got converted but after the completion of conversion,the file has no tag,lt isn't in Mpeg format,what to do?please help me.
What do you mean that it isn"t in mpeg format? if it doesn"t have a file extention give it one, just rename it to "movie.mpg" then try to play it with your software mpeg player, and if it doesn"t play you might need to encode it to an avi file then encode it to mpeg, I have been able to encode small asf and wmv files but I have had problems with large files with the resulting file just being a black screen, I don"t think asf and wmv are fully supported in tmpgenc, there is a very cool little program called "Stoik video converter" that will encode your asf and wmv files into avi and if you use a lossless mjpeg codec or uncompressed avi then you won"t loose quality, you can find it on a search engine.....
I encode videos that are avi and mpeg. the video comes out great but the sound gets fuzzy after each session. i tried using the encoded video with the original sound source but the sound still gets fuzzy. everytime i encode a video no matter what the format is the sound is bad and worse than originally. I dont know what to do and i dont understand most of the settings under the audio tab. Please Help!
After I cut a 735MB MPG file into two parts........the first part has sound...but the second part doesn't have sound.......Am I missing something..
can anybody give a suggestion.........Thank you so much!
Just wondering, which settings do you use for Pal? there are two?:
1)4:3 625line(Pal)
2)4:3 625line(Pal704x576)
The thing is that none of these are 720x576 which is the standard Pal setting.
ReelDVD(DVD software)has problems with these dimensions and asks for 720x576.
Just tell me please which one of these are used most commonly?
Those are aspect ratios they don"t have anything to do with the frame size, it just aranges the movie so it will be played correctly on your TV but does not change the resolution, you change the resolution in the video settings but if you choose the "Pal DVD template" you will have the correct resolution for Pal....
Both 704x576 and 720x576 are used for (PAL) DVD authoring. I'm suprised the DVD authoring package won't accept 704x576, but it's no big deal as there's no difference in picture quality between the two, so just use what it'll accept.
Make sure the file you are feeding ReelDVD is an .m2v (video only stream) and not a .mpg. Either enable the "Video Only" setting or if you have already encoded 720 or 704 x576 .mpgs, use the simple demultiplex tool in the MPEG Tools, to extract the m2v stream.
While continuing to troubleshoot behavior problems in 2.57 of TMPGEnc Plus, I think I've found a bug. I'm just not sure if it's specific to a particular codec or if it's an overall program problem.
Can someone take an AVI file that is natively 29.97 fps at 720x486 and try encoding it to MPEG2 with the DO NOT DO FRAME RATE CONVERSION box checked? Does it encode at 29.97 fps? On my system it does not: the AVI is 29.97 but the resulting MPEG2 ends up at less than 1 fps.
You only check that box if you have an avi file that is say 15fps and you want to make a mpeg at 15fps, since there is no mpeg standard for a 15fps mpeg file tmpgenc will make up a standard for you so you can have a 15fps mpeg file, otherwise don"t use the option...
I was encoding an AVI file using VBR using TMPGENC 2.5.7. During the 2nd phase (transcoding), the error, Bad Pointer, was displayed on the screen and TMPGENC stopped. The strange thing is that I have used the exact same settings on the same file before sucessfully and without any problems(I accidentally deleted the first output file in order to make room for another project). Does anyone have a clue what this error is, and if so, what one can do to minimize it happening again. It's a real bummer to have an error like this happen 6 hours into the transcoding process.
I have never heard of this error before, but maybe if you don"t use the 2-pass mode then you might not get the error, a lot of poeple have been getting wierd errors in the 2-pass mode with this version, I sugest useing the CQ encodeing method is is way faster and will produce as good or better results the only draw back is that it is hard to figure out the potential file size.....
Just got a canon a200 and shot some movie clips with it, downloaded onto my computer o.k. the file didn't have a file extension so I renamed it XYZ.avi and it opened up fine in MS media player, but when I try to open it with TMPGEnc it tells me the format isn't recognised or supported?... any help appreciated. TIA
If It doesn"t have a file extention how do you know what format it is in??? Anyway this might work, Try raiseing the priority if the "direct show file reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins" you do this by going to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" then raise the priority to "2" and if that don"t work try raiseing the "openDML file reader" in the same location.......
I tried renaming it .mov and .mpg and they wouldn't open , but it would open in .avi format... that's how I worked it out. Thanks for your ideas I'll givem a go... TA