Will it ever be possible to paus, save and restart the enconding eg. to reboot the system ?

In a way. Just click stop when you desire to pause then don't click ok in the confirmation box. Put your PC into hibernation. When you restart your PC just cancel the abort and TMPG will continue encoding.

ASHY

Is it possible to use a *.ac3 audio file?
do i need a plugin?

Please help, I'm trying to keep a dolby surrond sound with a music dvd

Ciao
Rob

Just use the multiplexer in the MPEGtools to multiplex the Ac3 with your movie.

ASHY

I would like to convert MOV files into MPEG format. There¡­s a plugin or something that allow me to do it? I need help quickly.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4942/QTReader.zip

This is a plugin QuickTime reader for
the TMPGEnc mpeg encoder. You just copy this file into
TMPGEnc's folder and you should then be able to read
any QuickTime movie.

ASHY

anyone help this not happen? I'll ftp you something nifty if you can.

md@punkrocksex.com

If you using winXP get Morgan JPEG codec and check invert field

anyone got the update for DVDit 2.5 to keep it from crashing? (answer via e-mail please)


mdog

Dear Group,
Am about to order a DVD writer and am currently trying different TMPGENC settings to create MPEG2 from my AVI files. I have found some very helpfull hints in this group but have been unable to remove the blocky or pixelated artefacts from the edges of objects during motion. I have no idea what this will look like on the 32" TV but is clearly noticeable on my 17" monitor. My source is a Sony DV camera.

So far I have tried:

Resolution 720 x 576 and:

a) 2 pass VBR, 8000 max, 3500 min, 6200 average with high quality motion search, DC component precision-10 bits, VBV buffer to auto

or

b) CQ VBR, quality setting 62

I can't see much difference between either method although b) seems to be faster.

Suggestions,

Cheers,

Al

Those jagged edges are most likely Interlace lines and shouldn"t show up very much on your Interlaced TV but do show up on a Progressive Monitor, but if you want to get rid of then so they won"t show up on either then try Useing the De-interlace filter in the advanced tab, There are about 25 different filters to choose from so what I do is move the slider till you get to a frame were it looks really noticeable then just go through the filters till you find the best looking one.......

I wish there is option in TMPGEnc shutdown computer after
it finishes editing (shut down when done).

In FlashFXP ftp client has option to log out from ftp sites
after trasfer is complete and then shutdown computer, same kind
feature would be nice to tmpgenc too because video editing takes
usually long time and it would be nice to leave computer/tmpgenc running
at night and go sleep and morning everything is done and computer would
be turned off too automaticly.

Instead of pressing "Start" button, go to "File"->"Output to file"->"MPEG file" then select file name and then when it starts you will have under the progress bar a chack box for shutting down the computer when it finnishes encoding.

ABS

Multilanguage MPEG support in one of the next versions!!!

I hope tmpgenc becomes multilanguage mpeg support. for all movies I ripped in two languages I muste use the (free) bbmpeg encoder. Hope tmpgenc can doo this yob in future, too!!!

Don't know about other people here, but I have never had any problem multiplexing a video stream with two audio streams...

ABS

Thanks ABS, i found shut down box and it worked just like i hoped, thanks again.

Yep two audio or more audio streams works fine in TMPG here also.

ASHY

Dear Group,
Am about to order a DVD writer and am currently trying different TMPGENC settings to create MPEG2 from my AVI files. I have found some very helpfull hints in this group but have been unable to remove the blocky or pixelated artefacts from the edges of objects during motion. I have no idea what this will look like on the 32" TV but is clearly noticeable on my 17" monitor. My source is a Sony DV camera.

So far I have tried:

Resolution 720 x 576 and:

a) 2 pass VBR, 8000 max, 3500 min, 6200 average with high quality motion search, DC component precision-10 bits, VBV buffer to auto

or

b) CQ VBR, quality setting 62

I can't see much difference between either method although b) seems to be faster.

Suggestions,

Cheers,

Al

Try changing the field order, I'll assume that you are going top field first, try bottom field first instead.

Try changing the field order, I'll assume that you are going top field first, try bottom field first instead.

Try changing the field order, I'll assume that you are going top field first, try bottom field first instead.

Try messing around with the deinterlace under advanced settings it worked for me preview each during jummpy section of movie this also adds alot of time to the process but it worked for me.

Hello!

I loved your SVCD template. The 4000 Max.-1800 Min. CQ 65 settings is really great.
I would like to ask you what bitrate settings you use for (X)VCD.

Thanks,
Nico...

I use

res 480x576
CQ min 1500 max 2300 set at 85
Audio is 128K

And how many minutes are you able to output with these settings??? 60-90 minutes by 80 minutes disc???

Did you read the readme file that came with the templates?
It explains how much movie you can fit on to 2 disks and what the templates are for.
In the template folder there are XVCD templates in the same place as the SVCD templates.

ASHY

In fact, I unfortunetaly deleted the file you sent me and so I only have your SVCD template... that's why I asked this question ;-)

With Tmpgenc useing the CQ method with a 704 by 480 resolution and a minimum of 500kbs and a max of 5000kbs and quality of 85 i can get close to 50 minutes on a cd-r with fairly good quality.....

Thanks Minion I'll try that ;-)

Excuse me again, but I'm still working on Queen of the Dead... I ran the file thru Virtual Dub, extracted a .wav file, and then used the avi for the video source and the wav for the audio source. TMPG encoded half of it and then gave me a "write error" message 45% of the way thru,
I checked the mpg file that was produced and it looks good. No pixels. Now I need to get past that spot where the "write error" message appeared... Can I use MPEG tools and edit out a minute or so of bad file? Do you think that may help?

Easiest would have been to make a note of the frame number where the error occurred and then encoding from the next frame on via selecting the source tick box (double click to enter parameters) from the advanced tab.

If you did not make a note you can always load the file into Virtualdub, go to the end and make a note of the frame number that way.

Hi... is there a TMPG user-friendly manual anywhere to be found? I know about the illustrated one in VCD help, but I mean a detailed one that explains what each and every term and function in the TMPG program is for and how it should be used. I'd pay good money for it!

If you buy the registered version you get access to all the help files - a manual in a sense

TMPGenc plus demo has the manual.

ASHY

go to www.vcdhelp.com there are manuals for (all) mpeg encoders and much more (bitrate calculator, and and and)

Hi, I'm trying to convert an .avi file to mpeg but for some reason TPMG wants to convert the whole file instaed just half of it (as I set up in "source range") I have already succesfully converted and burnt as .vcd the 2nd part of the movie. All I need is the first half. Converting the whole movie costs me up to 10 hours. Now I just stopped and saved this last conversion attempt at 50%. Ofcourse, now it is an .tpr file and not an /mpg file. Is there anyway for me to change the format from .tpr to .mpg so that I can continue burning this first half of the movie as .vcd. Thanks in advance!

Maybe that sounded very complicated, basicly what I have is conversion half done and I stopped and saved it. It is now a .tpr file. What I want is for this file to be .mpg file. Can I somehow do that without having to start all over again? Thanks!

Succes!! What I did was File -> Output to file -> mpeg and bingo! Sorry for the hassle.