When I use DVD2AVI it extracts the audio, and gives a file name that says "Delay -66ms.mpa". That means that I have to set at the sourse range -66ms?

You have extracted to the Wrong audio format...You have to extract the audio to "wav" not "mpa", Tmpgenc might not encode "Mpa" audio, and extracting the audio to "mpa" causes de-sync, so the correct settings in DVD2AVI under "Audio" choose "decode to Wav" and under "dolby digital" choose "Dolby Surround Downmix"...You will know you have done it correctly when the audio has a "Wav" extention......

Now actually two problems...

For start, no "decode to wav" option in Audio (not available when sourse is mpeg audio format?)

Secondly, seems like DVD2AVI serves TMPGenc with wrong number of frames.
The source file has 77,474 (according to bitrate-viewer) and when I go to source range in TMPGenc it has only 77,454... Maybe a bug in version 1.86?

Another thing, just chacked and Ulead Mediastudio pro also gives 77,474 frames to the MPEG-2 file... really odd...

So it"s a "mpg" file that you are useing in DVD2AVI???You can "de-multiplex" the mpeg and save the audio file then just make a d2v file out of the video then after encodeing the D2v file to mpeg you just multiplex the "de-muxed" audio to the encoded d2v file.This is the method I use when i need to re-encode mpeg files and it is better than haveing the audio re-encoded and looseing quality.This should work without any audio delay.I have noticed that the DVD2AVi 1.77.3 is the fastest and most reliable version so far ...

Found the problem.
Thing is, if the MPEG-2 files starts with a non I frame, DVD2AVI simply cuts all the frames unil the first I...

Hi guys, just checking to see if I understand something correctly. Low resolution avi files (such as 360 x 240) contain only one half of the full frame.So when we encode them using TMPG we have to use the "non-interlace" setting. Using the "interlace"setting is wrong because there are not the 2 halves of the frame to lace together... Correct?

NO, not exactly, I depends on How the movie was made and encoded,When you load your file into Tmpgenc those settings are adjusted by the encoder so you don"t change them because the encoder analizes the file when you load it and adjusts them acordingly so they will be at the correct settings...

I have an annoying problem and I want to try my chances here since I have never ever had a response on any other forum. This might not be the most relevant to TMPGenc but I am giving it a shot since this fourm deals with a lot of video experts and I have been answered great every time.

Every time I look at an .avi file in windows explorer (or just holds the mouse over the file) a DOS looking windows pops up in the background that contains the folowing info:

Header says C:/windowsexplorer.exe

then in the window it shows: DecompressQuery:input=24 bits, output =(null)

The .AVI files in question are made with my little Canon camera (and any DIVX)and are 12 seconds movie clips so not a perfect .avi but ok and similar to others. This window also comes up if I drag in a DIVX movie file into TMPGE, even though I am not intersted in DIVX.

Any Ideas?

Oh, I am using Windows XP and this just started a few months ago, not when I first installed XP.

I am thinking that either explorer is corrupt or there is some kind of plugin, codec, or setting that is off that does this.

I have a divx with a bilingual audio track, one in french, the other in english. It's compressed with Ogg Vorbis. I want to extract only the french file, how can I do that because when I extract audio from Virtual Dub I have the two tracks mixed in one...

Thnaks,
Nico...

You will need a good audio editing program like "Sound Forge 6" ...

Thanks and... is it easy to find... :-D ???

Gloups... I'll think I'll forget encoding this movie :-D... sorry I don't like to play with not legal things... so, I'll wait for another solution ;-)

Is there a possibility to include a feature to enter audio delay correction values in the multiplexing tools? When processing audio seperately from video with standalone tools like azid and toolame and finally multiplexing the m2v created by tmpgenc and the mp2 created by toolame I do not see any option to specify an audio delay. Would be awful, if such an option was included.

I multiplexed a svcd compatible m2v and two mp2 streams to a single MPEG-2 SuperVideoCD mpg file. But when trying to cut this huge file (3 CDs) to seperate parts for burning, TMPGEnc only includes one of the two audio tracks in the small parts. So please add a feature to include all contained streams in the cutted stream.
Or did I do anything wrong?

Agreed. I think if there was just a little more audio capability, it would make an already great software an even better product. Audio merge, designate Left or Right audio, etc. From my understanding, it shouldn't be too difficult. I've been working on some similar software for a proprietary product and the guy sripting that codec seems to think that this isn't rocket science to add these features.

Just my .02

Jim

Every time I encode a movie, typically in 2 parts. I start getting the "Stream Writing Error" toward the end of the second file. I start over and it will come up again, but in the different spot.

I get this only when i'm cutting or multiplexing a file , & only in version 2.57 in 2.56 it works well for me .

I would say try an older version too, i may help.

About a week ago I got the same error message. As I posted then, the problem was that my hard drive was full, but because of cross-linked files causing bad sectors on my hard drive I still thought I had 3.5 gigs free. I used SCAN DISK and Power Defrag to clean up the hard drive, deleted some junk and then I no longer got "stream writing error".

Hello

I have tried to convert a Divx Movie I downloaded but the audio is out of sync. I have tried dumping the audio to a wav and using that.

What else should I try?

Are you doing any kind framerate conversion ? ie is your source NTSC and you are converting to PAL ?

Also does the sync get progressively worse, or does it remain out of sync by a fixed amount throughout the movie ?

Nothing special, is being done. And I'm not sure if the frame rate get worse or not. But I know only a minute or so and its off.

Steven

What is the "frame rate" of the "avi/Divx" file?? if it is differant that the Mpeg that you are encodeing to then this is your problem..You have to encode to the same frame rate as your source file, and if you don"t then you will get sync problems and jumpy playback on your DVD Player....

I've check from the very begining the audio is out of sync. Frame rate is 23.

Not sure what else I should try?

Steven

I try to merge 16 mpeg2 files (SVCD, VBR (after 2-pass), 480x576, each file cca 45 MB long ) to one single file. Every file was created from AVI in TMPGEnc. When I merge all files at once, the result is this - the higher the fragment , the more out of sync (1 - no problem, 16 - cca 1.5 second !!). When I try merge by two (16->8->4->2->1, very time-consuming work :-( ) the result is better, but not perfect (seems to me). What is wrong ?

There is notthing worng I think.

You just need to read "* Note for Specification Change in TMPGEnc 2.57
" at : http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_history.html

That's BULL!!!!

You make me sorry I ever bought your product. How outrageous!!

What are you trying to do? This is a HUGE step backward for TMPGenc. Are you guys trying to protect and route business to your friend companies over there, or something?

OUTRAGEOUS!!!

I don"t know what Joeagain is talking about, but the reason that your VBR files arent joining properly could be because Tmpgenc has problems accurately cutting or joining files that are VBR and I don"t know of a way to solve the problem unless you use a different joining/editing program to do this type of work......

It still don't understand above well. It means that because I used TMPGEncPlus to encode mpeg2 files instead TMPGEnc, I can throw away all my work to recycle bin ? If it means, that I can retain my files and merge it TMPGEnc and everything will be OK, then I must say NO! I tried it with TMPGEnc - with the same result !
To Minion: I am unsuccessfully trying to find other program, that can solve this problem. For example : Mpeg2Vcr - can join, but need to reencode whole file all over again. DVtools - simple, fast, seemingly OK (I can play it in PowerDVD), but the file is confusing for many other applications (cannot do authoring with chapters etc.).
Can somebody recommend me some other program ? Thanks

Power VCR has a good Mpeg editing and joining function but the program is primarily for Mpeg capture but i use the editor .......

I tried for joining mpeg2 other 2 programs:
nanoMpeg editor - the result file is playable on PowerDVD from start till end, but when I try to set position by navigator slider, the playback becomes only a coloured noise.
PowerVCR II - the result is not good. The picture stops for a few frames every second. Sound is OK. When attempting to merge again in TMPGEnc, only first fragment int file is processed.

I'm giving up. I wanted my SVCDs to have thumbnail menus, so the clips will be played form first to last. This is possible only with one single file with chapters pointing to it, when using separate files, it always returns to menu after playing single clip. So I will make SVCDs without menus ...

It would be a nice feature if you could include the ability to select which channel of audio is used, Left or Right.

I have a couple of dozen 4 channel audio DVCam tapes of shows that I am wanting to burn onto CD. The left channel 1 is mixed, right ch.2 is VO only, left channel 3 is sound effects and the right channel 4 is music only.

However my DV capture card only captures via the firewire and is not selective of what channel it grabs... it just takes audio channels 1 & 2. When it is rendered in TMPGEnc, TMPGEnc mixes channel 1 & 2 so that the VO is too hot because channel 2 is VO only (with no music).

I would like to select channel 1 ONLY to be my audio channel.

Is that possible to make that? I would really appreciate it. I'm sure that there must be others out there that may have similar situations.

Thanks! Just so you know, I really think TMPGEnc is a Great program! kudos!

Jim Meyer

Since TMPGEnc is MPEG encoder, I personaly think it is too much to ask.

If I were you, I take the following steps.

1. split(de-Multiplex) audio and video with TMPGEnc, or record only audio directly from orgial DVCam with PC.
2. edit audio with audio application such as "Crean!" (http://www.steinberg.net/).
3. Multiplex the video and audio with TMPGEnc.

I am trying to Vcd a avi into a mpeg, and it will not let me, says that the avi can not open or is unsported. I just got a different computer, and on my other comp it works just fine, but now everything is on this computer, and I cant VCD. Can anyone help me? Please e-mail me @ IcedCold21@Hotmail.com
thanks!

oh and one more thing, I HAVE did the enviromental setting and then to VFAPI plug in, and then set direct to higher---2. And it still does not work.

It depends on the AVI file format and codec you have installed on your system.
*.AVI could be uncompressed AVI or Divx AVI or other AVI, and you need certain codec to load the file with TMPGEnc.

Maybe you can check if the file can be played with Windows Media player on your PC properly, if not, there is no codec in the PC.

I have the demonstration version of TMPGEnc Plus and I am trying to reduce the size of mpeg files by re-encoding them at a lower bit rate. Although the project wizard informs me the new size will be 10MB (from 30MB), after encoding, the file size is around 20MB. The file size remains the same for different encoding bit rates. The quality of the encoded mpeg however, does change. So I am left with a 20MB file with very low quality if I select a bit rate around, say, 200Kbps.

Is this because I am using a demonstration version of TMPGEnc Plus 2.5?
Is this because I have "unlocked" the bit rate in order to reduce the encoding rate?

Thanks for any help
Mick.

If you are doing Mpeg1/vcd and you lower the bitrate lower than the vcd standard you need to change the "system" setting to "vcd-non-standard" or Tmpgenc will add padding to the stream to keep it vcd compliant..But if you are doing Mpeg2 then I don"t have an idea why you are haveing problems...but Usually when i re-encode Mpeg2 files I use DVD2AVi to to make project files to encode with Tmpgenc and it allways works properly....