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I'm quite new to doing anything with video, other than watching them. But I wondered how you get plug ins to work with TMPGEnc. For example, I have a Quick Time plug that supposedly enables TMPGenc to convert .mov files but I don't know what to do with it.
Secondly, I've found that some files will play with sound OK on WMP 7.1 and 6.4 but when loaded into TMPGEnc no audio appears in the Audio Source window. So how do I get the codecs into TMPGEnc. They must be on my system in order to be able to play the file, with sound on WMP. Or is there a codec "package" or plug in that anyone can recommend.
With seperate Plugins you just install them and there isn"t anything else to do..Usually there is either a ".Bat" file or an EXE file and you just double click it and it is installed..You can raise the priority of certain plugins depending on the format you are encodeing..You do this by going to "Options" to "enviromental settinfs" to "vfapi Plugins" and raise the appropriate Plugin..Usually with AVI/DivX files you need the "Direct show" plugin to be raised to "1" or "2"...The reason you aren"t seeing Audio is because Tmpgenc sometimes has problems reading Compressed audio formats so you need to Extract the audio to a WAV file from the source file with "Virtual Dub" or "Sound Forge" which gives better audio Quality, and encode the extracted WAV file as the audio source..
Is it possible to run TMGEnc in commandline mode or through an SDK so that a network front end can be added, ie submit compression job with commandline options?? I would like to use it as a network compression engine.
Are you saying that once encoded to MPEG from the AVI that the files cannot be played or re-muxed?
If TMPG can encode the file to MPEG then it doesn't make sense that you can't play it unless the AVI's you are exporting are at some weird resolution or something and you are encoding the MPEG to the same resolution.
There doesn't seem to be any noticable reason why the MPEG file shouldn't play.
What software are you using to play the file and exactly what happens when you do?
WinDVD and PowerDVD play the file, but i can't remux them in bbMpeg and it doesn't play in any of my standalone dvd players. Real player won't play them either, and it will usually play any mpeg-2. I think it uses the PowerDVD codec.
The bbMpeg error message I get when remuxing is "Error reading from an input file". TMPGEnc will remux without complaining, but the resulting .mpg file is either unplayable or badly garbled.
Exporting from After Effects, I've tried several different codecs inculding Divx, Huffyuv and a few others. I also tried flipping the field order. None of this seems to affect .mpg file after compressing with TMPGEnc.
VirtualDub says that file 1 is an MP3, 48000 Hz, Stereo, ...
VirtualDub also says that file 2 is an MP3, 48000 Hz, Stereo ...
According to VirtualDub, both files have the same audio caracteristics. However TMPGEnc can read audio from file 1, but not for file 2. DirectShow priority has to be set to 1 in order to enable audio reading for file 2.
It Is One of those questions that has been Perplexing Man Kind for Months......
Or it could be that not all files are created equal and some files of the same format can be harder to read than others...
are the bitrates the same? and were they encoded with different encoders.....even the same encoder has many options like VBR for instance...guess u have to get into the technical side of mp3 encoding to understand why
bitrates the same - yes.
encoders used - dunno.
VBR - yes, both.
Since I didn't encode them, I cannot get the details. I was just very surprised that TMPGEnc can't read the files (without DirectShow), while VirtualDub is apparently able to do that for some reason without DS.
10 minutes into encoding process, I get this error "read error occured at address 0049DD65 of module TMPGEnc.exe with 00000037. I started getting this error when I put a new motherboard and AMD Athlon processor. I upgraded to 2.58 with plug in. This never happened in the past. If anyone has a solution, please let me know. Thank you.
If it didn't start until after the hardware change, it's probably the hardware. I upgraded my RAM recently which caused latent, intermittent encoding errors. Took me a little while to diagnosis it, but swapping the old RAM back in fixed the problem.
Remember, just cuz it (hardware) boots Windows doesn't mean it's up to spec.
Does anyone know if tar files can be converted to MPEG files if you are using Windows? I was able to unzip them with WinZip but don't know where to go from there. Any help from anyone would be appreciated.
TAR means "Tape ARchive", and is used by UNIX to put several file into one file without compression. This is not a video file, though it could contain video files within it. So if you want to compress them you first have to extract them from the TAR files.
i have a big problem with tmpgenc 2.58. i have converted an avi file to mpeg2 since last week. now i want to reencode this mpeg2 with a lower bitrate because it is a little to big for one cd. when i open this mpeg2 file i became an error message that this mpeg 2 file is not supported. i have installed powerdvd and the cyberlink mpeg2 reader is in the vfapi plug-in tab.
then i¡ve installed the ligos mpeg2 codec and after reboot i have bothe reader (cyberlink and ligos) in the vfapi plug-in tab. if i open my old mpeg2 movie again, tmpgenc shut down without a comment!? what did i wrong???? i have both mpeg2 codecs on my system and with no one i can reencode my mpeg2 file.
can anybody help me??? with 2.56 and 2.57 i have no problems!!!
Your problem is most probably the fact you have installed two MPEG2 codecs and you are causing a conflict.
I would leave the Ligos codec installed and remove the Cyberlink one.
Anyway it may not be necessary to re-encode at all.
You may be able to fit the file onto a cdr by demultiplexing the audio and re-encoding it to a lower bitrate such as 128 kb/s then re-muxing.
Also you can overburn most cdr's by an extra 20mb, so if you have and 80min/800mb cd then you should be able to fit 820mb on it if you overburn.
Hi, I would like you guys to help me out. I'm not sure where's my problem is. Please advice. I use VirtualDub to change the audio to wav file. Then i use TMPGEnc to encode and everything seem to be ok without any message popping out. After complete encoding, I use Nero Burner to Burn the CD. Everything seem to be ok during the burning process. But went the VCD complete burning, i try it on my DVD player and also my laptop. The audio seem to be find but the picture doesn't play as smooth as the original file for the whole show (Can't see the picure nicely like playing a movie in the internet (300kbps) using 128kbps broadband speed). I'm not sure what happen where i just follow the instruction on 'AVI to VCD MPEG' and 'How to make VCD with Nero 5.5+'. Please advice whether its the encoding problem or nero burning problem and also the step to overcome the problem. Thanks in advance.
This is all the information that i can provide. I think my problem is what you call jecky playback but i don't know where is my mistake is. Everything seems to be find until completion of burning process. This is all my information during the process.
It seems find went playing in nero burner before burning VCD. Is it the 'birate' problem which is too low or the 'aspect ratio' which i need to change from 1:1 (VGA) to 4:3 525 line (NTSC TV).I did not change the aspect ratio because i'm afraid it would come out worst. Do i need to change it so that i can play it on my dvd player?
Hey i made an avi file to mpg and that worked fine sound and all then i cut it using the same program and burned it before i tested it (dumb) and well no sound came back to the movie i cut no sound? Weird eh? Someone a little help here
You didn't mention what encoding program you used but anyways try cutting/splitting the video with BBMEG. You can choose the size where it will split and then burn with nero. Check it before you burn
i have a problem. i try to encode an .avi file and it seems that the audio is unable to be processed with the avi!!! i have tryied to make a .wav of the audio of the movie and plug that into the audio part but i encode still with no sound. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!!!
This is what I do to encode avi to mpeg.
1) First, I always rebuild the avi file with DivFix.
2) Open Virtual Dub, open your avi file, go to audio chose full processsing mode, then go to file and save as wav.
3) When it is done processing, I usually close the avi file and then reopen it. When I open it again, this time I go to video choose direct stream copy and audio chose no audio then go to file and save as avi.
4) Close your avi file and then close Virtual Dub.
4) You will end up with two files one with video only and the other with audio only.
5) Open the video only and audio only files in TMPGE. Choose the settings you want etc., name your new mpeg and where you want to save it, then encode.
>This is what I do to encode avi to mpeg.
>1) First, I always rebuild the avi file with DivFix.
>2) Open Virtual Dub, open your avi file, go to audio chose full processsing mode, then go to file and save as wav.
>3) When it is done processing, I usually close the avi file and then reopen it. When I open it again, this time I go to video choose direct stream copy and audio chose no audio then go to file and save as avi.
>4) Close your avi file and then close Virtual Dub.
>4) You will end up with two files one with video only and the other with audio only.
>5) Open the video only and audio only files in TMPGE. Choose the settings you want etc., name your new mpeg and where you want to save it, then encode.
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>This should work.
Well that didn't work. it kept on coming up with this error that the audio compression wasn't right or something like that.
i was using virtual dub to get the sound into an mp3 for the movie and it sez that the audio compression is different from the original or something like that.
however i did do this for a different movie and it did work using the virtual dub mp3 and the original video to encode the mpg. so it does work just not with the movie i want it to.
so if anyone has Yu-Gi-Oh Movie in mpg format or in avi format that can be encoded e-mail me
Why are you trying to encode the audio to mp3 this is incompatible for MPEG VCD or SVCD?
It could be that your movie contains Ac3 audio which is incompatible audio for TMPG and Virtualdub.
To extract the audio to a wav file use AVIMUX which can handle most types of audio in an AVI.
Just load the AVI into AVIMUX and highlight the audio stream then right click on the audio stream to bring up the compression settings. Choose PCM to extract to a wav.
i have used mp3's for audio just recently with tmpgenc as stated in previous post. virtual dub made it into an mp3. but i will try that progy that you metioned.