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Hi! Cannot figured out, whats causing to appear the XviD icon in notification area, then import XviD movie into Authoring Works 4. I use K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. In ffdshow options XviD is disabled. Any suggestions
I've been using DVD Author 1.6, which was great until the disk writing tool stopped recognizing my DVD drive (no idea why; one day it did, the next it didn't). I can start DVD Author 3, and even author a disk (however painful the process now is) in it. If I click on the "Launch the Disk Writing Tool" button, I get a popup error stating "The writing drive is stopped." Which doesn't mean much, as I _have_ been writing to disk in past days, just not with Tsunami software.
If I go through the entire disk authoring process (at least now I can do dual-audio and subtitles! Yay for something) and it gets set to launch the disk writing tool, the same thing happens. A reinstall didn't solve anything. A search of the forums here netted me nothing.
Anyone got any idea what might be causing this? Given that the disk works for everything else I'm thinking the problem lies with DVDA3, but I'm not sure.
>I found the fix of the problem:
Go to administrative tools, then go to services, in services go to B's Recorder Gold Library General, in there right click and click start. When started this will fix the problem
I hope this help you.
I recently purchased Tmpg Express and have been using it no problem. However this morning I went to encode a video and got he error message "video could not be opened". I downloaded media info to see what the avi was encoded with and it was xvid. I downloaded the xvid codec then rebooted and tried again but keep getting the same error message. I then checked the files that have worked and it turns out they were all Divx. I just redid my pc last week and installed on of those Shark Codec packages. Does anyone know of a codec package where xvid will work with Tmpg? Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
You need to use Direct Show or FFDShow and a media splitter. I use FFDShow rev. 1868 and Haali Media Splitter. I believe these are easily obtained as shareware. This will also allow you to work with Matroska files. I notice in their ad for the new ver. 5 TMPGExp it will accept the Matroska files and I believe it will also accept XVID files.
There is a minimal number of codecs installed in my application, but I have these two codecs installed that may help solve your problem. Google for the download.
I have only a little experience decoding/encoding video. But I have never had an AVI fail to open when selecting the DivX codec. My problem today, is that file size after encoding to smaller video dimensions with the Dvix codec is too large. This happens only with certain AVI files. So obviously, I need to examine the problem files and see what was used to encode them. I had thought that Xvid was a loosely-used term meaning the AVI container with DivX. But it looks like MPEG-4 is also prominent, so I'll try the Xvid MPEG-4 codec instead. :)
I want to ask if anyone know how to compress dvd.I have a dvd9 which i want compress to dvd5 but i cant find a good software to do that.Does any of pegasys software can do that for me?I dont want lose menus,substreams and all other info on disc.Just compress it.Any comment would appreciate.
Thanks
The "VFapi plugin" subpage under "File input plug-ins" in Preferences stopped showing. Because of this, Womble MPEG Video Wizard project files (wbp) are no longer recognized as supported video files and TMPGenc Xpress won't open them. This happened recently. For very long time I've been using TMPGenc Xpress to encode wbp filesl
Many thanks for any help on how to re-enable the VFapi support!
I often bring in (and out) menu selection text as a fade. It works dandy,
but, whatever menu selection was last selected, is highlighted/underlined/whatever the selection criteria is, from the instant the Menu page is displayed. This can be a little jarring and definitely does
not look professional. Is there a way to convince the initial selection
(whatever it's set to) to fade in and out with it's text?
I am rendering a .m2ts file to mpg for DVD. The problem is that my file is 4 min 20 sec long , but TMPGEnc renders only 3 min 27 sec. I have tried all that I can think of but nothing changes. Can anyone help?
you didn't state much information to go on, but my brain immediately went to FPS math: 260 secs (4:20) * 23.976 / 29.97 = 208 (which happens to be 3:28 - pretty darn close). Is the video playing 25% faster?... or cutting off 52 secs?... Do the input FPS & the output FPS match? hope this helps you
Yes I use often the same text for my chapters (even it'nt the same project).so I want to keep them.
and when I save a menu my text become the next time :chapter 1 chapter 2 etc...
(the font is staying !!)
Is there a way to keep it ?
Thanks
The best you can do is change the project default settings in the preferences (Options-->Preferences-->Project Default Settings).
There, you can change the default names for the chapters, tracks, and other things.
No it's not this way I find out to keep my text in the template menu:
For all the chapter text turn down the opacity and add new text.
then save .So you got for your menu the text you want.
Sachem
I'm practiced in DVD work but Blu-Ray is new territory for me.
I'm trying to creat a 25GB Blu-Ray (BR) archive copy of the old movie,"Patton", which is around 37GB long on the retail BR. I'm unable to get a clip of it into TMPGEnc Works 4 that is editable in the English language. I did output my TMP4 work to a Hard Drive file which is still only viewable in a non-english language (Italian, I think). There are no language options in the output file or during the simulation.
I have ripped the original BR using AnyDVD with its native ripper, as well as with the "Download to hard drive" option within Works 4. Both of these "Rips" can be viewed in English using any number of different players by selecting the largest file. However, I cannot get the "Rip" to play like a disc in a drive does with menus, advertisements, etc. (No VIDEO_TS.IFO like I'm used to).
I think I have tried every check box and option in the program to no avail.
My Windows 7 Pro computer is an Intel i-7 950 powered homebuilt with 6GB RAM and no issues. I'm sure I've missed the answer, but after two days of searching, I throw myself on the mercy of you experts... Grazie!
>I'm practiced in DVD work but Blu-Ray is new territory for me.
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>I'm trying to creat a 25GB Blu-Ray (BR) archive copy of the old movie,"Patton", which is around 37GB long on the retail BR. I'm unable to get a clip of it into TMPGEnc Works 4 that is editable in the English language. I did output my TAW4 work to a Hard Drive file which is still only viewable in a non-english language (Italian, I think). There are no language options in the output file or during the simulation.
>
>I have ripped the original BR using AnyDVD with its native ripper, as well as with the "Download to hard drive" option within TAW4. Both of these "Rips" can be viewed in English using any number of different players by selecting the largest file. However, I cannot get the "Rip" to play like a disc in a drive does with menus, advertisements, etc. (No VIDEO_TS.IFO like I'm used to).
>I think I have tried every check box and option in the program to no avail.
>
>My Windows 7 Pro computer is an Intel i-7 950 powered homebuilt with 6GB RAM and no issues. I'm sure I've missed the answer, but after two days of searching, I throw myself on the mercy of you experts... Grazie!
After you import the BD data into TAW4, go to the clip properties tab in the Clip Editor. What does it show under the Audio section? If it imported the audio streams correctly, it should be in "Multi-audio" Audio stream mode and you should see two audio sources.
Yes, I selected Multi-Audio which then displayed Audio 1 and Audio 2 sources. It still plays in Italian in the editor when either source 1 or 2 is selected with the musical note box. I'm now trying the import audio with source wizard option... nope, still in Italiano! Very frustrating!
This is a reply from Pegasus support on this problem. I submit it in order to close out this thread and provide a solution for others with this problem.
"When you import a file with multi-audio streams Authoring 4 will only recognize the first audio stream, so you need extract your other or more audio files and manually import them into Authoring 4.
Also the Source wizard will not recognize other audio streams inside a BD or BD folders (it only can so it for DVD-video files), this wasl already sent to user's wish list.
Try by Demultiplex (Advanced) over Video Mastering Works 5...
- Open the MPEG-Tools, is on Start stage > Advanced Tools > MPEG tool
- Choose the Demultiplexer (Advanced).
- Input your .m2ts file.
- Make double-click over the audio stream you need and save it as audio file.
-When you already demultiplexed your audio file.
-Open Authoring 4 and input again your source file into Source stage and at Clip properties Audio stream choose "Multi-audio".
- Import your demultiplexed audio files into the audio streams." (Pegasus)
I'm running a trial of TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 and so far, am quite impressed.
Thanks to previous questions and answers, I was able to use the K-Lite Code Pack to import MKV files into my TMPGEnc authoring project. Now, of course, I want more! :-)
Some MKV files have Chapter or Menu time stamps built into them. What follows is a MediaInfo analysis of one such MKV file:
General
Complete name : M:\Videos\Movies\WALL-E.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 18.9 GiB
Duration : 1h 38mn
Overall bit rate : 27.6 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2010-12-28 01:53:33
Writing application : DVDFab
Writing library : libebml v0.7.8 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@4.1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 38mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Nominal bit rate : 30.5 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.613
Color primaries : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
Transfer characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177
Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile : MA
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 38mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Language : English
There's no easy way to do it at this point...at least, not in terms of simply importing the timecode.
TAW4 lets you import a .keyframe file which can then be used as chapters. Unfortunately, the .keyframe file format doesn't use timecode, instead it uses the frame number. If you can convert the timestamps into frame numbers, then you'll be able to import a simple text file. In the file you'd simply list the frame number, one per line like so:
0
1347
2248
4016
Then save the file as "whateveryouwant.keyframe".
If you have no way of converting the timestamps to frame numbers then the easiest way might be to copy and paste each timestamp into the Chaptering tool one by one.
>TAW4 lets you import a .keyframe file which can then be used as chapters. Unfortunately, the .keyframe file format doesn't use timecode, instead it uses the frame number. If you can convert the timestamps into frame numbers, then you'll be able to import a simple text file. In the file you'd simply list the frame number, one per line like so:
>
>0
>1347
>2248
>4016
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>Then save the file as "whateveryouwant.keyframe".
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>If you have no way of converting the timestamps to frame numbers then the easiest way might be to copy and paste each timestamp into the Chaptering tool one by one.
Thanks for the reply! That gets me closer. If I can find a reasonable way to convert timestamps into a .keyframe format, then I think we have a winner (and a sale).
Column 1 contains the chapter time codes with a custom cell format of h:mm:ss. Column 2 contains the calculated keyframes with a cell format of Number with 0 decimal places. The formula in the second column is =A2*1440*60*23.976 where 23.976 is the FPS for this particular MKV file.
It'd be nice if there was a more programmatic way to do this (any Perl hacks out there???), especially if a program like mkvinfo can be used to derive the chapters directly.
I just had a crazy thought. Am I using the wrong TMPGEnc software for the job? If my goal is to convert Blu-ray -> MKV, then be able to convert MKV back to [near] original Blu-ray Disc format, would waiting for TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 be a better fit:
Well that depends. If you need to create BD menus and burn to BD, then Authoring Works 4 is what you'll need. If all you want to do is make a BD-ready video file, then I think Video Mastering Works 5 will be good enough.