I've been using TMPG for a number of years to create MPEG video files, and I'm currently using TMPG 4.7.3.292 on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine. I often use .mpg files as video clips in Powerpoint presentations. This always worked until recently. Now, the *.mpg files that I have created recently play fine in Windows Media Player, but Powerpoint won't let me insert them into a slide show. It gives an error message: "Powerpoint cannot insert a video from the selected file. Verify that the necessary codec for this media format is installed, and then try again." Unfortunately, it doesn't tell me what codec is missing.

I can solve the problem by coding the files to .wmv, which Powerpoint will accept,but I would prefer to use .mpg.

Has something changed in TMPG's encoding that could produce this? Or might this be an issue related to 64 bit Win 7?

I am able to insert mpg video into PP. However, I'm on Windows XP using Office 2003. 4.0 XPress is latest version.
Update to the latest version; that might solve your problems. There have been a lot of updates since the one you're using.

When trying to encode a non-stardard sized AVC file (1280 x 544) to a stardard HD format (1280 x 720) the programme starts with Preparing Output but 20 hours later it has not done anything ? Help ?

I have installed Karma..Plus, TmpGenc 4 Xpress and Authoring Works 4.

So far everything work OK. The only issue that I still have is about the CUDA feature of Karma..Plus which is failing when in optimization mode.

jm.

Whenever I try to import a m2ts file into TAW4, it becomes non-responsive.
Other bluray files work fine. Is this a codec problem, and if so, what is
the codec?

I converted an AVI file to DVD using TAW4 and enabled the sorround sound 5.1 but there is no 5.1 sound at my speakers, just 2.0 DD. At my Onkyo´s receiver display, i can see the DD indicating that the surround option is enabled.But no sound ate the center, sub and rear speakers. Any help?
Regards,

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Does your source AVI have 5.1 surround sound?

No, my AVI file i captured it using an analog video capture card with Virtualdub and thus the sound is analog 48000, 2ch stereo 16bits. TAW4 can`t convert it to DD 5.1?
Regards

I'm not entirely sure since I don't have any way to check it, but that might be the reason. I'm thinking that since those channels don't exist in the source file, they are left empty if you choose to output as 5.1.
It also seems that it only accepts 5.1 input if it is a Dolby Digital (ac3) format audio stream; any other type of audio stream may be limited to 2 channel.

If you can demux the stereo audio file, you can use Audacity with a VST plug-in to convert the stereo audio file to 5.1.

Haven't tried it yet, but in theory, should work:
-Download and install Audacity. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
-Download and install VST Enabler plug-in. http://audacityteam.org/vst/
-Download V.I Stereo to 5.1 Converter VST Plugin Suite. http://stevethomson.ca/vi/

You should then be able to use the V.I plugin to convert your stereo audio to 5.1 audio.

OK, just tried it. Audacity doesn't seem to support 6 channel audio, so that won't work. But if you have or can find VST host software that supports 6 channels, that plug-in should do the trick.

Ok, thank you very much for your patience and support. I`m going to try this trick.

Regards,

Hello All;
I am using TMPGENC 4.0 Xpress to import HD Video footage from a consumer Canon Camcorder and want to encode the footage at the same resolution to DIVX. Though I noticed that when I add DIVX file output, the default resolution is 720 X 480 but it looks like we can change that.

Question - since the file was originally created in HD resolution, am I free to manually increase the resolution to 1920 X 1080 with no loss of quality, or will the quality be reduced if I do this ?

Is there any way to tell XPRESS to use the oriignal clip settings or isn't this currently possible ?

I am interested in outputting other formats too and most are much less than 1920 X 1080.

Tim

For 1080p DivX, make sure you select "DivX HD 1080p profile" when you are choosing your output format.

Since you're changing the format of the video, you can't really use the same encoding settings as the source file since compression rates are different. The quality of the encode will depend on various other settings like the level, performance, and rate control mode settings. The higher the quality, the larger your file size will be.

Bug or????

Try to encode 6 projects eaths containing multiple file's.
I set the "Task count" at 4 (have quad CPU)
1e project starts. After a while 2e project starts to a few % and then both stopped. Have to close the program.
After restart, set the "task count"at 1 and it works fine even with 12 projects.

Using HP Z400 3.2Ghz, Hypertreading On, Windows7 profesional,Videocard NVDIA FX3800

I got the same issues.

Is there a place where we can request features for newer versions

I believe you can make requests here in the forums or just email them through the general contact form.

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/contact.html

Hello,

I downloaded the trial and tried to convert a wtv file from windows media center and I get an error stating ad2h264.dll is missing. I assume this is the main concept 264 decoder.

Do I just download the dll from somewhere? what do I need to do?

Tnks,

How can you make this happen?

For example. I have a main (top) menu with seperate tracks. When the user selects one of the tracks, i would like the top menu to fade out and go to the selected track.

thanks.

Currently, there's no transitions effects for menu pages.

Here is tough one.

I have my TRACK 1 page >play chapters>audio

track 2 has other videos

Is there a way to link track 1 to track 2 with a button?

and beable to go from track 2 to track 1 with a RETURN button(link)

I don't think so. I think you need to have a top menu and go to your tracks from there. So if you're in track 1, then you'd have to go back to the top menu and then go to track 2.

Is it possible to make Bullet Styles in Custom Menu Pages.
So instead of a highlighted COLOR use a bullet

I don't think it's an option in custom menu creation. Certain menu templates have that though.

In DVD Author 3, the subtitle and audio pages used bullets to mark which option was selected, but it looks like they took that out of TAW4.