Hello,

I have installed the latest version of the AC3plugin (1.10), registered it, but the Environmental Settings window of TmpgEnc DVD Author (1.6.26.73, latest version too I think) still says 'Cannot find the Dolby Digital (AC-3) Encoder'.

Therefore I can not hear sound in the preview window (the DVDs generated do have sound though).

Can you help me with this ? I'm getting desperate, have tried everything I could think of.
Thanks a lot in advance

Hello Everyone and Thank You for reading my post.

I am having problems encoding a WideScreen video in the QT .MOV format.

Essentially, the original .MOV file is already set in a "235 to 1" aspect ratio.

If I use the "16x9" option in TMPGEnc, I can preserve the aspect ratio and the video appears on screen just like any WideScreen DVD would, with the usual black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.

Unfortunately, and this is my main problem, the left and rigt edges are gtting cropped on every TV I play my new creation on.

I have tried adjusting other settings relating to "Aspect Ratio" in TMPGEnc, but I still have not found one that works.

Could anyone please help me with my problem?

Thanks for your time.

You will NEVER see the same amount of image on a TV as you will see on your monitor.

There is always a certain percentage of the image at all sides that is hidden in the overscan area of the TV and is perfectly normal.

I have used TMPGEnc Plus faithfully for a couple years without problems. Recently I added MPEG Editor to my PC for the added funcionability.

I also recently purchased a Digital Camcorder that uses MiniDV tapes. I have uploaded the video to my pc via the firewire and WinDV as an avi file. The problem I am having is that when I try to bring the avi file into TMPGEnc it only recognizes about the first four minutes of the file even though the file may be over 30 minutes long.

I have never experienced this before. Any ideas? I am stumped.

I can't unistall TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.5. It keeps telling me it can't find the file: TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.5.msi

I am having the same problem. I have Windows XP and am using the "add or remove programs" program because my copy of TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.5 did not come with an uninstaller. Is there an uninstall program somewhere or can this problem be fixed?

Thanks.

I've been having problems with avi files for the last week or so. At one point I couldn't open them in TMPGEnc or any media players other than the divx player. Now I can open them in media players, though the timings are all wrong (for example, 90-minute videos display their length as 6 days.) But I still can't open any avi files at all with TMPGenc - I get the 'cannot open file, or unsupported' error.
This happens with avi's of any type, which used to open and encode fine. I've checked the files with GSpot, have the right codecs and can render them fine. I've tried increasing the priority of the directshow multimedia file reader with no effect. Anyone have any ideas?

I am having the exact same problem. TMPG worked fine on my WinMe machine but with XPPro I get that "cant open, file unsupported" error. I CAN make an mpg file of the audio of the AVI file, but not the video. Hope someone answers soon.

Found a fix that worked for me :-)

http://www.gromkov.com/faq/faq2004-0065.html

"Common TMPGEnc problems, solutions and tips

If you get an error message when opening like file unsupported or can not open or is not supported or you get an empty(black) video preview window or the video look wierd in the video preview window like green or purple or pink
Try first to change the directshow codec reader priority settings in TMPGEnc under Option->Environmental settings->VFAPI plug-in and right click on the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader and increase the priority to 2 or to the top of the plugin-list and try reopen the video.
"
I set mine to "1" at the top of the list, hope it helps you too.

Thanks - have tried this though, with no success - I still get the same error message. Can use avi's for audio source but not video. Anyone else have any ideas?

I think you only have a problem with a codec.
Try to download the DivX- or xVid-Codec.
Cya

My goal is to archive miniDV on DVD. Just bought 3.0 XPress and Author 1.6, don't need anything fancy, just high quality. Saved to .avi via firewire with MS MovieMaker 2. Encoded with TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress, MPEG2 with PCM audio. Authored with Author 1.6. At every step of the way, the software indicated that the file was 3.7GB and would fit on DVD except when I tried to record to DVD+RW. When I selected the VIDEO_TS folder in the DVD Writing Tool, it showed that I needed twice as much capacity, 7.4GB. Why? When I look at the size of the files in Windows, they total 3.7GB. Original tapes are 60 minutes. Will I be able to get 60 minutes of tape on a DVD without compromising quality? Why does TMPGEnc software give the thumbs up regarding capacity until the moment of truth?

maybe u could compress it more with dvd shrink

Hi Folks,

i have a bunch of selfrecorded MPG1s where the audio is out of sync. It just needs a little gap-setting to correct this, but I don't want to recompress the Video just for inserting a gap in Audio. Is there any way to correct the sync of Audio without recompressing the Video of an MPG1?

Thanx

Frank

Re-mux with MPEG2VCR or BBMPEG

Hi,

I have to start encoding some avi's from the command line. This works just fine with the /batch and /close options, but Tmpg always shows the result window and did not close itself. I've searched the forum for some hints but didn't get a solution. Does anyone know a solution to get the tmpg app close after encoding?

Thanx in advance..

Nils

I have had a fundamental problem since installing XP SP2 and Windows Media Player 10.

Whenever I author a DVD in tmpgenc author, and press "begin encoding" the program shuts down on me.

Might this be anything to do with SP2 or media player?

Or is it something to do with the presence/absence of certain codecs?

Many thanks

Steve

For most of my AVI files when i encode the file has no sound, this is not the case for all my AVI's but most, I've successfully encoded many MKV files, but I'm having problems with the AVI's, is there a certain codec i need or something?

>For most of my AVI files when i encode the file has no sound, this is not the case for all my AVI's but most, I've successfully encoded many MKV files, but I'm having problems with the AVI's, is there a certain codec i need or something?

I have ripped a DVD using SmartRipper and when I play back the resultant MPEG2 file in Windows Media Player I sounds fine and the dialogue is in English. However when I load it into TMPGEnx Xpress 3.0 to create a clip the dialogue is in French!?!?!?!

Can someone point me at something that says either a) what I'm doing wrong or b) what I need to do to create the clip in XPress?

Thanks.

An mpeg file can be multiplex with multiple audio (and video) stream. Both english and french audio stream are availble in the file you pass into TMPGEnc.

You can try
1. VirtualdubMOD which handles mpeg2 and multiple stream
2. use SmartRipper to extract only english stream (not too sure about this)
3. demux the files so you have seperate video and audio files, then pass the correct one into TMPGEnc.

>I have ripped a DVD using SmartRipper and when I play back the resultant MPEG2 file in Windows Media Player I sounds fine and the dialogue is in English. However when I load it into TMPGEnx Xpress 3.0 to create a clip the dialogue is in French!?!?!?!
>
>Can someone point me at something that says either a) what I'm doing wrong or b) what I need to do to create the clip in XPress?
>
>Thanks.

Is there a way to import markers made when editing commericals out of video in MPEG Editor into DVD Author, using these as chapters?

Thanks