Can you convert Caption (SMI) and
Movie file(AVI)?
then which program i need to use?
please~

You can use 'multicon.exe' which is multi-script converter. You can find it by searching yahoo.com by typing 'multi script converter'.

It's simple ms-dos program. You can see how it works. Just place multicon.exe and anything.smi at the same directory.

Then you can have anything.ssa for virtualdub use to combine script and video.

Good luck.

Kisoo

I have encoded a 3 minute pop video to High Quality PAL MPEG-2, cropped, sharperned, de-inerlaced etc...

However, I now want to conver the file to NTSC, to send to an American friend, so all I am doing is taking the file and converting it to NTSC.

My problem is the finished file has a repetative stutter where it slows for a moment, every second. The picture and sound seem to stay in sync, but the file has this constant stammer.

Is there a process or option I need to select to cure this?

You can not encode a PAL avi movie to a NTSC mpeg with out getting that jerkey playback, you have to change the frame rate of the avi then use a audio editing program like cool edit to stretch or shrink the audio file cuz the avi file length will change after changeing the frame rate,It is a fairly complicated procedure if you have never done it before..

I have captured a PAL video using Pinnacle DV500 Plus, 14.8GB uncompressed. I am now trying to MPEG-2 @ 6000k the file, to burn to DVD. However, when I try to engage the De-interlace option in the advanced setting, it thinks about it for a moment, then wants to send an error report to Microsoft, as it does, then TMPGenc closes.

I'm sorry, I can't try it with anything else at the moment, as this file fills my drive and I need to encode it before I can do anything else.

But the previous version did not do this with other files, as I had a go of the de-interlace option when I was playing with it last week.

Do it without deinterlacing,or open it in Virtualdub,add the deinterlace
filter there and then frameserve it to Virtualdub.

If I work on it in TMPGenc, then try to open it in VirtualDub, it gives me a syncronisation error, and doesn't open.

You don"t use "de-interlace" with PAL movies, pal movies are "progressive" so there is no interlace, you are probably getting the error cuz you can not de-interlace and file that isn"t interlaced, so forget about useing this setting...

Actually Minion you are right and wrong in a way.
Pal movies are indeed interlaced. It's just that they differ from NTSC and you don't get the interlaceing artifacts assciated with NTSC because there is no 3:2 pulldown added to the movie.
It is the 3:2 pulldown which causes the horrible interlacing artifacts when we try to convert a movie not the actual interlacing itself due to the extra fields which are added. 3:2 pulldown basically overlays 1 frame on three fields at regular intervals.

But you are absolutely right that in most cases there is no reason to de-interlace a PAL source as there are usually no interlacing artifacts because no extra fields are added to the movie because these movies have what is called 2:2 pulldown which is basically 1 frame overlayed on two fields and. There are rare PAL movies which do have a what is called a 24:1 pulldown added.
Thes movies overlay 1 frame on three fields evey 12 frames and are notorioulsly difficult to de-interlace.
Basically all pulldown does is add extra frames to turn a 24 fps movie into either 25 fps PAL or 29.97 fps NTSC by repeating certain fields.

In any case the original problem sounds more like a there is a fault with the file not TMPG.

ASHY

Everytime I try ti encode withe I get the message cannot load p3package.dll. Can anyone help.
Thank you

Search the forum for p3package.

I'm using TMPGEnc 2.56 Free with an ABIT VP6 (dual 850 P-III Coppermine)
768MB SDRAM ; a single IDE UDMA100 hard drive.

I've configured TMPGEnc for multithread on 2 processors, and trying
to encode an MPEG2 movie (I have m2v.vfp from somewhere I can't remember).

For a little while everything is going smoothly and Task Manager shows
both CPUs pegged at 100%. But sooner or later, the hard drive starts
thrashing and my disk led stays constantly on.

Task manager at this point shows very little CPU usage, very little memory
usage, and the system is basically idle with TMPGEnc using only 5-10% CPU
every so often. So here I am with my hard drive massively swapping/thrashing
but no CPU utilization. TMPGEnc is showing ~54MB memory used, and the total
memory in Task Manager isn't showing even past the half-way point graph.

Any ideas here? I'm going to try turning off multithread next time and see
how that goes...

I´ve converted a DivX5.02 Movie with Audio (the movie is checked and ok) into VCD. The Result has no Audio!

The green Line in the Source Range Window is flat - no Audio available.

I´ve converted DivX Movies in the past successfull - I´m not a newbie. A new installation had no effect.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

ME TOO...OUT OF THE 5 FILMS I WANTED TO CONVERT 3 ARE OK AND 2 HAVE NO AUDIO. HAVE TRIED DIFFERENT VIDEO FORMATS I.E PAL NTSC ETC BUT STILLNO JOY. ALL THE 5 FILMS ARE VIDEO COMPRESSION DIVXMPG4 V3 AND AUDIO FORMAT MPEG4 LAYERS. WOULD LIKE TO HEAR OF AN ANSWER PLEASE...

SADNICK

Would also like to indicate that I have had the same problem. Using latest version on an XP Machine.

You guys have to realize that Tmpgenc only encodes certain audio formats, and a lot of divx files have either "mp3 vbr" audio or "AC3" audio, and these formats are not supported in tmpgenc, what you have to do is extract the audio to a wav file with virtual dub and use that as the audio track but if the audio is "AC3" then you will need an AC3 decoder to make a wav file....

I have used Total Recorder and saved the audio in an external wave file.

That works fine for Divx 5.02 and Quicktime (With QTReader Plugin)

cheers,

Daniel

I have a source DivX video in 608 x 320, approximates to 16:9,

I select the source as 1:1 VGA, Full size (preserve aspect ratio), and target output as 16:9

The result Mpeg2 frame looks right, streched high (or compressed thin...), whith ~60 black lines above/below the image, But WinDVD does not play it at 16:9 A/R, nor does Creative DXR3 (Hollywood+)

How do I make sure the correct AR is encoded in the mpeg2 by TMPGenc, or is there a bug in the software?

TMPGEnc v 2.55.38.142, Core v 1.88.135

Well if your Source is 16:9 then obviously you should be setting your source aspect ratio at 16:9 not 1:1 and your output at 16:9 full screen(keep aspect ratio)
1:1 is for square pixels, your pixels are rectangular.

This works fine for 16:9 sources for me in WinDVD.

ASHY

If you are not encoding your movie for widescreen TV you should set the source at 16:9 and the output at 4:3. This will give you correct aspect ratio in Windvd.


ASHY

I didn't believe that to start with. What I got after I tried Src 16:9, Target 4:3 is what I expected. A padded video that still is skewed. The video may look allright on WinDVD (although it's still skewed from original), but it's also PADDED on top and bottom, bucause the encoder PADS the 16:9 video in the center with black on top and bottom to make the video 525 lines for NTSC...

In other words, if I want a 16:9 anamorphic MPEG2, I have to select 16:9 as target aspect ratio. The source video's resolution is already corrected for VGA display, so it should be 1:1 source AR


There is a program on the mac called Force Anamorphic, but I can't find one for the PC. Anyone knows of a similar program for PC?


anyways... thank for your input

I still don't believe you are using the correct settings for your movie. I have used all sorts of source aspect ratios and have always managed to create an almost identical output with TMPG which plays correctly in both any software and hardware DVD player.

Your right that TMPG pads the top and bottom to create black bars. This has to be done to create an anamorphic picture within a 4:3 frame.
16:9 does not fit within a 4:3 frame on a TV or a monitor without being stretched.

TMPG needs to know the original aspect ratio so it can add the required black bars accordingly otherwise it will stretch the picture. I don't see how your movie can be 1:1 if the framesize is 608 x 320. It doesn't make sense. As far as I'm concerned 1:1 would be a 16:9 picture within a frame size of 608x608 or 320x320. This is 1:1 as the pixels are square, your movie is not.

If you do use 16:9 as the output it is unlikely that any DVD player, software or otherwise will detect the 16:9 flag and adjust the aspect ratio accordingly.
This is only acheived by using a 16:9 TV to force the picture to anamorphic.

If you wan't you can send me a small 2mb sample of this movie as I'm absolutely sure I can acheive the correct output.
If you agree I will post my email.

ASHY

Well here's another datapoint.

I have captured HDTV anamorphically by telling the tuner my "TV" is 16:9. This creates a stretched 4:3, 720x480 capture.

I have then tried every permutation of input/output settings. Bitrate sees a 16:9 flag but Win DVD does not. It plays stretched in a 4:3 window until I manually unlock the aspect ratio and stretch the window to a non-exact 16:9. There is no way to go fullscreen, with black bars.

By the way, results of this on Leno show music performances are stunning.

I agree and will send you a small chunk of the avi source video...

send to: mark.ashworth1@ntlworld.com

ASHY

Did you type in the address wrong?

thanks

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ashworth1@ntlworld.com
550 Invalid recipient: <ashworth1@ntlworld.com>

No you have sent to the wrong email adress, you have missed out the first part of the name.
mark.ashworth1@ntlworld.com
There is a dot between mark and ashworth.

ASHY

I just pulled some Simpsons episodes off of gnutella and am now trying to put them on a vcd so I don't have to huddle near my monitor. The only problem is that I keep getting an error that says " 'file' cannot be openned or is not supported." I get the feeling that this is due to it being a DV1 file as I cannot bring it into Premiere, yet it opens in wmp. Is there anyway to convert these files into vcd compatible format, or a format which can be run through tmpgenc?

You should see if "virtuadub" will load the file then you can frame serve it to tmpgenc, go to "www.virtualdub.com" and download it and see if it works....

Hi, I have experienced on three separate occasions complete system freeze on my Dell inspiron 8000/ 800MHz PIII 386MB Ram, 30 GB Disk system when the encoded MPEG file reaches 3.99 GB (4,294,963,200 bytes) on a Samba share. Does anyone else have similar experience? I have LFS support on my Linux kernel/libc, and Samba was compiled w/ the new glibc (otherwise, it would stop at 2GB). The last two freezes caused me a lot of reboot griefs on bootup errors. Will try again with a spare Win98 setup (slower box).

Thanks

P.S., TMPGEnc version 2.55.38.142, Core version 1.88.135

Please can anyone help, I am obviously doing something wrong (typical newbie!!). I am trying to rip a 695 Mb DIVX/avi file to create a VCD, when I use the same frame rate (23 fps) and non-interlace mode, I have tried different aspect ratio's and all tell me that the size of the output file will be approximately 367% of an 80 min cd?. Is there any way I can reduce the size of the output file so that I don't need to use 4 cd's for this one movie. Thanks for any help, it will b really appreciated.
Stevie.

I thought I should add more detail for help, the file size is 729,755,648 bytes.
I am using tmpegenc version 2.55.38.142
My DVD player plays all VCD's, SVCD's etc, I would be happy if I could fit this onto 2 CD's, but even three would be an improvement.

You left out a lot if information, like what are you doing???Are you makeing a vcd or a svcd or dvd or one of the many variations of these,The size of the divx file (in megabyt)doesn"t have anything to do with how big your mpeg file will be,it has to do with the length of the file and the bitrate you are useing,so what ever you are doing the bitrate is to high, you should be able to get a regular length movie on 2 80min cd-r"s,and if you use the CQ(constant Quality)in the rate controll it helps keep the file size down..go to "vcdhelp.com" in the tools section and download a bitrate calculator...

Hi thanks for the help, I am trying to create an NTSC film video cd, I have downloaded the calculator like you suggested and I entered the length of the movie (105 mins 01 secs) the audio bitrate on the movie properties say 139kbps, so I have entered this into the calculator also along with the info the film is on 1 CD (70mins) Is this what I need to enter, if so, I am unable to edit the bitrate when I try and create a new project, and click on expert mode I cannot edit any of the video settings apart from motion search position?
Alternatively if I need to enter the movie length and the amount of CD's (2x80min) I want to put it onto, and the type (XVCD/SVCD etc) I get the calculated average bitrate of 1869 kbits, but again, I still cannot change any of the video setting?. Please excuse my ignorance.

Load the unlock.mcf template (right corner below under button "Load"). You now should be able to change settings in TMPGEnc.

Marcel,
What version is this button on, I have 2.55 and cannot see it there, I have 3 buttons Setting, load and save, and setting brings up the video options but does not let me change them. Thanks

To Unlock the Template choose load and then go into the extras folder and chose the unlock.mcf
Also I suggest you download the Plus version and use the help file that comes with it even if you dont buy the plus version you can use the help file you will find the link at the bottom of the screen.
My third recomendation is you check out www.vcdhelp.com excellent information site.
Good luck happy encoding ~NewtronX

This started happening today for no apparent reason......

After I have created my VCD MPEG file and I want to chop it in half, I load MPEGTools and go to the Edit page. When I click the edit button to see the movie I want to chop I get an error message saying that it cant initialize direct show.

I also noticed that in the Environment settings on the VFAPI plug in page where it used to say Direct show with DVD2AVI.vfp it now says The file cannot be loaded.

Whats going on???

i've been pocessing with constant quality and it has gone close to perfect: when the file reaches 100%, a 'comlete' sound can be heard and an encoding log is displayed. well, then i tried the same process that i'd been using many times and then all of a sudden the process would reach 100%, display no time left, but there would be no 'complete' sound nor encoding log. when using the constant quality option, i have learned that the entire process must completely finalize in order for the .mpg file to be of any use. (unlike other processes where you can stop encoding at any point and see the resulting movie clip up to the point where you stopped it.) now, all the movies i've tried to process leave me 100% with no time left ,but, somehow will not finalize. unfortunately, i downloaded a virus and had to reinstall my o/s. this oddly enough, did not solve my problem. any advice on this matter would be much appreciated! thank you very much.. PC