Hi all,

I am trying to convert part two of my avi movie into Mpeg for a VCD, but the video is scrambled and there is no sound. What is the fix for this?

What do you mean by "Scrambled"??? For the Audio you probably need to Extract the audio to a WAV file and use that as the audio source...and for the Video go to "Options" to "enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct show" to "2"...

The preview does not produce any sound it is visual only.

ASHY

Hi there

I am trying to encode a divx encoded movie to an MPEG 2, but cannot get any sound. The video is fine but sounds is gone. I have the latest divx software installed.

Please advise as to the best next step.

Many thanks

Well you can probably solve this by Extracting the Audio to a Wav file from the AVI/DivX file with "Virtual Dub" then use this as the audio source...

Ever Since the "Plus Version" of TMPG (The one I paid for) I am seeing that all my durations are coming out less than the original AVI (ex. a 45 minute video will be around 18 minutes! All the footage is there and the file is really small, but now I can't use them in authoring because audio and chaptering is all screwed up because the file has a wrong duration. What is happening here? anyone know how to fix this?

Kyle Gonyer

Try useing the "Source Range" to set the beginning points and end points of the file..This has worked for some poeple with the same problem before...

I have been having terrible problems with color banding using TMPGEnc. Solid colors also look washed out and pixelated. So I decided to try a fresh install of Windows 2000, only installing the bare minimum, to eliminate any interference of other .dlls or codecs. What I am trying to do is convert a HDTV transport stream into SVCD or DVD format. I am using HDTV2MPEG2 to convert the transport stream file into mpeg2 (TMPGEnc doesn't have the ability to separate the subchannels AFAIK). Then I am using DVD2AVIT3 from trbarry to create a .d2v file and I write a .avs script with two lines:
LoadPlugin("mpeg2dec2.dll")
Mpeg2Source("video.d2v")

For my latest fresh install, I only had win2k, directx 8.1, windvd 4.0 divx 5.02 and avisynth 2.06 installed. I ran tmpgenc, increased the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader priority to "1" loaded my .avs file and STILL had the color banding and general problems with color. The steps I list above using .avs scripts have worked flawlessly before with the same version of tmpgenc, so I can't see what is different now. Can anybody else see what could be causing these color problems? The divx codec? WinDVD?

As a side note, I have an NVidia ti4600 using the 30.82 drivers which were the same drivers used when tmpgenc worked correctly. Also the source mpeg2 files I am using were successfully encoded into the NTSC dvd format available through the wizard without any color problems whatsoever. Now I am trying to reencode these exact same files again and the color problems persist in the preview windows and final encoding. Also any other mpeg file I import shows the color problem in the preview window and final encoding. Thanks for any help.

Immudium

Try disabling the direct show filter.
AVIsynth files work better under VFW without directshow enabled.

ASHY

Currently, I purely use my Athlon CPU + DDR RAM + Harddisk to covert MPEG4 AVI file to MPEG2 AVI files for DVD burnings. The encoding/converting time is too slow. 2x - 8x times I need (depends on quality)

I want ask if there is any hardware(PCI card, capture card) so that I can use TMPG as my software and that hardware card as my speed up coding card to finish the task?

Thanks

f0w1

Well all that would really help is a Faster CPU, but what would be easier is to use a Faster encoder..The new Main Concept encoder 1.2 is a great Mpeg1/2 encoder with encodeing speed Close to that of CCE with Quality Close to CCE and it has Lots of Options...I can encode SVCD files at real time with it...

I have a 5 Gig DV file from Final Cut Pro on my Mac that I need to transfer to my PC to compress with Tmpgenc. I just realized the issue of the 2 Gig limit on transfers between computers. I would like to split the files and rejoin them on my pc but I haven't had any luck. I don't want to burn the files to transfers because I'll be doing more transfers in the future. I've looked at the application "hjsplit" but I can't seem to get the java version working on my mac. So if any one knows how to split files on a mac into smaller chunks and rejoin them on a pc as if it was the original DV that would be great. TIA

Jeremy

Use the OSX ftp server. What I do is crank up the FTP server is OSX (Sharing panel in Preferences), then log into the Mac from the PC. I use the command line FTP client on my NT box to suck the file over. (Make sure to issue a bin command to set it to binary mode.)

I regularly pull over 5-7GB files for compression with TMPEGenc.

What I am doing right this moment is compressing a DV clip that is sitting my My Mac Laptop by using OSX PC file sharing. My PC has my home folder on the Mac mapped as a drive letter by using Map a Drive and specifying "\macsIPaddressmyusername". Your username and passwords should match for both PC and OSX to avoid problems in some situations. That way, the source file can stay right on the Mac, and I can save the output there too. (The files have to be in your user directory.)

I haven't tried doing a 2GB+ file this way yet.

I have 9.2OS still on the Mac. I can't upgrade untill the Pro Tools software is available. I'm currently using Timbuktu to transfer between the computers and have Dave running on the Mac to share folder between the two computers. So the OSX will have to wait untill later this year. I love your idea and I actually tried that with my setup but TMPEGenc will not allow me to pull the source file off my mac. I believe it's because of the 2gig limit still. My Pc sees the file on the mac as a much smaller size than the 5 gigs. So I'm stuck with a large file that I can't transfer to my pc. Thanks Squirrel

Any other ideas?

When i use a VBR bitrate i get choppy sound when there's an action-scene. I have a DVD LG5083. I use VirtualDub and frameserve to TMPGenc. Video looks good but sound is messed up.

Do you mean when you are playing it on your DVD Player the audio Cuts out durring High Motion Scenes...This is cause from Bitrate spikes..If the bitrate spikes above the max for your DVD Player then the audio will cut out ,as I have experienced this on a Number of occations...You have to lower the Max bitrate in your settings...Tmpgenc has a Bad habbit of haveing Bitrate spikes that are Much higher than the bitrate you set, a bug they have never fixed...

Does anyone use TMPEnc with IFOEdit to re-encode MPEG-2 files for backing up DVDs to DVD-R?

If so, has anyone found the problem of freezing when the streams are remuxed and have you managed to fix it?

I would be grateful for any advice.

this might be a newby question but i have to ask.
i have 4 movies all divx ac3 sound (varified with vdub)
and as a test i put my video into tmpgenc and left the audio
at the defalt "xxxx.avi" converted it and it played perfectly in
my standalone player without the change to .wav or .mp2
now my question is what happened to the audio?
was it converted to something else?
was it left as .ac3?
i cant seem to find a program to veiw the properties of the
finished mpg file so this is why i'm asking.

If you encoded the AVI with TMPG and the result was a movie with sound then the audio is without doubt mp2 audio.
This must be due to the fact that somewhere you or a program has installed a compatible ac3 filter which TMPG is using to decode the audio.

ASHY

all i had to do is install nemo's codec pack.
do you know of any program to check the properties of the mpeg it created?
winxp won't open it with a "summery" and vdub wont touch it.

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_tools/mpeg_properties.cfm#download

ASHY

tried it
it came up "error in audio packet header".
the same error i get with vdub.
thanks anyway

You obviously have a problem with the audio in the file then which is causing the problem.
De-multiplex the audio from the MPEG and convert it to a wav file then re-encode the audio only using TMPG or another program such as dbpoweramp to an .mp2 and re-multiplex it with your video file.
You should then have no problems cutting the file.

ASHY

I think I have just realised what you are trying to do.
If the error you are recieving in Virtualdub is 'MPEG Import filter:Pack synchronization error' then the the reason why is because you are trying to open an MPEG2 file which is not supported by Virtualdub or MPEG properties.

If you want to see what streams the MPEG contains load the file into the de-multiplexer (not the simple de-multiplexer) in the MPEG tools and it will show you the type of streams the MPEG contains and should say mp2.

ASHY

thanks ashy
it worked, it changed the ac3 to "mpeg-1 audio layer-2 44100hz 224kbps"
now for another question.
is there a way in the audio settings that i can keep the sound as is?
when i go to the audio tab the settings are blocked out.
i wouldent be bothering but i save at least 6 hours of extracting audio then putting into mp2 then multiplexing together.

6 hours of extracting audio??? From what.
I don't understand what you are trying to do.
You cannot multiplex and Ac3 file with an MPEG if you are creating VCD/SVCD. It simply will not work. Your player will not recognize the audio in the MPEG as it is not a supported format.
Ac3 can only be used with DVD when playing on your DVD player.

The easiest way to encode an AVI with Ac3 is to simply extract the audio from the file to a wav and load this into TMPG as the audio, but it seems this is unecessary for you as you have an Ac3 filter installed which is allowing TMPG to decode the Ac3 audio directly and encode it to Mp2.

If you just load the AVI as is into TMPG it should encode it without a problem without all this unecessary extracting and multiplexing you are talking about.

ASHY

I have problem of opening Microsoft DV AVI file (captured from camcorder by using Premiere 6.0 on Windows ME) on Windows XP Home Edition. It also has problem in most of softwares except Premiere 6.0.

Regards.

Yuvakaew

Have you installed the relevant codec required to open the file?

ASHY

Have a look here for info.
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/stream/vidcap/dvavi.asp

This error comes up multiple times when trying to encode my mpeg from a divx avi. Any thought? where do I find out what this error means?

Thanks!

Same here, I get the same errors every few frames, but only with Divx files...

Likewise with me. I go to convert the avi and when it starts I get continual errors popping up. eg 'ERROR: 537403781 589824' I'm not sure if its the same problem or not but can someone help?

I had a problem of "Illeagal floating point" that wouldn't go away until I deleted Tmpgenc.ini, don't know if it could help you though... But in any case you have to remember that when doing so, all the Q-Matrixes that you made yourself and saved are lost...

This error usually pops up when the AVI is corrupted in some way such as corrupt frames.
At a guess, the first part of the error, which is always the same, is an error code (don't ask me what) and the second could be the packet number or the frame number in the file that has the problem.

Either way it is likely due to a corrupt file and one which you have probably downloaded.
You may be able to get around the problem by frame serving from virtualdub or if you prefer just use Virtualdub to try and 'fix' the AVI by creating another AVI using the direct stream copy option.

ASHY

I got the same message
BUT
when i changed adio from stereo to dual channel it went away
but know i've got an erro -195993832214400
any answers

Experts, help...!!!!!

I want to encode mpg2 stream to mpg2 stream, what i did are:
1. de-mux the mp2 file
2. encode the video file to mpg1
3. mux the audio to the resulting video ==> my system is now mpg1

But when it finished, it gave me message : " 49673 s packets cause buffer underflow, the mpeg file might cause eoor when it played "

When I tried to played the file, it is in mpg1 mode, but no video/picture/blank...can open the media screen, but it is blank,...the audio is just fine.....

Anyone can helppp........??????? Thank heaps........