i went to enviro. setting and up the level to 2 and made direct movie my # 1 priorty and still i have no preview screen it is just black any other suggestions. the 1st movie i encoded played fine preview screen played just fine. but every since i can't seemed to get it to work with any other movie i downloaded from kazaa please help

Well if you can"t get the file loaded into Tmpgenc try loading it into "Virtual Dub" and see if it accepts it and if it does then use it to "Frame Serve" to Tmpgenc...Useing Movies downloaded off the net on places like Kazaa will give you problems while encodeing more often than not...Get a DVD-Rom and ripp DVD"s and then the quality gets much better and the problems go away...

i'm converting a kenshin episode and the video encodes just fine but i'm having problem with the sounds. When i'm encoding the episode, at 2 minutes and some seconds the audio starts looping like a scratch on a cd... this has happened to some of the other episodes but i fixed it by encoding it without inverse telecine (sp?). so what can i do to fix this problem?

i have been having trouble with converting avis to mpeg format. when i try to add the avi format file to the conversion list it says that the file is not supported. i thought this program was meant to make these types of conversions and am wondering if i am doing something wrong. thanks

go to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "direct show File reader" to "2"...

Wow! How the hell did you work that one out?! I dont even understand what I had to do that for, but it works so I'm happy :)

Hi, Im haveing trouble with a divx video file that I want to put on VCD.
So far ive had good luck, sound is fine, video is fine too. Everything works great when I put it in my DVD player.

Only one problem.

The video contains subtitles and they keep getting partialy cut off on the bottom of the screen. Its kinda getting annoying. Is this a problem with TMPG or my VCD burning software (VCD EASY)

What should I do? Any way I can resize it better? Someone please help.
-vidiot-

You will have to arrange the picture so that there isn" space cut off on the top and bottom of the screen...You can use the "clip frame" settings for this....

What is the resolution of the AVI and where is this cut off happening? PC or TV.

If it's PC you are probably using the wrong aspect ratio settings. Post the aspect ratio settings you are using here.

ASHY

how or can I change the screen format from a wide or letter box to full screen. If it cannot be done with Tmpgenc then what. This program does everything else i figure I should be able to do that to

i've been playing and figured out to clip the frame but i get one of 2 things. Either the streched look an odd sized retangular skinny picture is there a way besides clipping or to adjust for a normal looking picture

Set the "Video arrange method" to "Fullscreen Keep Aspect Ratio" and have the out put aspect ratio set to "4:3" and you can use the clip frame to adjust it a bit...

If the source is 16:9 then you need to choose the appropiate setting under the 'source aspect ratio' as 16:9.
The "Video arrange method" set to "Fullscreen Keep Aspect Ratio" and the output aspect ratio set to "4:3".
You will then have to crop the image at the sides until the black bars dissapear. This will maintain correct aspect ratio.

ASHY

Anyone know the process of creating a custom *.mcf file?

Do the settings the way you want them then click the "Save" button in the bottom right ...

Oh my God! Sorry about that Minion. I think I had a flashback to my newbie days.

the file I downloaded will no unzip...it says it is not a valid archive.

WeLLLlllll....Download it till it is a valid archive...

I have altered the Direct show to 2 but no difference

No differance in What...My Mind reading is a Bit off....but I"ll try....Go get the correct codecs...

Hi,
Whenever I try to load a Divx file into Tmpg 2.58 it now says .avi can not open or unsupported, It used to work last week, I think win media player has upgraded and spoilt Tmpgenc, Wondering if anyone can Help me Please.
Jon.

Options-enviromental Settings-Vfapi Plugins and raise the "direct show" to -2...

When I try to encode a movie, on the set start and end page, everything looks ok. I have the begining and ending credits. But when the encoding is over, the end of the movie is gone. I go from a 1hr 47 min film to 56 minutes. What am I doing wrong?

Hi all,

Ive been using tmpegenc for a long time now with no problems at all apart from running into known bugs.
After upgrading my machine recently my machine now hangs after between 6 and 12 minutes of encoding. There is no crash restart, no system log entry, no error messages of any kind, just a complete lock up of the machine. It doesnt matter what format im trying to encode, tho im actually trying for a 2 pass svcd from ripped vobs.

My new machine spec is athlonxp2200+ on an abit at7 max2, 512 of crucial 2700, leadtek ti4400, sblive 5.1 platinum, dual WD800JB 80gb special edition raid0 etc etc running XP pro SP1. The only thing different to my previous and working setup is the cpu, memory and mobo.

Ive tried underclocking the cpu and ram, disabling all the onboard USBs/firewire etc, reinstall of the software, reinstall of all codecs with no luck at all.
I consider myself an expert with tmpeg and with video work in general, as well as being a certified support tech for a living but this one has me totally stumped. My assumption at the moment is some incompatibility with thoroughbred athlons as i know tmpeg has no problems with the at7 max2 due to a friend having a similar setup but only running an xp1900.

Has anyone seen anything similar or does the tmpeg team recognise a bug with tbreds?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, pulling my hair out here.

Cheers

Try unchecking "SSE" at CPU setting of TMPGEnc. This might help.

I personally think Win2K is more stable than WinXP statistically though.

I tried unchecking sse, increased the time before crash to 15 mins or so but still the same outcome.
Ive sorted the problem out now, sort of. If i set my bios to xp2000+ rather than xp2200+ or by manually setting fsb and multiplier then it works.
This leads me to think that its down to the CPU ID string as if i set the same fsb/multiplier (12.5x133) that the xp2000+ setting uses i get the same crash.

If anyone is reading running a 2200 or any other tbred can you try an encode and post your results.

This crash only occurs using tmpegenc btw, using bbmpeg, cce or any other encoder has no problems.

When I upgraded to a machine similar to yours (Athon 2000+ w/XP) my hang problems with TMPGEnc went away! But, on my old machine, any program rendering MPEG files would hang my system flat after about 10-15 minutes of encoding. Drove me nuts for months. Finally fixed it -- accidentally -- by reverting my swap file settings to Windows default (changing setting back from fixed size to dynamic). Swap file had been too small to handle MPEG conversion.

XP creates a fixed-size swap file by default, I think, but it may not be big enough for your jobs. Try increasing its size and see if that helps.

i got the same problem on
windows 2000 Pro. / Service Pack 3
Athlon XP1800+
did all possible patches and upgrades but nothing would help?
this seems to be an processor related problem ???

mei

If i lower the bitrate from 1150 to 900 to obtain a final estimated 760000 ko mpg file which i can burn on a 90 min. 800mb cd-r, i still get a 932950ko file.
It seams that change the bitrate doesn't change anything on the mpg file size.

If you are creating Non-Standard VCD, you have to use Non-Standard VCD for Multiplexing. If not, TMPGEnc fills the "missing" Datarate with Zero-Bytes.

You need to change the stream type when encoding to 'MPEG1 VCD (Non standard)' otherwise the file will be padded.

Just run that file through the multiplexer with the stream setting above to remove the padding. This will reduce the file size accordingly.

ASHY