What settings are you guys using to encode avi files to mpeg2?
I'm trying to encode some stuff that was shot in DV (NTSC). It's about 15 minutes in length. I was also curious about TMPG's VBR capabilities. I tried a couple test encoding but the resulting file was horrible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
C.J. Sanders

When I am encoding a movie with Tmpgenc Plus and I am using the 2 pass mode
on about half of the movies when it gets to 50 percent it stops and gives
invalid pointer error and once it gave error 65534 65536?
I am using a pentium 4 with 768 RDRAM and windows XP. Can someone help ?

When I use the merge&cut window to cut a scene from a vob, the output file is video only. During cutting I see only [producing video stream, multiplexinbg, writing header] no audio messages.

I choose mpeg2 prg stream as the type and the input vob plays aud and vid in power dvd. Renaming the vob to .mpg has no effect :(

Any-one know what I am doing wrong?

Because the Merge&cut feature doesn't handle Ac3 audio.

ASHY

You Shouldn"t edit VOB files from Ripped DVD"s with Tmpgenc anyways.....

What should I be using to cut/edit vobs?

I don't want to file spilt on file size, rather in number of seconds.
vobedit sounded like a good idea but it just seems to show a list of packets in the stream. I tried some other tools but nothing seems to work completely..

Just being able to say, cut the file at 1h2min3sec would be good enough.

Well you might try the newest version of "Womble Mpeg2VCR" it supports AC3 audio But you should strip out any Subtitle tracks or extra Video tracks and try to only keep the audio stream you want...But if you are going to encode these VOB files to make a VCD/SVCD/DVD then you shouldn"t encode the VOB files directly But frame serve them with DVD2AVI...

What should I be using to cut/edit vobs?

I don't want to file spilt on file size, rather in number of seconds.
vobedit sounded like a good idea but it just seems to show a list of packets in the stream. I tried some other tools but nothing seems to work completely..

Just being able to say, cut the file at 1h2min3sec would be good enough.

I would like to know if to multiplex directly one m1v or m2v with a wav is possible with the new version and the way in which I have to get it.

Thanks, I'm sorry, but my English is not good.

NO...You can not Mux Wav audio with Mpeg with Tmpgenc Or many other programs..Some Very high end DVD Authoring programs can do this But not Tmpgenc, and Wav audio will only work with DVD"s...

Please help Thanks

Hi, I have just created my first DVD and have run into one problem. When I play the DVD in my standalone player (Panasonic DVD-RV32) the video looks a little weird.

In 1 part of the image throughout the whole video there is about a 1 inch thick vertical distortion going from top to bottom on the TV in the middle of the right half of the screen (21in TV), the actual distortion is like the video is in a lower resolution and looks slightly pixellated. When I encoded the video with TMPGEnc Plus 2.58 I used the 'DVD(PAL)' Template.

I only unlocked the 'Aspect Ratio' under the 'Video' Tab and changed it to 16:9 becuase I thought this is within the DVD Standard (Yes the source is in 16:9)

When I leave it as 'Aspect Ratio' of 4:3 it works fine.
Also the video plays perfectly on the computer.

I can't see why I can't use 16:9 because It is part of the DVD Standard. So is it my player or TMPGEnc?

I also just tried another Encoder and it still plays bad on the Standalone DVD Player, but all my DVD movies work and they're all in Widescreen, so how can it be my DVD Player?

..........HELP!!!!! Thanks

The 16:9 or 4:3 setting is determined by the source material.

If 4:3 plays fine on a computer (I assume in a 4:3 window) then that is the setting to use. You would know your material is truly 16:9 if it looked squashed horizontally when played in a 4:3 window. This is anamorphic video.

When you use the 16:9 setting you are embedding instructions in the stream to tell settop DVD players to letterbox the material on 4:3 TVs. This is no good if the material is not anamorphic. (Players connected to 16:9 TVs are set to ignore this instuction and let the display expand the picture horizontally.)

The distortion sounds like some more fundamental problem, like NTSC instead of PAL, or the wrong number of H or V pixels. Use Bitrate calculator to check for 720x576 PAL.

It might not be working Cuz Not all Authoring programs support 16:9 Aspect ratio..And 16:9 won"t look very good on a Regular TV Cuz a Regular TV is 4:3 so you get a lot of the sides of the screen will be Cut off, unless you have a Widescreen TV.....

Hello, I'm in the middle of frustation right now!
please somebody fix this problem..

here's the problem:
some of my DVD compliant mpeg files are rejected by Ulead DVD Moviefactory and DVD Workshop, while those rejected files are generated using the same EXACT settings with the other accepted mpeg files.
the files that being rejected tend to be the longer ones.
I also have tried to encode using CQ, CQ_VBR, MVBR, and 2 pass VBR, but all failed, all rejected.

here's my settings for those files:

MPEG-2 Video 720 x 480 x 29.97 (4:3 display)
Constant Quality 79 (2000 min, 9000 max) enable padding, spoilage P=0 B=0
VBV = automatic
MP@ML NTSC non-interlace 4:2:0
DC precision 8 bits
Motion search presision = Normal

GOP structure = IBPBPB
output interval of seq header = 1
Max number of GOP = 15
Detect scene change checked
Quantize matrix = all default

Audio = MPEG1 audio layer 2, 48000Hz Stereo 384 kbps, none checked
System = MPEG2 program VBR
Added source range, noise reduction, sharpen edge, custom color, and clip frame filters.

here's the individual file info:

1 rejected file has 25336 frames using the above settings and it's 460591108 bytes
2 accepted files has 5743 frames and 6483 frames using the exact settings as above


then, I tried to demux and then remux the 1 rejected file, but still rejected by DVDMF and DVDWS
another try is to cut the last 1-10 frames using the merge & cut tool, still rejected
until finally I cut some last 2 seconds (and it's the last 81 frames cutted after I checked later) it works. DVD MF and DVD WS accepted the file as a NTSC DVD compliant file.
the succesful file is at 25255 frames (cutted the last 81 frame from 25336 total frames)

I hope Hori-san or Ulead coders would fix this frustating problem!
Thanks!!

Oh I forgot to mention:
I am using
- TMPGEnc Plus version 2.59.47.155
- DVD Workshop 1.2 Trial Version (would buy this nice authoring software if this problem is going to be fixed)
- DVD MovieFactory Trial Version (latest version)

Hey ummm. Don't worry it's a known issue, I think? I have a thread that already talks about this exact problem. Look at "TMPGEnc outputs corrupt files?" in the forum a few lines down.

There's something wierd with the way TMPGEnc is outputting the MPEG-2 files. It didn't seem so bad in 2.58 but now in 2.59 I'm getting more files that are bad than ever before.

Hey ummm. Don't worry it's a known issue, I think? I have a thread that already talks about this exact problem. Look at "TMPGEnc outputs corrupt files?" in the forum a few lines down.

There's something wierd with the way TMPGEnc is outputting the MPEG-2 files. It didn't seem so bad in 2.58 but now in 2.59 I'm getting more files that are bad than ever before.

I use an older version of TMPG and it works fine except as noted below. I think it is 2.54 but am not on that computer right now to check.

Be more specific about exactly how Workshop is rejecting the files. Are they not loading into the library, not previewing, or are they being rerendered unexpectedly?

I've had problems with files hanging Workshop preview but these were ones on which dubious demux/mux operations had been performed. They also hung up WinDVD a bit at startup and then had timestamp problems near the end.

Make sure your files play perfectly in WinDVD. Watch the timer cadence near the end of the clip.

Probably not a factor but your GOP structure is non-standard. Only very unusual footage should need anything but the default (or maybe IBP=142). The greatest benefit of TMPG is that it encodes complex motion into long GOPs with extremely high quality.

I do not understand this:

I can view a movie that is a DivX and has the .AVI extension, in Windows Media Player, and I can view it in OTHER players, but TMPGenc REFUSES to display anything but a totally blank screen. I tryed using the preview button and I tryed using other options, and nothing is displayed but a totally black screen.

When TMPGenc converts the .avi to a .mpg, it is also 2 hours of nothing but a black screen!!!

How do I make TMPGEnc convert DiVX .avis to .mpg? Why is it doing nothing but making a big video with nothing but a black screen that lasts for 2 hours?

Am I using the wrong program to convert DiVX .avi to .mpg? Should I be using a different program? Is it not working because TMPGEnc does not support DivX?

the problem is with DivX, not TMPG. You need DivX Pro to decode the video in such a way that ANY mpeg encoder will be able to use it. Divx standard only will output to an overlay, which is useless to the encoder, Divx pro can output the datastream and be encoded sucessfully. I had the same problem until I got pro (Adware... minus the adware ^_^), get pro and that should fix everything.

Try raiseing the Priority of the "Direct Show File Reader"..Go to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "Direct Show" to "2" that is if you the correct codecs installed..

I still use old free version of TMPGEnc. Is it worth to invest the $48 to get latest version? Use it to convert AVI (from Studio8) to MPEG for DVD burning via Nero.

Hi, I am using the latest download, and I am major problems with the SVCD output being corrupted (crashing all my players,even tried burning anyway using Nero - got coasters).
I am using the wizard (but also tried the long way), selecting SVCD PAL, leaving all settings at default (PAL default that is), using the 'source range' option to chop the movies, then running the process. It completes fine, but when I try and view or burn the completed files they are corrupt. I have tried with Divx in/out , Nimo codec pack installed/uninstalled etc etc.
I get no problems at all using the wizard and the same files to do VCD, its just SVCD that is the problem.
Please note that I have the codecs to view MPEG2 on my PC.
Any, I mean ANY help would be appreciated, this is a superb tool but it is tainted for me as I can't figure this out.
Thanks,
Messa

There have been a few poeple Complaining about this happening to them in this newest version..What I would sugest is to try to run the file through the "Multiplex" and see if that fixxes the corruption, or you can use something to Re-Packetize the Mpeg files and see if that fixes it..I think maybe Mpeg2Vcr has a Re-Packetizeing feature...Or you can allways use a different encoder or try an earlier version....

Try re-multiplexing with an earlier version of TMPG as the new version has a bug in it's muxer.

ASHY

Please help Thanks

More details please. What type of file is it, how was it captured, where did it come from, what codec version is it in. Etc. Etc.

"Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise to "2"...and if that don"t work come back with more Info..

Taking a VOB file, using DVD2AVI to extract the AC3 aduio. Then take TMPEG to import the .d2v project file from DVD2AVI, but TMPEG will not accept the .d2v file saying it is not supported. Any ideas?

It cetainly won't accept Ac3 files as this is normal.
Import the DVD2AVI.VFP file from your DVD2AVI directory into your TMPG directory.
If you still get the unsupported message then recreate the d2v file.

ASHY

Hello,

After exctracting the .zip file for DVD2AVI, all that I find is a readme.txt, the executable file and a .ini file. No DVD2AVI.vfp file. Where can I find this. I thought that maybe it was a missing codec, but was not sure. Any ideas?

Sorry.....searched the machine and found it....should have done that first and then posted... will try back if i have anymore issues....