I have an mpeg-2 file which is 790mb. Nero reads it as 80 minutes and around 30 seconds. I wish to put this as an svcd, but nero reads it as too large (it says medium inserted is too small to burn etc. ) What is the quickest way to solve this problem? ie cropping a few seconds off the end of the mpeg file etc... can someone tell me how to do this (im not familiar with tmpg so a detailde guide would be nice)

Go to the menu an select "MPEG Tools". Find the tab that allows you to cut the video. You will see a preview window with a slide bar. Simply slide the bar to where you want to cut it and select that frame as the end. TMPEnc will then generate a new MPEG file. If you want a more detailed guide read the manual. You can find it in the menu under help.

Video Guy

You can also set Nero up for Overburning, you can usually get an extra 10-20mb on a CD-R..In nero go to "File" to "Prefrances" to "Expert Features" and Check the Overburning Box....

Yes, just overburn the disk. You will easily fit it on.
With most disks you can burn up to 823mb on an 80 min disk when overburning.

Ive set the nero overburner to 82 mins and it still says the medium is too small :( is there anything else im meant to do? or just check the enable overburner option..

Also, when cropping, which mpeg format should I use. I tried the one which they call vcd, and nero claims its not a valid vcd file.

If you have set checked the Overburn option and have set it at 82 mins then Nero should allow you to burn it.
If it doesn't then your MPEG is larger than your overburn disk sizem which is unlikely at only 790mb.
You must use an 80min disk not a 74min disk for burning this MPEG.
If Nero is just simply giving you warning messages then just continue with the burn anyway.

>Also, when cropping, which mpeg format should I use. I tried the one which they call vcd, and nero claims its not a valid vcd file.

I don't understand what you mean by this, do you mean cutting?
You have to use the 'MPEG2 SVCD (VBR)' setting for MPEG2 not 'MPEG1 VCD' and then burn the MPEG in nero as a SVCD not a VCD.

I was just wondering if you can download any extra themes for TMPG Enc DVD Author? If Not is there any plans to add more?

More problmes with this. I recently recorded several episoied of Dr WHo onto my Panasoni DMR-E100H, dubbed to -RAM from the recorderd HDD and then copied to the HDD on my PC from -RAM. Trying to import the titles, I get the error message "mixed 4:3 and 16:9 fatal error" any suggestions ?

Maybe this is a 1.5.13.44 error ? I never had it occur in the prvious version :( Any tips ?

I seem to have "solved" the problem. It must be a bug ? If I have the protection bit set ie on the Pansonic set top recorder I tell it to protect the program, it comes up wuth the mixed 4:3 16:9 settings error when I try and import it from the -RAM disk, if I turn that protection off, it works fine.

Very odd behaviour !

'This program is a mix of different video formats'
I got this annoying error many times and finally found out itÃÔ given by the settings on Panny recorders: default setting for Hybrid VBR resolution is Å¢utomaticE which means the machine is allowed to automatically drop from the standard DVD resolution to a lower one in the middle of a recording. If you switch it to ŧixedE picture quality will be equally good and TMPGEnc DVD Author will import each clip of the .vro properly. I was successful this way.
Cheers.

Hi

I converted an avi file into mpeg-1, to create a vcd but there is no sound.
Can someone tell me what to do?

For VCD, just drop the AVI into TMPGEnc (not DVD Author), then choose the template for VCD NTSC (or PAL, if that's what they use where you live) under Setting, then make sure System (Video + Audio) is checked. The audio should be there after it is done encoding.

If you have trouble, check out VirtualDub. You can use that program to save a wav file of the video's audio (file -> save wav) and you can use it to mess around with the video compression. If you save a wav from VirtualDub, you can stick it back onto the video in TMPGEnc by pointing the Audio soucrce to the wav file and the Video source to the video file.

Is there a place where I can find more menu choices? I am not impressed with the ones that come with TMPGEnc DVD Author. I have not been able to figure out how to customize them and add additional text boxes. Also, I can't seem to move the text boxes around like I would like.

Is there a way to create and save my own menus? I would be willng to share if there is a place to upload/download.

Thanks!

You can't use othe Menus. But you can use the Theme-Editor to Move you Buttons and Text-Boxes arround.

Hello!
I've 2 MPEG2 file representing 2 parts of the same AVI, encoded with TMPGEnc usign VBR and CQ = 80 by the DVD2SVCD utility.
If I make VCDEasy analyze them it says there's non need for padding.
Next, I've joined the 2 files with MPEG Tools (section cut&merge) of TMPGEnc, but when I make VCDEasy analyze this new file it says that there is need for padding...a lot of "padding"
Why? How can I set the muxer of TMPGEnc (if possible) to avoid this situation? I think about something like re-multiplexing a MPEG1 file with system MPEG1 Video-CD (non standard).

Thanks for the help.

The problem is simply because you did not choose the correct 'stream type' when muxing.
You should have selected 'MPEG-2 Super videoCD(VBR)'

Try to frameserve the streams using AviSynth; I've seen a lot of guys asking what frameserving is good for, and who needs it... Well... it is the ultimate soution, sometimes...

Good luck.

>Try to frameserve the streams using AviSynth; I've seen a lot of guys asking what frameserving is good for, and who needs it... Well... it is the ultimate soution, sometimes...

I don't think you understand the problem or what frame serving is.
Frame serving won't solve the problem as it has nothing to do with it at all.
The problem is caused by wrong headers in the MPEG because of not selecting the correct stream type when multiplexing or cutting.
It is solved by using the directions as I gave above.

Is there a way to encode to MPEG-2 system file with two audio streams?

The only true way to get two audio streams for MPEG-2 is if you author it for DVD. Some programs will let you mux two streams but I've seen players that will not recognize the second stream or go out of sync.

If you don't want to author it for DVD you could encode a "dual stero" audio file. Basically this will put one audio file in the left channel and the other file in the right channel. For example, you could put English in the left and Spanish in the right. Some players will detect a dual stero and prompt you which one you want. For other players you have to mute one side of your speakers. The downside to this is that it makes each stream mono. You would have to use another program besides TMPGEnc to get each stream in the proper channel.

Vido Guy

You can just add the second stream using TMPG's multiplexer, but as already said your player may not recognize the second stream.

I see someone else has recently posted about this problem. As that thread already has a lot of posts to it, I'll start a new one.

I get that error message every single time I try to encode an .AVI file to .MPG using TMPGenc.

First it was as part of the DVD2SVCD bundle package, but after a couple times of trying that, when it always froze during the TMPGEnc process, with that error message, I also tried it directly from TMPGEnc, with no participation of DVD2SVCD, just starting TMPGEnc by itself, loading the .AVI file, and starting the conversion process. I did that before bed or before going to work in the morning, and each time, when I came back to the computer, I would see that error message. I don't know when during the process it happened. Certainly not right at the beginning, as a couple times I was still up or at home a little while before going to bed or leaving, and it was still working then.

So yes, nothing else was running at the same time. In fact, right before using it, to minimize any potential problems, I disabled all startup programs, and re-started the computer fresh and clean, without any background programs. I just left the computer running the program, and didn't touch a key or mouse during the process.

I had the process set to the defaults, did not enable "high quality" or anything like that.

THe version on my TMPGEnc is 2.520.54.163, which I think is the newest. "Core version" is 1.97.151. I am running Windows XP Home. My computer has a Pentium 4M 2.0 gHz CPU, and 768 MB RAM.

What is causing this problem?

Well Like the Other Post said your AVI file could have an error in it, If it is a File you downloaded off the net then it is Probably the case...You could use "Virtual Dub" to scan the File for errors and see if there are any Corrupted frames, and if there are or even if there aren"t you can then use Virtual Dub to Frameserve the File to Tmpgenc, Virtual dub will Mask any Bad Frames while frame serveing the file to Tmpgenc, You can even use the Filters in Virtual Dub instead of useing TMpgenc Filters as V-Dub filters are Better...You Can get Virtual Dub at http://www.virtualdub.org/ and to Frameserve there should be instructions at the Site but if you can"t find them you can allways Post back or you can email me directly for assistance....Good Luck

I've had this same problem with some ST-Voyager episodes I record directly from satellite (T6/22) using an Amber Mpeg2 encoder card. My computer has the Athlon XP processor so I do not even have the SSE options available to me (I note this because I have seen other posts claiming by turning this off, it will encode without the error).

What DOES fix it is to encode in anything BUT 2 pass VBR. This is got to be a problem with TMPGENC, and not with my files, as it seems completely random.

LeX

Hi,

I am new into DVD authoring and new to TMPgenc. I use Pinnacle Studio 8 to capture and use TMPGenc to convert from avi to mpeg and then use TMPgenc to try to add a menu and chapters. I went to the HELP since they said that they have no downloadable manuals and very confusing for me.

I only want to make 2 chapters. Can someone give me a step-by-step dummy way of creating a menu and creating the chapters and linking them so that I can select which chapter I want to go from main menu and after playing every chapter, go back to the menu.

Your help is much appreciated..

Hi,

Where can I find a manual for this product and TMPgenc Plus?

Hi all.
I've been using TMPGenc for awhile now to make vcd from music videos. But I ran into one video that uses MainConcept Mpeg Encoder and the can't read this file. What do I need to re-encode this video so its in VCD format?

Well This Video is allready in Mpeg format so you should check to see that it isn"t allready in VCD Format..You actually should have checked before Posting and then Posted it"s Specs, Meaning you should post if the File is Mpeg1 or mpeg2 and the Resolution of the File and the Frame rate of the File, Because depending on what type of file it is would help determine what is wrong and why you can"t encode it....

Ok I got the specs for the video.
(Directly From WMP)
Video: MainConcept MPEG Video Decoder
Audio: MPEG Audio Decoder
Resolution: 768x576

I not completely sure how to figure out if its mpeg1 or 2 and in WMP in doesn't say the bitrate. Off the site it said it was SVCD but I just want to make it into a VCD. Its 70+mbs for 3 mins and 30 secs of video.

I wouldn"t trust what Media Player says about a File, It Probably wasn"t the Right specs anyways Cuz that is not the resolution for SVCD, And the "MainConcept Decoder" is Just what media Player uses to Play the File it doesn"t really say Much about the file...Well if it IS a SVCD File then it is a Mpeg2 file and For Tmpgenc to read Mpeg2 files you need certain Decoders installed that Tmpgenc can work with, The New Pluss version comes with one Built in....First Try installing this :"http://www.marumo.ne.jp/mpeg2/m2v_vfp-0.6.38.lzh " it is a Mpeg2 decoder for Tmpgenc But if you can get that to work for some reason you will have to do is something called Frame serveing, and I"ll explain how to do it, this is the best way to encode a Mpeg2 file to Mpeg1/2 with Tmpgenc..

First download this program: " http://www.webattack.com/dlnow/dlnow.dll?Inc=No&ID=104605 " it is called "DVD2AVI"...
First open the DVD2AVI folder and copy and Paste the "DVD2AVI.vfp" file from the DVD2AVI folder into the Tmpgenc folder..

Now Run DVD2AVI and Drag and Drop your File into the DVD2AVI window, Now go to "File" to "Save Project" and give the file a name..
Now in a Couple minutes you will have a D2V file and Probably a Mpa or a Mp2 Audio file..If it is a Mpa or Mp2 file then just put it away till later...

Now Run Tmpgenc and Load the "D2V" file in for the Video and set the "Stream Type" to "Video Only" then set up your Settings for encodeing to VCD, You"ve done it before...Now Just encode the File and when you are Done you will have a "m1v" VCD Video file, Now you have to join the Mpa Audio file that you got from DVD2AVI with your VCD Video file, To do this go to "File" to "Mpeg Tools" to "Simple Multiplex" and Load the M1V file in for the Video and the Mpa/Mp2 audio file in for the audio, and from the Drop Down menu choose "Video-CD" and give your Output file a Name and Click "Run" and in a couple minutes you will have your VCD that you just need to Burn to Disk....
The Only Possible Problem I can forsee is that I think the File you are encodeing is a Pal file and if you live in NTSC Land your VCD will have Jumpy Playback in your DVD Player Cuz you cant Properly encode a Pal file to NTSC or a NTSC File to Pal with Tmpgenc...

Thx Minion, I'll this a try and see what happens.

I am trying to batch encode several files, however, if the software is encoding for over a minute, it will close without warning after finishing the current file. So it normally only encodes one at a time. Sometimes I may be lucky and get two files in one, but its really annoying

How do you do multiple files one after another?

@Mumrarr

This usually happens due to codec problems. I have experienced this with type-1 DV files. I have also read that some people have problems with the divx codec. If you are using type-1 DV try converting it to type-2 DV. There are a number of free tools to do this around. If it is divx or xvid you should try ffdshow. It might help if you raised the DirectShow priority in the settings.


@Enzyme

TMPGEnc has a batch encode mode. Basically load a file configure your settings and save the project. You end up with a .tpr file. Repeat this for all your files you want to encode. Then go to the menu and select the batch. Load all the .tpr files into this and TMPGEnc will start encoding.


Video Guy