Hey

is there a way to edit tpr file, now I change C: est est.avi (=videoinput) to C: est est.avs and I don't change C: est est.mp2 (=audioinput) and C: est est.mpg (=videooutput) (I change it all with notepad).

When I open the tpr file with Tmpgenc, I get an error

Illegal stream format?

What do I do wrong? or is there a better way to edit tpr files? (without saving a new tpr file with Tmpgenc)

Thanks

Why are you editing the .tpr file?
Just load the Avisynth script straight into TMPG and then save the project.

Also you do not need to re-encode the audio. it is already in the correct format for MPG. Simply encode the video only then multiplex the audio with it afterwards.

hey,

i would like to edit the tpr file, because I "create" a full avi 2 (s)vcd programm with tmpgenc as encoder.

So is there a way to encode avs files to mpg file automaticly? par example by editing the tpr files and load them in Tmpgenc with a batch file

Hi,

I'm having problems re-encoding video captured using a digital video broadcast (DVB) tuner card. Basically, TMPGEnc encodes a portion of the file correctly, but at some point throughout the movie, the video just freezes, and the same frame is displayed for the remainder of the movie.

I have been encoding using CBR. If anyone has any suggestions that'd be great. If you'd like more info, please let me know.

Thanks...

i have a video for one file, and the subtitles as another file..
how would i go about converting that into a vcd/svcd?

Depends on the format of the subs.

I converted AVI to MPG with .srt subtitle. However, when I played the result the subtitle intermittently disappear at a random interval. Could anyone please tell me what's wrong and how can I solve this problem?

Thanks.

Hard to answer. It depends on what kind of DirectShow-Filters for Subtitles in SRT- or SAA-Format are installed on your PC. Some of them do not like overlapping Subtitles. Maybe that's the problem?

I'm using VSFilter.dll in AVISynth to encode the Subs directly into the Video. This works all the time.

Raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2 or 3 in the VFAPI plugins and make sure it is top of the list.
If you still have problems install FFDSHOW and load the subs via that in the configuration settings.

B_Racer,
FYI I'm a beginner. How do I check the Filters I'm using?

Ashy,
The DirectShow Multimedia File Reader is in the top list. I've increased the priority to 3. I'll let you know the outcome.

Thanks guys for your help.

Ashy,

It works! My problem solved. Thanks a lot.

The download page promises size of TMPGEnc-2.521.58.169-Free.zip is 1.7Mb, in fact the file dowloaded with this name is 270Kb and isn't zip.

I'm sorry, but you must be mistaken. The file downloads fine. I have just checked it.

Hi,
my Question is how i can convert a Movie (VOB and/or AVI) to fit on a CD-R90 Media ?

Is there any Template for the CD-R90 ?

Thanks for any information by mail.

CD-R90 is 900 MB.

So all you have to do is determine the bitrate to use. This depends on the length of your movie which you did not specify.

However, it will be easy for you to determine. Use the bitrate calculator in the "Project Wizard". Open your file in the wizard, specify 900MB as the target size and TMPGEnc will give you the video and audio bitrate to use. Write the bitrate down and close the wizard and adjust the bitrate in TMPGEnc and encode. You could even encode straight from the wizard if you like. It can't be any more simple. This will produce a non-standard vcd.

You don't have any choices if you want to create a standard vcd. Just use the VCD template for 650, 700, 900 MB cds.

my mistake .... a cdr90 is 800 MB .... so set your target size for 800 MB

David you were right the first time.
9O min CDR's can hold 908 mb of raw data which is what VCD/SVCD is.
An 80 min CDR can hold 800mb and 823mb with overburning.

When I try to convert an AVi file to mpeg it appear a menssage:

Write error ocurred at address 77F83AED of module 'ntdll.dll' with 00000000.

Somebody knows what this means??? If so, please help me fix it!!!

This question has been asked and answered close to a hundred times on this message board. Do a search for it.

Correction, it has been asked 56 times. I just did a search for "ntdll.dll error".

I am a novice at video conversion so please bear with me.

I attempted to convert an Mpeg file to Mpeg2 for writing to a DVD. Movie is 2 hours long, encoding estimated time of 24 hours to convert! is this normal? Then the conversion stalled out at aprox 11hours.

File was partially converted but has no audio. I picked mpeg system as the option.

I'm running XP Home on a 2.8Ghz P4 w/512 PC2700 ram.

Thanks for any help

Converting a 2 hour MPEG on your system should take about 3-4 hours not 24.

Just load your MPEG. Select the DVD template and then encode.

What format is your original mpeg? Depending on the format (resolution, fps, etc) you might be able to burn that to DVD using the header tricks. You are only going to degrade the quality by encoding it again into a mpeg format.

My suggestion would only work if your file is mpeg-1 or mprg-2, not mpeg-4.

I installed TMPGEnc before I installed .Net. Now the VFAPI Plugin section says "The file can not be loaded". I've done a search for it and it's there, so what do I need to do so it sees it?

Thanks

Just copy and paste the DVD2AVI.vfp into the TMPG folder.

Hi,

I've got a seven second clip separated into M2v and AVI files. The AVI is LPCM. Now I run the AVI through the AC-3 encoder of TMPGEnc DVD author with AC-3 plugin.

This produces a AC3 file. I now take the M2V and AC3 files and multiplex them back together to create a short MPG file. This seems to play quite happily on WinMedia player.

Now I use this MPG file as the background for a motion menu in TMPGenc DVD author (I've got it set to always convert MP2 and LPCM files to AC-3) and all goes according to plan except that when I burn the DVD to disc and play it, the motion menu comes up saying it's still PCM sound. The main files are all AC-3, but not the motion menu, which should be seeing as I multiplexed an AC-3 file into it!

What am I doing wrong? Does the act of mutiplexing convert it back to PCM sound?

Regards

Mark

Like the Help-File of TMPGEnc DVD Author says about Motion Menus:
"The audio has to be MPEG-1 Audio Layer2 or Linear PCM. (AC-3 cannot be used)."

Yeah, I read that after I wrote the post. What's up with that? It even goes to the trouble of converting AC-3 to PCM just for menu background sound. Why not just let the AC-3 sound through, or better yet, convert PCM or MPEG to AC-3 like it does for the main tracks? Seems ridiculous to me.

I think Pegasys needs to sort that out pretty damn soon!

Regards

Mark

Did you ever see a DVD with AC3-Sound while playing the Menus? No? The reason is, there are no DVDs like that.
AC3 can not be used as Background-Sound for Menus, that's not a bug in TDA.

Actually, I went and checked a half dozen commercial DVDs and every one of them brought up Dolby Digital 2.0 sound while the menus played, according to my Sony AV amplifier.

The short company puff pieces, such as the Paramount Logo, were in DD 5.1 on a few of them, while the main progs were in DD5.1 or DTS. Not a single one had PCM as its menu sound system, or anywhere else for that matter. These were all NTSC R1 DVDs, by the way.

Regards

Mark

Yeah, NTSC do have it's own rules. All of my PAL DVDs do have MP2- or PCM-Sound as sound system in the Menus.
But what's your Problem? There's no need for using AC3 als Menu sound format - even in the NTSC-World.
If checked it. Only the very expensive Tools like Scenarist are able to use AC3 in Menus. DVDLab is able to that too, but in this Application, all Sound formats on a single Disc have to be the same Type. So if you use AC3 2.0 in the Menu, the Movie also has to have AC3 2.0 only.

No problem really, it just would have been neater is all. PCM sound for the menus is perfectly fine, it just seems a silly omission that once you have the AC-3 plug-in, TDA won't apply it to motion menus, even if you go to the trouble of giving it an AC-3 MPG clip to use as one.

I mean why not, what's the thinking behind that? It even goes to the trouble of converting it back to PCM, all the while it's happily converting PCM to AC-3 elsewhere on the DVD. Makes little or no sense to me.

Regards

Mark

I have a movie (AVI-717 MB) which length is 1 hour and 41 minutes. When I open it in TMPGenc it says it is 302 minutes! What am I doing wrong?

TMPG has a bug with some files where for some reason it will read the time header information in the AVI and multiply it by 2-3 times.
You can solve this by using the source range function and just select the start and end points of the movie.

> TMPG has a bug with some files where for some reason ...

This happens only on MP3-VBR-Audio.

So I went through the process of creating a DVD from VOB files. Then I saved the menu theme. Now when I'm doing a new DVD I can't load the theme! I see options for creating a new theme, which is clearly not what I want since I spent an hour on the old one. I simply want to load the old theme "template" if you will and make the modifications therefrom.

What am I doing wrong?

Beats me, buddy.

You created Menus are not saved as Templates. You will find them, if you are using "Edit Menu Theme". Then have a look at "Layout of the Main menu".

I found my error. When I created the menu, TMPGEnc DVD Author gave me the opportunity to save it. I saved it in my root directory.

Consider this a feature request for a "browse" button when choosing a menu theme. : o |