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I was able to find same problem by other user on this board, but the issue wasn't resolved. So I figure I'll post my issue in a new thread to see if anyone knows the problem!
I am having problems cutting an MPEG into 2. (1.2GB MPEG, attempting to cut into 600~MB MPEGs)
Here is exactly what I am doing;
TMPG - File - MPEG Tools... - Merge & Cut tab - Add button - (browse and select MPEG) - Edit - Move slider bar to half of movie, preview window shows the middle of the movie, but the time (lower right corner, a.k.a. range) shows 00:09:00. (If I click the play button, it simply counts from 9 minutes up) If I move the slider bar to end of movie, it displays 18 mins. I select the first half of the movie and click 'OK'. - Click Run - it extracts a 80MB file of the first 9 minutes of the movie.
This happens on multiple MPEGS - some of which I created via TMPG others I haven't.
Also, there are some MPEGs it works fine on cutting!
If im in "Edit merge item" screen (where you select where to cut the movie), If I play the movie from the beggining, the movie plays. At about 9 minutes into the movie, the slider bar appears to be about halfway. At about 18 minutes, the slider bar appears to be at the end and the timer stops counting (stays at 18 minute) yet the movie continues to play. If i manually click the slider bar to near the end, the movie actually jumps to near the end but timer shows about 18 minutes. (If I click the slider bar in the middle, it actually shows about the halfway point of the movie, roughly 60 minutes into the film, but the counter on the screen shows 9 minutes.
Hope someone can help, i'm really stuck on this one :(
If im in "Edit merge item" screen (where you select where to cut the movie), If I play the movie from the beggining, the movie plays. At about 9 minutes into the movie, the slider bar appears to be about halfway. At about 18 minutes, the slider bar appears to be at the end and the timer stops counting (stays at 18 minute) yet the movie continues to play. If i manually click the slider bar to near the end, the movie actually jumps to near the end but timer shows about 18 minutes. (If I click the slider bar in the middle, it actually shows about the halfway point of the movie, roughly 60 minutes into the film, but the counter on the screen shows 9 minutes.
Hope someone can help, i'm really stuck on this one :(
If im in "Edit merge item" screen (where you select where to cut the movie), If I play the movie from the beggining, the movie plays. At about 9 minutes into the movie, the slider bar appears to be about halfway. At about 18 minutes, the slider bar appears to be at the end and the timer stops counting (stays at 18 minute) yet the movie continues to play. If i manually click the slider bar to near the end, the movie actually jumps to near the end but timer shows about 18 minutes. (If I click the slider bar in the middle, it actually shows about the halfway point of the movie, roughly 60 minutes into the film, but the counter on the screen shows 9 minutes.
Hope someone can help, i'm really stuck on this one :(
I am trying to encode a video file to MPEG-2 that was originally encoded with DivX 5.0 at a resolution of 448 X 336 (4:3) but I get "scan line index out of range (336)" error. What is the maximum allowable value of the input file height and do I have to reencode to this coarser resolution with DivX before I can encode to MPEG-2? I also tried encoding with NTSC 16:9, which I have used before on input files that were 640 X 352 (~16:9), even though I know the output file would be "squashed vertically", just to see if it would work but got the same error. Has anybody else encountered this error and how did you work around it? Any helpful comments would be appreciated. Thank you.
I am trying to put together a family video that has 6 clips. The overall file size limit isn't exceded, (its about 4gb) but when I have the program make a folder with the VOB's in it it always cuts the last video clip down to about 1/4 it's correct size. All the other clips are fine, the menu works fine, what is happening?
BTW: I like TMPGenc because it's easy to learn, makes menus that work and above all has a play all feature.
I want to put a set of 22 AVI files onto standalone DVD playable discs, but am unsure as to the best way of going about this. Each file is ~45 mins long with the following AVIcodec stats: (where Video/Audio MB and Kbps vary slightly)
I could make huge DVD files and do 1 episode a disc, but I'd rather shoot for something more like 6 discs.
What would be the ramifications of putting files through the DVD wizard and reducing the average video bitrate (so I could fit more files,) versus having them go through the VCD wizard where even at the max bitrate I could fit several files onto 1 DVD?
Thanks for your help; I DO appreciate it! =)
--DanielShawn
If you are intending to put 6 AVI's on one disk it would better to encode to VCD format and use a VBR method. I strongly suggest using 'Constant Quality(CQ)'.
If your DVD player can handle it then use a Min bitrate of 0 and a max of 3500 with the Quality set at 100% and an audio bitrate of 160Kb/s. This should allow you to easily fit 6 45min movies on 1 DVD with pretty good quality.
If you simply encode to DVD format and reduce the bitrate you will likely find a shortfall in bitrate leading to artifacts such a blocky video which is more unpleasant than a slightly less sharp image.
As an alternative you could encode to MPEG2 using the Half D1 format which is 352x480 and will maintain more of the quality of your original AVI and will give better results than VCD at the cost of file size.
Min - 1500 Max 3500 and Quality - 65 and an audio bitrate of 160Kb/s should allow you to fit about 5 AVI's on one disk.
If you do go down the Half D1 route then make sure you use '3:2 pulldown when playback' under 'Encode mode'. Don't encode straight to 29.97fps. This will cause jerky playback and increase the file size unecessarily.
I want to put a set of 22 AVI files onto standalone DVD playable discs, but am unsure as to the best way of going about this. Each file is ~45 mins long with the following AVIcodec stats: (where Video/Audio MB and Kbps vary slightly)
I could make huge DVD files and do 1 episode a disc, but I'd rather shoot for something more like 6 discs.
What would be the ramifications of putting files through the DVD wizard and reducing the average video bitrate (so I could fit more files,) versus having them go through the VCD wizard where even at the max bitrate I could fit several files onto 1 DVD?
Thanks for your help; I DO appreciate it! =)
--DanielShawn
Having used the Tmpg Encoder some years ago (and the many different update versions) I am surprised by the volume of problems that continue to be asked about by users.
Is this the fault of the encoder or the user? Since the programmer's encoder should have had all the faults ironed out ages ago I doubt that the program is at fault. So what is the cause of the "problems"? Okay novice users are bound to have teething problems with any new software they've installed on their computer but in essence they should only be minor hiccups!
TmpgEnc.net offers a 21mb sample movie and this even caused me to say b....... to it since it would have taken a while to download! Perhaps a better approach should be made at providing usable/viewable HELP training on line. These wouldn't be particularily hard to create and I find it strange that there is no such link on the FREE program to a HELP on-line.
Come on TmpgEnc.net get your act together - you've had plenty of time to create a training or a Help section of your own.
Why in some part of the movie, not all, the audio gets desynchronized and after this point the audio goes desynchronized until the end of the movie. I get this With Predator 2.
My source is an MPEG2 Video with an MPEG1 Layer 2 audio track which I was trying to re-encode to change video size and audio bit/sampling frequencies. After about 20000 frames there is a noticeable lag in the audio which gets progressively worse
I have found that by first de-multiplexing the audio and video then encoding from these two files fixed the problem. Unfortunately this also significantly increases the encoding time.
No idea why this happens though. I only stumbled across the fix by trial and error - but still very annoying!
.....Since DVD Author also supports DVD-Video files (VIDEO-TS.ifo) as input files, you can also cut out scenes from your favourite DVD and make a new DVD-Video......
Simply click "Add DVD Video" under "Source Setup" and tell it
where the VIDEO_TS directory is containing the DVD files. It'll
show you the streams that are available, and will scan them for
chapter stops. You can then edit as desired just as you would
with any other clip.
Note that this won't work with encrypted commercial DVDs unless
you use a tool like DVD Decrypter first.....