dbpower amp is a great audio conversion utility. U can simply right click a movie and convert its audio to wav for tmpgenc etc. However with avi files u can't do this.Surly dbpower amp can convert the many forms of audio avis come with. Can u configure it to do this?

Use AVImux. It is specifically made for this.

ASHY

doesn't seem to convert between audio formatts .....just demux....and no right click menu

What do you mean it doesn't convert between formats? Of course it does otherwise I wouldn't have suggested it.

Highlight the particular stream you wish to extract or convert then right click it and up will pop the menu allowing you to select the compression type.

ASHY

ah sorry yes it does :-) ...although no right click entry for file

>ah sorry yes it does :-) ...although no right click entry for file

What does this mean?

ASHY

well..in windows explorer u can right click say an asf file and select 'convert to' to get dbpower amp's selection of audio types....its nice and convient. Love it for avi files too. thanks for avimux though....it does the job

I have two avi files prt1 and 2. I encoded the first prt ok, but after 11 mins encoding the 2nd prt in comes to a halt with a message...."index of scan line is out of range(240)". what is this and how can i resolve this???? help needed plz.

This error usually comes up when encodeing Bad AVI files, meaning that there are certain corrupted sectors in the file that Tmpgenc is haveing problems reading..You might try useing "Virtual Dub" to make a Copy of the file whith could possibly fix the problem...

I made a movie in Adobe Premier that has about nine clips with short transitions between each clip. TMPGEnc completes the Mpeg2 encoding in about 5 hours, and appears to do so successfully. The resulting Mpeg file is 3.86 gigs. However, when I drag the file into DVDit to setup the DVD burn, DVDit says that it could not find a suitable decoder for the file. Please help!

You probably need an MPEG2 codec installed, but I would have thought DVDit would install it's own. This question has arisen before.
Try demultiplexing the MPEG file and load the video and audio separately.

ASHY

i am formating a avi file to play on a dvd and it worked ok but it is a tv series around 25 minutes long and my cdrw hold 80 minutes, yet when i copy i can only get one movie on a disk anyway to get 2?????????????????

Depends on how large the file is and what format it is encoded to.

An 80min disk will hold 800mb of MPEG data. As long as both your MPEG files are smaller in total than this then you should have no problem fitiing 2 on a disk.

Just drag both files into your burning software in the order you wish them played.

ASHY

thank you

First of all, I'm from Germany, so please excuse my Englisch. Here is my problem: I downloaded the two files of TMPGENC Vers. 2.58, unzipped in the same folder (I think) with EasyZip 2000. Then I tried to run "TMPGENC.vfp_install". I always got the german message "Fehler beim Laden von TMPGENC.vfp. Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden" ("Fault by loading TMPGENC.vfp. Couldn't find the Modul"). If I open only the TMPEGENC.exe to use the program directly I got the message "Can't open p3package.dll".
Does anyone knows a solution? Pleas write in easy English.
Thanks

Use a different program to unzip the files. TMPG is picky about what unzips it. Try the latest Winrar. If it doesn't work download again.
Also you can't run TMPG from the zip, it must be unzipped first.

ASHY

powerarchiver works for me

Does anyone know how to get rid of the strobing, or flashing that occurs when playing on the TV a VCD that features a lateral camera motion? I tried all the filters with no success...

Do you mean Interlacing artifacts?
Interlacing causes a sort of combing effect in high motion scenes.
If so you need to de-interlace the file.

ASHY

I'm using TMPGEnc to create an MPEG2 using Virtual Dub as the frameserver. Sometimes the audio quality is not the best so I use the Simple de-multiplex option on the MPEG2. After converting the MP2 audio file to WAV, editing it and then converting it back to MP2, I then join the video and audio back together again using the simple multiplex tab. The problem is this results in creeping audio/video sync problems about 20 minutes into the movie.
This was not occuring on the original MPEG2.
Anyway to get around this?
Thanks

By Creaping do you mean it Gradualy goes out of sync???That type of De-sync is allmost impossible to fix...Have you tried a differant Multiplexor?? a good one is Mpeg2VCR it is faster than Tmpgenc for muxing plus it has a Function to off set the audio to fix sync problems...

You're right, it is gradually out of sync. I've tried shrinking or streching the audio to compensate but it never turns out quite right. I've never heard of MPEG2VCR. What's the website for it?
Thanks a lot.

You can download a Full version but older version at http://apachez.net/ in the tools section...

I went ahead and retried everything a second time and still haven't gotten the vfapi converter to work. Here's what I posted yesterday:

I did everything you said above: ran vipfset.bat from the vfapi folder,

ran the file TMPGEncVFP_Install.bat which I downloaded from the TMPG site,

and registered TMPGenc.vfp to VFAPI.

I'm still having the same "Reader Codec" error in VFAPI converter. With one file it actually worked, but never saved it to a the Output folder lister in the converter box.

I went ahead and erased all my old .tpr files, and saved them again after I reinstalled TMPGENC 2.58 and VFAPI with the necessary codec and I still have this problem.

Would repeating the whole process (re-installing the software and codec possibly take care of this problem? Or am I going about this the wrong way.

I'm running on a Dell Demension desktop 8200 that is windows XP ready. I heard VFAPI has a problem running on XP machines. COuld this be the problem? Is there any other program I can use to go from TMpgenc to CCE 2.62 to build psuedo avi files?

I run XP and don"t have a problem with Vfapi converter..But i do know that it can be Quite Buggy at times..What I would sugest is to try to get CCE SP 2.64.01.10 and use AVISynth to frame serve and to resize the file, it is a bit Quicker and has a better Resize filter.E-Mail me if you can"t find it and I"ll try to find it for you, and you can use a program called "Gordain Knot" to write the AVS Scripts for you...What you can try to do if you just want to get this VFAPI problem fixed is to backup most of you programs on a Disk and re-install your operateing system and then re-install you programs one at a time with the VFAPI first...Do you have "Norton System Works"?? use it to Clean out your Registry and any system errors that might be going on...It has fixed a lot of problems for me.....

Minion

appreciate the reply

No I dont know whether or not I have Norton Sys, ill have to check out the backup disks i receivecd with my computer.

Ill go ahead and check google for avisynth. Would tmpgenc be invovled with the formula you gave above, or would frameserving from avisynth to cce sp 2.64 do the trick?

would framserving from avisynth work in cce sp 2.62?

What version of the VFAPI converter do you have? Does the VFAPI converter list .tpr files as a supported format when you open it?

Also to check you have it installed go to Control panel>Sounds and audio devices>hardware>Video codecs>click properties>properties
In the list you should see the VFAPI reader codec.

ASHY

AVISynth only works with the 2.50 version and the newer releases of 2.64 but not with 2.62, and the 2.50 doesn"t produce quite the same quality in my opinion as the 2.64 version..If you are lucky enough to get the 2.66 version it supports AVISynth..I think the new 2.66 version(Not Beta)is being released Tomorow sept 24/2002...I warn you though AVISynth is not to be used By the unexperienced because you have to write out scripts meaning a sort of Code to get it to work, that is why It is good to use "Gordain Knot" cuz it will write the code for you....

I'm using VFAPI EN 1.05, it shows up in my registry in the control panel under video codecs, and yes it does take tmpgenc .tpr files, yet i still cant it to work. Everything is registered in TMpgenc. Is it possible for my to install a differnt vfapi codec (like for tmpgenc 2.58) in a Tmpgenc 2.57 FREE folder, and still have it work the same (if I can ever get it to work).


How do I frameserve w/ Gordian Knot to CCE 2.62? Do I have to encode first w/Nanodub (???) If anything can ya hook me up w/ a link to a site or tutorial?

Thanks

You Can"t frame serve to 2.62 with gordain knot, only 2.50 and 2.64 and 2.66, and I guess I forgot to say it was for frame serveing D2V files from DVD2AVI and not AVI files...But if you are useing D2V files for DVD2AVI then you need to get either 2.50 or 2.64 would be better...

Answer me a few questions.

1. What sort of file have you loaded into TMPG to create a project file with?

2. Are you adding audio to the project file?

3. If .tpr files are listed in the VFAPI converter as a supported type, is the .tpr file accepted or rejected when loaded?

4. You must still have the original files you loaded into TMPG to create the .tpr files in exactly the same location as they where when you first made the project files. Is this true?

ASHY

ASHY

1) I load in divx (w/an .avi extension) and standard .avi files

2) No audio included

3) Near all files are rejected, with the exception of one. Yet after I load the file (which is also just the video) and convert, I cant locate the converted file in the output folder specified in the converter

4) I do keep the original files, which were used to create the .tpr files, in the same location all the time.

Im encoding with TMPgenc 2.58 FREE, Mpeg-2, on my new 2.4 GHz, and it's pretty fast, minus all the filters, but would love to see how fast CCE can be.

Thanks

This letter is regarding the letter I wrote previously. Please disregard that letter, but this is the problem I'm having. I encode SVCD movies and lately I've been getting these square-like things in the picture. It's like the pixels aren't right. I encode good high quality movies (DVD rip, divx, AVI), yet I'm getting crappy pictures! What adjustments can I make or how can I improve my TMPGEnc to work right again?? It worked fine before!! Please reply ASAP.

Well that sounds like "Macro Blocks", usually if you are doing SVCD"s you shouldn"t get these cuz the bitrate of a SVCD is usually high enough to get rid of them, the only other thing I can think of that would cause this besides a low bitrate is if you had a Lower resolution file and you increased the resolution..Say you have a file with a resolution of 352 by 240, and you make a SVCD out of it with a 480 by 480 resolution,Then you can expect to get a whole bunch of macro blocks because there are less than half the amount of pixels in the 352 by 240 resolution than there is in a 480 by 480 resolution so the encoder has to make up all the extra Pixels by duplicateing other pixels to fill in the space..so you get a lot of macro blocks and loose Detail..This is the only this I can think of unless you are useing a lower bitrate than the standard SVCD bitrate...

Minion is right - try to increase bitrate. I have have this experience. I make SVCD with music videos - when a picture is letterbox, 1600 kbps will do, when the black borders are smaller, I use 1700, when no borders (full screen), 1800, in rare cases (intentional noise in video) more. If you use VirtualDub for capturing AVIs, set Noise filter to 'on'. In that case, 1600-1700 kbps will always do, and you don't need to use filtering in TMPGEnc - you will bw much faster. I all cases I use 2-pass VBR, best quality.

Lately, I've been getting movies turn out distorted....with square-like shapes that distorting the picture. It's like the pixels aren't right in the picture. The movies I encode are high quality movies (DVD rip, DIVX, AVI), yet I keep getting crappy pictures. What can I do to try to resolve this problem?
Please e-mail me an answer ASAP.

i have couple of avi movies and when i try to open a avi file "video sourse" for decoding to mpeg1 it saying file can not open, or it unsupported.

Go to "Options" to "Enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" and raise the "Direct Show" to "2"..

i can not change directshow to anything i cant change any of them is there some i need to do frist

Hey, whenever i try to convert off of my D drive it says can not open or unsporrted and i cant drag it into any of my computer folders because my comp. wont allow me to, what can i do?

The problem is odviously with your computer, have you tried Right clicking the file and go to "Copy" then "Paste" it on your desktop???Maybe you should get your computer looked at....