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I am creating a full quality AVI file from my Panasonic DV camcorder using
studio Dv version 7. The quality of this when played on the computer is fine,
but as soon as I try to create an mpeg-1 file for creating a VCD the image
becomes very 'blocky' and the quality is no where as good as I would expect
from VCD. Can anyone suggest the settings I need in TMPGEnc to overcome these
problems. I currently just use the default settings for a VCD?
I don"t know what you mean by the quality you expect from vcd.Generally standard vcd is lower quality than vhs video tape and 1/5 to 1/10th the quality of dvd..but you are in luck because the quality is directly related to the bitrate, so you can do one of two things, do super-vcd or raise the bitrate of your vcd ,if you raise the bitrate of your vcd to about 1650kbs you will get about 60 minutes of video per cd, with much better quality than the standard template..and with super-vcd you will get about 40 minutes on a cd useing the standard svcd template...but beware cuz not all players will play non standard vcd"s but most will.......
ps:To raise the bitrate you will need to load the "unlock.mfc" template...
Thanks, for the reply, I will try increasing the bit-rate to improve the quality. Is the 'unlock.mfc' available as part of the standard package or
something I will need to download it?
Ideally, I would like to create SVCD's to get better quality but I don't believe my DVD player LG-3350E doesn't support them (only VCD's). Any recommendations on a decent DVD player that will play SVCD's?
I just recently made two VCDs myself from an .avi source, though the ORIGINAL source material was Video8 (VHS quality) played through a Digital8 camcorder w/DV output. The first VCD I made using Pinnacle Express, and it was blurry such that it is difficult to watch. Since I had just discovered TMPGEnc, I decided to give IT a try, to compare the result, and the VCD I made using TMPGEnc (standard settings using the wizard) were radically better than PE, and very "watchable" though they still of course look like the home movies that they are.So "TMPGEnc is better than PE for making VCDs".
The other observation I made in this test was that my Sony DVD player did a much better job of decoding the VCD than did my other player, a Panasonic PalmTheater. The VCD was quite blocky on the Pana, despite that it has a tiny screen (LCD, what, 4 inches?) and the Sony was playing into a 41" rear projection set. The Pana PalmTheater must therefore have a weak MPEG1 decoder? Or the conversion to the LCD has problems?
TMPGEnc does a nice job w/VCDs so you should either use the Wizard, or look elsewhere in your system for the source of your blockiness.
I had the same problem when I started some time ago. I have a DVD player (Philips DV710) who can play CD/CDRW/VCD's. After using TMPGEncoder I now create XVCD's, this means higher bitrate and/or aspect ratio.
You have to set the output option to MPEG1-VCD(non standard) and convert with highest quality (obvious), CBR. Burn with Nero or Ulead software. This should work (even with background music and menues).
You can even raise the bitrate up to 2520 kbps.
Quality should improve a lot.
The unlock.mfc can be loaded by clicking the tab "load" (right corner below).
About SVCD's :
my player couldn't play SVCD's (according to Philips spec). After remote hack now even plays XSVCD's.
Check VCDHelp.com under tab Others/DVD players/Compatibility-list for players and locate your own player to check out what is possible.
When I was converting Zoolander from avi (divx) to supervideo cd, an error message appears saying "Illegal floating decimal point calculation order". Now, what can I do?
I bet you downloaded the avi file of the net like "kaaza" or "grokster" or something like that...Downloaded avi files are notorius for being full of corrupted frames,and that is what your problem is,you file has corrupted sectors in it,and the only way to get around this error is to turn off your "cpu" optimizations.. to do this you first go to"enviromental settings" then to the "cpu" tab and uncheck the "SSE" box, then you go to "settings" then to "quantize matrix" and un-check the "use floating point DCT" this should solve your problem,accept you can get this error if you do anything with your computer while encodeing, so if you are encodeing don"t do anything with your computer till the encodeing is finished......
Whenever i load an mpeg-2(SVCD) file in TMPGEnc the program crashes and askes me if i want to tell microsoft about it. Before i was able to load the same files and it would work fine. Can you help me fix that please?
Post your opinion of the best Settings for clearity/quality in DIVX 4 codec here or the bitrate you consider the most used by you for such endeavour. Thanks Tmpgenc Rules!!~NewtronX
The higher the bitrate the better I use divx4.12, 2 pass or 1 pass quality based 6000kbs 100% encodeing quality(can only be set with quality based)100% cpu useage ,de-interlace if applicable,max decodeing perameters, and It comes out allmost exactly like the original,and there is no such thing as overkill when it comes to quality.......
you can encode "mov" movies but you need the "mov" plugin, I"m not sure were to get it cuz I don"t do "mov" films but i"m sure someone will post were you can get it.....
I'm testing tmpgenc during the 30 day trial. First project I want to tackle is the creation of new setup screen for my dvd player.
I extracted the mpg2 files from firmware. Opened in tmpgenc and sequenced to bmp file.. looks great.
edited my bmp file using MSPAINT (very simple change, I'm testing). opened bmp file in tmpgenc and save to mpg2...
no matter WHAT settings I change, the resulting mpg2 file is extremely bad looking. Lots and lots of jpg-type compression loss. I should have enuf horsepower to do this, Win2k on a P4- 1.5 GHz...
maybe try to encode your "bmp" images to avi then try to encode them to mpeg,I have done simular stuff with "cool 3d" I make animated trailers for my svcd"s in "bmp" then convert them to avi then encode them to mpeg useing the cg/animation setting in "tmpgenc".Maybe this would work for you....
Are you using a high enough bitrate for the conversion.
I have converted bitmaps to MPEG once or twice and they have come out perfectly.
So make sure you have a high enough bitrate set when converting.
Also what player do you have. I'm interested to know how you extracted the setup screen from the firmware and how you are able to change it.
recently, I was working on Titanic...and I noticed that the audio track
disappears entirely in TmpgEnc! I used DVD2avi to produce the sound track, but when I go to encode in TmpgEnc, there is no audio.
However, when I use Dvd2avi on the VOB files 2 at a time, then encode in segments, the audio is fine.
Has anyone else noticed this with long movies?
cheers,
Don
Sometimes audio problems like this can be solved by getting a different audio encoder like "toolame" or "scmpx" thes encoders work with "tmpgenc" as the "external tool" in the "enviromental settings".You can find these encoders on any search engine......
Thanks a bunch, ASHY for the suggestion/info on CQ as opposed to CQVBR or 2Pass. I hadn't tried CQ because I was under the impression that the CQ was more for when high quality was necessary and file size wasn't an issue.
Using CQ with quality set to 70 and max bitrate set to 5000, I was able to get results that were almost identical to the 2pass settings I mentioned earlier without the 18-hour encoding time. It wasn't even necessary to enable softening.
Loading the test file (of the same scene) in BitRate Viewer showed much more variation in the bitrate than CQ_VBR had given.
Just as I would have expected.
Like I said the 'CQ' setting gives much the same result as the 2 pass when viewing with Bitrate viewer and usually produces smaller file sizes and better quality than if you were to use the same settings in 'Automatic VBR'.
while trying to convert an avi file to mpeg , tmpeg gets so fasr through the process then comes up with this error , i have scanned the file for any nreadable sectors with vitual dub , and all seems fine , could anyone shed a little light on this for me please
thanx
just tried my 1st svcd, wasnt sure if dvd plays it, it did. picture went from top to bottom but only half way across. i had my aspect at 4:3 i must need to change something but not sure what. thanx
Make sure the "video arrange method" is set at "full screen (keep aspect ratio)" and your movie should look as close the the original size as possible...
I have an audio problem when I transfer my video from my DV camcorder to my computer through the 1394 port and VideoWave software. Video is OK. Audio is not continuous. When I do the transfer, there is nothing I can do for audio setup. I checked the audio is 32 KHz, Stereo and 16 bits. I would appreciate it if anyone could give me help to solve the problem.
If you use the wizard for this.........Don't!
You just go to the main window and click the LOAD-button.
There you have several files (.mcf).
If you choose one of those there will be no more problem.