im trying to encode some video into mpeg-2 for DVD and almost everytime no matter what program i use, i get these occasional green flashes that only last one frame. the weird thing is, none of these errors are in the original AVI file. ive tried TMPGENC 1.2, LSX version 3.5, LSX 1.2 plugin for premiere and they all do it. i even tried changing the bitrate around and it still does it. does anyone have any ideas on what might be causing this or better yet, how to solve it?

thanks a million for any and all help

When I convert a file to mpg, the video does not show up when I try to play the file after it is complete. I am nto sure if I am missing something or what. Please help

Usually if there is a Picture in the Tmpgenc window while encodeing then there will be a picture in the file but if there is no picture in the window then there won"t be a Picture in the file, you can probably correct this by going to "Options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi Plugins" and raise the "Direct Show" to "2"...

I trying to turn a vcd into a dvd.I ripped the vce using VCDgear v3.07b15 and it gave me and mpg file that my dvd athoring programs can't understand. I don't want to encode it again cause I will loose quality is there another way to change it and keep the quality? If not what tmpge properties should I use to keep the quality in mpge-1 formate and mpge-2?

Why would you want to make a DVD out of a VCD, the Quality won"t be any better than the VCD..but if you have your heart set on itthen, here are a few tips that might help..For somereason a lot of Mpeg files that VCDGEar rips seem to have some sort of problem with them..Try ripping it as a DAT file then load then renam the dat as Mpeg and load it into the "De-Multiplex" and seperate the audio and the video, you will need to Re-sample the audio to 48,000HZ for it to be DVD Compliant.after re-sampleing the audio use the multiplexor the mux the video and audio back together.I guess you will be makeing a Mpeg1 DVD with 352+240 resolution so you have to be sure that the authoring program you are useing will burn Mpeg1 DVD"S, not all will but most of the upper scale ones will....I hope this helps a bit...

regarding this message i posted a few days ago..........

im just wondering if anyone else out there has the same problem as me...for ages now ive been unable to convert from avi to mpeg with tmpg without the sound being out of sync.The avi plays in sync with "power DVD" ...but when the wav is extracted with virtuadub and inserted into tmpg ..then encoded its always out of sync...no matter how much i retard or advance the audio (done in source range).
Its as if the audio has been stretched or shrunk in size but the video and audio are same length ???
This never happened before so ive done summit wrong :(
Ive even encoded the same film which was ok before i had this trouble and even that is now of out of sync ???
I dont want to do a full system wipe just to get it back to normal


first of all..many thanks to minion for answering my question..(nice site) ....but i tried that program and it wouldnt open my avi's

second....after all the headaches / trials an errors and searching the net....i have found wot was throwing the audio out of sync on avis

thirdly virtualdub tells you wot to do when u insert the video and the sound is corrupt

fourth..i followed it and it worked...lol...doh

if anyone else has the same problem i had, ill gladly give a step by step guide

keep up the good work Minion an Ashy...we will always need peeps like u

Yes Tomo, i'm interested in how you did it ! i am having the same problem.. I am trying to edit my mpg's into different sizes (like removing commercials from shows etc..).. so any help is appreciated..

I am having the same problem. Please give me your step by step guide.

ok...this how to get your avi movies audio in sync when converting with tmpg.

first of all you need to open virtualdub
then insert the avi movie and an error box will come up telling you the audio is an improper encoding and there will be a audio skew of 45204 milliseconds or wotever the number is.

then we need to extract and ucompress the audio from the movie.
click audio in virtualdub and then pick full processing mode.
then click file and save wav as usual.

result: one uncompressed audio file but with a larger size than usual (about 1.1 gig for 1 hour 45 mins of movie.

then insert ur movie in tmpg along with the extracted audio file an encode as normal

the resulting vcd file ends up the same size as usual but with perfectly synced up audio.

Thanks, I'll try it.

I have a long AVI (43 mins) but I only want to encode certain parts of it.
For example, the 5-10 minute section, the 20-25 minute section, and the
40-43 minute section. Is there a way to tell TMPGEnc to encode only those
sections into one MPG, without encoding them all individually? The cut
editing feature doesn't seem to support this?

once you have your screen up and the movie you want downloaded click on settings go to advanced and then click on source range it will show movie
move the bar to where you want to start and then click on set start frame number will appear in then start frame then movie the bar to where you want to end and click on set end frame this will only code what you pick
hope that helps

once you encode then go to vcdeasy and add files make sure you name all the files in tmpg like file 1 file 2 file 3 and then when you use vcdeasy it can put them all on one disk

The feature you require does exist in TMPG.

Double click the source range filter then using the 'Start' and 'End' buttons select the part you wish to cut out then click the 'Cut editing' button.
Choose 'Cut currently selected area' and that part will not be encoded.

Follow the above steps for each part you wish to cut out and it won't be encoded, but the rest will.

ASHY

Thanks Ashy, that's exactly what I wanted! :)

already have a movie in mpg form i downloaded from kazaa now i want to split it to get it on a cd, but tmpg won't let me any suggetions out there as to another program that will do this for me???????????????

If TMPG won't let you split it then there is a good chance it is not a valid MPEG file and thus wont work on a cd as a VCD in a DVD player.

ASHY

What is the error you receive from TMPG when trying to split?

ASHY

blazing saddles mpg file can not be created
i downloaded it from kazaa

You can allways try a different Mpeg editor like Mpeg2VCR or M2-Edit pro you can download an older version of each of these programs at h**p://apachez.net/ in the tools section...

LOL..Holy cross r u trying to create an MPEG file from an MPEG file? If so rename your output to something different than source MPEG.

ASHY

downloaded ulead dvd workshop to make vcd menus...however i only have a cd-rw burner not a dvd burner......i get a power callibration error when i try to burn.....is this becuase the software only supports dvd burners?....or is there another reason.

No it isn"t because it only supports DVD Burners cuz I use it with my CD Burner, there are a few up dates at the Ulead Web site to make it compatible with more types of burners, and while burning you have the choince of 2 burning engines une is the "Ulead" burning engine and the other is "NTI" burning engine, use the "NTI" burning engine Cuz the Ulead one Comes up with errors all the time...That is all I can think of...Good luck..

thanks will try that :-)

yup, the NTI engine worked :-) ty minion

ok so i want to make some vcds. i am downloading the movies in 2 sections (part1 and part2) off of morpheus. Now i know the next step is to convert each one from .avi to .mpg so i run TMPGEnc i am assuming the settings should be as follows: MPEG-1 VIDEO, 352X240, 4:3 525 line (NTSC), 25 fps, Constant Bitrate, 1150, (motion search precision)-Normal. The stream type is on System (video+audio). I am also wondering under settings what my audio stream type should be audio layer I or II? Does this look correct? When i try to load the selected .avi file into TMPGEnc it says -"selected file name" cannot open or unsupported- As for what to do with them once they are mpeg format i am sure i will figure out as i have been burning music cd's for some time now. Do i have to burn each part on a seperate disc? Hope you "guys" dont think i am too stupid but i dont want to waste a dozen cd's trying to figure this out.
thanks for all yur help in advance
Sheri
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almost right..but its 29.97 fps for ntsc.use virtual dub to convert the audio to wav first and add to tmpgenc seperatly. U don't need to worry about the settings for a vcd mpg if u load a template. It contains all the correct settings for u.Make sure u use the same frame rate as the source as tmpgenc is not good at frame rate conversions. And as for making a vcd from the mpg goes u need burning software that burns cds as vcd formatt. Vcds have special folders on them and burning the mpg straight to a cd will not work.Once u convert your avis u will know how many dics u'll need. vcds have a certain number of mb per minute and u can't change that. If u are getting 'unsupported' msgs then make sure the direct show multimedia file reader in options/environmental settings/VFAPI tab is set to priority 2

what do you mean "make sure you use the same frame rate as the source"? and can i download virtual dub somewhere?

He means you have to encode to the same frame rate as the avi you are encodeing and each template has it"s own frame rate like "NTSC i2 29.9FPS" and "NTSC Film is 23.9FPS" and "Pal Is 25FPS" so you have to find out what the Frame rate of your AVI file is and encode to that frame rate..You can get "Virtual-Dub" at http://virtualdub.org/...

Hi folks-

I have a problem that TMPGenc doesn't seem to recognize the Pinnacle moving transition effects (ie burst windows etc). I'm trying to work around it, but am I missing a setting or something?

Thanks

this extra explanation may be better (as posted on adobe forum)
Hi folks-

I'm using:
premiere 6.01
pinnacle dv500
TMPGEnc (MPG convertor)
AVISynth plug-in

I've finished my project (55 mins) in premiere and wanted to export it to mpeg2 and burn a dvd (natch). All was going well, albeit s-l-o-w-l-y, and I ended up with a 2.5gb mpg file. However, when I viewed the file, I noticed that any pinnacle flying moves were simply ignored (the out frame and the next in frame are frozen through the transition).

I thought I had rendered the whole project, so I don't understand why.

In the meantime, I am exporting an AVI and will then convert from the AVI file, but is there any reason why I can't get those transitions from the timeline?

Any help much appreciated...

Barney

That is pretty strange that the transitions and effects arent showing up..I guess you are useing AVISynth to Export the file from Premier to Tmpgenc and I think that is were the problem probably is..There are a Bunch of High Quality mpeg encoders that you can use as premier Plugins like CCE or Procoder and they will produce as good or better results in Mpeg2 at tmpgenc..you can find these plugins on the net if you look in the right places..

I am having problems with my mpeg2 file. After creating my clip in Pinnacle and Exporting as avi huffyuv v 2.1.1 480x480 with audio 44.1 khz pcm 16-bit. Next using TMPGE to export as mpeg2. The audio has quick pauses in the final Mpeg2 File. It is driving me crazy!!! How do I fix this problem?

try a demux first

what is a demux

Maybe use something else to Encode the audio to Mp2..What I do with most of my Captures is Load my AVI file into "Sound Forge" which extracts the audio to Mpeg audio then use tmpgenc to just encode the Video then use the "Mpeg Tools" Multiplexor to Multiplex the audio and video together...by the wat Multiplexing or Muxing is the joining of audio and video streams into a single stream and De-multiplexing or Demuxing is the seperateing of audio and video streams...and listen to the original audio and make sure that it isn"t cutting out either...

Im having a bit of trouble Importing seperate Audio (PCM ) and a pefect Mpeg 2 video stream created by Tmpgenc, The frustrating thing is I know Mydvd does do this as Ive done it before,
When I go to GET MOVIES I select both the video I have encoded, and the Audio I have striped from the origanal captured movie (PCM un compressed) using the output to wave file,
There is no audio being brought into the project, but If I compress the audio, it will, I don't want to use the compressed audio as It is pretty crap !

Any help I would be very greatful

Wez

Well this seems like a Problem with your Authoring program and not Tmpgenc, and Not all compressed audio formats are crap maybe you should try "Dolby Digital AC3" I"m sure that your Authoring program will accept it...Is there a forum for your Authoring program? Maybe they can help as this doesn"t seem like a tmpgenc problem..

thankyou for your reply, I will try what you have suggested, I am using mydvd to
Author, and it does not support AC3.

Whenever I made a scvd with tmpegenc svcd wizard, I have problems with large moving objects. For example if camera moves slowly from left to right or some large object, maybe a car moves through the screen slowly it jerks about every 1 second.

Anyone know what setting I should try to change to get rid of this problem. My source is mainly divx.

FD

Are you creating stndard SVCD?
It is possibly a field order problem. Change the field order to the opposite one you have used.

ASHY

Yes I was creating a standard scvd with tmpgenc wizard. Changin field order doesn't solve the problem. Please take a look at my sample file which shows what the problem is.

http://www.sunpoint.net/~miaijo/video/test.mpg

Ah, Princess Mononoke, a PAL-Version.
Did you do a Framerat-Conversion?
What exactly was the Source (Framerate)?
My Version of this Movie is made with iVTC to 23.97 FpS and has a SpeedUp to 25 FpS, there's no jerky Motion.

I think B_Racer is correct, it looks like you have changed the framerate of the original.

ASHY