The problem I'm having is I'm trying to convert an AVI file to Mpeg to record it to a DVD disk.

It say's that it will take 13 hours to complete it, that ok but its been running for 3 hours now its says that is progress is 25% but the source position hasn't moved off of 00:00:00

Is this normal or am I wasting my time?

I'm using TMPGEnc Plus Version 2.54.37.135 which I paid for
My system is a dual PIII 1 gig, gig of ram, 3 80gig seagate 7200 rpm h/drives & running win-xp pro

Thanks in advance, Orbie

if i'm reading it right it seems your set at "vbr" which will scan the movie first then place the bitrate where needed. once the scan completes it will start to encode and the frame numbers will start moving.

I downloaded a movie and converted it from avi to mpeg now when I try to burn it on to a disk it says I don't have enough room on cd. I don't have a dvd burner but I do have a dvd player so that's why I have to burn it on a regular 80 min cd.
So is there a way to split the movie into to parts? If so how?

Well You should know how big your Mpeg file is before you burn it to CD! And It isn"t very ecinominal to just Fill up one cd-r and then Just put a couple of minutes on the second cd-r..So before you Start encodeing you should figure out how long the AVI file is and Figure out how many Disks you are going to Need then Adjust the Bitrate so that all of the space is filled up on each CD-R and that way you will get the best Quality possible without wasteing valuble CD space...To Split the file go to "File" to "Mpeg Tools" to "Merge&Cut" then load in your file and I"m sure you can figure it out from there it is Very easy...

Explain some more pls

Explain some more pls

how do you do the second half

Thanks Minion for the help! I will give it a try. My first burn of sriderman didn't come out half bad but for some reason I have japenese sub titles on the bottom lol!
So if I get what your saying I can strecth the video to fill both cd's maybe and my picture will be sharper and better?

I hooked up my vcr through a tv wonder device and put a movie on the computer. I want to make it into a vcd so I'm able to play it on my dvd player. I think I converted it into a vcd wtih TMPGEnc but nothing happens when I try to play the cd. If any one can help me I would appreciate it greatly, I've been trying to figure it out but needless to say I haven't.

u have to burn the cd as a vcd .....puting the vcd mpg directly onto the cd won't work.....vcds have to a special folders on them etc......your cd burning software has to have a vcd option.....ie burn as a video cd

Hi - assuming the file plays OK on your PC - how did you burn it? I take it that you realise that you need to burn it as a special VCD disk - not a data disk with the mpg file on it. Try downloading VCDEasy and burning a disk with that - it'll check the source and burn a correct copy - and its free.

Good luck

I have a problem enconding with tmpgenc and virtualdud for de subtitles.
when seeing the film in my dvd the image sometimes stops, not for long but we can see that the image stops, specialy in fast moves , can anyone tell what do i have to do to sove this.

the encode is from divx to svcd... i use highest quality and i tried to put up the bitrate but nothing seems to work...


tanks in advance
nuno

The image stops where? On your DVD player?
If thats's the case you should lower the bitrate not raise because it is too high for your player.

If it does the same when played on the PC then it is another problem, post back with a little more clearer info in that case.

ASHY

yes it is on the dvd player, it does not stop for like a minute, but it stops for i say half a second and several times, hope you understand, but in the pc is the same thing, in the beguining is whem is moust noticed.


thanks in advance..
nuno

yes it is on the dvd player, it does not stop for like a minute, but it stops for i say half a second and several times, hope you understand, but in the pc is the same thing, in the beguining is whem is moust noticed.


thanks in advance..
nuno

What is the framerate of your source file and the framerate of your output? Are they different? If so this is your problem. TMPG does not do correct framerate conversion, but there are ways you can.

ASHY

tanks for the answer, the input divx is 23 frames and the output is 25 is it the problem?, can i correct it with wath???

You Mean the frame rate is 23.9FPS and 25FPS?? The way to correct this is to encode it at the same frame rate as the source file so if the file is 23.9FPS encode it at 23.9 fps...

Can you add an option to set the drop-frame flag on the MPG2 encoded files? It would make encoding for DVDs easier, some programs need drop-frame flagged MPG2 files to correctly add subtitles.

I am a registered TMPGENC Plus owner.

Dave.

That would be a Good feature cuz it would help with Keeping audio sync with some files..A 2 hour movie with 29.97FPS Drop frame time code is a second or so shorter than a plain 29.9fps file, I just noticed this recently while useing the Drop frame feature in CCE while encodeing some Analog captures and they all stayed in total sync..

I believe that feature exists but it is not translated very well.

In settings/encode mode there is "3:2 pulldown when playback". This is available for 29.97 footage. The tooltip description, again, is hard to understand but seems to indicate that the video will be analyzed and dropframe flags added.

3:2 Pulldown is Totally Different that "Drop Frame time code"....3:2 pulldown Makes 29.9FPS-NTSC to 23.9FPS-NTSC Film, were "Drop frame" is the differance between 29.9fps/30fps time code and plain 29.9fps time code...

3:2 pulldown has nothing to do with drop frame detection at all.
3:2 pulldown is a process of turning a 23.976 fps progressive movie into a 29.97 fps interlaced movie without having to speed it up.
The process involves adding extra frames per second in a certain sequence and is accomplished by the player. This is how most NTSC DVD's are made.

ASHY

Please look at the tool tip for "3:2 pulldown when playback" in the Video sheet, NOT "3:2 pulldown" in the Advanced sheet. Consider that this started as Chinese may have a translation issue:

"Output information to 3:2 pulldown when movie which is 23.96 is played. With this feature, the outputted movie would be 29.97fps. Since encoding is done with noninterlace, this would be better quality then the case of 3:2 pulldown when encoding"

My re-translation:

"Output the information (drop field flags) for progressive players to do a 3:2 pulldown when playing a movie which was originally 23.96fps. The original movie will be converted to 29.97fps during encoding but the quality will remain the same because repeated fields are not re-encoded"

Better description of that: Perform inverse 3:2 pulldown on 23.96fps movie and insert drop field flags.

In any case it looks like the original has to be 23.96 to get this feature which means you would have to do a 3:2 pulldown in the advanced page first (which is a real pain.

I just ran a little test using "3:2 pulldown when playback".

23.96 input results in a 29.97 output file. Playing the file on WinDVD shows NO interlace artifacts on 2 of 5 frames like you see if straight frame rate conversion is done.

Processing with DVD2AVI in forced film mode produces a flawless 23.96 result but I don't know if that requires drop field flags.

This all has me annoyed because I encoded a lot of 23.96 clips which DVD Workshop does not accept. It might accept the equivelent 29.97 version with flags and still play progressively.

Thanks to the original poster for making me look into this some more.

I was referring to the "3:2 pulldown when playback" under the video tab and you have just found out exactly what I said in my previous post.

3:2 pulldown is simply a flag which tells the player to perform this operation and is accomplished by the player repeating fields in a certain sequence. This results in a 23.976 fps movie playing at 29.97 fps.

The flag can quite easily be stripped by the right software such as DVD2AVI. This returns the interlaced 29.97 fps movie back to a progressive 23.976 fps movie. This can also be done by IVTC, but if you can using ForcedFilm in DVD2AVI is the better method.

I dont know of any DVD authoring software which will not accept a 3:2 pulldown movie as this is a perfectly compliant movie and is the 'norm' for NTSC DVD.

By the way, there is a program which will allow you to add the required 3:2 flags to your 23.976 fps movie to make it a compliant 29.97 fps movie even after you have encoded.
If I remember rightly it is called pulldown.exe, it is a command line program, but a GUI is available.

ASHY

One other point there is no such thing as a progressive 29.97 movie which has had 3:2 pulldown applied. It must be interlaced to produce the required fields needed so they can be repeated in the correct sequence. As you must know interlaced movies are made up of 2 interlaced fields.
3:2 pulldown is done by overlaying one frame on to 3 fields in a sequence.

ASHY

>Your response also helped me. Thank you. Now I have a question: What is the difference between a regular MPEG-2 and a program stream MPEG-2? Let us say that I used SmartRipper and demuxed the video and audio to two separate files: *.m2v and .ac3, then went ahead and converted the audio into a .wav, and would like to mux the *.m2v and the *.wav with TMPGEnc; however, I get a buffer overflow error when I attempt to do so. Your response is much appreciated.

while trying to change an avi file to mpeg2 i keep receiving the error, (INDEX OF SCAN LINE IS OUT OF RANGE (288)). CAN SOMEONE HELP.

Hi,

A short question. When I want to stop the encoding process,
it takes a very long time (there's a lot of disk access).
Is there an other way besides to kill the process in the
taskmanager?

Thanks,

Marc

The reason that Tmpgenc is still working is because it is trying to write the sequence end code on the file so it will be playable up to were you Aborted the Encodeing session..So I guess the answer it No...

Minion is right TMPG hasn't finished writing data to the file.
What you are doing could render the file unusable and I'm sure that the time you are talking about isn't really THAT long.

If you want to shorten the time it takes to finish the operation then create seperate Video and audio streams when encoding. The encoding will stop almost straight away then just multiplex the 2 together, but it seems a bit of a long winded way just for the sake of waiting a short while.

ASHY

Ok, thanks I expected something like this. Indeed the fileparts
are playable.

Marc

Even on very large files this never takes long (<10sec) on my system. Make sure your disk IO is working correctly (defragment with Perfectdisk).

If the system is old, look into upgrading.

When I convert an avi file to an mpeg, the video portion records at nearly twice the speed as the audio. In other words, the video plays back at about 175% while the audio plays back at it's normal rate.

whats the frame rate of the avi and what framerate is the resulting mpg?

Help guyss, please.......

I have 2 files, one video file in .m2v and one audio file in .mp2
But when i tried to mux them together, the resulting system was always no video (black screen), but the audio was going OK.
What did i do wrong ?????? was it the setting ??????/
Also, when it finished mux-ing, there was an error said "buffer overflow, the system might not play properly" ==> what the hack is that......??????

Please anyone help...i'm in the middle of despair now.......

OK..Did you look at the "m2v" file before you Multiplexed it??? and were did you get these files from? Did you encode them with Tmpgenc? You can sometimes Get "Buffer-underflow" errors when Muxing from trying make a SVCD out of a Mpeg2 video file and a Mpeg audio file but the Mpeg video file isn"t a SVCD mpeg2 file but a Plain Mpeg2 program stream..You can get this error because when Encodeing a SVCD file the encoder makes the svcd file out of Certain sized Data Packets which are a different size than Mpeg2 Files so if you try to mux and Mpeg2 file with the SVCD Setting the Multiplexor expects a certain sized data packet but when it recieves a different sized data packet the buffers Underflow or overflow..This can cause problems with playback..You can try to Mux it as a Mpeg2 file instead of a SVCD then run the file through the "Merge & Cut" with the SVCD Setting which will put a SVCD Header on the file so you will be able to burn it to a CD-R, but some programs will accept plain Mpeg2 file as the svcd source...I don"t know if this was your problem or not cuz You didn"t leave much to go on so this is just speculation as to what your problem might be...Good luck...

Did you use the correct stream setting when you multiplexed or did you just leave it as it was and muxed the 2 files together.

You must use the stream setting 'MPEG2 SVCD(VBR)' for SVCD not the default setting which can and usually does cause playback problems because it is not the correct setting for that kind of file.

ASHY

Hi,

Should TMPGenc take 3 hours to convert a 1 hour avi file?

If not, any suggestions why it is so slow?

Thanks

3 hours for a 1 hour film is a Fairly good speed for tmpgenc..you are lucky Some poeple have to wait 12 to 36 hours with some slower systems..But it all depends on your system..I guess if you have a 1GHZ it could take 3 hours to encode 1 Hour of AVI depending on the avi file..Tmpgenc isn"t known for being one of the fastest encoders arround, it is actually somewere in the middle..Some fast encoders are CCE and the new Main Concept encoder is really fast and good quality but those ALL cost anywhere from 3 to 50 times as much as Tmpgenc Plus....

Hmm...I see you are new to encoding. Some people are going to see your post and be quite jealous of the speed you are achieving.
3 hrs is by no means that slow, but if it's too slow for you then get the fastest encoder there is, CCE, that is if you have $2000 handy. If not upgrade your CPU.

ASHY

I have some video files in MPEG 1 format and I would like to put them on VCD. I use Video Explosion Deluxe to burn VCDs. The size of the file is 740 MB and it will not fit on 1 CD. If I cut the file to lesser size using VED it obviously recompresses the MPEG File and that is where I think the loss of resolution comes from. My question is 1) Can I use TMPGEnc program to make a VCD without altering the size of the file? 2) Can I use TMPGEnc to edit the file if (1) is not doable? 3) Will installing TMPGEnc cause other programs like the Video Editing Software and DVD Burner program like MyDVD and video capture program to malfunction? Thank you. You have a very informative web site!

740mb will easily fit on to an 80 min CDR. You can fit 800mb of MPEG data on an 80 min CDR and no TMPG will not affect your other programs.

ASHY

OK but does the unknown device error that pops up when i try to actually create the dvd mean that I need to call somebody or get in contact with dell to fix it? And minion if you wouldn't mind telling me how to rip dvd's? that would be great... however i take it you know how to burn soemthing that is more then 120 mins, so if you could explain that to me step by step in non computer lingo, as i said i am not that big of a computer guy sorry, i appreciate it very much. thanks

Try VCDhelp.com for yor step by step info.

ASHY