A friend's VCD's play on my dvd, but when I make my own they don't. I'm pretty sure i've encoded and burned right. The files are on the disc but when i put in the dvd player it says no disc. I've asked him, he had no idea. Could it be the cd-burner I'm using or possibly the os system, which is 98. It will play on the computer though. Any ideas would be appreciated.

explain what u did...did u burn the files as a vcd? in your burning software?

yes burned as vcd, will play on media player but not on dvd. I have tried nero and vcdeasy, but still no sucess. When I look at the vcd after its burned it does have the files its suppose to. Do I need some kind of a menu maybe?

Have you tried playing VCDs on your DVD before? Not all DVDs support VCDs and also not all support burnt CDs...

Yes vcd's do play on the dvd. I'm just trying to figure out where the problem is. Not sure if its in the burning or the encoding, but haven't had any errors on either one. I use tmpgenc and have burned with nero and vcdeasy. Have files on the vcd once it's burned, but i must be missing something somewhere.
When ecoding have tried pal and nstc, although dvd supports both. It's a classic 102 dvd. From what i have read so far, no one has had any problems with them. But when I pop the vcd in it keeps saying no disc. I've wasted about 12 cd-r's on trying everything, almost ready to give up

Use CD-RW"S...

sounds like you encoded mpeg2 (svcd) which will not play on many dvd players

yes use cd-rw when experimenting....please...don't waste so many cd-rs..are u using the vcd template? if not then use them (load button) to get the correct settings...and choose ntsc or pal accoring to the framerate of your source they must be the same). Also make sure the audio gets encoded properly....always use wav with tmpgenc....or if converting a mpg, demux out the mp2 and remux with the encoded video etc....if all that fails then maybe the laser in your burner is getting weak....

I have had the problem before with the NO DISC" using a Panasonic DVD player. With my player it has a lot to do with what brand of disc I use. I cannot get CD-R's to play at all, says WRONG FORMAT. But yet I can use Roxio ver.4 and burn CD-RW's all day long. I have found that the Maxell 700 MB CD-RW's work bet for me. Every once in a while I will get one that won't work at all no matter what I try.

I have had the problem before with the NO DISC" using a Panasonic DVD player. With my player it has a lot to do with what brand of disc I use. I cannot get CD-R's to play at all, says WRONG FORMAT. But yet I can use Roxio ver.4 and burn CD-RW's all day long. I have found that the Maxell 700 MB CD-RW's work bet for me. Every once in a while I will get one that won't work at all no matter what I try.

i will try the cd-rw and see if that works, did also buy different cd-r's. Not sure how to check if laser's getting weak on burner, but did have alittle trouble burning some music, something with overrun buffer. It is encoded in mpeg1 use vcd 2.0 when burning. Have encoded correctly, and even uncorrectly just to see if it would work. Although I thought you could convert from pal to nstc using tmpgenc. But have also did do the template with the correct source. After the cd is burned and it plays on media player then im assuming that everything went correctly with encoding and burning. So i'll see what happens with the new discs i bought. And will try the cd-rw although im pretty sure my dvd doesn't play them. Thanks for the suggestions

Not all types of disks play as VCDs, it may just be that you have to change the maker of the disk that you are using. Either switch to your friends (cause you know it works) or go to http://www.vcdhelp.com/ and go under DVD players, then find your DVD player to see EXACTLY what disks will and won't play in your system.

I'm using a registered TMPGENC Plug 2.58 and I can't change any of the settings whether I run the wizard or not. I want to change bit rate, but it is greyed out and I can't make any changes.

What's the trick?

load the unlock.mcf template in the extras folder

Can any one tell me where I can find virtual dub. I need to use this because some of the films Ive down loaded, when I use tmpge cant get any sound.

just use a search engine like google.....its.easy enough http://www.virtualdub.org/

Hi when i try to encode the d2v and the wav at 24% i receive an error about ntdll.dll what i neeed to do ?

thnaks
everything stop there

I have never seen this error whith Tmpgenc before..the ntdll.DLL File is a Kernel Driver for you operateing system and shouldn"t be accessed while encodeing accept through MSVCR.DLL but it shouldn"t cause problems...So No help here...

I have made MPEG1 and MPEG2 files with Tsunami (TMPGEnc) with no problem. They play just fine on the computer and on an APEX AD1100w DVD player burned through NERO as (X)SVCD or (X)VCD. The question I have is in regards to the errors I always get when I open TMPG and close TMPG. On openning TMPG I get the following error...
At Address 02CEDB4A Read error occured at address 02CEDB4A

Click ok and everything seems to work just fine. On closing TMPG I get...
Run Time Error 216 at 0003D9F4
This error keeps popping up everytime I click OK, another window comes up with the same thing. Won't go away until I CTRL+ALT+Del to end task of the error.

Any ideas on why this would happen?

Source files are AVI files encoded with Pinnacle capture card in the DV codec directly off MiniDV camera. Running WIN98SE on an AMDK6 500mHz system. Any suggestions would be fantastic!

-mamapajama

Problem Solved. Rearranged VFAPI plugin priorities.

To what

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/userguides/94288.php

while encoding from avi to mpeg2, I keep receiving an error saying (index of scan line is out of range). can anyone help!!!!

That error is usually a problem with the AVI File it self and i don"t know of a Way to fiX it..it is very common with Files downloaded off the net..You can try frame serveing it..or try a different encoder if you can tmpgenc to work on it but another encoder might have the same problem...

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.