I have the Creative Labs Moviemaker and after encoding from VHS there is a horizontal line at the bottom of the video stream. I'm sure I once saw in either the TMPGEnc or VCDEasy help that there was a way to chop that off, but now that I need to I can't find the help page. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.

These sound like head changeover lines that are always present on tape playback.

Chopping them is possible but the material needs to be deinterlaced in order to resize the picture back to full frame. Virtualdub is a good way to go (Deint/crop/Smart Resize-Bicubic).

This is not an issue if the material is for TV viewing since that part of the frame is not visible (and you need to leave it interlaced anyway).

You don't need to deinterlace or resize the Picture!
Crop the Lines und set them to black (or use Center (custom size) in TMPGEnc).

Well, I was assuming if he didn't like the lines he was not going to want black either.

Since I archive a lot of tape footage for computer display I use the deinterlace/crop/resize method very often.

I'm sort of in agreeance with wcpaul here. It is just a simple case of using the 'clip frame' filter under setting>advanced.
Just crop off the line from the bottom. The frame will automatically be resized to full frame as long as you choose 'full screen keep aspect ratio' under the 'arrange method'

It may or may not be necessary to de-interlace first.
Check the results and if you experience interlacing artifacts then use TMPG's de-interlacing feature to de-interlace first.

ASHY

Thanks for the tips!

@ASHY

I don't think, that your way is a good way.
You are resizing a cropped Picture to full size. This will give you a wrong Aspect Ratio. We are talking about those chobby Lines at the Bottom of the Picture, right?
This is a part of the Picture, you can't see on the TV (Overscan). To set this Zone to black helps you saving Bitrate and it gives you the right Aspect Ratio. Why encoding any thing, you never can see?

BTW: Ever tried to produce a block optimized VCD or SVCD? It can look much better than the normal on, especially at low Bitrates.

VCD resized to 336x224 (336x272), letterboxed to 352x240 (352x288).
SVCD resized to 448x448 (448x544), letterboxed to 480x480 (480x576).

>We are talking about those chobby Lines at the Bottom of the Picture, right?
No we are talking about head change over lines which are present on VCR footage and looks sort of like a glass bar right at the bottom of the picture.

Like you say why encode something you wont see, so it may as well be cropped out.

>You are resizing a cropped Picture to full size. This will give you a wrong Aspect Ratio
What do you mean the aspect ratio will be wrong?
The aspect ratio will be exactly the same.
TMPG will take care of the aspect ratio itself if you set the video arrange method to 'full screen (keep aspect ratio)'
Trust me I do this ALL the time.
TMPG doesn't actually even resize the image, it simply masks the part which has been cropped with black to maintain the correct aspect ratio.

ASHY

From a professional standpoint, you want the entire field/frame full of video information except the blanking intervals.I've noticed alot of broadcasters cutting out some video information at the bottom since the turn of the century, and less ornately designed 'professional' digital video applications totally violating the NTSC standards defined way back in the 50s when RCA and NBC set the standards for the system. Of course, some say the tubes on the first color sets ever invented had richer color than their successors (due to the cheaper phosphor dyes used later) so i suppose NTSC is taking a backseat and suffering due to compliance the newer HDTV standards.

Never fear though, for those who want to maintain SOME professional integrity in their amateaur productions, The VHS artifact that creates those shifts at the bottom can be corrected with a good time base corrector, leaving you with all of the video information at it's proper asperct ratio.

Hey when i created the file it was 856 megs. Is there anyway where i can put it onto 2 cd's?

Cut it in Half with the Mpeg Tools, Or re encode it with a Higher Bitrate and Put it on 2 cd-r"s with better Quality....or you can Lower the bitrate and put it on 1 cd-r and loose Quality...

Hi
I'm using a Dazzle DVC2 to capture video and TMPGEnc to encode.
I have checked both the captured and the encoded file and they both have the same video codec 'Subtitle mixer'.
I have checked in my list of codec on the PC and this one isn't listed.
I am a bit puzzled.
Can anyone tell me if you can change the codec for capture and if anyone has hered of this 'subtitle mixer' codec.

Thanks

That has to do with your Capture software and your system and not tmpgenc..Tmpgenc doesn"t use "Codecs" persey to encode to Mpeg, tmpgenc is Basicly the Codec so it is probably a problem with the ID Tagging..If the file encodes properly and you can watch it and Burn it to disk and watch it then it"s a Mpeg file...

I downloaded 2 movies one Red Dragon and Triplexxx and when I try to encode the first it won't reconize my audio so I can't encode that with the video and even if I just try the video it doesn't do anything.
Do I need other codecs or what am I doing wrong?

oh yeah It's an avi file and trying to make it mpeg

You Probably need to Extract the audio to a WAV File and use that as the audio source, you can do this with Virtual Dub...And if you are encodeing and you don"t get a picvture try going to "Options" to "enviromental settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "direct Show" to "2"..

I am trying to encode a DivX AVI to an MPEG-1 stream for Video-CD burning. The video comes out fine but there is absolutly no audio. Here are the specs of the source file:
AUDIO
Audio Format: MPEG Layer-3
Average data rate: 22.677 Kb/second
Sample rate: 48.00 kHz
Channels: 2 (Stereo)

VIDEO
Frame width: 640 pixels
Frame height: 272 pixels
Play length: 3610.860 seconds
Frame count: 86574
Frame rate: 23.976 frames/second
Data rate: 197.962 Kb/second
Video sample size: 24 bit
Video compression: DivX codec

I have had great success with other files and this is the first time I have run into this problem. I have downloaded the latest version of TMPEGEnc and I am running a Win2K machine with a P4-1.8Ghz and 512MB RAM. Please help.

This is the most common problem poeple run into, you need to extract the audio to a WAV file with something like "Virtual Dub" and use that as the audio source in tmpgenc...

Why would you even want to convert from DivX to MPEG1?? Just copy the DivX file to your cd and play using a the DivX 2.0 player.

My problem is I am using TMPGEnc and QTreader to convert a Quicktime 5.0 MOV to MPEG1 and can't get any audio either!

>Why would you even want to convert from DivX to MPEG1?? Just copy the DivX file to your cd and play using a the DivX 2.0 player.

Because he wants to play the disk on his set top DVD player which doesn't play DIVX files.

ASHY

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...