Im am converting standart avi files to mpeg for vcd. Most are working great. Both in video and Audio. Some other files only have video and there is no audio. Can someone help

Gerry

You need to extract the audio from the AVI file to WAV format with Virtual Dub and use that as the audio source..Tmpgenc sometimes Chokes on Compressed audio formats...

I am trying to encode a avi file to mpeg and while it is encoding it sometimes comes up with an error message about a 'decimal point'

Any help on how to solve this would be greatly apprecitated.

This error is usually caused by your avi file..Usually with files downloaded off the net, there is probably a corrupted header or a few corrupted frames..Especially if it happens at the same spot every time..You can get rid of the error by going to "Options" to "enviromental settings" to "CPU" un "Un-Check" SSE and SSE-2, then go to the regular settings to "Quantize matrix" and "Un-Check" the "Use Floating point DTS"..now you shouldn"t get the error but the encodeing will take a lot longer because of not utilizeing the SSE and SSE-2 optimizations of your CPU..the way to not get this error is to not use Downloaded files...

My friend sent me a copy of 2.53.35.130 and it does include an "other" section on the wizard first page. I have been doing some DVD rips using Clad, and the quality of putting a whole film on 1 disc has been perfect.

Have also tried putting a long film on 1 disc, Lord of the rings, and again, it worked perfectly as a VCD.

I"m sure you Believe that..My first Few Vcd"s that I did I though they were awesome But over time when you start experimenting with other formats and doing XSVCD/XVCD and even Mini-DVD and you look back at the first 100 or so Disks you did and they don"t Quite look as good as you thought they did back then..But I guess that"s progress .Find out what exact version of Tmpgenc your friend has and let us Know as I would like know what options you are talking about..I have tried every demo and Plus version since Tmpgenc first came out and I don"t Think I remember these options...Cheers

WHY, WHY, WHY??!! r u creating a new thread on the same subject. ONCE is enough. It will not get your post answered any quicker, but will probably get it deleted or ignored. DONT DO IT cuz it's very annoying! and breaks the rules of this BBS.

I asked you in your previous post on the same subject what version your friend was using, I see he is using v2.53.35.130 and yes it is possible to create your own template called other for the wizard in the earlier versions, but not in the recent versions.

As for putting a whole movie on one disk then all I can say is you must be easily pleased or need an eye check up.
The quality of VCD movies on 2 disks is substandard never mind 1, but then again you are obviously a beginner and haven't developed an eye for quality yet.

ASHY

Actually I have just discovered it is also possible to create templates for the Wizard in the new versions also.

If you need info how then post back in this thread, don't create another.

ASHY

Ohh..I know what you mean now...Those settings don"t come with Tmpgenc you have to make them yourself..That screen Just shows the available templates that are in the "templates folder" so if you want a different Format option then you have to Make your own Template and Put it in the "templates folder"...

>WHY, WHY, WHY??!! r u creating a new thread on the same subject. ONCE is enough. It will not get your post answered any quicker, but will probably get it deleted or ignored. DONT DO IT cuz it's very annoying! and breaks the rules of this BBS.
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>I asked you in your previous post on the same subject what version your friend was using, I see he is using v2.53.35.130 and yes it is possible to create your own template called other for the wizard in the earlier versions, but not in the recent versions.
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>As for putting a whole movie on one disk then all I can say is you must be easily pleased or need an eye check up.
>The quality of VCD movies on 2 disks is substandard never mind 1, but then again you are obviously a beginner and haven't developed an eye for quality yet.



Trashy....sorry Ashy,
My eye for detail is perfectly fine, thanks for asking. You obviously are doing something very wrong. I only came on here to let people know of this additional template feature...not to be insulted by the likes of a prat like you!!!
It works very well and there is minimal degradation from DVD quality so as for you.........STICK IT!!!!
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>ASHY

i have a problem with converting xvid-encoded avi's to mpeg-1. the resulting picture isnt smooth, the sound seems ok but the picture doesnt flow as well. could it be something in the envrionment settings? any help would be much appreciated.

That sounds like a Frame rate problem to me, It sound like you are encodeing to a different frame raye as the source avi file...You allways have to encode to the same frame rate as the avi file you are encodeing and if you don"t you will get Jumpy playback...so check that the frame rate of the Mpeg is the same as the avi file...

ok..i will try that..thanks a lot

Why does the movie I am encoding slow way down after about 14% is done? It goes very fast for the first 13% then it slows down.

It could be a few things like the most common is probably that at that point of the movie is were the Immages get more complicated and harder to encode, as long as it doesn"t stop encodeing....

what's tmpgenc.vfp?what's its use?and where to get it?thanks

It's the VFAPI plugin for TMPG project files. Get it from the TMPG website, but don't look too hard....

ASHY

I also have the problem of video and audio out-of-sync. Is there any way that I can automatically copy my mpg file while applying a constant time-shift to the audio, without splitting the two streams and using an audio processor program to change the audio file length? This way, I could minimize the gradual shift - it could be early at the start and late at the end, but over a 40 min program it would be not so noticable.

How are you encodeing your files(what method) and what type of files are you ancodeing ? and are you doing any sort of format conversions (EG)ntsc to pal ect)?

I want to make a 16x9 DVD. What size should my raw video file be? I don't want it to stretch at all. Thanks.

J

720x352 NTSC or 720x400 PAL.

I just re-read your post. The actual size should be 720x480 NTSC or 720x576 PAL. The sizes in the previous post are the sizes without the black bars added.

There are several other sizes available for DVD authoring, but the above is most common to DVD.

ASHY

1. QUESTION:I am using TMPGEnc (2.57) to make quite a lot of mpeg2 (SVCD, VBR CQ) files (music videos, captured AVIs by VDub). Beacuse of various sources of video, I must then somehow level volume in these files, which means dmultiplex to audio and video, correct audio volume by GoldWave, encode audio again, and multiplex back. From time to time (about 3% files) it happens when multiplexing, that file (which was created in TMPGEnc !) reports "Stream read error" in step 3 - "Rewriting SVCD header". Does anybody know what might be wrong ? Repeating the process doesn't help, but source file seems to be ok, when played in PowerDVD.

2. REQUEST: Possibility of demultiplexing and multiplexing (without merging of course) more files at a time would be very welcomed ! Do you how many clicks I must make when mux/demux for example 50 files ?

You seem to be doing things a pretty crazy, complicated and long winded way.

Firstly the error you are talking about is a bug in v2.57. Download v2.58.

Secondly why don't you normalize the sound as you encode in TMPG rather than extracting the sound and re-encoding.

Thirdly instead of extracting the sound then normalizing and then re-encoding which is pointless in encoding the audio in the first place.
Just extract the audio in the source files you have to a wav file with Virtualdub then normalize in your audio editing program if you wish to do it this way (but TMPG can do this for you itself) then load the normalized wav as your audio source in TMPG when you encode.

This saves all this unecessary messing about you are doing with de-muxing and re-muxing.

If you really do want to extract the audio from the finished encoding just load the file into the 'de-multiplexer' and double click the audio stream. This will extract the audio only as it's unecessary to demultiplex the video aswell.
When you wish to re-mux the normalized audio simply load the new audio into the 'simple multiplexer' and your original MPEG movie as the video source and your movie will be muxed with the new audio and the old one removed.


Last but not least to save your self all the above hassle. Why don't you just load the AVI's in sequence using the 'APPEND' function in Virtual dub and then frameserve to TMPG. TMPG will then treat all the files as one big file. You can then use the normalizing function in TMPG to bring the audio in the files to the same level.


ASHY

I don't understand what you mean by if i don't have a picture on my preview screen in tmpgenc to try and use virtual dub and if it works to use it as frame serve to tmpgenc please walk me threw this i am new to all of this" i am a dummie"

If you don"t have a Picture then you need to raise the "direct show file reader" but if that don"t work then you use "Virtual Dub" which is a Program that edits Captures video and Frameserves avi files ...If you don"t know what Frame serveing is then you need to go to school and here"s were you first lesson is...http://www.vcdhelp.com/ this site is dedicated to the newbie...

I'm using DVD2AVI to make d2v and wav files from VOB files. Then I load those files into TMPGENC using the Project Wizard. I have the Video-CD NTSC template loaded. I create alot of d2v and wav files for a batch encode job. I then run the batch job. Now, if I try to load the files into Nero, it tells me my mpg files are not vcd compliant. Am I doing something wrong?

If I use this program called mpeg-corrector, it appears to fix the problem with Nero finding them non-compliant. But I wonder why I can't generate compliant files in the first place.

I burned a VCD with Nero with the resulting corrected file and found (on an APEX DVD player) some spots had some "digital blocking." The digital blocking is not observed if I simply play the file using Media Player.

I ran the original mpg files through VCDGear (which said there were 1000's of errors), burned another VCD with this file and found the "digital blocking" was gone. VCDGear appears to have fixed the problem - even though I read on previous messages not to trust VCDGear.

If I try to edit the VCDGear "fixed" file with TMPGENC, I get an "illegal video stream" error.

Help, I'm confused ...
I'd like to convert these VOB files to MPG, edit the MPG, and then burn good quality VCDs.

You should make sure you aren"t encodeing to plain "Mpeg1" but are encodeing to VCD Mpeg1 files and VCD files are differant..To figure out if the file is a VCD file or a Plain Mpeg1 file just load the Mpeg file into the "Merge+Cut" or "Simple Multiplex" with the "Video-CD" setting in the Dropdown menu and set the output file and click "Run" it will then proscess the file so it has a VCD header on it which is probably why you are getting the error with Nero..But if after this you still get an error with nero then just ignore it and burn it anyways...

Up to now I've always been fine with DV avi files.
But recently Ive been getting these unsupported file error messages. I changed the priority of that thing to +2 and it worked. But now its stopped having an effect. I just dont understand it all. Is there a patch for me to get?

Try Frameserveing the file...