here is my q: i got a movie from a someone approx 135 min long and all was on 1 cd, i was informed they used tmpg to encode it. when i convert using tmpg i can only get approx 75 min movie on 1 cd. are there any options i can change to compress and fit a 2 hr movie on only 1 disc? thanks

There is No way to Get 135 min on 1 CD-R and have it even close to Watchable..You are relegated to useing at least 2 CD-R"s and there is Now way around it...

i have proof right in my hand, the movie is dead ringers and it is almost as good as watching a dvd,and the whole movie is there.

LOL...I think an eye check would be appropiate here.

I agree with minion. No way can a movie 135mins long on 1 cd be anywhere near the quality of DVD.

I have been in this game for many years and know practically every aspect of encoding. I'm well aware of so called tweaked templates such as KVCD which promise a whole movie on 1 cd with near DVD quality.

Apart from it being damn near physically imposssible (unless KVCD know something that the hundreds of experts in the 'MPEG pictures group' don't know) I have often tried out these templates and observed the results, and while sometimes good results can be had, none of them are anywhere near DVD quality unless you are looking at it from the other side of the street or through a frosty window.

It seems you don't have an eye for quality or what quality means in MPEG encoding. MPEG quality isn't only about what seems to be a good image at first glance, but other factors such as the blockiness of the movie, it's sharpness and resolution and vividness. Non of which can possibly be created to a high standard with a full movie on 1 cd.

What you may think is high quality is probably a far cry from what the rest of us with trained eyes finds high quality and I'm sure in a side by side comparison if you knew what to look for you would change your mind.

ASHY

I guess Quality is in the eye of the Beholder but even the best Quality VCD will still have less than 1/4 the Defitition of a DVD Just because of the Fact that VCD uses 1/4 the resolution of a DVD.And at the Low bitrates needed to Put 2+ hours on a CD-r that makes the bitrate less than 1/10 that of a DVD and No filters or Tweaks can make up for that,But I guess that Some poeple can easily watch low Quality VCD"s without a Problem were I would Get anoyed By every little Flaw in the Picture..If you want to Try it your self then load the "Unlock.mfc" template from the "Extra" Folder then you will be able to Lower the Bitrate as Low as you like..to put 135 minutes on a CD-R you will have to lower the Bitrate down to about 650kbs that is if you also lower the audio bitrate down to 128kbs..

I have a major problem,all of a sudden any file I try to encode is automaticly set to fullscreen. I have tried changing the video arrange method and any thing else I could think of. Shoot I even deleted and redownloaded and that didn't work,also I even tried an older version that didn't do the trick either. Look I am at a complete loss and would appreciate an assistancein this matter. I have been using tmpgenc for over a year and haven't had any problems short of the usual, and I am also aware of vcdhelp.com and their help guides. I checked there and came up with a dead end. So now this is my last hope.
I look forward to hearing from ANYBODY who can help. Thanx
Any response can be sent to kakarot76@excite.com or post here.

What resolution size is the file, which input aspect ratio are you choosing and which arrange method did you select?

ASHY

hi.
i made a svcd mpg file with the tmpgenc program. i used the 2-pass method. all works. but then when i want to cut the file to 2 parts with Merge&Cut then i cant do that. i load that mpg file into the program but nothing happens then (the time controller didnt change the color to blue and i cant move the pointer)
but this happens only with mpg files i made.
how can i repair this probelem? please help me out!

some infos:
win xp
nimo codec pack installed (without Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher)
divx codecs bundle 5.02
direcx 9
powerdvd

First off the "Merge & Cut" does not support the Acurate Mergeing or Cutting Mpeg files that are encoded with a VBR stream like the File that you have encoded with the 2 pass method...you should try a Real mpeg editor like "Womble Mpeg2VCR"......

I got nearly the same Problem. Whatch here!

http://bbs.pegasys-inc.com/bbscgi/ebbs/board.cgi?board=tmpgenc&page=2#topic19761

I am desperate and at nervous breakdown point after 3 days on this....

I have a set of Avi files which I'd like to have on VCDs. I downloaded TMPGE and converted the first to MPG: it worked beautifully. I was VERY happy.
I then attempted with the others but ALL would tell me unsupported file. I then raised the environmental setting for directshow to 1 then 2 the 3....TMPGE now accepts the files but when I click to encode it has an error and shuts down without any message. I then downloaded LsxMpeg encoder to see if it was a TMPGE problem, and Lsx would not accept the files at all (like TMPGE before raising the directshow setting) complaining about codecs problem. I then went to the MS site and downloaded the latest codecs pack and media player 9. All the files play perfectly in media player, but they still only get accepted by TMPGE when directshow is on setting 2, and then as soon as I click encode it shuts down misteriously. I am going nuts over this, any help would be wonderful.

Thank-you in advance!

Walter

You Made your Problem Much worse By installing Media Player 9, there are Major Conflicts between MP9 and Tmpgenc and Tmpgenc in Most cases run properly with MP9 on the same machine..What you should do is do a System Restore to before you installed MP9, Then Maybe try something like Frameserveing the AVI file to Tmpgenc with V-Dub and see it you can get that to work...

i want to know how to select the output file with mpeg-video stream and mpeg-audio stream in one stream in TMPGEnc Plus 2.5. when i open the project wizard, individual video and audio stream is the default selection and i can't choose the option of combined vidoe and audio as output. pls help.

That's because you are obviously choosing one the DVD templates and leaving the audio as 'Linear PCM audio'
An MPEG cannot be combined with a wav using TMPG, you need to either choose a VCD or SVCD template or change the audio to 'MPEG1 layer II' in the first screen of the project wizard.

ASHY

thank you very much

On some AVI films I try to convert, the picture is superb but no sound at all...the sound p[erfectly on Windows media player unconverted,,but on conversion..no sound..this is not the case on all AVI films...can anyone suggest anything please..I am a dummy at this

This is no help, but I have the exact question you do. So if there are others out there, maybe someone has figured this one out.

Read the answer Below....

Of the avi movies I get from Kazaa, some of them encode into mpegs just fine, while others are missing the video. I can't tell the difference between the avi's that do convert and those that don't. Meaning, if two files are mpeg layer3 audio and divxmpg4 video, both .avi's, one might convert just fine to the VCD format, and the other will not have any sound.

And ideas?

I read something about stripping the audio out of the avi first, and then converting it to a wav file. I'm fuzzy on this though.

Is there something dumb I'm missing? Settings, options, etc?

No you Probably not Missing anything ,Sometimes tmpgenc Just can"t for some reason encode the audio in some files so the way to solve this Problem is to extract the audio to a WAV file with "Virtual Dub" and use the wav file as the audio source..You just load the AVI file into V-Dub and go to "File" to "Save as WAV"....

Thanks for all your help so far Minion! The remove-overscans issue worked when I used "center (keep aspect ratio)". Anyway, I found out in the test file for the remove-overscans issue that in the single part of the video, the audio is out of sync by about maybe half a second or 1 second. I know that because the subtitles there have colored fill-ins so when the singer gets to that part of the word, the word fills up bit by bit and it's behind. The source file wasn't like that. But when the talking part is on, it fits perfectly as well as the subtitles! Is there a way to correct this? I know it's only a second and not all that important, but still, I want to learn as much as I can! I tried bbMPEG but the problem is still there after.

This Can usually be easilly Fixed IF the Audio is the Same amount out of sync the whole Way through the Movie..It is allmost impossible to fix if the audio gradually goes out of sync , If you are useing "BBMpeg" to Mux then use the Start up Audio delay in the Program stream settings and do a Bit of trial and error until it is in sync...It is easier with the Muxer in Mpeg2VCR...

I have a .avi file (PAL, 768x576, 25fps) and converted it to mpg(PAL VCD).
However, when I play the mpg file in Media Player, the picture jumps (blinks) once for about every few seconds.

Is there anything wrong for the setting?

Wrong field order?

Hi,

I have an one-hour instruction video that I wanted to port to Pocket PC and view it as often as I can. I have used Dazzle's product to capture the content onto a mpeg1 file. However, while capturing the output option is limited to vcd quality (320x240, 30fps etc) so the file size comes up pretty big,

I use TMPG to open the mpeg1 source file, but all the selection on fps, bitrate etc are not changable.

Does anyone know how to transcode the mpeg1 file into another mpeg1 smaller mpeg1 file? (I could sacrifice lower quality for the space)

Thanks

Chi

Go to LOAD select extra and then choose Unlock. Now you can change the Template Settings

Thanks, it works now!

I have a 25fps AVI which is 100% , When using the new TMPGEnc 2.510 with a PAL VCD template the output is very jerky, Its not converting the frame rate correctly. I uninstalled and went back to 2.59 and all is 100%

Has this been reported ?

Not fixed then ?

I've been having a problem lately with tmpgenc 2.58 (plus)...I load a movie to encode(DVD format)and when I click start I get a message that says "write error occured at address 77f52109(sometimes #77f51024)of module 'ntdll.dll'with 00000000"....I've tried to change priority of "direct show" & "AVI VFW compatibility reader" in the environmental setting and neither doesn't work. The movie is NOT corrupted,I know.....maybe I'm not changing the settings far enough? help me out please! Oh,I also get an "invalid point operation" message at the end of the encodings when I DO get it to work...can somebody give me some feedback on these issues please??

I have the exact same problem but i have had no luck either hoping that someone can answer this.


PLEASE

K, having read all these messages at all the threads, I figured it was time to find a solution. Á solution, cuz it might not work for everyone. Think it depends on the diff used codecs in the movies.

What I did to get rid of the "ntdll.dll"-error.
I used a Xvid movie (being 8mile).
Opened VirtualDub, saved the .wav file. Renamed the .wav to .mp3 (cuz it's still compressed) and decoded it to .wav with MusicMatch (seems to be the fastest)
Then I set -> audio, to -> no audio. Set ->video, to ->direct stream copy.
And saved the video file.
Then I loaded the new video file, and set ->audio to ->wav audio and selected the wav-file created with MM.
Started frame serving it to TMPGenC and pointed it to the .vdr.avi file.
TADAAA.......error gone.

Finally, thought something was wrong with my PC..

Greetz L€UR$i0

All that re-saving the Video and Audio wasn't necessary.

Why didn't you just load up the XVID AVI in Virtualdub and frameserve straight to TMPG as it was or just use Virtualdub to convert the audio to a wav and load it directly into TMPG.


ASHY

euhm well yes, that resaving WAS necessary, cuz straight frame-serving it caused tmpgenc to tell me: "Not supported or unknown file format" or sumtin.

With 1 file I even had to reprocess it to another codec..........