Have a question.
Trying to encode a movie onto dvd which has alot of explosions and fast movements on screen. now ive experimented w/ Constant Quality and other Variable Bitrate setting and it looks fine on my settop dvd player w/ my TV. BUT if played on something like a Playstation 2 or even the burner that I use to create the dvd (Pioneer A05) the playback is unwatchable. Jerks and freezes. Constant Bitrate is fine but for the scenes that have a lot of movement I'm getting artifacts.Tried using 2 pass VBR (3000 min/5000 ave /8000 max) and that seems to be ok. clips that ive made using that will play in my burner and playstation w/ no problems and the quality looks great BTW.
Is there a reason why some players wont read disks that were encoded w/ the normal VBRates but will accept 2-pass VBR?
Just Curious

It is probably More a problem with the DVD Player Being Too Picky with the Disks it will play than a Problem with Tmpgenc or VBR, VBR is a Part of the DVD Standard so there shouldn"t be a Problem there, But Your CQ VBR settings can be causeing the Jerking ,For example if you set the CQ settings to say "2000kbs min and 8000kbs max" this can cause the Jumps when playing Because if the Bitrate Jumps from 2000kbs to 8000kbs to Quickly the Disk can not speed up fast enough to read from 2000kbs to 8000kbs in say 1/10 of a second..This exact same problem happens with VCD"s and SVCD"s if there is not very good Bitrate controll, You don"t get this Problem with 2-pass VBR Cuz there Is Much better Bitrate Controll with 2-pas VBR, try CQ VBR setting were the Min and Max are Much Closer together like 4000kbs min and 7000kbs max and you Might not get the problem with Jumpyness.....

Thanks for the response....
well a disk that i just made (2 pass VBR 3000 min, 6080 ave, 8000 max) is having the same jerkyness probs in my Pioneer A05 burner but not as bad as the other disks that i burned using the other variable bit rates. Have yet to try the disk on a playstation to see how it looks but i have a feeling it will also be jerky on the that one as well
will try your suggestion though about the minimum and average bitrates though.....

BTW....
something interesting that i forgot to mention. Ive already made a few dvds that were encoded by DVD Complete. I used the default setting in the encoder of a VBR (2000 min, 4000 ave, 6000 max) and both the playstion and my dvd burner will play them w/ no problems.
will try and encode a few short clips using the same settings for TMPGEnc and see if that might help. will be interesting to see what happens

I am having trouble converting certain avi files. The error message stating file can't be opended or supported. The file can be opened in a number of formats and the video and sound is fine. Also having converted the the file into mpeg and playing it i have this character which appears on the image and constantly moves around the screen whihc is very annoying. Any ideas?

Well if you get an "Unsupported Error" you can useually get you file loaded by going to "options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct show File Reader" to "2"...What do mean By "<i have this character which appears on the image and constantly moves around the screen whihc is very annoying>" What does this "Character" look like???

my output file is 3200mb
if i want to burn it onto cds later
what can i do?

thanks in advance

get an application called AVI Audio Decompressor to extract the sound to PCM stream, avi files will get alot bigger....nearly 2 gb.
I had the same problem and TMPGenc always crashed near 20%.
GL

LOL...the reply was for Thom....

Eric ..If your Mpeg file is 3200mb you are going to Have to put it on 4 CD-R"s and you will have to Cut the File into 4 parts..It must have been a Very Long Movie, if it is a Standard VCD than it is Close to 5 hours Long, and if it is a Standard SVCD then it must be close to 3 hours Long..You can edit the Mpeg file by going to "File" to "Mpeg Tools" to "Merge & Cut", But this editor is Not very Reliable you would be well advised to get a Real mpeg editor...

You can use a program called Easy Video Splitter from http://www.doeasier.org/splitter/, it is only a 10 day trial, but very easy to use and does what it says on the tin :)

Have had several floating point errors on my win xp machine with Tmpgenc.
I had 1.0 gig of ram non-ecc, Took out 512 meg and just left 512 of ram on board.Now it seems to run ok for a ripped movie.

Anyone else have floating point error and try and different combos of memory ?

Board info: Gigabyte GA-7VAXP PC-2700 ram DDR 333

Am I the only one who find TMPGEnc's Cut option confusing? Their numbers "00:00.00" doesn't mean "hours, minutes, seconds" does it? I get it all wrong and don't know where to cut my file in half!

You can use a program called Easy Video Splitter from http://www.doeasier.org/splitter/, it is only a 10 day trial, but very easy to use and does what it says on the tin :)

*As posted above*

I think you are the only one that doesn't understand it.

It's quite simple. Move the slider to the point where you wish to cut. Click ' } '

The time at bottom left is in hours, mins and secs.

The time displays at the top are in Mins, secs, and hundredths of a second. For example 50:26.12 would be 50 mins 26 secs and 12 hundredths of a second.

When the top time displays reach 60 mins the display will then be in hours, mins, secs, and hundredths of a second

See quite simple.

ASHY

What does the "{" and "}" mean?

The { means the start of the cut point and } means the end of the cut point .

ASHY

Here is some detailed info on all the settings of TMPG which may help some of the newbies here.
http://www.digvid.info/tmpgenc/settings_video.php

ASHY

Hi Folks, As you will Notice the Forum has Been down for the Last 5-6 days, it took me this Long to Convince the Poeple at Pegassus that there was something wrong with it, But thankfully after some corespondance they have Fixed it.......


Minion

Same here, they weren't having it. They just told me to access the BBS from the TMPG start page as the address has changed.

I told them that wasn't the problem. Anyway it's sorted now.

ASHY

They Told me the Same thing and I had to Practicly Spell it out for them before they finally looked into it...It goes to Show you that they Don"t Really Pay Much attention to what goes on in here or they would have noticed that there werent any new posts for allmost a week..Ohh well

Minion

I for one thank you for your efforts!

I was wondering what the de-emphasis flag under the audio options does?
What is it used for?

Well if you look a right under your nose a few posts down you will see my previous post 'Question - Info on TMPG settings for newbies' which will explain this and more. (Sometimes I think I'm wasting my time on this board)

ASHY

not a waste. GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!

Whenever I cut a file which has already been converted to VCD format (using TMPGEnc), it will show incorrect size while burning.

Example. I have a 1200mb file in vcd format. It is standard compliant (nero accepts it for burning). I cut it in half using TMPGEnc's "Merge & Cut" function so the file is 600mb and half as long. When nero scans it to burn it onto a disk it reports it as still being well over 800mb (and as now being none standard compliant) and won't burn it saying there is not enough room on the disk.

The only way I have found to resolve this is to re-encode the newly cut file. Nero will then recognize it's correct length. This of course, takes hours.

Does someone know a quicker way to fix this?

Did u make sure u set the stream type setting to 'MPEG1 Video CD' when you cut the MPEG.

ASHY

Thanks Ashy.

I had never for some reason noticed the pull-down list of choices. I just assumed the stream type would remain the same as the original file.

You've saved me endless hours of re-encoding.

Hello again! I was wondering how much you can overburn on a CD-R? Let's say I had a MPEG file that is about 700MB to 800MB, the length of the movie is 1 hour and 6 minutes. Is it possible to fit it onto one CD-R without cutting the movie in half? I'm making a VCD here.

Also, is something wrong with the subject list above? The main BBS page seem to sidescroll too much.

You can fit 820 mb on an 80 min cd.

ASHY

Here is some detailed info on all the settings of TMPG which may help some of the newbies here.
http://www.digvid.info/tmpgenc/settings_video.php

ASHY

Would love to hear a knowledgeable response to this post from Saturday:

I'm not getting any video when creating my MPEG files. I tried changing the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader to Priority 2, but when I do, the program just crashes(I've restarted the pc and everything). What the heck is wrong?

As I replied, I have the same problem.

LIY

There are only 2 Solutions to this Problem But Probably Many Causes, you Need the Correct codecs and Filters installed so tmpgenc can decode the File, and Raiseing the Direct show File reader to "1" or "2", and if this causes Tmpgenc to crash then there is Probably something wrong with the File that is causeing it to crash or with the Configuration of your System..If you can never get Tmpgenc to work then try a different encoder...