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Hello. I'm having problems encoding videos with TMPGEnc. I'm using Premiere to edit the video and then using a frame server to get the video to the encoder, but part way through encoding the movie, TMPGEnc crashes and just disappears. I tried using the current version incase it was a program error, but even the latest version crashes the same way. Any hints or suggestions on what is causing this and what I can do to fix it? Thanks.
Here is more information about the problem. I tried encoding the same clip of video using the trial MPEG-2 encoder, and it finished encoding with no problems. Switch back to any MPEG-1 encoding at all, and it starts dying again. Here are my system specs...
Asus P2B-LS, P3 800, and 512MB of RAM.
Windows 2000 SP3 w/ current patches.
I know this is a common problem but I just had to ask. I am trying to burn 3 files onto a VCD. I used a calculator to add up the 3 files' sizes together and it comes out to 833MB. It should fit into a 700MB/80MIN CD-R right? Well, Nero says it can't!!! Why is this?
WRONG...833MB is Just a Little to Big to Fit on a CD-R while useing the OverBurning Feature in Nero...You would be Very Lucky if you could fit 820MB on a Single CD-R...you will have to Either cut a Minute or Two off the Files or re-encode them to a Slightly Lower Bitrate....
Demultiplex the audio from your VCD then re-encode it at at a lower bitrate. If you have used 224 kb/s as the original bitrate then lower it to 160 kb/s. This should be enough to reduce the size and the audio quality will remain high.
After encoding remux with the video.
I have a bunch of MPEG files (100+, 20min each) I need to convert from CD-R VCD to DVD+R VCD. I know how to do this, but I wanted to know if there was a way of queing up a list of them and then have my computer run them over an extended period of time? I have a feeling that the batch function does this, but I have no clue how to use it. Thanks for your time.
If you are Transfering VCD"s to DVD-R you do NOT Need to Re-Encode them, Re-Encodeing the Files with Tmpgenc will Just ruin the Quality of the Files...All you Need to do is De-Mux the audio and change the sample Rate to 48000hz then re-mux them then you can Burn them to DVD-R..This would only take a Few Minutes per VCD to transfer from VCD to DVD-R and No encodeing is Needed..And the Batch Feature will Not do this Unless you wanted to run Just the audio through the Batch feature But there are Faster and Better audio encoders than Tmpgenc if you are Just re-sampleing the audio to 48000hz....
i have encoded on vcd a film made with my dv camñÓa in avi. It plays perfectly on my computer but can't play on dvd. I am just coming back from Future shop to try my vcd on disk, none of their machine works. Can you tell me some makes of dvd which could fit that usage . I am told that JVC model 502 and 602 could . Please help.
Thanks in advance.
Any DVD Player that Plays VCD will Say that it plays VCD, if the DVD Players that you tried say they Play VCD But will not play the VCD you made then the Problem is Most likely your VCD..You Probably did not Burn it correctly or With software that is specificly for Burning VCD"s...
I it most likely you haven't made your VCD properly.
95% of DVD players will play VCD. It would be quite surprising if none of the DVD players on the store you went to didn't play VCD, so learn how to create VCD's properly.
I just began using the trial version of TMPGE and have had a situation similar to some I've seen posted at this board.
I have a 972 MByte MPEG-1 file which I've broken into two to fit CD's. The files were intended for VCD and the settings used were "Video-CD NTSC MPEG-1 352x240 29.97 fps CBR 1150 kbps Layer-2 44100 Hz 224". The output files were written to hard drive and then burned on KODAK CD-R's (Ultima80, 700 MBytes) using a TEAC CDWE54E and Easy CD Creator Ver: 4.02.
The created files will play via Quicktime or Player either directly from my hard drive or from the CD's in the DVD in my desktop or the CD_RW in my laptop. However, the CD's will not play on the Philips DVD701AT22 player hooked to my TV. The screen acknowledges reading a CD and the fact that it's a VCD, but then it displays "Disk Error."
If anyone can explain this situation or suggest a fix, I'd certainly appreciate it.
i set the ending frame to 70000, but when converting, the progress bar seems to be different, say 67000. this causes issues if creating a batch. say the first batch is from 1-70000 and the second is from 69000 to 100000; if i only get 67000 in the first batch, i'm missing data. is the 70000 i manually input being changed to 67000 (causing me to lose data), or are the numbers something totally different? if they are the same, is there an estimate of how many frames to overlap for each file in a batch? thanks!
The "Source Range" can be a Bit buggy at times so I would sugest Overlapping Quite a Few frames like Maybe 5000+ then edit off any excess frames after the encodeing is Finnished...
Hi, I am new to TMPGEnc. A friend said I can take some short MPEG2 files (mpv tag) and join them seamlessly into one long mpv file without losing sync. Is this true? Where would I go to find a help file?
That all depends on your Mpeg files, if the Audio and Video are exactly the same length then the chances of it going out of sync will be less But there is No Gaurantee Cuz Tmpgenc does not Officially support VBR Mpeg streams in the "Merge & Cut"...As to how to join files is easy, even a Monkey can figure it out..Just go to "File" to "Mpeg Tools" to "Merge & Cut" and From there I"m sure you can Figure it out, if you cant then you shouldn"t be doing any of this type of stuff...There is a Comprehensive Help File that comes with the "Pluss" Version...
sorry to be somewhat persistent, but i'm trying to get issues out of the way before my 15 day trial runs out!
i am still getting soft type in my m2v compared with my ligos plug in encoder.
i have tried upping the max to 8mbps. i have tried defeating the pixel search.
i have even tried doing a CNR at max level, but the type still looks soft, compared w ligos!
we are doing a lot of informational style videos, with quite a bit of text, graphics etc. so its more of a concern than people just rippin movies or tv.
:)
i would like to both get to the bottom of this as well as contribute anything (besides money) to help get this issue resolved.
Hi again, I converted an avi file to mpeg1-vcd with tmpgenc 2.5. it plays fine on my pc but when I play it on my stand alone dvd player the sound is out of synch. I used VCDEasy to burn the VCD. Any suggestions? Thanks
Actually I have the same problem, but I haven't tried it on my DVD player yet.
TMPGEnc has nice features and I was thinking about purchasing it, but it creates that problem.
My files .avi work perfectly, but when I convert them in MPG I lose the sync. I haven't wasted yet the time to burn the VCD or SVCD (coz both create gap in sync)since I used 3 or 4 DVD players on computer and with all I have the same sync problem.
I use VCDeasy too to burn.
The players name is : RCA It plays, DVD, VCD, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3.
I hope this helps. The synch is not out when the conversion takes place, only when I play it on the player. On the computer is fine.
Thanks
i dont know if this will help but run the avi through virtuadub first i capture video with my tv wonder ve and when i convert it with tmpgenc without virtuadub someties the audio gets out of whack(this is cause because of frame loss with the tv wonder). you might want to try a real vcd and see if it does it too if it does it then its your dvd player
Many times sync Problem are atributed to the Fact that AVI files sometimes dont run at the Framerate that they specify. Say your File says that it is a 23.97fps file But in reality it could play at 29.95fps so when it is encoded to a True 23.97fps it goes out of sync....
If the VCD plays fine on your PC then it is obviously your DVD player which is causing the problem.
I have a similar problem with my player where all MPEGs are in sync on the PC but are out of sync when played on the DVD player.
This I have found to be a combined fault of the burning software and the DVD player.
For some reason certain players don't like some of the files created by some burning programs for VCD or SVCD.
Nero and VCDeasy both create these files and cause this problem and so do many others, but all of these files are not required by your player to play the VCD/SVCD.
There is only one burning program I know of that can solve this problem as it doesn't burn these problem files to the disk.
The program is called VOB Instant CD/DVD. Give it as try it may solve your problem.
Specifically, the problem of playing in sync on the PC and out of synch on stand-alone's is, in my meager experience, the authoring software. Try authoring to title-sets (not burning to disk), then checking the last VOB file in PowerDVD to make sure it's in sync. Note that I'm suggesting that a file that PowerDVD thinks is in sync goes out of sync once it is authored. It's as if TMPGEnc doesn't adjust whatever timestamps that authorware uses but PC-hosted viewers ignore.
I am trying to convert captured avi's into small MPEG1's for web broadcast. The host website requires the format to be MPEG1. How can I change the resolution size and frame rate to decrease the mpg file size? I have tried everything I can in TMPGE, VirtualDub, and Premiere 6.01. The VCD standards are producing too large of files (2 minutes of video is 18MB). Thank you.
I have some AVI files and want to convert it into MPEG2. I have tried several external audio encode tools including toolame and SCMPX, but the sound quality of the MPEG2 file is worse than the AVI file. What's the matter? Is there any way to improve the sound quality?
Make sure you are using the highest possible bitrate.
Listening to live music captured from an HDTV receiver through good headphones, it is possible to detect a slight loss with layer II. But it is just a VERY subtle loss of ambiance. In this case, I author a DVD with audio coming from a WAV file extracted from captured AVI.
If you are noticing a problem on PC speakers and/or the material is less demanding than live music, there might be something else wrong.