I tried to play the mpeg after encoding and it didnt work. The audio worked but there was no picture. What did i do wrong?

If there is no Picture in the Window while encodeing then there will not be a Picture in the Mpeg file, you can usually fix this by going to "Options" to "enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct Show" to "2"...

Is there a way to convert a divX file to Mpeg while maintaining widescreen picture?
Greatly appreciated
L-Train

What do you mean widescreen?
Do you mean widescreen for a widescreen TV or widescreen for a normal 4:3 TV?

If it's for Widescreen TV then just set the input and output aspect ratio to 16:9.
If it's 4:3 then set the input to 16:9 and the output to 4:3.
For both set the 'Video arrange method' to 'Fullscreen (keep aspect ratio)'

ASHY

Video quality is perfect but audio sounds "metal" like.
If I make SVCD with Pinncale Studio V7.01 sound is much better.

Anyone with some tips?

This is because of bad sample rate conversion.

Go to Option>Enviromental setting>audio engine then change the Sampling frequency converter to 'High quality'

ASHY

Thanx ASHY,

Can you tell something about audio quality when I use your suggestion compared to using e.g. 'tooLAME' as an external encoder?
In other words which will give te best audio quality?

Is it true when using an external audio encoder I can still get bad results when setting the Sampling frequency convertor to low quality?

Hoe come when I try to load ASF files TMPG Enc crashes?

For some reason when I try to convert an asf file to mpg format, TMPG Enc will crash. What is the cause of this?

ASF files are Very easily corrupted and are usually full of errors, you might be able to fix any errors in the file by useing a Program called "ASF FiX" and Raiseing the "Direct Show File Reader" in the Vfapi Plugins might help..Even if you were able to encode the asf file it might have problems like be out of sync, this is because Microsoft doesn"t want poeple converting ASF files to any other format than ASF...

AsfTools 3.1 is also handy for repairing asf's and wmv format Windows Media files

After installing CCE I get following error message in TMPGEnc: "can not be used as external encoder". I did re-install TMPGEnc but it did not help. How can I find out which Video Codecs are being used when and force TMPGEnc to use it's MGPEGII Encoder, which I paid for?

This is nothing to do with CCE, you may have enabled one of the options to use an external audio encoder or you are trying to encode to AVI using an incompatible codec.
Go to Option>Enviromental setting>Audio engine and disable the external encoder option.

ASHY

I just tried TMPGenc for the first time, used the template for PAL and DVD quality but also used variable bit rate. The picture came out fine but the audio was slowed down by about 60% and is completely out of synch as a result. Weird. What did I do wrong? Thanks

Hello,
How can i ennable the resolution chooser in the wizard?
I have tried several options but no luck.

MPEG.WizardAutoChooseList.EnableVideoSize = True
MPEG.WizardAutoChooseList.VideoSize = <480X576, 325X576> <-- this is not correct! (what is the correct syntax?)

I there somebody knows the syntax of the above statement?
I have tried several options, but al are wrong.

Thank you.

Regards Frank.

I just don't think this option can be enabled.
It seems that this option is locked by the project wizard and not the template itself.
It makes sense otherwise the wizard would not be able to detail the video information and resolution at the beginning of the wizard.
Even if you delete the Video Width and Height settings from the template it will still default to 352x240.
The only way around is to use the 'expert' button and change it manually or create a template with the resolution you need.

ASHY

I am quite new at this, so bear with me. I encoded avi to mpeg1 then split to 2 equal halves to burn with nero,(vcd) but the format was mpeg1-640x352@23.97fps and set CBR 1150 audio layer2 44100mhz 192kbps, which I thought was default!
I then went to burn in nero,but said it was not compatible vcd format, so I then encoded to mpeg2 480x576 25fps CBr1650, (in tmpgenc)but only plays first 5-6 seconds, then no snd or vid. Should I spit avi first? can mpeg2 file be fixed? and what is motion search about?. All I want to do is burn vcd/svcd from avi files. Thanks for any help

You have your settings all wrong. For a start you have created an illegal resolution for VCD.

Just choose either the VCD PAL or VCD NTSC template and encode, all the settings will be set for you.
Set your input aspect ratio to 16:9 PAL

When you split make sure the stream 'type' is set to 'MPEG1 Video cd'

ASHY

Thanks for your quick reply Ashy,
Did as you said , but wasn't sure if the aspect ratio was 16:9 display or 16:9 625 line (pal), I think I opted for the later, is there a way to check what the output file is set to after encoding? if I reload the file, the output is the last template used, i think!
Many thanks again, great forum.

>is there a way to check what the output file is set to after encoding?

What do you mean by this?

ASHY

I meant that atfer creating the mpeg2 file and wanted to see what the bitrate and fps and audio was, etc. is there a program that can tell you this? as I cant find the files true setting after encoding. I you see wht I mean! cheers.

since i installed divx 5.03 i cant convert mpg to divx avi anymore
anybody know a fix for this

thx

I dont know why you are haveing this Problem But I know there are other and Better programs for encodeing Mpeg2 to AVI..I have a special Version of Virtual Dub 1.4.13 that can encode Mpeg2 files to AVI really well and it Properly handles AC3 audio so it can load straight VOB Files..If you e-mail me I"ll send it to you, DVD2AVI is also good For turning Mpeg2 files into AVI...

I seem to be getting an error when i try to make my divx movie a vcd. It says that it cant load the p3 package.dll Does anyone know what is the problem? Any help will be appreciated

This is because you haven"t extracted all of the Files that come with Tmpgenc into the same folder..All of the Tmpgenc files have to be in the same folder and not sitting on your desktop as a Shortcut or anything....

I am encoding a Xvid file to mpeg-2 (svcd) I have two pices of a movie. The first half will only encode the video for like half of the movie and then stop on the same frame for the remaining 30 minutes but encoding the audio. The second half works fine and encodes the whole way. Why would it only encode a portion of the first half of the movie??

There is Probably an error in the file at the point were it stops, This is common with Files downloaded off the net cuz they get corrupted from being downloaded repeatedly..You can try useing the Source range to encode up to were the error happens then set it to start encodeing again a Few frames after the error happens then use the "Merge & Cut" to join the 2 parts together...

Would be a lot quicker to remove the bad frames, with Vdub MP3