I have avi's captured off of a camcorder via firewire (i.e. all digital). I have been editing them by using Showbiz 1.1 and Ulead Videostudio 5 and using TMPG to convert to MPEG2. I encounter an error using Showbiz.

I edit them by adding features (transitions, titles, etc) and resave as DV files in AVI uncompressed format. The Ulead files, TMPG has no problem with--it splits them into the audio (PCM) and mpeg2 video (m2v). However, when I use Showbiz, TMPG does its thing but the audio is out of sync/distorted with the video when I author the DVD. It isn't just a time lag, but a "squashing" of the audio as everyone sounds like they are on helium with a slight jitter.

I have tried 2 different computers and this is consistent with EVERY file output by Showbiz. Does anyone know why this might be? Does Showbiz use some wierd format? I don't get any "errors" throughout the process--the files are just screwed up in the end.

Have you Maybe thought of Useing a Totally seperate Program to encode the audio...You can use Something like "Virtual Dub" to extract the audio from the AVI file to wav and then use that as the audio source in your DVD authoring Program..That way you will know if Tmpgenc is screwing up your audio or if it is allready screwed up..You should also consider useing a Different audio format than Wav as Wav audio takes up a LOT of Disk Space that would be better used to Video, Converting the Wav audio to AC3 would be the best as it is a Very high Quality format and the File sizes are very small....Cheers

Have you Maybe thought of Useing a Totally seperate Program to encode the audio...You can use Something like "Virtual Dub" to extract the audio from the AVI file to wav and then use that as the audio source in your DVD authoring Program..That way you will know if Tmpgenc is screwing up your audio or if it is allready screwed up..You should also consider useing a Different audio format than Wav as Wav audio takes up a LOT of Disk Space that would be better used to Video, Converting the Wav audio to AC3 would be the best as it is a Very high Quality format and the File sizes are very small....Cheers

Thanks, that is a good idea, I'll try to split it out separately with a different program. I would really like to know if Showbiz is using a non-standard header that I could just eliminate.

ron

>Have you Maybe thought of Useing a Totally seperate Program to encode the audio...You can use Something like "Virtual Dub" to extract the audio from the AVI file to wav and then use that as the audio source in your DVD authoring Program..That way you will know if Tmpgenc is screwing up your audio or if it is allready screwed up..You should also consider useing a Different audio format than Wav as Wav audio takes up a LOT of Disk Space that would be better used to Video, Converting the Wav audio to AC3 would be the best as it is a Very high Quality format and the File sizes are very small....Cheers

Is there anybody who can give me
a direction how to do such profile?

First, you have to own the full product. Trial versions (at least the older ones) have this disabled.

Then you have to unlock all feature selections (load the extras/unlock template). Options will be in the Setting/Video sheet.

4:2:2 is a little bit of a pain because most decoders can't play it. WinDVD does not and I don't know about PowerDVD. Some DirectShow codecs (e.g. Etymonics) handle it but playing with through DS codecs is a pain. Decoding 4:2:2 Mpeg (or any other Mpeg) for offline reencoding to other formats should be done with DVD2AVI.

Ive used tmpgenc to convert a divx/avi file into a dvd compliant mpg using the dvd template. Which plays fine on its own no problems at all.

After ive authoured it with tmpgenc dvd authour the sound is very choppy and metallic sounding, anyone got any ideas??
many thanks in advance

i'm frequenly use tmpeg latest version that is version 2.52 and yesterday..when i wanna to convert my avi file to mpeg file.. i see that my tmpeg cannot perform step 2/5 in project wizard. when i try to browse video source, the software (TMpeg 2.52) just close automaticly. i don't know what was happening and i hope if anyone can help me solve my problem..i really appriciated so much. i try to use the new Tmpeg that i download from the official website, but still the problem occur. pls help me in solving this problem.

Well, have you tried not using the wizard? When it pops up, close it. Then at the bottom, select your video source and see what happens.

I can't encode my .avi file captured by Adobe Premier6, firewire card, sony digital PC9. The software TMPGEenc Plus show unsupported file.

Change avi to microsoft's dv2 format eg. with Canopus converter
http://www.canopus.com/US/products/DV_file_converter/pm_dv_file_converter.asp

My my another new format! I'm sure TMPGEnc cannot support this by itself. Is there any way to burn it onto VCD? Also, it has 2 audio tracks and I don't want one. Can I remove one?

You can use VirtualDubMOD as Frameserver and to remove the unnead Audio-Stream.
You can also use AVISynth with the DirectShowSource-Command to open and Frameserve the Movie.

Actually, before you replied, I had extracted the audio and video and converted it to MPEG in TMPGEnc. Now, all that's left are the subtitles. But nobody told me what to do with them. :( Do I have to frameserve because I already converted! ;_;

What Kind of Subtitles? Are they muxed into the Video? If so, you can extract them by using the newest Version of VirtualDubMOD (STR- und SSA-Subs).
After then, you can use TextSub (AVISynth-Plugin) to encode them into the Video.
Or you can use SubMux to mux them into the Video. But i never tried this with VCDs, only with SVCDs.

when i try to encode videos which uses the MP43 codec, i get a message in TMPGEnc that says that the format is not supported. can anyone help me fix this?

Install Microsoft MPEG4 codec or FFDSHOW

I have this AVI that's only about 150MB. It's size is 544x416. It's audio sampling rate is 22050Hz. How come it takes 7 hours to encode to 480x480 with 44100Hz at 224kbps?! Now I'm wondering if it's better to to encode it to 352x240. It is a DVD-rip and I want to keep most of the quality.

if u wanna to encode file from 480x480 to 352x240 and u wanna keep all the quality, pls use software that call dvd2avi. this software is comply to Tmpeg current version and f.i.y, i get the tutorial to use dvd2avi that comply to tmpeg current version from this web site : www.dvdrhelp.com or u just click this address that i paste -> http://www.dvdrhelp.com/tmpgencdvd.htm

What the pont of using DVD2AVI? This isn't going to help, you can't import AVi into DVD2AVI.

We need more info, what is the length of the AVI and what other settings are you using, such as motion search, 2pass or CBR?
What CPU do u have?

Hi,
according to CyberHome here in Germany TMPEGnc does not support the VCD 2.0 standard.
This is given as the reason why my DVD player doesn't play my VCDs properly.

Do you have any response? Does TMPEGnc really not support the VCD 2.0 standard to 100% ? Are there any modifications I can do so that my VCDs do play?

Thanks for any help,

-Nils-

TMPGEnc do support VCDs 100%. Maybe your DVD player is not designed to play VCDs or CD-Rs? Have you checked the manual? Many players varies. Mines cannot play CD-RWs or SVCDs.

VCD20 has nothing to do with encoding the Video. It depents to the Burning/Authoring-Program to create a correct Data-Structure.

Thanks for the tip.
So Nero v. 5 is my problem? I will investigate further.
Thanks again.
-Nils-

Actually it has been known for some time that TMPG does NOT create completely 100% VCD2.0 compatible MPEGs.
The problem lies in TMPG's multiplexer. Of course most DVD players do not have a problem with this, but some strict VCD players do have a problem.

Yours seems to be one of them.
All you need to do is demultiplex the MPEG the remultiplex it with the Philips VCD2.0 toolkit
http://www.icdia.org/sw_pc/vcdtools.html

Dear All:
Could you tell me how to use VFAPI Server / Client to make more than a PC render a batch encode list ?
I have tried many times, and I spent a lot of time doing research on it, but in vain..:(
Could you tell me how to use (and configure) VFAPI Server / Client ?
Thanks a lot !! ^_^

I have some AVI files that play well on Windows Media Player (version 9) but no audio is heard after encoding to NTSC film. When I go to "sourse range" (on filter settings) and advance the movie the audio line stays perfectly straight indicating that it is not reading the audio part. What could possibly be wrong. Other AVI files encode properly.

Did you set the audio settings in TMPGEnc? Does it have audio originally?

What is the audio format in your AVI file??? Tmpgenc does not like certain audio formats so if your AVI file uses one of those audio formats then the mpeg file will not have any audio...You would need to extract thr audio from your AVI to Wav format then use the Wav file as the audio source in Tmpgenc...

Dear All:
Could you tell me how to use VFAPI Server / Client to make more than a PC render a batch encode list ?
I have tried many times, and I spent a lot of time doing research on it, but in vain..:(
Could you tell me how to use (and configure) VFAPI Server / Client ?
Thanks a lot !! ^_^

You need to download the VFAPI converter first then create a TMPG project file and then load it into the VFAPI converter and convert it to a dummy AVI.

Thanks a lot ..
And I have downloaded VFAPI converter from the site- http://www.divx-digest.com/software/vfapi.html .
If I have any question, may I ask again?
Thank you..

sure

oh~ Dear ashy:
You are a kind person.:) Thank you.

And I have a problem that I have downloaded VFAPI converter and use it to convert my avi files(tmpg project file).
VFAPI converter outputs me another avi but smaller.
I still don't know how to use Tmpgen to make two PCs rendering the same avi file at the same time.
It likes some app cluser server...
Could you help me?
Thanks very much!!

Is that what you are trying to Do, Get 2 PC"s to encode the same File and end up with One encoded file?? I might be wrong But I think this is Not Possible..

No this NOT possible, TMPG does not have network rendering capabilities. You need a Program which has this ability( I don't know of any off hand)

There is a possibility however of using AVIsynth to frame serve the source from the server PC to the client PC which would do the encoding.

For example install AVisynth as normal on both PC's, set up the AVIsynth script on the server PC then load the .AVS file into TMPG on the client.

Next to choose where the output goes, either to the client or back to the server, which one would be fastest I don't know, but at a guess if your server has a decent hard drive speed then sending the output back to the server maybe the best option. This way your CPU on the client is fully utilized for encoding only and the server does the rest.

I have never tried this. I don't even which would be the better configuration. Assuming you have different speed PC's, either using the slower PC as the server and the faster one for encoding or the other way around.
Which one would be trial and error for you to try.

mmm...
I know PURE TMPGenc (oringinal TMPGenc) can't use 2PCs to render the same file.
But I saw the VFAPI "VFAPI Server / Client"
(http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_vfapi.html)
(http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~ksuzuki/vfserver/)..
It seems to make TMPGenc have this ability- rendering the same file on 2PCs...
So, I hope someone can help me to configure that. :)
I appreciate everyone who helped me.. ^_^ Thanks a lot!

Well I went to the Sites that you Posted and the english one didn"t say that you can use VFAPI To convert the same File on 2 different PC"s, It says that you can use 2 Different Plugins can be used together and on 2 different PC"s, But I didn"t see anything about useing 2 PC"s to encode the same file, Maybe the Chinese site had More info , are you Just trying to Find a Faster way of encodeing?? it would be easier if you just used a Faster Encoder or got a Faster PC or Both.....Good Luck

Thanks Minion .
I think I maybe misunderstand its meaning..:(
And thank you for your description.
Thanks to All ,especially ashy and Minion. ^_^