Ive been using this program to author some of my dvds, mostly they are composed of 2 files/tracks (each mpeg file being approx 600-700mb) resulting in the total size of the two mpeg files being around 1.3GB.
However, recently Ive been noticing that after converting the mpegs to the dvd format, the VIDEO_TS folder is only around 900mb in size, sometimes less.

This doesnt happen all the time but regularly enough to be annoying as it takes just as much time to produce this as it would a full 1.3gb normal one.
Even TMPGEnc states the capacity of the file its just outputted to be 1393mb.

Has anyone else experienced this problem with TMPGEnc DVD Author?

Same problem here:(.
1 mpg (1gb) = 1 vob (690mb). Why?

My problem was just the opposite...the project said it was 4.1gig and when I authored the DVD files it was 4.5 and apparently too large to burn to a blank disc. Very frustrating!

Spass

Same here, and I noticed that the video quality of the vob files were worse than the original mpegs. This has been killing me for weeks now and if anyone knows why please, I'm beggin' help. Thanks.

Peace,
Joe

The same here, the program changes the bitrate of the original mpeg. Any ideas ?

Unfortunally our studio who produce DVD for cinema (screen spot television programs etc) decide to improve the newest version of xpress 3. Probably for the low cost and the good results obtained using the previous version of tmpgenc plus. But Serious and gravous probles appears.
Usually wu encode our jobs in xivd with a special automatized procedure and on a special digital tape we trasfer at the pc for the encode in mpg2.
Last time xivd regulary displayed and heared on the original format freeze and the program block the encode process at the last 200 frames no DVD so...
And previusly, a more gravous problems an other video was encoded but audio and video walks on their own ways... Why ?
We expect to resolve our problems, but in effect we spend our money withouts good results for our production.
How long we well espect and what are the causes of this problems? This errors, cause long time to expect the final job and low affairs.
Thanks
Mediavideo - Italy

Hello i am trying to encode files i ripped through smart ripper then put through DVD2AVI the problem lately is that everytime i try to run the DVD2AVI project which is a .dv2 file tmpegsays it is not valid or an unsupported file.This only started happening a month or so ago can someone point me in the right direction to fix this issue

Copy the DVD2AVI.VFP from the DVD2AVI folder into the TMPG folder.

I copied the file and it is reading it in the menu when browsing video sources but it still gives me the error of can not open or unsupported..Like i said this never happened till about a month ago

Are you using the .d2v that Smartripper creates or the one that DVD2AVI creates itself?

The .d2v file that Smartripper creates is only compatible with DVD2AVI version 1.76 and not 1.77.3
If you are using the .d2v that DVD2AVI creates then try the following:

Open TMPG and go to Options>Enviromental settings>VFAPI plugins and make sure that the 'DVD2AVI project file reader' is checked. If it is raise it's priority to 1 or 2.

Ok i will try to find version 1.76 is there still a site that offers it

http://www.avisynth.org/warpenterprises/files/dvd2avi_176.zip

Thanks Ashy i will try this now i know that 1.773 you had to set the audio to decode to waive is it the same on 1.76

Grrr still no good LOL i am about to give up

OK, try this.
Completely delete version 1.77.3 from your drive. Install and use 1.76 only.
Delete the DVD2AVI.VFP from the TMPG folder then copy the DVD2AVI.VFP from the DVD2AVI 1.76 folder into the TMPG folder.

Now, make sure that the files you have ripped are in a folder in the root of your drive and make sure it has a short name. Next load the VOBS into DVD2AVI 1.76 then create a .d2v file in the same folder as the VOBS.
Run DVD2AVI.
After DVD2AVI has finished load the d2v into TMPG.

IMPORTANT: *DO NOT* under any circumstances MOVE, RENAME or DELETE any of the VOBS, the D2V or any of the files and folders associated with them until you have finished encoding.

Ok no good i am at wits end i am just going to give it up LOL thanks Ashy

Hopefully someone can help me with this problem. Why is it that some movies that I download, which should only be 90 minutes and should fit on two CDs end up way longer when converted to VCD and would fit on four instead? I there something that I can do? Does this mean that the file is corrupted. I get this problem with probably 50% of the movies I download.

Thanks,

Mike

Hopefully someone can help me with this problem. Why is it that some movies that I download, which should only be 90 minutes and should fit on two CDs end up way longer when converted to VCD and would fit on four instead? I there something that I can do? Does this mean that the file is corrupted. I get this problem with probably 50% of the movies I download.

Thanks,

Mike

Well the size of the original has nothing whatsoever to do with the output size.
Output size is determined by the length/bitrate ratio.
The longer the movie and the higher the bitrate the larger the size will be.

I just re-read your post. Are you saying the output is longer then the original source?

Thanks for the reply ashi. I'm not to good with the technical stuff, but a standard motion picture will normally fit on two CDs. My original file is .AVI and when played with my player is 90 minutes long. When I convert this file to MPEG (or VCD) it becomes more than 5 hours long with video first, then audio. Almost like video and audio are not put together.

Mike

I too am having the same problem. Reducing the bit rate helped reduce the file size marginally. I am not sure what is the least permitted value. Need to do some experiment.

Hi Ashy,
I have the same problem again as to last time... (WHich is: TMPGEnc will encode for first few 4000-7000 frames, it will claim it is finished. (but it was not...) This will always happens on the 8 - 10 minutes video capture. In worst cases, the Operating System hangs.)

I made the piority of 'AVI2(Open DML) file reader' to 3 and it don't seems to work for this particular file.
Anymore way to solve this problem...

It seesm like you are still having some size issues. Why don't you make your program capture to segmented files instead of one big file. This will make it more compatible.

Thanks Ashy, now I got a cure.
I encode the big files into 2 to 3 smallers mpeg files. Then I merge them with TMPGEnc. But I got a problem now, how to remove the "beep" sound at the point of merge?

Splitting the MPEG is not what I advised.
Almost all capture programs have a setting to capture to segmented files.
This means that when the file size (set by the user) reaches a certain size it will automatically create a new file continuing from the previous one. This allows to circumvent the AVI size barrier which is 2GB. Set the capture program to segment the files at 1.99GB

If you use TMPG's 'Open sequence files as a movie' option the files will automatically be joined as one complete file which you can then encode as normal.

Quick question... I have an older version of TMPGEnc and would like to download the newest, but I cannot find a way to uninstall my older version (2.53.35.130). Can I just simply delete the old files without comprimising my system??? Also too, I bought InterVideo's DVDcopy2 Gold thinking it woud be a faster way to encode to MPEG 2 but it seems alot slower than TMPGEnc!!! Any feedback on this subject too please? Sincere thanks.

Please disregard the preceding question. After posting it I did a search and found very many previous questions regarding this same issue. Apparently TMPGEnc is not actually even installed, it is just unzipped and then ran. So deleting the folder to the old version is appropriate after all. I apologize for the redundancy. Sincere thanks.

To be correct: There are to entries in the Registry, written by TMPGEnc.
But they are used for Registering, so i can't tell which entries...

I suggest you not to delete the older Version. In some cases it might be more usefull than a newer Version. I have them all since 0.11b ;)

For the 2.5 Version I have written a tool (CQ-Tester http://www.boraxsoft.de/CQTester_eng.shtml ) to optimize the CQ setting for a TMPGEnc project to fit on a specific size (usually one CD). This tool uses the possibility to run TMPGEnc with the commandline parameters encode and close.

1. Do these commandline parameters still exist in the full version?
2. I was told that there is no possibility to save (and load) a project in an ascii file format. The trial version has no possibility to save a project in any format. Is this new (binary) file structure documented anywhere? Otherwise it is not possible to create/use a tool for file size prediction in CQ mode.

I will not buy version 3.0 if it is not possible to do a prediction of the final file size!

>For the 2.5 Version I have written a tool (CQ-Tester http://www.boraxsoft.de/CQTester_eng.shtml ) to optimize the CQ setting for a TMPGEnc project to fit on a specific size (usually one CD). This tool uses the possibility to run TMPGEnc with the commandline parameters encode and close.
>
>1. Do these commandline parameters still exist in the full version?
>2. I was told that there is no possibility to save (and load) a project in an ascii file format. The trial version has no possibility to save a project in any format. Is this new (binary) file structure documented anywhere? Otherwise it is not possible to create/use a tool for file size prediction in CQ mode.
>
>I will not buy version 3.0 if it is not possible to do a prediction of the final file size!

Is this an answer???

I have found that there are a little difference between encoding duration in connection with motion search precision.
In standard option for examle encoding MPEG2 - MPEG2 takes 6h, in high 6,5h in Highest with error detection 7h (using the same source)
The same in 2.51 version is 6h, 12h and almost 24h...
In highest quality mode version XPress is 3 times faster than version 2.51...
I don't know what am I should thinking about???
And in fact quality improovement between this settings in version XPress is very poor.
I have been using in my encoding process intel P4 with HT at 2,4GHz.
????????????????????????

I can create motion menu.

motion menu shows me the beginning of the chapter.

How can I take the middle of a chapter (for example 15 sec.)for the motion menu?

this forum seems to be forsaken.

If someone has an answer:

new_r82@yahoo.de

If you click on each thumbnail image in the motion menu, you can select the beginning of the video clip to be shown in the thumbnail.

Is there any easy way to encode all the file in a directory
without having to select each one individually ?

http://www.videogeneration.com.au/batchlist.htm

If you read this one, Ashy, please read it all the way through. I have seen your name on a lot of the replies, and I believe that you are very knowledgeable about this software and video editing in general. Thank you to everyone for taking the time to read this post.

I have used the search function on this BBS, and I have found several articles on my question, but nobody has really ever said if they have found a definitive answer for it.

My question is What can I do when I get this error message: "The error occurred when ACM was initialized."

I understand that ACM stands for Audio Compression Manager. I am guessing that there probably is a problem with one or more of the codecs. Does ANYONE know how to find out which codec it could be?

Let me explain what happened. I had gotten hold of an XviD movie that I played in Virtual Dub. "Virtual Dub has detected an improper VBR audio encoding in the source AVI file and will rewrite the audio headerwith standard CBR values during processing for better compatability." It also says that you might try to decompress the entire audio stream to a .wav file and then recompress it using a CBR encoder. To make a long story short, I converted the audio to 44100 Hz, 16 bit, Stereo, High Quality using Virtual Dub. It created a file that was almost 1.5 MB. I then took that AVI file and converted it to MPEG-1 for Video Cd using TMPGEnc. Everything worked great with NO problems. I then cut the file using the MPEG tools in TMPGEnc, but I did not realize that I need to change the "Type" from MPEG-1 System (automatic) to MPEG-1 Video CD. It cut the video file just fine.

Then I tried to convert another AVI file, and that is when the problem appeared. I received that error message. I have since tried many other AVI files with no luck. I get the same message regardless of what codec is used to decode it. I have found that TMPGEnc even decodes ASF files, but I have no luck with those either.

PLEASE HELP! I am at my wit's end. I am sorry the post is so long. Thank you very much for your patience. Please feel free to e-mail me if you wish. Thank you again.

gsg1175

This is just usually a codec problem.
Most AVI's come with AC3 or MP3 audio, some have MP3 VBR audio which is problematic as you have noticed by the warning Virtualdub gave you.

First of all do these AVI's play OK with audio in media player?

My advice is to first install the 2 codecs below:
http://www.einfach-divx.de/download_detail.php?download=15
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/AC3ACM/AC3ACM.zip

If you still have problems post back.