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Hi..
I think this strange rquest but it is important for me.
I'm looking for any problem in the [TMPGEnc] or some thing that needs to be improved.
It is only for my study I need to write a project Ideas that will help me in my Proposal and because I use the [TMPGEnc] for about 1 year it will be easy for me to talk about in the Proposal
so please help me give any problem, any problem, that can I write about in my Proposal.
Hi there, Please point me to a place that has a file or a method that will stop all of DVD Author's endless/useless/incorrect "DVD Parameter" errors. There is nothing stopping my three set-top DVD's from playing SVCDs loaded onto DVD media EXCEPT for the fact that DVD Author refuses to do so. As it stands, I must dump them into Nero and play them like MP3s, rilley sad.
Warnings are fine, but what in the world was the good of "fatal error that DVD Author cannot ignore". Is this of benefit to ANYONE? Why not like every other error, just ask the user are they sure they want to continue?
Please eliminate all instances of "fatal error" with regard to DVD parameters, so that I can use this program.
I didn't notice anything in TMPGEnc 2.521's free version concerning SECAM television systems; but I did see NTSC and PAL television systems listed within it. I know that PAL and SECAM are similar in some respects, but not the same. So what does one do in the process of encoding a .avi file in TMPGEnc to a .mpg file with the goal of preparing a video Compact Disc (CD)? In TMPGEnc should one just treat SECAM as PAL? Likewise VCDEasy 1.1.5.2, a program which can be use to author the .mpg file outputted by TMPGEnc to make a VCD, only has NTSC and PAL options, but no SECAM options that I found in it. Should the SECAM preparation be treated as a PAL preparation in VCDEasy 1.1.5.2? If SECAM is supposed to be treated as PAL in TMPGEnc and VCDEasy, is it the video player's task to generate output for a SECAM television system? If so, does the human being operating the video player have to push a button or something for the player to output video signals compatible with a SECAM television system? Or is the video player supposed to automatically sense the type of television system used in a television? If in the whole process of generating a VCD the SECAM specification is not introduced somehow until the playing of the video CD, I suppose this means that in order to play a video CD on a television using the SECAM system, one must have a video player that will generate SECAM video signals. If so, are such players common? (You are welcome to correct any mistaken assumptions of mine. Please do not be offended by this request. But since I am not likely to know you or your experience, expertise, and knowledge in these areas, please write something about your levels of expertise, experience, and/or knowledge so that I can make a decision on the reliability of the information you provide. Thanks.)
As far as I know a SECAM VCD, SVCD or DVD is essentially the same as the PAL version.
SECAM shares the same resolution and frame rate as it's PAL counter part. The only difference being the way it handles the colour signal.
Seeing as a VCD only stores frames as digital data the color signal method is not a factor as this will be produced in the correct format by the DVD player.
However there are no commercial SECAM DVD's or VCD's all DVD's or VCD's are produced in either PAL or NTSC format only.
All newer SECAM format T.V.'s also support PAL as standard, so as to be compatible with todays external equipment such as DVD players. The only reason you would need a DVD player with SECAM output is if the TV was an older SECAM only TV.
This is why you will not find any encoding software that has SECAM support as it is not an issue as for as digital media is concerned.
SECAM is basically treated as PAL as far as digital production goes.
I'm not going to explain why you should accept my explanation either. If you need to know on what basis I have made this post and the extent of my knowledge as far as video production is concerned then do a search for 'ashy' on this board and you will see many of my other posts I have made over the long time I have used this board.
It is up to you to verify the information I have given you above. It is all there on the net if you look.
i'm using version 2.52 on a new pc (win xp p4 3.00ghz 512mb ram). basically, everytime i attempt to browse to a file that i want to convert, TMPGEnc crashes.
if the file i want to convert is immediately viewable in the browser window when i open it, i can click on it and there's no problem with the rest of the conversion process.
however, if i need to resize the browser window or have to use the scroll bar in order to locate it, TMPGEnc crashes every time!
is anyone else having this problem?
btw, apart from this i've nothing but praise for the authors of TMPGEnc.
I've tryed TMPGENC DVD NTSC option but, with my Sony S735d dvd player with a monitor tristandard, the videos are jerkily.
I've tried the "3:2pulldown" option but works in worst way (more jerkily)
My video source is AVI PAL MJPEG made with a FAST AV MASTER board and sw.
Tmpgenc can interpolate fron 25fps to 29.97fps?
Or do you know any sw dedicated specially to do this?
TMPG cannot do proper frame rate conversion, you will have jerky playback as you have discovered.
There are 2 ways you can do it successfully.
One is to simply slow down the framerate of MPEG to 23.976 with AVIfrate or Virtualdub and then add 2:3 pulldown to make it 29.97.
You will then have to stretch the audio to match the video and then multiplex together.
Most PAL DVD's use a 4% speed up from 24 fps anyway so all you are doing is reverting back to the original frame rate.
The second way is to use AVIsyth, much better than TMPG, but not as good as the slow down method.
AVIsynth is free. Just simply use the command CONVERT FPS(23.97) or CHANGEFPS(23.97) in a script.
I would recommend the slow down method for ultimate quality preservation, but if you choose to do it the AVIsynth way (this way the length of the movie doesn't change) then I would use CHANGEFPS as this seems to give better results when converting PAL to NTSC.
Once you have changed the frame of the AVI to 23.976 you can the use the 'Add 3:2 pulldown while playback' option in TMPG when encoding, make sure you set the frame rate to '23.976 fps(internally 29.97 fps)'
You will also have to match the length of the audio to new length of the AVI.
Ok, what you need is Goldwave5.
First of all find out the EXACT length of the AVI that you changed the FPS with AVIfrate.
Just load the AVI into AVIfrate then write down the length of the movie.
Next start up goldwave and load your original AVI with audio.
If the AVI has AC3 you will need to install this Ac3 filter first: http://ac3filter.sourceforge.net/
Click Effect>Timewarp then select 'Length' and put in the exact figure you got from AVIfrate. Leave all others at default. Now click OK. When it has finished save it as a wav.
You can then encode the new wav to whichever format you wish and multiplex it with the movie in TMPG.
Thanks for the offer, much obliged, but I don't think I have the means nor the funds to get there. While I think Italy is a nice place to visit maybe one day....
Converted avi file to vcd file. The vcd file plays OK on computer with Windows media player. But it will not play on my TV/DVD. The screen froze. Any help is welcome. Thanks.
The font for the chapter text on the menu does not have a drop shadow. I created some chapter titles in photoshop by adding them to the background image and putting the DVD-Author chapter boxes around them, and they worked but the highlighter didn't happen. Can I create chapter titles outside the program and still have them highlight when selected? It would be nice if DVD-Author had a wider style selection for text. Thanks.
The "title" has a drop shadow, but the chapters do not. I wish the chapters had a drop shadow as well, it would definitely help me in my selection for font colors!
Thats what I am looking for there might be a way to use rollover images from photoshop to highlight the photoshop image I just can't seem to figure it out.
I use this program to author all my dvds. However, I ran into an annoying problem.
When I author my dvds I use the main menu only and disable the option for chapter menus.
On the remote control that came with my dvd player there is a "title" button and a "root menu" button. I have a universal remote with only a "root menu" button. The only way I can get back to the menu while watching a clip is by pressing the "title" button. The "root menu" button does nothing. This means I can't get back to the menu with my universal remote. I tried the same thing with the software WinDVD and PowerDVD. I can't get back to the menu by clicking the root button, only the title button.
Every other authoring program works with the root button, but not TMPGEnc. I really want to use TMPGEnc because its the only software to let you create different title sets.
TMPGEnc DVD Author is a Multi-VTS-Application. So the First Menu of a DVD produced with this programm have to be a VMG-Menu, not a VTS-Menu.
VMG-Menus can only be reached by using "Title", there is no Way to use "Menu".
That's because a VMG can link to several VTS and any VTS can have it's own Root-Menu (but you have not created any VTS-Menu).
If you are using Track (chapter) Menus with TMPGEnc DVD Author, this Menus will be VTS-Menus which can be reached bei pressing the Menu-Button on your Remote.
Create Track Menus, use your own Design (edit). Remove the Chapters from the Menu-List (not from the Chapter-List!). You will have an empty Menu with a Back-Button to you First Menu (the VMG). Not realy an elegant way, but it should work.
Unfortunately there is a "contradiction" in the way you create your menus. The "root" menu is not the "root" for the total DVD, but more or less the root for the current content. If you press the button for root menu while you are watching a specific title, you would normaly get a chapter menu, as this is the "root" for the current titel. Therefore I think the only way to get around this problem is to use a chapter menu, where you have a button to return to the titel menu.
ok, i have a video that is 741mb so it wont fit on a blanck cd. so i have split it in half using TMPGenc, and the end result of only HALF the video is 781mb. what did i do wrong?
"Source" in your case is a divx AVI. It sounds like you converted it to mpeg? in which case, the file could be larger or smaller than the source. For splitting AVI files I suggest using virtualdub. Also, if your AVI has variable bitrate audio you can use virtualdub to save the audio as an uncompressed wav file. Use the wav as your audio input in tmpgenc to prevent audio sync problems when converting avi to mpeg.
LOL...you haven't split the AVI you have re-encoded it to an MPEG. This is why it is larger than the AVI.
MPEG1 VCDs encode 10mb/min. So if your AVI is 2 hours long say, it will be 1200 MB in size.
Like Rick says you need Virtualdub to split AVI's.