my output file is 3200mb
if i want to burn it onto cds later
what can i do?

thanks in advance

get an application called AVI Audio Decompressor to extract the sound to PCM stream, avi files will get alot bigger....nearly 2 gb.
I had the same problem and TMPGenc always crashed near 20%.
GL

LOL...the reply was for Thom....

Eric ..If your Mpeg file is 3200mb you are going to Have to put it on 4 CD-R"s and you will have to Cut the File into 4 parts..It must have been a Very Long Movie, if it is a Standard VCD than it is Close to 5 hours Long, and if it is a Standard SVCD then it must be close to 3 hours Long..You can edit the Mpeg file by going to "File" to "Mpeg Tools" to "Merge & Cut", But this editor is Not very Reliable you would be well advised to get a Real mpeg editor...

You can use a program called Easy Video Splitter from http://www.doeasier.org/splitter/, it is only a 10 day trial, but very easy to use and does what it says on the tin :)

Have had several floating point errors on my win xp machine with Tmpgenc.
I had 1.0 gig of ram non-ecc, Took out 512 meg and just left 512 of ram on board.Now it seems to run ok for a ripped movie.

Anyone else have floating point error and try and different combos of memory ?

Board info: Gigabyte GA-7VAXP PC-2700 ram DDR 333

Am I the only one who find TMPGEnc's Cut option confusing? Their numbers "00:00.00" doesn't mean "hours, minutes, seconds" does it? I get it all wrong and don't know where to cut my file in half!

You can use a program called Easy Video Splitter from http://www.doeasier.org/splitter/, it is only a 10 day trial, but very easy to use and does what it says on the tin :)

*As posted above*

I think you are the only one that doesn't understand it.

It's quite simple. Move the slider to the point where you wish to cut. Click ' } '

The time at bottom left is in hours, mins and secs.

The time displays at the top are in Mins, secs, and hundredths of a second. For example 50:26.12 would be 50 mins 26 secs and 12 hundredths of a second.

When the top time displays reach 60 mins the display will then be in hours, mins, secs, and hundredths of a second

See quite simple.

ASHY

What does the "{" and "}" mean?

The { means the start of the cut point and } means the end of the cut point .

ASHY

Here is some detailed info on all the settings of TMPG which may help some of the newbies here.
http://www.digvid.info/tmpgenc/settings_video.php

ASHY

Hi Folks, As you will Notice the Forum has Been down for the Last 5-6 days, it took me this Long to Convince the Poeple at Pegassus that there was something wrong with it, But thankfully after some corespondance they have Fixed it.......


Minion

Same here, they weren't having it. They just told me to access the BBS from the TMPG start page as the address has changed.

I told them that wasn't the problem. Anyway it's sorted now.

ASHY

They Told me the Same thing and I had to Practicly Spell it out for them before they finally looked into it...It goes to Show you that they Don"t Really Pay Much attention to what goes on in here or they would have noticed that there werent any new posts for allmost a week..Ohh well

Minion

I for one thank you for your efforts!

I was wondering what the de-emphasis flag under the audio options does?
What is it used for?

Well if you look a right under your nose a few posts down you will see my previous post 'Question - Info on TMPG settings for newbies' which will explain this and more. (Sometimes I think I'm wasting my time on this board)

ASHY

not a waste. GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!

Whenever I cut a file which has already been converted to VCD format (using TMPGEnc), it will show incorrect size while burning.

Example. I have a 1200mb file in vcd format. It is standard compliant (nero accepts it for burning). I cut it in half using TMPGEnc's "Merge & Cut" function so the file is 600mb and half as long. When nero scans it to burn it onto a disk it reports it as still being well over 800mb (and as now being none standard compliant) and won't burn it saying there is not enough room on the disk.

The only way I have found to resolve this is to re-encode the newly cut file. Nero will then recognize it's correct length. This of course, takes hours.

Does someone know a quicker way to fix this?

Did u make sure u set the stream type setting to 'MPEG1 Video CD' when you cut the MPEG.

ASHY

Thanks Ashy.

I had never for some reason noticed the pull-down list of choices. I just assumed the stream type would remain the same as the original file.

You've saved me endless hours of re-encoding.

Hello again! I was wondering how much you can overburn on a CD-R? Let's say I had a MPEG file that is about 700MB to 800MB, the length of the movie is 1 hour and 6 minutes. Is it possible to fit it onto one CD-R without cutting the movie in half? I'm making a VCD here.

Also, is something wrong with the subject list above? The main BBS page seem to sidescroll too much.

You can fit 820 mb on an 80 min cd.

ASHY

Here is some detailed info on all the settings of TMPG which may help some of the newbies here.
http://www.digvid.info/tmpgenc/settings_video.php

ASHY

Would love to hear a knowledgeable response to this post from Saturday:

I'm not getting any video when creating my MPEG files. I tried changing the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader to Priority 2, but when I do, the program just crashes(I've restarted the pc and everything). What the heck is wrong?

As I replied, I have the same problem.

LIY

There are only 2 Solutions to this Problem But Probably Many Causes, you Need the Correct codecs and Filters installed so tmpgenc can decode the File, and Raiseing the Direct show File reader to "1" or "2", and if this causes Tmpgenc to crash then there is Probably something wrong with the File that is causeing it to crash or with the Configuration of your System..If you can never get Tmpgenc to work then try a different encoder...

I am converting a dvd quality AVI to 2 vcd's to play on a standalone player
and wondered if you get better quality by padding the bitrate.

My settings are;
Constant Quality 80
max bitrate 2000
min bitrate 1000

If I enable the padding it will make the file bigger but this is not
an issue as I am only interested in quality. Will it be better to not have
padding and have a larger max bitrate?

If I dont use padding what is the point of specifying a min bitrate?
If someone knows the answers please post and save me a lot of trials.
Many Thanks
Slippy

No, padding will not affect the quality at all, but will inflate the file size as you have noticed.

Sometimes there is not enough data in a particular scene to reach the requirements of the minimum bitrate. This would case a drop below the minimum bitrate because of the lack of data to fill the bitrate requirement.
Enabling padding ensures that when the data rate drops below a certain threshold, say 1000kb/s, that the MPEG will still be within the set minimum bitrate.

In short what I'm saying is if there isn't enough bits in a particular scene to make it up to 1000kb's then there is no way that the player can keep the bitrate at 1000kb/s unless something is added to it such as padding to bring it up to the minimum bitrate. Padding basically just fills in the gaps with zero's.

When using CBR this padding is added automatically. This is why sometimes it is a waste of file size using a CBR bitrate of something like 8000kb/s on a file that doesn't require it when a smaller bitrate will give just the same quality and smaller file size. All you are doing is adding unecessary padding to fill in the data gaps created by setting such a high bitrate

Only use padding if your player has problems with low bitrates otherwise you can leave it disabled.

ASHY

Another point is, if you are only interested in quality and not file size, why are your settings so low.

Your minimum should not be below 1800kb's if you want the lowest you can go without macroblocks appearing in normal scenes. The max would also need to be at least double.

ASHY

So, just to clarify, if I set the min to 1800 and the max to 3000 on cq, the bitrate will only
drop below 1800 if there is not enough data, and with padding it will just fill
the gaps with nothing?

Many Thanks
Slipster

Hi

I am new at encoding so I followed instructions on

http://www.vcdhelp.com/sefy/?id=ClassicalGuide.html#VCDEasy

i was able to do everything as I am not ready to burn a vcd. I ripped another dvd followed the same process.

When i come to using the TMPGEnc i select the approprate files and encode. I have the video but no sound.

So i ripped the dvd again incase there was an issue but again still have the same problems.

I then revert to a files from another dvd which i have successfully encoded try to do so again but this time i am not getting any audio

I have not got a clue. If i play the wav files the audio is there but the encoder is not picking up the audio

any help would be appreciated

thanks

I had the same problem. The Video had a perfect conversion from AVI to MPEG2 but no audio

You Both Have Totally Different Problems..One is Ripping a DVD and One is Encodeing an AVI file..To the one Ripping the DVD make sure that the "Stream" setting is set to "Video and Audio" But I think that the audio is there it is Just Has really Low Volume..This happens with DVD Audio, it"s volume is really low, Check the File again with the Volume really High and see if it is there and if it is use the "Audio Setting" to Boost the Audio Volume By say 400%..But if the audio isn"t there then Use a Seperate audio encoder like "Headac3he"(Freeware) to encode the Wav audio to MP2 audio then Multiplex the Mp2 audio to the Mpeg video with the Mpeg Tools -Simple Multiplex..To the One encodeing the AVI file, you aren"t getting the audio Probably because the audio format in your AVI file is Not supported By Tmpgenc or you don"t have the Correct Filters or Codecs to decode the audio, you Need to extract the audio from your AVI file to a WAV file useing something like "Virtual Dub or AVI-Mux" then use the WAV audio in Tmpgenc as the audio source...

Qwert whatn did you use to rip the DVD audio to a wab file, was it DVD2AVI?

Try raising the priority of the wav file file reader in the VFAPI plugins.
When you load the wav into the audio field of TMPG ensure it stays loaded before encoding.
You can check if TMPG can encode the audio by clicking Setting>Audio>Setting then click play. If you can here the audio then TMPG should encode it.
Also make sure your stream type settings are set to 'Sytem(video+audio)'

ASHY