Trying to make a vcd from small video clips from my digital camera tmpgenc won´t open the files. Why? I haven´t done anything with the files, just downloaded from the camera to the hard disc. It works with Arcsoft videoimpression, bundled with the camera, but I don,t like that program.

im a newbie....but during the preview of encoding, is audio supposed to be playing or only the video??

only video plays for me because i did not encode the audio seperately since the file is avi....(1st attempt so if so i will use the vitrua dub..)

thnx..

No Of cource the audio isn"t supposed to play But it would be pretty funny if it did ....

Hi,

I am new to doing this and what to know if most movies will need to be burned on 2 CD's? Are there any CD-R's or CD-RW's out there that can support 1 whole movie?

Thanks!

No there is not. The largest CD.Rs available is 700Mb, wich will give you 70-80 min. of VCD movie or 35-40 min. of SVCD (Super Video Compacd Disc).

If you want an entire moovie an one dics, you'll have to get a DVD burner and to burn on DVD media.

Good luck!

There are actually new 900mb CD-R"s But not many Burners support them and even fewer DVD Players will Play them..

downloaded movie files, dvd rips etc, i have to decompress the sound using software that i have and then encode it to vcd format to play in my dvd player.
up until the point of encoding the file is fine, soon as i use tmpgenc the audio is out of sync with the video, any ideas, have tried " do not frame rate convert " but still the same

Well tell us about the Files you are trying to encode and what settings you are useing to encode them..Like the Frame rate and the resolution and audio format and video format and what you are trying to make a NTSC VCD or a Pal DVD or anything in between.and any other settings you might have used...

after downloading the film went in to property's of the film, it says,audio , bit rate 130 kbps, audio format mpeg layer 3. video, frame rate 23 frames/second, data rate 107 kbps, video sample size 24 bit, video compression divx codec. i then decompress the sound, if burnt to disk at this stage i have no sound when played, after decompressing the sound went to properties of th file, it said, audio, bit rate1536 kbps, audio sample size 16 bit, audio format pcm..... video, frame rate 23 frames/second, data rate 305 kbps, video sample size 24 bit, video compression divx codec.... when i encode it i choose vcd-pal, video type non-interlace, aspect ratio 1;1(vga)thats pretty much it, im not whizz kid on these, so please be patient. thanx

Well This is Your Problem ,You can"t encode that File as a Pal File Cuz it isn"t a Pal File It is a NTSC Film File..You cave to encode to the same frame rate as the source file, and your source file is 23.9fps so you would have to encode it to a Mpeg file that is 23.9fps which is a NTSC Film File, Tmpgenc Can not Do Proper Frame rate conversions so that is Why you are Getting the audio out of sync and you will Notice that the picture Jumps or Jerks every second or so also...

tried encoding as ntsc film which is 23.9 fps, the film is 23 fps, obviously this.9 differance does affect the end result as it still looked like a spagetti western, still the audio/video did not match. how do i rectify this differance, when i first encoded to pal the picture quality was dvd standard and did not get auy picture jumping etc, just prob with sound not matching.

Hi,

I have a CD-R that is 700 mb/ 80 minutes. I'm trying to burn a movie that is 79 minutes, and when I go to write it in Nero, it says There is not enough space to burn this compiliation onto this medium. What am I doing wrong? Please help!

the 80 minutes refers to the length of audio u can put on it..as in an audio cd which has tracks on it in wav format. They are not labelled as if they will be used for vcd (or are they??). How big is your file? U can usually go a little over 700mb.

No .. You shouldn"t go By the length of your VCD Cuz a 79 minute VCD Can be over 800 mb, Go By the Actual Size of the VCD not length..even though Generally you can fit 80 minutes of Standard Bitrate VCD onto a 700mb 80 min CD-R But Not all VCD"s are made equal...

Any MPEG with a size of less than 800mb will fit an 80min CD or 820mb with overburn.

ASHY

I try to open an .avi from DV edit on premier and get this error:
File can not open or unsuported.
If I use the original captured .avi I have no problem, I also try to cancel de audio on the dv .avi and then it works, but I cant find a configuration of the audio that works?????

Same here. All of a sudden, TMPGEnc will not open MPEG2 files for encoding. I get the same error.

I tried setting different priorties as well.

I am still able to merge and cut with the tools, but encoding no longer works :(

Seems to have affected other programs as well. I think Microsoft Media player downloaded a new MPEG codec this past week. hmmm.... I bet we see a few more of these messages in the comming days.


Joe

Patrich...Have you tried Raiseing the Priority of the "Direct show" or other VFapi Plugins??? and Joe ,The Best way to encode Mpeg2 files with Tmpgenc is to use DVD2AVI to Frameserve the Video to Tmpgenc and it will De-mux the audio Cuz you don"t need to encode the Audio cuz it is allready in the correct Format for mpeg, Useing the DVD2AVI method Is Much Faster...

Still having my problem. I pulled a backup form the network and restored one of our machines, and the problem persists.

Further, I was able to take an Mpeg1 (vcd tamplete) and encode it to a svcd and dvd Mpeg2 ormats, but TMpgEnc was unable to open the files that it created!

I also took you advice for using DVD2AVI, that seemed to work, but it is a shame TMpgEnc can no longer read its own files :(

I recently downloaded an mpeg2 video (SVCD) and I tried to simple multiplex the video in TMPGenc, and the message "illegal mpeg video stream" came up. I was wondering if someone could help me, and give me any info on how to fix this. Thanks.

If you Downloaded it Then the Problem is That it is Probably Corrupted in some way..You can try to see if other programs will De-mux it ,you can try seperateing the audio from it with DVD2AVI or you can look for a Program called XMuxer that is freeware and it is a Multiplexer and de-multiplexor ..

Minion
What is Raiseing the Priority of the "Direct show"?

Have a look at this NEW Video Server for TmpegEnc and some others.

You can use Tmpeg with Ulead products
Ulead MediaStudio Pro v6.x
Ulead MediaStudio Pro v7.x
Ulead Cool3D v3.5
Ulead Cool3D Studio
Ulead VideoStudio v6.x

Plus there's the Video Server for Adobe P6.5

More info at http://www.softdeko.8m.com/video_encoder2.htm

Tel.

So where's the new server?

This Ulead plugin has been around for ages.

ASHY

I AM TRYING TO CONVERT AVI FILE TO MPEG FILE . GET A MESSAGE

CANNOT LOAD P3PACKAGE.DLL WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
THANKS
IAN

It means that you don"t have all of the Tmpgenc Files in the same folder..All the Files that you that Came in the Program you downloaded have to be in the same folder...

I'm using 2.58, going through the wizard, and I'm having a problem with one specific file. Most of the time I get ERROR -537403781 98656 in intervals of about every three seconds. Once, it seemed to work fine, but it was going to add a half-hour of the last frame. I stopped it, and then there was no sound. Then I tried again, and the same problem with the error message happened.
I don't know what's happening. Does anybody?

I am experiencing an odd problem with TMPGenc 2.58.44.152, and 2.59.47.155, and any other build that i have installed to try to find a solution to my problem. I have been using TMPGenc for some time now, and don't understand why i am having this problem.

About a week ago i encoded some movies from (xvid).avi to XVCD (only lowered the bitrate from 1150KB/ps to 950KB/ps to make it fit on a CD). The movies were supposed to be on average about 738 MB (about the size of an 80min CD), and they all came out to be 850 MB + or - 15MB. I have successfully completed this process many many times before. Why does the estimated filesize say the movies will be 737MB(est.) and they turn out to be so much larger now? I am not doing things any different than I have before?

I can provide any other information that is needed if neccessary.

Thank You,
~WES
w_schweke@sbcglobal.net

2.59 has a bug in it's muxer. All MPEG1 files no matter how low you set the bitrate will have padding added to be the same size as Standard VCD.

2.58 does not have this problem however. You probably just have to set your stream setting to 'Non standard VCD'

ASHY

Loading the MPEG into the simple multiplexer in the MPEGtools with the 'Non standard VCD' setting will remove this padding and thus reduce the file size.

ASHY

THANK YOU....THANK YOU....THANK YOU!!!!!

Simple-Multiplex worked like a charm! Now I can stop pounding my head against my monitor :-)

~WES

Hi All,

I am having a problem with audio gett getting out of sync with the video.

Here is what I'm trying to do:

1. Capture DV from DV camcorder into an avi file
- audio is in sync
2. Split the AVI file into smaller avi files (in this case 19 of them)
- audio is still in sync on all of them
3. Convert each to MPEG-2 using TMPGEnc's default DVD (NTSC) settings
with the only change being the audio bit rate set to 192 kbps
- audio is still in sync on each clip
4. Use the merge&cut tool to merge some or all of these files together
into one MPEG-2 file.
- the audio is now out of sync. I also noticed that during the
"Outputting..." phase of the process, the
"Producing the video stream..." reports 3730.46 seconds and the
"Producing the audio stream..." reports 3730.68 seconds and my audio
is out of sync by approximately .2 sec (subjective estimate but the audio
does come earlier than the video. This particular example is for trying
to merge all 19 clips back together as a test.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this something that TMPGEnc doesn't handle properly?

Thanks,

Tom

P.S
I am pretty sure that I have encoded the original 60 min avi file using
the same settings and all was fine with the audio, so I have to believe
that it is the merge process. I will try this again this evening to
make sure, though.

The answer to your problem is probably due to the fact that merging MPEGs requires two clean GOPs to be joined.

If the cut MPEGs are cut in the middle of a GOP the the MPEG will be truncated to the nearest full GOP.
This would the reason for the shorter Video, but I would have expected TMPG to create Full GOPs even at the end of an encoded MPEG, so there really should be no problem.

Try encoding using closed GOPs as this is more compatible for editing.

ASHY

The files were created using closed GOP. Also, the MPEG files were not cut, the original type-1 DV avi files were cut using DirectShow routines, which I don't believe to be the problem. Further tests I ran were to capture about 10 seconds of DV video convert it and try to merge it and the times reported are still not the same (this bypassed the step of splitting the original AVI file). I also have tried both type1 and type 2 avi files using 3 deifferent capture applications.

Any other ideas???

Why don"t you Just Use One Big In sync DV AVI file instead of Joining 19 Big files..Load all 19 files into Tmpgenc as One big file, Tmpgenc Now supports Sequential Files so Just Name your AVI files something like "file-001.avi, File-002.avi, File-003.avi Ect:in the order that you want them and just load the first file in and the Rest will be loaded in the order you numbered them into one big file...

Thanks for the tip - I might just have to do that.

The reason that I wanted the many different files is for archiving purposes.
I am trying to put all my home movies (about 100 hrs) onto DVDs. My process was to be as follows:

1. capture each tape to AVI via my new DV camcorder.
2. split each AVI into clips (these will most likely correspond to chapters on the final DVD).
3. encode each clip using TMPGEnc.
4. Once that is done, or at least until I have enough mpeg clips to fill up a DVD, take all the MPEG files, merge them together into one big mpeg file to import into my DVD authoring software, create menus and chapters and burn.

A benefit from merging all the clips back, is that I now have I-frames at each chapter, so my authoring software will place the chapter exactly where I want (I did notice that using the Force Picture Type setting on the GOP tab i can achieve the same result)

The reason I need one big mpeg file for the DVD is that I only want one title on the resulting DVD, otherwise there is a pause between chapters during continuous playback.

My intention is to also be able to archive the mpeg files because they are much smaller. Also, another benefit is that I can take the same MPEG files and rearrange them or pull all the ones of my sister and her kids and make a DVD for her, etc. Doing this using the original AVI files would be impractical because of size issues.

Does anyone know of software that can tell me the exact length of an AVI files audio and video streams? I am beginning to wonder if that is not my problem after all.

I know when I want to Know the exact length of the audio and video tracks in my AVI Files I just load them Into "Sound Forge" and it will tell me the exact length of the video and audio tracks..I would Sugest "Virtual Dub" cuz it is free and it can do the same thing But it doesn"t work with DV files...