I try to encode a DIVX file but it gives a black screen but the audio is fine so any help would be greatful

Try to load the DivX-Video into VirtualDub and use VirtualDub as Frameserver.
If this does'nt work, you maybe need the right Codec.

Go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "Direct show" to "2"...

Sorry to disturb... But I tried all possible means to open the downloaded TMPGEnc-2.510.49.157-Free.zip file (and others), and it does not open saying "ZIP archive is invalid or corrupted"

Is there a trick?

Dmitrij

Yes, the trick is to download it again.

ASHY

it's possible find a Italian language version?
thanks

No chance.

ASHY

This is the error I get after a few minutes encoding of one movie, then TMPGEnc simply does not go on to encode allthough the file is a lot longer. Any Ideas what I could do?
Thanks!
m

What are the source files? Avi's? Which codec?
Are the source files corrupted perhaps?


Try checking your hard disk with Scandisk or some other tool.

I'm also having this same problem with a XVID encoded video. The movie is about 900000 frames and I'm planning on splitting it in 2 for SVCD, frames 500000 - 900000 work and encode fine but frames 1 - 500000 doesn't work. I tried setting the Direct Show Filter to 1 under VFAPI plug and it encoded but when I burn it to SVCD and play it back on my DVD player its distorted.

Hi,

I try to multiplex two saperate .m2v and a .mp2 files to a MPEG-I stream. I was told that I have to install the plugins VFAPI and Toolame, otherwise I always just had a audio but no video signal in the muxed stream. But like sunz (19519) I have the problem, that I don't really know who to install them. Because it is not possible to save the job and open it in VFAPI again by the reason that I use the MPEG-tools for that.

Thanks a lot. Cheers,
Doerky

You don't need any plugins at all to multiplex an m2v and mp2 stream. Just use the simple multiplexer.
Also you can't multiplex to an MPEG1 stream either. The file you have is MPEG2.

ASHY

Im about to encode an mpeg file to vcd but I would like to put the subs on there too. Is this possible and if so... how?

To do this you would have to use Virtual Dub and the Subtitle Plugin and frame serve the AVI file and the Subs to Tmpgenc...go to "http://www.virtualdub.org/

Hi

if i want to convert a avi into mpeg and press start iam getting the following error message

"The Error Acured when ACM was initialized"

Anyone one know why this happened ?

Thx for the help

Is there an advantage to not using 0 as the minimum bitrate in CQ_VBR? Is this strictly a player issue or are there picture quality (encoding) issues?

Well there are a Bunch of reasons why you should not set the Minimun Bitrate to "0"...One reason is if the Bitrate goes to low your Player won"t be able to read it, and another reason you don"t want it to low is if the Bitrate all of a sudden Jumps from say 200kbs to say 1500kbs or 2000kbs your DVD Player won"t be able to spin the Disk fast enough to go from a Really slow speed at reading at 200kbs to a Fast speed at 1500kbs so the Image will look like slow motion for a couple seconds and the audio can go out of sync for a few seconds till the disk speeds up to the speed were it can read the data at the proper speed, and having to much space between the Minimum and Max bitrate will cause bitrate spikes that will cause an effect the same as I just described...

Thanks. I did not know that DVD players were variable speed.

If you set the bitrate to low and depending on the quality setting then the bitrate chosen by the encoder may not be enough for the data contained in the image.
This will lead to a blocky image. Setting it to a minimum such as 1800kb/s ensures that the minimum bitrate always yields a block free picture when the image detail drops below a certain threshhold.

ASHY

I have 2 avi's which i wanna convert to mpeg so i can burn to vcd and when i try to select the file to convert to mpeg. It shows this message

File "C:Program Files...................... ???.avi" can not open , or unsupported

?? whats the go ??

That is the same message I am getting trying to encode some MPEGS as well. I am able to do this on one of my two machines. The other works flawlessly.

For AVI Files you should go to "Options" to "enviromental settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct Show" to "2"...

i can't change the direct show priority minion? what should i do?

i am tring to change an .avi file to an mpeg so i can burn it to a cd and watch it on a dvd player. tell me the best way to do this please.

Hey,
I'm trying to encode/cut avi/mpeg files.
I used tmpeg enc. for a long time, but since the last week I didn't get any sound/audio on the encoded/finished file.
Therefore I didn't had any problems. Can someone help me pls?

Can you explain your problem a Bit better??? Is ther No sound in the Cut AVI files or is it in the Cuz Mpeg files or is it in the Encoded Mpeg files???? and tell us what format your AVI"s audio is and what exact Proscess you are going through to and were the Problem pops up....

what's an easy way to batch encode several dozens of files?
I want to use the batch mode but would rather not go through selecting each file one by one since I want to apply the same settings to all the files.
I can imagine that I can save a text .tbe file for one and duplicate it for all the rest of them using a text editor.
Is there a better way through TPMGenc? like selecting multiple files at one and converting all?

thanks.

Well I guess you can make a Template with the settings that you will use for all the Files, then load in each file and load the template and save it..This way you won"t have to Do the settings Individually Cuz the settings will allready be done in the Template...There is a Little tool Called something like the "Tmpgenc Batch List Maker" you Might be able to get it here : http://www.innsys.com.au/doylie/cat_Development/TMPEG_Batcher/TMPEG_List.asp/ ...

Morcos, the easiest way is using AVISynth. There are tons of informations in the Internet how to use and where to get. You only need a little command line, written in Notepad for example, and then you can link a dozen avi files and tmpgenc will encode it flawlessly. If you cannot find the package (freeware) let me know and I can send you the files by e-mail with some hints.
Reinhard

I don"t think AVISynth is what he is looking for, he Wants to Encode a Bunch of Seperate Files, there is allready a Feature in Tmpgenc that will Encode a Bunch of avi/Mpeg files into one file...

Avisynth (www.avisynth.org) is what I use to join multiple avi files together and encode with Tmpgenc plus. They work great together. It is not difficult to use.

I don't think either of you guys are reading the posts correctly or listening to Minion.

It is quite obvious morcos requires to convert a bunch of files seperately not join them as one complete encoded stream.
AVIsynth is not the tool for this.

The tool that Minion has posted is, and will do exactly what morcos requires.

ASHY

Thanks all for the very useful information.
What minion suggested is what I'm looking for. I successfully downloaded the tool TmpegBatchList v3.0.exe which allowed me to create a Tmpgenc batch file for all the files that I wanted to convert from mov to mpg. It worked great.

I suppose tmpgenc can consider making it an option in the application itself for selecting multiple input files and converting all in one pass. But the tool above serves my need for now.

Thanks.

I have noticed that when I switch my encode setting from CBR 2300 to CQ 75 that the end video ends up having a length of about twice the actual length of video within Windows Media Player. I was wondering if there is any way I could remedy this with my encode settings. Any help would be most appreciated.
Xtra Things

Does Media Player Just say that it is Twice as Long But it actually doesn"t play twice as Long???? if this is the Problem then It doesn"t seem like a Big deal at all...But if the actuall length is twice as Long then what is in the Extra Video??? Maybe you can Just Cut the Extra Off with the Mpeg tools???

It just shows the extra time though it does not actually exist. I know it's not really a problem, it just kinda bugs me. Thanks for the help Minion.
Xtra Things