I just downloaded a ripped copy of "The Matrix" and I'm trying to get it so that I can put it on VCD. The original format was an avi so I downloaded a converter and now I've got a copy in mpeg that I have tested and works. Unfortunately the mpeg file is too big to put on a single disk so I need to split into 2.

Here's my problem. I used TMPGENC.exe and tried to see if I can get it to split. I set the exact split location I wanted and ran it. It should of then made a single cut of the mpeg for roughly 540MB's but when i opened up the cut. It was only 11MB's long and like 20 minutes into the beginning of the movie. No where close to where I had set it up to be cut. Now this is the second time this has happened with 2 different peices of software. Is this some sort of registration issue where i have to pay something in order to get a cut of the size i'm looking for or is something just not working right?

Also I'm curious as to how I'd convert the size of the mpeg down. Currently the dimmensions are around 640X4?? or something like that. If understood correctly, I need to cut it down to a 352x2?? to be able to be viewed right when played. How would I be able to do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If possible, email me with the answer. JHaigwood@Hotmail.com. If not, I'll just keep checking back for your help. Thanks in advance.

Well the Movie should be in Mpeg format and at 352+240/288-pal before you even tried to cut it in Half with Tmpgenc..You just take the Original AVI file and Load it into Tmpgenc and choose the Correct VCD template and encode it, then it should be at the correct resolution then you can use the "Merge & Cut" in the Mpeg Tools to cut the File in Half...

I used WinMPG to convert the original AVI to VCD so maybe that was my problem. I'll try it using TMPENC this time I guess.

Yeah, I've got the conversion running now. Geeze, when i converted it last night using WinMPG it took like 8 hours, this one only takes an hour and sets it in the needed format. Sweet! In case you hadn't noticed I've never done a VCD before. I'm gonna be making it with Nero. Did a test run using the new World of Warcraft trailer to see if I can actually make a VCD and have it be viewed on my DVD player. It works, unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to get the menu working. Hmm. Thanks for the help though.

its not converting the whole avi file to mpeg now, could it be that the version of TMPGEnc isn't a full version and only limits to so many megs of a file. Or did i do something wrong when trying to convert to mpeg and its only doing the first 30 megs of the file and wont do any more? I'm so confused now. :(

Well this Can Be From a Number of things..Did you get an error?? Did it Just Crash?? What type of AVI file is it?? Did you get it off of the net Cuz Many Downloaded Movies are Corrupted???If it is a Xvid File you might be better off useing the FFDShow Decoder to decode the file..As you Probably noticed there is a lot to makeing VCD/SVCD"s especially if something goes wrong which does quite often when dealing with Downloaded DivX or XviD files...

First TMPGEnc has no limit on mpeg-1 encoding but limit on mpeg-2(svcd/dvd). So you may have file error. Also if the source avi file has ac3 audio, tmpgenc can't handle it. I recommend you to use AVI2SVCD software which extract audio from avi source and encode it to mp2 audio and automatically encode video with tmpgenc and mux it using bbmpeg.

I found matrix 2 mpg file(svcd) but it was pal format. So I demultiplexed and encoded video as ntsc format and muxed them, burned them to 2 svcd. Now it works file. SVCD is much better than vcd.

Good Luck!

I use DVD decrypter to rib my movie, then dvd2avi. I then try and load the files into tmpeg but it wont recognize the video file. Audio works/is recognized fine. Any thoughts, suggestions? I have tried using both the newest and some of the older versions of tmpeg. I am running Windows XP home edition. Thanks.
BigDaddy

Do you have the DVD2AVI.VFP VFAPI Plugin installed???You do this By copying the DVD2AVI.vfp file from the DVD2AVI Directory into the Tmpgenc directory then make sure it shows up in the VFAPI Plugins..

I cannot convert the AVI movie files created by my Canon digi camera to MPEGs using v2.511. I get an error message saying that the file type is not supported. It will convert audio but not video. Any suggestions?

TYIA

tssfka

Well What Format does your Camera Produce??? is it DV?? if it is DV you will need a DV Codec installed, and if it is DV what type is it ,Type 1 or Type 2??

I'm having the same issues with my Polaroid Digital Camera. How do you find out what format the camera produces. ie, DV1, DV2 etc.

Use something like "GSpot" it will tell you everything about your AVI file But I"m sure it is Type 1 DV as Most use Type 1 DV these days...Just download a Couple DV codecs and see if that helps...

Better try to raise the priority of Directshow multimedia in Environmenal setting VFAPI Plugin. I have sony pcr-7 6m digial camcorder and normally I capture it to 25mbps dv-avi using ieee-1394 card.

Can anyone tell me what settings I should set the TmpgEnc DVD format for? I have downloaded divx Avi riped movies and what to burn them to DVD.

Thanks

I too am able to run DVD Author, until I get to the DVD Write Tool....that's when I get "Drive Not Ready" message. I have a Sony Vaio with a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR 104 DVD burner. I too download movies and it was recommended to use this program for DVD burning....am I doing something wrong or is it my DVD burner itself?
PLease help, I'm extremely new at this and Extremely enthused with using more of the capabilities of my PC....

~ LordBiggness ~

Ok, how exactly does normalize work? does it compare all the files I am encoding and average them? how would I make a mass amount of files all the same? just put set it the same # all the time? also.. what happens if you change the volume settings on your computer in between normalizes? would that change what is "normal"?


Thanks

Normalize Just Averages out the audio for the File that is loaded into it, The Volume settings on your Computer have nothing to do with the Audio levels inside the Audio File...

Let's say I have a clip that's too quiet. What do I do with normalize once I'm inside Audio Edit? It goes between 0%-100% but what does it mean?

Likewise for a clip that's too loud.

I have found that there are three chioces in the audio channel in the setting.
Stereo, joint-stereo and dual-channel.
I'm converting Dvd to vcd but what is the difference between stereo and joint-stereo?
I have read something related to this issue but the one who answered just said it depends on what you wnat????
please I need to know what is the difference between them?

Well sterio is the Right chanell comeing out the Right speaker and the Left chanell comeing out the Left speaker, Joint sterio is Both the Left and Right Chanells being Played out of each Speaker, and Dual Chanell is one audio track Being Played out of one speaker and a Seperate audio track being played out the other so when Panning to the Right you can get a different audio track as when you pan to the Left..Just stick With Sterio for most Movies...

@Minion

Your explanation of Joint Stereo isn't right. What you descriped is Mono, not Stero or Joint Stereo.
Joint Stereo is a methode to save bitrate. It mixes right and left channel only for compression. If the right Channel can be compressed higher than the left, Joint Stereo use the "extraspace" for Data from the left channel (an vice versa). A Decompressed Joint Stereo-File will be in Stereo.

I"m sure Your Probably Correct,But how can you save bitrate when doing CBR audio encodeing???

Hehe, good Question. Joint Stereo is designed for low Bitrates. It does not realy save Bitrate, but does a better use of the given Bitrate.

Work's like this:
Encoder: Hey, there's a part in the left Channel that can be encodet with only 128 kbps instead of 192 kbps, and hey, there's also a Part in the right channel that need's more than 192 kbps, so why i don't use the Space in the left for the overhead of the right channel?

OK, it's not an exact description, but the best i can write in english... ;)

Hi I've just started using this product and when I creat the chapters in the program and then burn it using Nero. I dont see any chapters or menu's anyone one have any thoughts. I use the standard settings too in creating a DVD in TmpgEnc then use the DVD program. And default setting in Nero.

Thanks Steven

Hi Steven,

Your Problem is NERO, try the setting from www.dvdrhelp.com > HowTo's > Authoring.> "Burn with Nero UDF 1.02"

Good luck,

Borgster.

Similar problem here.
My first DVD player arrived today and I played my first DVD which I authored with TMPGEnc DVD Author. I set up chapter points but used no menu as there is only one video and there seems little point in making it more complicated to play than necessary. I read the players manual on changing chapters but it didn't appear to work. I was told on another forum that you don't need a menu for the player to recognise chapters. Maybe I just haven't sussed out the player yet, or the chapters weren't included.

Im using the latest version (2.511) of tmpg but ive noticed that every now & again in an encoded film i get discolouration in dark areas, i encoded harry potter 2 as the dvd film is (no clippin, no resize) just to bring the size down to a single layered disc.

Any ideas on this problem ?

by the way i am framserving from dvd2avi.

There are Other ways to Make a Retail DVD Fit on a Single DVD-R while retaining all of the Menu"s and chapters, Programs Like "DVD2One" and "DVD-Shrink" can do it very well and DVD2One can do it very Fast Like in Just a Few Minutes..But if you are getting Bad Discoloration then that can be caused By Haveing a Bad codec installed on your System ,The codec is called "Angel Potion" if you have it you should delete it as it causes Purple and Pink discoloration on encoded files, But it really shouldn"t have a Problem useing D2V files, Make sure in DVD2AVI you have the colorspace settings set to "Yuv" and to "TV Scale"....

@yamyam
Minion is right, but there's an other possible reason for lightened dark areas if you are using DVD2AVI. What settings did you use? RGB-Colorspace or YUV? TV-Scale or PC-Scale? That's important!

I was using YUV - PC Scale all the time but at the moment im encoding the movie again with YUV - TV Scale to see if this makes any difference, never used the RGB setting. Hoping TV Scale Will cure my problem.

I recognized problems to insert a source mpeg which is greater than 4 GB. Is there a limitation? It should be possible to import a 4,4 GB movie when the DVD-disc has 4,7Gb capacity!

Maximum File-Size for DVD is EXACT 4.37 GByte (4.700.000.000 Bytes, (OK, a couple of Bytes more, but thats not important in this case)).

yes, that´s right. But it should be possible to import a file which is larger than this. You can cut commercial advertising from the beginning, from the end and maybe in the middle. And my recordings are often 15 min. longer then the duration of the movie. I want to cut the movie in TDA so that it is not larger than 4,37 GB. In fact, I can even not import a 4,1 GB movie.

Is there anybody else who has problems with files larger than 4GB?

By the way: Of course I have XP and NTFS. It really seems to be a limitation of TDA.

I had no problems importing m2v files of 4.8 Gb.& more .Then cut out commercials and unwanted scenes.I always use demuxed audio & video files
for importing

Had no problem importing 5.2 Gb of m2v (generated by TMPGenc), then cut out bits and peaces until it would fit to 4.3 Gb (the label on the DVD says it is a 4.7 Gb which is a joke). My pc is P4, 2Ghz, with XP pro, 2 IDE HardDisks and one 200 Gb Firewire.

When trying to convert an NTFS AVI to PAL MPEG 2 using system(video-audio) the final MPEG has no sound when using the same avi for video and audio. Extracting the audio to wav using VirtualDub then using this wav as a separate audio file to create the MPEG leads to a file with sound out of synch by about 1 second after half an hour. Any suggestions

Firstly you can not use Tmpgenc to Properly Convert from NTSC/Pal,It just doesn"t work Properly, Tmpgenc Does not do Proper Frame rate conversions so when watching your Movie on TV you will get a Jumping or Skiping effect about every second or so.You might not see it Now But you will Once you are Watching in your DVD Player,If you watch it closely now I"m sure you will Notice it, And Trying to convert NTSC/Pal with Tmpgenc Can cause Sync Problems like you are getting....You can use AVISynth to Frameserve the file and use it to do the NTSC/Pal conversion But it is a Complicated tool to use if you have never used it, if you have a Good Video editor Like Vegas 4 or Premier you can use it to convert NTSC/Pal, Or if you can get a Copy of ProCoder it does good NTSC/Pal Conversions..There are also a Couple of other methods that Entail Changeing the Framerate of the AVI file then Changeing the length of the Audio to Match the Video...

Version 2.511 unstable?
TMPGEnc 2.511 may hang (blank window, TMPGEnc not responding, HD LED permanently "ON", processor load 100%) after quite some time of successful encoding. Strange: After a couple of re-starts the encoding of the entire movie my eventually succeed.
Never had this problem with older versions.
P4/XP/DX9/80GB HD/512MB RAM.

Hi.

Same problem for me. With 2.511 version, sometimes encoding is ok, but some other times not. I have dual processor and I discovered that if I disable multithread the hangs almost dissapear, but not completely anyway.
I hope it will be fixed in the following version.

Regards.

There seems to be a Bug in the Multi-threading in this Version so Poeple with Multiple Processors might find Problems useing the Multi-threading ..I would either just disable it till the next version comes out or use an older version till they fix this one...

With a couple of AVI file I receive a very green screen in TMPG while converting it to MPEG. What can I do to prevent that?

You will have to tell us a Bit more about these AVI files you are haveing Problems with, Like there Compression and were they are from, But off the Top of My head I would say that you should first try Raiseing the Priority of the Direct Show File reader in the Vfapi Plugins to about 2...

It concerns some XVID MPEG-4 coded files. They look very greenish and the pictures are as well unclear.

This is often a problem when using an older xvid codec to run newer xvid encoded videos. Uninstall the old codec, and download and install a new build of xvid.

What Might be better is to Install the FFDShow Filter, it decodes all Mpeg-4 and Other Formats usually better than the actual codecs do pluss it has a Lot of usefull decodeing options to optimize Playback Quality...