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I am trying to compress uncompressed AVI (captured home video) to S-VCD (NTSC). Since I am beginner in this, I used "Project Wizard" with default settings, which resulted in output file with equal width and height, as if original aspect ratio (4:3) was somehow changed to 1:1. I checked all the settings and found out that even though source file had aspect ratio 4:3 525 line (NTSC, 704x480), output had video resolution 480x480. I tried to change this setting in various menus but it was always greyed out. Does anybody know a way to achieve same aspect ratio as original file? Thanks in advance.
If you want the Image size to be displayed in the Correct aspect ratio go to "Video Arange Method" in the Video settings and set it to "FullScreen Keep aspect Ratio" and another way that will Display it in the correct aspect ratio But with Black bars on the top and Bottom which Might look better depending on what you are looking for is to set it to "Center Custom Size" then set the size to I think "480+352" is the correct aspect ratio?? This way it will not be full screen but have 64 pixel boarders on top and bottom, you can see what it will look like if you go into the "Clip Frame" settings, but make sure the "Resized image for Preview" Box is checked...
I have downloaded a trial copy of TMPGEnc. I am using this in conjunction with dvd2svcd. When dvd2svcd is ready to launch TMPGEnc, I get "illegal project file". How do I fix this and what is the problem?
Well it seems that there is something wrong with the Project file that DVD2SVCD is makeing..Sounds like a DVD2SVCD problem, Maybe you should check out there forum as they would know more about DVD2SVCD...
Hi, i have problem here. My video has subtitle on it, but it's too low and when I covert it to vcd and I played it on tv, I can only see half of the subtitle. Is there a way that I can resize the video using simple program like TMPGEnc? I know how to do it in premiere, but it's too much hasle. Please advice. Thank you
Some AVI files, after the enconding in VCD have no sound. I extract the audio into a WAV file and i repeat the convert AVI2VCD. The sound now is OK but non syncronized with the Video. Can you help me?
I agree with all of the above additions, I have not been able to make myself pay $68 for the software as is but if if tools for menu template creation and audio in the scene cut preview were added along with free upgrades for a determined period of time I would be more than willing to buy it. I have used the software for about 2 weeks making about 15 dvd's and I find it easy to use with decent features but when trying to put in chapter cuts, the lack of audio means I have a lot of trial and error trying to get the cut right.
Nice basic DVD authoring program, but without a built-in burner, it's definitely not worth the money. Ulead DVD Movie Factory blows this away, includes the ability to burn DVDs and create ISO images, and costs less.
Since TMPGEnc won't process my M2V files after they are ripped from a DVD, I have to run them through "Merge & Cut". I think it has something to do with the header, but anyways... I've only encountered this twice, but TMPGEnc only writes half of the file. The M2V is 2 hours long, but only 1 hour is written. The last time this happened I had a 3 hour clip that was only recognized as 1.5 hours. I've been using TMPGEnc for a long time now and rarely have this problem, but yet it's still a problem. My drives are all defragged and error free and the like. It seems to be only certain files/videos. Thanks!
UMMm, the Merge and Cut is really only supposed to be for Mpeg Files(Audio and Video) and only Files that were encoded By Tmpgenc in the First Place, and you really shouldn"t Load the M2V from a DVD Directly into Tmpgenc, there are Much Better and Faster Ways of Encodeing M2v files from a DVD in Tmpgenc, and that is Useing DVD2AVI to make a Project File and frame serve the file to tmpgenc, The decoders that Tmpgenc uses aren"t particularily that Fast,the Decoder that DVD2AVI is a Better Faster Decoder, I get up to 10% faster encodeing Frameserveing from DVD2AVI than Encodeing the Mpeg file just with Tmpgenc, Plus you get Much less Freezes and Crashes and other Problems...
So I encoded some MPEG1 videos using TMPGENC ver 2.51. I did them at a non-standard size of 640x320. They look and sound great on all of the machines I've tried them on until today. Today they were running on a compaq running Win 2000 service pack 1. For some reason the sound and picture ran at least 25% too fast on these machines. It did remain synced, just played too fast. The playback was from CD-ROM. I later took the same CD to another computer lab and the playback was perfect.... Any thoughts on what this could be?
IIt is because you are Playing them from a CD-Rom, if you drag and drop the Mpeg file to your Desktop, and Play it like you would a Regular File it should play Correctly....
How were they After you encoded them and before you burned them???? I"m sure you watched them before you burned them?? And if you did and they Were Playing Fast then I guess you wouldn"t have burned them, So I gather the files were either OK before you burned them, in which case I can"t see it being a Tmpgenc problem, Or you didn"t watch them before burning to Disk Which means I guess you"ll Have to try again... ...
1. I encoded them as MPEG 1's at 640x320.
2. They play great on all the Dell's I've tried them on...
(that's many, many computers)
3. I had problems playing them on the Compaqs...
4. I'm not blaming TMPGEnc for anything... I'm trying to determine what exactly is wrong. If there's something else I need to do, I want to know what it is so that I won't do it again...
5. The CD-ROM is NOT the issue... I've tested the files on the Dells I have access to from the very same CD-ROM. They play without problem.
6. Yes, it seems that it's a problem with the Compaqs... why?
this is sort of a multiple question.
i am trying to convert vhs (commercial movie) to dvd on single 4.7 gb disc
avi-tmpgenc-tmpgenc dvd author-dvd
best way to do this?
encode the movie with tmpgenc at exactly the 4.7 gb. best settings to do this? or encode larger file-author-then try to shrink it to 4.7 gb
tmpgenc dvd author locks up every time at 68% completed if file is larger than 4.7 gb. no matter size of file or which movie i encoded.
mikec
Make sure your systems harddrive has enough space (including SWAP files)and is NTFS. If that doesn't work. Make sure you capture you VHS with for example the XVID codec. (still very good quality)then to MPEG with TMPGEnc. Try the SVCD template, or DVD template, but lower your bitrate, because you can't create a better quality that VCD with a VHS capture, if you take 3000 kb/s is more than enough. Compress your audio (MP2) you will see you can fit 2 or 3 VHS tapes on one 4.7 Gb disc
Hehe, i'm using Win98 with FAT32! There's no need for NTFS because VirtualDub can produce segmented AVIs and TMPGEnc can load them as a complete Movie.
To Capture with a high compressing Codec is... a dump thing. It lowers the possible quality.
Maximal Filesize for DVD is 4.37 GByte. That's including Muxing-Overhead, so take care to produce smaler sizes.
The only point i was trying to make is that 4.7GB for one VHS tape capture
is way too much. Should be between 800 Mb and 1.5 Gb. Therefore i suggested to
capture with something like Xvid to get a good quality and low filesize.
Enabling NTFS would help, but indeed you could capture segmented avi's.
I prefer capturing (if your Processor alows you) in Mjpeg, Xvid and then frameserve to TMPG, but if you have enough HD space and your Processor is
fast enough be my guest...
I do my Captures in MJPEG because that leaves me enough PC-Power to do Realtime-Denoising and Realtime-Resizing while capturing. So the Encoding is done very, VERY fast, even using TMPGEnc. My machine is a P4 1.9 GHz, that's fast enough to do things like that.
Superb program. Only software out of about 20 that can do a go convert from mpg file with incorrect format to a mpeg with vcd format. Thanks for this really good software!