I have this video where the audio was AC3. So I used Goldwave to extract the audio and save it as a WAV. Then I converted the video with the new WAV. On the computer, the MPEG played fine. But after I burned to VCD, the audio kept on halting, but the audio and video weren't out of sync (well, the video was unusually slow, unlike the playback on computer). How can I fix this without having to go back and reconvert?! :(

Make sure the next time you split the MPEG that you choose the right stream setting 'MPEG1 VideoCD'

For now run it through the simple multiplexer with the above setting.

What does that mean?

Help! When I tried to simple multiplex it, near the end, it said this:

176306 s packets cause buffer underflow. The MPEG file might cause error when it played.

Why is this?

Well If you get a BufferUnderflow error then it is Because you did not encode the File as a VCD, You encoded it as a Plain Mpeg1 file with VCD Charicteristics...Try this Take the File and Put it in the "Merge & Cut" and Choose "Video-CD Non-Standard" from the Dropdown Menu and then choose an output file name and then click "Run" and it will make a New file with the Correct VCD header on the File without giveing you the BufferUnderflow error...

Thanks. I'll try that. Why is the audio having problems on the DVD player but not on the computer? Also, why don't I need to do this step for normal VCDs without AC3 audio? What is the function of Simple Multiplex, Multiplex, etc.?

No, it still halts every few seconds! :( Do I need to change the audio? It is currently layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps.

What software are you using to burn this VCD and how fast did you burn it?

Nero 5. I used AviMUX (the last time I used it on an AC3 audio-AVI file, it didn't work so I'm trying it again this time) and set the fields at 100ms. And it works in the test MPEG! Let's just hope it works for the entire thing. Also, did you know you could extract the AC3 audio in AviMUX and then when you're converting, you set the WAV file as the audio source. And under the "Audio" settings, at the bottom, you select "Audio Editing" and click on the button. Then click "Normalize" and press play to test out your audio volume. I never knew that! I was using Goldwave. Thanks anyways!

I need overburning help. I am using Nero to burn VCDs. Under "Expert Features" and "Overburn", what do you put for "Maximum CD Length"? Right now, I have it at 84 minutes. After I select "overburn", somewhere along the process it said:

Burn failed. Buffer underun.

What does this mean?! :(

Because you can't overburn 84 mins on an 80min disk. The most you can overburn is 82mins.

But together when you add the 2 files, it's only 806MB. I heard Minion overburned 820MB. :( So I should put 82 instead of 84?

Was that 806mb Total file size what Nero says the File size is, or what the File size is if you just add the 2 files together??? Because there could be a Little Overhead that nero adds so the File might be bigger than you think..And the Amount you can overburn totally depends on the CD-R some of the really cheap One will not have that much extra space to overburn and some of the Higher Quality CD-R"s will allow you to Burn a Bit more than some other CD-R"s, The Most I think I have gotten was about 820-830mb...But yes you should just have it set to 82 minutes, and you never know that Disk that Failed Might still Play as I have had disks that Failed that still Played Fine..Like Right now Nero Has been haveing Problems Burning DVD"s For me and it allways Fails when Finalizeing the DVD But most of the DVD"s still Play.....Cheers

When I added the 2 files, it was 806MB. What Nero said when burning was 814MB. And when you add the duration of the 2 files together, you get around 55 minutes (but the duration for the entire disc somehow got to 81 minutes, my DVD player shows the duration of the disc at the top-right of the menu screen). Anyway, yes it played fine even though it said "burn failed" but the only problem is the audio. I'll try the merge and cut function and burn again.

It still won't work! :( The audio still halts. I tried making a normal music CD and added the WAV that I extracted using Goldwave. It was not halting and played smoothly. So maybe it has something to do with the conversion? For the video source, I used the original AVI file. For the audio source, I used the WAV. And the result was that the audio halted every few seconds. :( Please help some more! Thanks!

OK..You say that the audio Halts, Is this on your Computer or on your DVD Player??? Because if it is on your DVD Player and Not on your Computer then It could be that you are useing to High of a Bitrate to encode the Video, Something is the Bitrate spikes to high the audio will Cut out..So Try playing the File on your PC before you Burn it to disk and see if there is a Audio problem and if it Plays fine then it could be a Bitrate Problem..And do not Burn your (S)VCD"s at a High speed, you shouldn"t burn at faster than 8 speed and 4 speed would be ideal, and you should set the Overburning to 82 minutes as that is about the Max you can get even with High quality disks...

Thanks. The audio only halts on the DVD player. It plays fine on the computer. I used AviMux to extract the audio as WAV, and then reconverted. It works fine now. Thanks for your help!

Ok, after I reconverted the 2 files, their sizes were pretty high once they were added up. So I cutted out the ending credits and the opening credits (sob sob). And when I added them both up, it came out perfectly 820MB! But it still won't work! :( WHy is that!? I can't cut anymore.

Because you are not taking into account the overhead when burning.
820mb is the max including the overhead. The overhead is usually about 6-8mb, so your file needs to be about 813mb.
To reduce the file size even more just re-encode the audio at a lower bitrate. For example if your audio bitrate is now 224kb/s then you could encode it at 128kb/s and still maintain enough quality in the audio while reducing the file size.

Hi, Guys, I can not get DVD Author to recognize My DVD Burner, It is Just blank were it says "Recorder", But the Funny thing is When I go to the help File it has a screen shot of the DVD writeing Module and the Burner shown in the Picture is the same model as the one I own, a Sony DRU-500A, all my other Burning Programs Recognize it like Nero, But I can"t use Nero Cuz It has been giveing Me errors at the end of the Burn saying it can"t Close the Disk, But the Disks still work But I don"t want to Risk it...And when I point the Burning application to my Video_TS folder, it gives me a message saying there is No Video_TS Folder in this Folder...Ohh well I didn"t expect much From Tmpgenc DVD author anyways so I wasn"t dissapointed....Cheers

Pity about this. I have exactely the same burner. It worked plug and play with TDA. I have been using Nero up to now. As I said somewhere else, this TDA burning tool does not have the most professional look but it does its job perfectly as far as burning is concerned.

This is the second movie that I've downloaded in Xvid format and I still can't get the sound to work... TMPGEnc won't even accept it as a sound file and VirtualDub says that 'there is no decompressor to extract the audio file' - No compression, 44100, full processing mode, of cource.

I've downloaded all kinds of codecs and stumbled on GSpot Codec Information Appliance which said that the sound codec used was "ac3 (0x2000) Dolby Laboratories, Inc" and that I have 3 compatable codecs.. I mean the original file plays just fine in MediaPlayer. Is there any other way to extract audio or does anyone know where to get this codec?

Download AVIMUX-04 and extract the Ac3 audio to a wav.

I did that but it simply extracted the AUDIO - total of 220mg from a 650mb file... It's still compressed

Use VirtualDubMOD and/or BeSweet.

>I did that but it simply extracted the AUDIO - total of 220mg from a 650mb file... It's still compressed
Because you didn't extract it to a wav like I said. You simply extracted it as an AC3 file.

1. Load the AVI file into AVIMUX

2. You will should see 2 streams the Video and Audio stream. Uncheck the video stream.

3. Highlight the Audio stream then right click it, choose 'select compression' then select PCM. In the next box choose - 44.100khz, 16bit, stereo 172kb/s

4. Set the audio preroll and interleave to 100.

5. Click the Output AVI button and select where you want to save the audio. Make sure you give the file a .WAV extension and not .AVI

6. Now click go. If you did everything right the result should be a wav file.

Thanks - worked 100%

Bruning DVB-Files from Haupauge NExus S in 2 channel stereo works well, error message about non conform dvd ignored, burned, worked. If files are created with AC3 included, DVD Author says "illegal format" and does not accept MPEG file.

Any suggestions ?

THX, silent.

Have you tried to demux the Video before importing it into DVD Author? A good Demuxer is DS.JAR, but TMPGEnc can do this Job also.

Thank´s, I will try this. But I suppose it should work as it does with 2 channel also, seems to be an error in the checking routine of TMPEGENC DVD Author. When I record AC3 seperately, DVD Author accepts the stream but they are out of sync. Any possivility to sync the audio (add delay of x ms) ?

THX, silent

I am trying to convert an AVI file to an MPEG II so that I am able to create a DVD movie.

Whenever I load the movie into my DVD software (Dazzle Complete), it tells me that the file is not compliant. Checking why, I had this message -

Error - Sequence Start and GOP Header Mismatch. Sequence Headers are required on every GOP. Check original encoder settings.

I have no idea how to use these settings, so could somebody please let me know what I need to change them to to enable my file to be comliant.

Many thanks,
Simon

Look under the GOP structure tab and make sure the 'Output interval of sequence header' is set to 1
If it already is and it still gives you an error then it is probably a bug in your software.
Try importing the video and Audio stream seperately.

Take a look at http://dvd-hq.info/Compression.html. It has detail explanation and suggestions for TMPGEnc setup.
I used what's suggested there and it works like a charm...

Do what I do.. load preset template and then 'unlock' and set whatever you need

Thanks to all of you. I have successfully been able to create a new template for myself having used a variety of your answers and a little other tweaking.

I keep getting various write errors and access violations with module ntdll.dll. I am using version TMPGEnc-2.513.53.162-Free on windows XP. Does anyone have any idea what this problem is?

Defrag your drive and don't mess with TMPG's default TEMP folder settings.

You Might Get NTDLL.Dll Errors when encodeing XviD files because of some sort of Problem with the Xvid Codec..If this is the Problem you are Haveing you might want to install the "FFDShow Mpeg-4 Decoder" and configure it to decode XviD and all Mpeg-4 formats....

Ok so I got my MPEG-2 and now I burn it with Nero.. Is it normal for Nero to take 1+ hour to encode a one MPEG-2 or am I doing something wrong? - It keeps telling me that a video file is not a proper MPEG2 [even 480x480 ones] and will need to be encoded/converted...

You have made a big mistake. You have simply re-encoded the file with Nero.
It seems like you have cut the MPEG and not chosen the right stream type.
The next time you cut an MPEG make sure you select the right stream type, 'MPEG2 Super videoCD(VBR)'
For now just run the MPEG through the simple multiplexer with the setting above then import into Nero.

Gotcha, I got it to work. Thanks a lot man for all your help

Anyone of you know about Frame comparator software. This site might help http://www.tecoltd.com/fc.htm

Thanks

since i installed SP4 yesterday on Win2000Pro, when i try to select or "browse" for any file, anywhere within TMPGenc (latest version)-either in the wizard or from the main page, TMPGenc just closes immediately. anyone else notice this with win2kpro SP4 ? ideas, anyone?

Just completly delete TMPG from your system first and then re-install it.
This usually solves the problem as it's happened to me on several occasions.

Never encoded MPEG-2s - always MPEG-1 so I am kind of surprised that resolution is a square 480x480... That would put the black vertical bars on the left and right and that is kind of odd for a movie. Is that fixed or will the DVD players read MPEG-2s with different resolution?

The reason I ask is that my cousin's DVD player [where I'm trying all this stuff] is Nortec one which seems to read everything [data cds with mpegs on it etc]. I'm just wondering if this stuff will work on my player back home which is a Panasonic SC-HT70.

480+480 Is the Stabdard NTSC Resolution for SVCD"s, so if you are Makeing SVCD"s it is Best to use this resolution for Compatibility Purposes, Some Players will allow you to use some Different Resolution to Make Non-Standard SVCD"s or XSVCD"s, Like you can use 352+240 or 352+480 or 704+480, The First 2 resolutions you can Probably use with no real problem but they will still be non-Standard But the last resolution (704+480) is very high so you would need to use a Extremely High Bitrate to get Good Quality But useing that High of a Bitrate would make the File Probably un-Playable on Most DVD Players...Dont wory 480+480 only looks wierd on your Monitor Not on your TV as it will be Resized to fit the TV Screen properly...

It will only have the wrong aspect ratio if you don't use a software DVD player.
Media player cannot handle SVCD resolutions properly.

For SVCDs, VCDs, and DVDs, why are the sizes different? I mean since SVCDs have a size like...480x480, why not have that same size for VCDs too? Why different?

They are different, because the Bitrate-Range is different. VCD is CBR with 1150 kbps, SVCD is CBR/VBR with a max auf 2600 kbps, DVD is CBR/VBR with up to 9800 kbps.

If you try to encode DVD with VCD-Bitrates, you will see why Picture-Size is different. ;)

The reason is that to increase the quality of the image you need a higher resolution (sharper image) and a higher resolution means you will have more bits in the image to encode and thus will need a higher bitrate which is why SVCD is twice the quality of VCD.
But all this increases the file size which means you can fit less on a disk, so as a compromise to fit more on a disk you have lower bitrate and lower resolution VCD and as a result lower quality.
In fact I think standard VCD quality is abysmal so I never use it as most SVCD's will fit on 2 disks anyway when using VBR.

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