Hi. I have been using TDA 1.6 for a year or so now and am generally very happy with it.

However I have just started to try making my own buttons, and am having no success in achieving transparency. I do not have PhotoShop but use PaintShop Pro 8 which has full layer facilities. It also allows files to be saved as '.PSD'. So I created a single raster layer button, which shows transparency correctly in PSP8 (and also in The GIMP). But in TDA, when I replace the Play All button with my PSD, it is *not* transparent. It appears inside a solid white rectangle.

I cannot understand the instructions in TDA Help, which anyway are written for PhotoShop. Can anyone either explain how to do this from PaintShop Pro, or better still send me an example PSD file so that I can examine it carefully to see what is 'special' that lets it appear in TDA as transparent.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Hi

I'm trying to create my first DVD-Menu :)
I tried to use an template but I'm having the following problems with it:

1. How can I remove menu items that I don't want? When I right-click on the item "Delete a Menu item" is disabled? Why?
screenshot:
http://img3.imagebanana.com/img/ide2bsxf/wtf.JPG

2. Is it possible to create my own Menu-Templates without using the given templates? How?

3. I got one movie-track and I'd like to add chapters to a submenu, how can i do this?

Thanks for any help!!! :)

I'm new here (just posted my first message), but from your screenshot that doesn't look anything like TDA 1.6 (and presumably 1.5 was similar).

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

You can't delete that, its a necessary button to link to your video without it, the menu won't know where your movie chapters are.

This software doesnt freely let you modify everything, especially since DVD menu standards aren't flexible. It will take some learning but you'll eventually get it, not very hard to use. If you want to change how your button looks then go in menu setting and import your own picture instead of deleting that button.

Sorry to be a nuisance but what do I need to do to install DVD Author 3 upgrade over DVD 2.0?

Do I need to uninstall the 2.0 or just go ahead and install 3 over the top?

Many thanks.

DVD Author 3 is considered a separate program so it will not overwrite your old DVD author 2. You can pretty much do whatever you want with DVD Author 2 and it will not affect 3 and vice versa. Could uninstall if you dont use it anymore but either way it wont affect DVD author 3.

Not my first usage of DVD Author 3, but my first in using 8 hour DVD-RAM.
I was using the Source Wizard to import a PANNY burned DVD-RAM that had 8 hours.
The import failed with an I/O error about the time it had readed close to 6 hours.
Can DVD Author 3 handle more than a 6 hours DVD-RAM?

Did you tell it to copy the disk to HDD? I'm guessing the hardware might not have been able to keep up with the read/write and possibly decode for that long? Try a direct copy to HDD using Windows Explorer or something then try importing from the HDD. Should correct your problem.

Hello. I have recently installed Editor Premium on a powerful Dell which has been dealing with TMPG 4.0 Express and Editor 1.0 for many months without any problem. If I start a new project (or open an existing one), add some files, open the transition editor, optionally select a transition (or not) and then select OK to close the transition editor, the program displays a message "runtime error 204 at 0BOA29FC" and crashes.

TMPG Support said:
"It is possible you may have other processes in the background that is
causing a conflict with our software. Please make sure you close down
all processes that are not needed. I also recommend having the latest
.NET framework 2 and 3 and DirectX installed. Also, if you have any
codec packs or ffdshow then I suggest removing them as well."

I hardly have any startup programs. I have now run all Windows updates (including .NET fraework 3), have updated DirectX and have updated the ATI dispay driver. I'm 99.9% certain that the ffdshow codec pack has never been installed - I have been warned against it many times on the web.

Google identifies 2 oriental websites mentioning "error 204" +pegasys, but I can't understand them.

I have found kservice.exe and removed it. No improvement.

Any ideas would be most welcome. Thanks

What kind of graphics card do you have? Their spec says 3D graphics card with DirectX 9 capabilities. You could have the software DirectX 9 installed but if your card isn't directx 9 compatible then this could be a problem.

oh yah btw, you might not want to quote them...they usually have a disclaimer and might not like you using it for posting on blogs or forums.

One other thing I do know is that Runtime error is an error in memory conflict at runtime.

>What kind of graphics card do you have? Their spec says 3D graphics card with DirectX 9 capabilities. You could have the software DirectX 9 installed but if your card isn't directx 9 compatible then this could be a problem.

Thanks nTekka. My graphics card is an ATI Radeon X600 256MB HyperMemory and the spec on their website says "Full DirectX 9 support".

I'm not sure how to detect whether I have codec packs or ffdshow installed.

Thanks again. Mike

I have the same problem on two systems with TMPGEnc editor. All my frameworks are up to date. No extra codecs installed. It crashes the system every time I use a transition. Have submitted a report every time as well. Any news on this? This pudate has been a waste of money if this is not fixed at some point.

Is there any news on this? I still cannot use the transition editor.

hi,

I have probs with using dvr-ms files as input to DVD Author. When I watch the converted result (.mpg) it has a cleary visible audio desync. It gets worse the longe the file play, and after 90min its estimated about 10-15 frames.

Is there any solution to this issue?

I just purchased and installed MPEG Editor v2 Premium, did a quick test project, primarily to get the license, and make sure things worked, and they did, so I shut it down. I then tried to browse the internet using Firefox, but my firewall allerted me that TMPG MPEG Editor was tring to access the internet by sending commands to explorer.exe. The only programs that I know of that try to access the internet without the knowledge of the user, are securty threats. So when I denied access (via the firewall alert), my browser was inoprerable, unable to connect to anything. After a while trying to intercept this behaviour I was forced to de-install MPEG Editor 2 and reboot, before the internet was accessible. Is this behavior intended?

iono about that... sounds suspicious to me and I don't mean with MPEG Editor. Why would it access explorer.exe (your Windows explorer) and not iexplorer.exe (Internet explorer)... but anyway how is all that connected to Firefox and MPEG Editor 2P? give us some details...sounds like you might got a piggy back riding trojan off of MPEG Editor 2P.

After encoding video is upside down,  is there any way to correct this problem?

Are you using AVI and ffdshow? It has a flip video option... Anyway you can flip it back to normal with TXP4's "Picture rotation" filter... you won't see it on the default list so click on Edit filter list to add it.

Recently, i was trying to determine the CQ for my KVCD movie using CQmatic, but the moment i press execute in CQMatic, TMPGEnc opened and closed immediately. This was not the problem before and i was able to determine the CQ previously.

Can anyone suggest the solution?

What source file are you using? have you installed or made any changes recently? might be a conflict in VFAPI plug-in, that would be where I'd check first.

i'm using a .vob files that i extracted using DVDecrypter

i am having just a slight issue with the program. after converting a .mkv file (which contains 720p content), the newly created .wmv file has an issue with the video stuttering for the first ~5 minutes of playback. after that the stutter goes away and the rest of the video is perfect. i have racked my brain and tried many different settings, none of which have solved the issue.

the source mkv file plays perfectly from start to finish, so it's not a problem with it. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

What codec pack are you using to decode MKV? try going into TXP4 Options > Preferences > file input > disable AVI file reader and enable directshow.

Its a big resolution, might want to try different codec and see if that will fix it.

i'm using the Combined Community Codec Pack. also using avisynth for the video stream. for audio, i've extracted the 5.1 sound track from the mkv file and it is loaded separately in tmpgenc 4.0.

as i said, it only does it for the first few minutes, after that, it's perfect.

Try uninstalling CCCP and install just Matroska pack for MKV support, see if that will work. Also might want to try K-Lite Pro.

just for added info, when i don't use avisynth and let tmpg read the mkv file directly for the video then the stutter occurs for the full length of the video.

i'll try what you suggested.

tried your recommendations. neither worked. still have the stutter. any other ideas?

You can look at this tutorial for more info:
Read this tutorial first:
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=611163
The answer lies in using AVISYNTH scripts. (*.avs)

They don't show you the script in the tutorial, so create a script that looks like this: (use Notepad, etc to make movie.avs)

DirectShowSource("F:\TestStreams\movie_to_convert.mkv",fps=23.976, audio=false)

Make sure that your fps is accurate!
Use the full path to the mkv file.
When you open this with Xpress it will pull up the video only. Then you just add your audio back in by opening the audio file. If you have a DTS track, you can still select it, you just have to choose "Show all files" first.
The audio and video may be slightly different lengths, but this is usually OK.

I suggest loading k-lite codec packs first because it comes with the right stuff, including avisynth.

Good luck!

FYI, I run Xpress on a Intel Quad core using this method and with DirectShow it uses all 4 CPUs to 100%. I have it overclocked to 3.3Ghz with a 366Mhz FSB and it has not "fried" to quote an earlier post after. Runs at 60C. Intel Rocks!

Try setting the frames in to 29.97 regardless of what it deaults to (probably 23), and then make the output progressive. Stutter should vanish.

testing the trial version now.
if i upgrade from my 1.5.19.59 version ,will my old version still work on the same computer.

i ask because the new version takes a VIDEO_TS folder converts it to a DVDDATA file.
and my old one makes it into a mpeg file. which i like much better.

other wise i like this new version alot.

thanks
joe

Theres ups and down to both, with DVDData, they preserve the subtitle, audio and chapters I think.

MPEG2 wont have any of that in it. Also, it only does that if you import directly from DVD drive and you tell it to make a copy onto HDD. If you manually copy the Video_TS folder to HDD then uncheck that option and keep original Video_TS files to work with.

I used TempEnc to removed a clip from a large video clip and it worked with any error messages - just checked the clip and there is no sound... next time I tried the same huge clip only minutes after the first time I have error "-537403781 180576" which I didn't get the first time...

I have no problem what so ever with Media Player.

What does -537403781 180576 mean??????

Only reference I found while googling is a german forum and my german is so rusty its not worth mentioning but I did see it had to be a codec problem.

This is the info I get with Gspot when I render:

DirectShow claims to be able to play the file. The following combination of filters were used:

{B:\Movie maker\RAW 20050606.avi} (Source)
{AVI Splitter} (Splitter)

{Xvid MPEG-4 Video Decoder} (Video Decoder)
{Video Renderer} (Video Renderer)

{MP3 Decoder DMO} (Audio Decoder)
{Default DirectSound Device} (Audio Renderer)

This is the audio info:
Audio Format:
Code: 0x0055
Name: WAVE_FORMAT_MPEGLAYER3 (MP3)
Vendor: ISO/MPEG

The following codecs all claim to be capable of processing this format:

--> {Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec (decode only)}
{Nero Digital Audio Decoder}
--> {MP3 Decoder DMO}

Plz help me... it works one minute and the next the file doest work with Temp anymore but it works perfect with Media Player the whole time... Plz help...

OK I tried with another huge clip to see if it worked and now I got error code... -537403781 446818...

WHAT does that code mean??? What is happening to my Temp??? Plz someone help me...

Tried yet another clip that gives me error code: -537403781 279776

SHOULD mention that all these times is it avi files and I have DivX and Xvid installed...

Also the Windows Movie Maker is giving me problems... maybe the problems are related???? MM crash and TempEnc gives me error codes...

Your under MPEG Editor 2 thread and that program doesn't support AVI format. So i'm assuming you mean TMPGEnc 2.5? How large is your video clip? dimension, bitrate, file size? What output format did you use? I think it might be your encoder, if you are using AVI Xvid or DivX for re-encoding the setting might not be correct. Those kind of errors isn't normal for TMPGEnc type of error.

The videos is different in sizes... they are sometimes around 700 Mb and sometimes smaller. Dimension, bitrate = I have no idea... not bother what those things... its more info than I need to know... I just want a piece of the large file... output is normally PAL if I understand what output means correctly... after I get those errors and keep using the program there is no sound on the finished result...

Hey Ellie,
seems like a codec issue to me. TMPGEnc doesn't support MP3, so you will need an external codec to decode it for audio. Go to videohelp.com and look for LAME MP3 codec or on freecodec.com

Are you using MPEG Editor 2 or TMPGEnc 2.5? both software are completely different and I can't help without knowing which one you have.