Is there any way to import chapter markers from an AVI file when encoding?

I'm using the spurs engine plug-in with tmpgenc4 to convert some large 1080p file to 720p H.264/AVC, but the speed is not was i think it should be. Its taking 2 hours and 20 minutes to convert a 1080p movie to 720p H.264/AVC, does that seem right ?? Also while its converting the cpu usage is 100% and my cpu is getting to the +52 degrees.... i thought this would take the load of the cpu and just use the cpu to do the audio part and encoding to 2 channel stereo aac wouldn't require 100% i wouldn't think. I'm using the firecoder blu card (for the spurs engine) and my system is win XP, amd X2 64000+, 2 gig ram. Is there a way i can check to see if all cores of the firecoder is being used and how do i check the temp of the firecoder card ?? it doesnt show up in speedfan.

Heres a screenshot of what i mean :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/africanmarty/3660553067/sizes/l/

Regards Marty.

How long is your movie? 2 hours and 20 minutes actually sounds pretty good for converting a full-length HD movie.

Are you using the SpursEngine output profile in the Format Stage?

Looking at the number of frames you have and your framerate, it looks like that's a 2 hour movie, which means you're not too far from a 1:1 encoding time. For HD video, that's really good.

As a comparison, I just converted a 12 second, 24fps 1080p QT video to DivX. It took 3 minutes, 31 seconds. Imagine if it were a 1 hour video; it would have taken me 17.5 hours at that rate!

I have a Q9300, 6GB ram, $1000 desktop, I'm compressing 640x480 MPEG 2 (9MBPS) to mpeg 4 500kbps same resolution.
I just got the winfast pcx1100 and spursengine plugin, it can compress a 30" video in about 7 minutes but it only took 10-11 minutes before, so only a 50% speed improvement, not 200% like the demos???

Also, I can't seem to find any way to get the resolution right - it puts these 5px black bars on the top and bottom that I had been dealing with before by making it 640x470 in the output.

As a side note - I could not plug in the power connector because the cable didn't reach, would this slow it down???
THanks!

For your black bar problem, try this:

Use the picture resize filter and set it to "Centered (custom)", 640x480. Then do as you've been doing and set the output size as 640x480, 1:1 pixel. Check the preview to make sure there's no black bars.

I don't have the winfast card, but if there's a power connector that should be connected, then that could be slowing it down. It may just be to power the fan, and if the fan isn't on, then the spursengine processor might be getting too hot.

I really like this program because of it's quality and simplicity, but it's a real pain not having ac-3 5.1 support. After so many requests by so many people, you should have already implemented this feature.

The other request I have is the MKV file output ability. I know,it's a rouge file format, but no harm would be done by adding it while there is such a huge public support behind it.

Thanks

signed.

I don't know why tmpgenc authoring works doesn't have an option for making a blu-ray with h.264. The only available format is mpeg-2. I hope that you are working on it; if not, then you are getting late.

In my opinion, the German translation of TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 is not very successful. It would be nice if you could improve on that in the future or at least allow the user to activate the English version with the serial number he bought.

Hello,

I have been searching for som4e time but found no answer:

Is TAW4 able to force subtitles - maybe in dependency to selected audio?
I have a movie in german language "filled up" with some deleted and never shown scenes in english. I want to show german subtitles on (only) these scenes automatically, regardless whether the user had selected subtitles or not.

I hope my question ist understandeable somehow.

Best regards
Joerg

At first I thought it wasn't possible to force subs, but I just found that it is indeed possible. You can force subs only per track and not per clip.

To do it, go to the Source stage and click on the "Settings" button for the track you'd like to force subs on. In the track settings window, for "Default subtitles stream", just select which sub stream you'd like to force.

Verify by going to the Simulation stage or using the track preview button.

Thank you very much - that's exactly, what I need. So I will invest in upgrading to TAW4

I have two clips to join, but the audio levels are quite different. I tried adjusting the louder one down, then opening the other and listening to see if it is the same, then repeating this but i never get it quite right. Is there some way to visually see the levels, or a better workaround?
R

It would be nice if TMPGEnc Authoring Works would not complain about the maximum bitrate of transport streams as long as they do not actually exceed the limit. It is common practice for tv stations to set the maximum bitrate to 15 mbps just to be on the safe side, while the stream never actually exceeds 5 - 7 mbps.

I imported a transport stream, but the video is completely distorted. Most of the frame is covered with huge green blocks. The sound plays fine. Since I have no trouble playing the clip with VLC Player or opening it with other applications, I guess the source file has to be all right. I rebuilt the stream with other tools and suddenly the problem was gone (while new trouble came up, unfortunately). Possibly TMPGEnc Authoring Works gets confused by some additional information in the original file that is discarded when rebuilding the stream?

Some additional information: The stream is recorded from TV. According to tsMuxeR, there are unrecognized tracks. The identified tracks are:

1: MPEG-2 Profile: Main@8. Resolution: 720:576i. Frame rate: 25
2: MPEG-Audio deu Bitrate: 192Kbps Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 2 Layer: 2
3: MPEG-Audio 2ch Bitrate: 192Kbps Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 2 Layer: 2

I may add that the video stream is anamorphic. I hope this information helps, since I would love to buy your programmme as soon as this problem is fixed!

I just downloaded the newest version and it seems the problem has been solved! Thanks a lot!

I have source files that are h.264 at 10mbps.
I need to encode these adding fades at the head and tail.
I use TMPGEnc 4 XPress for this.
Whenever I do this I get a problem with the video.
There is always a spot where the video starts to skip and get jettery.
Also, I sometimes get a green line on the bottom of the frame.
Does anybody else have problems like this.
Thanks.

i get an error half way encoding a film and i get these errors pop up.

http://img188.imageshack.us/i/tmpgeerror.png/

i have no idea what it is that causing the error..

anybody had something like this in the past..

any help is grateful

Me, having something like this too....

http://bbs.tmpg-inc.com/bbs.php?board=en_taw4#topic505

http://www.hardwaregeeks.com/board/showthread.php?t=29512

sound slike its apple related ie quicktime and itunes software.

so i would unistall both of those aswell as any codecs releated, clean the system and then rbeoot and reinstall NEW updates and if that doesnt do it, re install works 4

i did what you said and i still get the error .. i removed the quicktime player and codec.. anyone manage to fix the problem

also i still get the de-bugger error message popping up but i still dont have visual studio installed on this machine..

i would do a format and install of the os and start from the beginning, as i think the os is currupt

thanx for your reply.. i think it is the OS as i tried a demo version of nero media and that too shuts down too so i think it is my OS .. ohh well i didn't really want to format and put the stuff back on again.. but it looks like i dont have any other choice.. thanx for your replies :-)