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I have used Tmpeg for a few years nows and have always used it to create VCD's.
This has however meant that I have been limited in how much I can fit per disc and have needed to split many files.
I have a DVD writer and MPEG compatable dvd player. Can anyone tell me if I can use Tmpeg to convert downloaded or previously created .dat files from vcd's into a format that can simply be burnt straight onto dvd's and then play in my dvd player, thus giving 4.7g capicity instead of 800m.
I'm not an exprt. Your objective must be: find an authoring aplication that allows you to put multiple VCD movies on a DV-image (and does not try to encode a VCD movie in DVD form: 1.3 GB --> 4.5 GB with the same lame quality), then burn it.
I have heard of DVDLab. Check it, if you don't have better ideas.
Cheers, I have just downloaded it, looks like what I have been after
I think I should be able to encode mpg files into Mpeg-1 with tmpeg, then use these files with TDA, would that work ?
Also what settings do you change in tmpeg so that avi files can be opened, I know I have had it previously set to open virtually any file but needed to clean my pc down and cant remember how to sey it up again
I have an AVI at 704x480. That's widescreen. I want to put it on DVD (NTSC), keeping the widescreen. So I set:
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Display
Video Arrange Method: Full Screen (KAR)
When I previewed it in TMPGEnc, there are 2 black bars on the sides and then in the middle is the movie, stretched. Is this what it will look like on the TV? It's still encoding so I don't know yet. I've never experienced this before. In the preview, the picture is always full screen with no side black bars, stretched. Once on the TV, black bars are automatically added at the top and bottom with no side black bars.
The AVI says 704x480 in GSpot. I'm at school right now so I'll copy and paste the stats later. However, it is supposed to be 16:9, probably the creator's error. The video does look stretched. How do I resize it? What do I resize it to?
Also, another video problem of mines is making my DVD out of sync. The original file was an MKV with HE-AAC 5.1 sound. The length is 25:01. I used MKVExtract to extract the AAC and AVI. Now, the AVI has a length of 30:39 while the audio is 25:01. The AVI is 23.976 fps. Why did it increase to 30 minutes and 39 seconds? It's definitely making everything go out of sync. How do I solve this problem? I've tried extracting using VdubMOD, MKVExtract, and AVIMuxGUI but it is still the same.
By the way, I asked the creator and he said it's anamorphic widescreen. As for the other problem, someone suggests that it is VFR MKV. So I'm currently trying to edit the timecode and such.
I have extracted the AVI and VFR timecodes from the MKV. If you know what to do from there, help is appreciated! And then amidst all that, when do I resize the video to correct the widescreen problem?
Thanks B_Racer. I'll try that! Here's more of the creator's notes:
FAQ #1: It looks stretched! (or what does anamorphic mean)
This means you're using a player that doesn't support aspect ratio correction or that vsfilter is trying to extended the image to 4:3 (which it does with the default settings. Set it to original image size and use a player which supports it to fix the problem.
Many newer mkv encodes are anamorphic which means that the pixels themselves don't have a 1:1 aspect ratio which is assumed in avi and ogm. This allows encoding without having to resize the source which keeps a lot more detail, especially for 16:9.
Ok now I understand. It is an MKV with the anamorphic flag set.
This will play fine in players such as media player classic that can recognize the flag.
>If the Video realy is anamorphic, use:
>Video Arrange Method: Center
>Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Display
If you use this method ensure that the output is set to 16:9 display also. This will set the 16:9 flag in the MPEG. If you don't the image will play full screen in 4:3.
If the Source already has the correct resolution, there's no need to use any other arrange setting than Center. Other Methods are slower and there is a risk of disturbing the AR of the Video. Center is doing nothing - in this case, that's what TMPGEnc should do - nothing. No resizing, no new positioning, just use the Video as is.
I have a small problem. For the widescreen, there is a small scene with hardcoded subs on it and it's located at the very sides of the video, meaning it got cut off by the TV's overscan area. How do I avoid this and still have the widescreen?
i am having the same problem with MCE 2005 - the trial version works fine but now i paid 60 bucks and can't import dv-rms, which is the reason i bought the software! the technical support people mean well i suppose, but they don't speak very good english and so far have not been helpful. I may ask for a refund.
Hello. I have a Xvid AVI video file that I want to convert to DVD format. I also want to maintain as much quality as I can. Here are the specs for the AVI file:
624x352 1088kbps 24fps
Audio - 44khz 16bps
When I play the AVI file, the aspect ratio is just fine - i.e. it displays correctly as a widescreen image. I want to maintain the aspect ratio.
I do plan to take this file, and a few others (size permitting) and use TMPGenc DVD Authoring to create a DVD.
>I have been using TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress since it was released with no problems. I have tried to encode a long video (3 hours) and get this error message:
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>"There is no quoted number of Character-string '%.2f'."
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>What is the problem? How can I correct it?
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>neo
Although this is an awfully cryptic error message, it's actually pretty simple to solve.
It's just about disk space.
If you are using NTSF partitions make sure BOTH your destination AND your temp disks have sufficient space for the file you are trying to create.
In my case I was trying to write a 4.3Gb file and although the destination has plenty of space, the temp disk only had 1.2Gb free. Temp location is in Option->Preferences
If you are using FAT32 either convert it to NTFS or dont write files over 4Gb
With the 4GB problem with the FAT32, your actually fighting a FAT32 limitation, a 4GB file is all it can handle, so yah, convert to NTSF and you'll be sailing. And as always, anytime you play with reorganizing the entire file structure of a hard-drive, back up what you don't want to loose.
I have a load of avi files I am trying to convert to mpg. All the other types of file have been fine. Extracted the wav with virtual dub and then used tmpgenc to convert to mpg.
But I have 3 which seem to be encoded differently, as "xvid-tcm". I couldnt get virtual dub to work with these files at all despite installing appropriate codecs for direct show and vfw.......it just didnt like the audio. Eventually I gave up and found another program that would extract the wav from these files.
Now, however, I cant get TMPGEnc to work with them either. I am getting no error messages but the output is a mixture of just all black or green blocks. Seems like this is the kind of thing that would happen if didnt have required codecs, but the avi plays fine and also used GSpot to identify there are 3 appropriate video and 4 audio codecs installed.
The audio problem can ba solver by settting in VirtualDub Audio___Direct Stream Copy and de/compressing the 'fake WAV' file you made with BeSweet to 'MP2 for SVCD'.
The video problem is more serious. I cannot imagine how to solve it.
Hello I from Spain. Can anyone help me please? How can I repair the problem "read error ocurred at address 0011fe1b of module TMPGEncDVDAuthor.exe´with 0000014C". What I have to do? Thanks
My problem is that when i'm converting my AVI file to MPG I loose my audio. ( I've read som threads here already, so I see that you are confused over why people even wants to do this. )
My excuse for doing this, is that I want to make my subtitles permanent on the file. So I can burn them on a DVD with subtitles.
I manage to get my subtitles on the right place. But, as I wrote erlier I loose my audio when I do this.