What is the absolute best, slowest settings for encoding AVI for eventual mastering to DV? Disc space and waiting time is not an issue.

I can't seem to set the bitrate over 8000 in CBR. Is there a way to bypass that?

wonder girl

Use CQ-Mode (Constant Quality VBR).

Max = 9600 - Audio-Bitrate
Min = around 4000-6000
Q=74-85

I'm not sure I understand what you are doing or why you are encoding AVI to MPEG and then to DV, but you're obviously using one of the DVD templates to create your output which is limiting the max bitrate.

Just unlock the settings after loading the template. Click the 'Load' button the navigate to the 'Extra' folder in the 'Template' folder.
In the 'Extra' folder double click the 'Unlock.mcf'

Can make a copy protected dvd with mpeg author?

I am using orginal dv footage, edited in premiere,

encoded in free TMPGenc

authored in mpeg author

I want to make it copy protected

thanks!

MPEG editor is just for editing. It doesn't have copy protection option. TMPGENC DVD Author also does not have the option. Maybe in a future version?

You can't use Copy-Protection (CSS) on DVD-R/+R. It's a Hardware-Issue.

Some commerical DVD's have still pictures(BMP/JPG), like a picture gallery. The menu would have back/forward buttons to select different pictures to view.

I would like to have this option in a future version of DVD Author. Currently the only way to add pictures, is to make them the background picture of a Track Menu. But when you do this, each track also needs a video file. I would like to add pictures and view them, without having to add a video file for that track. Thanks...

After using TMPGEnc to encode an .avi so I can burn a DVD I have two files, one for the video and a .wav file for the audio. When I try to load these into Nero to burn a video DVD it recognizes the video file but not the audio file. How can I author a DVD in Nero from a TMPGEnc encoded file?

Author with 'TMPGenc DVD author' first.

How do I transcode a VCD or SVCD movie to DVD?

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated!

No point in transcoding a VCD as it's already DVD compatible. Just needs authoring with TMPGENC DVD author.

How do I transcode a VCD or SVCD movie to DVD?

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated!

Look on http://www.videohelp.com. It is an excellent source of information of the type you want.

apol

does anyone know if tmpgenc will run on a mac?
thanks

NO.

Hallo

I want to know if is possible to change the Iframe GOP (every 15frames default)
The reason is because I cannot make frame accurate chapter in authoring DVD.
I work in PAL (25fr/sec) and it should be better (and logical) if the Iframe would be every 5 frames.

Thank for your answer.

Giò

Sure you can change this. No problem so far. But on shorter GOPs, you need more Bitrate to get high quality.

You can also force TMPGEnc to set frames you want as I-Frames. That's done by using force picture type setting.
And on some Authoring tools like DVDLab, you are able to use Frame-indexed Chappter settings.

What you intend to do will seriously increase the size of the output if you use a VBR method and will also need a higher bitrate if you use a CBR method. Surely a chapter every 15 frames is enough, that's almost one every half a second.
If you need the odd specific chapter then use the 'force picture type setting' as suggested.

Hello, Ashy, how are you?

I hope fine.

Thank for your answer.
15frsec is a 30frsec (NTSC) splitting second.
PAL is 25frsec. GOP every 10fr or 5fr will be better for PAL videos.
What, exactly, is affected from this change? Quality? Jittering? Blocking?
Pixelation?

Thanks

Giò

>GOP every 10fr or 5fr will be better for PAL videos.
No not really. I don't know why you think this.
In fact it can have a detrimental effect on the quality.

Also the frame rate doesn't really matter to the GOP length. A GOP is created per the set GOP length or at a scene change.

DVD's are limited by the bitrate they can handle.
Use too many I-frames in a GOP and the bitrate runs short causing blocks and pixelation effects.

Most commercial DVD's use a length of 12-15 frames in a GOP.
I would prefer 15 myself because of the better compression and higher bitrates that can be used when using 4.7GB disks.

>Use too many I-frames in a GOP and the bitrate runs short causing blocks and pixelation effects.

Sorry that may not make sense to you. I know what I was driving at in my head, but explained it wrong.

What I mean is that each GOP has an 'I' frame, the shorter the GOP the more 'I' frames are created. The more 'I' frames the higher the bitrate needs to be and thus larger file size and/or pixelation.

Thank you, Ashy.

The reason of my question is to have more chances to choose the right I-frame (for chapter) without take the beginning or the final of a cross dissolve or a video effect.

Probably, at every 12fr/sec, could be the right way for PAL_video. What is your opinion?

Giò

Well I suppose you could get away with it as long as the movie isn't too long. However as has already been mentioned you can force an 'I' frame wherever you want, so if you where to say add 20 chapters to the movie, you could decide where those chapters would be without sacrificing compression efficiency.

The only way would be to just try it and see how things turns out.

OK!

I'll make a try and then I'll notice to you the results.
However the movie is 32min long and, for the "Murphy's Law", some chapters go in the middle of 10fr cross dissolve....

Thank you and Ciao.

Giò

TMPGEnc Plus Ver. 2.521.58.169
Encoding a .mov to MPG2 at highest quality settings.
The program will start to encode and anywhere from and hour to three hours into the video, I get an error message simply stating that the program has encountered an error and must shut down. After a minute or so, TMPGEnc closes. This has been very frustrating because it did work for a awhile. Has anyone else had this problem?
I wish we were able use older versions with our Plus license. They worked great.
Specs:
Pentium 4 on Windows 2000
Use Avid DVXpress to edit video and output to quicktime file.
Final length of program is anywhere from a half hour to forty five minutes. My temporary drive has at least thirty gigs. That should be enough.
Thanks.

I created an avi file with slide show movie maker, 320x240 23.976 f/s 24bit divx. when I try to create an mpg the pictures do not show up on the preview or the disk only the music. I have tried the vcd ntsc and ntsc film neither will work.

everytime I want tot start tmpgenc I get the message runtime error etc. What can I do??

I am trying to convert an avi movie to vcd. The problem I encounter is that there are two audio tracks, and the default one is not english. Tmpgenc chooses the default audio stream from the avi file when I really want the english stream. Is there any way to work around this?