Dear All, I posted a few days back because I kept getting read error messages when trying to encode a DivX source to SVCD. Someone told me to defrag my temp drive and make sure I had enough space there, I do (50+GB), and defragging it helped for 1 batch of 3 encodes. After that I got the same read error message saying "Read error occured at address 000B1CD2 of module 'TMPEGnc.exe' with 00000014". I checked my disk tools and according to them I do not need to defrag the drive again, I have tried to set the tempfile to 5,5 GB and also attempted to reinstall TMPEGnc and the program now encodes but the playback is very jerky. I'm encoding a PAL source to PAL SVCD so that should not be the problem. I have saved the audio in Virtual dub and also checked for bad frames with Vdub MP3. I have also tried to upgrade TMPEGnc Plus to the latest version but I am getting told that the serial I input is incorrect. I am at a loss here and would be very grateful for any help with this. Computer details: P4 2.0 GHz, 512 MB, XP Sp1, no overclocking and all the CPU options under environmental settings choosen and Direct Show Multimedia file reader has the highest priority. Best regards-Lars

Well Jerky Playback can be caused from a few things, Make sure that you know if your Source is Interlaced or Progressive and encode it accordingly, and if it is Interlaced make sure that you have the Field order set correctly...And if the Jumpy playback is on your DVD Player then try this disk on your PC and see if it is Jumpy on your PC also and if it plays fine on your PC but jumpy on your DVD/TV then it could be a Bitrate Spike Problem..Also remember to Burn your SVCD"s at the Lowest Speed Possible,4x speed would be Ideal.....Cheers

Hello Minion, Thanks for reply. The SVCD plays jerky on the PC as well, both if I play the disc and if I play the SVCD file that I burn. How do I see if the source is interlaced? Is there a program that I can run to check this as well as the field order? The thing is that the first half of the DivX encoded fine but then my 1,5 year old son got to the computer and stopped the encoding of the second half. When trying to restart the process is where my problems started so I guess some setting could be different from the first half encoding. Thanks again-Lars

Well if you use the "Wizard" to load your file into Tmpgenc, it will then Analize the File to see if it is Interlaced or Progressive and if it is Interlaced it will set the Field order accordingly...Cheers

Hello again, if that is the case it can't be the cause of my problem because I have loaded the file in the wizard many times and not touched the interlace or field order setting after that. Must be something else causing this. Since both the mpeg file and disc plays jerky on my computer I doubt if it is something wiht the burning either. I am at a loss :-( Thanks for your time & ideas anyway-Lars

Hi I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I haven't made any movies in a few months. And when I try now using tmpgenc from Divx movies to tmpgencDVD the audio directory is blank. But tmpgenc had made the m2v and wav files. But when authored there's no audio?

Anyone know what to do. I've tried reinstalling and nothing helps.

If your sound is AC3 format, it will not be supported by TMPGEnc at the moment.

Hi, sorry I can see a few people have asked me questions, However I don't visit this forum often. If you need to get hold of me please visit my forum, which I will be happy to discuss TMPGEnc any any other problems.

TMPGEnc latest release works just fine, but remember that the source makes all the difference, crap in crap out :)

http://www.movieking.co.uk/forum/

hi,

i got several vob files with ac3 sound which i want to burn as a dvdr...
but when i click add file and select the vob.. he tells me there is on audio? what should i do? :/

I don't know where your VOBs are from, but some Programs do produce Streams with wronge Stream-Numbers for the Audio-Parts, especialy if the VOB was stripped from a DVD. Try to use TMPGENc to Demux the VOBs first.

I had the same problem, i used dvd2avi to rip the audio out. worked like a dream

I am a newbie at this and I've been trying to convert my collection of avi episodes to mpeg. Only thing is that whenever I convert, the resulting mpeg's sound seems to be delayed by a few seconds, causing a lot of frustration. I've been running it under default settings, is there someting I have to change? Or is it something completely different?

Sincerely,
dimicelli@comcast.net

Sync Problems are somethimes caused from encodeing to a frame rate different than the Source Frame rate, That means that if your AVI file has a Frame rate of 25fps you have to encode it to a Mpeg file that has 25fps or you can experience Sync problems...so allways make sure you are encodeing to the same Frame rate as the source file, But not knowing anything about your Files I can not tell you if this is your Problem...Cheers

If the original AVI has been scanned for junk frames, and any found removed, try saving out the audio using Vdub, save it uncompressed. The use that in TMPGEnc.

Vdub

Audeo > full prosessing mode
SAVE WAV


http://www.movieking.co.uk/guides/aviaudio.html

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Is it possible to make an XVCD with an audio bitrate of 384 kbits/sec instead of the usual 224? Would the MPEG come out larger? And will it take the conversion process longer?

Yes I suppose you could and it would make the File Bigger, But I don"t really see much Point in it because any audio quality gain wouldn"t be noticeable and it is Bitrate that would be better used for Video Quality....

I agree with Minion, it's a complete waste of time and space encoding to any higher than standard. Even 192 kb/s is plenty and is the recommended setting for Prologic tracks, so 224 should be more than enough.

Remeber MPEG audio is only two channel, but AC3 tracks have 5 channels and thus require more bitrate to encode these channels.

Actually before anybody comes along and corrects me, Ac3 has 5.1 channels where the .1 is the LFE.

XVCD, XSVCD, some players wont play the disks, unless the audio bitrate is higher, else there are skips and jumps. You need to know whats best for you, not whats best for everyone else.

That doesn"t make any Sence....The VCD standard calls for 224kbs so why wouldn"t that play in some Players.....Skips and Jumps on your DVD Player is Caused more from too high of a Bitrate as opposed to too low of a Bitrate...

Sorry, I just noticed I switched my name with the subject title. Anyway, thanks for the insight. Was just wondering!

I agree, saying that if the audio bitrate isn't high enough it won't play doesn't make sense to me either.

If a player is able to play XVCD or XSVCD in the first place then it means the player is quite tolerant to out of standard tracks which means it should have no problem with slightly higher or lower bitrates.

Some really picky players may not like disks with any more than the standard VCD or SVCD bitrate, but it is very rare for a player to reject the disk just because it has a different audio bitrate.

Hello!
I've converted a DivX video into MPEG2 in order to make a SVCD with TMPGEnc: the sound is ok but the video doesn't play "smoothly", it seems that skips same frames during play.
Not so bad to make the video un-seeingable but the source DivX plays good, nobody knows why? Does that depend on the DivX codec?
The video is encoded with DivX v3 ;-) codec.
For MPEG2 encoding I've used CQ 85, max bitrate 2450, min 300 and system set to MPEG-2 Super VideoCD (VBR).
Thanks for the help.

What was the Source- and what the Target-Framerate?

>What was the Source- and what the Target-Framerate?

Source framerate: 23.976 fps
Target framerate: 25 fps

I play the SVCD on a desktop DVD player connected to a PAL TV: for this reason I've set 25,00.
If this is the problem, how could I do?

Thanks.

Do a Propper PAL-SpeedUp, this prevents any jerky Motion.

Setting -> Advanced -> Do not frame rate conversion

All other Settings set to PAL.

Yes you can do that But if you do the Audio will be out of Sync by about 4%...
So what I would do is first Extract the audio from the Source file to Wav format, The encode the Video to a Pal Mpeg video file But with the "Do Not Frame rate Convertion" checked in the "Advanced settings"...After encodeing the Video you should find out the exact length of the Video File and write it down...You will Notice that the Video is shorter than the Audio by about 4%, to Fix this you use an audio editor like "Goldwave" and go to "Effects" to "Time Warp" and Type in the exact length of the mpeg Video file and then save as a New Wav audio file...Now you just encode the new wav audio file to Mpeg audio and Multiplex the audio to the Video and they should then be in Perfect sync..I have done 3 movies from Pal 25fps to NTSC 23.97fps in the Last week and they all turned out perfect.....

I never tried GoldWave, because i own WaveLab. Does GoldWave over a way to pitch the Sound too? Or does it only a slow down or speed up?

It has a couple Time Stretch options ,the most accurate is the Slow down speed up method ,But it also has a time streth method that does not Change the Pitch, it does it by adding or subtracting audio samples to change the Length but I find this method doesn"t sound as good..Sound forge and Vegas Video also have the same features and it works just as well but I found Goldwave easier to use and easier to explain how to use....Cheers

Actually Goldwave does alter the Pitch. It never used to in earlier versions, but it does in the new versions and works perfect.
Just select 'Rate' as the 'Algorithm' method.

Yes...Goldwave has 3 Different methods, the Slow Down Speed up method is the one that also alters the Pitch...The other 2 Methods Do not alter the Pitch but they don"t seem to sound as good or are as accurate....Cheers

ProSonic TimeFactory does an extrem good pitching, but that tool is VERY slow. So i use WaveLab 3. It isn't that perfact than TimeFactory, but much faster, and on good Audio-Sources, you can't notice bad effects after the Pitching.

I am trying to encode an original divx file into a svcd file and I am having an odd problem. If you go here:

http://webhome.idirect.com/~telsan/noise.html

You will find a snapshot of what is happening.

This boxiness only happens on a few frames, but it is noticable. It does NOT appear when I play the original divx file with either divx player or mplayer (with ffdshow) decoder. It appears when I *open* the file in MPEGenc to encode it into a SVCD and in the subsequent svcd file.

I have three such files. The first one converted from divx to svcd without a hitch. The other two exhibit this symptom. So where is this problem comming from? The original? The conversion?

It's very annoying to have those corrupted frames in those files. Is it a conversion problem? Can it be fixed?

Any imput would be very helpful.

Thanks

It is Most Likely because there is Corruption in the AVI files and only shows up after being decoded by Tmpgenc ...I get this quite often with Downloaded DivX/XviD movies and there isn"t anything you can really do about it accept maybe edit out the Bad Parts ....

Artefacts are sometimes the cause of downloading errors, capture problems and a whole lot more. All AVI's should be scanned for junk frames before any encoding is done

http://www.movieking.co.uk/guides/badframes.html

This tool is awesome for creating motion menu thumbs -- I only have two complaints:

1. we need the ability to add subtitles -- many people like me import their dvdshrink processed files into this tool to add menus, but then we lost our subtitle or other language track.

2. if the above is a big deal, then, allowing users to add their own frames (in addition to adding background images and rectangula buttons, which the tool already supports) and modify the themes shouldn't be that hard. Plus, can you provide better background images, frames and buttons, the ones come with the tool are simply awful. Also, provide more motion menu backgrounds like other similar apps do.

I will wait to see if these two issues can be addressed quickly before I put my money in.

Is there a link between TMPGEnc and NEC Smartvision? My PC occasionally crashes when encoding. Microsoft's Help Centre says the problem is with Smartvision. Link takes me to the NEC site for a possible driver upgrade - but it's in Japanese.

Not that i know of.....

I just downloaded the newest free version of tmpgenc and when I tell the program to start processing, I getn an error message that reads "cannot load P3Package.dll". I am using Windows XP. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem. A reply to my email address of Jlcm3@yahoo.com would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

>A reply to my email address of Jlcm3@yahoo.com would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Yes, and a proper subject line would also be appreciated if you want an answer.

Thanks, glad someone knows the answer. A program that has a no online support other than a BBS which has 340 pages of complaints and questions, is not worth keeping.

Glad you got it sorted.

Mr. JM

If you had done a search you would have easily found the answer to your question. This same question has been answered countless times already. You said that there are 340 pages of posts, but it is obvious that you didn't take the time to read any of them.

Next time put in a proper subject line.

Mr. Video Guy

>I just downloaded the newest free version of tmpgenc and when I tell the program to start processing, I getn an error message that reads "cannot load P3Package.dll". I am using Windows XP. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem. A reply to my email address of Jlcm3@yahoo.com would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Hi

I am trying to overlay a stopwatch or timer counting up in the corner of a movie of a burning chair. Does anyone know where I could find a video file of a counting 'clock'? and I will try to merge it into my existing mpeg.


Thanks

Well I know a Lot of High end Video editors have an option to add a Time Stamp to each Frame but I don"t know how you could do it in Tmpgenc?