I have noticed a problem tring to get TMPGENC to load over 20 multi-segmented avi files. I have about 30 avi files from a 2 hour movie. When I select the first (00) file it only loads the sequence through file 19 (20 files). If I select any other segment, such as file 5 (segment 04) it will still load 20 files through file 25 (segment 24). Any clues?

Thanks,
Paul

It's not a feature, it's a Bug...
You can't open more than 20 Segments a time.

I recently download v2.512 and when I click on the audio input button to select a wav file, it displays a "cannot read address######## from kernal32.dll" message. Plus, during encoding, after the process is finished,(i.e. frames 41030/41030 and it reads 100%) how should it end? Nothing comes up and nothing can be clicked on. When I press ctrl-alt-del, it displays "TMPGenc(not responding)"
Thanks for any help

The first error seems like you may have a corrupt version of TMPG. Completely delete then download and install TMPG again. If you still have the same problem try raising the priority of 'Wav file reader' in the VFAPI plugins.

You second one sounds like it is just due to your impatience. When encoding reaches 100% TMPG hasn't actually finished. Even after the last frame is encoded TMPG needs to write the headers into the file which which takes a little while, so just wait it shouldn't take long.

I have a movie that in PAL format and i know pal/ntsc have different frame rates, is their a way i can load the vobs in2 tmpgenc dvd author and have it conver it 2 NTSC?

No, you hast to convert the Video with different Tools.

A good Idea is to use AVISynth. There are postings about that in the TMPGEnc-Forum.

Hi all

tmpgenc used to work fine and did everything perfectly......until yesterday!

now when i try and use it it will either not start(gives error message)or will give me the same error message when i start to encode:

MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ RUNTIM LIBRARY
Program: C:....tmpgenc.exe

The application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.

This is quite strange and has never happened before.

tried uninstall/reinstall to no avail.

please advise

thanks

Seems like you have installed something that has either corrupted your runtime libraries or replaced them with incorrect versions. You may need to reinstall them. Download and install this file:
http://www.indigorose.com/download/runtime/visualc60sp4_rts.exe
If it doesn't install there are two other ways to repair the files. One is to install the latest service pack or re-install your operating system over the top of you existing one.
This should overwrite any corrupt files or if you are using Win2000/XP type this command into the 'RUN' box: SFC /SCANNOW
This will replace any incorrect versions of system files on your system.

hi,
i am pretty new to encoding and i was wondering how the motion search option would affect my project. thanks

The Motion Precition search searches ahead for motion Changes, and the Farther ahead it can Search the Better the quality will be, But It also makes the encodeing take a Lot longer useing the Higher settings..Usually Normal or High Quality is best, The "Highest Quality" doesn"t seem any better that "High Quality" accept it takes twice as Long....

With avi2svcd, I normally use 795mb for cut point which means I don't have any problem to burn 795mb or around 800mb into 700mb/80min cd-r.

If cd-r with 80min allows far more data then 700mb, is it possible to burn 1.5gb(80min) svcd onto it?

Thanks.

Kisoo

No of cource Not, a Normal Data CD can only fit 700mb on it because it uses 100mb for Error Correction, but VCD/SVCD"s don"t use error correction so you get an extra 100mb on the CD-R..I believe the 80 Minutes refers to the Amount of Music you can fit on the CD-R in Wav format, and you can get 80Minutes of Standard VCD but I think this is just a Coincidance....

Certainly yes. Why not?

If there were drives which can burn far more data, and also were apropriate writing software, you can do anything.

Although, now I found only this item.

http://www.plextor.com/english/news/press/pr04142003.html

That's interesting.
About flextor cd-r/rw drive.
It means that data storage depends much on storage technic other than physical media.

Well You show me were I can get CD-R"s that will hold 1.5gb then I"ll eat My Shorts....

Well, maybe 1.2GB. From Geek.com:

The drive can fit 980 MB on a 700 MB disc and 1.2 GB on the not-so-common 880 MB discs. Plextor has achieved this feat by burning smaller pits on the actual surface of the CD. The pits are 40% smaller, therefore allowing 40% more data to be stored. The downside to this, however, is that the discs might not be readable on most drives due to other manufacturers' lasers not being able to recognize the smaller pits.

Plextor have always offered "more capacity" as a feature of its drives, but up until now that has been in the form of over-burning, which writes to typically unreadable portions of a CD.

I also found this item.

http://www.digital-sanyo.com/BURN-Proof/HD-BURN/index.html

Yet only 1.4GB data can be burned on 700M(80min) media.

I have heard of all of these Before But most have to do with the Burner being able to Burn the data Differantly as to get more data on a CD ,But very few if any will be recognized by Your DVD player so it isn"t a Option for most Poeple with a Regular CD-Burner and DVD Player..Soon they will have the "Blue Ray" Technoligy that will allow you to fit some rediculous amout like 50gb on a Single Disk (I guess a sort of DVD Disk), Which will be awesome, But It will Take Quite a Few years till they are affordable...Cheers

ok, been here before, but i am stuck once again. I have changed my enviornmental settings because i was getting a black picture after so many minutes of film. now i am getting interlace lines. which setting is it that i need to boost up to remove this?

Well Interlace Lines should not show up on your TV set...PC Monitors are made to display Progressive Images and when they Play Interlaced material you can see that it is Interlaced because you can the the seperation between the Fields and you can get a Bad Combing effect.. TV Sets are Made to Display Interlaced content so you will usually not see any Interlace lines on a TV set unless the Field order is Set incorrectly...But if you want to get rid of the Lines so you can watch it on your Monitor also then you go to "Settings" to "Advanced" then Double Click were it says "DeInterlace" and a window should pop up, in this window click the "Enable Filter" Box then choose the Filter that looks best, Usually the "Even Field" or "Odd field" will look Best depending on the Field order of the File....good luck

ok, maybe im not understanding...why would it have changed when i only changed my enviornmental settings? I thought that i moved a setting too far down the list and hence the interlace lines.

The Vfapi Plugins in the Enviromental settings have nothing to do with the Quality of the Video, All they do is give Priority to certain File Types..Interlace Lines are Part of the Video, Without the Interlace lines there wouldn"t be a Picture, If that is what you are seeing....

I have some avi movies I can watch fine using divx player, but can't convert to mpg using tmpgenc.

They load up fine in tmpgenc, but when I start the conversion it freezes after about the 5 second mark (meaning source position 5seconds) and the picture just freezes. Tmpgenc does not freeze, just the video. Audio is fine.

Have you maybe tried a Program Like "DivX Anti-Freeze" or "DivX-FiX" they are supposed to fig Frozen Divx files....

I'm converting VHS home movies to DVD (TMPGEnc & TMPGEnc DVD Author), and video quality is my primary concern. Audio is not. I've heard that TMPGEnc converts audio poorly, wasting space. How can I get around this to allow more disc space for video quality without buying more software?

Well there are 3 Formats allwed for DVD authoring ,they are WAV/PCM ,Mpeg1 layer 2 audio and Dolby Digital AC3 audio, Wav/PCM with Probably produce the best Quality Because it is Uncompressed But the File size is Huge ,The next Best Format to use would be "Dolby Digital AC3" this Format is a very Highly compressed Format But a Very High Quality Format and the Most common used with Retail DVD"s, You can encode to this Format with some Freeware tools Like a Program called "BeeSweet" or "AC3Machine", or you might be able to Find a Free version of "Sonic Foundry Soft Encode 1.0" which is a Good AC3 encoder but like all AC3 encoders they Take Quite a While to encode to AC3 ,especially if you encode to Dolby 5.1 surround sound, The Last Format is Probably the Lowest Quality format in DVD Authoring but also has a Really small file size, the Quality is Quite acceptable if you use a Good Quality Mpeg audio encoder,You can use Tmpgenc to make the Wav audio file then use a Audio encoder like "Headac3he" to encode it to Mpeg1 layer2 audio at 48000hz at 384kbs, and it should sound Pretty good, But if you can get a hold of an AC3 encoder then that would be the way to go....good Luck

First I will tell you what I'm doing. I downloaded a set of 2 files. I want to convert them from AVI to VCD if possible SVCD. I have an Appex AD 1110 or something like that. It is full support of any VCD or SVCD file. Well I tried out the Tmpenc latest version for a week and finally I got one of the files encoded to VCD. My problem is lot like some of the others. It seems to work fine then a few seconds it freezes like a glitch in a game. Then goes on to play when people talk they speak slow then speed up toward the end of the sentence. Could it be the problem not processing the resolution or it just isn't going to work. Or can I make a different setting of the pixels and the fps or any of the technical quality to make it run smooth like when I play it on a VCD player software or media player. Cause all the others that I've done were the same file type, same quality. And they work fine. Even when the frame would freeze for a few seconds it would still be the same lip sync. Lucky I guess. But that was a while back. Now I had to download a file that wouldn't glitch or freeze to encode it right. So does anyone have a recommendation of how to fix my problem.

The Problem you are experienceing sounds like one of Three things, It sounds Most like you are Experienceing Bitrate Spikes..Tmpgenc is really bad at controlling it"s Bitrate and will Suddenly spike up Much higher than you set it at, and when this happens it looks Like the Video will suddenly slow down then slowly catch up again with the audio, but this should only happen if you are watching it on your DVD Player because any Hard drive should be able to spin fast enough to play a Mpeg file..Another Reason for an effect like this would be Burning your VCD"s at to high of a Speed, you should never burn at higher than 8-12 speed But 4 speed is the best so no errors occur..Regular Data and Music CD"s have Error correction but VCD/SVCD"s Do not, that is why you can fit 800mb on a 700mb CD-R when Burning VCD/SVCD"s, the extra 100mb would usually be used to Correct any errors..and the Last reason why you would not get Smooth Playback would be encodeing to a Framerate different than the AVI file, Meaning if the AVI file has a Framerate of 25fps you have to encode it to a Mpeg file at 25fps, you can not encode a 23.97/24fps File to 25fps and you can"t encode a 25fps file to 29.97fps ect, But I don"t really think this is your Problem......good luck

Hi & thanks to you Minion. But it's not with Tmpgenc, it's with Virtualdub..
But it seems it's the same way for searching a solution in this sens, codecs problem. But one thing I don't understand, when I analyze the avi source film with GSPot it find that i've got the right codec installed. That's all, I would like to apology for my poor english. And sorry for that mistake. Greats from Spain. See you. Bye.

Hi to everybody out there. I'm new in the world of forums and encoding, I post somes but don't have any answer. After this short introduction here come the question. With some avi's "tmpgenc" show me the following message:
-"error initializing audio stream decompression. the requiesed conversion is not possible. check to make sure you have the requiered codec. microsoft audio codec."
I don't see if I have the VFAPI plug-in installed, maybe it's the problem. And if not, I hope some of you can help me. Thanks.

No, It is saying that you do not have the Correct Codec installed so Tmpgenc can not decode the audio from this AVI file...Not Knowing what the audio is compressed to I can not tell you what codec you need, You could try installing some Audio codecs, Or a Codec pack, But the only One that I would sugest you install would be the "Tsunami Codec/Filter Pack" it will also install utilities that will tell you what codecs your Files use so if you have this Problem again you know what codec to install...And to check you "Vfapi Plugins" to go to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and If you are usually encodeing Divx AVI files or Downloaded movies then you should have the "Direct show Multi-Media File Raeder" at the Top of the list at about 1 or 2 Priority....good Luck...

Hi,

I was wondering how long it would take to have Multiple AC3 tracks to be supported when editing a DVD in VOB Mode, or in elementry stream setting? This is important since many Chinese Karaoke DVDs are ether one long movie with chapters seperating the videos, or physicl files seperate video files.

If you import a seperate video file, you can only choose 1 AC3 stream to keep. Also, if you edit an existing DVD VOB, to cut and edit out only one video out of the string of videos, you are also limited to choosing 1 AC3 stream.

It would be regarded as the highest feature if you could choose to keep both AC3 streams, and in the case of cutting/editing a movie, have the program cut correctly for both AC3 tracks so that if you extract a Karaoke segment from a whole DVD (Say, one part of a consert) Then for that cut segment you get both AC3 streams.

Thanks!

Cecilia Chen

I agree. I have many HK disks which have dual language ac3 tracks (Cantonese/Mandarin) and if you cut a segment out of it, it would be good to keep both audio streams.

Wow, I didn't think there was so many users from the same computer network! Anyway, yes please add this support. I recently wanted to cut a Karaoke song out of a movie, but I was disapointed that it only allows 1 audio stream. At the end of the disk is one song which they sing, and because the DVD is dual ac3, one track is voice, one is without. So when I cut the movie at that point, I can only choose one audio stream? I hope you can make cutting cut and keep all audio parts so that way you can keep both tracks when cutting / editing a VOB movie or anything.