Does anyone know how to import quicktime or framestacks(TGA's or BMP's) into TMPGEnc? The software is awesome but seems like it can only import AVI files. Is this right? Or is there some other way to do this? Thank you.

To Import Mov Files you need the QT Plugin which can be downloaded here: http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/tmpgenc.html ,And there should not be a Problem Importing Large Numbers of BMP/TGA/JPG files into Tmpgenc, You just need to have all of the Image Files Named in Numeric order, Like "Image#001.bmp, Image#002.bmp,Image#003.bmp ECT,and the Images can be exported as Mpeg1/2 files, AVI, or as BMP/TGA/Jpg Images..If you have Problems loading in Image files you might just need to raise the "BMP/TGA/JPG/ect File reader" in the Vfapi Plugins....

i still have problems with adding subs with tmpgence

it worked before

i dont know what was wrong

i have installed sldpack vobsob

and nothing else

after encoding i can see the subs but not in the whole movie

and i dont like frame serving ....... i just want to use tmpgence and vobsub

So here goes,

I have a file that is in widescreen format,(608x336 pixels). I want it on VCD, so when I mpeg it, the program squishes this enlongated file to like (250x350 or something like that) Watching the movie all TALL is annoying. What can I do to at least add black bars to the top and bottom to make it more suitable for conversion, or make it not do the squish thing?

Help,
Dave

Try "FullScreen Keep Aspect Ratio" in the "Video arrange Method" setting, or the "Center Keep Aspect Ratio" setting, try different ones till it looks right..

Did you not check the preview before or when encoding? Surely you must have noticed this.

Ensure your input aspect ratio is set to 16:9(PAL)and use 'Full screen (keep aspect ratio)' as the Video arrange Method.

TMPGENC caused an exception 10H in module MP43DMOD.DLL at 0167:073e5c5d.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=073e5c5d EFLGS=00210246
EBX=00000160 SS=016f ESP=0252fd30 EBP=00000000
ECX=0146c9f0 DS=016f ESI=01c503a0 FS=58b7
EDX=00000005 ES=016f EDI=00000001 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
dc 1d b0 16 3e 07 df e0 f6 c4 44 7a 0a db 44 24
Stack dump:
01c503a0 00000019 073e75af 006f573c 0252fdf4 0236a408 0146c9d0 d377b365 073e4dd2 006f573c 0236a408 00000160 00000120 00000000 00000000 00000160

i get this message every time i try to convert a movie from avi to mpeg. i'm new to this and have no clue what the problem may be. any help would be appreciated.

im guessing that you have xp because i keep getting the same problem and its ticking me off. its says that tmpgenc is performing an illegal operation.

Well, I had initial problems with not being able to open any .avi files for video (audio only), then I set the AVI and DirectShow priorities higher (1 and 2 respectively).

This caused the same error message you reported.

Finally, after searching the message board here for about an hour I found some advice to load the Tsunami Filter Pack.

Did a search and found the file. No problems since.

Hope this helps you too...

lol ive had this problem for soo long (aboutayear) and didnt know how to fix it. i'll try the tsunami filter pack. thanks.

ive got two things to say. when i got the "full" 12 mb version and installed it a window popped up and said plz insert windows xp cd. and when i went searching on my computer all of my hidden folders showed up for some reason. is this supposed to happen? secondly..............it worked! hehehe thankyou but i still think that whole insert windows cd wasnt supposed to happen.

The Reason why you get the "Insert Windowz CD message" is Because Tsunami OverWrites certain Codecs that are Part of the XP Operateing System, It shouldn"t cause a Problem as I got the same message when I first tried it...

arggh. i decided to delete the tsunami filter because the damn massage still pops up. and that stupid pack replaced my other codecs so now i cant listen to mp3s. i got nimo codec pack and it works but whenever i listen to music i hear static noise. my computer is too messed up. the message still pops up. way to be tsunami. im reformattin'.
arghh.

There is No Need to Reformat, While installing the Tsunami Pack it should ask you if you want to replace certain Codecs with ones in the Filter pack, Just answer No, and you shouldn"t have a Problem ,Or just insert your XP CD and replace the Files that were Overwritten....

Sorry, did not know this would happen with the full version.

When I went looking, the sites with the full version were all down. So I just used the minimum file (about 2MB I think).

What you might want to try is use System Restore to the point before you installed the Full Version of Tsunami. This restoration point should have been generated automatically when you started the installation.

After you have restored, download the smaller file and install it. This should fix all the problems you experienced.

One more note though, anything you have downloaded or installed since Tsunami will also be lost due to the system restore, but your data files (Word Documents, E-Mail, etc...) will still be there.

Hope this helps, and if you have any questions on how to do this just shoot me an e-mail. (krclark@tds.net)

Ken

ya i dont need to reformmat. i went through a lot of stuff and fixed the problem. hurrah. :) thanks for all the help anyway.

I've tried VCD coding a couple movies now that used the XviD codec to create the original avi's. For some reason, when the coding stops, I get a perfect video sequence, but no audio.
Any suggestions?

A Lot of the Audio in Xvid and DivX files these days have AC3 or VBR-Mp3 audio, and Tmpgenc doesn"t support these Audio Formats..You need to Extract the audio to Wav format then use the wav as the audio source....

I have some MPGEG 2 SVCD files, which are 7-800 MB in size. I need to resize them to 650 to fit CD-R size. But some of these files consequently interrupts after only around 7 minutes of the film is converted. I've solved it by re-converting them to from MPEG to MPEG but that takes a hell of a time and sometimes it even freezes before it's finished. Can somebody give me a clue to what the problem or better the solution is?

Better solution?
Just get your self some 80min cdr's. You can fit 800mb of MPEG data on one CDR and are just as cheap as 74min CDR which can fit up to 740mb of MPEG data

If you overburn you can fit about 820mb on an 80min CDR and 756mb on a 74min CDR.

Sorry forgot my email: drum6025@hotmail.com

and again if needed:I just made a little .mpg by putting an animation i made as the video and a song from my band as the audio.

The animation goes for about 21 seconds and i want to make it loop, because the song keps going. At the moment I made it , it plays once then stopps, while the song contiunues.

When i made the animation in microsoft gif animator, i saved it as repeating forever, but this makes no difference..

could you please email me with help?
Thanks in advance :)

Because Mpegs don't support this. You'll just have to load your MPEG into the MERG&CUT feature to join multiple copies of your MPEG together.
No need to make more copies just keep loading the same one until the total running time of the MPEGs matches your audio.
You can check this by clicking the edit button.

ASHY

I just made a little .mpg by putting an animation i made as the video and a song from my band as the audio.

The animation goes for about 21 seconds and i want to make it loop, because the song keps going. At the moment I made it , it plays once then stopps, while the song contiunues.

When i made the animation in microsoft gif animator, i saved it as repeating forever, but this makes no difference..

could you please email me with help?
Thanks in advance :)

I've searched and read through this board and I still can't see a clear answer to this problem. A split AVI file plays fine with the audio in sync to the very end of the clip. When I use TMPGEnc to encode it for VCD, the video starts to lag the audio about three quarters the way through and at 6 hours per try, I'm getting very upset. The AVI was split using Virtual Dub and the first half of the split runs fine as a finished VCD. It's onlly the second half that has a problem. I've even exported the audio as a wave file and the recombined it with TMPGEnc, still with no luck. Then I tried editing the wave file and added a few seconds into it where I lose sync then recombined using TMPGEnc again. Still goes out of sync at the same place. Why, if the origional AVI is in sync all the way through and the split portions check out okay, am I loosing it when it's converted with TMPGEnc? I don't know what else to try.

Brian

What you should do Is Just encode the Video, and after encodeing the Video find out the Exact length of the Mpeg Video File, then check the Length of the Wav audio file and see if they are Exactly the Same Length, if there is a Sync Problem the Audio will be a Little Longer or Shorter than the Video, sou you would need a Program Like "Cool Edit" or "Sound Forge" to Stretch or Shrink the Audio to the Same Length as the Video, once the audio is the correct length just Encode the Audio to Mp2 and Mux it with the Video..That Is how I fix all My sync Problems....

Hi all,

I have a question here.

I have a file in RealMedia VBR format. which means a .rmvb format. I would like to convert this file to a format that allows me to burn into a vcd format.
Is there anyway to achieve this?

Please enlighten..

Thanks in Advance..
Pooh

You will have to Convert the RM files to AVI first if you want to use Tmpgenc to encode them to Mpeg, you can convert the RM Files to AVI with a Program called Tinra or EO_Video, Tinra is Freeware and can be found on Any Search engine, EO-Video isn"t Freeware but it has a Lot more features Like it will even convert from RM to Mpeg1/2 but the Quality isn"t as good as Tmpgenc...

Thanks for the advice, but the video format I have is in .rmvb format which is different from a .rm format.

I tried to rename the .rmvb to .rm but it does not work.

Further advice??

Thanks in advance again
Pooh

Hello everybody. I work for an Italian digital-video involved company.
We have a little problem. we have a big amount of AVI to store, and we don't know what kind of compression to choose, we'd like to keep the best quality and the lesser space....

i thought the MPEG-2 could be a good solution, at 1:1 ratio, highest quality..

Or .. should i try something else as DIVX?

Thanks for your help.

Well Mpeg-4/DivX will give you as good of Quality and Smaller File sizes than Mpeg-2, But there will allways be some Quality loss anytime you are compressing Video Data but if the Quality of your Source Files is Good the Quality loss should not be Noticeable...

The key to archival decision is what "lesser space" means. MPEG2 can do excellent compression at 8Mbs, "very" lossless compression at 12-15 Mbs and extremely lossless (4:2:2 using MP@HL) at about 18Mbs. This consumes less space than DV, at much better quality. Broadcasters routinely use 15Mbs 4:2:2P@ML to digitize their older archives.

I have used MPEG4 (Divx 5.0.3) but can never get a compressed result which is indistiguishable from the original for EVERY frame, even at 8Mbs. As soon as you get away from an I frame, the quality goes down.

Remember, the underlying compression of both techniques is the pretty much the same. MPEG4 just ads effects to trick the eye into overlooking compression artifacts for very long GOPs when viewed at full frame rate (in tiny computer windows).

If the AVI originally came from DV (4:1:1), it must be archived with 4:2:2 color sampling to prevent half the color samples from being lost during conversion.

By the way, here is my compression test:

Choose know frames from original and compressed videos which have NO motion. Extract out to BMP files (DVD2AVI, vfapiconv, VirtualDub copy frame to clipboard, paste in Paint, save).

Toggle rapidly between BMPs in a picture viewer. The toggle should not be noticeable. Carefully check many pattern types in several frames.

Compare highly zoomed views of an area which has subtle textures.

If resolution is lost in frames with no motion, reject the compression method.

After passing that test, motion can be evaluated but this just boils down to a well known bitrate vs quality judgement.

I've already picked system video and audio but when the encoding is done the video is blank and all you can hear isthe audio so could I please get some help please the movies are AVI from Kazaa if that helps any
thanks for taking your time to help me out!
Jason and Vivian Yang

First Make sure you have the Right Codecs installed, if you do then go to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct Show" to "2"..and if you do not see an image in the Screen while you are encodeing then there will not be an Image in the File....