should i hear the audio during the preview? it doesn't and i'm wondering if there is a problem.

I take it you mean when encoding, if so then no.

tiring_day

No he is referring to the preview and no there isn't any sound when using it.

ASHY

How to urge TMPGenc to support video streams which are slightly erratic somehow but software and DVD settop players still play without any problem these.
How to improve TMPGenc tolerance?

My problems started from the fact that I used year ago Chopper named DVD video cutter which corrupted every 2nd DVD clip file on a way that now Tmpgenc nor Vobedit can't split a video stream what Tmpgenc could multiplex later with audio. My goal is mostly to clean vob clips and multiplex again for burning onto dvdr.

Both origianl vob and splitted m2v play with software palyers and on setop player - but for TMPGenc these video streams are nothing ...

Help appreciated!
TIA
jetty

I have encoded a few xvid movies with
TMPGE by simply changing the enviromental
settings as follows:
Directshow ....3
AVI2.........1
BMP....-2
TMPGE Project...-2
all others....0

It worked for the first half of my movie
but when I do the same for the second
it stops after about 20 minutes with an
error message.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

Ok, here is what I have now figured out. My dvd player does not support vcd playback, but does support mpg playback. However, some mpgs don't play, it just makes a ticking sound and nothing happens. My problem is that I can't seem to distinguish any differences between mpgs that work and ones that won't. Does anybody have any advice? Why would some work but others won't?

Thanks

I"m sure there are Standards to What files the Player will play, Contact the DVD Players Manufacturer and ask them when the Mpeg standard for the types of Mpeg files it will play...Maybe it only plays Mpeg1 files?? or Files of a Certain Resolution and Bitrate and audio frequency..Haveing a Player that Only plays Mpeg files can Be Quite a Hassle Cuz You can"t Add menu"s or Chapters to the files to make them More enjoyable to watch and in Your Case you can"t figure out what Type of Files it will play, Maybe try getting a Player that palys VCD?SVCD"s instead of Mpeg file then you will know what you have to do to Get it to play your Movie...

Thanks for the advice, I've tried contacting the manufacturer, but have not heard back yet.

Ok, now I feel like a complete moron. I figured out what my problem was. Apparently all of my discs were burned in Joliet format instead of ISO 9960. After reburning them in ISO every single mpg file works perfectly. Man, I feel like a complete newbie now.

Thanks for the help anyways guys. This forum is awesome.
Gael

I think it's pretty unlikely that your DVD player doesn't support VCD playback if it supports Raw MPEG playback.

What model of player do you have?
How have you tried to create these VCD's, what templates have you used in TMPG and which VCD burning software did you use.

ASHY

My player is an Apex ad1200 (#D1200020805). What I read from various people on another forum (nerd-out.com) was: Apparently this model used to have VCD support but Apex wasn't paying royalties for the rights so they had to removed it. The outside of my player and the box it came in didn't say anything about VCDs at all. However, since I've now figured out how to play raw mpgs, I don't need to worry about VCDs. I did try making 2 different VCD discs before. I used the Tmpgenc template to convert the avi and then Nero to burn to disc. When I tried it in my DVD player, it just returned an "Unknown Disc" error. Although, it is possible that I did something wrong in the VCD process, I don't know. I have heard from several others with the same player that it does not support VCDs, but it will play raw mpgs. Again, I very new at this and I could be completely wrong, but I'm just going by what others have told me.

Dereck

Hello!

Sorry to ask again. Please can someone sugest how to preview the video I want to cut. I tried with both codecs but still no sucess.
Most of time the preview window remains black or freezed frame in there.
Tempgenc is only application what I know and can also use, what is capable properly cutting mpg streams. I can't use any other methos to get range time because in the 20% from beginning there is a bad frame what I need to cut off.
But this Tempgenc Mpeg Tools preview don't work with any mpefg2 clips properly.

I hope anyone can help me with this Merge and Cut tool.

jetty

Like I said in your Other post There is much you can do..and Tmpgenc Doesn"t Accurately Cut Files even when it is Working properly Especially if they are VBR Cuz the Merge & Cut does not support VBR Mpeg files...Try useing a Different Mpeg editor Like even "Womble Mpeg-VCR", you can download a Older Working full version at http://www.apachez.net/ in the Tools section...

Thanks for mpeg2vcr info.
I finally managed to cut also with Tmpegenc but didn't get desired results ...
Neither Mpeg2vcr doesn't support AC3, so I had considered going back few steps .. or does mpeg2vcr 3.1 can be added ac3 support?

jetty

hi. i am tying to convert avi to mpeg in svcd ntsc-film format. its not working. i select the avi file i want and it tells me it cannot open or its uncupported. so i try it with decompressed audio. same message. but, i can put my avi file into the audio box just fine.

any help please

jj.

Did you try raiseing the "Direct show File reader" in the Vfapi plugins"???

I keep getting the error message "Index of scanline is out of range" whenever I try to convert to SVCD PAL. Any suggestions?

When I use TMPGEnc to convert DivX .avi movies with MP3 audio to mpeg2 I get no sound. I works fine when I convert divx with PCM audio. Is there any way I can make the mp3 work?

Yes, use Virtualdub to extract the MP3 to a WAV file and use that in TMPG.

ASHY

Easy enough
Thanks much

When I use TMPGEnc to convert DivX .avi movies with MP3 audio to mpeg2 I get no sound. I works fine when I convert divx with PCM audio. Is there any way I can make the mp3 work?

Well make sure you have a good Mp3 codec installed But if Tmpgenc will not real the mp3 audio then there isn"t much you can do to get tmpgenc to read it ,so what you have to do is Extract the audio to a WAC file with something like "Virtual-Dub" then use the WAV file as the audio source...

Having problems converting Xvid movies to VCD, keep get the following error message.

Read error occurred at address 0041EE3 of module tempgenc.exe with 617AD23C

Anybody got ant idea's

Regards,

dlindop

I had a similar problem, ensure you have the XVID codec installed on the machine and goto Environmental settings and drop Direct Show back down to Zero.

Worked for me and is working as we speak.

tiring_day

Thanks, sorted.

Hi there,

Does anyone know where off the internet I can get CDEX from ? and it it downloadable.

Thanks
AKaid
Destiny

You do realise this is the TMPG BBS and has nothing to do with audio ripping.
Ever heard of a serach engine. This search took me 5 secs.

http://www.cdex.n3.net/

ASHY

Hello! I wanted to widen the original "Minority Report" from 16:9 to 4:3.
The original video is 20fps (strange thing, I know) PAL. After tmpegenc reencoded this film, I've got strange stroboscopic effect. I think this effect produced tmpegenc, while trying to reencode as 25fps.

Anyway, I've stuck, and don't know what to do next. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Alexei.

If it's 20 fps then it's not really PAL. Pal is 25 fps. The effect you are talking about is called interlace lines. These can be removed by using the appropiate de-interlace filter in TMPG.
The next problem is the framerate. TMPG won't convert this to 25 fps correctly. The playback will be jerky as TMPG doesn't do correct framerate conversion.

AVIsynth can do a correct conversion if you know how to use it.

ASHY

2 ASHY:

Thanks. I'm going to try Avisynth.
But still, DVD2Avi says it's 20fps PAL. And I've got no interlaced lines, only stroboscoping.

Thanks again.

2 ASHY:

Thanks. I'm going to try Avisynth.
But still, DVD2Avi says it's 20fps PAL. And I've got no interlaced lines, only stroboscoping.

Thanks again.

What do u mean stroboscoping. Is it a combing effect on moving verticals?
These are called interlacing lines.

ASHY

LOL...If the source is an original PAL DVD then DVD2AVI must be reporting the framerate incorrectly. There is no such thing as a 20fps PAL movie.

You probably have 'ForcedFILM' checked under Video>Field operation in DVD2AVI.
You should check 'None' for PAL films.

ASHY

2 ASHY:

Thanks. I'm going to try Avisynth.
But still, DVD2Avi says it's 20fps PAL. And I've got no interlaced lines, only stroboscoping.

Thanks again.

Is that an echo?

U didn't abswer my question.
Did u disable 'ForcedFILM' in DVD2AVI?

ASHY