Sorry I am a complete beginner.
If I rip a dvd to my hard disc using smart ripper and then encode with Tmpgenc the first vob file auto populates the audio field and works fine but vob 2,3 and 4 wont and can't be picked manually so no sound!
What am i doing wrong?
It all works ok if I us eazy DVD to do the whole thing.
Many thanks

You DONT load Vob files directly into Tmpgenc...Tmpgenc can"t differentiate between Audio tracks and video tracks and subtitle tracks, and Can"t properly decode Dolby Digital Audio and it is 5 times slower to encode the vob files directly and the quality isn"t as good doing it that way...If you Used "Smartripper" to Rip the Vob files to your Hard drive then you should have a file in the Vob file folder called a ".D2V" file, you load this file into Tmpgenc and encode it..and to get the audio you use something like "Vob2Audio" to extract the correct audio track to a WAV file then you load the WAV file into tmpgenc as the audio source...Or what most poeple do is use "DVD2AVI" to extract the video and audio from the Vob File then encode to mpeg with Tmpgenc...if you do it this way you will see a BIG improvement in encodeing speed and Quality....

Many thanks.
I understand now.

what program do you open it with

Explain what your Question is......We don"t read Minds!!!!!

Windows.

ASHY

I used the mpeg tool to cut a SVCD with 2 audio channels but I found that the resulting SVCD has only one audio channel. I used Merge&Cut MPEG-2 Super VideoCD (VBR).

well Use something else...There aren"t any Special settings that will make it work...Either it works or you have to use something else...

Hey everyone,

I am looking for a plugin for tmpg which will allow me to export to a .mov file, and lets me set the options, like of like how Discreet Cleaner 5 does it.. Any suggestions?

There is a "Mov-Quicktime Plugin" that will allow you to encode Mov Files to mpeg, you can get it in the Quicktime plugin here:http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4942/svcd.html ....

I am getting a buffer underflow while replacing a MPEG2-fileheader (SVCD-format) to a MPEG1 file header (VCD-format) with TMPGEnc, MPEG-tools section, single-multiplex tab. How come? .

You ask how come when you are doing something that is totally against the Mpeg specification??the reason is Because the Packet size for VCD and SVCD are different so the buffers overflow or underflow cuz the data packets aren"t the correct siZe..you should try useing the "Merge & Cut" instead of the Multiplex to add the VCD header..you just load the file in then change the setting in the Drop down menu then choose the "output" directory the click "run" and it should change the header without giveing you the error....

I have an AVI file ripped from a Canon DV camcorder using Ulead video studio 5. 1 hour of extracted video is about 12.5 gb filesize. When I try to convert using TMPG 2.58 PLus. It lets me, but the video quality bitrate is very poor. Ive tried numerous settings for customizatins and the usual DVD NTSC template. It encodes this file unusually fast. I need to burn this mpeg2 file to a DVD.

Anyone else having this problem? Please help.

Slaughter

What Type of poor Quality do you Mean???Is it Blocky or is there lots of interlace lines or discoloration??

Hey Minion,

It is blocky like lower quality than MPEG1 (VCD). It is like internet quality at 500k windows media type of quality if you know what I mean. Unacceptable especially when i know the original AVI is perfect.

Thanks

Sometimes Raiseing the Priority of the "direct show file Reader" fixes problems like that....

Minoin,

Thanks, your fix of raising the Directshow to priority 1 position definetly worked!

Slaughter

I downloaded the new Plus 2.5 version. I have XP. During the encoding process, it stops and I get this error "At address FFFFFFFF, Read error occurred against address FFFFFFFFFF. Please help. This never happened with the earlier versions of Tmpgenc.

Please refrain from double posting as your post will most likely get ignored and/or deleted.

To answer your question go to "options" to "Enviromental Settings"to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "direct show" to "2"...

ASHY

I am using XP, have the 2.58 latest version. Half way through encoding process, I get an error. What would cause this?

Unfortunately I have lost my crystal ball, so until you provide me with more info on the kind of error I am unable to assist you.

ASHY

Everytime I close out my TMPGENC program I see these annoying files that appear on my desktop...one's a 'notebook' file that says "tmpgenc" and another one says "current cfg.tpr" under the file. I know they belong somewhere, yet I have to delete them everytime!! what kind of files are they and how do I get rid of them for good so they don't come back up on my desktop anymore??

This happening because you have the TMPGenc.exe file from the zip directly on to your desktop.

The TMPG files should be in a folder not on your desktop. The files you are talking about are files which are created by TMPG to store the last settings used and will be created each time you close TMPG.

You cannot have the TMPGenc.exe file by itself on your desktop as ther are several other important files included in the zip which it needs.]

My advice is to delete the files you have on you desktop and extract fresh ones from the zip and leave them in the folder created.

To run TMPG from your desktop just create a shortcut to the TMPGenc.exe file.

ASHY

ASHY

...but all I have on my desktop IS the shortcut! I have the folder and all its contents in my 'C' drive folder, yet when I close it out, I keep getting these damn folders on my desktop....there's GOT to be something that's causing this....please help me out...please try to find another solution to this issue...I can't seem to figure it out!!

I took your advice ashy and that seemed to work...the problem was that I took the icon that was in the folder and instead of making it a shortcut, I made it a copy....so I made a shortcut and that seem to work.I didn't think that'd make a difference, but it did(weird huh???)...anyways, thanks for your help!!!

No not weird just normal.
Of course it will make a difference. You can't just copy a file and expect it to work as a shortcut because that won't work. You have simply made an exact copy of the original file which has no connection to the original file at all.

A shortcut points to the original file it was made from and runs it when clicked, a copy doesn't point to anything.

ASHY

It would be nice to make Macintosh version. Especiallily on dual G4 systems. But you need somebody for G4 Velocity Engine optimization.

There are No Plans At all to Make a Macintosh version...Seing as the author Has said so and Even If he wanted to he couldn"t do it by himself Cuz i don"t think Hori is Well versed in Writeing Code for Mac OS..And there isn"t a Huge Market For Mac software..well Not like Windows software...There are encoders for Mac"s though but I think they are Very expensive...

My advice is get a real PC.

ASHY

lets be nice now..

I own an iMac, Amigas, a large heard on Linux machines, and a single
token windoze machine (used for tmpgenc).

Each machine type has its own strengths in a particular area- but NOTHING
else can touch a mac when it comes to serious DV video work.

The trick is to get all these machines working together, each doing what
it does best.

ron

I want to know what adjustments (or steps) do I have to make with TMPGEnc to make it to where I can put a single WHOLE MOVIE on one (SVCD or VCD)disk? I've done it before, but since I've cleaned my hard drive I lost the proper adjustments to do so. I checked www.vcdhelp.com but it didn't give me the answer I need to get it working again. Somebody help me PLEASE!!!

You Must have Terrorable Quality SVCD/VCD"s...I and Most poeple who Like Quality SVCD/VCD"s have to put them on 2-3 CD-R"s..At such a Low Bitrate it must Be Pretty much Unwatchable...Well If you want to ruin your movies you just have to Lower the Bitrate..and if you are doing VCD"s you have to Change the "System" Setting to "VCD-Non-Standard" or it will pad the stream to make it VCD Compatible.....

One disk? I wouldn't even bother. Why compromise the quality for the sake of a very cheap disk. It's no hardship to swap disks either.
I'm guessing you are a beginner.

When you become more adept at encoding and eventually realise that you want the best quality possible while keeping the file size reasonable you will probably look at these crappy first VCD's you have made and never want to watch them again. So do yourself a favour, start as you mean to go on.

I have been encoding for a long time and still have my first efforts. I wouldn't show these to anyone as they are an embarassment when compared to the ones I create now.

ASHY

I have DVDit PE (Version 2.1). I have been encoding AVI files with TMPGenc (Version 2.58). When I attempt to create a DVD with DVDit PE, I receive an error message from DVDit: "Each GOP header must be preceeded by a sequence header". According to the DVDit website, it is necessary to setup the encoder used to create an MPEG2 file from an AVI such that a sequence header occurs prior to each GOP header. Does anyone know how to setup TMPGe (Version 2.58) to do this?

Go to "Settings" to "GOP Structure" and were it says "Output of Sequence Header" put it to "1"...