I bought a mac. Finally, no more errors or crashes. Best bug fix ever. Perfect, fast and easy video conversion and editing. The mhz myth is just that, a myth.

Why tell us????Tmpgenc doesn"t run on a MAC so I think you are talking to the wrong poeple....I got rid of my IMac cuz it wasn"t very compatible...

The iMac is very compatable, its just that many windoze apps
(like TmpGenc) don't support 'standard' file formats like
quicktime, and when they do, its only half-assed.

I do all my video/editing work on my iMac, but transfer the
final output to a fast x86 machine for conversion and DVD
burning.

It may take an extra step or two, but the results are
superior...

ron

When using version 2.57 free & plus trial version I always get a "Stream reading error" when cutting or multiplexing a mpeg2 stream to SVCD.

In versions 2.56 I don't have these errors.

The file I used was a Divx5 file with uncompressed audio frameserved with virtualdub4.10 & subtitle plugin used & converted to mpeg2 program stream with version 2.57.

just wandering i i'm the only one with this problem?

greetings

No you are not the only one I have had problems with the merge and cuz adding the SVCD header while editing or muxing, luckily the authoring programs I use do need the svcd header to author the svcd.......

Is there a prog which will let me chop my 3 gig mpeg into smaller sections to fit onto a CD, but where I can specify size not duration as you have to do in MPEG merge&cut ?

thanks

Olli

Yes .. you can use "BBMpeg" what you will have to do is de-mux your mpeg file then load it into the "multiplexor" in BBmpeg then specify how big of pieces your file will be cut into,so you can specify say 750mb and it will mux the files together but splitting them into 750mb parts..it is a bit of a hassle to de-mux the file but it does a good job of splitting them into parts.or you can try one of the mpeg editors here in the tools section:http://www.apachez.net

Hello,
I am running a Pentium 1.62 with a WD 7200SE HDD. My captures are fine. I can capture in MPEG 2 or MPEG 1 format without any problems what so ever. All my captures are flawless in any size or bitrate etc. But after I encode the file, the video and audio is fine for the first 50 minutes or so. after that the video and audio become out of sync. Are any of you guys having this problem? if so please let me know. Only thing that I can figure is that I need to beef up my memory from 256ddr to 512 or 1 gig maybe. I encode in Divx so if anybody is having the same problem or has a fix for this please let me know.
Thanks, Jimmy

If you are captureing to mpeg why do you want to re-encode them , just burn them to disk, if you capture to the correct resolution... but if you are going to encode the files anyway then capture to an avi format then the quality will be better cuz mpeg is a lossy format and there are some avi codecs that are pretty close to loss-less, are you dropping any frames while captureing??I run and Intel 1.7ghz and 256mb ddr-ram and have a 20 and a 7200rpm 60gb hard drive and I sometimes drop and few frames especially captureing to mpeg, this can cause de-sync...but if I capture to avi I don"t drop any frames...just a thought.......

Converting a 237 min avi/divx movie , after 55 min 55 sec movie time i get

"Write error occurred at address 0048715A of module TMPEGEnc.exe with 00235000"

TMPEGEnc version 2.57.41.146 Core 1.90.138 (previous versions down to 2.54 give same error). It's not a crash, TMPEGEnc can accept its Start button and begins conversion of movie again from the beginning.

- system is P4 with 512M Ram
- have tried both PAL VCD and PAL SVCD.
- have defrag'd HD and checked for bad sectors.
- have 4G free space in TEMP
- have 10G of free space on destination

?Any suggestions?

Find out exactly what frame it stoped encodeing at then use the "source range" to start encodeing another file were it stopped encodeing then use the "merge and cut" to join the two mpeg files into one, if it is done properly you will hardly notice the transition...if iti happens at the same place every time then there is probably a error in your file at the poion were it stopped encodeing..

Hi again,
I just tried running the same avi/divx file throug Ulead Videostudio6, producing an SVCD quality output without any problems. So if it's an error in the input file, its not bad enough to stop the Ulead software but TMPEGEnc stops every time.
I would suggest improving the error message with more info and maybe add some sort of recovery or "skip and continue" .

Regards
petf

I have tried to convert an avi file to mpeg using tmpg, but when I view the mpeg file after conversion all I have is a black screen, and the audio is OK
Please help

OK I had a look through previous posts and found my answer

If you can"t see the movie in the Tmpgenc encodeng screen then there is not going to be a picture.... what probably need to do is raise the priority of the direct show files reader in the vfapi plugins, you do this by going to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "vfapi plugins" and raise the "Direct Show File Reader" to "1" or "2"....this should make the picture viewable in the encodeing screen to you know if it is working right..

OK i get this error right when i the start button. "Write error occoured at address 00401C9F of module 'tmpgenc.exe' with 01CED204

wow you are right it is working i hope it takes the entire thing.

Ok the entire avi was put into an mpeg now my problem is i have no sound.

You should ALLWAYS extract the audio from your avi file to wav file with "Virtual Dub" cuz Tmpgenc does not like compressed audio formats and most avi file have compressed audio...

Where do i get virtual dub?

Goodmorning (at least it is here)

I know that because of the standard video bitrate (1150) and the audio (224) you can burn a 80 minutes cd-r with a miximum of 1:20 minutes of mpeg-1.
So, now here is my "problem"

I have an avi which is 1:20;20 (and believe me the is nothing left to cut)
So i thought that if i encoded it into a mpewg-1 with 192 kbps audio that the size might be below 800 MB's.
In this way it would fit on ONE cd-r
To my surprise the mpeg-1 was 802 Mb which is the same size as if i would have encoded it with 224 kbps.

So where do i go wrong in my way of thinking ?

When you change the bitrate to a lower bitrate Tmpgenc will Pad the stream to keep the bitrate at the VCD compliant Level.. you need to go to settings then you "system" and change it to "Video-CD Non-Standard"...If you used the CQ encodeing method you could use a higher bitrate and get a smaller file size and get a better quality mpeg file...

Thanks for the answer, you didn't disappoint me :)

I realized i left one little piece of information out in my question and that is that i would like to beurn it in order to play the vcd on the dvd-player

So if i change to "Video-CD Non-Standard"
then it is a question of "trail and error" whether or not this vcd will play in my dvd-players, isn't it ?

The chances that it will not play are next to nothing, you haven"t changed the perameters enough to really make a differance but some burning programs might give you a little error but just burn it anyway it will work........

go to.. http://forum.vcdhelp.com/userguides/84759.phpthis. it will show you how to fit your movie on one cdr

About half the time when I'm encoding an .avi file to a .mpeg - half way through the encoding the audio just stops (fyi the file is about 15 minutes long). The audio is fine on the AVI file - it's there until the end, and the sync on the conversion is fine until the sound vanishes. Any clue how to get it to stop - It's really annoying?

What format is the audio??? Tmpgenc does not like encodeing compressed audio streams and can cause problems like cutting out and the audio just not being there..It is allways a good Idea to extract the audio to a wav file with "virtual dub" then use that as your audio source, cuz tmpgenc encodes wav files the best and seems to only fully support encodeing them...another good this to do is use the external audio encodes for Tmpgenc they are far better than the audio encoder that Tmpgenc has built in..The two that I have tried ate "toolame " and "SCMPX" you can find then on any search engine and you install then in Tmpgenc by going to the "External Tools" in the "enviromental settings".

Hello...

I tried to cut an MPEG-2 files with TMPGEnc but this fonction seems not very stable to me. Do you a free tool that can do this efficiently???

Thanks,
Nico...

The mpeg tools in Tmpgenc arent that stable accept the multiplex works good and de-multiplex but the editor isn"t very reliable, Mpeg2 editors are usually quite expensive cuz mpeg files arent meant to be edited, but there are a few you can try here in the tools section : http://apachez.net/

I'm using Tmpgenc to join a few mpg files. The original mpeg is 2913kbps, but the new mpeg file created by Tmpgenc is about 2200kbps. I would like to know if I'm losing video quality in this join process or is it that Tmpgenc does better encoding than in the original mpeg files. Also, is there a quality setting in the Tmpgenc mpeg encoding process?
Thanks and pls. also send reply to balu@unm.edu if it is not a problem,
Balu

So you are saying that the Bitrate before you joined the files was higher than after you joined the files??If this is true then it must be a glitch with writeing the header because the joining you files should not decrease the quality or the bitrate, so I wouldn"t worry about it unless you have problems playing the file.....

Yes, the bitrate of the original source is higher than in the mpeg file created by TMPGEnc. And, it is not a problem with the header because the size of the new mpeg file is smaller in the right proportion compared to the original mpeg source files.

I can play the new mpeg files fine. But, I'm not sure if I'm just imagining that the original mpeg file seems very slightly better than the new mpeg file created by TMPGEnc.

If you know how 'merge and cut' works in TMPGEnc, I would appreciate it,
Balu

tried to check encoding (avi to mpeg) was working after 5 mins. Played the new file which looks good for video but there was no sound at all. should the sound be attached as its encoded or does it happen later in the encoding programme?

Thanks

The audio is not there because the audio is of an unsupported format, you need to extract the audio from your avi file to a Wav file with "virtual dub" but if the audio is AC3 then you will nedd and AC3 decoder to extract the audio to Wav.you should do this with allmost every file so you don"t run into these problems....

Minion,

Thanks for taking time to reply. This is all new to me, so appreciate your & other peeps patience. Where can i get a walk through (hand held)of exactly what i have to do, re seperating the audio using 'virtualdub' (and at some point merging it properly with the audio file again).

Thanks

i mean video file!

dooh!

It is easy to extract the audio to wav in "Virtual Dub" you just load your file into "virtual dub" by going to "file" to "open" then choose your file then go to "file to "save as wav" then name the fule and it will make a wav file , then you load the avi in to video slot in Tmpgenc and the wav file into the audio slot then just encode normaly...thats it...

Minion,

Thanks a mill.

just cut my first, and see what you mean. It was pretty straight forward inthe end. Progs are good and seem to do all the hard work.

Cheers,

WalterPK

hi all,
i always use tmpgenc to produce my svcds. but now a magazine tested some decoders and gave cinemacraft 95% and tmpgenc (second place) 80% encoding quality...
never tried cinema craft because i think it's too expensive...
does anyone tried cce and can confirm the test?
(sorry for my bad english, hope you understand...)

If used Properly CCE is superior But you are right If is Way to expensive so Tmpgenc is a Better deal, CCE is aimed towards Profesinals cuz I guess Only a Pro Can afford it and CCE does not have the versitillity that Tmpgenc has..Like CCE will not re-size the resolution of your file and doesn"t have any filters...But there are ways around that.....