i have a movie which seems to be encoded by DivX 5 codec :((
how can i convert it to svcd?
tmpgenc wont do it saying something about error starting up some module(
something related to ac3 sound), and virtual dub wont open it at all
saying it's unsuported format :(
any ideas what i could do?

The problem is that the audio is "AC3" and tmpgenc doesn"t encode ac3, what you need to do is either extract the audio to a wav file with an "ac3 decoder" or supposedly you can install ac3 filters to make tmpgenc read ac3 audio but I installed them and can"t get it to work, but you can download the "ac3 decoder" here http://www.mediatwins.com/products/1707-6.htm

Hi.

When I use TMPGEnc to encode a DivX (23.978) into a PAL SVCD mpg file, the movie gets jerky. The stops are very light and occur only every #1 second.

Must I use VirtualDub to do a framerate conversion first? I believe that TMPGEnc is able to cope with the video framerate conversion by itself, doesn't it?

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks!

Yes you are correct you are at some point going to have to use virtualdub to do the conversion as TMPG doesn't do proper framerate conversion.
There are a few recent posts regarding this explaining exactly how to achieve this.

ASHY

Have a look at this post.
Question - 20 fps avi conversion No.24813

ASHY

Thansk very much ASHY.

However the "AVI Frame Rate Changer" doesn't work for me since my source framerate is 23.978, which is non-standard. The readme also says not to use the program under such circumstances since it might ruin the source AVI.

What is an alternative way to change the framerate?

TIA

What do you mean it doesn't work?
Your framerate is not weird, it is just slightly, very slightly different from the norm and a lot of AVI framerates are like this. Don't worry it won't ruin your file so just go ahead change the framerate. If you are worried just make a copy of the original, but I assure you there will be no problem.

ASHY

1. "AVI Frame Rate Changer" works. It didn't read the AVI in my case initially because the file itself was still in use by VirtualDub (locked by filesystem). Sine "AVI Frame Rate Changer" did not show a warning message, I thought that the AVI file itself was somehow not accepted. But now, I changed the rate successfully to 25.000.

2. When I change the frame rate, the movie plays faster since no frames are added, doesn't it?
TIA

1. "AVI Frame Rate Changer" works. It didn't read the AVI in my case initially because the file itself was still in use by VirtualDub (locked by filesystem). Sine "AVI Frame Rate Changer" did not show a warning message, I thought that the AVI file itself was somehow not accepted. But now, I changed the rate successfully to 25.000.

2. When I change the frame rate, the movie plays faster since no frames are added, doesn't it?
TIA

1. "AVI Frame Rate Changer" works. It didn't read the AVI in my case initially because the file itself was still in use by VirtualDub (locked by filesystem). Sine "AVI Frame Rate Changer" did not show a warning message, I thought that the AVI file itself was somehow not accepted. But now, I changed the rate successfully to 25.000.

2. When I change the frame rate, the movie plays faster since no frames are added, doesn't it?
TIA

Correct, it will play 1 frame faster per second. This is negligable and you won't notice the speed up and is the same way 23.976 DVD's are converted to PAL.

ASHY

Is there no alternative way to change the framerate? I believe VirtualDub is calculating the missing frames by itself. Hence, the duration and speed of the movie doesn't change.

I tried the conversion of the first 5000 frames (there are 146000 in total), and ended up in a huge avi file. I used "Uncompressed RGB". I don't know which compressor I should use to reduce the size of this file. I don't want a lossy copmpressor since the source is already lossy (DivX) and the final SVCD mpg as well. If I select a lossy compressor for exporting from VirtualDub, I degrade the movie further (unnecessarily).

Which compressor isn't lossy (if there is any)?

TIA

I don't know what you mean by Virtualdub is compensating for the missing frames by itself. Virtualdub does not do this.
You seem to be doing things wrong.

The ONLY reason you need to load the AVI into Virtualdub is to extract the audio to a wav BEFORE changing the framerate of the AVI and then find out what the length of the movie is after changing the framerate to the one you want as this is required to adjust the audio.

You are NOT going to use Virtualdub to create another AVI. You should be using your original AVI and then changing the framerate of that with AVI framerate changer and then load the AVI into TMPG with your NEW audio and then encode.

This is what you need to do.
Load the unchanged AVI into Virtualdub and extract the audio to a wav.

Next close Virtualdub and then load your AVI into AVI framerate changer and change the framerate. Once you have changed the framerate then load the AVI into Virtualdub again and note the timescale and convert it to seconds. This will give you the new length of the movie which you can use for the audio in cool edit.
Then just follow the rest of the instructions for the conversion. This way you DO NOT need to re-compress the AVI which will preserve the quality.

ASHY

After I encode the AVI file to MPEG1 NTSC with TMPGEnc, how do I burn the new file to the cd? I tried to burn it with click-n-burn but my DVD player(apex 1200) would not recognize the disk.

Download NERO fron www.nero.com and use the VCD burning option.

ASHY

Have any of you guys ever come across an error labled "illegal floating point calculation" ??? I've got it a couple of times, and it's starting to annoy me.
Does anyone know how to get around it ?

-M

You get the floating point error when your avi file is corrupted or has corrupted sectors in it, there is a way to get rid of the error but it will make encodeing take quite a bit longer, what you do is first go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "cpu" and un-check the "SSE" box then go to "settings" to "quantize matrix" and un-check the "use floating piont DCT" box
this will stop the error from occuring but like I said the encodeing will take longer.You can also get this error if you do anything with your computer while encodeing accept encode......

Thanks ! I'll try that

Will there be any quality issues where the avi file was corrupted, such as missing frames, or sync problems between audio & video ?
As you can probably tell I'm a newbie ;)
-M

I keep reading that the floating point error is caused by corrupted AVI's, but I have found that is not always the case. I have an AVI that I can encode perfectly in version 2.54, but it consistently errors (floating point or read error) in version 2.56.

I have done everything I can think of to resolve the issues in 2.56 -- reinstall TMPGEnc, turn off 3D Now/SSE, remove all loading programs on boot, diddle with cache setting, lower my memory speed, turn off all power saving features... Nothing works and I still get one of the two errors. The AVI also encodes fine with other encoding software. Only TMPGEnc has a problem with it.

Msquared, one thing to check is where the errors appear. If it always happens at the same location, then I would think corrupted AVI... However, if the error appears to be random, then I would consider looking for a lower version of the software and giving that a try.

Hey, I am also getting floating point error, but I have none of the above set. Any thoughts?

hi - can someone tell me the preferred settings i should use for the software? i am converting from wmv file (which is at 130 kb/sec) to mpeg (NTSC option). thanks. also, how long will it take for me to convert a 1 hour 30 minute wmv file with a 866 mhz processor? thanks.

The only way to really find out what you want to know is to try it cuz every file is different so the settings can change for each file you encode but start with useing a standard template and see how it works and go from there but i warn you that "tmpgenc" doesn"t fully support wmv files so you might have some problems encodeing them to mpeg but give it a try....

Anyone have idea on how to make Mpeg file from the FCP Timeline? I have tried many times to make this file for burning to VCD. I was able to make but the video gets freezed. Please your comments are very much appreciated. I am also using Media Cleaner E5 for Compressing.
Tshechu Dorji Wong
Systimax Audio-visual
Thimphu:Bhutan
ASIA

Hi everyone,
I am getting a frequent number of reading errors when converting vob files to mpeg. This in turn stops the mpeg file at whatever size it was before the read error. It gets to be a laborious process to go back and fire up TPEGEnc, redo all the settings, find the area the encoding stopped and start again with another mpeg file; only to have it happen again 1 hr later.
With my first completed cvd it took days (literally) to keep restarting and resetting. not to mention that I had over 9 separate mgeg files of various sizes instead of the two that it should have taken.
The only settings I changed in the program were aspect ratio, motion sensor to high, volume increase, and noise reduction with high quality mode.
From a hardware standpoint, I have no problems. It also took about 36 hours to conrt from vob to mpeg. Seems really long. I would like to purchase the Plus version of this program, but untill I can solve this problem, It seems a waste of money.

Are there any settings in the program that I might experiment with to stop the errors?

Thanks,
phil

Well the first thing you should is stop converting VOBs to MPEG with TMPG, assuming this is what you are doing.
It is better and more reliable to use DVD2AVI to frame serve your VOBs to TMPG.
This may solve most of your problems and is usually the fastest way to do it and should take you a lot less than 36 hours.

ASHY

someone please help!!! after I finish running DVD2AVI my audio file is labeled as AC3 T01 3 2ch 448Kbps Delay 0ms.a3 , Why do my files audio have the word "delay" in them. It's causing my movie to play like and old kong fu flick, after I run TMPGEnc. I did two movies before this one and didn't have this problem please someone help!!!!!

It seems that you are extracting the audio in ac3 format instead of "wav" format, when you extract the audio to a compressed format you will get the amount of delay in the file name.Try extracting the audio to wav format then you shouldn"t get a sync problem and don"t watch your mpeg files in media player cuz it has a habbit of playing mpeg files out of sync, to set up dvd2avi to extract the wav file you go to audio and choose "decode to wav" and under "dolby digital decode" choose "dolby surround downmix" (this is with the 1.77.3 version) now your audio file will ba a wav file with out the sync problems....

hello everybody,

1#question

i have a question right now i have got a AMD ATHLON 1000MHZ whit about 300 ram and its very slow to make a svcd i need about 12 hours for a 90min movie thats to much time and i dont have time i wanna buy a new motherboard and a new cpu maybe you guys can tell me what i should buy because i dont know whats bether intel or amd thanks

2#question

well i have a dvb reciever and i can record the movies whit very good quality
and the output i get is a MPEG2 and 1min is about 22mb what i wanna do is i wanna convert the file to 14mb to make a 90min movie on 2cds but i dont know what the best settings are to keep the good qualli maybe somebody can help me please thanks again :)

In answer to queston 2:

I've also got a DVB card, and the mpeg2's this card produces are indeed pretty jaw dropping. I use TMPGenc to back up the mpegs to DVD. It's a shame you want to down convert to mpeg1, you're throwing away 75% of the resolution, still..

Fistly open up the mpeg2 in DVD2AVI, go with the audio defaults. Using the slider at the bottom of the preview window grab approximately the first half of the movie and save the project. You will end up with two files: one with extension .d2v and one with extension .mpa. Forget the .mpa for now.

Repeate for the second half of the movie.

Open up TMPGEnc go to the main menu, select "stream type video only" and select the first .d2v file. Next, click on "load" and in the extras folder open up the VCD template for your region (PAL or NTSC). If you want, play around with the encoding options (to be honest VCD looks crap, compared to off-air or DVD, on a conventional TV so I'd go with the defaults).

Don't be tempted to load up the audio file. TMPGEnc's got a bug which causes these mpa's to skip; you'll multiplex the sound file with the video later on.

After you've fineshed encoding you'll have an m2v file. In TEMPGEnc go to "MPEG tools" and "simple multiplex". Select "Mpeg 1 Video CD (or Mpeg 1 video CD [non-standard] if you modified any of the VCD options) and load up the video and audio files.

Multiplex and burn to CD.

Repeat for second d2v and mpa files.

Griff

thx Griff

but i dont wanna make VCDs i wanna make SVCDS and i wanna know what the best settings are to convert a mpeg2 file to a mpeg2 file hehe like i said 1min is 22mb and thats to much thats about 4 cds and i dont wanna have a movie on 4 or 3 cds i wanna have it on 2 maybe you can help me now please

or please tell me the best way to convert it to divx :)))) thx

In that case instead of loading up the VCD template, load up the SVCD template in TEMPGEnc.

Whatever quality settings you choose, you'll be hard pressed to get an entire movie on just 2 cds at SVCD quality.

If you want to go down the DivX route, dowload whatever flavour of DivX 5 you want, there are three to choose from, install the codec and use either Virtual Dub or Nandub to convert the files.

Griff

Is it possible to encode imagesequences, like 3d packeges produce?
If yes, then i was unable to find that option yet.

Thx in advance
-dan

You can encode image sequences that are in "bmp,jpg,tiff"and a couple other formats, what you do is first you have to make sure the "bmp,jpg,tiff,ect" file reader in the "vfapi plugins" priority is raised to about "1", then get all your immages in the same folder and mane them sequentially, meaning name them something like image#001.bmp then image#002.bmp and image#003.bmp and so on till you got all your images named in the order you want them encoded then you just load the first image "image#001.bmp" then all the other images will be loaded with it, then you just do your settings and encode....

I have two PC's one with a DVD installed the other with a CD Burner.
I use CladDVD on the DVD pc to rip the files and then I copy them to the pc with the burner.
Using TMPGEnc on the pc with the DVD to create an mpg file is fine , but when I copy the ripped DVD files to the burner pc and run TMPEnc the files are not recognised , in particular the video source file file.d2v, the error I get is ,
"Cannot open or not supported"..
The burner pc is XP, the dvd pc is Win 2000 ..

Any ideas on what is misisng on the burner pc?

TIA

Make sure you don"t use dvd2avi to make your d2v project files untill you have transfered the vob files to the encodeing computer, and once you have made the "d2v" files don"t move any of the vob files or d2v files or change any of the the files names, and make sure you have the "dvd2avi file reader" installed in your "vfapi plugins" in tmpgenc....and if you cant get these d2v files loaded try makeing new ones...

Thanks for the help .. re-creating the d2v file on the burner pc with dvd2avi fixed the problem..

I'm trying to convert a PAL MPEG to NTSC. I had the PAL MPEG set up as both the video source and audio source using the NTSC MPEG 1 System filter. When I play the resulting NTSC movie, I get audio for like the first third of the movie, no audio for the second third of the movie, and audio again for the last third of the movie, without any sync errors. Is there some setting that I am missing?

It"s probably because tmpgenc doesn"t like encodeing compressed audio like when you are encodeing mpa to mpa, try de-multiplexing the "pal mpeg" and use the audio from it to multiplex with the ntsc mpeg video,doing pal to ntsc conversions this way can cause chopy playback on your dvd player.....

I tried de-multiplexing the pal mpeg, and I only got 42:05 minutes of audio, not the whole 2 hours and change. Is there a way to fix this, or is there some problem?

>It"s probably because tmpgenc doesn"t like encodeing compressed audio like when you are encodeing mpa to mpa, try de-multiplexing the "pal mpeg" and use the audio from it to multiplex with the ntsc mpeg video,doing pal to ntsc conversions this way can cause chopy playback on your dvd player.....

Try useing a different de-muxer cuz the mpeg tools have quite a few bugs in them, there is a free one called "xmuxer" you can download it here http://moonlight.co.il/products/Xmux.shtml

I had this same problem not so long ago. It is probaly a fault with the audio in your MPEG. Save your self some messing about and don't bother using any other demuxer/muxer to demux the sudio and then remux it as you will most likely still get some sort of error with the file.

The best way I found when this happens is to use MPEG2VCR to demux the file or any other which will work except TMPG then create a wav from this file using Dbpoweramp or something and then use this as your audio source when you re-encode or if you have already encoded the movie you can just encode the audio only and then mux the result with your movie.

ASHY

Hello,
I've downloaded PowerVCR 2 to use with my pinnacle PCTV Pro, and everytime I capture a mpeg, parts of it freezes my system. When I try to repair it with TMPGEnc, it says that 3 s packets buffer underun error MPEG may not play back properly. I was wondering if anyone had experience with power vcr could help, or have any suggestions about how to repair these mpgs.
Thanks,
Zach

What you should maybe do if you are haveing problems captureing to mpeg try captureing to an avi format it isn"t as computer intencive and captureing to mpeg, then encode the avi file with tmpgenc this would be better to because it is easier to edit avi files ,so you could edit your avi format captures and then encode them to mpeg with tmpgenc you would also have much better controll over the encodeing process with better quality.....