Just loaded up version 2.55 and for _some_ reason, it tried to hit the internet. Zonealarm firewall caught it trying to go out, and it also wanted permission to act as a server. What possible reason could this program have for acting as a server to the internet? Especially with no warning or dialog box asking for permission other than my firewall catching it. Hmmmmmmmm......

this is scary......i would love to hear about this as well.....

Can someone tell me how to burn a MPEG file to a DVD. I have most of the available software.

It all depends on the authorizing software you use, some are totally simple and some are totally confuseing,Nero seems to be the easiest to use for dvd authoring,download it and give it a try....

>It all depends on the authorizing software you use, some are totally simple and some are totally confuseing,Nero seems to be the easiest to use for dvd authoring,download it and give it a try....
Thanks for answer. But Nero wants VOB etc files. How do I get these from the Mpeg file. Sorry but I am just starting at this.

i have the newest version of tmpgenc,i converted divx->mpg,and the mpg output has no sound in it....i noticed everytime i was converting,i got an error message right when the video was over(at the credits),and i guess from there,it didn't rip the audio ?

plus....how would i make a .wav extracted from the .avi with virtualdub work with multiplexing in tmpgenc ?
i converted wav->mp3,and when trying to multiplex,it said illegal MPEG audiostream ???

please let me know!

You have to encode the extracted audio to mp2 not mp3 then multiplex it with your video, you can use tmpgenc to encode the audio or an audio encoder to encode it but most don"t encode to mp2 but "db poweramp" does and it is free...

>i have the newest version of tmpgenc,i converted divx->mpg,and the mpg output has no sound in it....i noticed everytime i was converting,i got an error message right when the video was over(at the credits),and i guess from there,it didn't rip the audio ?
>
>plus....how would i make a .wav extracted from the .avi with virtualdub work with multiplexing in tmpgenc ?
>i converted wav->mp3,and when trying to multiplex,it said illegal MPEG audiostream ???
>
>please let me know!

Take a look at http://www.vcdhelp.com/divxtovcd.htm
It's a complete guide that will take you through every step of the proces.
Good luck!

FC

I using cladDVD xp1.3 to rip the dvd and uded TMPG Enc 2.55 after completing the file there is no audio in mpg file. I using .wav format file which is produced by the claddvd xp I did earlier dvd they went fine. Please tell me if any particular problem with the TMPFEnc2.55

Thanks

Harpreet

an avi file plays fine in media player but when i convert with tmpgenc the video frames are inverted. Sound is ok though. i've been using this prog for a long time and never seen this before. is it a setting i can change?

never mind. i found the setting. had to change priorities of AVI2 to highest.

I have a quick question.

I used the TMPGEnc 2.02.31.119 and I had very good compression when I converted AVI to SVCD... When the AVI file was 600MB the SVCD had about 700MB and I could burn it on 1 CD with good quality

Now I downloaded the new TMPEnc 2.55.38.142 and when I convert the same movie with the same setting like in the old version the movie is HUGE... about 4 times as big.

My question is now: How can I get the same compression with the new version?

Thanks
Plus4er

just wanted a good straight response..... i have the dma modes set. etc. i get good speed. 6.0x average..... just wanted to know what the ASPI adapter is/does/and if it is even worth it.... P4 2.0GHz wIn2000Server .

I"m pretty sure that you have to have an aspi layer installed on your system for you even to rip a dvd, but the best aspi layer I have tried is "Force ASPI" on my 800mhz system it made my ripping speed go fron 4 times to 11 times with a 8 times average..as for the exact workings of how the aspi layer works I don"t really know but It sure helped on my system...

Installing a good ASPI layer will definitely help where ripping is concerned.
I agree with minion, the best ASPI layer I have found is Adaptec's.
Ensure you install version 4.60 and not 4.70 as version 4.70 does not work correctly with some ripping programs such as Smartripper.

ASHY

ASHY . i think you meant install 1.6 not 4.6 instead of 1.7 not 4.7 .
but in anycase... i cant find ANYWHERE 1.6 . all i find is 1.7. . the regular places dooom vcd blahblahblah all have 1.7 . . which you said not to install... any thoughts places ideas?>

No I mean 4.60
1.7 is the version number of force aspi not the version number of the aspi layer.

Adaptecs aspi layer is version 4.60 or the new one which doesn't work very well is 4.70.
Download force aspi 1.7 as this will install adaptecs version 4.60 aspi layer.

ASHY

i wuv u :)

what is the greatest quality setting for vcd?

motion estimate search
or
highest quality

thanks for any info

The "highest quality" is the highest quality and "motion estimate search" is the lowest quality, but there isn"t that much differance between normal and highest quality considering the extra ammount of time it takes...

i see a huge differance between normal anmd highest quality
in normal mode i see groups of blocks that move
you can really see it in the background
in highest quality mode i can barily see any artifacts

i think the only choice is highest quality
but i like motion estimate search also
good quality

Minion, thanks for your response

if you werent here
who would answer?

I think 'high quality' does have a slight advantage over 'normal', but I know from my own tests and experience that the 'highest quality' setting makes no difference to the outcome quality at all, the only thing it does do is drastically increase the encode time. For the time it takes to do an encode with the 'highest' quality setting, you could have done a 2 pass encode with the 'normal' setting.

ASHY

I'm a new user of TMPGEnc, and I am having a strange problem. (I'm using 2.55, by the way.) Whenever I attempt to use TMPGEnc on certain sorts of files, and all of these are MPEG-1 files, I get no sound output, if I try to output MPEG-1 with constant bit rate.

Here's a test case. Take some 320x240 MPEG or other. Load it into MPEG Tools (Merge and Cut). Cut a bit, and save it, using "Video CD". Now load it on the main screen of TMEG and convert to 352x240. I get no sound. It doesn't seem to matter much what files I use: captured video, stuff off the web, whatever.

I think the MPEG Tools are doing something to the sound somehow: Not something that makes it impossible to play the file, but something that confuses TMPGEnc later.

I'm running Windows XP, with an ATI Radeon 7500 All-in-Wonder.

Thanks for any help!

Richard

The audio from your mpeg1 file has to be in "wav" format, mpeg audio is hard for "tmpgenc" to decode then encode cuz it is a highly compressed format, so what you have to do is "de-multiplex" your mpeg file and encode the mp2 audio to wav then use that as your audio source....

Can anyone tell me what it means when you get the error message Cannot load P3.dll or Cannot load P4.dll? How do you fix this> Thanks in advance

The "p3p package.dll" optimizes tmpgenc for pentium 3 cpu"s, to get rid of the error go into your "tmpgenc" folder and copy and paste the "p3p package.dll" into your "system and system32" folders....then it will work....

i have a movie that i have completely in mpg format, and everything is going great. however, now i have been able to split the file, but it will never finish splitting the second half. so, i have cd1, but cd2 locks up after it finishes the second part after clicking on run to split the second half. any suggestions?

The only suggesting that actually works when this type of error happens in the mpeg tools is to use something different, get a different mpeg editor cuz the mpeg tools are constantly haveing problems, the only free one I can think of actually isnt a mpeg editor but you can use it that way,"bbmpeg" has a multiplexor that will split the output file at what ever size you want so first you would de-multiplex your mpeg then load each file into the multiplexor in bbmpeg and make the spliting size say 800mb then it will multiplex your file and out put it in 800mb parts....seems like a hassle to do it this way but it is better than nothing....

thanks for the advice! i just starting to learn how to do all this, and its becoming more of a pain than what ive heard. oh well, thanks for your help :-)

Yep, I cant cut past like 3810 seconds when i rip, my mpegs are GREAT! but i cant cut cuz it its always messing up! i reformatted put nothing ON! NO DRIVERS and it still messes up, wow ok i will try a different cutter i guess.

Encodeing movies can be a bit frustrateing cuz rarely is there a time when every thing goes right but I guess that is the challange and what makes it rewarding, ....

Hello, is there a way to delay the audio about 2 seconds. I need to make the audio and video sync and they are 2 seconds apart. I want to be able to start the video encoding and then have the audio start encoding about 2 seconds after. Any Suggestions? Thank you.

Is it your mpeg file that is out of sync or your avi file? either way just encode like normal then de-multiplex you mpeg file and get "bbmpeg" or "mpeg2vcr" and they have multiplexors that let you offset the audio or video when multiplexing to correct sync problems...

Is there a way to edit mp3 audio files(like virtual dub with avi files)?

In a way but not with "tmpgenc" I hope you aren"t useing mp3 files for audio in your vcd"s or svcd"s cuz they will not play on most dvd player cuz they are not part of the vcd or svcd standard but if you just want to know for other reasons you can use "cool edit" or "sound forge" or "goldwave" but I think you will have to decode your mp3"s into wav files then edit them then output them as mp3"s or output them as wav then encode back to mp3, It is difficult to edit compressed files be it mp3 or mpeg files unless they are uncompressed that is why you might have to convert your mp3 to wav to edit them then encode them back to mp3..you can find a few good audio editors on kaaza for download...

Ok I'm not using the mp3's on vcd's. I just wanted to know. Thankyou

to create a 2 second gap goto settings/advanced
doubleclick source range
audiogap correct

enter + or _

if you tinker with it you will sync your audio