Ok heres the deal, after 3 streneous formats, still NO luck.

I take any DVD, rip it, DVD2AVI, then encode useing TMPGEnc, and before me I have a perfect and working MPEG file of the movie I ripped, good right?! WRONG! I will attempt to cut this file using TMPG's wonderful cutter, what happens? it just stops cutting somewhere in, for example, i will ask it to cut start to finish, and it will stop cutting anywhere from 1.3 second to 3000 seconds to 5600 seconds, (iow: Random!)... Demultiplex and use BBMPEG you say? CANT DO IT! It just stops demultiplexiing where it stops in the cutting! So im left with NO cutting tool to use! I dont know of a single easy MPEG-2 cutting tool thats free for me to use, TMPG is not working! and heres the most fusterating part! I have ripped many a movie in the past, why now? Why ever? HELP ME WORLD HELP ME KIND PEOPLE! THIS IS MADDENING!

What I do that won"t help this time but I make my d2v files in parts so I don"t have to edit the mpeg, or you can use the source range and encode in parts, but if you go to kazaa there are a bunch of editing programs there for download, I use the mpeg editor in "power vcr" or m2-edit pro.....

Is anybody having problems getting their serial number to work in the new version.
It says on the site to just run it. This has worked for the other versions, but not this one. It won't even accept the serial as valid when I put it in manually.
It also says the trial is up too and i've only just downloaded the bloody thing. What gives?

ASHY

That is exactly the problem I am haveing, it says that the trial is over right after I downloaded it, and it will not accept the registration number,I posted this problem before but I didn"t get any answers that were helpfull(just lip)..If you find a solution please post it, and if I figure it out I will post it ....Thanx

I do not really understand your problem well..., but so far as I know :

"TMPGEnc" is free, but it has only 30day-limited MPEG-2 encoding feature, and it is not possible to buy or register this version.

"TMPGEnc Plus" is free to try for 14days. People can buy and register this version.
I have purchased TMPGEnc Plus when it was 2.53, and now I am using 2.55 without problem.

That is what we were talking about the "Plus" version, but I finally got it working but don"t know why, it just did after several attempts but I was copy and pasting it in and it wouldn"t accept it but I just typed it in and it worked..

The only thing I know is that if you copy & past the serial number, sometime there is a space (which we do not realize) right after the last digits, then
the serial number is not accepted. This is what I found from my experence, although I am not sure if this helps or not.

Tried typing the serial in, but to no avail. I don't know what's goin' on. Maybe I've got a dodgy serial, but I can't understand why it works for the other versions.

ASHY

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....