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How come sometimes when i convert files to vcd format, there is no audio in the rendered file. There is audio in the original files, but on the new VCD mpg. there is no audio? How do i fix this.
The audio in your "avi" file probably is not supported in "tmpgenc" use "virtualdub" to extract the audio to "wav" and use that as your audio source for encodeing.....
Want to get the absolute highest quality mpg1 file for VCD and/or PC playback. Time and size are not important. Saw some instruction on an earlier post for best quality and smallest file:
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1. reduce the audio bitrate.
2. do a 2 pass encode.
3. use the high quality setting (don't bother with highest, doesn't make a difference)
4. use VBR
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Just went through the menus and don't see an option for "2 pass encode" or VBR. (using version 2.54a and loaded the template "Video-CD NTSC (MPEG-1 352x240 29.97fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)" Most of the options are "grayed out" in Settings>Advanced and can't be changed.
Should I not Load a template? How do I get the best quality possible?
in the templet folder go to extra then unlock the they wont be shaded and incrise the bit rate bor beter quality go here for beter instructions but remember you cant get beter quality then the original hope that helps
in the templet folder go to extra then unlock the they wont be shaded and incrise the bit rate bor beter quality go here for beter instructions but remember you cant get beter quality then the original hope that helps sory almost forgot the link http://www.vcdhelp.com/tmpgenc.htm
Actually what you are talking about doing to increase quality is no longer a VCD, but rather a XVCD. A VCD must be 1150 CBR with 224 audio bitrate, changing these makes the cd a XVCD.
Actually what you are talking about doing to increase quality is no longer a VCD, but rather a XVCD. A VCD must be 1150 CBR with 224 audio bitrate, changing these makes the cd a XVCD.
What type of file is the source is it MPEG?
This usually happens when you load an MPEG file and try to re-encode it.
Ensure the output isn't named the same as the input.
I just made a VCD and it is over 1gig in size. I had to break it into 2 files to fit on the cds. What settings can I change to try to get it under 800 megs so that it will fit on 1 cd? The original DVD was over 4 gigs.
If you are useing the standard vcd template or any vcd standard template for that matter you are going to have to put a Full movie on 2 disks, unless you want to lower the bitrate but that lowers quality and the vcd templates have low enough quality as it is..but if you want to go against my advice and lower it any way so you could get 90 minutes on 1 cd, lower the bitrate to 1000kbs but any lower would look like total crap,but i wouldn"t want to lower the audio any lower that 128kbs, to change the bitrate you have to load the "unlock.mfc" template..but my advice to you is to put your vcd on 2 cd"s and raise the bitrate to 1650kbs then you will get 60minutes on one cd with much better quality than the standard template..
The ammount of time you can get on an 74 or 80 min CD is dependant on you bitrate. With a standard VCD its roughly the playing time of the CD.
But its better to cut by filesize since all players I know of can play VCDs with raised bitrates and with VBR. I raise the average bitrate to at least 1350 or even higher when the lenght of the movie still allows me to fit it on 2 CD-Rs.
Eg. An 80 mins CD-R can hold 800MB of mpeg data in (S)VCD format.
Generaly I cut my movies on an Scene change or if thats not possible without wasting to much space to still fit it on 2 CD-Rs I let the parts overlap by at least 2 seconds.
M.Bastian's solution is a good idea. but if your a lazy son of a...like me just put the encoded vod files 1, 2, 3, on one disc and the rest on another.
With the PLUS version you can set bitrate settings higher than 8 Megabits. As a lot of my work is only 10 to 30 minutes duration the bit budget is not critical. Is there any advantage to encoding at higher bitrates (assume better quality) and what is the limit of streams that most settop DVD players can decode?
Also is there anyway to stop TMPGenc multiplexing the output streams? I see if you unlock the templates you can output separate audio and video streams. I suppose you could batch encode to produce the separate streams? I can't see any logical reason but I was concerned that encoding separately the two streams might get out of sync?
Actually the specs say DVD players are supposed to be able to sustain a bitrate of 9.8mb and can handle higer bitrates, but only for short periods of time.
I doubt you would ever even need to go above 9.8mb anyway as any higher would just give diminishing returns and you wouldn't see an improvment in quality.
As far as your concerns about sync go. I use a total of 3 programs to encode and combine the audio with the video as I don't use TMPG to encode the audio, just the video and I never have sync probs.
Thanks for the info. Makes you wonder why many of the hardware encoders out there offer compression up to 15 Mb/s? Must be for archival purposes rather than settop playback...
Hello. When i open the TMPGENC program, I try to convert an AVI file to a MPEG. However i always get an error saying that the type is unsupported. How do I make it be supported?
go to options environmental settings click the Vfapi plugin tab
change the directshow priority to 2 and the rest to 0 then load your movie
chang the priority by highlighting the text and right clicking
1. Load up your AVI into Virtualdub then click File>Save WAV.. and save the audio as a wav file somewhere.
2. Next click Video>framerate and change the framerate to 23.976. Now click Edit>end and note what the value is in the timescale box exactly. Convert this value into seconds, i.e. 1:20:28.842 = 4828.842 secs. WRITE THIS DOWN.
Close Virtual dub.
In the program click file>open and open the wav you created earlier.
Wait for it to finish then click 'Edit' and untick 'enable undo' then click 'select entire wave' next click 'Transform' and choose 'Time/pitch' from the drop down menu then click 'stretch'
In this box tick the following options:
Low precision
Time stretch (preserves pitch)
In the box that says 'Length' type in the exact figure you got in secs from Virtualdub for e.g. 4828.842 then click ok.
Wait for the program to do it's stuff then when its finished click 'file' then 'save as' and name and save your file as a wav.
4. Run Avi framerate changer an change the frame rate of your AVI to 23.976 fps
Now you should have a wav and an AVI exactly the same lengths.
5. Load your AVI and your wav into TMPG, choose MPEG2 and add 3:2 pulldown.
Now encode
I have been trying to convert divx/avi to VCDs, I tried it with TMPGEnc and Nero, with the TMPGEnc conversion I could see the mpeg file but when I open it there is good sound but no picture, and on the Nero VCD the same (except I couldn't find the mpeg file) I haven't "installed" TMPGEnc I just run the .exe is this correct? I have also run the TMPGEncVFP_Install.bat in the same directory and it seemed to register. I cannot see any ppictures on the prviews either and so cannot fix the frame easily. I have tried about seven different .avi files but to no avail.
There could be a few reasons for this,first make sure you have the correct codecs to decode your divx file,and make sure that your "direct show" plugin has high enough priority..What do you mean when you say you couldn"t find your mpeg file on the nero vcd?
When you create a VCD the video information is not stored with the MPEG extension. It's stored in a file structure that your VCD/DVD player knows how to access (in much the same way as DVD MPEG2 streams are stored in .vob files). From memory they are stored in .dat files?
Your "avi" file has corrupted sectors in it and that is why you are getting the error, to fix it first go to "options" to "enviromental settings" then to the "cpu" tab and un-check the "SSE" box, then go to your regular "settings" then to "quantize matrix" and un-check the "use floating point" box, this should get you through the encodeing without any errors....
I started getting this same error message after I went to version 2.54a. Unfortunately, I deleted my previous version 2.52 and so I can't re-test it on it. I've already disabled SSE and unchecked use floating point DCT.
Are the older versions like 2.52 or 2.53 available elsewhere for download?
Thanks for the links. Well, I did some further testing and it now seems to point to my overclocked processor. I ratcheted it back down to its normal rated speed and it works fine...even with "Use floating point.." checked and SSE enabled. I'm going to do some more testing.
Thanks for the links. Well, I did some further testing and it now seems to point to my overclocked processor. I ratcheted it back down to its normal rated speed and it works fine...even with "Use floating point.." checked and SSE enabled. I'm going to do some more testing.
What do you mean it doesn't show up?
Double click TMPGEncVFP_Install.bat. This will install the plugin.
To check click 'Option' in TMPG and you should see 'register TMPGenc.vfp to VFAPI is checked' in the menu.
Thats it.
I still don't know why you are assuming it isn't working, what are you trying to do?
I think you misunderstand.
What you are trying to do has nothing to do with the VFAPI plugin.
The VFAPI plugin is for opening TMPG project files not d2v files.
Have a look at your NEW post on this subject I have posted a possible solution.
One thing I would like to say first though.
Please refrain from making mutiple posts on the same subject.
Some of us have been using this board a for quite a while and read almost all of the posts and check back frequently.
The reason I am telling you this is that you will end up being ignored by the people that can really help you if you continue to double post just to try and get attention to your problem.
Created an mgeg 1 video (not latest version of TMPGEnc). It's 46:47 in length.
If I play it from the hard drive, the time shown in Windows media player (7.1)is 46:47. If I copy the file to a CD and play it from the CD, the time shown (upper right corner of media play) is 2:40. After the progress slider gets to the far right (at 2:40 into the program) the program keeps playing -- so it is all there -- just the time displayed is wrong when run from the CD. Tried copying to CD using both Nero and Roxia software.
I figured something wasn't getting copied correctly, but, now for the fun part: copy the file from the CD back to the hard drive, and run it from the hard drive -- yep, shows 46:47 for the total time. Sizes, dates, etc. show the same on both the CD and hard drive.
Another interesting twist: the "wrong" time shown on my computer at home is 2:40. When I run it from CD here at work, the time shown is 21:58. (but then shows the correct 46:47 if I copy it to the hard drive and run it from there).