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I am trying to encode a avi to svcd. The source is bright and I would like to sharpen or deepen the color as well. I tried playing with both color corrections in tmpgenc, it seemed to look fine on the preview but after encoding a bit I checked and there was too much purple. Should i be using tmpgenc to do this or maybe virtual dub...but I am new to the virtual dub program.
Another question..I encoded a movie that was 56 min and was able to use CQ max 3100 and min 1800, when I encoded the other half which was 60 min I had to use max 2000 and min 1400 to make it fit...I am wondering why I had to go down so much for the extra 4 min. I would like to know what a good bitrate program to use is ...I have downloaded some but I find they are not accurate at all...any suggestions?
I am using 80 min 700 mb CD-R.
"tmpgenc" isn"t the program to use to enhance your images,once you get a good source file then "tmpgenc" will do a good job encodeing it to look like the avi you put in but it isn"t for makeing them look better than the source..useing "cq" and "vbr" It is mostly the minimum bitrate that needs to be adjusted most of the movie will be encoded at a bitrate closer to the minimum bitrate, the max bitrate is saved for the complex scenes and ones with high motion,I usualy put the minimum bitrate a couple hundred kbs lower than the average i want, and put the max bitrate really high, so for the complex scenes there is enough bitrate there to do make the movement look smooth.....
You seem to have a lot of problems with this purple buisness Jules.
What are these movies? Angelpotion?
Anyway I don't see what's wrong in using TMPG's filters as most of them are pretty good.
What you need to do Jules is enable the 'Overlay' in TMPG as most players use your graphics card overlay to render the image.
To do this double click the 'custom colour correction' under the advanced tab and then tick the box which says 'overlay'
This will show you the image as it would appear when played in your player.
Now click the 'Add' button and this will add the 'RGB Brightness' control. We don't want this so click the box labeled 'Type' and choose 'Basic setting' from the drop down menu.
Now use these controls to change your movie (ensure the overlay remains checked while doing this).
To correct the purple problem use the RED and BLUE controls to return the picture to a normal colour.
When you encode the result should be the same on your player as you set it in TMPG.
Regarding your question about bitrate calculators.
I have used many bitrate calculators and some of them are either clunky and cumbersome to use or are downright inaccurate.
I have however found one which is easy to use and is absolutely spot on with it's calculations.
I have done quite a few tests with this software and it has always correctly calculated the final size of the movie and is the most accurate one I have found.
There are quite a few reasons that this can happen,but they mostly come down to the audio in your avi file isn"t compatable with "tmpgenc",The audio could be "vbr" which tmpgenc doesn"t handle ,or a unsupported format like "ac3".You can extract the audio from your avi file to wav with "virtua dub" and encode that to mp2 then multiplex it with the video from your mpeg file after de-multiplexing it..but if the audio is "ac3" you need to convert the audio with an "ac3 decoder".....
all I do is this.... open virtual dub and load the movie file....go to the audio tab and choose compression...choose no compression...PCM....then in the conversion tab I do not convert it...leave it alone ...then set it to full processing mode...then go to file and choose save wav...also go to file...file information...this will give you the framerate and the resolution....this is good to know which template to load...after your done saving the wav file...in tmpgenc load up the template that corresponds to the framerate found in virtualdub...then for the video and audio...use the avi file for the video source and use the newly created wav file as the audio source....there a re a few benifits by doing this...#1 the audio and video will be in sync(as long as the encode framerate chosen was the same as the source framerate)...#2 Will stop alot of unecessary errors that can come up from using avi for video and audio file...#3the file should encode a few hours faster... If I use the avi for video and audio it takes about 4 hours....if I extract and save the wav and use that for the audio source it drops down to about 1 1/2 hours... Happy encoding
It isn't necessary to do the selecting no compression, full processing blah...blah...blah..bit as it doesn't have any affect on the outcome anyway when you choose the 'save wav' option.
Just simply choose 'save wav' and the wav will be extracted as a wav no matter what the settings are.
actually ASHY this is not true.... If you leave it on direct stream processing it will save a wav...but in avi format leaving you with a file about 100-300meg...I have had terrible sync problems with these audio files... If you choose a mpeg or layer compression the wav will be saved with compression...which could possibly cause a loss in quality...the resulting wav files that have the best sound quality and always create perfectly synced movies are around 800-1000meg.... I find this is the only way to get it to work... on a side note...I sometimes have problems saving the wav file with virtual dub...the whole program crashes.... I found that magix music video maker generation 6 works awesome for saving the wav files... it is alot slower than virtual dub...due to loading the movie...but it resamples the file for excellent sound reproduction and can also be increased or decreased in volume for those that like to mess with this...along with a multitude of filters...but even a direct save will create a very good sound...
I apologise you are absolutely right!
For some reason I was sure that it would only save as a wav and not with compression.
Has it always been like this with Virtualdub because I could have sworn blind that I had tried it once and it didn't work (but that was a long time ago when I was a complete amatuer)
Well you learn something new everday.
Thanks 4 the info.
Heres a tip for you.
TMPG is quite capable of extracting the audio from an AVI or MPEG file.
Simply load the file and click File>Output to file and choose wave file. You can also add compression if you wish.
well ASHY I am not exactly sure....as long as I have been using virtual dub I have noticed this issue... I found the solution to my problem at www.vcdhelp.com that site is really nice....it has many tutorials...the problem is is that not one tutorial is 100% accurate, nor does each one explain all of the options.... I have found the best possible settings from reading totorial after tutorial and coming up with my own way of diong things... I reccomend reading every tutorial on that site and all the different ways of doing things... if your a halfway intelligent person...you will come to the same conclusion as I did...
Trying to convert AVI to Mpeg for a videao CD. Each try the picture freezes at the same frame and will go no further. I even tried waiting a while but it did not resume. Any suggestions?
Does it happen with all files or just this one file?It"s probably just this file so the problem has to do with the file as opposed to tmpgenc,you should try to run it through "virtua dub" and scan for errors,and see if there are corrupted frames, but this won"t solve your problem,one thing you can try is to encode up to were it stops and then start encodeing agein at the frame or a few frames after after the error occors(virtua dub should tell you were the bad frames are but if not just encode after the error)and then you can join the parts together with the "merge & cut" feature.....
i put a mpeg-1 movie on a cd and played it on my dvd player and when i watch it there is a delay with the sound and picture when the person is talking the sound comes after there lips move.
I used DVDx 1.8a and TMPGenc to real time encode DVD to MPG. It was working fine for a while. Today I upgrade TMPGenc from 253 to 254, run TMPGencVFP_install.bat. Then after i start DVDx encode, and run TMPGenc, it give me error messages when I try to select the avs source file:
IPO source: There's nothing to serve, Are audio/video server taken?
I even restart the machine and reinstall TMPGenc, still doesn't work.
what exactly does it mean? How do I fix it?
thanks.
i just converted an avi file to mpeg-1 when i played it i got sound but the picture did not move it stayed at the same picture at the start of the movie but the sound was still going but the pic was not moving.
I just started using Tmpegnc to convert my avi file, and when im trying to encode I get this error message "Can't load "P3Package.dll" Can someone tell me what it means and how to fix it.
downloaded some avi files with (smr) in their name, they run in Real and WinMP but not really, the progress bar progresses as though it were playing but i get no picture or sound. I did some digging and found out about smr code patch which i tried, nothing. tired changing the .avi to .smr still plays but no Pic or sound....any ideas as to how to get these to work? is there a setting I'm missing?
ack, but 6.4 wont install on 2000....tryed "MultiAVI Player.exe" a 6.4 emulator or shell (not shure how it works) but no happy...not broken, smr fix can't find 'index' to start....so maybey it is messed up?
Did the other file work?
I maybe getting confused here with WinXP, but I could have sworn that media player 6.4 was in the same directory as media player 7.
Anyway if it isn't try another player such as WinDVD or BS player as these seem to work.
OK just checked and media player comes as standard on windows 2000.
You should find it in Program files in the Media player folder and is called mplayer2.exe
After I've created my CQ VBR SVCD, what is the best way to decide where to cut it to fit it on my CDs? At the moment, I'm just using a trial-and-error method with the TMPGEnc Cut tool. I try cutting it at a point, see what size the resulting size is, and cut again making ajustments accordingly. Surely there is a better way! :)
Well I would have thought it was obvious.
Find out the total length of the file in minutes then half the time and using TMPG cut at that point.
It won't be bob on accurate but the split files should roughly be the same size give or take 15mb even though they are VBR.
Hmm.. it was pretty obvious. I hadn't considered just dividing it in half, thirds, etc. I was thinking fill the first disc, fill the second disc, etc and then put what's left on the last disc.
Please help, i have a DivX5.0 rip with ac3 audio, have followed the instructions on vcdhelp.com, but to no avail. Using Lame as external audio, but still no good. Have nemo codec installed. Please help.
This is the first time I've entered this board. For now I'm a newbie user who makes VCD's en SCVD's with TMPGEnc. Now I've got a 'problem'.
When I make a VCD (PAL) I can play it in my stand alone DVD player. I even can use fast forward (2x, 4x speed etc). But when I make the same movie on SVCD, then I can not use fast forward, instead of playing it fast forward, the movie is going backwards en then stops with the first frame.
I use the standard options to make a SVCD (PAL), should I make some changes to anything?
I had the same problem. This has something with Nero. Or, if you have the same DVD player as I do (Apex 5131), it must be a combination of the two. Whenever I burn the SVCD with Nero, FF goes backwards and Rew just restarts play from the beginning.
VCDEasy creates them ok, though.
If anybody knows of something I'm doing wrong to cause this, please feel free to point out my error. :)