I just purchased TMPGEncPlus and installed it. I tried to process a short sample of a movie to make sure everything worked fine, which it did. (About thirty seconds.) But, when I tried to process the entire film, I now get no sound nor picture. I had this same trouble with the demo version and I was sent the m2v_vfp-0.4.6 codec which I ran (with no knowledge of its settings) and still reveived the 'connot load this file' message in the vfapi tab of the environmental settings option. I would appreciate any help on this matter, because I know TMPGEnc works and it works very well! I just need some assistance it reaching that point once again. Thank You very much for your time and consideration!

have u got the register vfapi plugin option checked?

There's not much more i can say here... one more thing if you ahve the virtualdub aviserver installed it will disable vfapi and making it not work... so just unregister the virtualdub frameserver and see if the problem is solved.

O ther frameserving programs might also be making some sork of incompatibility with vfapi... they all work "direct show filter" like... so they might mess up eachother ;)

Hope this helps.

Matta ne.

Gant

I converted a svcd to avi - vid only and changed the bitrate from 25 to 23.97. Now I have a seperate audio and vid file and I'm using tmpgenc to encode them to a vcd. The sound matches perfectly w/ the vid, but when I set the resolution to 352x240 the quality goes down alot...but when I do fullscreen the vid takes up the whole screen(how i want it). So when I increase the resolution to like 576x480 the quality is good again but when I view it in fullscreen the vid is not the full screen. Still when I do that the quality is not the same as the original svcd, I but I guess thats b/c svcd is better quality. Any help would be appreciated.
thx

You mean you converted the frame rate?any way under the video arange method choose center screen custom size and put in the original resolution of your movie before you encoded it and you should have the original looking frame size....

I put the original framerate in, but the vcd file that I get has lost all of the quality...that is the video looks very bad, the reason I put in a higher resolution was so I could keep the quality of the video

First: Why svcd -> avi -> vcd and not SVCD -> vcd?

Second... if you want standar vcd... then u must use 320*240 for Pal and 352*288 for NTSC... if you wnat to keep the original quality just leave it in SVCD, while svcd is 480*480 for NTSC and 480*576 for Pal yes... 480*576 and not the other way arround...

3rd: why 25 to 23.976?

And u can actually keep a very close quality to the original svcd... just use mustypass in CCE to do the VCD... yes there is a version out ther that suports multipass in mpeg 1.

More than this i cant say... one more thing... which player did u use to play the vcd? use only a (s)vcd/dvd compatible player to play the created streams... if u sdont do that the resolution will be all wrong.. like 480*480 should actually be displayed in a 4*3 format... but in players like Windows Media Player 6.4 it will read the header and display 1*1 that is 480*480... and it will look bad... except in full screat that with the mpeg2 codec installed it will show OK.

Hope this helps... if not, just replay with the answer to my questions and i'll try harder.

Matta ne.

Gant

Trying to convert AVI (Divx) to MPEG for VCD. How do I do it? I am new so I would appreciate it if you tell me step by step. Also, is there a good site where I can learn how to do these things by reading? Thanks.

There are many tutorials at http://www.vcdhelp.com there are many ways to do it and there is a good place to read and learn.....

other than downloading divx 3.11 and degrading windows media etc, is there a way to convert the file to mpeg using TMPGenc? By simply changing numbers....

Well that is what "tmpgenc" is for ,but what do you mean encodeing to mpeg by simply changeing numbers,....You can"t tell someone how to make a mpeg from scratch in a forum like this, there are so many different veriables that dictate how to do the settings for example:your file format, codec ,frame size , frame rate, audio format of your file.Thes are just a few of the things you have to know before you can think about makeing a mpeg..So go read some of the tutorials at the site in the above post and learn how to do it,and play around with the program you will probably figure it out yourself.....

Here's a thought: download the XVCD sample at the above site (vcdhelp) and first convert THAT to VCD standard.
THat will get you started.

THen when you convert your AVI's to mpeg-vcd standard, and you have a problem, you will be able to understand a little better what is going on.

THe most common questions here seem to be when the sound or video vanishes on a conversion, from AVI's. So load your AVI by browsing from the front of TMPGEnc and choose to load the VCD standard template, and press start and let it run for 10 minutes and stop it. Close the program and watch your new mpeg and see if you like it.

PS Nothing is really simple when you are learning these media files. Read the help lesson on converting Dazzle to VCD with TMPGEnc at vcdhelp, that's a good one, and you can learn from it.
k

The new version does not seem to report a poor audio input file? Is this a bug or is it a bad setting on my behalf

I had encoded and burned a movie file only to find no audio? Then I opened it in an older version 2.02.31.119 this version gives the error "an error occurred when audio was decoded" whereas the latest version reports nothing and merely creates a file with no audio

tmpgenc isn"t even supposed to load incompatable audio files but it still does sometimes especialy if the audio and video are in the same file...I guess you just got to be carefull what kind of audio you use in your avi files....

Please can some1 help.
I can convert an AVI to mpg ok, basically by selecting Load,then one of the options.Firstly i uncompress the avi file, then select a standard Videocd(pal) setting.When the film finishes and i play it through 1)hardware mpeg card 2)Winmedia player or 3) a software dvd player. The quality and sound are fine. But the stream motion does not run right, it freezes for a ms ever 1 or 2 seconds causing a jump in the picture as the film is running.
Has any1 else had these problems and what setting should i be changing to remove this fault.

Thanks in Advance.

You get this problem sometimes when you encode your avi to mpeg to a different frame rate from each other,I am actually experienceing the same thing right now trying to encode a 15fps avi to a 29.97fps mpeg,and it just stops and starts every half second,so check what the frame rate of your avi file because the ntsc-vcd templates encode at 29.97fps and could make yor avi jump if it isn"t 29.97fps too....

I'm trying to take a mpeg that isn't video Cd compliant and make it Video CD compliant in doing so I got an eror right when I tried to start it saying "Can't load "P3Package.dll"" Any help would be apreciated.
Thank you,
WENUS

To get rid of the "p3p package "error ,go into your "tmpgenc" folder and there should be a file called "p3p package.dll" copy and paste that file into your "system" and "system32" folder this should get it to work....

Please help me in finding the System or system32 folder.

thanks
Rick Miller

Well, my problem is that after codify a film I can see the images (video) but i can't listen the sound (audio)
I don't know why? could you help me,please?

Thanks for your attention!

Albert

There are a few things that it could be,I"t could be that the audio in your avi file isn"t compatable with"tmpgenc" check your avi file and see what your audio format is and post it back and maybe we can fix yer problem,and your audio has to be encoded to 41000hz for it to play on your dvd player....

Im just playing around with different more or less weird VCD settings.
Out of curiosity I made an quasi VCD template with mpeg2 VBR instead of mpeg1.
Since an mpeg2 template cant be forced to VCD nonstandard I abused the Mpeg Tools Merge&Cut feature to change the Type to VCD (nonstandard) afterwards. Suprise suprise! My Yamakawa DVD Player plays that beast without a hitch.

I did a fast test with the following settings
Standard VCD PAL resolution
2Pass VBR(Plus Version) 550/1200/1750 padding enabled
VBV buffer: 40
Motion search precision: Highest Quality
Soften block noise enabled
No motion search for half pixels disabled

As a test scene I used frame 13200 to 14700(1 minute) of the Starship Troopers Region 2 DVD(first ~30 secs mostly still scenes and the rest the Football Match with lots of fast action scenes.)

I might be wrong but with mpeg2 I see slightly more 'big' macroblocks even in still scenes but slightly less 'tiny' blocks compared to mpeg1. I recon I have to redo these tests without soften block noise and with a lower bitrate to get an better comparison sometime in the next few days. Theoreticaly mpeg2 should bring the same quality as mpeg1 with lower bitrates. Anyone has more input/suggestions?

gnight

M. Bastian

the fact that your dvd player plays it is normal... some dvd players play noin standartr formats... some can even play mpeg4 iso ;) Or even 48Khz sound.. ene though its not standart :\nBut most players wont play it.

Matta ne.

Gant

An standalone player that can handle mpeg4????? Man dont tease us! Say which player can that. =)

/me readys his wallet

Btw. I made a few more tests and I nearly convinced that mpeg1 compard to mpeg2 looks different but not better at all at same bitrate and resolution.

i'm not teasing u guys... its actually true... just look arround and i'm sure you'll find the info i'm talking abuot... actually its quite simple... there are those that play mp3 and other crap... so mpeg4 iso is just another standar... dont expect it to play divx4 nor divx5... it'll play xvid and opendivx though :)
Also wmv7 is mpeg4 iso. :)

So just wait for this to get standartaised... and you'll be able to load your divx int oyou standalone :)

Matta ne.

Hi, I've tried to encode an avi file (ntsc) into mpeg...it works fine, but then when i open it with windows media player/quicktime player, i get sound but a black screen for video!! Please help me solve this problem.

I guess it really doesn"t work fine cuz you can"t watch it,what it could me is that you don"t have the right codec to play mpeg2 in media player,get dvd playing software and you will get a better picture than "media player" could ever give you....

the title pretty much says it all. i can encode mpeg2 using the default template settings, but if i change it to VBR 2-pass, it just sits there and keeps adding time without processing anything. any ideas on how to fix this?

VBR means that the encoder will first go over the whole movie to determine what Bitrate to use at which time. This means that you will see the actuall processing of the movie started at 50% enocding time.
Since especially VBR takes so long make dont encode your movie without making some tests with 1 minute scenes first(look under Settings -> Advanced -> Source Range). If youre satisfied with the quality, sound is in sync and your DVD player can handle the stream you can encode the whole movie. Its plain embarassing to see 16+ hours wasted e.g. because you forget to check 2:3 pulldown with Inverse Telecine ....

I think you meant "multi pass" not "vbr" ,you can do "vbr" without doing any passes,but you cant do "multi-pass" with out it being "vbr"....

...yea right, sorry was quite late when I wrote that %-)

Ok guys, here goes my first post here. I have 3 MPEG files. They are all SVCD (but when I load it up on TMPGEnc it shows MPEG-1 on the bottom.) However, that is not the problem. I want to Simple De-Multiplex all of the files individually so that I can burn it on a DVD-R(W). Now I tried merging all three files so that I can do Simple De-Multiplex with one LARGE file and then burn it, but it wasn't successful. All 3 MPEG files total 7200 seconds, and when I tried merging them together it came out to a total output of only 5400 seconds. So clearly I was missing a lot of the movie. Now I tried merging two together (thinking that 3 might be too much or whatever..) and I got the same results. 2 files merged is supposed to equal 4750 seconds and I only got about 3400 seconds. So I decided to go and do a Simple De-Multiplex on each file individually to see if it would work that way. Well I started off doing a Simple De-Multiplex on the 1st file and it went through perfectly. I checked and everything was there..all 2400 seconds of it and the audio was there too. I was pleased until now. Then I did a Simple De-Multiplex on the 2nd file and the total output was missing 300mb (roughly 20 minutes). I did it again and this time I watched it carefully and I saw it got to around 309 MB at 50% (good so far..) and then when it got to 51% (311 MB) it skipped to 100% as if it was done. (I don't understand why it went from 51% to 100%) So now it's at 311 MB and I only have 20 minutes of the file, instead of 40 minutes. Please guys I really really need your help with this. I know this is very long, but I also had to write it, and I need help with this ASAP. So if anyone can help me out with either fixing the problem I had about the merging or the 2nd problem with the 2nd file Simple De-Multiplexing only half (300MB instead of about 640). Thanks again, I appreciate anyone who can help. My e-mail is dizz2k1@Hotmail.com or just reply here. Thanks again!

maybe try this, load your problem file in to the "merge&cut" and just make a copy of your file,dont edit but look through the file with the edit slider to see if it all seems to be there and it reads all to frames,and just click "run" with out choosing edit points.this should make a copy of your file, and useing this file to de-multiplex.What I"m thinking is that the there is an error in the statistics of your file and "tmpgenc" isn"t reading your file just the statistics and there for thinks your file is one size when it is another...It"s worth a try...

i loaded the problem file (file 2) into tmpgenc's merge&cut and went through the edit slider and it was all there. still i have a problem.

hehe. I can guess what 3 cd SVCD that is too...errr...my Spider senses are tingling..
I had the same problem, first cd is fine but 2 and 3 stop encoding early. I fixed this! What you can do is use DVD2AVI to break it into video and audio parts, then re-encode to SVCD using tmpgenc vbr 2250 pal. When that is done mux them again to give it VCD headers. Worked for me :)

Good to you!

ShovelhEd

and remember, there can't be slaughter without laughter

thanks for the help. i will try it when i get home -im in school now. you guessed right, it was spider-man :)

can some one help me, i have the sound but all i see is a black screen. I was wondering why does this happen and how could i fix this problem.

New User, what type of file do you have loaded, and what functions are you using on the software.

What are you trying to do?

If its an Mpeg and you don't know, get VCDgear and load it into one of the windows there to identify the file.

My most often black screen is in the mpeg tools function to cut a file and the file is invalid for some reason.