I know this is not a sight for this kind of question. But I am desperatly looking for a tv tuner program that have really good recording capabilities on it. I need it for Windows XP. Please help me! -J

I take it you mean capture software.
Try this. it's the best I've used so far.
It's specifically made for windowsxp and has features a lot of other capture software doesn't have.
I find this is even better than Virtualdub as Virtualdub doesn't allow me to capture at full resolution with my WinTV GO, but this software lets me capture at 640x480.
http://www.iulab.com/index.shtm?iuvcr/about

ASHY

Ashy, I believe that is a hack or clone of Win TV.

I don't know where you got that info from, but it doesn't resemble The WINTV interface or it's features in any shape or form.
If it was a hack of WinTV I don't think it would allow me to capture at 640x480 as WinTV doesn't.

Also if I remember rightly the WinTV interface doesn't allow selection of a codec and doesn't have any of the filter options.
This is also the only capture program I have used which correctly allows the display and use of the WinTV go control options. Even virtualdub doesn't use these properly or allow 640x480 resolutions with WinTV go.

If what you say is correct, and I doubt it, then it's one hell of a good hack because as far as I'm concerned it improves on the WinTV interface and options 100x and doesn't crash or drop as many frames.

So all in all I think I'll stick with it, hack or not.

Thanx.

ASHY

Ashy, thanks for the link to that software, looks like I'll be starting a Windows 2000 system soon, so this looks good.

What is a decent but cheap capture card with analog and/or svhs video input?

I saw one or two recommended but didn't write it down :(

Like I don't need a tuner on the card, but I might think about that too.

Thanks for all.
k

Hi

already tried to find the answer but was not succesfull.

Ok here is the problem:

when I try to convert a DivX file does not matter what version 3,4 or 5 all have the problem that the screen stays black but the sound is there after converting the movie. I don't know what to do! DivX movies are playing fine in the Media Player for example so the codecs are installed properly.
I am using Win2000 though.

Any suggestions?
Thanx
S.

umm you need to go to environmental settings and turn up the priority for the vfapi plugin at least thats what I had to do.

Madhatta, out

Hi, I am wondering if there is any way to convert an avi file that is compressed using DV compression (microsoft DV or something of the like) to MPEG or MPEG 2 using TMPGenc? The program gives an error when ever I try to load a file that is compressed with DV. The only way around this I have found is to do this without loosing quality is do decompress the DV file down to uncompressed frames and then load that avi into TMPGenc and then it works fine. However the 1 to 8 expantion required for this makes it prohibative for avi's longer than about 10 minutes (2 gig DV -> 16 gigs for the uncompressed frames file).

I was wondering if anyone has a better solution for this problem, or if a new version of TMPGenc is going to come out that will address this issue.

I think "tmpgenc" is only compatable with type 2 dv files and video for windows dv,but not sure, try raising the "open dml" and "vfw" filters in the "vfapi plugins" and this might help....

Somebody told me I could use TMPG Enc for encoding mov. files into mpg files.But it doesn't work,what i'm I doing wrong ????????

you need to get the "mov QT plugin" to do mov files ,I don"t use mov files so I can"t tell you were to get it but try the tools section in vcdhelp.com...

You need a file calles qt.vfp or qtread.vfp.
Just type 'quicktime vfp' in Google and you should find it. Mind you though, it's not perfect. I often get errors while converting mov files.

crimson13

when loading .d2v I get cannot open file or not supported.I can load audio fine.I used it before ok no probs,I'm using xp hope thats not it.Thanks for any advise.

I've been using TMPGEnc for a while and every so often I get this proble when trying to edit a mpg file - TMPGEnc won't output more that about 11 mins of the file.

The video I'm trying to split is 713Mb and I want to split it into scenes.

There's plenty of disk space available for the output file. So why won't it do more than 11 mins (109Mb).

I just downloaded the new 2.54 with the same result

Grateful for any help/advice

i had the same problem before and found that the mpeg was corrupt. but the coruption was at the end of the film, i could split the first part but the second would only split about 30 mins , there should have been about 60 mins worth. the mpeg would play ok on media player and power dvd player "strange i know"

When I merged several (10) mpeg files using TMPGEnc Plus MPEG Tools, it merges OK but when playing on Windows Media Player (or another) it shows that the length is much shorter (~1/9) than it actually is. Is there a way to correct this?

I have an video with a ratio of 640 to 272. Which settings are required to produce an mpeg-file preserving the aspect ratio for use on a 4/3 TV display without cutting the frames on the left and right side.

Katg

is there any way to slit the mpeg produced ? if I convert an avi to mpg ans the reult is over 700Mb for example how do I split this down so that I can burn it onto 2 cd's.

Something like avi2vcd has an option to do this while converting but I can't find one in tmpgenc which is my preferred tool. Am I just missing the option or do I need some other iece of sotware & if so which ?

Thanks

Go to Mpeg-tools in the "File"-menu and click on "merge and cut". In the "type"-field you choose the type of convertion you have done. Usually "Mpeg1 VideoCd" if you're going to make a VCD. Next step is to load in your newconverted mpeg1-file, (just click add and choose the mpeg1-file.) Click on the added file once and then the edit-button. You now can split the movie in as many pieces as you like. (I prefer to use the range-time.) After your choosen your splits just push OK. If you have WinXP just ignore the errormessage that might pop up. Choose your outputlocation and click the RUN-button. Repeat the same procedure for as many splits as you want, but don't forget to change the name of the outputfile. (Sorry for my bad english)

Hekne

by the way you can fit 800mb on a 700mb cd when burning vcd or svcd, so you might not have to split it.....

Only Partly true, The Mpeg maybe say 775 MB, but the dat file burned on the CD is less than 700 MB. Usally this conversion is done at the beginning of the burn process or on the fly. Or with some burningsoftware you have to create a bin cue image file first

With "Nero" a 800mb mpeg file will go on one cd,as a data file I don"t know but why would anyone burn a mpeg as a data file?

All 80min disks are caple of storing 800mb of RAW data.
MPEG is RAW data this is the reason why you can store the extra 100mb.
A normal data cd uses the extra 100mb for error correction bits this is why you can only store 700mb.
With MPEGs however, due to the fact that they are relatively error free and don't need this error correction, the extra bits can be used for more raw data.

ASHY

I have encoded about 15 AVIs to VCD...when playing them on my standalone DVD player they all stop every 2 seconds for just a fraction of a second, you can still watch the movie, but its annoying that its not smooth. Am I doing something wrong during the encoding process?

thanks for your help

You've probably changed the framerate of the VCD from the the original.

ASHY

thanks...

How do i convert SVCD's to VCD's? i have the newest version of TMPGEnc but isnt helping!!! please help

you can encode mpeg2 to mpeg 1 by just loading in the mpeg2 file and encodeing it to mpeg1, but sometimes mpeg2"s wont load in to "tmpgenc" so you have to de-multiplex the mpeg2 file and load in the audio and video seperately, this should work..........

You need to install an MPEG2 codec.

ASHY

>You need to install an MPEG2 codec.
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>ASHY

Hi there! i downloaded a mpeg2 codec but i still have had no luck! and im not sure how do do nything! Id really apreciate it if u could help me sum more! thankyou

When archiving Hi8 footage for posterity it makes sense to use a "future-proof" format with as little loss as possible. (DVD-RAM disks at $11 per 10GB allow saving even unedited footage at fairly high bitrates.)

According to specs, 4:2:2P@ML allows for higher quality than MP@ML (studio vs broadcast quality). But would the difference be noticeable on Hi8 source?

Here is a test I ran: AVI capture -> archive with 4:2:2P encode -> extract back to AVI (Huffyuv RGB) -> edit (Ulead MS Pro) -> "author" with MP@ML Encode -> view in WinDVD.

Both encoding steps were done with 2-pass VBR at 5-9 Mbs, 7Mbs nominal.

The results are very impressive. Casual viewing shows the final output to be virtually identical to MP@ML encoded directly from the captured AVI. Substituting MP@ML for the archive step "seems" to produce an inferior result but better testing is needed to confirm.

The bad news (partially due to my lack of experience at this): 4:2:2P@ML can not be processed by standard codecs. TMPGEnc can read it using the m2v VFAPI, but audio is dropped. Furthermore, TMPGEnc can not save AVI files larger than 2GB with any codec so the original captures need to be limited to ~2.5 minutes. On top of that, TMPGEnc does not get sync sound from the original capture unless I do an AVI to AVI translation first.

So this was my actual flow: AVI capture (ATI AIW board) -> Huffyuv RGB encode (Ulead) -> 4:2:2P archival encode -> extract video back to AVI (Huffyuv RGB) + extract audio to mp2 (TMPGEnc) -> merge audio and video to single AVI (Ulead) -> edit (Ulead) -> "author" with MP@ML Encode -> view (WinDVD).

The flow would be a simpler if 4:2:2P proves to be unecessary. (Any other suggestions for a simpler flow would be welcomed.)

I am NOT going to spend a fortune on MPEG 2 hardware accelerators only to find they also have compatibility issues and rapidly go obsolete.

My system: Win XP Pro, Asus P4S333 MB, P4-1.8GHz, 0.75GB PC2100 RAM, 320GB ATA Raid 0, NTFS, ATI Radeon AIW 8500DV video card.

I looked a lot more closely at VirtualDub and Avisynth. These can probably take care of the capture and AVI handling issues mentioned previously. (VirtualDub captures in Huffyuv format with no audio sync problems!)

So my main question remains centered around 4:2:2P@ML. Any opinions from people who have used it would be welcomed.

I guess the central question is whether any software based codecs exist which handle it well?