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When I play a VCD on my DVD player, the audio and video will get out of sync, then re-sync again. If it is out and I back up the movie and play again, it will re-sync. It does this with burns from both VCDEasy and Easy CD. Any ideas?
I have the same problem ,and i figured out that the problem is with your(my)dvd player..but as to how to fix it I couldn"t tell you .I"m working on a couple of things with buffer size that might help ,I"ll post my results when if ever I figure it out.....
PS:try playing your vcd"s on a different player and see if there is a change...
I believe if you change the gop it wont be vcd compliant,I think the gop is mostly for dvd"s.......but what seems to work sometimes with limited sucess is to burn your vcd"s at a lower speed,but the problem seems to lie with the buffer on the dvd player , and the buffer on tmpgenc, I"l do some experiments and see if i can solve the problem........
2. After you have encoded the movie run it through the simple mutiplexer again using the Video cd option.
3. Lower the speed of your burn and don't burn above 4x (this solves a lot of problems on some DVD players)
4. If your DVD player has a background screen which can be switched off, try switching this off before you put your disk in and play the movie or put your movie in the disk tray then switch off your machine and directly press the play button before pressing power.
The reason for this I can only deduce is that the background screen is being displayed in MPEG2 format and it is this switch from MPEG2 to MPEG1 which is causing the decoding problem.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try them all and let you know. Sorry about the multiple copies of the post, the refresh button was re-posting without my knowledge.
I have the same problem with the audio out of sync, however I have found it after encoding and b4 multiplexing. In other words, the mpeg output file audio is out of sync with the picture. It does not get better then worse then better again, the lag continues to widen.
Frequency is 44100Hz and bitrate is 224.
after converting vob's using dvd2avi, i try to make vcd. first i load video file ok. Then when i try to load audio file AC3 T02 3_2ch 448Kbps DELAY 0ms.ac3 i get the mouse hour glass and the program hangs. Sometimes i get a 'sorry for inconvinience this program will shut down' message. I've had it running ok in the past but i don't know what has happened. I even deleted the program and downloaded it again but still it doesn't want to load audio file. It only works if i drag and drop vob file in video box. Any suggestions please!
I have had this problem before,try to play the file and see if it sounds right,if it does here is a little trick I just figured out,download db power amp and get the mp2 codec,then convert your wav file to mp2 ,then encode your video with no audio, when it is done multi-plex the 2 files together and you will have a mpeg with audio.....
ps: make sure you encode the audio at 4100khz at 224kbs or less...but if this all fails use dvd2avi to get a new audio track but be sure to check the "dolby downmix" option in dvd2avi.........hope this helps
What is the reason you are using DVD2AVI to extract the ac3 and then put in TMPG?
This seems pointless as you wont get proper dolby pro surround sound if you don't downmix the 6 channels into a two channel wav.
TMPG will simply throw away the other 4 channels and just encode the main left and right channels leaving you with missing information in your audio.
to fix the "can"t open or unsupported" error go to yer "enviromental settings" then "vfapi plugins" and raise your "direct show" to "2" and every thing else at"0" this should work......
hi i got a problem, i did that thing what he said with the Direct show to 2 and the rest on zero and it kinda looked like it was wokrign then the error came up agaisn saying "can not open/Unsupported"
can someone please help me, thank you
hi i got a problem, i did that thing what he said with the Direct show to 2 and the rest on zero and it kinda looked like it was wokrign then the error came up agaisn saying "can not open/Unsupported"
can someone please help me, thank you
I have just ripped my first CD to my HD using Smart Ripper 2.41 I then configured TMPGEnc and recorded a short clip from the movie to check the Video and Audio quality. Everything looked great !! I am very pleased with the result. Here is my problem. I started encoding the movie before going to bed last night. The estimated time for the 91 minute movie was 3 hours and 40 minutes. I checked the progress 45 minutes later and the movie was 18% complete. Things were looking very good. When I got up this morning, only 49% of the movie was encoded, It had been encoding for nearly 8 hours, and estimated another 8 odd hours for completion. This is using the CBR one pass setting. I did notice that the picture seemed to hesitate for a few seconds as it was encoding, then move in the regular slow motion, hestitate, move, etc. I have about 80gb of free Hard Drive space, and 512mb ram & a 900ghz Athlon processor. Would a screen saver cause this type of slowdown? I am completely lost on this one. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, I would certainly appreciate them. Thanks. Im4tunate
the encodeing time with "tmpgenc" can take quite a while,on my system which is about the same as yours a 90 min movie encodeing mpeg2 can take 18 hours,and if you are doing any passes ,each pass can up to double the encodeing time..and for the screen saver ,I try not to use them cuz for some reason it causes my system to get errors while encodeing but that is probably just a quirk with my system..but mpeg1 is much quicker and you can get very good quality if you play with the settings..............later sherlock
It takes me about 2 hours to do 10 minutes of 352 x240 video with 192MB of RAM and a AMD 3-D Now! 450mHz processor. I suggest that you first shut down everything on your computer, including the virus scan, screen saver, even the scheduler. The slow, stop, slow, stop motion while encoding is normal. Another thing you might check is if your environment settings on TMPGEnc (I can't remember how to, and I'm not at my home computer). Let me know how it turns out.
Thanks guys for the help. I'll try running the encode with no screen saver enabled. That is really the only program I have that could launch. I don't have any anti-virus loaded, nor any tasks scheduled. What I really don't understand is why the program told me it would take 3 hours and 40 minutes to encode up front, and the first 45 minutes went very quickly. It had 18% of the video already done. Somewhere during the night it stumbled on me. I'll try it the next time during the day where I can watch it more closely. I'll let you know what happens. Thanks again. Im4tunate
Xfilze - I will tinker with the Motion Search and Motion Estimate settings as you suggested and see if that helps. Thanks.
If you do any passes it will tell you the length of time to do each pass before encodeing..say you want to do 2 pass encodeing the program will say (egsample)3 hours and then when the first pass is done it will say another 3 hours and when that is done it will start encodeing and then a new time will come up ...I hope I explained it ok......
Just letting everyone who helped know that I was successful in encoding the movie in less than 4 hours this time. I set the Motion Search to normal, disabled my Screensaver and my Hard Drive Sleep mode. This seemed to do the trick. Thanks for the help. Im4tunate
Here is a tutorial that optimizes your PC for video work. All the little tweaks put together will help make everything much more efficient. I can do an hour show in 1 1/2 hours with normal or fast motion and I have my cpu set at 1 gig even though it's supposed to be 1.3. By running a free benchmark software program called Sisoft Sandra it showed that my cpu was overclocked and believe it or not caused my PC to run more sluggish than it should have. There is also another program I always run called End It All that ends any programs running in the background on your PC. It just saves alot of time from doing it manually in task manager. You can also protect any programs that you don't want to close such as your firewall etc. Also be SURE you defrag everytime before you do ANY visdeo work. It can mean the difference of hours! Hope these links help!
Kevin
>Im using the Pinnacle dc30+ capture card, and i think we're having the same problem when trying to encode using Tmpgenc. Are your gliches Green? blocky flashs? ....Maybe its a compatablity problem between the card and the Software!
Have you tried to create your VCD using Nero VCD template? Nero can directly encode your Pinn. Studio AVI files to (S)VCD mpegs with good quality then creates the (S)VCD disk automatically. My experience showed that Nero did a better job encoding Studio-7 AVI files to (S)VCD MPEG-2 than TMPGEnc does.
I have tried TMPGEnc to encode my Studio-7 AVI files to MPEG-2 and found that the interlace issue was very hard to remove from the final MPEG-2. So I use Nero instead and found that it did a wonderful job.
Hi, Im looking to use this encoder to change video clips that I usually play in Media Player into files i can burn to CD-R's on my computer that will play in my dvd player...I have downloaded the program and tried a bunch of things, but nothing makes the cd's I burn work in any of my DVD players. I was hoping someone could walk me through the process as Im not too computer savvy...thanks
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Shawn
I have encoded an 80 minute film into 656Mb by encoding video at 900kbps and audio at 192kbps...
...I've ended up with a lovely sharp clean video (thanks to TMPGEnc's great encoder) but audio that is... well... horrible. There's a constant high-pitched quiet whistle and the sound is a bit metallic.
I think what I did wrong was the original audio was 48kHz and the output VCD is 44.1kHz - possibly the sample rate converter in TMPGEnc isn't that great.
Because I only have a P3-450 it took almost 13 hours to encode... ouch!... so I'd rather not encode the whole lot again if it can be avoided, especially as the video came out so well. Is it possivle to just re-encode the audio without touching the video?
Demultiplex the Video from the audio using Mpegtools in TMPG then using Virtualdub to convert the audio from your original film into a wav file and convert it to 44.1khz and make sure the high quality box is ticked. Then put the wav file in TMPG and convert it to mp2 then mutiplex it back with your encoded movie.
This should solve your problem and you're right the samplerate converter of TMPG is crap.
I still have the whistle though. It's not in the MP2 if I play it, but it is in the MPG after multiplexing... it's only very feint but it's there. Any ideas what it could be?
I just tried a external encoder for "tmpgenc" it encodes mpeg audio 1.2.3 layer and it has a sample rate converter it has great quality so if anyone hasn"t tried it you should cuz it seems pretty good,it"s called "SCMPX" you can find it on any search engine, just type in "scmpx",It seemed to solve a lot of my audio problems.......
It's not in the Mp2 before you mutiplex, but it's there after. This doesn't make any sense to me because the audio isn't changed in any way when multiplexed, it's just simply mixed in with video and should be exactly the same.
Have you actually removed any old audio from the movie first before mutiplexing the new audio back with it.
Also as a test just play the video file on it's own before you mutltiplex it with the audio to see if there is any background noise of the sort you speak of.
Yes, I demuxed the original MPG file and then used the m1v file for the video and the mp2 file for the audio.
I've tried a few other files now and it is only the one video file that causes a problem.
If I MUX a different audio track on the same video file, I get the noise.
If I MUX the original audio track to a completely different video file - no strange noise.
I don't know if it's because I encoded at 900kbps and that was an odd number or something (do bitrates need to be divisable by 16 or something?) but it's only this one video file. I would upload it but given that it's a copyright film and I am only on a modem anyway it's probably not worth it.
I re-encoded the video at 896kbps and now when I add the audio it's fine! I can only think maybe I had a funny setting when I encoded.
When I play back mpg's created by TMPGEnc, the time is shown as approximetly twice the amount that I converted - i.e. 2 minute clip becomes 4 minutes after conversion. When I play the mpg back, it stops after the pre-conversion time. I have tried to go back and clip off the extra time using the merge/edit tools, but it does not work. The file size is not twice as large, but when trying to covert to VCD, time is the essential, and having half the mpg being blank time causes a problem. Is there a way to stop thig from happening?
Are you saying that you start of with say a 1hr movie which after being converted by TMPG ends up being a 2 hr movie with the last hour just being a blank picture?
I have no idea or have ever heard of this one, but you could try to use the source range filter under the advanced tab in settings and choose the start and end of your movie to see if it corrects it when you encode.
Or, are you saying that when you are encoding it is doubling the time and encoding the first part as blank.
If this is the case you probably have the two pass option enabled in the 'Rate controle mode' option under the Video tab in Settings.
For example - a raw 2min film encoded makes 4 minutes. But, there is nothing there in the last 2 minutes that it has tacked on during encoding. Although it has nothing there, the 2 extra minutes show up on the clock when I try to play it or when I try to burn it to VCD. Although, it plays normal when in Quicktime 5, which is odd. Usually I play it with Microsoft Media player, or with the media player that is included in ATI's AIW (version 7.1). If I try to open it to recoded with TMPGEnc (not mulitplex or cut/merge), it gives me a illegal floating point error. Any ideas?
I think I found the solution to my problem. I completely unistalled/reinstalled Microsoft Media player, along with it's codecs and shared resources. After doing that, I opened the existing mpg in VirtualDub and saved them as avi. I then went back to TNPGEnc and recoded them as mpg's. It seemd to fix the extra time problem.
Whenever I try to use an MPEG2-stream (SVCD-Format) as source-stream, I get the message: "File <name> can not open, or unsupported", even if I made this file with TMPGEnc. I'm using the TMPGEnc Version 2.53. Any ideas what to do?
I am getting the same error message -- but mine occurs when trying to convert .avi to mpg1. I can put it in the audio section but not the video -- and I am getting only audio on the mpeg. I am VERY new to all of this, so I've been going through the boards and have downloaded Divx 4.12... I can't seem to find a codec for SMR, but I really don't think this is my problem. Any advice???
Many poeple have had this problem trying to re-encode mpeg2,the way around it is to de-multplex the mpeg2 file and load the video and audio in seperately...I hope this works for you.......sherlock
sory I forgot to answer "Chantico,s" question,to get rid of the "can"t open unsupported" error for avi"s go to yer "enviromentel settings" under "vfapi plugins" and raise your "direct show" to "2" and keep every thing else at "0".This should solve your problem with unsupported avi"s...........sherlock
For quicktime you can try http://www.doom9.org in the downloads section. For rm you're SOL, there aren't any (although EO Video can do it). Im not sure about pinnacle.
When I create an Mpeg-1 file with TMPGenc using VBR my movies are playing perfectly with my Media Player 7.1. However, if I simply select to create the same movie with CBR instead of VBR then trying to play this movie will make Media Player crash somewhere in the middle of the movie.
Anyone have a solution to this? Some kind of setting I should change or anything?
The easyest solution for this is to not use "media player" I can"t stand the program it sucks for playing mpeg"s(on my system anyway)but if you get "power dvd" it plays mpeg"s really well, or you can try "xing mpeg player" it works pretty good too,and you can get a trial copy on the web if you look for it....sory I can"t be more help but it seems like a good idea to have a seperate mpeg player.........
I think the problem is that "media player"s mpeg2 codec isn"t very good, and it just won"t play most mpegs properly(with me anyway).Do you wan"t to distribute them as vcd"s ,svcd"s or dvd"s or do you want to distribute them as files to play on a computer,of you want to play them on a computer you might as well just burn them as data files in avi.then you know it will play on a computer.But when dealing with mpegs they will never play right for every one,cuz every one would have to have the proper codecs installed on there machine and as you know media player can be very picky with the mpegs it plays..