My system keeps crashing after 6 second of encoding.

I have a 750 AMD Athelon with 756 meg of ram using an ATI 128 Raedon video card. I never had problems with any program crashing this system. I've been able to show 4 movies on 4 different monitors at the same time and no frame lose. I followed the settings for the movie I am trying to convert. It is a DVIX avi encoded movie 23.976 fps. This is the settings the program picks up
MPEG-1 720x416 23.976fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 192kbps

Anyone have a clue as how to set the setting?

Thanks

try changing the res to a lower setting

Techno

Hi,

I've got an Avi file compressed with AngelPotion V1 codec. How can i convert it into SVCD ? When i try, only the video works, the audio is not recognized by TmpgEnc.

Thanks

try vcdhelp.com - there you see instrections on how to extract the audio with virtual dub.... or if you know how, you may try that, http://www.vcdhelp.com/divxtovcd.htm - this shows, maybe virtual dub can seperate the two then you can rejoin them in tmpge. ??

I try with VirtualDub but i always have an error on audio saying that the rate and channels count for input are not compliant and in file information, the audio compression is unknown. May be because the AnelPotion codec i not correctly install, i read that it can be necessary to reinstall Divx 3.11 for this codec.
Is there a convertion tools for AngelPotion->Divx3.11 or 4.12?
Thanks

Hi,

Is TmpgEnc compliant with Divx 5 ?

Thanks,
Philippe

It doesn't seem like it!

Techno

divx 5 seems to work fine in tmpgenc on my system 800mhz celeron 384mb ram..I think every ones system seems to have different quirks were one system can do something another of the same systems can"t...

DivX 5 and the following worked for my installation.
PIII and W2K sp2

From www.vcdhelp.com:

"If TMPGEnc gives you an error message(file unsupported) when opening
the video or you just get a empty/black video preview window Be sure
that you have installed the DivX Codecs (both DivX 3.11, 4 and 5) and
also try with the Nimo Codec Pack. If that does not work try to change
the settings in TMPGEnc under Option->Environmental settings->VFAPI
plug-in and right click on the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader and
increase the priority to 1 or 2 and try open the video."

Everytime I multiplex in Tmpeg, I get the error "###### s packets cause buffer underflow. The MPEG might cause error when it played." Tmpeg still creates the new file but it is not complete. For instance, a 750 MB becomes a 650 MB file when i mux an MPEG-2 to MPEG-1. Can someone let me know what the deal is? Thanks.

hi
i've got a problem
the avi file i want to encode in mpeg to burn a svcd isn't working
there's no iamge just sound!!!
how can i resolve that!!
thanks for helping me

I had problems using the new DivX 5 Codec. When it was installed, the image was always black when using a DivX-AVI as input source. I just reinstalled DivX 4.12 and everything works fine again! Maybe you should try that!

Hi

Has anyone had problems with trying to buy Plus version ?

linkpt.cardservice.co.jp is unreachable from UK
(ping with 100% packet loss, traceroute seems to show network problem
at their end, ie from names of computers looks as if in Japan)

The firewall of em is blocking pings. On TCP port 443(https) you find and SSL-Apache Server. Port 80(http) is not active.
Last 2 hops in traceroute:

[...]
23 otmts11.IIJ.Net (210.130.141.15) 448.571 ms 449.557 ms 453.737 ms
24 210.138.46.130 (210.138.46.130) 460.896 ms 461.994 ms 456.252 ms
25 * * *
[...]

Look if your link is http://linkpt.cardservice.co.jp or https://linkpt.cardservice.co.jp
Maybe they switched to SSL recently and forgot to notify their customers :-)

cheers

M.Bastian

Hi

I found out problem. I needed 128 bit cipher to connect.
(Pity they don't say that. Might affect sales :)

I tried to purchase TMPEG Plus a couple weeks ago. I checked the HTML code from the Pegasys pages and was able to get to their purchase area. I tried to submit my Ccard info to purchase and got the message "invalid account". I emailed them and got a response saying that I couldn't use a free email account (Yahoo in this case) for pruchase. Probably 'cause they send the register code via e-mail. So I went through the purchase process again using a pay email account last Thursday. It went though and I was re-directed to a page that stated the transaction was completed. That was six days ago and I haven't recieved an email with the reg code or been billed on my Ccard. I guess they're just screwed up. Now I can't get to the Pegasys or the verisign.jp sites to find out what the problem is. Big screw-ups. I hope my Ccard info isn't compromised...

xkotto

Hi,
I want to encode a VOB file into MPEG1 file for VCD, and I used the three filters to realize loading VOB directly by TMPGENC.
The problem is the file I got have no audio signal.
In the procedure, I have selected "Audio + Video", and audio is 44.1 @ 224.
Cloud you please have a look and tell me how to solve it?
Thanks a lot

u tried converting the vob audio to wav first?

www.divx-digest.com/software

Techno

Have a look at this fine HowTo

http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdtovcd.htm

what r u trying to say?

no harm in me putting up suggestions?

for it to be perfect, u must extract the audio as wav, be sensible.

Oh,
Thank you so much for your warm-hearted help.
I will try to seperate audio first, then multiplex audio and video. Do you mean this way?

I read from a web of Taiwan that TMPGENC can read VOB directly without seperating the audio and video, by using the filters "mpeg2decoder.ax", "mpeg2parser.ax ", and "iviaudio.ax ". If it works, the procedure will be much easier. SO I tried. Now it seems it will not work, as you said.

BTW, your quick replies really surprised me. Thank you again.

Oh,
Thank you so much for your warm-hearted help.
I will try to seperate audio first, then multiplex audio and video. Do you mean this way?

I read from a web of Taiwan that TMPGENC can read VOB directly without seperating the audio and video, by using the filters "mpeg2decoder.ax", "mpeg2parser.ax ", and "iviaudio.ax ". If it works, the procedure will be much easier. SO I tried. Now it seems it will not work, as you said.

BTW, your quick replies really surprised me. Thank you again.

By using the DVD2avi, I get a WAV file, and I can get a mpeg file with audio.
Thank you guys so much. :)

Don't bother wasting your time loading vobs directly into TMPG as it will take you at least 3 times longer to encode the file.
Use the project file wich DVD2AVI creates and load that into TMPG and save yourself a lot of time without losing any quality.

I use a prog. called FlaskMPEG to convert. 75 min film took about 4 hours.
I am new to this game. Only problem I have is after encoding with TMPG. I try to burn the film onto CD 74mins 650mb using Nero Burn, but get error message
saying that the file is too large for the CD. Can U help.

I'm creating mpeg1 files compatible with vcd. I set it up to the better quality so some movies take over 15 hours to encode. I was wondering if there is a way of stoping the process and resume it later so i don't have to wait the 15 hours continiously. Or the only way to do this is by encoding small parts and at the end, merge them?

Sprewell

no way of stop and resume, but the last idea will work.

Techno

Don't forget to use the correct button when merging to avoid getting a beep between the sections ...

correct!

Techno

There is a round about way in which you can just pause TMPG if you require to use the PC for something else.
Just click the STOP button and this will pause the encoding process and bring up the box asking you if you wish to abort the process. As long as you don't click YES you will be able to resume encoding when you click the NO button.

IF you push the TMPG encoding GUI to the edge of your screen just so you can see the STOP button, when you press it you will still be able to pause encoding and at the same time keep the GUI out of the way preventing you from accidently closing it. I think this is better than having to merge a few small files together.

I have much simplier solution but it works only on ACPI compatible PC's and only if you use Windows 2000 or XP.

You can choose "Hibernate" your computer rather than "shut down" during encoding. Hibernating saves all your RAM to disk and restores its back after Windows is started again. And TMPGenc will continue from the sampe point.

If you need to make small pause withour shutting down computer - call any dialog window in program (Options for example) - during this time encoding is paused.

The hibernate idea sounds good if it works, but what a flipping daft and pointless suggestion for pausing TMPG by clicking one of the options.
As soon as you click anywhere on your desktop it resumes, so what would be the point in pausing it if you can't do anything else. Using my method it doesn't restart until you cancel the abort.

I just want to thank all the answers i got. I'm using the merge option with the correct button. Thx.

Sprewell

I had a 530 MB MPEG file with some errors. Media Player (all the versions I tried) would hang at a certain spot. VCDGear couldn't fix it. So I tried to remultiplex it with TMPGEnc 2.5.3. However, even this program gives an error (at about 62%) in quartz.dll (crashes). I have tried both directX 6 and 8. No use. What is the actual problem?

you answered your own question,your file has errors,and there is no easy way to fix it.probably at about 62% of the way through your file you have some corrupted frames,all I could sudgest is to try to run it through virtua dub and scan for errors and mask the bad frames and make a copy,or,if the file os only bad at one spot you could cut out the bad spot and merge the files back together..but i think these are your only solutions...

After start enconding from .avi to .mpeg1 format the error wornig occoured whit this message: "at address 0284DB4A Read error occurred against address 0284DB4A"

Please, somebody could tell me what it is and how to remove it?

If you are using Pinnacle systems software i.e. DV500Plus, it has a HW codec builtin. Looks to bee a conflict with the OpenDML between TMPGenc VFAPI plugin and early versions of DV500Plus drivers. Upgrade to 3.0 on DV500Plus! Looks to fix the conflict.

I have the same error message, but with WIN98SE it woked well I use Pinnacle DV200, but when upgrading to WIN2000 I got the error message I am still using the same Pinnacle DV200 card and software.

Morten PSE mail me!

Will TMPGenc act as plug_ins of Adobe Primere?
I always use Primere to edit my videos,but there is not a MPEG Codec to export the movies. I loves TMPGenc, but I can't uses it in Premere to export my vidieo.

when will it act as a plugins of Primere?

A bit of searching with www.google.com with the keywords "tmpgenc Adobe Premiere" revealed this Page:

http://www.home.zonnet.nl/edwinvaneggelen/uk/premiere_guide_tmpgenc.htm

Hope its what you wanted to know.

cheers

M.Bastian

thx, thst's the ONE i want

I always convert DV avi files to VCD files, My TV system is PAL
how to set the valus to get the BEST BEST quality?

It all depends on a number of things ...

BITRATE - you can up the bitrate to improve the quality - you will get less of a blocky effect. This means creating a non-standard VCD though (an XVCD) and your player may not be able to play it. Check out http://www.vcdhelp.com and look at the players list. Find your player and see what has worked for others

SOURCE - If your source quality is not too great you can use filters in TMPGenc such as the noise reduction filter. This will slow down encoding time though and don't forget that if the source is bad you can never improve it, only make it look a bit better

RESOLUTION - If you increase both res and bitrate you will get a nicer picture (sharper) but again your DVD player may only support up to a certain res/bitrate. Note that if you up the res it is essential to up the bitrate as well otherwise the stretched image will look worse (IMHO)

AUDIO - Try using some of the plugins like toolame encoder and ssrc (see vcdhelp tools section). Also you can drop the audio to 128KB to free up more bitrate for the video

ENCODING - I have found the 2 pass VBR at the High (slow) motion search to produce the best results. It takes longer but it is worth it


I generally only encode high resolution DIVX's so my source is mostly very good quality. The above may not apply to VHS source for example.


I hope this helps

Olli

as Olli already said: ... it all depends on a number of things

If your sorce is 'blocky' in fast moving scenes you can try around with 'soften block noise' under Setting -> Quantize Matrix. But this will make the movie look more blurry.

The best bet is to read through the various TMPgenc guides at www.vcdhelp.com to get an general idea and then experiment with 30 seconds of an typical scene of your movie changing one filter at a time until youre satisfied.

soften black noise reduces the quality! it "blurs" the image if u like.

try resizing the image to a higher res, if u got good MPEG2 filters.

No, it does not make the blocks bigger, try it.

Many people seen my work and are VERY impressed that I proved many people wrong.

Techno

I will play the VCD mpg file on a VCD/DVD player NOT on PC
it can NOT recognize an UN_ordinary bitRate of MPG

You actually can play around with the bitrate and most players will still play this stream. Reminds me I must try sometime soon if my player can cope with VCD VBR streams. :)

cheers

M.Bastian

look at the manual that came with your dvd player(stand alone)and see if it say"s it supports vcd 2.0 .if it does you can up the bitrate on your vcd"s(mpeg1)sometimes up to 5000kbs and this is awesome picture quality,but you only get 15-10 min per cd,but at 2000kbs has produced some excelent results with 45 min per cd,but tmpgenc doesn"t have any templates for high bit rates for mpeg1,but I heard you can find some on the net....

You can load an standard Template and unlock it with loading Template/Extra/unlock.mcf
Now you can edit the Bitrate Setting and save as a new Template.

cheers

M. Bastian