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I have been using TMPGenc to convert asf and non-compliant mpeg files to VCD. I have several files that would run fine for a while (ranging from 2 to 50%) and then slowed down almost to a halt. It seemed like the conversion would take forever to finish. I checked the CPU usage and it showed the CPU was not very active (spikes of 30% to 50% every once in a while) but TMPGne is still working. When TMPGenc is working smoothly, the CPU usage is 100%. What is slowing it down? Any ideas??
Is there anything wrong with the files or TMPGenc 2.53 (I believe mine is the latest version) or a combination of both? I have also tried to demux and remux with TMPGEnc's mpeg tools and use ASFTool and other tools to repair the files with no improvement. What is wrong here? Should I cut the file into pieces and encode separately and then merge them? This could mean a lot of editing and time. Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks.
If asf is not supported, that means I may have to convert asf to avi before converting to VCD with TMPGEnc. Is that a fair assumption for any asf that does not work?
Something you may want to try first is going into tmpgenc configuration and UNcheck the avidml option and raise the directshow priority. This has always worked for me. You can usually do a quick check by going to the Audio setup and see if you get audio there AND that it is the correct size.
You could allso try extracting the WAV file from the DivX with Msgraph, I do it that way. Takes 7min or something for a whole avi file, and boom, I have a uncompressed wav file that I just load up into tmpgenc with the avi (divx) file.
And just encode, perfect sync and sound results etc :)
I trying to make a backup copy of Titanic. I have a .dv2 file and a .wav. When I convert with TMPGEnc, there's no sound. I played the .wav with Winamp, and it's there. What do I do?????
Of course it bloody does!
There is no reason why TMPG can't convert WMV or ASF files. As long as the file can be read by Directshow (basically played by media player) then there is no reason why TMPG won't be able to open and convert it. And yes I have converted both ASF and WMV files in TMPG with success.
yes I have converted wmv. files before but I had to re-name them to asf.I did have problems with the "floating point" error but you can get around that...
hmmm.... wierd! Sorry, I thought it didn't cause I tried it, even with ASF and locked up and I have been seeing things like "TMPGENC does not encode WMV or ASF files".
I read a question before on this issue, is it possible to get rid of black bars from a AVI (DivX) file (widescreen thing) if you are re-encoding to a SVCD files ?
Hold on a minute. Do you mean the black bars at top and bottom? If so, the only way to remove these is to crop the movie, but you will lose information from the sides.
Use the 'Clip frame' option in advanced.
I have a type 2 avi file captured via firewire. It is 40 minutes long.
When I put it through TMPGEnc, the process gets started butafter 13 minutess video goes black. When TMPGEnc finishes there is a mpg2 file which has video upto 13 minutes but then just audio to the end.
I've noticed that TMPGenc can read the .d2v files from either SmartRipper or DVD2AVI. Their overall structure (# of lines, header) is similar but the fine detail is completely different.
Does anyone know a URL that discusses .d2v (its standard, format, etc)?
What fine details are you referring to? One that you may be thinking about, and that I have discovered, is the GOP structure.
You may already know this but, to find the GOP structure of any VOB file extracted by SmartRipper, simply open the *.ifo file associated with that chapter (since the *.ifo file is just a text file, you can open it with WordPad or similar text editing program. Most of the time though, the file is too large to be viewed using NotePad). Enter the same GOP structure in TMPGEnc as indicated in the *.ifo file (IBBPBBPBBPBBPBB; or I=1, P=4, B=2). Matching the GOP structure seems to keep jitter and sync offset in the encoded file low, or in most cases, at zero. Hope that helps.
Here are two snippets of d2v files. The first is from SmartRipper, the second from DVD2AVI. They are identical in the number of lines and that is about all. They are both read equally well by TMPGenc and the output files are nearly identical.
Other than just curiosity, I'm trying to cluge an algorithm that would allow me to estimate mp2 filesize. That is, TMPGenc in auto-bitrate is highly dependent on the percent quality as well as total runtime. (It appears to be sweeping over a gaussian distribution of incremental bitrates).
My guess is that the 0's -- 3's in the data below could yield bits or bitrates but I'm not sure. That is the reason for wanting the d2v structure.
On Windows NT or 2000 the latest TMPGEnc. is freeze. Windows ME says unsupported fileformat. It is a *.avi but in file properties there is no information about the format. I can play it with ThePlaya and windows Media Player. I'm unable to create a video CD.
Thanks for any information.
I've got a samsung 709 and i've finally found the right media to make some backup VCD's. I have a load of old tapes with startrek on, original series all way up to the current day. However i found that TMPGEnc doesn't seem to read the DIVx files i have.
I've tried using Nero 5.5, but it comes up with an error message. Something like currupt file. Anyhoo, TMPGenc allows me to select my divx encoded avi file. However i can niether preview the sound or the video.
I'm currently converting one of the AVI's now, but the window which i assume should show the film, is just blank.
I've an AVI-CD and want to creat the necessary number of Output-CDs/-Files
(MPG). Every time i tried this with TMPGEnc, the programm creats only
1 Outputfile with a 1,2 Gb size.
Pleas help!!!!!!!!!
What exactly do u need help with? the file size so it fits on one CD? if so, encode the avi as a VCD and then use nero to burn it as a VCD, it will accept the file size, because nero works on timeline so it ignores the size of the file!
Techno what do you mean Nero works on a timeline so it doesn't matter on the size of the file. Of course it does!
You can't fit 1.2gb on one cd no matter how long it runs for.
10mb is roughly 1 min in VCD format, so 800mb is the max for an 80min cd.
Rainer a full vcd movie will not fit on 1 cd, you are going to have to split the file in two using the Merge/Cut MPEG tools in TMPG or in future, if you want your file split automatically halfway through the movie then you could use the source range filter and encode the movie in two halves.
Ha ha ha.......You've got to be having a laugh.
Techno Iam telling you now and I will absolutely stake my mothers life on it. Nero will NOT burn a 3gb file on a disk!!! So according to your maths a 100gb file as long as it runs for 78 mins can fit on a cd. No way!
If anybody can prove me wrong then go ahead because Iam very interested to see this amazing feat acheived.
If that was the case Techno we wouldn't need high capacity DVD's, so start talking some sense.
The higher the bitrate the more Mb/min is needed.
800mb is still 800mb and no matter what you do you won't fit 3gb on it.
I suggest you create a 3gb file and try to burn it on an 80min disk then get back to me Techno.
what I noticed is if you have a file 80 min at 1150kbs,nero will say it is 80 min,but if you double the bit rate at the same 80 min length,nero will say it is twice as long,so the length that nero says it is ,is directly related to the bitrate or file size...
Exactly Sherlock.
For Techno's information, the timeline of Nero is *NOT* related to the length of time of the file, but is related to the amount of minutes available on the disk.
The length of the file could be 10 mins but if the bitrate is high then Nero will show the timeline as much higher.
For example an MPEG2 file which runs for one min but is 40mb in size will show as 4 mins in the NERO timeline and not 1 min because 10mb is equal to 1min when burning a SVCD or VCD.
I'm trying to convert old svhs tapes into svcds, I made a high quality avi file, but after the coding into svcd format with tmepg the sound isn't synchro anymore (it was synchro in the original avi file)... what should I do to correct this (I use the regular svcd pal template, and the avi file is already at 25f/s)...
Also, if it sill happens, if the audio is faster than the video, increase the frame rate. If the audio is slower than the video, de-crease the frame rate.
the sound is originally recorded in the avi file at 44.1khz...
if I raise the frame rate (the sound goes faster) will the mpeg2 final file still svcd compliant?
Because I have done this myself just now with a video and works fine, maybe the burning software might complain but ignore it.
If it does not work then, extract the audio as wave using virtualdub and then load this in and the video in TMPGENC and encode as 44100Hz, 224bitrate. Let us know what happens.
I think Marco is trying to ascertain as to whether it is the actual file at fault or the burning process or the DVD player itself, so the principal is not the same.
yes ASHY, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I TRY TO KNOW : I HAD SIMILAR/OPPOSITE PROBLEM OF PRETEN:
PERFECT VCD PLAYED ON PC WITH WIN-MEDIA-PLAYER OR WINDVD , AND OUT OF SYNC WHEN I PUT IT IN PIONEER-DV444.
I FOUND OUT THAT PIONEER-444 PLAY IN SYNC VCD ONLY IF THEY ARE STANDARD .
ON MINE I WAS SAVING SPACE ENCODING AUDIO AT 128KB AND THIS WAS PLAYED WELL ON PC BUT OUT OF SYNC IN PIONEER-444.
RE-ENCODED AT 224 KB WAS WELL ON BOTH (PC AND TV-VIA-DVD)
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