I'm converting the Lord of the Rings DivX to VCD and encountering problems.. There are two files and converting them to .mpg was easy. However, now I've tried to merge them and the audio just cuts out after a while - approximately 29:45 into the first file til the end of the first file and then likewise for the second file. So, I have this 2 hour some file that looks great, but I only have audio for a half of an hour in the beginning and and half of an hour in the middle. Anyone know the problem? Is it the codec? I truly don't know and would like to fix the problem

Thanks

Oh - and I forgot to add....the two mpegs I used have the audio intact separately...

When I convert ASF to MPEG(1) there is no audio in the MPEG(1) version of the movie. Could someone please tell me what I have to do?

I use VirtualDub 1.3C to extract the audio to a wav file and use it when doing the conversion with TMPGEnc.

and make sure the audio is 41000khz .....

exactly

Techno

Um... I have the same problem... Anyhow I downloaded virtualdub 1.3c and have no clue what the heck to do... i tried to open my asf file, but an error keep on popping out.... can someone give me a step by step instruction on how to extract the audio to wav file...

I know this is a vague question, but I'll give all the details I can. I tried to encode a SVCD from a .d2v project(video) and an .wav(audio) from DVD2avi. I used TMPGE 2.53. When I ran it the process started, then an error box poped up and said the file for the SVCD could not be created. There was no information as to why it could not be created. I followed the wizard and a guide from VCDhelp. If any one knows some secret or a good guide for TMPGE please let me know.
Thank you

make sure you have your vob. files and your d2v file in the same folder....and make sure you don"t delete your vob."s.....

Hi i did a movie i'm trying to author with dvdit pe. I frameserved the movie from premiere to the latest version of tmpgenc used cq to try and have the highest quality possible. When i import the file to dvdit it tell me it can't find the appropriate decoder... In the same project i have an other file that i did with the previous version of tmpgenc but using vbr. Anybody seen this or a similar problem do you know of a way to get aroung the prob?

Hi folks,

I wanted to make a SVCD, so I used TMPGenc 2.53 with 2pass VBR for encoding the video. I set the Minimum Bitrate = 1600, Maximum Bitrate = 2400 and Average Bitrate = 1800 because I knew, my Pioneer DV444 DVD-Player would have problems if Bitrate would fall below about 1400 at SVCD (the speed of the drive falls from 2x to 1x and you get display-errors).

But nevertheless I got some errors after VERY calm scenes. So I examined the video-file with the bitrate-viewer and found that the bitrate sank far below the minimum bitrate I entered in TMPGenc.

Anyone else experienced something like that? Did I do something wrong?

No, you did nothing wrong.
Tmpgenc does not respect the max bitrate either.
I really wish the developers would fix this!!!!
How hard is it to force the mpeg encoder to never go below an
absolute number and never go ABOVE an absolute number?
Its really frustrating for me too.

Are you checking the pad if lower option? Also, if you are using Bitview to view the bitrate, it does not show the correct rate if you're using 23.976 w/pullup. You need to subtract about 20% from the shown values.

Correct, use the padding option. This should correct it when the bitrate falls below a certain point, but this is not a fault of TMPGenc. It happens in most encoders as the bitrate settings are only nominal and not absolute.

Also the problem you are having with display problems when the bitrate drops below 1400kbps shouldn't be happening as a DVD will regularly drop it's bitrate below this point and theres no problem with your DVD's right.
If you are burning your SVCD's at high speed then this is probably your problem.
You should never burn above 4x as this will give serious disply problems on most DVD players and even then lower speeds will give even better playback.
On my Toshiba anything above 4x jerks like hell with blocks popping up all over the place with loud squelches in the sound, but at 4x the disk plays nearly perfect with the odd jerk and at 2x the disk plays flawlessly every time.

ASHY

I just noticed you have a Pioneer DVD player. You probably will have this problem on this machine as it's very finicky about bitrates.
Still try the burning option.

ASHY

Thanks for your suggestions, I always burn my VCD/SVCD´s with 16x speed and never had any problems. I will try to use the "padding" option, hope this helps.

16X! I'm suprised you don't get any problems with this. You probably do, but you don't realise it is your burning speed.
Even on sites such as vcdhelp.com the recommended is 4x and on on some of the other encoder software makers they recommend no more than two, so i'd give this a try if your problems persist.

ASHY

I have an SMR encoded video I want to convert to a VCD PAL MPEG1 file, but an error comes up saying "File 'filename' can not open, or unsupported. The file itself can be viewed perfectly in Windows Media Player, is there, or will there be support for these types of avi files? or is there another way to convert to MPEG1?

try increasing the avi vfw and the directshow filters.

Techno

Does anyone have instructions on how to go from divx to mpeg? I am a newbie.

FOrgot to add. I want DVD to be the final format. divx to mpeg to dvd.

load in the avi file in TMPGENC

choose a template, or create your own.

encode!

Then after this, you may wish to encode the MPEG file to dvd again.

Techno

I am making dvds. Should I encode via "cbr" or "vbr?"

VBR because variable bitrate!

Techno

I would use 'Constant quality(CQ)'.
This is similar to 'Automatic VBR (CQ_VBR)' but gives better quality and file sizes and if you examine the bitrates and quantization you will find it encodes more or less the same as a two pass encode.

ASHY

yeh, that's right, I would use that too, but I thought it was a choice of VBR or CBR!

Techno

What do you mean? (CQ) is VBR.

ASHY

My Mjpeg AVI files captured with Pinacle's DC10 Studi card shows only lines. Any clues about what I can do converting to mpgs?
Thanks
pb

Tried most of the above....little success!

Got toolame to work in TMPGEnc but the sound is no better. (bearing in mind, when playing it in original .avi format
the sound is ok). Besweet doesn't seem to work in XP (even through command line), and the same goes for avi2mpg1.exe.
Virtual dub doesn't accept avi. files! (by this point I'm pulling my hair out). An finally where can I find wavelab (no
mention of it in www.vcdhelp.com)!?

Can you still help me?

I used besweet 2 days ago in XP, worked fine, the demo version of wavelab does not save the file/encode as MP3.

search for it on google.com

Techno

Toolame will not make a jot of difference to the sound. it is the samplerate converter that is the problem not the audio converter.
What do you mean Virtual dub doesn't accept AVI files?. This is it's main process. You must not have the required codec installed for your file if thats the case or you have a Directshow problem.

Give Goldwave a try. It's free to download and doesn't impose any restrictions.
http://www.goldwave.com/release.html

ASHY

My Mjpeg AVI files captured with Pinacle's DC10 Studi card shows only lines. Any clues about what I can do converting to mpgs?
Thanks
pb

I have an SMR encoded video I want to convert to a VCD PAL MPEG1 file, but an error comes up saying "File 'filename' can not open, or unsupported. The file itself can be viewed perfectly in Windows Media Player, is there, or will there be support for these types of avi files? or is there another way to convert to MPEG1?

hi there.

try to increase the directshow filters, the avi vfw and the aviopen dml filters to a higher priority in the environment settings.

this should work, if not then I guess TMPGENC does not support SMR files.

Techno