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hello,
my first period for testing tmpg is over. so i downloaded the most recent version and copied the fiels over the old files. it still says this message that the testing period is over!
what do i do wrong?
thank you
Here goes my vov to not contribute to a thread Techno has answered....
Ok, heres the deal. TMPGEnc which is downloadable on this webpage is technicaly free. But not the MPEG2 codec. To circumvent the MPEG2 license fee the programm will disable MPEG2 encoding an month after installation. This is essential for TMPGenc being free!
TMPGenc Plus on the other side(which is downloadable at www.pegasys-inc.com) is tryware. After 2 weeks of use it will no longer start without an license key.
One of the main differences between TMPGenc Plus and TMPGenc is the 2 Pass VBR encoding. If you want to make Standalone Player compilant VCD streams only you can go with the free version. If you want to make high quality SVCDs and DVDs buy the Plus Version.
I am making this post to warn any newcomers to this BBS of the fact that they may have their time wasted and may receive unsound advice from an individual who goes by the name of 'Techno'
I have noticed repeatedly that this board has become a sort of personal playground for Techno who it seems feels like it is a game to answer every question posted on this board before anyone else whether the answer is correct and has a sound basis for the reply or not.
This is where Techno and I differ. Of the experience I have with this software I will then try and answer a question if the problem has been experienced by myself and only then will I answer. I will not make guesses or pull suggestions out of a hat just so I can be the first to answer hoping people will find me important because I post the first reply.
Even when I do have the experience to TRY and answer a question, I will always do a search on the net to back up my own suggestions before wasting anybodys time and I always welcome people to correct any advice I give if they have had the same experience and know other ways of solving the problem as there is always more one way of solving a problem.
I do not take it personally if Iam corrected and thouroughly respect the people who do take time to give details of as to why they have given their advice as I always try to do, unlike Techno who tries to FORCE his advice upon newcomers who don't know any better and shams anybody who gives advice to the contrary.
Please don't get this post wrong. I am not trying to discredit ALL the advice that Techno supplies as some of it is sound advice. Unfortunately a lot isn't and is given with no solid basis and is often incorrect and obviously doesn't come from experience.
Having said this I must unfortunetly inform this board I shall no longer be able to activly reply to questions and give advice as I have a busy schedule coming up and sadly won't be able to attend this board as often to correct the distorted and time wasting advice of said inividual and one or two others.
I do like to help those in need and don't do it merely for my own pleasure because it gives me a kick and makes me feel important to see my name on every possible post replied to. I do it to help relieve the frustration of others by using my own experience because I know what it's like when it happens.
On a final note to any newcomers.
Before you take the advice of anyone on this board and one person especially, do yourself a favour a do a quick search on this board as your question has probably already been answered more than once by more than one person and also do a search on search engine with your problem and gather the advice of more than one person and then make your own mind up because as I have learned in the past, bad advice is as frustrating as the problem itself or no advice at all.
If anyone on this board does happen to think my advice has any credibility on this board then feel free to email me, but I can't guarantee a speedy reply.
Techno if your threats are a lame attempt to worry me that you have contacted the moderators.
I must unfortunately inform you I am already in contact with the board moderators and have asked them to review some of you previous posts and possibly ban your whole I.P. Due to your unsolicted distribution of hacks thus depriving the author of TMPGenc of hard earned recompense for his work which has the knock on affect of depriving us of regular updates and further development to the program.
It's not really personal but you need to seriously think about your activities on this board or you WILL be banned eventually.
Maybe you dont call this a bug BUT I DO!
It takes 30 minutes to cut up a mpeg file (1.8GB 1 hour playtime) in 4 pieces.
Man this software is from the darkages! Never heard of any inteligent searching or caching???
Better look elsewhere if you want to do cutting/encoding on a regular basis!
Shame tho as the encoder is very good.
Sorry, but it isn't the software that's slow my friend, but your system.
I don't have a problem with the speed and it cetainly doesn't take me 30 mins to split a file and I do regular cutting and merging and have found TMPG to be the best and most accurate cutting tool there is.
I suggest you review your system as it seems it's in need of some serious optimization.
My current system I must admit is pretty fast. A Pentium 4 1.7 clocked at 1.9 with 256 DDR memory and an Ultra ATA 100 IBM Deskstar 7200 with 8.2 ms seek time.
But nevertheless my old system was a P3 500 with 256 of sdram which still performed admirably and didn't take 30 mins to cut split files.
A few days ago I had some problems with the VCD sound, and I thought the problem was that I used 48 kHz sampling rate instead of 44.1 kHz. That was maybe one of the problems, but today I found another. When I use the Mpeg Tools to split the original mpg-file into two parts, the new files is not compatible with my DVD player. I also read somwhere else that there was a possible problem with the multiplexing tool. Does anybody know anything about this? Should I use another tool to split the file?
On some files which are classed as MS-MPEG4 in the properties, when i try to convert to MPEG1 the video does not display, even if i preview during convertion the video does not show up.
Can any one help ?
Does anyone know of a way to burn from .AVI to VCD directly ?
I'm using MyDVD 3.1 for DVD authoring. It will produce a 1.7 gig DVD from a 66 gig uncompressed AVI, and the quality is quite good. However, it leaves off the audio for the last segment, making it useless until this is resolved. Because TMPGEnc has a very good reputation, I tried using it as an intermediate step. This didn't work either, because only the first 16 seconds of the show are "seen" by MyDVD. I'm not a "paying" user of TMPGEnc yet, I don't know if that might be a factor?
I'd like to use TMPGEnc, as it offers much more versatility and presumably also better quality. Any suggestions as to how I can get past the 16 second barrier?
Hmm well I guess you are trying to produce a DVD file and got a AVI (uncompressed) with sound.
If you have space left, you could extract the sound in the AVI file, and check it with virtual bud or some other program.
The thing is that loads of strange errors and other stuff popup in tmpgenc if you don't have legit scource files (video and audio or seperate files). And do try using the standard templates, they solv a lot of problems as well.
66gb avi file sounds a lot, I guess you could have saved space if you had saved the file to some other format maby ?
myDVD is a piece of garbage.I stopped using it long ago.My editing is with Pinaccle SD7 deluxe, conversion with TMPGenc and burning with Videofactory.Works well and works every time.
Gene
Hello Techno, its a small world
Making of DVD's is getting pretty easy now,compared to the firedrills I went through after buying the HP DVD100i in October. And the HP media is as low as 5.68.Hope HP will give a coupon for us early buyers so we get the 200i at a lower price. On eBAY there are over 200 100i for sale at below $300. Planning to keep mine and put it in an older computer I have and get the 200i for my P4 machine.
myDVD looks pretty hopeless as does Pinaccles PE
Gene
I have been making successfull VCD's for quite awhile now, however, recently I have been recording baseball games into avi format. I use VirtualDub to capture with divx 4.0 compression. I then create a wav file from VDub for the audio output in TMPGEnc.
My problem is this: everything appears to work fine. When I check out the finished Mpeg,however, I lose video after about 2 hours and 15 minutes into the MPEG. Any ideas why this is happening and how I can correct it?
Only capture uncompressed if a very large and very fast hardrive otherwise you will get dropped frames due to the fact your hard drive can't keep up with the data flow.
If you have a decent processor there is no reason why you shouldn't capture to Divx. Actually anything above 500mhz is capable of doing this at 352x288 and if your card allows it capture at 640x480 for improved quality and use YUY2. Why use YUY2? ( and I doubt Techno even knows this ), well most capture cards natively use the YUY2 format which will make it easier on your processor. use any other format and it will have to be converted internally by your card.
Oh and one other thing to improve quality, totally ignore Techno's advice.
Thanks for advice Techo, but I have no problem capturing in compressed format. I am trying to convert the avi's I already have captured. I normally capture in WMV. but I have about 5 avis I want to convert to Mpeg. So changing my settings (whether it works better or not) will not help with the files I already have.
This is what I am attemping at this moment. I am splitting the avi's(into 3 parts) with VDub using converted wav(from VDub) as the audio source. Then I will attempt to convert to VCD(Mpeg1) each seperately.
No, It is not true. This is unfair comparison of testing just an aspect
of encoder. There are significant improvement between 12a and 2.53.
As far as I know, some people prefer 12a because :
1. 12a might accept broken file(s) than 2.0X or 2.5X.
I found that broken source movies (either audio or video is broken, or
there is gap between those) were accepted by 12a, but not by 2.5X. So
some people who only download files from somewhere, may like 12a.
However, this does not mean 12a accepts files in better way. I prefer
2.53 which does not accepts wrong/inappropriate file (which I usually do
not have.) since I like the improved quality.
2 12a has unlimited MPEG-2 encoding feature (I heard that it was made
before the author realizes MPEG-2 licensing matter.) But Version "12a"
is not officially available any more because of MPEG-2 licensing matter.
Although I know there are a few places which are re-distributing 12a
illegally without author's permission, I would rater respect copyrights,
by choosing 2.53.
I totally agree with R and through my own testing have found there is no quality loss from early versions to the latest version. All aspects of what the author of the article provided where in my testing unfounded.
1. there was no difference in file size
2. no difference in encoding speed
3. no qaulity change, if anything the quality is slightly better.
I must stress and point out this was through my own testing on my own system and isn't necessarily true for everyone which maybe the case of the author of the article.