what is the best settings to use to take a DVD and make it into a VCD? I would also like to know about the GOP structure and what if any changes to make would it do. my home player only supports vcd and xvcd but not svcd.

thanks

well, use xvcd.

use these settings:

load the vcd/xvcd temp

load the unlock temp

change the vbv buffer size to 224

set it to 10 bits

set it to very high quality

brighten up the picture a tad

That is really all, u can't change the GOP structure, otherwise it is not vcd/xvcd compliant!

Best of luck

Techno

I've a mpeg file which is about 100 MB and if I play it with Windows Media Player it shows that the mpeg file is 1:38. But the player plays the mpeg file beyond 1:38...Is there any way to fix this size/time difference?

Btw: I tried to convert it with TMPG, but TMPG sees only the first 1:38.

well it must be that long then! try re-encoding it.

make sure u haven't got the source range filter checked in the advanced settings.

Techno

you can try to "de-multi plex" and then "multi-plex" this way the file statistics will be re-writen and hopefully the the proper length.......

After may weeks I sucessfully burnt my first SVCD. I did this by using TMPGng and the used Mpeg tools to convert it to a VCD (my DVD player does not play SVCD).

I set CBR=2000, interlaced... and at all the ther setting in VCD help.

I use this to make home movies with a JVC DL320U (780 x 480 pixels) capture the AVI file in this format.

I get fuzzy edges to all the high motion frames. Looks awful.. Please can I get some help on how to overcome this.

Thanks

hmmm.

What settings did u capture in?

use these:

NO RECOMPRESSION
YU12
320*240
25/30fps
CD quality audio

Then convert to VCD

Techno

I am trying to use the TMGEnc program to make VCDs it has been working fine so far and I have made a couple. The problem I am having now is that I have a file .avi that it tells me it cannot read or is not supported. It works fine when I open it normally (the Avi file) and it has the same properties as other files I have used for vcds. Is there anything I can do? Do I need to try to convert it to another type of file?
Please help
Kris

This happens when you are trying to convert an .avi encoded with DivX;).
It is still possible but you have to do the following first:
1. Download and instal VirtuaDub from: >>http://www.virtualdub.org/<<
2. Start Virtualdub. Open your video File->Open video(if you get any warnings just ignore them because you won't edit the video just extract the audio). Select File->File Information and note the fps as the video source fps because you will need it later.
3. Select under Audio->Full processing mode.
Select Audio->Compression and select <No compression (PCM)>
4. Select Audio->Conversion.
Change the the Sampling rate to 44100Hz if you are going to make VCD or SVCD MPEGs.
5. Save the wav by clicking on File->Save WAV...the wav will be a huge audio uncompressed video file(about 10 MB/minute so for this 80 min movie a 800 MB wav file).
6. Start TMPEnc. Press cancel if the Project Wizard comes.
Press BrowseEand select the DivX file as Video source input.
Now you press the Browse button for choosing the Audio source input and use the saved wav file.
7. Press load and load the file which in the Template directory of TMPGenc.
If the video source fps is 29,970 load VideoCD (NTSC).mcf
If the video source fps is 23,970 load VideoCD (NTSCFilm).mcf
If the video source fps is 25,000 load VideoCD (PAL).mcf
If the video source fps is anything else else just load NTSC if you live in US or Japan and PAL if you live anywhere else.
8. Im sure that you know what to do now...
Greetings all BOOZstrikers
MagicWant2Shaq

your problem is simple. I'll assume you got the avi from the net. Download and install Mpeg4 Mp43 Codec. some of the net movies like the ones coming from tmd and smr have a weird encryption code. you can also download avi info that will tell you the encryption compression used on any avi file.

Thanks for the help, I have actually already done all that, the problem comes when I choose the file, the program will not load it and gives me the error that the file will cannot open, or unsupported.
?

Kris

GO TO YOUR "ENVIROMENTAL SETTINGS" to "vfapi plugins" and raise your "direct show" to "2" and if this don"t work adjust the "avi compatability reader"...this works 9 times out of 10 for your problem.....hope it helps.....sherlock

and the avi opendml filter to a higher priority! :)

Well done sherlock! :)

Techno

Hi Kris.
I hope I can help. Many files downloaded on net say they are avi files but are not true files. Just downloaded panic room and tmpge said file not supported or unknown. This is what to do. Download vitual dub( assume you have it already) Open video file, click video, then full processing mode, click video and select conversion. Now what you want is divx low motion video. Click configure and then click file. Then sav as avi. Name this file so you can recognize it later. It will come up with a warning but has never caused me a problem. Ignore it. After it is finished, open tmpge, select browse and select file you just made as your video source. Then select wav( I assume you made this in virtual dub) Then select load and select format( ntsc, pal, etc)Click on settings, advanced, check source range, double click, put in start and finish frames, ok, ok then start. Good luck. If you use virtual dub, tmpge and vcd easy, it is a winning combo and works great. What you are really doing is using a hack code to bring the video into a format that tmpge will accept.

Or the much quicker, simpler method to preserve quality.
Open your file in Virtualdub. Click file>start frameserver then click start in the box that comes up. Save the file somewhere and give it an avi extension then load that file into TMPG and encode.

SMR, Angel potion and all the other silly codecs that claim are better are all rip offs of Divx or MPEG4 and merely change a few parameters of the file such as the FourCC code and won't give any better quality than good old DiVx so steer clear if you can.

ASHY

can you help me i have just ripped a film that went ok but when i come to use tmpgenc( i have used both versions) the computer freezes up but not at the same place all the time your help would be very much appreciated

same frames maybe corrupted. Make sure you are not loading the vob's in TMPGENC, it was not designed to do this.

make a project in dvd2avi and install the VFAPI plugin for dvd2avi and then load the project in TMPGENC and encode.

Techno

I am trying to export a movie in Premiere 6. It is a collection of stills that I am making an AVI out of (later to encode to Xsvcd).All was fine until recently. When I try to export the movie(Microsoft DV AVI) it gets to frame 133 then I get "error writing movie (disk full?). The disk is not full. Any help would be great !

Thanks----Ron

the file maybe over 4GB therefor u must have FAT32, so convert to NTFS :)

Techno

Techno--How do I convert to NTFS??

To convert FAT or FAT32 to NTFS in NT/2000/XP, open command prompt and run this command:

convert c: /FS:NTFS

where c: is the drive letter you want to convert. If it is locked it will ask you if it should mark it as convert on next boot. Say yes, then reboot.

I met a problem when I tried to capture a VHS video(NTSC) using Virtual Dub.

Since Virtual Dub provides 'Overlay' and 'Preview' mode for capturing, I tried 'Preview' mode because I had problem to capture it couple of times.

It is 45 min tape.

After I finished it with overlay mode quite well, I tried it with WMP but I could only see a little upper part of it.

So I tried Preview mode. As soon as I start capture, screen shows only a little part of upper screen(1/15).

Why is that? Is it copy protected?

I captured many VHS tapes without any problem like this.

The reason why I'm trying to capture and make VCD is that video quality of this VHS tape is deteriorating rapidly since my wife use it every day.

I hope I could find solution^^

Kisoo

Is it why that it's copy protected by macrovision technique which I don't know well.

Any software to decrypt it?

Kisoo

If you have used the equipment you have now and been sucsessfull lot's of times before it's probably something with the tape. It could be a macrovision thing probably. Maby you need a filter that you put between your VCR and Capturecard in order to filter out the macrovision or maby it's just a copy protection. Try to copy the tape between two VCR's and if the copy is screwed up that's most lightly the problem, some sort of copy protection.

Other than that I don't know but I guess you could go to a stor and have them copy it for you if the quality is degrading and you really need a copy for safe keeping untill you have found a way to capture it to vcd.

/Regards Dennis

it has nothing to do with that.

try using avi_io to capture.

Then increase the avivfw and the avi opendml priorities to a higher priority in the environment settings and load the avi and make VCD!

:)

Techno

1. Thanks Dennis

Is there any software filter to clean it if it's related with Macrovision thing?

2. Thanks Techno

Is AVI-IO a program? Then where can I get it?

Kisoo

it is free, search for it on the web.

This also avoids the 4GB limit, by splitting it over several files.

Techno

If your are info VHS to VCD capturing maby you should think about getting some PRO equpiment then ?

Will probably save you lot's of problems and time :)

Well

I tried Techno theory that Nero accept and apply time scale than just file size.

I captured two dv-avi from 6mm DV CAM tape. Each has 160Mbyte and 620Mbyte size respectively.

And I had 700Mbyte CDR.

I burned them and I had problem with my system. It halted and I had to force rebooting. But I found 160Mbyte and 620Mbyte MPEG-2 on that 700Mbyte cd and the end of SVCD and what I encoded matched, not cut off.

I do not understand how it could happen. But it works.

Time is around 49min.

Kisoo

This is no voodoo =)

When burning an (S)VCD you can use the full ~800MB capacity of an 80 Minute Disk. When burning an iso9660 Data CD the missing 100MB are for checksums.
You can find more detailed information at www.vcdhelp.com

happy weekend

M.Bastian

Do you mean that I can burn 800Mbyte on 700Mbyte(80min) disk?

Also 160 and 620Mbye mpeg-2 files are already encoded using TMPGenc, not just captured dv-avi files^^.

Kisoo

It is possible to burn that YES.

I have burnt a 823Megabyte MPG file onto a CD as SVCD.

:)

800mb is the limit for 700mb cd"s in vcd and svcd mode........

I have used Smartripper to get a movie from a DVD and then passed it through DVD2AVI. Then I use TMPGENC (ver 2.53 lastest) to encode the video I am using Mpeg 2 with CBR at a bit rate of 4000. The result is the movie is too large to fit on a 4.7GB DVD-r.

I have tried to change the bit rate from 4000 to 3500. That did not reduce the size.
I have used the 2 pass VBR. That did not reduce the size.

Do you other suggestions?


Thanks in advance.

David

use auto_cq and quality should be set to 100
enter 8000 for max bitrate and 0 for minimum

Techno

I finally was able to download TMPGEnc that was a complete file. Now I am having difficulties with the vfp file. Everytime I download it, I get an "unexpected end of archive" error. Where can I find the complete file of this?

As mentioned in license.txt. TMPGEnc.net is only legal and official place which provides program and VFAPI plug-in.

I have been downloading so many times with different PC, browser etc., such as Win98, Win2000, WinXP, IE4, 5.5, 6, and Netscape 4, I have never faced any downlaoding/unzipping problem. I expect you to check your hardware, software configlation if everything is working properly.

when I try to download it, it tells me that it is a corrupt or split file. I have no problem dl'ing anything else, just these 2 files.

What I suggest, to make sure, is to go to a different system and download it and extract it. If it works, then part of your modem/nic is faulty which is corrupting the files.

Techno

Downloading from the internet.

Ok. take a look at http://www.softdeko.8m.com/download_managers.htm

There are a lot to choose from GetRight and GoZilla are a couple of popular names.
A download Manager assists you to download from the internet and helps prevent files becoming corrupted or if your connection fails the part downloaded file will still be there to carry on with.

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When I encode an avi for videoCD format elapsed times ocurs, that its to say, the motion is frozen a miliseconds

Hi,

I've transformed an .avi file in a dvd file.
Now how I can burn it in a cd?

burn it in a CD?

You can make a SVCD or VCD if you wish (to play it on a standalone dvd player)

But if you make a DVD in TMPGENC, you cannot play it on a standalone DVD player, you need a DVD burner, DVD-R media's and DVD writer software to burn this.

Techno