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OK guys i need you all to help me with TMPGEnc settings to get the best possible picture quality from a conversion of a divx-avi file to an MPEG 1 or 2 format! The mpeg files will NOT be stored on a cd! They will be stored on a hard drive so i wont need to worry about file size! These files will be played on a tv so i have to get the best possible picture from them........
I'm not being funny about this, but what you are suggesting is totally pointless.
What is the point of converting from a perfectly good AVI to an MPEG file which will just give you a larger file and no increase whatsoever in image quality if you are just going to store it on the hard drive???
Sort of defeats the purpose doesn't it?
Is there a way to increase the "DVD-speed" in Smart Ripper 2.41?
on one machine (P3-700mhz) I get 3.5 + on the speed
on my home (Athlon 1.4ghz) I get 2.0 or below...
yes, DMA is turned on...
-Don
How fast you can rip depends on you DVD drive and how fast your hardrive is.
First make sure you aspi layer is up to date.
Don't go with ASPI 4.7 as I find it has problems with some software stick with ASPI 4.6 as smart ripper is optimized for this.
You say DMA is turned on. Is it enabled for both hard drive and the DVD drive?
Another important one is make sure your DVD drive is set as a primary drive not a slave.
And last but not least disable the S.M.A.R.T. feature in your bios for your hard drive.
With these settings my Pioneer 10x DVD drive went from a maximum rip speed of 6 to a maximum of 9.2x!
Ashy, how would I check the aspi version?
both my CD drives run off the same IDE cable, so one is a slave, one is a master... but how would you know that without cracking open the case?
I've updated to Nero's aspi drivers...and that helped a little.
I'm using a 1.4gig athlon and a 122gig maxtor drive with a 16x dVD.
I still only get about 4 on the dvd drive speed.
hhmmmmmm.....
You can check which drive is on which IDE channel when your PC boots up. Just look at the configuration settings screen when you boot and here will be a list of devices your cdrom devices will be listed and should say either primary or slave. To stop the screen so you can look just press the 'Pause' button then press enter to resume.
And just to repeat, make sure the SMART feature is off. This will speed things up.
Also don't have any packet writing software installed.
Disable your antivirus software.
If you have Nero installed, uninstall Easy cd creator if you have it installed as these two programs conflict.
What operating sytem are you using and what is the model of your DVD drive. Is it a Toshiba by any chance?
Is there a way to increase the "DVD-speed" in Smart Ripper 2.41?
on one machine (P3-700mhz) I get 3.5 + on the speed
on my home (Athlon 1.4ghz) I get 2.0 or below...
yes, DMA is turned on...
-Don
Problem: screeching/chirping/pinging noise in final mpg file
I use
smart ripper 2.41
DVD2AVI 1.75
TmpgEnc 2.53
VCDEasy 1.09
If I split the file WHILE encoding, the audio is fine.
If I use the "mpg tools" in TmpgEnc to split or merge,
the screeching appears in the audio track.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Don't know if it's fixed yet with 2.54. Will test.
-VB
The first time I used the program, everything ran great. Seems to be a good program. Then I ripped another DVD to M2v and AC3, converted AC3 to Wav and went into TMPGenc to Encode into MPG. The Video Seems to load fine in the wizard, but when you go to The bitrate conversion screen with the bar at the bottom that shows how big you file is going to be there is now bat, and it says that size is .03 MB. I do the same thing w/ only the audi and it shows fine. I assume there is something wrong with the m2v file, but I can play it fine in windows media player, and ReMPEG2 reencodes the same file fine. Help Please, much rather use this program...
What do you mean you ripped the DVD to M2v and ac3
Why did you do that?
Just use the DVD2AVI method which is much simpler and faster and won't give you the problem you are having which I guess is due to the fact you don't have an MPEG2 codec installed to open the file.
I am getting a can find format error when I try to convert my divx to vcd.
do I need a plugin ? If so wheere can I get all the
peg plugins
I have the 4.11 , 5.0 divix encoder install on xp os.
Running TMPEGenc 2.53 on XP (Intel 2Ghz, 512MByte memory)
TMPEGenc crashes in some cases when merging large MPEG2 files
because of lack of memory. However, this is strange because
in some cases it successfully merges even larger files (up to 4.5 GByte).
The behaviour is always the same: the error occurs after finishing
the video and audio part when writing the file on disk. After about
700Mbyte the required virtual memory increases from about 130MByte
to more than 2Gbyte until XP finally gives up.
Could someone please explain the error 'Index of scan line is out of range 240'I am having problems understanding what I am doing wrong.I am new to this and would appreciate some help please. Thankyou Jo
I think this is something to do with an error in the AVI. Something to do with the fact that there is only active video information starting from the 21st scanline and for some reason the information in your AVI is starting before that which is out of range.
If it plays ok in Media player then I would suggest either running it through virtual dub and re-encoding the file or use Virtual dub to frameserve the file to TMPG.
Click here for instructions how to frameserve. http://www.vcdhelp.com/virtualdubframeserve.htm
Can someone help me with this problem, I have looked at the site vcdhelp.com and tried doing research on the net, and still havent been able to extract my audio right. Plus I have looked at this site for help.I have downloaded Easy Audio CD-DA and have extracted my audio, but the audio comes out distorted! I have tried to make it a wav file and mp3 and all come's out the same, bad!
It will load in TMPGEnc after extracting it, but comes out the same. I dont know what sound file it is on my avi. But will not load as it is. And cant seem to convert it to any good sound file.
After you have installed goldwave and the filters open up your AVI in goldwave.
Wait for it to de-flash the file then click File>save as and save your audio as a wav then load that into TMPG as your audio with your movie.
I'm using a 480x480 source and trying to make a 480x480 output MPEG2. I have video settings to center at custom size 480x480, yet i'm still getting a 640x480 output, with an improper aspect ratio! What am I missing.....
There are two ways to do this seeing as your output is the same as the source.
You need to set your source aspect ratio to '4:3 display' and your output ratio to '4:3 display'.
Set the Video arrange method to 'Full screen (keep aspect ratio)'
Or, and this is the method I would choose, select 1:1 for both the output and source aspect ratio.
Make sure the output frame size is 480x480 under the video tab in both cases.
I should have said the preferred method would be to set your source aspect ratio to '4:3 display' and your output ratio to '4:3 display'.
Make sure the output frame size is 480x480.
This will give you the correct ratio for your TV.
It is impossible for it to come out at that resolution if you set it at 480x480.
How are you verifying that the resolution is at 640x480?
Download this program and open your file and copy the statisics and paste them here. http://teco.emg.hu/bitratev/BV.EXE
Also set the file up as you would to encode it then copy and paste the info from TMPG that you can see at the bottom. For example:
MPEG-1 352x240 29.97fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 192kbps
I am using WMP to view resolutions..
Super Video-CD NTSC (MPEG-2 480x480 29.97fps CBR 635kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)
is the info line.. will d'l the BV.exe
Windows Media Player gives me a problem with retaining details about a file - when file is re-made the old details are still displayed. I don't think too highly of WMP. Don't know if this is your issue, but I have gotten good at cleaning the old info out of WMP memory :)
Is there a limit to the file size that TMPGEnc can deal with? Because whenever I get to the 4GB size it stops encoding and will go no further. i have plenty of disc space, etc. etc.
Your problem is the FAT32 file size limit.
If you need to create a file bigger than that you will need to format your drive using the NTFS file system in either NT Windows 2000 or Windows XP.