if I take two files that, together, total some 780 megs,
and I burn them with VCDEasy to a VCD 2.0 standard,
it works great.
However, if I use TmpgEnc to merge the two before using VCDEasy,
suddenly the single merged file will not fit on an 80 min CD...
hmmm.... a lot of padding is taking place somewhere...don't know
where yet. I think in VCDEasy... not sure yet.
Anyone else notice this?
-Don

Amazing...
Someone or some people must be working on this constantly.
well... I loved 2.54, so I'm sure I'll like 2.54a...
wonder what they fixed?
-Don

Somewhere on the homepage all changes in the versions are listed.

Well, I head that the author is only 21 years old..., but TMPGenc is really good program I think.

I hope the author and people in Pegasys Inc. keep good work.

I've got an (ATI All-In-Wonder 7500) video bd that converts all my videos to ATI Files. Is there a plugin to convert these to another format that I can use to record a VCD or SVCD.

I sure you mean avi files. And you can use TMPEGEnc to convert to VCD or SVCD.

I can't get synchronized sound if I encode directly from an AVI file produce by my AVI file. (It is WAY off.)

The sound will be synched if I load the AVI into an editor and save it back out. I use Huffyuv RGB codec for this step.

Keep an eye out for this and maybe somebody has a solution.

NO, they have been changed to "ATI File Player" files. This is what Win Explorer and Properties see it as. Help

The ATI format is very proprietary. I suggest capturing with something like VirtualDub or preferably iuVCR (which I haven't tried, but it looks good). Incidentally, when capturing with VirtualDub with my old All-in-Wonder Pro card I can use the DivX 5 codec to capture directly to DivX format, which allows hours of recording in only a few Gb. Then convert the DivX AVI file to SVCD MPG format with TMPGEnc.

The ATI format is very proprietary. I suggest capturing with something like VirtualDub or preferably iuVCR (which I haven't tried, but it looks good). Incidentally, when capturing with VirtualDub with my old All-in-Wonder Pro card I can use the DivX 5 codec to capture directly to DivX format, which allows hours of recording in only a few Gb. Then convert the DivX AVI file to SVCD MPG format with TMPGEnc.

ATI newer models allow changing the capture format to a non-proprietary codec. It captures fine using Huffuv except the audio is offset.

Through some experimentation, I found that there seem to be an extra 7-8 frames of audio at the beginning.

Fast recompress in VirtualDub with an offset of -266ms gets the audio synced back up.

ATI's big advantage: it has a remote control that the other capture programs do not have.

HI All
I've seen this a few times here but I'm having an issue with tmpg not displaying any picture while encoding.
I've tried using different codecs, I've tried 3.11, 4.11, 5..and I've installed the smr patch.
Alas its still encoding with no picture, sound is fine. Now I know this isn't tmpg's fault because on the other computer with 4.11 codec its fine (except that comp crashes often so I can't use it for the 4hrs encode jobs..dont even go there, I've tried EVERYTHING with that one bar processor replacement)
Basicly during the encoding you won't see any picture and if written to vcd the dvd player will just play sound but no picture.
The computer is a P3 500, 196meg ram and a tnt2 vid card. But since its a number crunching task I doubt the other details on it are very important.
Both comps use winxp.
Has anyone has this and found a solution. I've wanting to convert divx to svcd so I can watch on the dvd player.

I think the codec you are looking for is the mpeg2 codec,with this codec you can see the mpeg2 files,but if you can"t see anything while you are encodeing then you got other problems cuz if you can"t see the file while it is encodeing, if it is a black screen then there is something wrong.......

Hi, I have some perfectly good avi films which i want to burn to vcd, but when i re-encode them to mpeg using this software i get no Audio. please help.

During the setup process the audio "line" is flat as if there is no audio there

i have the same problem... if you figure it out please post to let us know

What kind of audio do your avi."s have?"tmpgenc" can"t read all audio formats, what you should do is load your avi. files into "virtua dub" and extract the audio to "wav" and load that file in "tmpgenc" as the audio track and load your avi in as your video.Make sure that the audio output in "tmpgenc" is 41000hz not 48000hz and between 128kbs & 224kbs .......

After I have created an .MPG file (using Version TMPGEnc 2.54 or 2.53) I get error messages when trying to creating a VCD as follows:

Not Acceptable - System Clock Reference 1058 and

Probably OK for 3 items - Video Pack Size 2048, Audio Pack + Padding 2048 and Last Pack Size 2052.

What settings have I make that are wrong?

First stop using that Roxio crap.
Run your MPEG through the 'Simple multiplex' option in the MPEGtools in TMPG.
Make sure you put the same file in both the video and Audio boxes.
In the box which says 'Type' choose 'MPEG-1 Video cd' then choose your output and click run.

After that burn in NERO not Roxio Easy cd creator.
http://www.nero.com

ASHY

ASHY'S suggestion worked.

ASHY obviously is astute since I never mentioned EASY CD CREATOR in my message but ASHY knew I was using it. And ASHY is right about EASY CD CREATOR PREMIUM. They have bugs when it is run in WINDOWS XP. For example when I format a disk, I must reboot before the disk drive can be used again; and if I don't use the program software eject the system crashes with the dreaded blue screen (i.e., I can't push the eject buttom on the CD drive).

ASHY, I am a novice. Can you explain why your suggestion worked and what was wrong?

I have an MPEG-2 file (352x480, 4Mb/s) that I want to shrink a bit in size...
So I thought I would recode it as 352x240, 23.997 fps, or 352x480, 23.997 fps -
and see what the results would be like. But no matter how I try, I seem to
be losing the last couple of seconds worth of the video stream - it freezes up
the video, and holds it for that last couple of secs... Is it something I am doing wrong?

This is what I do:
1. Demux original MPEG-2
2. Take video (352x480 4MB/s) and recode as (352x240, 23.997, CQ 95)
3. Multiplex resulting video and audio stream.
4. Play resulting MPEG-2.

Thank you!

Moises

Hi

I was just wondering if it was possible to input a mpeg2 stream, and run just the filters (ie noise reduction) without actually reencoding the whole video.. For example i have a capture with a bit of noise and want to clean it up, but i dont want to waste time by "reencoding it as well"

Any help please mail me

tekadept@hotmail.com

Cheers

1) When do you receive the activation code?
2) Do you get the user's manual in e-mail and how do you get it and print it out ?
3) Is the activation code good for future versions of the program ?
4) How do you clean-up your WinXP register of old program expiration entries (without having to edit them out)? I have Norton Utilities 2002, but don't know if it will do it with Win Doctor or System Doctor.

Well, wrong place to ask such question.

You need to visit www.pegasys-inc.com for "TMPGEnc Plus".

I ordered and payed for the PLUS version.
It seems identical to the trial but no nagging.
my reg. # worked on newer versions.
I never got any sort of manual.
Would I do it again? Yes.
It's an outstanding piece of work and deserves our money.
--Don

> I never got any sort of manual.
If you have bought Plus 2.53 or before, you are free to upgreade to
Plus 2.54, and it includes manual!

when I download updates from pegasys,
there's no manual.

> when I download updates from pegasys,
> there's no manual.

I do not think so, if it is TMPGEnc Plus 2.54 or later,
it includes manual for sure.

If you have downloaded 2.53 or before, there was not manual
included.

As RX said, just download Plus 2.54 or later, then you
will see the manual.

the last version I downloaded was 2.54a...no manual ...
what file is this manual? maybe I can find it.
thanks,
Don

I have a movie which says I need divx 5.0 to play...and I have installed divx 5 pro and I get no sound or audio - nothing!!
I have the same problem with a movie that says I need the smr patch...got it...installed it and again no sound or audio.
Does anyone know what is wrong????????
I have also installed nimo 5.0 - doesn't help

I am running PIII 866 on win98

thanks
Jules

Go to the divx web site , they probably know more about divx than us...

In at least the last two builds, 29.97fps material becomes 2997fps in the source range under the Advanced tab. Because of that, the frame number is all wrong and the number of frames tops out at about an hour.

Try to download it and re-install tmpgenc cuz i have never heard of that before It"s not like that on mine....

Hmmmm... I think I might have found the problem. I was using VideoServer to frameserve from Premiere, and that seems to be the culprit. Sorry... false alarm.

I have my movie broken into multiple AVI files. They are 650 MB each because I have them saved on CDs. I want to create a DVD MPEG2 file from these four files, but it looks like I can only select 1 AVI source file. What should I do?

just encode one part at a time and join them together with the "merge & cut" feature......

There are three ways to this.
One is Minions way.
The second is to use virtualdub. Open the first part of the movie in Virtualdub then click File>Append AVI segment and add your second file and repeat this step until you have added all the files you wish to join together.
Each file will joined at the end of the previous file. To check what the files will look like together just move the slider to the right to scan through your movie.
If everything is as you want it just frameserve the movie to TMPG.

If you need info on frameserving, check here:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/virtualdubframeserve.htm

The third is to encode all your movies separately then just add each one after the other to NERO then highlight all the files and right click and choose properties. Here change the pause setting to 0 and burn with 'disk at once'.
Your files will then play smoothly to the next in the order you put them without any pauses in between.

ASHY