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On my Sony DVD player it is not possible to play SVCD, but intereresting enough, you can compress a video to MPEG 2, then Multiplex to VideoCD using the TMPG MPEG Tools and finally write it using WinOnCD 5. Does it work for other DVD Players too?
It certainly works on the two machines I have tested it with. (A Sony and a Technics.) However, I did have to up the minimum bitrate to 650 (VBR CQ) to eliminate a few jerks. (Burnt with Nero.)
ok i managed to make a xsvcd file but ...
when burnig it to cd, nero lockes up, what is the problem ?
and yes i did set it to non standard compliant cd
Could someone please a list of command line parameters for TMPG? The classic "/?" switch does not work and, to be honest, I just don't want to do try and error. However, there have to be some kind of command line switches, since TMPG returns an error if you just pass two filenames to it, but I just can't find a list in the FAQ.
I'm pretty sure it is avaiable, I just don't know how to handle it... when I pass an AVI file to TMPG in the command line I get an illegal stream error. I mean sure, it's just an error, but it's mere existenece already tells us TMPG has command line support.
I downloaded and extraxcted the files. When I open the program, there are no letters or pictures or anything. Just blank boxes that don't do anything when I click them. When I first entered the site, I had to put in my WinXP installation disk to download fonts to view the site and I got an error telling me it couldn't find one file and skipped it to continue installing fonts. HELP!
Just use Mozilla and forget about Internet Explorer. Version 1.0RC1 is rock-solid and it displays about any language perfectly right, including Japanese, as in case of TMPG. About your problem in TMPG: Try setting your Win installation to English(US). Just an idea, maybe it works. I've got WinXP US Pro OEM installed and TMPGEnc works great!
I had the boxes in mind... coz windows shows them if there is no char with that ANSI code. Asuming he has a win installation with some sort of latin installed, this would mean TMPGEnc somehow switched to japanese, which his system is not capable of showing.
About selecting another language:
The menu at the top should contain three groups of boxes. When English is chosen they read:
File Option Help
choose the boxes in the middle(Option)
Now a menu like this pops up, you will see only boxes but that's all right
Just choose the second line (Language) then, in the menu that pops up, choose the line in the middle. This will set TMPGEnc to English(US) and let you see the menues properly (after restarting TMPG).
>Just use Mozilla and forget about Internet Explorer. Version 1.0RC1 is rock-solid and it displays about any language perfectly right, including Japanese, as in case of TMPG. About your problem in TMPG: Try setting your Win installation to English(US). Just an idea, maybe it works. I've got WinXP US Pro OEM installed and TMPGEnc works great!
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>Greetings from Germany
>Hans Schmucker
What is Mozilla and how do I use it? I went to the website and there were no download links. Help!!
Is wmv1 compression supported in TMPGEnc? I cannot open the avi file with an error message indicating the format is not supported. I also tried changing the VFAPI setting but to no avail. Any suggestions and ideas. Thanks.
Wmv isn"t really supported,there has been some success with wmv of you re-name it to asf,or you can encode the wmv to avi with asf tools....but I have no idea why you are getting the "can not open" error, try raising the "avi compatibility reader" or the "open dml file reader" but this only seems to work with dv files......make sure you have the right codecs....
Maybe you want to get a VirtualDub version 1.3 or earlier. This way you can save an ASF to AVI without recompressing it. Maybe it works for WMV to. Just an idea...
I have loaded into the main window of TMPG an MPEG2 formatted movie made from Pinnacle Studio 7 software. When I go to preview the file I get no sound. The movie contains both the video and audio source. What am I missing?
Does Pinacle produce MPEG2 files with AVI header? In case it does... use virtual dub. In case it doesn't... use the TMPG's Demultiplexer for extracting the audio from the mpg file (File/MPEG Tools/De-muliplexer) and look what you get, if you post it then we just might be able to help.
Hi, another newie here, having great difficulty, even getting started with TMPGE,trying to convert a movie avi file only to recieve a "cannot open or unsupported" error message, yet it will manage the audio fine? Help.
Go to your "enviromental settings" then to "vfapi plugins" and raise your "direct show" to "2" and lower every thing elce to "0".this should get it to work....
I am trying to convert some of my videos to vcd.
Saving private ryan is Damn long.
I have been trying to encode the second part which is about a 6 gig capture.
total time is 91 minutes 3 secs.
I am trying to fit it onto an 80 minute cd.
I have succesfully used TMPGEnc to calc the first part perfectly.
It was 1 hour 20 minutes long and it came out to exactly fit on an
80 minute cd
but the second part keeps coming out to be 908 megabytes(952,000 kbs)
cbr @ 982 was what I was trying.
What did I change or am doing wrong now.
Please help I have encoded this thing about twice now lowering the bit rate
It takes 4 and half hours to encode this!help
Why are you so eager to fit so much on a cd,the quality will be total crap,any movie with more than 80minutes of vcd on one cd will be really bad quality, come on cd"s are like 50 cents each I think you can come up with some pocket change for the extra cd,If you want a good quality vcd dont have the bitrate lower than 1150kbs,I dont go lower than 1650kbs and with that bitrate I get 60min on a cd,and if the bitrate gets to low your dvd player won"t be able to read it cuz dvd players have a minimum bitrate they can read and your vcd"s will have a stop start effect in high motion scenes....Trust me with vcd"s the direction to go with bitrate is up not down.........
I just toyed around with VBR VCDs. With 2 pass VBR min/mean/max 750/1300/1850 I can fit ~73 minutes on an 80 mins CDR in quite nice quality. VBR is NOT in in the VCD specs but at least my Yamakawa DVD player has no problems with it.
In my humble option the quality of an VCD with 1150 kbps CBR is plain ugly and not worth the encoding time.
My thoughts exactly,and i haven"t had problems with vbr in vcd either,I think most players will play vcd"s as long as the bitrate isn"t to low and the frame is the right size,and of course 41000hz audio.....
there is something wrong here and i cant figure out what no matter what bit rate I choose it comes out as 908 megs(952 kbs).I have tried deleting the config file ??does tmpeg make registry entries.I have tried encoding at various bit rates and same result.Has this happened to anybody else.I bet i am making some really stupid mistake .I just cant figure out what.It seems to me I encoded the first part which was an 1 hour 10 minutes at about 1600 or something i am seriously confused.I just slipped in an new 1000 mhz processor tho so I guess I can make the same mistakes faster heh heh :( Help
tmpgenc wont make a mpeg file with such a low bitrate that it doesn"t have enough bytes to make up the movie you are makeing because if the bitrate is too low you wont have anything accept some pixels on a frame and major "buffer underflow".tmpgenc wont make a movie for me if I put in 200kbs because the buffer wont have enough info to make up the frames, there is a minimum bitrate that you can have and still have a image...
Hood load a template to make VCD! That will get your started. If your movie has a pan-and-scan version then that might be an easier experiment than the widescreen one.
if the movie is 70 minutes as you say then your 900+ megs of movie is too big to be correct - as in VCD standard ntsc. Read up on the basics at vcdhelp.com.
29.97 frames per second - 240x352 Framesize and 1150k data, is the USA standard.
and the only way you could have that tiny kbps is if your framesize is too small.
Keep us informed, maybe others could learn from your mistakes.
k
This happens to me too, sometimes. First of all, check in Option->Preview
that you do not have preview fixed to 320x240 (check "do not fix"). Second,
try opening the same file again. For me, the second time around, it works ;-)
>When I try to open a DVD NTSC file I get this error message : can not open, or unsupported. Note: I have no problem opening MPEG 1 files just MPEG 2.
Whilst merging 2 files encoded using TMPGENC for VCD, the output file has a beep and a break in the audio at the end of part one. I've also noticed that there is a break in the audio at the end of part 2. On using the merge/cut just to process a signle part the same thing happened a gap in the audio at the end of the output file. Can anyone help with this or is this a bug?
I am using Pinnicle to capture video and edit it no problems there. The problem is how to make a VCD to play on my DVD player. I have been able to make a VCD and play it on my DVD in MPEG1 but the quality is poor. I have latest versions of Nero and Easy CD Creator to burn CD's. I have downloaded TMPGEnc and updated Pinnicle.Can anyone help or give me a good site link that may help?
1) try MPEG-2
2) what is the bitrate capacity of your DVD player when playing VCD? My player reads only up to 2500bps when playing VCD. This isn't all that great if your video has any motion (in my opinion). If your player can read higher than 2500, try encoding at a higher bitrate. I haven't done this but have read that others have done this with success.
3) Unfortunately the next step would be a DVD burner. I'm doing it a bit now and am happy.
doug
Yes the vcdhelp.com has many tutorials, even if they don't relate to your sys.
The guide for using Dazzle and TMPGEnc can be applied to your sys.
They have sample files there, I suggest trying XVCD if you can't do SVCD (mpeg-2) on your player.
I capture at a higher bitrate at 352x240, and my player plays to nearly 2000k bitrate instead of 1150k.
That guide will help explain how to use settings on TMPGEnc, and there are other guides there - to help making better-looking VCDs.
You have the same quest as all of us, basically.
You could download some multimedia postings for sampling Quality from the binaries groups also. For example TV show Millennium is excellent SVCD - but others are not much better than VCD.
Use Virtualdub to make a wav-file of the sound and then use the wav-file as the auidosource in TMPG-enc. Make sure that you save the wav at 44.1 kHz. (Audio-Conversion in VirtualDub) and have no compression. (Audio-Compression in VirtualDub). You must have the "Full processing mode" marked in the audiomenu. After this just "Filemenu ==> save wav".
the reason some divx movies don"t have sound is because some divx movies have ac3 audio which "tmpgenc" can"t read ,I don"t think "virtuadub" can read it eithere but you can try,I use "sound forge" to extract the audio and encode it to wav then load that in tmpgenc for the audio..
If sound and video work in VirtualDub, why don't you use the integrated frameserver . Works great on my system (also you can apply better filters thru Virtualdub without saving to another avi first)