I am converting a animated series (initialD) which is in DivX format to VCD2.0

I follow this conversion guide http://www.vcdhelp.com/divxtovcd.htm with good results BUT when I go to burn the mpg in Nero or VCDEasy it starts then reports a buffer under run. I tried burning on another PC and I got the same issue. The Mpg plays fine and looks perfect, I am stumped?

I have plenty of free Hdd space (Gb's), 256Mb RAM, and a PIII 1000GHtz and have tried a different burner and a whole other machine.

I have heard TMPGEnc can cause the mpg to come out "different" and some programs report it as a problem with the file but can correct it???

It doesn't have anything to do with the source of your file, once it's converted to VCD file. Your subject line is misleading.

for what it's worth, I can only get a 2x burning of vcd's.

using vcd easy with celeron 566 and 256 ram and nearly all systray closed.

Otherwise Buffer Underrun, baby :/


How about you others? Do the new 'burn-proof' cd writers make a difference?

Thanks kingsley,

So I might just try closing everything down first before writing. I was burning at 2x and still had the error.

Is it better to use CBR or VBR for a vcd?

(cbr or vbr?, start a new post topic.)

I first reboot, and then close the internet software, the virusscan, the firewall, and my performance is around 86percent at that time.

I use VCD easy to burn the file.

Here's a tip, I have a multigig partition that I keep clean, I scandisk and defragment and use that for writing the bin/cue, and then write the disk from that.

I think if your file is scattered on a normal harddisk you will certainly have troubles as the 500+ megs for the vcd are first scattered as an mpeg, and then the disk file is written scattered also. Nero probably uses the temp folder, and that would be a problem.

VCDeasy you can choose and direct where to write the bin/cue to by default, and I have it set to a folder on the clean partition.

Take a day and scan and defrag your only hard drive until you get a spare.You might try writing the bin/cue with vcdgear if you can't use the above right away.

Get the small VCD file at vcdhelp and burn it, to get you going, man.

I'll be adding a new 7200rpm HD soon, for better performance. A Must!

let us know how it works out. VCD gear is a freebie I use every day.
k

hey man... vcd standart is cbr... no more to add to that... BTW... initialD rules... me has the dvds :) it rules and rocks and rules... :D So u'r into anime too ;)

Well with your pc config i find it very weird to have those probs... here a bit of helpdesk for ya... (man even when i dont work in helpdesk i still do helpdesk :p):

See if your HD is very fragmented? If s defragemnte before burning anything... imagine your files being divide into 200 parts... wowowow... what prograsm are u loading at startup? the best would be not to load anything... use the msconfig or edit the registry manully
HKLMsoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrent version
un\nsee whats runnning there
tehre is also the same till current version
un services\n
If your not confortable with registry or dont knwo what to do... dont so a thing here... it might destroy your windows instalation... you'll have to restore the resgistry thru dos or even reinstall your OS.

More things... make scandisks as often as possible... acocording to your use... if you use ny based OS then convert ll drives to ntfs.. even though it takes a little more resources... in your case you wont even notice the diference...

hummmm... more... make sure you reinstall your OS every 3 months or so... install form scratch... dont do repair or reinstall... just install from zero... try not to install software u dont actually use... and always uninstall the sftware... dont delete the folders... also if you can afford it,buy a maintainance program like norton utilities to monitor your computer... well i actually dont use it... but i do maintainance manually and install the OS every month... well i actually dont reinstall... i use ghost ;) I'm an encoder... and use windows (2000 and Xp)... it doesnt really matter what windows i use... ist windows... so it self corrupts itself everytime u have the computer on... and mine is on 24/7... so u see my agony... cant wait to master vide encoding in unix... man... i need 48h days... these 24h ones are not enought :p

Well i hope this helps you some how.

Matta ne.

Gant

No- haven't tried Nero's trancoder yet. I will try it, though, for SVCD. In this case, however, I need VCD, because the final product will be about 3 hours in length.

Hello,

I would like to request a simple feature: Automatic output split into multiple files (output00, output01, output02, etc.), every XX frames (or mm:ss, or size).

This would greatly ease splitting very long movies into chapters (a la DVD).

This _could_ be done in batch files, but since the batch files are binary (not text-only), I cannot create my own batch files with an editor or Perl script...

This feature has been in" tmpgenc" since it started,try useing the "source range" feature in the "settings" there you can set it to encode just a part of the movie then save it to a project file,and then repeat for the next part of the movie and save to project file ,and load these project files into the "batch encode". But there mutch easier ways of putting chapters in a dvd movie,simple authoring programs like "ulead dvd workshop" and "sonic dvdit" do chapters, menu"s and burning, and they are easy to get for free if you are creative.......

No, the feature I want DOESN'T exist in TMPegEnc at all.

I don't want to do it *manually* for VCDs, geddit? I want the program to split the output into several MPEG files automatically without me having to create multiple batch entries by hand.

I have noticed that one of the movies I am trying to convert to NTSC has a 25,000 fps. When I attempt to convert it I get a really quick hesitation or jump. It happens very fast and I am not sure if it is because of the FPS is slower at the NTSC conversion.

IS it possible to modify the FPS to 25,000 FPS in the NTSC conversion mode and still be able to play it on my dvd player?

Any hyelp would be appreciated

Cade

are you sure your dvd player/vcd player won't play the PAL? I think most do or will....

I have 2 and both do play ntsc and pal, but the memorex plays pal smoother than the oritron.

Pal looks nice, too, anyway.

like 99% of actual dvd players play both pal and ntsc... so just set u'r player and it'll play it... if u still wnat to convert it to ntsc.. which i really sont advice... but be my guest... use avisynth and use its internal ntsc to pal converter... if it doesnt work smootly.. it will not work on everycase... ust script your own script to do it according to your source.

Hope this helps.

Matta ne.

Gant

how can I clean up a movie so I can play it on my stand alone dvd player with out it looking blury.

thanks

If your source is already looking blurry you cant do anything. Also its pointless to encode an low resolution(quality) source to SVCD or DVD quality. An encoded stream cant be of better quality then the source. Otherwise up the bitrate of your (S)VCD and/or choose eg. VBR instead of CBR. Just make sure your DVD player can handle an nonstandard VCD or SVCD stream.

I am having a problem with tmpgenc. When I start to encode it stops
and I get a "cant load p3 package.dll". I also have a problem with retrieving files from my hard drive of movies I down loaded from the web. Can some one please help me.
Thanks

Do a search for "p3p package".

You'll find this question has been answered many times.

I have started getting a thin green line down the left side of any video I try and encode. It appears on the encoding screen as well as the out put file. I have been using this software for over 2 years now and this problem has just start over the last 6 months. It now appears on ever encode. I am using the PAL VCD setup file. I have just loaded the latest version and still have the problem. Can anyone help.

Thanks

It's either when capturing, or converting, right?

I am not sure which, but in the past was this black in appearance so unnoticed by you? Just a question.

If when converting:
The border color can be chosen by a color-picker in one of the TMPGEnc filters, near the bottom of the list, I think it's called clipping Filter, but I am away from my home right now. This may be filling in a color due to frame size conversions by you. I don't know what settings are kept when upgrading - so that is another question.

Let us know what happens.

Quick question. I have recently downloaded a few movies off of
kaazaa and when i put them through tmpgenc, there is no sound on
the new mpeg file. I have successfully created many movies but
on some of the movies the sound is not working. help!!
cb

Find out what the audio format is,"tmpgenc" does not support all audio formats,and make sure when you are encodeing that you encode your audio to 41000hz and between 128 and 224kbs .....

when making vcd's to play on my dvd player the sound seems to be slightly in front of the picture.
the original avi's are fine so it must be happening in the conversion somewhere.
I'm using virtualdub to separate the video and audio, then TMPGEnc to merge into an mpg, then burning with nero 5.5.

does anybody know where the delay is being added and what can be done about it?

I've noticed the same thing, and I'm surprised that it hasn't been discussed more on this board. The common reply to audio sync problems is "extract audio to .wav using virtual dub, then encode with tmpgenc, there, all fixed!"

That fixes the "no audio from .avi" problem, but not any sync issues that I've had. I believe there are at least two ways to fix sync problems; if you're extracting to .wav anyway, VirtualDub has the capability to skew the time base of the audio track while extracting. It's in the audio menu under interleaving. After a little trial and error, I ended up delaying the audio by -100ms on the last movie I encoded - worked great. There's also a setting in TmpgEnc called "audio gap correct", under the "source range" setting on the "advanced" tab. I'm not sure if this feature accomplishes this, but maybe somebody more familiar with TmpgEnc could verify?

Hope that helps.

--dooger

hi there

Actually I'm looking for a solution of this problem too. I normaly made avi. files out of my dvds, ripped the sound out of the .vob with graphedit (and different filters). At the end I just joined the .wav (that virtualdub converts into mp3) and the .avi with virtual dub. I encountered a lot of synchronisation problems with the music. In most cases the option " video -> frame rate -> source rate adjustment -> change so video and audio duration match" worked out.

But I also encountered problems when I extract a audio stream from vob files (in this special case in training day) there was a trailer in the first .vob file of training day itself that was without music. The problem I get now is that I can't fit the audio with video stream. Even with the solution "duration match" I explained above. And When I cut the video in virtual dub it automaticly cuts the .wav at the same point as the video. But The silence in the trailer is not in the .wav, it was cut out, so it just won't fit. If anybody knows the problem, I'd be glad to hear it.

I have the same problem with TMPGEnc.. I miss an option like the one in virtual dub where the duration of the video and audio stream can be matched.

cheers, tale

So I'm doing the TMPGEnc Batch Encode thing. Two cds worth of a dvd. It encoded the first one in 1.5 hours. The second in 25 minutes. As I expected. Then, it deletes the first one, and proceeds to encode same set again. I figured I had not set something right, and let it go thru a second cycle. But, at the end of the second, it proceeded to overwrite again.

How do I get it to encode once, and stop there? I clicked on "Shut down with finish encoding".

Thanks for any tips!

When makeing your project files you have to name each file differently, that is your mpeg output file ,not your project file ,name them like: name#1.mpg and then :name#2.mpeg,you can name your project files(.tpr)to anything you want but you have to name the output mpeg files differently,cuz you can"t have two files of the same name in the same directory or file.......

When I look in Windows Explorer at the directory I'm saving to, the names are in the format you suggested: name#_vcd1 & name#_vcd2. Same for in the batch log. I'll go back thru and really look at project names, again though.

I appreciate your feedback. Keep up the good work!

Well that is your problem because you shouldn"t see the the file names #1 #2 and so on till after you encode them,I know exactly what you are doing because I have done it myself more than once,what you have to do is make new project files because the ones you have from earlier have the wrong ouput directory.What you do is load your file in then your template do your settings then before you save project go to the bottom of the screen to the "output file name" and make your file name#1, then go and save project.then repeat the step but put in name#2 in the "output file name",and so on, I actually made the same mistake the other day......

My standalone will not play svcd, I want to convert an svcd I have to vcd and when I try using the mpeg tools-->simple multiplex, after it converts and I try to play it...the sound plays but the video does not. I have tried splitting the files into *.mp2 and *.m2v w/ tmpgenc and *.d2v with dvd2avi, but tmpgenc will not load either of the video files, it says the format is not supported. I downloaded the VFAPI plugin and installed it also, but that did not help. I also need to convert it from PAL to NTSC, but tpmgenc will not load the video files so that I can do this. Any help would be appreciated

First thing to do is see if your Standalone is compatible with SVCD.

Go to http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers.php Enter your Brand > Check the box for SVCD and hit Search.

If it is compatible, and If the SVCD you want to convert was originally encoded with TMPGEnc, then post back here.

Have a look at No.20670

how does one look at 6125? or any # for that matter?
-Don

My standalone is not compatable with svcd's...only vcd's. I need to convert the svcd i have to ntsc and vcd. But I can not load m2v or d2v files in tmpgenc, any help would be be appreciated.

Hey there!

I am not 100% sure I understand you but after multiplexing the film when you try to watch it (ON YOUR PC) you only hear the audio? That is how it will be when you try it on a pc. If you burn it and play it on your standalone it wil work. I have seen this everytime I do this. I think the PC players get confused by the vcd headers on the SVCD.

Good luck!

Try playing the new file through powerdvd or windvd. You will most likely see the video.

I have TMPGEnc and I have a AVI movie i need converted to MPEG I enter in the video source/audio source and output. Stream type is System(video+audio) I use all other default settings i hit start and then it runs its course and the video is fine but there is no sound... Any idea why this happends? or how i can get the sound to work ? I picked system audio+sound.. Do i have to put them together after i do that or should the file work straight off conversion? please help email me if you post @ aolshock@bellsouth.net

See article no.6080

If there is a VfW codec installed for your AVI file, then you can open it in VirtualDub and pass it to TMPGEnc using the frameserver. Works like a charm for about every AVI file and you can finally set the range exactly to the frame. If TMPGEnc or any other program wants an AVI extension, well just save the frameserver file with the extension .AVI.

Greetings from Germany
Hans Schmucker

You can use "tmpgenc" as a frame server to,my technique (which I learned partly from Ashy)for makeing exelent dvd to svcd rips,I don"t use "tmpgenc" to encode but I use it as a frame server for "cinemacraft encoder 2.62".CCE has much higher quality mpeg2 and much quicker but has no features at all,I mean none which makes it practicly useless for svcd,so here"s my solution: I rip my dvd with smartripper and use dvd2avi to make project files but I make 2 or 3 from a movie,these are the parts of the movie I will burn to cd, this is so I don"t have to cut them after encodeing,so after this i got say 2 d2v files and 2 wav files for the 2 halves of the movie,then I go to "tmpgenc" and load the first d2v file in but not the audio,I set the setting as if I were to encode with "tmpgenc" but make a ".tpr"project file instead,then I load that into the "vfapi converter"(you can get it from vcdhelp.com) this makes a psudo avi file with all the info from your dvd movie but resized,then i encode that with my wav file with "cinemacraft".but your new mpeg file isn"t svcd compliant cuz it has no "svcd headers" so I use the "mpeg tools" "merge & cut" and just run it through with out editing it, just makeing a copy of it ,but the new copy has all the svcd headers and can then be burned to cd...I know it seems like a long way to do it but it only takes me 2 hours to do 1 hour of movie......just another cool thing about "Tmpgenc"

Quality? Cinecraft? Correct me, but the last time I tried Cinecraft it was REALLY FAST and the MPEG2s looked REALLY CRAPPY. But maybe this has really changed ... but I don't think the quality is better then TMPG... becaus analysis needs time, no matter what encoder you use. Maybe I'm wrong... next time I'm running out of time I will try your way =)

The way I do it all the filters and settings from tmpgenc get transfered to "cinemacraft" through the vfapi,this is the only way i can use "cce" cuz the only thing good about it is the speed and quality,I think maybe you tried the old 2.25 or 2.50,the version I got is really nice quality ,but with out "tmpgenc" it is pretty useless to me.......

The settings were not a problem with CCE, it was just that the whole video would look blocky, eventhough it was fine in TMPG using the same bitrate... But one thing I don't get is why you use TMPGEnc as a frameserver and not directly VirtualDub... except for a good frame rate managemant everything is in there... well, I guess I just answered the question myself. Still it doesn't matter for me as my DVD player strangely enough accepts any framerate TMPG has to offer in every resolution (tested from 128x96 to 720x576)

i still use cce 2.5 and yes i changed the crc check so no probs with nt's and i changed the encoding matrix it uses... so i use the same encoding matrix as TMPGEnc (actually this matrix is the same as cce 2.6x) and use at least 5 pass to have better output that TMPGEnc 2 pass... and no i dont use the tmpgenc project... just learn to use avisynth and u'll se its the best editing/frameserving ustility ever made :)

CCe is fast... but it sucks when it comes to 1 pass quality... only 3 or more passes will give u high quality.

Matta ne.

Gant