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I get a constant background noise like a hissing/screeching when I encode with MPEG-1 Layer2, but if I use MPEG-1 Layer1 it sounds perfect. If I try to encode the whole video with Layer1 it will give me something like "Illegal Sound Stream" or something simular. Should it be able to encode with Layer1 audio?
Use a different audio encoder like "toolame" or "scmpx" they give better sound quality that the built in encoder, these encoders work with "tmpgenc" and can be installed in "tmpgenc" in the "external tools" section, you can find these free just by looking on any search engine..
I have just reloaded TMPGEnc after my computer software was reloaded. Using the wizard I can select all the data for my video file to encode . but the preview window is black Has anyone got a fix for this.
The reason for your preview window being black may be because you are encoding using a 2 pass VBR. The reason for it being black is because for the first 50% it calculates the bitrate to give each frame and on the last 50% it encodes to video. So if you have it set to 2 pass VBR you should see images in the preview window on the last 50%.
Keneth
Thanks for the sugestion. I have found after a lot of ezperimenting that changing the codec I use to make the AVI file has a very great effect on the end product in TMPGEnc. I was using one which since the computer had the software re loaded will not now work so I am trying to find the est alternative. My capture card is a DC10 plus so I think I will have a look on the Pinnacle BBS as well as here.
This all gets confusing so I have been taking nots on what I have done The pile of paper on the desk is geting quite high.
Thanks for the help any further sugestions will be apreciated.
I have few avi files which I wanted to convert to MPEG format.
I had recently upgraded from WinME to Win2K OS. I tried encoding the same AVI file in WinME OS using TMPGEnc, i had no problems. However, when I tried encoding the same file in Win2K OS using the same TMPEnc, I get the following message:
File"c:filexyz.AVI" cannot open, or unsupported.
Note: I could playback the same AVI file using WMplayer in both WinME & Win2K OS.
Appreciate your response in advance, to answer my question.
Thanks
Romesh
Firstly, because you can play it on media player does not mean you have the proper codec, media player uses external codecs that cannot be accessed by other programs, but this isn"t your problem I think you just have to raise your "direct show" filter, to do this first go to"enviromental settings" then to "vfapi plugins" and raise your "direct show" filter to "2" and lower everything else to "0".. this should get your avi files loaded in "tmpgenc"...
I have a new HP DVD200i DVD burner which I using to produce a DVD of my daughter's musical for other parents. As such, it will be played on many different DVD players.
The DVD I produced plays well on my computer (PowerDVD, Windows XP) and on my older DVD player (Panasonic DVD-CV51) but has playback problems on my newer DVD drive (Toshiba CD6200, a progressive scan model). On the Toshiba, the video occaisionally stutters, and not just during motion shots. The stutters occur at the same point during playback every time. The stuttering is no different when the player is set to interlaced or progressive. At certain points the stuttering is manifest by obvious deformation of the bottom half of the screen.
My question is this: Are there settings in TMPGenc which permit the best playback compatibility over the widest range of DVD players? Which settings are known to cause compatibility problems on playback?
Setup
Camera: Sony TRV900 (thanks John Beale, a contributor to this BBS I see)
Windows XP
Pinnacle Studio 7
Sonic MyDVD 3
TMPGenc
I've been using TMPGenc to encode the AVI I produced with Studio 7, the audio was deflashed with Goldwave and the DVD's authored with Sonic MyDVD.
The problem IS from the dvd player you are useing, and i think is has to do with the "buffer" in your dvd player...makeing your own movies and burning to disk isn"t a perfect science, so what plays good on one player doesn"t mean it will play good on other players,so i guess the answer to your question is " No there is not a setting that will make your mpeg"s play in all players,I guess all dvd players are not created equal.....
Hey,
Sorry to bug you guys, I'm pretty much a neophyte and am learning as much as I can. I just made a movie and we're trying to put it on DVD with DVDit(c) software. When I try and run it I get the following error:
"Each GOP Header must be preceeded by a sequence header"
I went to DVDit's site and this is what they had to say about it:
"When using 3rd party MPEG encoder make sure that you choose the option to include a sequence header with every GOP header. This is a requirement of
DVD specification and DVDit! will not process the MPEG file unless it has the proper sequence header placement. This is a function of the encoder and
not DVDit. Check your encoder documentation for information about header control."
So I go into the settings (I used the template for NTSC-DVD) and this is what I use:
IBBPBBPBBPBBPBBPBB
Number of I picture in GOP '1'
Number of P picture in GOP '5'
Number of B picture in GOP '2'
Output interval of Sequence Header '1'
Max number of frames in GOP '18'
'detect scene change' is checked.
That means diddly to me. But apparently something is wrong. Any help would be great. I'm trying to do this DVD as a b-day present for an old friend of mine.
Totally didnt work. I got the same error. Is this a problem with TMPGEnc or is it DVDit? Either way I own both sofwares and its a little annoying to have to buy some other software to do what I got these for. Are you listening Tsunami?
It seems like you have everything set right. Sorry you're having a hard time. If it's any consolation, I've found this 2.54a release has broken a few things that worked in previous versions, so it may be worth trying 2.53.
If you haven't already found it, here is a DVDit list relating to encoding that may be worth a try.
You should really look for your answer before you post cuz this question has been answered to many times, go into your "tmpgenc" folder and copy the "p3p package" into your "system and system32" folder......
You can"t add subtitles with "tmpgenc"..subtitles would have to be added before you encode...if you are ripping dvd"s you extract the video file with the subtitles, but I have never done it cuz i hate subtitles....if your movie has no subtitles there are some other apps that will let you manualy put in subtitles..
HI, I replaced my old 6x cd burner with a 32x cd burner. With the 6x I used to always burn VCDs at 4x because I read that burning faster wasn't good. I really like my new 32x except for one thing....it can't burn slower than 8x. I burnt a VCD at 8x and it seemed to play just fine. What types of errors does burning at 8x usually do?
If you buy an 8X burner, Burn at 8X. If you buy a 32X burner, burn at 32X. it makes NO difference what speed you burn at. Only if you get burn errors (IE: an error that will cause the burn process to stop, like if you bumped the drive while it was burning) then you might want to burn a little slower or get a faster hard drive.
If the burner and the hard drive are on the same chanel, that is BAD and you need to burn slower, so put the burner on a different IDE channel than the device with the source file on it. (unless you have SCSI, in which case you don't have to worry about a thing, if you have IDE, do DO NOT SCSI.)
So basicly, burning at a drive's max speed is fine, that's what they are made to do. Only if your burns mess up because your other drive can't read fast enough should you slow down.
If you are burning to cheap disks the speed of the burn makes a BIG differance..Trust me i have burned over a thousand svcd" and vcd"s, and if you burn at full speed you will notice certain problems like the video speeding up and slowing down, and video and audio de sync and sometimes your movie seems to shake in the tv screen...The rule I use is to burn is to burn at half the speed that your burner is capible of....over a period of time you will notice less errors and a better over all quality when burning at a slower speed ..But to each his own...what ever works for you....
Minion is absolutely right.
You can't just go ahead and burn at any speed. A lot of DVD players will have problems playing disks burned at high speed, such as mine. Anything above 4x and the movie jerks all over the place, but at 4x it plays perfectly.
Have changed video cd back to mpeg and merged two files, but when playing back audio is there at beginning and then drops out and comes back later. Can you help?
Sometimes when i encode avi's to svcd it streched them to full screen and it distorts the video, but then again some movies are encoded fine. What could be the problem.
It has to do with the aspect ratio of your avi file and the setting"s used in the "video arrange method" go to the "advanced settings" and play around with the settings in the "clip frame" option and the "video arrange method" ..just encode a few seconds at a time untill you find the one that looks best to you...
OK Here is my problem
I used a file splitting program called " Splitfile"two break a 1 hour and 30 minute movie in half.
Now I can get the first file to burn on my nero program.
But the 2nd file will not.
I get an error message that says basically that I am trying to burn an SVCD when in fact it is really an MPEG file.
Why is it converting it on me ?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Dougi
The spliting program you use didn"t put the vcd headers back on the mpeg file, so "nero" wants to re-encode the file to make it compliant..if you would have split the file useing "tmpgenc" you wouldn"t have had this problem, cuz the only way to fix it is to run your file through "tmpgenc" in the "merge & cut" in "mpeg tools"...in "tmpgenc" go to "File" to "mpeg tools" then to "merge & cut" then load your mpeg file in ,select the "mpeg1 VCD-standard" option on the top, then choose your out put file , then click "Run" and the program will make a copy of your mpeg file but it will attach the proper vcd headers to make the file compliant.........