After I rip DVD to HD , I use DVD2AVI to extract video at 29.97 framerate. On Audio I use Graphedit to extract Wav file. I then encode with TMPGEnc 2.54 Plus using wizard using DVD, ntsc, mpeg-2, 720x480, 29.97 fps, cbr 3000,... layer-2 48000 Hz, 384kbps audio . I want to get movie on 4.7 gb DVD-R. It seems the audio is always out of sync with the video on the final output mpeg file. Can anyone give me some tips or solution to problem??? I am about to pull out my hair.

Try extracting the audio with "dvd2avi"seeing as it is makeing your "d2v" file it might have better sync with it"s own extracted audio file...What way is it out of sync? does it start in sync and go out of sync or does it start out of sync and stay the same amount out of sync the whole why through?There are tools that let you multiplex your audio and video but off set the audio or video so you can fix the de-sync, "bbmpeg" does this with mpeg files.....

when i use 2-pass vbr: what is the max. bitate? and does the average bitrate match mith the size of the movie i calculated?

What do you mean "what is the max bitrate" the max bitrate is what ever you set it at, the max for the "dvd" standard is 9.8mbs, It depends on what you are doing eg,vcd,svcd,dvd as to what you set the max bitrate at....

i mean for an svcd, sorry. Some people say 2600, some f.e. 2300, some say less than 3000. And does the average bitrate match with the cd size i calculated?
Can you tell me about YUY2, YV12, rgb24 and rgb32? whats that? whats the best?

for svcd if you are trying to keep total compliance you would use the standard svcd template which has a cbr encodeing method, but the bitrate or encodeing method generally don"t make a differance as compliance goes, I usually set the bitrate to as high as I can set it and still fit it in a cd, as long as you dont go over 9.8mbs your dvd player should play it.I set the max at 8000kbs minimum at 1500kbs and average at 3000kbs, and I get about 35minutes on a disk, the average is what you should adjust to figure out file size...don"t change the YUY2 setting, this is the best setting for encodeing....

The maximum bitrate for SVCD depends on your DVD player.
The max setting for SVCD of 8000kb/s Minion is using is far to high for SVCD and could choke your player.

It is quite possible to encode to SVCD with this bitrate and it will play fine on your PC, but the your DVD player may have problems due to the physical limitations of the player.
The reason for this is because of the fact that the drive cannot spin the disk fast enough to read the information correctly.
DVD's are able to manage this because the spacing of the pits on a DVD is much tighter and therefore the data on the disk is passed under the laser at a faster rate.
With SVCD, because the pits are more widely spaced the disk has to spin at a faster rate for the pits to be read correctly by the laser.

The higher the bitrate you use the faster the disk will have to spin until it comes to a point where the drive reaches it's maximum speed and can't read the information fast enough off the disk and creates errors.

The reason why some drives aren't SVCD capable is simply because a 2x drive is required to spin the disk fast enough to read the data off the disk because of the higher bitrate.
If your DVD player doesn't have a 2x drive it won't be able to read the bitrate fast enough and will choke the player. So keep your max bitrate reasonable.

As for which colour space format to select, it all depends on the image quality you are tring to preserve RGB32 is a format which retains the all the colour information and detail in a file. YUY2 and YV12 are colour lossy formats which have some of the colour information left out. This is because the human eye is less susceptible to colour changes than luminance changes. This isn't really noticible to the human eye and is better for encoding as there is less information for the encoder to convert which will make it faster to encode.


I think TMPG can only use the RGB format as input and therefore has to convert any other format first to the RGB format before encoding and can't be changed which is probably one reason why it is slower than CCE as CCE can use the faster YUY format.

As far as the choice of which colour space format to use for MPEG, it is usually the YV12 format which is the best choice and a format a lot of sofware MPEG encoders use.
Having said this though, DVD's are encoded to the YUY2 format.
YUY2 should be the preferred choice for any other compression format and especially for capturing.


ASHY

2 Ashy: But what max./min bitrate should i now use when i want to play it on a stand-alone dvd-Player?

The main settings I use for SVCD are:
One pass
Constant quality(CQ)
Bitrate min - 1800 Max 4000
Quality slider - 65
Audio bitrate 160
Motion precision - Normal

This will encode a 90-100 min movie on to 2 disks with nice quality.
I don't bother with 2pass encoding as I have found that using Constant quality produces almost identical results as a 2 pass VBR.

If you wish I can send you the templates I use. I have sent these to many people now and haven't had any bad reports, so if you wanna try them and see what you think, I'll send them to you.

ASHY

Hý there,

is it possible to open more than 1 .vob-file (f.e. the ripped files of a dvd) ?
thanxx

DVD2AVI or AVIsynth

ASHY

i have to use another software?

Use DVD2AVI to produce a project file from your vobs then open the project file in TMPG.
It's the way almost everybody does it.

ASHY

I was using v2.52, then upgraded to v2.53 and then I started having problems. I can't get the program to work. Whenever I try to load a mpg, or avi I get this error: C:DOCUME~1NOSLOCALS~1TempWER10.tmp.dir00appcompat.txt
AppName: tmpgenc.exe AppVer: 2.53.35.130 ModName: mplam6.dll
ModVer: 1.0.0.3 Offset: 00005ddb

Then the program shuts down. I get the samething with 2.54a. I'm running XP pro. I have reinstalled the OS and and all the updates too. I then reloaded the 2.54a again with no success. Anyone one have any ideas?

Thanks,
Zorin

For anyone reading this the file mplan6.dll is wrong it read mplan6.dll_ this fixes the problem above.

Credit goes to mOrg who discovered the problem, thanks

I think I might know what is wrong, the "mplam6.dll" file is in the wrong directory on your computer, it is supposed to be in your "system" folder,so what you should do is a "file search" or go right to the directory that the file is in, and copy the "mplam6.dll" into your system folder,then re-start your computer and then run "tmpgenc"...I think this will work, and if it doesn"t it won"t hurt, but post back and say if it worked.....good luck

Sory I read the file wrong.....

I get a Stream Writing Error when using TMPGenc. Any help please.

The divx files I'm converting run fine on my computer. When I encode them and play them on my DVD player, they're all jumpy. Still playable, but it stutters a littbe bit every once in a while. The sound doesn't skip, if that changes anything. Also, sometimes I see wierd colored boxes on the screen. Any way to fix either of these problems?

Thanks

That "jumpyness " is usually caused by encodeing to a different frame rate than the avi file,check your avi file and see if the frame rate is the same as the template you used while encodeing,many movies downloaded off the net have frame rates like 12.5fps, 14.9fps,20.0fps,and these dont corespond correctly to most encodeing formats, so you have to find the correct encodeing frame rate that would match your file, like if your file had a frame rate of "12.5" you would encode that to "25fps" and if your avi had a frame rate of "14.9fps" you would encode that to "29.97fps", but you will still get that jerky look once in a while even doing this, that is if your avi has a non standard frame rate....

I cut the MPEG file without any problems. But there is no sound! Anyone know how to do??

I guess there is sound before you cut,Is it a file that was encoded with tmpgenc with mp2 audio?all I could sudgest is to use a different mpeg editor, the editor in tmpgenc is less than perfect and tmpgenc has problems with a lot of mpeg"s,you can do a search on the net for mpeg editors and find one pretty easily,.....

I don't know if this is the root of everyone's tmpgenc crashes (the common problem with mpeg files), when using windows xp, but I checked to see what was causing the problem and it was a .dll file called mplam6.dll which is part of a Ulead package I had installed.

The file was in C:Program FilesCommon FilesUlead SystemsMpeg on my xp machine and after I renamed it to mplam6.dll_ it no longer causes tempgenc to crach.

I hope this helps someone.

mOrg

It helped me thanks :-)

I'm not using Ulead as of yet, but go to know, thanks, and ideas for my crashes besides the .dll problem?

nm it works for me too. lol, thanks for the good info.

cool.. glad to help

I have sucessfully made many movies in VCD format, now I have a problem with one movie(it has DTS audio). I have the ac3 filters(which I thought I needed). I ripped it with Smart Ripper fine, I used DVD2AVI to frameserve, but when I tried to encode with TMPEGEnc I get no audio on the resulting MPEG. I tried using DVDx to encode the vob's directly to MPEG's. But it said DTS audio not supported. Is there a plug-in I need to get this to work or what? And what is DTS(Dolby something). Why have I not come across this before? I have made over 200 VCD's.
Thanks in advance

There should be a different audio track for you to use, look in your "ifo" file that "smartripper" made, it should list all the audio tracks and choose a audio track like a "Dolby Digital AC3"..Most "DVD"s have up to 6 audio tracks, I have been looking on the net for you trying to find a program that would extract "DTS" to a "wav" file but most said that it could not be done..

There is a program called "Besure" that claims that you can use it to extraxt the "DTS" track from your vob to wav files, but other articles read that you shouldn"t even be able to hear or play "DTS" on your computer, so I"m getting mixed messages, so i would look for a different audio track.....

Thanks for the info, I looked into it(Besure), and what I found was a program call ac3tool, it extracts the ac3 file from vob, then can convert it too wav, mp3 or divx audio. Its free too. Its from BlackSunSoft.

dolby digital Ac3 and "DTS" are different formats, "DTS" is "Dolby Theater Surround " and from what I have been reading there is now why to even listen to it on a computer,ac3 is easy to decode if you have the right software and there quite a few that do "dolby digital ac3"

Hello,

I used TMPG to convert a .AVI file into a .MPG because I wanted to make the file into a VCD.
I converted the original AVI file to:
MPEG-1 720x480 30FPS CBR 1150kbps
Layer-2 44100HZ 192kbps

But then when I tried to load the file into Easy Cd Creator 4.0 to burn to a VCD, it gave me an error message that said that the file would not work in a VCD player and that I would need to use a MPEG encoder that supported Video CD encoding. When I clicked the details tab, some things showed that they were unacceptable to the system:

Audio: 192 kbits/s (said it may be acceptable)
System Clock Reference: 1230 (said it was unacceptable)

Do I need to re-encode the AVI file with different settings? And if so, please inform me of what I need to change in the settings to get this to be able to be burned as a VCD.

Also, I replied to an earlier message about making the encoding process faster, but I'll just put it here for the sake of keeping my questions together.
It took me 30 hours to encode a 2 hour video. I saw that you earlier replied saying to check the "motion search precision"...where do I check that? And how do I check to see if I'm doing a 2-pass encode?

Thank you very much!

You can change this setting in the "settings" menu(choose the right tab,
the setting is somewhere there).

The reason that you are haveing this problem is because the resolution "720 by 480" is not in the "vcd" standard, and the frame rate is wrong it is supposed to be 29.97fps ,to make a compliant vcd the resolution has to be 352 by 240 for ntsc,and 352 by 288 for pal,.If you used one of the standard vcd templates you wouldn"t of had this problem, did you use the "unlock.mfc" template cuz that would have changed the settings.......

Can someone please tell me the reason why i get an error message when trying to load AVI files into TMPgenc, i get the error message (file not supported or cannot be opened) any they are AVI files,
Can you please help me

This is what someone replied to my same question...it worked for me...

Go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" and raise the "direct show" to about "2" and lower everything else to "0".....

thanks, all working fine now

I tried your setting and it still doesn't work
I am using pinnacle's capture card to cap a avi file.
Anyone know what happening?

Hi, I'm trying to encode an avi file, but TMPGEnc won't recognize the file as Stream and will take it as a sound file only. After encoding, file is as large as if it was complete, but no picture is visible.
The file is played fine in Win MediaPlayer but the system seems to be unable to identify the codec or at least to display its name. In file's Properties' Preview I get this msg: "Unable to find decompressor: vids:mp42".

What can I use or how can make TMPGEnc to recognize the file and encode it?

Here are the file's properties:
Audio: MPEG Layer-3,192 kBit/s, 48,000 Hz, Stereo
Video: 512 x 384, 33988 images, 23,976 images/s., 153 KB/s, unknown format

I have installed Divx 3.11, 4.12 and 5, overriding 3.11 playing with 4.12 codec.
Thanks!

Reinstall all codecs and Tmpgenc.

That is the fourcc code for the angel potion codec.
You need this codec: http://dvd.box.sk/download/angelpotionv1-575.zip

ASHY