i capture video in mpg2

4 min videos

excellant quality no artifacts
video and audio synced perfectly

but when i use tmpgenc to encode to vcd at high quality
i get an encredible vcd video but now the audio is out of sync

is this a bug with the program?

i love the high quality video and i think its the best on the market period.

but the sync problems scare me

help please

thanks for every reply

would like to try anything

This is the MOST common problem with captured files.This problem occurs because when you were captureing you must of dropped a few frames,your capture softwar is supposed to put in blank frames for each dropped frame but tmpgenc must not recognize these blank frames, so what you have to do is extract the audio from your mpeg2 file then see exactly how long it is , then find out exactly how long your video file is, the differance between the two should be how much out of sync your file is..So now you will need to stretch or shrink your audio file so it is the same length as your video file, a good program for this is "cool edit" it will let you stretch or shrink your audio file with out changeing the pitch of the audio, after you have done the stretching or shrinking you can encode that file to mp2 then multiplex it with your video file then it should be in sync....

thanks for the fast reply

i have played the video in wmp and have encoded it with other programs
there is never a sync problem re-coding that file to vcd
and the audio is always dead on
but those programs suck for visual quality

tmpgenc has the highest visual quality to compress video that i have ever used

i hope its not a bug

do you know of a program that will scan an mpeg and replace corrupt frames with black?

the original captured mpeg plays fine
but only tmpgenc losses video sync right from the start

ps:

if i split the video and audio then encode to vcd high quality
the picture freezes at somepoint and is encoding that one frame and the audio is continuing the process to the end

when i play the file
the video and audio is in sync but somewhere the picture is frozen from encoding

so i am saying that tmpgenc is getting stuck on a frame and continues to encode
the same frame
it is not at the end of the video

if i could somehow clean the mpg up to allow tmpgenc to just continue with the next frames

not all the videos i capture get stuck
is it a bug?

What you have is a corrupted frame or frames in your file so you should encode up to the bad frame then use the source range and encode starting at the frame or a couple of frames after the bad frame then use the merge function to merge the two parts together.or you can try to frame serve your mpeg file with dvd2avi, maybe it can read your file all the way through..one piece of advice is not to use media player to play mpeg files media player does not show the true aspect ratio or frame size of your mpeg file and it will play some mpegs out of sync, on my system it plays all mpegs out of sync and it has been the cause of a lot of peoples sync problems, power dvd is one of the best ones to use and it is easy to get for free......

thanks

i use powervcr to capture my videos
i use mpeg 2 "excellant quality" setting

it works great and comes with powerdvd

simply the best

my videos are captured at 640 x 480
then i use tmpgenc to convert to vcd at the high setting

it is really the best picture quality
after encoding to vcd you really have to look hard to notice a differance in picture quality between the two

that is until the video freezes from the encoding process

oh well

after trying so many different encoders for vcd and looking at the horrible quality
its just too hard to use any other encoder than tmpgenc

its gotta be the best for quality encodes


thanks for your help and i will post a solution as soon as i can find one

oh,..
do you know how to sync the audio in tmpenc
or is there something else more reliable

thanks alot

I don"t like saying this here but "tmpgenc" isn"t the best, well not for mpeg2, it is the best mpeg1 encoder I have used, but for mpeg2 I use a different one that is much faster and has better quality.....

im only using tmpgenc to encode mpeg2 to vcd

your right
it must be the best mpeg1 encoder

I have had similar problems.
The original avi file was in ntsc (29.x fps) format
and when I make VCD-PAL mpeg, there is some
differeence in number of frames / duration-time
for audio and video stream. and if I try multiplex in
mpegtools in tmpgenc, with encoded file as input
for both audio and video, during multiplex it says
some buffer-under run or something. and after i join
many of such small mpeg pieces , using tmpgenc cut/edit,
the video pauses after playing every piece, and it kind
of waits for the audio to finish before starting to play
next piece. so probably the audio stream is longer than
video frame and the cut/edit feature of tmpgenc probably
is trying to encode the same last frame for the remaining
audio stream. (just a guess)
I tried to convert ntsc-avi to pal-avi using videowave
(video quality is okey) before converting to mpeg using tmpgenc.
I have nottried to join those files yet. I will post later
once i try it out. probably if pal-avi(25fps) is used as source
to make a pal-mpeg, (there will be no rate conversion then)
probably the sync problem may disapppear.

I have converted some DVD movies to Mpeg1. Why does the video and audio get out of snyq when converted to VCD? This occurres in some movies and can't figure out why this happens. Is there another way to correct his problem besides making the adjustment in the "Audio Gap" in "Settings". This is time consuming.

i think it is a flaw because it happens in most versions and is a waste of time

my sollution

split the audio and video into 2

run the vcd encoding selecting the seperate video and audio streams to be rejoined to a vcd

this works great for me but introduces a new bug in the encoding stream known as video freezing while the audio continues to encode

this really sucks and wastes my time

does anyone know the name of the mpeg encoder and can it be used with other programs?

hope this helps

Asking for a friend...He is running Windows XP Pro...and TmpgEnc 2.54
He is trying to convert SVCD files to DVD mpegs.

When he opens SVCD files in TmpgEnc, he ONLY gets video, NOT audio.
However, these SVCD files play perfectly in Windows Media PLayer,
as well as Power DVD XP.

He has tried demuxing the files, and using separate video/files,
but the resulting DVD file created by TmpgEnc has NO audio.

Any ideas?

thanks in advance,

Winston

He has to de-mux the mpeg file and then encode the audio to a wav file with an audio encoder(there are lots of free ones)then use the wav file as the audio input in Tmpgenc..

de-mux the mpeg file and then encode the audio to a wav file

use winamp to convert to wav

its free

or db power amp it has more codecs..

OK, he has tried this DEMUX thing, and TmpgEnc does accept this
NEW audio file. BUT, the resulting dvd mpeg file he creates, does
NOT have audio !!

Is this the normal way that everyone is converting SVCD files with
TmpgEnc? I'm having no problem whatsoever loading and converting
my SVCD files with XP, or with Win2K.

WInston

Dont encode the new wav file with "tmpgenc".Encode it with "db power amp" to "mp2" then multiplex it ,but I think you friend didnt encode the de-multiplexed audio to a wav file before encodeing with tmpgenc,Tmpgenc in some cases will not encode mp2 to mp2, but if he did try a different multiplexor,haveing your audio missing afer you encode is probably the easyest problem to fix cuz there are so many programe out there that will encode audio to mpeg compatible audio..

OK, thanks for the replies..no matter what he does..the audio is missing
when he does the conversion with TmpgEnc. He demuxes to mp2 or wav, and
then does the conversion..NO AUDIO.

As a test i had him use the original SVCD file for video, and a generic
mp3 file or wav file for the audio. In this case, the audio was converted
properly with TMPGENC.

So it looks like TmpgEnc just wont load or encode audio that originates
from any of his SVCD files. (and these are files i have converted
successfully)

Also, i had him use a new machine, with a FRESH install of XP, and still
TmpGenc will not load audio on an SVCD file.

Winston

When I merge and cut a SVCD, I loose about 10 seconds of audio right at the end of each segment I cut (the video is there without approx. 10 seconds of sound). So I overlapped this 10 seconds on the next segment I cut. Thus I know the audio is there on the original MPG file.

When I merge and cut a VCD using the SAME MPG file, the audio is present at the end (i.e., no lost audio at the end of each cut).

The differences in TMPGEnc settings between VCD and SVCD are slight at create time - mainly in the template which makes me suspect the template. In both cases I am using the FILM templates (which produce excellent video and reduce processing time).

Since I haven't seen anyone else with this problem, I suspect I am doing something wrong.

Any ideas?

Are you saying that you are mergeing a mpeg1/vcd to a mpeg2/svcd?If you are this is not possible,but anyway there are no real solutions to problems with the "mpeg tools" the only way to fix problems with the mpeg tools is to use different software to do what ever you are doing..

When I read Minion's comments, I see that I made one wrong statement. I created the VCD MPG file starting with the ripped DVD files using TMPGEnc. I did the same for the SVCD so I am talking about two different MPG files - one created for SVCD and the other created for VCD. The MERGE and CUT of the MPG created for SVCD has the missing 10 seconds while the MPG created for VCD is OK.

I did the process twice (once for VCD and once for SVCD) to determine if there was a difference - and there was.

I have converted 2 movies now (both star wars movies) and both of the run fine ( on 2 cd's) until about half way I get a "glitch" on the screen and then when the poicture comes back the sound is off from the picture.


Any idea's??? I know you get a lot of similar questions but can you answer one more???


Thanks!

I have run across this glitch before and had to re-encode the file but you can try to edit out the glitch then join the two parts together and see if that works.....

1st off just like to say thnx to Minion about the Converting AVI to MPEG and not the other way round drrrrrrrrrr like I said.

I have now cracked it by making a AVI demo into a TMPGENC works great, but theres afew little things I was wondering if you could help....?

1. After making a Demo it was 10.4mb for 39 seconds is their anyway of compressing that anymore if so do you know where I can download the software?

2. I added a mp3 by selecting Vido&Audio now it has gone from 10.4mb file to 143mb file :( why did it do that if the MP3 is only 4.5mb...?

3. Is their any way to Play Qake a record in AVI without the slowdown...? or does someone else have to Demo in AVI for you?

I have tried all sorts of things like putting my FPS down from 130+ to 20 and tried /cl_avidemo 1 all the way upto 25...

sorry for being thick but I have been trying to sort this out for a while now and I have totally lost the plot :'(

Plz if you know anything that can help plz Reply

Respect

[ScB]PredatoR

Im totally lost about what you are doing ,what is "Quake"? and what do you mean by makeing a demo?and that is what I understood ,everything else is giberish.Why don"t you start by telling us what you are doing ,explain it like we don"t have a clue what encodeing is...

hi m8

Right I'll start off from the begining....


I am making a tricks Demo from Quake III Arena (PC Game)and I want to make it into a MPEG by recording the Demo in IVA so when I start the Demo in the game I have been Putting /cl_avidemo which takes screenshots and then converting the TGI screenshots into MPEG using your TMPGE program,but what I can't understand is after converting the TGI screenshots into a MPEG movie I then added Music (mp3) but I made two of the same one with Audio and one without Audio, the one without Audio was 10.4mbs and when I added a mp3 (4.5mb) the whole thing shot upto 140+mbs what do I have to do to stop the file getting a silly size cus of just adding a Mp3???

I guess that you are not very familuar with Quake Demos lol but when I start the demo using /cl_avidemo 1 the screen slows right down cus of the tgi screenshots its taking, so basically I want to record a avi demo without the slowdown, is this posible?

I have tried to lower my fps whilst recoding AVI demo but it's still the same, just wondering if someone else need to spectate me and record IVA demo???

Sorry if you still can't understand what I meen but thats as far as I have got so far thats why I need help, I'm still in the proces of learning myself:(

Respect

[ScB]PredatoR

So you are just recording screen shots of a game you are playing, and you want to encode them to mpeg?and are you sure that is "143mb" not 14.3mb" cuz I don"t know were the 120mb came from unless it is padding, to get rid of padding you just make a copy of your file by running it through the "merge and cut" without editing, just load in your file then choose your output file then click run and it will make a copy and if there is any padding in the file it will be gone, but I can"t beleive there is 120mb of padding, Try captureing your screen shots at 29.97fps then encode to 29.97fps and you shouldn"t have any chopyness and capture uncompressed avi for best quality..sory but I don"t know much about doing stuff like that .....

I have an mpeg and i want to add some more space to the top and bottom so that I can fix the apsect ratio.

To start with the mpeg was pal and has been converted to ntsc.
so it is at 576x240, and the picture is streched to long, ie the people's faces are to long.

I need to add 48 pixels of black to the top and bottom of the picture.

How can i do this?

are you selecting (under advanced) Full screen (keep aspect ratio)???

If not that will correct your problem!!

In the advanced tab go to "crop" and you can add borders there ....

w/ Windows XP Pro, 256 Ram

Well there is no version 2.55, but you probably mean 2.54, and tmpgenc will work on any cpu and on any windows os,are you haveing problems? post them here and we will try to help you out...

PSSST Hay Minion 2.55 is available now. :O) Also in Plus version..hehe

Need assistance with Ulead's Movie Factory. Have AVI file, decompressed audio into WAV file, encoded with TMPGE and ran a simple de-mux. Took results and mulpiplexed with bbMPEG. Checked Sync on MPEG-2 and all was fine, loaded into Movie Factory, selected DVD, added six chapters and started the program. Result was DVD on DVDR mediaR out of sync. Anyone have this figured out yet? Thanks.

It sounds like a problem with "ulead dvd movie factory" not tmpgenc.....

Hy there,

does somebody know a software t change the volume of mpeg? I produced a svcd with tmpgenc and forgot to change the volume there. But i do not want to decode the vobs again. Is there a editing software?

First you can "de-multiplex" your mpeg file, then take the audio and encode it to "wav" with an audio encoder, then load your wav into tmpgenc and go to the audio settings and raise the volume and use "normalization" now encode just your audio to mp2 with tmpgenc ,then multiplex the new audio file to your video file and the volume will be louder...

My copy of TMPG shuts down without warning during encoding. I also own LSX3.5 from Ligos which does the same so I'm not blaming TMPG. Something must be wrong with my system - but what? I tried it on another machine and it did exactly the same thing. Could it be my AVI files? They are produced from my Pinnacle DV200/Adobe Premiere setup. I can't be the only person this is happening to.... Can anybody help me? Please!

I don"t really know why this is happening to you.Are you useing the pinnacle "dv" codec?I have heard that the pinnacle codec isn"t compatible with tmpgenc try de-compressing your avi files then encodeing them..

Ligos Codecs are the mainspring in most of Pinnacle Systems editors and yes they do cause problems in the later versions of TMPGEnc....The way I got around the problem was to record the edited footage back to my camcorder, then re-capture using Uleads VideoStudio 6 which uses Uleads own Codec. The resulting MPEG or AVI is willingly accepted by TMPGEnc. (Earlier versions of VideoStudio use the same Ligos Codecs as still used by Pinnacle.)

Thanks guys! I tried the producing my AVI's with Pinnacles DV Codec, Cinepak Codek by Radius & Indeo 5.10. The only one it could get it to work with was the Indeo Codek. Well, problem solved! :)

Tmpgenc is only compatible with "Video For Windows" codec"s and "open DML Direct Show" codecs so if you load up a bunch of those codecs you will be able to have a better choice....

hi

i have a
stream writing error
after starting to encode a avi file

what would this mean ??

You probably ran out of disk space...

could it be something else ?

i have 2,7gb free ....

no disk space on c:

thats the problem

thx :)