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I finally converted an avi to an mpg and I uninstalled Angel Potion Codec and the movie came out great, instead of all the purple pixels. However, now the problem exists in burning it as a VCD. I have Nero Express and it gives the option of making VCDs, which I chose to do. I have a 700MB CD and the movie is 637MB, and is about 89 min. in length. I chose the ".mcf" file from KVCD that lets you burn a 120 min. movie onto 1 CD at 704x480 resolution, but now I noticed that Nero won't let me burn it because the length is too long, I guess. Because the data side of it is less than 700MBs, but the length of the movie is 89 minutes. It was doing that when it was in avi format too. It's giving me the same problem. The small bar on the bottom turns red after 700MBs and it is past that point. I thought maybe MPEGCutter would cut the file into 2 parts so that I can burn it on 2 CDs instead, maybe even add chapters so that when I play it on my DVD player, then it would be as if it were off the real DVD, where I can hit the skip button and it would go to the next chapter. But I couldn't even figure out how to use the program. Please give me some advise on all these problems. I was having a big problem where all the movies I tried were taking 24-26 hours to encode, but all of a sudden something happened and it only takes 2-3 hours. I guess maybe uninstalling Angel Potion Codec helped. Also, if you know of a free program that lets you make chapters out of the mpg file, I would really appreciate it if you could let me know. Thanks.
"Nero" doesn"t use the length of your movie to to calculate how long it is it, it uses the size of the file then converts it into minutes at 10mb per minute(for vcd),maybe there is an error in the header of the file or nero is reading the header wrong, try makeing a copy of your mpeg file with the "merge and cut" feature ,just load your file in, choose output directory and "mpeg1/vcd non-standard, then click "run" and it will make a cpoy of your file and rewrite the header on the file so maybe nero will read it correctly this time....
On the CPU tab of the environmental settings, what are the SSE and SSE-2 settings? Is there any way I can find out more information about these options? Thank you very much.
The SSE tabs means "streaming simd extention" thes are optimizations for certain CPU prosessors,Pentium"s are optimized with MMX and SSE,P4 also has SSE2, Athalon"s are optimized with SSE and 3D-Now,When you install Tmpgenc it automaticly recognizes what your CPU is optimized with and checks the boxes for you, with out these optimizations the encodeing would take longer.You can probably find out more about the specific way the optimizations affect the performance of your computer by going to the web site for your particular CPU..
I was informed that the color discoloration may be caused by the Angel Potion Codec. I noticed that I do have this codec and I uninstalled it. However, I don't know if it came with the computer and I was wondering if I caused myself more problems now that I uninstalled it.
It wont cause any problems , that codec is a notoriusly bad codec, you can replace it with any microsoft mpeg4 codec, you might even allready have that on your machine, you would only need that codec if you decodeing a file encoded with that codec and the mpeg4 codec will do the same thing......
how come when I play the vcd-ready .mpg file on the computer the video is in synch with the audio but when I play it on my home dvd player the video is off.
Is the sound out of sync the whole way through or does it just go out of sync at certain points in the movie,like the video slows down then speeds back up and the audio stays the same?If this is your problem then I could be solved by burning your disks at a lower speed, I know on my system if I burn faster than 8 or 12 times on my 24 times burner the video slows and and it makes the audio go out of sync for a few seconds......
I went ahead and took a chance and saved the templates from kvcd to the TMPGEnc Templates folder. I loaded the 1 CD function even though the Startup Wizard asked me if it was ok to continue even if the size of the movie was larger than the CD. I said ok and then I loaded the ".mcf" file that makes it 1 CD, supposedly. But one problem I've been having with all my movies is that when it is encoding it, the picture has these purplish or pinkish squares, almost pixelized, on the picture at different times. It happens often and I noticed that it only does that when encoding it to an mpg. The avi version does not have that. These squares disorient the natural color and they appear and go out at different times. How do I fix this problem?
It is one ot two things ,If you have the "Angel Potion Codec" on your machine get rid of it cuz it can cause this, and the other reason could be that the bitrate is to low,I have experimented with these "kvcd" templates and they are more if you are into quantity not quality, sure you can fit a movie 90-120 minutes on a cd ,and it looks ok if there isn"t a lot of action but I"m a bit of a stickeler for quality so they aren"t for me but they are good if you just want to get it on a disk and have it playable..but anyway check for that codec and get rid of it if you got it or maybe try different templates or bitrate settings...
Where do I save these templates? I was notified that I should right click on the template I want and so I right clicked on "704x480" from the KVCDx2 and "For one CD" menu and it only gave me the option of "Save Target As". Is this what it's supposed to do? I noticed that if I right click and select "Properties", then it shows me that it is a ".mcf" file. I also know that TMPGEnc has a "Load" function which allows it to be encoded in different screen formats and all these seem to be ".mcf" files. Does this have anything to do with it? Also, I tried encoding an avi files the size of about 600MB, but it said it would take over 26 hours to complete. I have a 1.8Ghz computer (brand new HP), with Pentium 4 and I figured that it would be faster. Most people have told me that their slower computers take only a couple of hours tops. How can I take care of this problem? Thank you once again for your help. I'm a little new to this, so I'm having a lot of problems.
So you have allready downloaded these templates?I guess you did cuz you wouldn"t be able to see the properties, all you do is take the template and put it in the "templates" folder in the "tmpgenc" folder, now when you want to use the template to encode you click "load" (in tmpgenc) and go to the templates folder and choose the template you downloaded and put in the "templates" folder, and then the template will load and you then encode...But as for your "HP" I have no idea why it would run so slow,I have a "Hp" too, but I have had to send it back to the company for an exchange 4 times and this was in the first 3 months, mostly over a problem with the direct memory access controller, I would get the blue screen of death when ever i enabled DMA and tried to rip a dvd, but i finally got it fixed,Phone customer support and give them hell and maybe they will send you a new one or maybe 4 new ones, but it should be under warrenty so you should be able to take it to the shop and get it fixed for free if it is a hardware problem.But yes you are running really slow cuz my HP 800mhz can do a whole movie in under 8-10 hours, but the with the new encoder I use for mpeg2(not mpeg1)I can do a whole movie in 3-4 hours.but if you cant figure it out get it looked at ,sometime new computers have bugs that need to be worked out ....
i have a problem with my two kids turning off my computer while i am out of the room or what not and usually my luck has it that i only have four hours left or two sometimes. i go to resume the converting and i don't know how. then i tried to start the process and then save it, stop it and the try to resume. still no luck.
There is no way to resume a interupted encodeing session, but what you can do is thart encodeing were you left off and then join the two files with the "merge & cut" feature..usually if you start at the next frame after you got cut off then you can barely notice the transition of the two parts....
I went to www.kvcd.net because I was refered to it by a helpful person who replied to my problems. However, I can't find any programs there that I can download. There are only templates and when I click on one of them they just give me a list of words or something. Is their site down, maybe? Or is there something I'm not looking at that I should be?
Where do I save these templates? I noticed that if I right click and select "Properties", then it shows me that it is a ".mcf" file. I also know that TMPGEnc has a "Load" function which allows it to be encoded in different screen formats and all these seem to be ".mcf" files. Does this have anything to do with it? Also, I tried encoding an avi files the size of about 600MB, but it said it would take over 26 hours to complete. I have a 1.8Ghz computer (brand new HP), with Pentium 4 and I figured that it would be faster. Most people have told me that their slower computers take only a couple of hours tops. How can I take care of this problem? Thank you once again for your help. I'm a little new to this, so I'm having a lot of problems.
i've got a mpeg II stream. it's a tv rip, with a variable bitrate i think.
it's 2,4 GB and i want to cut it in 800 mb files.
is there any program out which directly cuts the file in 800 mb pieces ?
i tried it with tmpg but it's only luck to find out after what time 800 mb is reached. and i think because of the variable bitrare it's impossible to calulate ???
I've used AVIChop, but it takes a long time for big files. Sometimes it seems to freeze, but you can still give it a shot. I think you might find it under www.vcdhelp.com
What you should do is get "bbmpeg" then de-multiplex your mpeg file and load it in the multiplex in bbmpeg and you can specify the size of the out put files, so if you specify 800mb then it will output you file in 800mb pieces...This is what I usually use to split my files into equal pieces......
You can also split the 2.4 gigabyte file up into several parts
so you may burn it.Afterwards you can copy each part from the cd
to the harddisk again,merge them together,and then you have the original
2.4 gigabyte file again.There are lots of programs for that.
One of them is called "MaxSplitter".Search for it in http://www.google.com
I have this problem I used to encode every episodes I downloaded in an asf format with tmpgenc into Mpeg, but since about a month tmpgenc frozed each time I used it, but with the new version it doesn't. The matter is that there is only about 1 minute of sound and then nothing!!!!!!
It's weird because it means it can encode the sound, but after a minute it stops. Otherwise tmpgenc works with other files!
I hope someone knows how to solve this problem :-)
Thanks
You should encode the audio from your asf file to a wav file cuz usually asf has wma audio and tmpgenc does not support wma audio, then use the extracted wav file as your audio source....
Why are you useing "dvd2svcd"?Try useing "dvd2avi" to extract the audio to wav and make a d2v file and encode the d2v file and the wav audio and you shouldn"t have any problems,I never do.......
Thats wierd then how do you choose what audio track you want or if you want to extract subtitles or any of the many settings that change from movie to movie, or if you want to use ivtc in dvd2avi..maybe you need a more hands on aproach, cuz how can you know where you went wrong if you don"t know what settings you have used.........just a thought....
sorry I've only started doing this.. been about 5 days now.
Did a few tests and I seem to be able to encode fine if I run TMPG on its own without the use of DVD2SVCD. Just, when I use the program it will keep giving a green output MPG file (visible green from the encoding preview window).
DVD2SVCD integrates all the ripping/encoding/chapters/bin creation into one program with the use of the common utilities -- DVD2AVI, BBMPEG, TMPG or CCE, etc. Ideally I'd like to use the program to do it all for me since I don't know the process that well... and TMPG has worked in the past with the program. Just not sure what went wrong and if I can blame the new versions or some simple codec issue.
Then don"t use "dvd2svcd" just bute the bullet and learn how to use the programs so if you have a problem then you know were to look for the source of it, another thing you might try is to see if you have the "angel potion" codec on your machine cuz it causes discoloration in the encoded mpeg file but this doesn"t sound like your problem but it is worth looking into...
With DVD2SVCD 1.0.9 build 3, a new mpeg2dec2.dll is provided as an alternative to the mpeg2dec.dll. In DVD2SVCD's Frameserver tab, if you set mpeg2dec to use this mpeg2dec2.dll, it appears to solve the green screen problem.
Your source file probably has an unsupported audio format, you need to extract the audio to wav with "virtual dub" then use the wav file as your source audio file, and you have to encode the audio to 41000hz or your dvd player won"t play it..