do you think cq is better quality than vbr? useing cq,how much does the filesize fluctuate?

"CQ" is a VBR encodeing mode, do you mean 2 pass VBR or manual VBR, the file size usually depends on the level of the "Quality" slider, and on your source file..."CQ" is better than "manual VBR" but not as good as "2 pass vbr"....

Heres a good explanation what CQ is and how it differs from n-Pass VBR modes

http://tangentsoft.net/video/mpeg/enc-modes.html

2 pass is not necessarily better than CQ. As a matter of fact I have found on quite a few occasions that the CQ method when used correctly can and does give better results than 2 pass.

The CQ method in TMPG is the same method which is used in CCE's VBR mode and it is beleived by many people who use CCE that most of the time the 1 pass method gives better quality than the 2 pass.
I had discovered this myself after doing a few tests and found that other people also had come to the same conclusion after reading the CCE forum at VCDhelp.com.

ASHY

Your absolutely right Ashy,it is the same as the "one pass vbr" in CCE accept that I believe the encodeing algorythym in CCE is much more acurate,In my experience the 2 pass method in tmpgenc is only better for certain types of films, and over the long run useing the CQ method will give the same qualty or better takeing in to account the amount of time it takes to do do 2 pass, I should have said that 2 pass is only better in certain instances...Thanx for clearing that up....

I have this weird problem with some *.m2v video streams ripped off DVDs. Usually I just down-sample the m2v file and audio file from the DVD and then burn it to a 4.7GB disc without problems. But SOMETIMES TMPGEnc doesn't recognise the m2v file properly and says it's 1 second long... even though the file plays fine in WinDVD and the like. Does anyone know what's going on there??

when i try to open my *.avi file, TMPGEnc always gives me the errors " your file ...could not open, unsupported!"

could anyone gives me a help!

thanks

Check that you direct show plugin has a high enough priority, if you don"t know how to do this follow me, go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" and raise the priority of the "direct show" to "2" and lower everything else to "0"...this should work....

dear Minion:

I try to change Priority in VFAPI plug-in, but the TMPGEnc application never provide the option for me to change the Priority??

How can I chnage the VFAPI priority??

Secondly, I installed it in another PC (Window 2K OS). Encoding works properly.

Why?


rgs!

uranus

Right click on the filter and the option will pop up in a menu.

ASHY

I've successfully created a DVD of one of my hi-8 home videos. Of course, this was after x number of tries and significant loss of hair.
(Q1)
How do I confirm what the audio gap is? Media Player, Studio Deluxe and even TMPGENC gives me up to the second but what software gives the reading out in milliseconds for the sub-second delays? I used the recommended steps here which is capture to avi, split out audio to wav via virtual dub, shrink the wave via cool edit and use tmpgenc to combine them into mpeg2.

(Q2)
I just ordered a Sony DV trv25. Would recording my hi8 via the analog inputs to DV help to kill this sync problem (given my less than desirable source signal)? Or would the pass-through via firewire be better than my current Studio's blue box / capture card?

(Q3)
If I have noise-reduction on to alleviate some of my hi-8 grain, the 3+g mpg encoding runs some 45 hrs. Is there a faster solution? Turning off the noise-reduction results in far noisier video. My pc is a 1.5g, 512 ddr with 140g+ hd space. At this rate, I may be able to convert all my tapes by end of the century...

Thanks. ...R

Hello,

if I convert my avi-file to vcd (avi created with studio7 software from pinnacle) , I have no problem with the sound. But when I convert the avi file to svcd, then the whole sound is missing. What can be the reason?

Thank you

Hi, i already convert an avi file to mpeg1 with subtitles, but when i burn to vcd (ntsc 352*240) the subtitles are totally missing at the botton of the screen.
i try to fix that with the advance setting video arrange method but the subtitles still are out of ratio, pls if anybody know the perfect configuration in order to see or move the position screen in the right place, i already lost 5 cds.
thxx for your help and congratulations for this great forum, very helpfull.

Dear all:

I want load the *.vob file from DVD disk first, finally make the SVCD by Nero after edit the clip (cut and merge).

Thank you so much!!

Are you trying to say "How Easy Is It To Make A SVCD From A DVD"?First Of All You Do Not Load The VOB Files Into Tmpgenc,You Need To Download DVD2AVI To Make A D2V File And A Wav File From Your VOB Files, Then You Encode The D2V File And The Wav File In Tmpgenc With The SVCD Template And Encode, This Way You Do Not Need To Join The Mpeg Files..Go To "www.vcdhelp.com" And You Will Find Out How To Do It.....

Hey I get this error when I try to make and Mpeg from Dvd.
I get a privelege order error. I use virtualdub to extract the audio. please help.

What are you doing,?Are you loading the vob files into tmpgenc?if you are that is not the way to do it, encodeing vob files takes forever, use dvd2avi to make a d2v file and a wav file then load the d2v file and wav file into tmpgenc and encode...

Hi! Minion

I want load the VOB from the DVD disk; Mark the SVCD by Nero after clip edit (cut and merge).

I was just thinking, maybe they could add a section to the site where people will give information about their systems and how well/fast TMPGEnc runs on them?

Just a thought...

ABS

I would like to convert SVCD files to VCD (my DVD player only supports VCD).
Can it be done with TMPG? When I try to load the MPEG2 file I get an unrecognized format error. Any help appreciated.

Copy all the SVCD movie files to computer in the same directory... renaming them like film01.dat, file 02.dat etc.... then use DVD2AVI and load in the first film... it should find the others... save project after getting the settings you want... let that run through creating the audio and d2v file... then load them into TMPGEnc like usual....

If you have the mpeg2 codec installed you can just load the mpeg2 file directly into tmpgenc but you might have to de-multiplex it first, there is a link to the mpeg2 codec in post # 9161, another way to do it is to load your mpeg2 file into the "vfapi converter" and it will make a psudo avi file that you can load into tmpgenc to encode to mpeg1....

If you use the DVD2AVI method make sure your files have a .mpg extension not .dat as that is for MPEG1 not MPEG2 and make sure untick the audio option as you don't need any audio.
You can just multiplex the audio from the original SVCD with your new MPEG1 when you have encoded it.

ASHY

Hi,

I have having problems encoding Microsoft AVI (performed by 'dsvd' compressor) into VCD. The encoding will fail 38%, 45%, 50% with this message "Error reading module XXXXXX in TMPGEnc.exe "

And I'm running DirectX8.1. I have installed the VFAPI plug-in, and set the Environmental Settings; giving the highest priority to DirectShow Multimedia File Reader, followed by the Project File Reader, and unchecking the other options.

Does anyone know if the File Readers in the VFAPI plug-ins rely on the video codecs installed in the individual PCs?

fyi.These AVI files were rendered in Premiere 6.01 and can play properly in Windows Media Player.


Any idea?


Jen

Is there a way to get TMPGenc to automatically run a batch once the program is started?

I have it in my startup directory, and when windows starts it just loads, but i would like it to start running a batch once it's run...

Is this possible at all?

Thanks..

Greg Wilson.