i can make my avi to an mpge is says that it can not open or its unsuported

Go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" raise the "direct show file reader" to "2", this should get your file loaded.....

Hey i need help. Why does my videos are tinted every 2 seconds purple after finishing tmpg encoder? My input file is great but my outout file is not. why?
Help please

You have to get rid of the evil codec pack called "ANGEL POTION" that is installed on your system, the angel potion codec causes this problem so you must get rig of it to fix the problem, you can replace it with any mpeg4 or divx 3 codec....

I know this forum is for TMPGenc, but hoped someone here would be able to answer a question about Virutal Dub. I am attempting to use virtual dub to frame serve to tmp, but in virtual dub, I cannot see the video. I can capture the audio to a wav file for processing, but cannot preview/edit the video... Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Thanks in advance

moviebuff

Whay sort of file are you trying to frameserve to TMPG and what codec was it encoded with?

ASHY

serving an avi file coded with codex 5

Does this file play ok in media player.
Does it load into TMPG and can you see the movie there?

ASHY

Actually, I have encoded it with TMPGEnc, but I'm now trying to improve the quality through frame serving it from virtual dub. I am able to strip out the audio with virtual dub, but the video just won't show.

thanks

You say you are trying to improve this file? In what way? Is it not possible to use the filters in TMPG?
Also you didn't answer the original question. Will the file load into TMPG and can you see the preview there?
It's very unusual that Virtualdub doesn't show the video.
Is it only this file that doesn't work in Virtualdub?
Have you tried uninstalling and re-installing the DIVX5 codec?
If that doesn't work try installing DIVX 4.12 and then open the file in Virtualdub.

ASHY

Thanks, reloading the divx 5.0 codec worked great and framserving did improve the movie quality.

moviebuff

The sound stops after 14 seconds in the mpeg file. Do you know how to fix this?

Thank You
Matt

It sounds like the audio format of your source file (avi) has an unsupported audio format like mp3 vbr, or ac3, you need to extract the audio to a wav file from your avi file with "virtual dub" then use the wav file as your audio source, but if you have allready encoded the avi file to mpeg ,you can de-multiplex the mpeg ,encode the wav audio from "virtual dub" to a mpa file with "tmpgenc" then multiplex the mpa file with the de-muxed mpeg file....

How do i convert
avi-->mp3 because i can't
convert avi --> mpg by using tmpgenc..
so...i need to use virtual dub to get
mp3 from avi file....
how do i do that?

Is what you are trying to do is extract the mp3 audio to a wav file so you can encode it in tmpgenc?This is easy , just open "virtual dub" load in your avi file and then go to "file" and to "save wav" then choose your directory and that is it......

Will someone with TMPG Enc.please help me!

I just tried to buy your great product and got a message saying my credit card was not good---and to "try another card later".

That is Nonsence. My MasterCard is thousands of dollars from my limit. And is totally good! I use it everyday with no problem.

Why won't Pegasys accept it???

TMPG Enc.please answer and help me work this out. I want to buy your great product.

Help!
thanks

No one from "Pegasus" comes here, so you need to go to the "Pegasus" web site and look for a contact e-mail, or just wait a bit and try again cuz these types of problems have happened before......

Go to :
http://www.ifekx.com/

This is much better.

Ok, thank you.

I am able to get my avi file loaded at the beginning of the program but when i press start i get an error message stating "cant load p3package.dll" what do i need to do now.

There is a "search engine" at the top of this page were you can type in "p3p package" and you will read the solution to this problem....

me,too


>I am able to get my avi file loaded at the beginning of the program but when i press start i get an error message stating "cant load p3package.dll" what do i need to do now.

Hi there.

I am experiencing a very weird problem... I have captured 7 minutes of VHS video off my VCR. I used VDub to capture it at 704x576 (YUY2) and the file generated was 8 GB in size (VDub bypasses the 2 GB limit). When I captured the same video with Matrox PC VCR, it was automatically split into 4 parts of 2 GB and 1:42 minutes in length each.

I decided to encode the 8GB file into TMPGEnc and encode it into VCD PAL. TMPGEnc estimated that the encoding time would be around 20 minutes, however 5 minutes later, the encoding was finished ?!? I checked the output VCD file and I was surprised to find out that only the first 1:43 minutes were encoded. Windows Media Player would continue playing the remaining minutes (the cursor was scrolling) however the screen was black and there was no audio (i.e. that part was not encoded).

I then tried feeding the 4 2 GB files into Premiere timeline, one next to each other, and framesrve to TMPGEnc... I was also surprised to find out that TMPGEnc would only encode the first 1:45 minutes and then nothing...

Let me tell you that the 8GB .avi file would play flawlessly in VDub (it gives me an unsupported format error in WMP though) however TMPG can not encde it till the end.

Has anyone experienced this weird problem ? I think it must have something to do with the Windows .avi filesize restriction but I am not sure.

What can I do to overcome it ? Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

P.S. : To what its worth, I have WinXP and the drive where I am capturing to is NTFS formatted. MPGEnc version is 2.56.39.143 -free version- (core version is 1.89.137). I am using the on-board VCD template of TMPGEnc.

Well if the files play flawlessly in virtual dub try "frame serveing" the files from virtual dub, of use "virtual dub" to encode the 7 minute in file into a single high bitrate divx file, if you used divx 4.12 or 5 then encoded it to the max birtate of 6000kbs with 4.12 or 10,000 with 5, the file would be less than 100mb and have pretty much exactly the same quality..but frame serving from virtual dub would be your first best bet then if that don"t work encode to divx, just a thought....

It seems like this is a problem with the TMPGEnc version. I installed an older version (2.01.30.116) and everything worked normally.

Perhaps this is a bug ?

It seems like this is a problem with the TMPGEnc version. I installed an older version (2.01.30.116) and everything worked normally.

Perhaps this is a bug ?

Try raising your Direct show filter priority to 2.

ASHY

I am having trouble converting avi files to mpeg. I keep getting the following error after I click on Start :

"Can not be used as external encoder"

Please email me on akaid.quyam@ntlworld.com

Many thanks....Akaid

It sounds like you have got something set up for the external audio encoder that isn"t working or non compliant, go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "external tool" and make sure there are NO check marks in the boxes, this will turn off the external encoder but you would of had to install one first to get this error, but if you didn"t then I have no idea what is wrong...

i have an avi file and i have problems with it.
first of all, if i look at its properties, it doesnt show me details like
audio format, bitrate, video fortmat, bitrate, length, fps and so on.
then, if i try to open it with virtual dub, it would say that it's
unknown format.
then, if i try to encode it without extracting sound first, but by
raising "direct show" thingy in environmental properties - it would say
immediately that an error occurred opening ACM.
all this could possibly mean that it is corrupt, BUT i can play it in
windows media player and watch it there with sound and all.
so what's the problem? any ideas?

The audio is probably "ac3" so you need to download a "ac3 decoder" to extract the audio to a wav file then use that to encode in tmpgenc, you can"t use virtual dub to extract AC3 ...

Hey, Minion.
I have AC3 decoder version 1.20
and i far as i can see here, i can only choose .ac3 or .vob files to
work with. i cant choose an .avi file to extract audio from!
what should i do?
the input file type drop-down meny is grayed out so i cant choose input
file - is it bacuse it's an unregistered version? or is it always like that?
please help! i really need it

Hey, Minion.
I have AC3 decoder version 1.20
and i far as i can see here, i can only choose .ac3 or .vob files to
work with. i cant choose an .avi file to extract audio from!
what should i do?
the input file type drop-down meny is grayed out so i cant choose input
file - is it bacuse it's an unregistered version? or is it always like that?
please help! i really need it

hi i asked a question previously and it was answered .....how do i improve overall quality of movies that i'm encoding ...answer -the easiest way to improve quality is to increase bitrate.ok i get that but by how much a vcd the constant bitrate is set at 1150 but you can increase it but i don't know what to increase it to so it really does make the movie better to watch , clearer you know.if anyone can answer this for me thank you!

To increase the bitrate you have to load the "unlock.mfc" template in the "Extra" folder,now you can raise the bitrate as high as you want but the higher the bitrate the bigger the file size, with a bitrate if 1650kbs you will get about 60 minutes per cd-r with much improved quality, you can download a "bitrate calculator" at vcdhelp.com, this will tell you the max bitrate to use for the length of the file you are encodeing so you can fit it on # cd-r"s..

thanks so much i really appreciate it...thank you!

hi i was just wondering if its possible to remove subtitles simply and easily somewhere in the encoding process.i encode movies to vcd and some of them have subtitles that i would like to remove somehow!

Yes and No, you can use the clip frame option to cut out the actual area were the subtitles are but you will have a movie that looks a bit stretched up and down, but you can"t just remoove them ,well not from an avi file....