I'm basically a beginner with this whole mpeg thing so I'm wondering if someone can help me out a little:D I have a file that I'm trying to encode into mpeg1 so i can give it to my friends. I've been looking around at all the formats and stuff and it just sounds really complicated. So figure why not just go and make a normal mpeg1 file that has goood quality before i go around fooling with standards(ex. vcd,svcd,xvcd,divx..once i can figure this out i'll try the others)

Now i really want to get the best quality for my 90min file and I decided to split that 90 min on 2 cd-r. The source is 720 x 480 and the bit rate i want to use is 1900kbs per cd. Should I shrink the source down to 352x240 to achieve a better qaulity when it's blown up to full screen using a regular file player? In other words what I am trying to ask is would a 720x480 file encoded with 1900kps be better quality in fullscreen or the 352x240 at the same bit rate? Thanks for all the help

You would have better quality at that bitrate with the vcd resolution 352 by 240 ,cuz even though the higher resolution would look beter there isn"t enough bitrate to make the frame size look as clear and crisp as the lower resolution, plus your dvd/vcd player might not play vcd"s with 720 bu 480 resolution, but it might at 704 by 480,.......

i was wondering if its possible to encode maultiple files at once...i have a bunch of 5-7 min clips that i wanna do, is there any way to do them a ll at once so i can leave it for a few hours without having to restart it every 20 mins ? Thanks a lot

Yes It is called "Batch encodeing", what you do is load in a file do your settings then go to "file" and "save project" now do this for all your files , then go to "file" to "batch encode" then load all your files into the batch encode window then click "run"...

hi, im new to this program and was wondering how to use it. I downloaded an avi file, and converted it and burnt it. but the disc didnt work on my vcd player. please help me.

go to :

http://www.vcdhelp.com/

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...