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At home, my TMPGEnc can read *.vob without problems, but my machine is so slow. I tried the same thing at the office where I really got a power machine, but TMPEGEnc refuses to read that file. I use the newest version at home an in the office. What is the reason and how do I solve the problem?
It is not advisable to directly open VOBS with TMPG, you WILL get problems. VOBS usually contain many streams and TMPG isn't able to discern between these streams.
It is a better and faster solution to use DVD2AVI to open your VOBS and create a project file which you can load into TMPG. This way you will be able to select the required streams you need only.
After much deliberation I have finally solved my problems with MPEG Tools and Windows XP. I notice that everyone reports this and I would like to add my solution.
I have ascertained that almost all of the errors which have occurred in this area are down to DirectShow. I installed a decent MPEG2 codec last night for Media Player XP compatibility and as soon as I did this I noticed that I get no errors whatsoever. I actually tried the PowerDVD codec for Media Player XP and it all works fine.
I have also noticed other people with similar problems with the other OS's and it all seems to come down to DirectShow and Media Player. This is quite strange as TMPGEnc doesn't seem to need an MPEg2 codec to work. MPEG tools does however!
I hope this helps anyone who might be having similar problems.
I agree with you that most problems are probably due to directshow itself and not TMPG and you are right that the MPEG tools need a decent MPEG2 codec to work correctly with MPEG2 files, but TMPG itself also needs this codec to open such files not just the tools.
I have often suspected that the problems most people have with the tools are simply down to incorrect configuration of their systems. For example installing too many types of one codec can cause havoc with Direct show, by this I mean if you were to install, such as, too many MPEG2 codes this will just confuse Direct show and cause confliction problems as it will try to use all the codecs at the same time and you will end up with problems.
For instance you may have a codec installed for WinDVD and Power DVD together (which is a bad idea in itself) you may have the free DVD filters installed too for media player and then also have the MPEG2 plugin installed for TMPG.
All these codecs utilise Direct show, so it's no wonder ther are problems when this type of system configuration is used.
Also using certain types of other MPEG encoding and editing software can also cause problems with TMPG. I have experienced this myself on occasion. I remember I had a problem with TMPG when I decided to install DVMPEG 6. As soon as I uninstalled DVMPEG everthing was hunky dory again.
My advice to anybody who is constantly experiencing serious problems with TMPG is to check the codecs and the MPEG software they have installed and if in doubt wipe them out and start afresh with a clean system and only install what you need.
Ashy might you be so kind as to list the codecs you have installed on your system? I *think* I understand that they will be unique to the software you have installed, but as I look at my own codecs honestly I can't tell what-was-installed-by-what-software and what-is-needed-and-what-is-fluff so would like to look at someone else's list as a starting point.
I don't suppose there is an easy way either to tell if a codec uses DirectShow? I do also have WinDVD and PowerDVD and a couple other players installed and your comment that these two together "are a bad idea" begs the question: how to know? I have several players installed and part of my reason is they each have different useful features, another reason is to see how "compatible" my files are. But this is not good to have so many on one PC?
Some strange happend with my TMPGenc:
I have an avi-file, which is at least 11GB. I encoded 3 times (always little changes in the avi-file). This took at least 5 hours to encode. The output m2v-file was about 3,4GB. Thats all very ok. The quality is very fine!
Last week I wanted to encode another time this file - it took 48 hours and the output file has 81MB (!) and when I want to play it or I move it into the DVD authoring-software, there is no picture information, only black screen...
I always take the same preferences to encode.
I also tried to delete and reinstall TMPGenc, no change...
Does anyone have an idea, what is wrong here??
I followed the avi to mpeg step by step but I cant get the audio our vidoe pull It keep saying unsupported. I also made the changes to vfapi plugin still can't open avi file when I try to open the they aren't there but if I go to them under the driv e they are there PLEASE HELP!!!!
Are you saying when you click the browse button to choose your avi file the file isn"t there but it is there if you go to it?If this is true then for some reasom your avi files aren"t being read as avi files cuz when you choose your file after clicking the "browse" button all supported file types should be displayed, maybe this is happening because you don"t have the right codecs installed on your system to decode the file, but if you didn"t have the right codecs then you shouldn"t be able to view your file, so I have no idea why you are haveing proglems but try going to "vcdhelp.com" and see if you can find a solution there....
I ripped my DVD using smartripper, and saved the project in dvd2avi, but when I try to frameserv and open it in tmpgenc, tmpgenc just completely freezes and I have to press ctrl,alt,del before I can do anything else on the computer. What am I doing wrong?
Did you make sure you have the "dvd2avi.vfp" plugin in the vfapi plugins? and the priority of that plugin has to be high enough at least "1", pluss don"t moove or rename any of the vob or d2v files in the path between dvd2avi and tmpgenc....
I just purchased the TMPG program and am trying to convert my avi files to VCD in order to burn and play on my DVD player. The problem I am running into is when I try to convert the video file I get the error "cannot open or unsupported". I have no problem playing these files using a DIVX program but how do I convert them? Please help.
>Please search this board for you answer. It is on every page and you won't have to look far.
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>ASHY
Well Ashy,I'm sorry but I have searched all over the page and although I see where a lot of people have the same problem,I can't find where you have answered the question in any detail. For example what plugins do we need and more important where do you find these plugings. Also what steps do we go about to fix the problem. Not all of us have the computer skills that you do and sometimes we need step by step help. Just telling us to look on the page is not the answer. If you can't help please advise.
If you were to type unsupported in the search box at the top of this page the answer would have presented itself many times.
I have answered this question myself soooooo many times it just gets tedious when the answer is so readily available just by looking in the right place.
Anyway seeing as you are in need the usual way to correct the problem is to start TMPG and go to Options>enviromental setting>VFAPI plugin and right click the 'Directshow mutimedia file reader' and raise it's priority to 2 and the rest to 0.
Has anyone have probs with tpmg when cut/join video files? My prob is when i join/cut mpgs i lose sound in the middle of the mpg file, anyone know why?
Does this happen with all or just certain files. If it's just certain files it is probably a dodgy MPEG file.
Just re-encode the audio and multiplex it with the video and then try cutting again.
I used EO video to convert real media files into .avi files, then I tried to convert them to .mpg using TMPGEnc. The problem is, there is no video when it's converting, only sound. Why is it that this happens? It's probably not TMPGEnc's problem, but I've posted around and nobody has been able to help me, so if anybody could, I'd really appreciate it.
You can't have looked to hard. If you have a look around on this board you'll find the answer about a 100 times. You won't have to look for your answer to hard as it is probaly on every page of this board.
No I don't think TMPG is able to produce transport streams, but as Minion says you could use MPEG2VCR to convert the program stream to a transport stream using it's stream converter or you could just use MPEG2VCR to multiplex to a transport stream.
There are also various other softwares able to do this, another is MPEGcarver. http://www.imaginegraphics.co.uk/products/mpegcarver/mpgecarver.htm
There are two versions of MPEG2VCR. the downloadable version only handles mpeg1's. The $600 version handles mpeg2's. It will most certainly convert between program and transpiort streams though.