I have an AVI video with a Video Compression of MS-MPEG4 V3, and when I try using TMPGenc so that I can convert it to MPEG-1 the only thing that I can hear is the sound of the video when I watch the MPEG-1 version. What can I do? Are there any programs out there that can allow me to turn the AVI to MPEG-1 completely with sound and video?


By the way, I'm turning the AVI video to MPEG-1 in order so that I can make it into VCD

i saw in a few earlier posts that there is some bug with version 2.56 so you have to use the older version to fix the problem.

Does anybody have any Jog Shuttle controllers working with TMPGenc's editing features?

E.g. Canopus JD-1, Pinnacle Energy, Contour ShuttlePro

I've noticed that on many movies there's a tag i an upper or lower corner - is there any way of removing it ?
-M

What do you mean by "Tags"?? You mean little logo"s in the corner,right?Where do you see these logos at?Are they on the mpegs you have encoded but not on the avi? or are they on the movie files you have downloaded and wan"t to get rid of them?

Yeah, they are small logos
They are in the movie file (source file, usually avi) that I'm trying to encode to mpeg form.

I don't think that I via 'tmpeg enc' will be able to remove it, but if anyone knows how to get rid of them I'd greatly appreciate them telling me.
-M

You can try the "clip frame" option to cut out the logo"s but your movie might have a stretched look to them.

i have this movie, with avi extention... but it is not divx file :(
divx player wont open it, divxinfo program would say it is no avi,
divxfix program would say the same...
but it IS a movie because i can play it in wmp and windvd...
so my question is - how can i find it correct format and what extention
it should have???
any program i could open this file with, press properties and have
all the info?

Download this program called "AVI Info" at :http://isengrim.rotegruetze.net/avi-info.html

It will tel you what codec your avi was encoded with and a whole bunch of other stuff about your file...

i HAVE avi info program, and it wouldnt open the file saying
IT IS NO AVI FILE!

I think if you play the file in media player and while it is playing go to properties in media player and see what it says the format is.......

Hi I have a very big problem now. When I use frame save in Virtualdub
And open the file in TMPGEnc the file open just fine, but when am finish
Whet the settings and hit start I get this messages,
Illegal floating decimal point calculation, and the error occurred when ACM
Was initialised

I don¡Çt use to have this kind of problems
When I open the movie I TMPGEnc theirs no problems???
And it the same whit all of my movies
I have tread to play whit the DirectShow plugin and nop dint help

Martin
rikkmar@mail1.stofanet.dk

The ACM error has to do with audio I believe so try frame serveing just the video and encode the audio seperately and see if that works.

nop is just the same

The ACM refers to the windows AUDIO COMPRESSION MANAGER and is the decoding/encoding engine used for compressing/decompressing audio with whichever audio codec you have installed for that particular file.

It is likely that this is a codec problem and it may have something to do with not having the correct codec to decode the audio in the file or maybe a corrupt codec.

ASHY

i have fix the problem i just downloade all the plugins from Tmpeg plugin page and now it runing YES YES

I have a question.I'm using TMPGEnc to make my vcd's,and svcd's from the AVI's
And im not having no problems there at all.(knock on wood)Anyway some of the AVI's i have also have subtitles usually a different lang.Anyway my question is,Is there a way to get rid of the subtitles using TMPGEnc? or if not is there another program out there that can.Any help would be much appreciated.

If the subtitles are part of the picture then I think you are out of luck.You can try useing the "clip frame" option but this will make the file looked all stretched out.....

I am trying TMPGEnc to see if it is a better MPEG2 encoder than the SW that comes with ULEAD Media Studio Pro.

Configurability is great and I can play the test mpegs in WinMediaPlayer, but when I try to import them into the ULEAD DVD Software Plug to see how they look in a standalone DVD player I get the message:

File Must Have Sequence Header before each group of pictures

1. How do I get this turn on?
2. Is this an artifact of the 'limited version'?
3. Does the purchase version create sequence headers? (I hate to buy the software only to find out that it will produce the same problem)

I appreciate your help!

Bruce

Read post #10756....

Just downloaded TMPGEnc 2.56.39.143 and tried to read in an Adobe Premiere sourced DV quality (PAL) AVI file. However i got an error....

"E:/Video Editing/Output Files/untitled.avi cannot open or unsupported"

Any ideas.....

Thanks Raj

Ignore - i've found the solution - sorry for wasting time - newbie problem.....

>Just downloaded TMPGEnc 2.56.39.143 and tried to read in an Adobe Premiere sourced DV quality (PAL) AVI file. However i got an error....
>
>"E:/Video Editing/Output Files/untitled.avi cannot open or unsupported"
>
>Any ideas.....
>
>Thanks Raj
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Raj,
I have the same problem, how did you solve that?
Thanks,

Tully

You either have to raise the priority of the "direct show file reader" or the "openDML file reader" in the "vfapi plugins"......

Hi, I also have that problem and the fix above did not fix it. Is there any other way of sorting it out? It's rather a large file I'm trying to convert - 53mins DV - could this be the problem? My system has enough juice to handle it but does the program not like big files?

I'm having the same problem. Care to help this "newbie" out?

Thanks

Tampa

This has happened to me a few times. I will have tmpg working beautifully, and then I tinker with something, and I get that dreaded message. Videos that formerly loaded no longer do. One time, it happened after I installed quicktime, and I forgot what I did the first time to make it stop working. I used system restore and got it to work again. Needless to say, I don't use quicktime anymore.

Come to think of it, it wasn't quicktime that did this, I was using Adobe Premier too and tmpg stopped working completely.

I'm having the same problem. Care to help this "newbie" out?

Thanks

Tampa

Did you try Minion's advice? I had to do system restore to get mine to work, but I'm relatively new to all this too!

I am trying to bring my EMPEG2 file into DVDit, and is telling me that there are missing sequence before each gop. Does anyone know what this problem is?

When makeing a dvd compliant file you need to have sequence headers before each Gop, in the settings under "gop" were is says sequence headers put that number to "1" and it will put a header before every gop,plus make sure you don"t have more than 18 frames(I think) per gop.....

The dvd player needs these sequence headers in order to be able to pause, rewind fast forward etc. You need to set the maximum number of frames per GOP to 15 for PAL or 18 for NTSC. Alternatively, just load the DVD template for you video type (PAL or NTSC)

Griff

hi there. In converting 2 different avi files i¡­ve experience this error.
The file size is 600-700 MB in size and abuot 65-70 min. in length. But when i convert the file using the wizard it tells me that the new file size is apr. 2500 MB or 350 % the capacity of the disk space.
Can anyone tell me what the problem is ???

hey kalleboy,
well the difference is if your trying to convert 2 videos or just 1.. A 600-700mb movie usually goes into from about 800mb upto 1.4gb... so it depends on what movie you are going also... and the resolution is a key.. its not a problem.. its just that your trying to make a divx coded avi into not that big.. and its not going to happen.. its not a problem you have, you just have to know what its going to be before you convert it.. WhiTeRuM

i've just converted my asf file to mpeg. except, i noticed that there are some blurry, spotty areas because the quality of the picture is not very good. is there a software that i can use to fix up the picture to get good quality mpeg? thanks.

The only real way of inproving the quality is to re-encode the asf file to mpeg but use a higher bitrate, the quality of a file is directly related to the bitrate used to make the file and of cource the quality of the source file...

Hi,
I'm relatively new in DVD to Mpeg conversion. I'm using the conversion to SVCD, but I read that CDV will get best results compared to SVCD.
How can I get a template to convert to CDV format?

That isn"t necessarily true, with cvd useing the same bitrate as svcd you get slightly better image quality but you actually loose about 25% of your resolution which distracts from the quality, but if you want to make your own cvd template just load in the "svcd template" and change the resolution to 352 by 480 then click "save" in the bottom right corner and name the template and you have a cvd template....