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When setting the audio gap in 2.57, it seems that if I adjust the gap just a little (100ms for example) it might skip the audio one whole GOP. The best adjustment I seem to be able to make is 500ms (one GOP at 15 per second)...
I have made a VCD with an 16/98 avi film . I encode it in MPEG VCD format ( using 16/9 option ). When I play it on my TV ( 4/3 ) the image is not complete ( left and right parts are missing ) but when I play the original MPEG ( not burn ) with a window player the image is fine ....
What do you think about it ? Do you think it come from my TV format ( not 16/9 format but 4/3 ) ? Thanks for your help :p
If you are watching the vcd on a regular 4:3 TV then you have to set the output to "4:3" with the video arange setting to "fullscreen keep aspect ratio" this will give you the proper aspect for your TV...
What is the VBV setting I should use to accomodate the "112 x 2048" specification that Alcorn McBride gave me for this parameter? Originally I tried a setting of 230 KB, but I got an error message "The VBV buffer size is too large for the selected level".
Thanks in advance for your help.
When encoding a film, playback from a DVD R results in studdering motion. The video has been encoded as both a and b field. The source is film, telecined to digibeta, digitized into an Avid Meriden (b field) Output to quicktime using the Avid codec.
The best results seem to be using inverse 3:2 pulldown on playback, b field, but then when audio is added, the video breaks up. Different frame rate?
How can I get smooth motion from film originated footage? removing telecine won't work because the footage is edited and the pull in frame will change from shot to shot.
Are there any tricks to improving encoding speed when using TMPGE? Any preferred environmental settings or Windows OS tricks to improve encoding speed?
Thanks
Haveing a really fast processor helps,I encode vcd at real time on a 1.7ghz, but if you set the "motion search precition" to "motion estimate search" this can double the speed of encodeing from high quality but the quality won"t be as good......
Thanks for you prompt reply. I have a 2.2 GHz P4 and 1 Gbyte of RDRAM using Windows XP. I brought up Windows XP "Task Manager" while encoding on TMPGE and noted that only 200 Mbytes of Cache was being used with ~ 800 free for use. Either TMPGE or the Windows XP OS is limiting the amount of RAM being used during the encoding process. Any was to increase usage of Cache memory rather than accessing hard drive so much?
I use Windows XP also with the default cache settings accept I use "Norton System Works" to optimize and manage my cache and I think it seems to help cuz my encodeing speeds are fairly good and you have a faster cpu than me so you should be able to encode vcd at close to real time also(high resolutions take a little longer)With CinemaCraft I can encode at twice real time..So maybe it is Norton that is helping with my cache settings so go and download a copy it might help...
Thanks for the information. I decided to run a test using TMPGEnc version 2.57 on two different platforms (Athlon 1.2 GHz with 768 Mb of SDRAM and a P4 2.26 GHz with 1 GB of RDRAM). Using the same TMPGEnc settings and encoding the same file ( 3.3 GB AVI File), the results weren't all that dissimilar. The P4 system system came in first with a total encoding time of ~ 1 hour 10 minutes while the Athlon system completed in 1 hour 39 minutes. What do you think?
I tried an experiment that had interesting results. I installed "RAM Disk" software that sets up a portion of System RAM to act just like a hard drive. I installed the TMPGenc application and the AVI file to be encoded on to "RAM Drive". I then started TMPGenc, selected the AVI file to be encoded from "RAM Drive" and stored the outputed MPEG2 rendered file on "RAM Drive". There was virtually no encoding time difference between running the application and it's data completely from RAM versus running application and it's data from hard drive. The TMPGenc encoding process is clearly CPU dependent (atleast when encoding high quality MPEG 2 files.
If you use TMPGEnc Plus, and enable "Saves analyzing result of multi pass VBR to cache", and specify the RAM disk at "Folder setting" in Environmental setting, it may be faster comparing to HDD. But you need a lot of space for cache if you encode large file.
I agree that encoding is mostly CPU dependent. I'm not suprised you got the results you did.
It would seem pretty obvious that there is no way that even the fastest CPU could encode fast enough to cause a hard drive lag even when reading and writing to the same drive. Look at it this way my hard drive can sustain a transfer rate of 40 MB/sec.
If a processor could match this rate with processing speed it would mean a 2hr movie would be completed in roughly 40-60 secs. Highly unlikely wouldn't you say. I know there are other factors to take into account such as temp files, cache, virtual memory and reading and writing to the same drive which all slow down the hard drive and the process, but still no processor is going to match it for speed thus causing the hard drive to struggle supplying the data fast enough.
The bottle neck IS the processor, but a reasonable amount of RAM would almost certainly help.
Hello,
I am trying to encode AVI capture file into NTSC Film VCD. The file info: size ~35GB, AVI 2.0, codec Huffyv. After loading it into TMPGenc (not so fast but OK) and setting filters (Noise reduction, Inverce telecine, Sharp, Crop, Resize) it goes to encode. First it process Inverse telecine (slow, but working), after TMPGenc goes to actualy encode file and strage things starts - it working for ~30-40 seconds using 100% CPU and after it stops (0-2% CPU) and becomes "Not Responding", after some time it wakeups and load CPU with work again until next "sleep" session. The remaining time become very long and very bad thing it constantly increasing and does not go to end. So anybody knows where is problem and what the solution? The hard drive is fast, memory is enough - so what is wrong?
I can't tell you what the problem is, but may have a work around.
Use Virtualdub to frameserve the file to TMPG. You could also use Virtualdubs filters on the file, (Noise reduction, Inverce telecine, Sharp, Crop, Resize) as I think they are faster than TMPG's filters.
When i convert a DivX codeced movie into vcd , there seems to be this flickering of white lines in the output video. It looks like white lightning or something, and sometimes its even in the margin (if on widescreen. this problem started when i downlaoded the new free version of tmpgenc.. and i re-installed the old version and it now its doing the same thing..do you guys know anything about this.. thanks
Being new to this, I've just used tmpgenc to create a VCD compatible MPEG file. It seems to run ok on my PC. So far so good. Now, if I want to burn it to cd so I can watch it on my DVD player, do I just use something like Adaptec Easy CD Creator and create a data disc (like I do to back up my machine) or do I need other software to make the CD compatible with my DVD player. Thanks in advance for any advice.
You need a program that can burn in "vcd" format, there are quite a few programs for this but "VCDeast" and "Nero" are the most popular, "VCDeasy" is good cuz it is totaly free and it supports chapters, but I use the "ulead dvd plugin" to burn vcd"s cuz it does titles, menu"s and chapters and you can import and introduction video file to play at the beginning of your vcd movie...
I have 2 hd (4.5 and 60 gigs). Im using Premirer 6-Avisynth-TMPEGenc-compressed to MPEG1. I never had this problem before but when i tried the KVCD template i started getting this error. I rerouted all my files to my 60gig hd i.e. TMPEGenc Output File and Environmental setting, for Premiere 6 all files are stored in the 60gig hd as well. After doing this , i tried compressing a 2 minute file again and watch my c:/drive get filled up again. Did i miss anything?
Are you saying that you encode a 2 minute clip and your 60gb hard drive gets filled up????If thats true then that is the first time I have ever heard of this problem...
Did you make sure you set the TMPG temp file output to your 60gb drive.
Also you may need to increase you Virtual memory and/or move it to your larger drive.
I encoded the 2 min clip in the 60gig HD, and change the setting in the environmental settings to store the temp file to the 60gig hd. But when i try to encode the 2 min clip i see my C drive getting filled up, i suppose this is the temp file. Also i still have about 500mb remaining in my c drive. This should be enough for a 2 min clip.
I checked the settings on KVCD and i noticed that the I on GOP is set at 5328,i asked them this they said this does not cause my out of memory error.
I'm having an "out of memory" error as well. Although it seems to be quite a different one, i decided to post it here because it might be related somehow,
I get the error whenever i try to join 2 (or more) vbr mpegs with the included mpeg tools (merge&cut). it worked before but then i must have changed a damn windows switch i don't remember now. i get the error just when the program tries to multiplex the audio and the video stream. when i start the task-manager i can see that it uses up to one GB! of virtual memory before crashing.
Problem sound easy to me, but changing the virtual memory settings had no effect :((
Free hd space: about 5,5GB
File size: 2x600 MB
Fragmentation: 35%! no free space left at hd end! only in the middle of the hard drive.
It still works with smaller files.
Could defragmentation help?
Why uses the multiplexing the virtual memory without showing in the progress bar?
Well, we figure it out what my problem is. It so happen im still using the beta version of TMPEGenc and the KVCD template is designed for 2.0 and up version.
If you have "mpeg4" codecs on your system then you can use tmpgenc to encode to mpeg4/divx, you just load in your file(mpeg/avi/asf/wmv/mov/ect)then go to "file" then output to "avi" then choose your codec then encode that is it,Tmpgenc isn"t licenced to distribute patented codecs but if you allready have them installed then tmpgenc will encode to that format........
I know what Minion and ASHY are saying, however, this may cause misunderstanding...
TMPGEnc itself does not have feature to encode a movie to MPEG-4 format, so you can not expect quality advantage of TMPGEnc I think.
I thought megamind's question means if there is any plan to support MPEG-4 encoding by having its own MPEG-4 engine or logic inside TMPGEnc...
I really do not know if they support MPEG-4 natively, however, I found the sample movie at "List" page is interesting. The average bitrate of the movie is just 1.1MB, but MPEG1 640x480 Filesize : 21.5MB..., this is challenging to the
MPEG-4 standard..., and I hope they impliment MPEG-4 encoding feature inside
TMPGEnc.
What would be the point. I doubt the encoding would be any better, if at all, than the current Divx 5.02 codec, which in my opinion is the best MPEG4 codec there is.
At least when using TMPG to encode to MPEG4, using an external codec, you have the added advantage of it's filters and cropping/resizing ability.
I doubt this will be implemented into TMPG as part of the encoder as MPEG4 is an AVI format.
My point is if TMPG team implement MPEG-4 encoding engine, or if they apply their algorithm to MPEG-4 encoding, I think the quality of movie would be better.
> Filters and cropping/resizing ability
I know these are of course advantages, but this does not affect to quality.
my thing is, I use vegas video, and it dusnt work with divx:(
also i need to store a huge lot of video material on my HD, for use in vegas video.
so I need a small filesize but high quality. divx doesnt work, and since mpeg4 comes close to divx i thought i might use this one. it seems the best filetype for that case, isnt it?
also, its mpeg4. mpeg1 and mpeg2 have their videoCDs compatibility, so how about videoCDs using mpeg4? they would smash the old mpeg and VCD versions against the wall. divx also cant do this, you have to reformat the divx to mpeg1/2 before you make a vcd out of it
Well if you are useing "Vegas Video" you can render directly to a fairly high quality mpeg2 with the main concept mpeg1/2 codec and not have those huge file sizes.There is now way as of now to make a mpeg4 vcd but soon Divx will have there own stand alone devices for playing mpeg4 movies.......
>so I need a small filesize but high quality. divx doesnt work, and since mpeg4 comes close to divx i thought i might use this one. it seems the best filetype for that case, isnt it?
May I ask what you mean by this. Why does it not work? There isn't really much difference between DIVX and MS MPEG4. Both are using the MPEG4 format. DIVX is simply a modified and tweaked version of the original MPEG4 codec and in my opinion gives superior results.
Is it possible to create a picture show CD to be played in a DVD player (like that from Ulead 'DVD Pictureshow')that has a long narration/sound track - BUT that can have the pictures displayed for differing amounts of time to correspond with the narration.
I don't want to create a simple video file as I want to place as many hours worth of presentation on the CD as possible! (I have 24 hours of Powerpoint presentations to put on the least amount of CDs for mass distribution and I want it accessible to people who have DVD players)
Any other options/ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Tmpgenc is basicly just an encoder so any building of files you have to do with a different program(ulead dvd picture show)but if you have the avi file with all the video clips and naration in it tmpgenc will encode it to mpeg but you are trying to get way to much onto a single cd-r, you shouldn"t try to get more than 90minutes of video on a single cd-r and that is with sub-standard quality, and lowering the bitrate to 500 or even 750 might not play on most standalone dvd/vcd players, Most players that play vcd"s are made to handle standard vcd"s with cbr and a bitrate 1150kbs so if you are trying to supply these to a number of poeple then there might be some compatability issues,so I think you basicly want to make a slide show with audio on a vcd, so go check this program out it might be what you are looking for, let me know if it helps. http://www.xat.com/xatshow/
>Tmpgenc is basicly just an encoder so any building of files you have to do with a different program(ulead dvd picture show)but if you have the avi file with all the video clips and naration in it tmpgenc will encode it to mpeg but you are trying to get way to much onto a single cd-r, you shouldn"t try to get more than 90minutes of video on a single cd-r and that is with sub-standard quality, and lowering the bitrate to 500 or even 750 might not play on most standalone dvd/vcd players, Most players that play vcd"s are made to handle standard vcd"s with cbr and a bitrate 1150kbs so if you are trying to supply these to a number of poeple then there might be some compatability issues,so I think you basicly want to make a slide show with audio on a vcd, so go check this program out it might be what you are looking for, let me know if it helps.
>http://www.xat.com/xatshow/
Only one time period for all pics on this one also (xatshow). The company has plans for the next version to be more versitile!
THANKS FOR TRYING
This too creates an AVI file. I can do this with a number of other programs.
I think I really need to retain the Pictures on the VCD and be able to time them to a narration - a timed slideshow. (But I think you get the idea).
I understand you wish to create a VCD. My thinking was that you could create the slideshow, render it to AVI and then encode the whole AVI to VCD afterwards.
There is one more I came across and this one allows you to create a timed slideshow with features such as fade in/out and allows sound, but not narration, but it does allow the slides to be timed with the sound. It would just be a simple case of recording the narration first and then adding it to the slides.
It also encodes directly to MPEG. http://www.iomation.com/products/product.asp?ProductID=flyvcd