Encoding avi file to mpg, I have great picture, but absolutely no sound! How to fix this or what's causing it. Sound is fine when playing as avi!

This is one of the most common Questions asked in this forum, The audio in your AVI file is not supported by Tmpgenc so you have to extract the audio to a WAV file with "Virtual Dub" and use that as the audio source...

is there still a possibility to import d2v-projects in tmpgenc? (version 2.57)

No problem whatsoever.

ASHY

In the "open project" dialog you can only choose from *.tpr files. i cannot load d2v-project files. (Version 2.57)

are they of the same structure and have i to rename them?

ok. my fault. there was no DVD2AVI.vfp installed on my system. sorry.

Hi... I know thisd is "off topic" but I downloaded 2 files from KaZaa that were supposed to be movie clips from 2 old Pam Grier films. They turned out to be some sort of data files. I cannot do anything - it seems - to remove them from my hard drive. DELETE does not work. SEND TO does not work. RENAME does not work. Nothing seems to touch the damn things!
Any suggestions?

Looks like you've neen hit with one of the many virusus on Kazaa. Use your Virus checker erredicate these file and make sure it's updated.

ASHY

Yes, I have gotten those Before on Kazaa and they can be a big problem,I would sugest not downloading anything off Kazaa unless a lot of other poeple have the same program, and allways look at the file size of what you are downloading cuz usually a problem file will have a name of a movie or program but the file size is much too small to be the file it says it is...The only way I was able to get rid of some problem Kazaa file was to delete my whole Kazaa folder then make a new one......

Tried in DOS mode? Assuming you're not using 2K or XP with NTFS hard drive format. Booted off say a Win 98 Boot floppy?

I've not had this problem myself. I presume you've closed KaZaA and your web connection before trying to delete?

In addition to this have you changed KaZaA version whilst still having incomplete downloads? I changed from Grokster to KaZaA once and each file I had part downloaded on Grokster had to be renamed with the appropriate extension upon completion under KaZaA.

Good luck!

Most likely it is not a virus. When you tried to delete it, did it say something like file is in use.

If so, you might try this. Use Windows Explorer. Change to that directory where the file is located. Under the menu View, change to details. Give
it a second or so to allow XP to make some changes. Then try to delete it.

Kazzaa has some files that have movie extensions and Windows tries to create thumbnails and etc and gets stuck trying.

Good luck,

John

Thanks guys, for all your suggestions. Since my Kazaa "shared file" was only 2 gigabytes in size I simply created a "fix kazaa" folder and moved everything but those 2 invaders to it. I then deleted the entire folder.
I will try to be more observant next time!!!

Can someone suggest a good way of telling up to what bitrate a player will go ?

In the past I did the following

- Selected a scene with a lot of action it - the first 2 mins of Mummy2
- Saved the scene as a seperate avi using an avi cutting tool
- Encoded the scene in TMPGenc at various different CBR settings 2000, 2100 , 2200 etc with everything always the same except for the bitrate
- Joined all the output files together into one MPEG
- Burnt the mpeg with VCDeasy creating a chapter at each section where a new bitrate setting comes into effect
- Played each chapter on the DVD player and looked/listened for video/audio stutter

Is this a good way of doing this or is there a better way ?

Olli

P.S I have lost the manual for the player (Sony DAVS300) so I cant look it up, plus I dont think it specifically mentioned bitrate limits.

P.P.S Yes I have looked on vcdhelp.com and some people say they can go up to 3000 but I have found the limit to be 2300

P.P.P.S It does not support SVCD

Hi Ollie,The method you are useing seems like it should work..I have noticed with my DVD Player that it can handle much higher bitrates if I am useing a VBR Encodeing method like CQ, cuz it seems to only get to really high bitrates for a few seconds and it seems that the Player can handle the bitrate better if it is gradual or only for short periods of time..I know if I set the Minimum bitrate to say 1000kbs and the max to 8000kbs my player can handle it with no problem but if I use say 5000kbs CBR then my player has some problems playing it....

I have been unable to encode any files larger than 2GB. .AVI doesn't seem to support >2GB at all, and TMPGEnc cannot deal with a Quicktime file that is larger than 2GB.

Is there any way to do it?

Maybe you need to format your hard drive to a Fat32 or NTSF system, I think only Fat16 has the 2gb limit...

The above is indeed the answer:

FAT-16 = 2GB file size limit

FAT-32 = 4GB file size limit (I think)

NTFS = for all intense and purposes no single file size limit

It should be noted that some programs, despite one working on an NTFS partition, will still not work with file sizes that extend beyond the 2 or 4GB file size limits. A good example of this is Winzip 8.1, Winzip will not open ZIP files larger than 4GB, yet one can create ZIP files of this size with the upto date DOS version of Winzip, called PKZIP...(PKZIPC.EXE being the file name).

In addition to Cyclops's statment, I would like to add one thing.

AVI 2.0 : one file size is not limited.
AVI 1.0 : one file size is limited to 2GB.

This is just FYI.

I split an mpg file... only one part will play...tried everything

Try useing something else to Split your file into 2 parts.Tmpgenc"s mpeg editor sometimes has problems cutting the second part of a Mpeg file...

vcdcutter

Hi guys...
last time it was a green bar obscuring one third of the picture... tonight it is a purple one. These bars do not show up when the avi file is run on my computer. Just when I use NERO to burn the TMPG encoded file to CD-R. Can some-one tell me why this is occuring? (This avi file did NOT say: Do Not Duplicate)

Never mind. I figured it out. The colored stripe denotes "level 2" macrovsion. I now know how to defeat it too.

hello,

i'd like to know if i could encode an avi file with the dvd mode and burn the file on a cd-r(or two) and play the on a dvd player (not software)

thanks

Not Exactly, if your player supports SVCD then you can try XSVCD with a resolution of 704 by 480, this resolution is a DVD Resolution and some SVCD players will Play it......

In fact it's to play it on the playstation 2 who only read dvd....then I could't read the movie encoded in dvd pal format burned on cd-r's ...?

No, because of a bunch of things, first the authoring program won"t burn a Video_TS Folder on to a Cd-r, your Playstation won"t spin the CD-R fast enough for it to read it properly, plus your Playstation has to be able to read CD-R"s,and even if you could you would only be able to fit 15minutes on a CD-R..You can get a DVD player that plays VCD/SVCD for less than $99....

Thanks !

Does anyone know if this program or of any program that can decode the ac3 audio out of the xvid file, Ive tried virtual dub but it can recognize it says its a (vfw). Anyway im trying to convert the xvid file to svcd and where tmpg can handle the video part of it im still stumped on the audio side, please help. thanks zenxeon....

What is Xvid???If you can get Virtual Dub to accept the file(seeing as i dont know what Xvid is)and save it to Wav, this should extract the AC3 but put a WAV header on the file then rename the Wav to AC3 and use "Headac3e" to encode it to Wav...I haven"t tried this but Have been told that it works.......

Maybe I should have been more clear, first off Xvid = Mpeg-4. Anyway i can not get virtual dub to accept this file to rename to ac3, this is my problem though I have done this in the past on standard avi files with ac3 it will not work on this format. If anyone can think or knows of any application out there that will help me split this file please respond.. thanks zenxeon.

There is a "Virtual Dub-AC3" Version that specificly supports AC3 audio, maybe you might have better luck with it, you might be able to get it at http://apachez.net/ in the tools section...

Working with ac3 is not the issue, its getting virtual dub or any other program to recognize the xvid format to get it to a point to seperate the two. When it comes right down to it i just cant find any programs to seperate the video and audio cuz none of them recognize the xvid format. If you can help please message me...... zenxeon

This maybe an old thread but I thought I'd add to it, following experiences with the XVID Codec, TMPGEnc and VirualDub. Well my conversion problems were related to a file encoded with XVID, not by me, but by someone else. My first hurdle was downloading the codec so that the file would at least playback. This I did from here www.divx-digest.com/software/xvid.html. I found on conversion attempts (with various copies of old and new TMPGEncs) I either got a memory/GPF type message, a clash with NTDLL.DLL, or with old versions (1.76) "Runtime error 216 00002DFC" followed by the NTDLL.DLL message.

So my train of thought passed to re-encoding the XVID AVI to a DiVX 5.02 stream with Virtual Dub, and then converting it. The above articles seems to suggest that VirtualDub doesn't like reading XVID created AVIs, however I found with version 1.4.10 it's fine. At time of writing I'm converting the file with about an hour to go. The stream being a 3000Kbps one, making a 2GB ish file.

One thing to note though, I believe there is a seperate download (about 50KB) that delivers AC3 for AVI files. I did find it and installed it. However I have since deleted it as it appeared to not be doing anything.

Please note at time of writing there is no more XVID codec development taking place, because of a dispute between it's creators and Sigma Designs. Sigma Designs stand charged with stealing code of something like that I think.

The XVID codec seems to make reasonable backups, however I'm not convinced that in it's present state it's superior to the DiVX 5.02 codec, and this may be reflected by the fact that in just over a year I've only come across one movie file that has been encoded with it.

Platform info: Win XP Pro
AMD 1900+ / 1GB DDR RAM / Abit KR7A-RAID 133 RAID not enabled / Asus V8200 / 3COM 3C905B / 2 x 120GB IBM drives / LiteOn 40125W / Pioneer DVD-106S Region free

Thanks for your reply and all good information but still I can not get Virtaldub to recognize the XVID codec.. Everytime I try to open the file it errors out and states that the codec is unknown and needs a VFW (video for Windows) codec and Directshow codecs, such as those used by Windows Media Player are not suitable. I am using the version of Virtualdub that you listed, if you have any other suggestions please let me know.. thanks zenxeon..

Have you installed the latest XVid codec as you should have no problem opening these files with Virtualdub or TMPG or any other program for that matter.
The problem is most likely the AC3 audio as most programs don't support this.

You can use AVImux to Mux or Demux AVI files with Ac3 including Xvid files.
It can be downloaded from http://www.divx-digest.com/software/avimux.html

ASHY

P.S. if you right click the stream you require it will also give you recompression options which will allow you to directly decompress to a wav for use with TMPG.

ASHY

man this is an old question, but i'll answer in case someone else looks here. You need to have VirtualDubMod and AC3Filter installed. Then open the xvid/avi in virtualdubmod, in the "Streams" menu choose "Stream List". When the window pops up hit the demux button and save your ac3 audio file to your hard drive. There all done!

Hi all,

how can I get a MPG2 out of a VOB file very easily? (Newbie)

I want to create a mpgs and then get them back to VOB, as there is a problem with something (when playing on normal DVD Player) and I do not know how to manipulate the IFO file - so I take MPGs and create something with MovieMaker or so.

Please help!!!
Thx Kai

You can use "DVD2AVI" to frame serve the Vob files to Tmpgenc then encode it to Mpeg2......

Minion,
Both you and TMPGenc's representative say that I can run both versions on my computer and chose between them if I want.

Please tell me how to do that.

When I click on the TMPGenc shortcut execute icon, how do I know (or get to chose) which version I'm using?

Are you there, Minion?

Found ANSWER to my own question.

It appears that the execute icon that comes in the "package" with each version will only execute that specific version. So if I want to be able to use version 2.56, I need to save it and label it "2.56", (and "2.58" or whatever other vesion)for each corresponding version that I want to run.

Hi
My computer hangs everytime i encode any video in tmpgenc. what could be the problem. I've double checked and my com meets all the requiremts of the program. Could it be due to the little amount of ram i have, 128 mb ddr

I'm on a athlon xp processor, could it be the problem

No, 128Meg of RAM is enough. That's not the problem.

Are you working with DVD Mpeg-2 in version 2.57?

Have you purchased one of the Extra-Cost 3rd party DVD decoder/players that they are making us get now?

(I still can't believe they are charging so much and their program is not all-inclusive of everythinh you need without having now to pay extra money to get other software to make TMPGenc work as we paid for it!!!!)

There is a Free Mpeg2 decoder for Tmpgenc, it is the same one that was used for all the other versions and it works for this version also..

Could be a dodgy original file...

Have you tried encoding using the "Normal" setting under "Settings" and "Video" tab (the first tab) I think. I found some AVIs wouldn't convert unless I ran on Normal. Also set your process priority to normal. It might failed if you're running other stuff.