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People were asking here why do one needs the System Audio only and System Video only. Well here is the deal...
Anyone here into making VCDs or SVCDs? Well, if you are deep into this then you know that (S)VCDs have what is called "Segments" directory. This allows you to have, in addition to the Video tracks, MPEG stills, Audio only tracks and Video only tracks.
Now let's say you are making a VCD and you'd like to have an Audio only track. If you take a program like VCDEasy (who is a GUI for VCDImager) it won't accept an Audio only MP2 file for the segments section. However, if you encode the Audio into System audio only, and under system type select VCD non-Standard, it will accept the file and make it into playable segment item.
Now, there shouldn't be any problem with Version 2.58 that removes this option. As much as I tried in version 2.57, you can encode to an Audio only MP2, and later in the "MPEG Tools" under "Multiplex" browse the MP2 and multiplex it as VCD non-standard and will make same results.
VCD with "audio only" items is good solution if you want lot's of audio on one CD and your DVD player doesn't support MP3. with MP2 at 160kbps you can have something like 10 or 11 hours of audio per CD and quality will be great...
As for Video only it's probably the same thing, as adding it as segment item, but can't tell much as I have never tried this thing (who needs video only anyway, unless you encode a silent movie :-) )
Good morning! I have an avi file that is a dvd rip. When I checked it for video errors (using Virtual Dub) I got the message: 5 masked frames, i undecodable frame. What is the best way to handle this. - My intent is to use TMPG to make a mpg file and then burn it to CD-R.
The reason I ask is that the last time I had a file with similar "undecodable" frames TMPG just stopped and did nothing more. I ended up doing a crude edit job with virtual dub and then used TMPG, but it took a lot of time.
Using Virtual Dub, can I just re-encode the avi in some manner that will "fix" the problem frames?
You may just be able to simply frameserve the file from Virtualdub to TMPG as Virtualdub will probably handle the dodgy frames better, but you may have to mask the undecodable frame also before doing it.
Since installing Windowws media player 9 i am unable to convert avis to mpgs, when i try i get an illegle operation!!!. Does anyone know a way round this???
yeah I'm having the same problem at the moment. TMP is converting the avis ok as it tells me, yet no player is capable of playing them, and TMP is unable to even load them in the mpeg tools without crashing.
if you are using XP there is a facility called system restore. this will give you the option of restoring your system configuration to how it was b4 u installed media player v9 without losing any of your saved work.
It seems to me that the headers are not being written correctly, and it also appears to me that media player 9 needs a lot of work before it upgrades from beta, as the only files i can now play with it are mp3s.
I have been useing the Media Player 9 for a couple days and it plays everything Fine for me, mpeg files avi files AVS files, the only problem I had was scanning through a Mpeg file the audio goes out of sync but that has been a problem on most Media Player versions....
bit jealous that you have media 9 working nice and sweet.
the system restore is a bit odd, as although it removes the player, it doesn't restore the old one !!*!*!, so when you open a media file it begins the installation procedure of media 9 player again..
Since i did a system restore though my system has been fine, and haven't seen any problems converting dvd to avi, avi to svcd or dvd to svcd !! quality !!!
p.s. was there not a media player 8 for XP? I can only find media player 9 beta on the microsoft site or player 7 for win98, me etc.?
When splitting an MPEG2 file both halves do not complete re writing the SVCD header, an error message "unable to write SVCD header" appears and the process stops. The files when converted to SVCD still play okay.
Any suggestions as to why this error message appears?
Thank you
Thank you for your responses. I don't have any version before 2.57. Where can I get an older version and will my registration number work with an older version.
I have a problem adding subtitles in slovenian language.The problem is, that i can'tdisplay my local characters in tmpgenc.I can see "Equot; and "Equot;, but i can't see "È" instead of "È" it shows "'E".
Can anyone help me or advise me what subtitle convertor i must use to get rid of that problem.
Thanks to Minion and Ashy & a few other gurus here, I was able to successfully convert the AC3 audio stream in my downloaded DIVX movie to a WAV (using VirtualDub to extract the audio stream to WAV, then changing the resulting WAV file extension to AC3, and then using HeadAC3he to convert the AC3 file into a "real" WAV, that TMPGEnc could use.
Next, I used TEMPGEnc's wizard to create the MPG.... using SVCD, and NTSC 704X480 templates. 2 hours, 49 minutes later, I tested the resulting MPG. (It looked approximately the right size... the original AVI was 717,480...the WAV was 810,121, and the MPG was 1,469,776..... and this was just "CD1" of the downloaded file! I still have another one to process! Obviously, I would need to merge and cut the two CD downloads to put them on 3 or 4 CD's, eventually (which seems excessive, actually).... But the quality of the picture and sound of the AVI was awesome on my computer, so I persisted!)
One message that I got from TEMPGenc after the MPG was processed, that I wondered about, was "Stream read error". I didn't know what that meant, but I am guessing that it means that I can't getting any picture! But I had to test that anyway, with 2 hours, 49 minutes, and a Gig and a Half already invested.
I cannot get any picture in Windows Media Player, Divx player, or VCD Cutter players. The sound is fine in all players (my former problem, before using HeadAC3he was that the sound was too jittery to comprehend on the MPG, but the picture was still awesome.)
Am I skipping some step here? I am wondering if I need to somehow extract the video stream and merge it with the audio stream created by HeadAC3he... but I am not sure this is what I need to do... and if I will be able to maintain synch, if I do that, before encoding with TEMPGenc.
Please keep replies at "newbie" level. I have read a great number of posts here, but there are 159 pages, so I don't understand a lot of the terms yet... even though I look them up at another site that has a glossary.
Kat (slowly, but surely learning how to do this stuff, thanks to my friends on this BBS!)
I am trying to convert an .avi file to a .mpg file so that I can burn it to SVCD. Also, are there any "newbie" guides on how to do this, or maybe a different program to try? I will be burning with Nero. I have successfully made SVCD backups of DVDs, but this is my first attempt at making an SVCD from a .avi file I downloaded. Also, the .mpg file that I do get from this attempt has no sound. Any ideas on this one? Thanks for any advice ya'll can give!
My source .avi has 25 fps. However the frame rate in the "Source range" window shows 30 fps if the "DirectShow File Multimedia Reader" priority is set to 1 in the "Enviromental settings" (VFAPI plug-in).
It is only a bug if when you start encodeing it encodes it at 30fps instead of 25fps...After you have done your settings and you go back to the main screen, what does it say the frame rate is set to at the bottom of the Tmpgenc screen??
Check out the latest version of the TMPEG Batch List Creator. The New version makes it even easier to select multiple video files to convert using TMPEG.
That file is a DVD2AVI project file.
Ensure u do not move,rename or delete either the .d2v file or its folders or the vob files used to create it. In fact don't change anything until u have completely finished with the file.
If this isn't the case then simply copy this file DVD2AVI.vfp from your DVD2AVI folder into your TMPGenc folder where the TMPGenc.exe is located and it should work.
>That file is a DVD2AVI project file.
>Ensure u do not move,rename or delete either the .d2v file or its folders or the vob files used to create it. In fact don't change anything until u have completely finished with the file.
>If this isn't the case then simply copy this file DVD2AVI.vfp from your DVD2AVI folder into your TMPGenc folder where the TMPGenc.exe is located and it should work.
>
>ASHY
It is a dvd that I copied to my hard drive with cladDVDXP.
>That file is a DVD2AVI project file.
>Ensure u do not move,rename or delete either the .d2v file or its folders or the vob files used to create it. In fact don't change anything until u have completely finished with the file.
>If this isn't the case then simply copy this file DVD2AVI.vfp from your DVD2AVI folder into your TMPGenc folder where the TMPGenc.exe is located and it should work.
>
>ASHY
It is a dvd that I copied to my hard drive with cladDVDXP.
Is it possible with TMPGenc to get the file information of a
MPEG1/2 video file (type, framerate, screensize, etc.)? Virtual
Dub mostly will not load MPEG file. Often you'll find (music)
video files on the web which you can play with your Windows
media player but this one won't give you information at all.
In Audio only, you get an elementary Stream.
The other Option creats a system Stream. But there are not much Ideas how (and for what) to use them, if they are Video or Audio only.
Elementary Streams are very usefull if you plan to use an other Multiplex-Tool or to create a DVD.