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i have encoded a film to svcd which as come out great sound and picture are fine but when i go split the file into 2 parts there seems to be about 5 secs of audio missing from then end of the frist half of the film ??. And i was just wondering if somebody knew why this was happening
TMPGenc has trouble cutting Mpeg2 files, its something about TMPGenc unable to correctly cut the audio and video in the same place, i had the same problem, if you go to the TMPGenc home page, you will see some info regarding this problem, as they seem to be unable to address it, try to encode the movie in 2 parts, using batch convert if you like, i just do one half, then set up the second half with the same bitrate as the 1st half, as so you dont get one half looking better than the other, all depends if you cut the file at exactly 50%, sometimes its not a good idea if its bang in the middle of a busy scene, or someone is talking in that particular part of the film.
thats what i have been doing batch encoding but then another problem developed where it would bomb out with some error but if i did it 1 part at a time it would be ok its abit time comsuming as i wanted to set it off b4 i went to bed as not to tie up the pc too much i havce tried vcd cutter but it just locks up
VCD Cutter only works with MPEG1 Files...There are lots of good Mpeg editors ,i sometimes use the Mpeg editor in "Power VCR" and it works Quite Good, or there is M2-Edit Pro, or DVD Cutter, or Mpeg2VCR, which is a Fairly Cheap one ,you can download a Bunch of different editors at :http:/www.apachez.net/ in the tools section....
Hello
I have created 2 mpg files from 2 avi files with TMPGenc. When I want to join these 2 mpg files, it says that file # 2 is not compatible with other mpeg file.
Waht can I do to solve this problem.
Go to mpeg tools in TMPGenc, choose merg + cut, select mpg1 video cd from dropdown menu, enter path and filename for the outputted file, choose run. now try to join the files, this should do the trick.
I'm getting 'gradiant' artifacts during encoding. It appears on low-lit scenes, and where the gradiants are happening in the scene (like a low-lit door, dark colors, lots of shadows) it's not pretty.
Source is 720x480 24p (yes, 24 frames progressive, not interlaced) sourced from an High Definition transfer.
Settings are 2-pass VBR, minimum 4000, 5000 average, 7500 high end. 3/2 pulldown is inserted, and noise reduction are being used. 8-bit is the color depth.
I've also tried 2-pass VBR with 7000 minimum, 7500 average, and 8500 high, with 10-bit color, as well as noise reduction and "Soften block noise" in Quantize matrix. The gradiant artifacting is minimized a little (~20%) but not enough to make it disappear. The source footage does not have this problem.
GOP Structure is default, but I've also played around and tried adding more B frames (no difference, actually a little worse)
Any help would be appreciated, this is a sticking point right now.
One last question, I have the new version of TMPeg, and my version doesn't have HP@HL for HDTV resolutions and encoding. How do I get that (plug in?). I have HDTV source footage, and would like to MPEG-2 encode it (same source as 720x480p footage being used)
Hope someone can help. Downloaded avi files from inernet site. With some of them, after encoding there is no sound whatsoever even though sound was present before (checked with a player). Picture is spot on though.
You should do this with ALL the movies that you Download off the net, you need to Extract the audio to a Wav file with "Virtual Dub" and use that as your audio source...Tmpgenc does not like to encode Compressed Audio formats and most of the time the audio is going to be compressed so this is the way to fix it....
I am new to this conversion stuff and im a little confused. I recently downloaded an avi movie trailer from Kazaa. I tried to play it in Windows Midea Player and I had sound but no video. How do I see and hear the file. Is thier something wrong with it or what. Please help!!!
Well if you have the correct codecs installed on your system then you should be able to play it but if you have all the relevant codecs then the file just could be screwed up,A lot of Movie files on the net are screwed up in one way or another....
I have just downloaded TMPG for the purpose of merging 3 svcd overlapping files into 1.
The problem is that when I use the Merge & Cut option to merge two of the clips I end up with the video clip being okay but the audio becomes out of sync.
What appears to happen is that the audio from the end of the overlapping clip starts at the beginning of the overlapping clip and pushes the audio out of sync by about 30 seconds (the time that the two clips overlap.)
This happens both with using the 'Correct' function and also with manually setting my start and end points for the two clips.
If this is an error on my part I appologise for submitting it as a bug report and welcome any advise on how to correctly join two overlapping clips. Even if I try to crop the clips individually so that I can join them later I end up loosing the last 30 seconds or so of audio.
ie With a cropped clip there is no audio for the last 30 seconds or so of the clip.
Tmpgenc does not Officialy Support the Joining or editing of files that are not made with Tmpgenc, and tmpgenc does not Join files that are VBR properly, your best bet is to use a Better mpeg editor...
I have been unable to get TMPGEnc to recognize a large Quicktime .MOV. I'm not sure exactly what the size limit is (it will recognize larger than 2GB) but there is one. These are .MOV files that play fine in Quicktime Player for Windows. DV-NTSC format, created in Final Cut Pro.
I have gotten TMPGEnc to recognize and successfully encode smaller DV-NTSC .MOV files (less than 5 min. or so). Larger files (15 minutes or so) are recognized, but the encoded output hangs occasionally on certain frames after a while. I'm guessing that .MOV support in TMPGEnc isn't solid. This is probably why .MOV is not in the recognized formats under Video source in TMPGEnc.
The only workaround I've found is to break the large .MOV files into small .AVI files (less than 2GB each). I understand there is a way to create larger than 2GB .AVI files directly in Windows, but I have not found a way to convert a .MOV file to a larger-than-2GB .AVI file. Anyone know of a way?
I've tried outputting the Quicktime movie as an image sequence in TIFF, BMP or TGA formats, but the result is unrecognized by TMPGEnc. That would be an okay workaround if it worked.
why wont 2gb or higher work ???
windows fat32 = 4gb max files size
windows ntfs (nt4,2000,xp)= over 4gb files
so format drive to ntfs standard to encode large files
yes, MOV support is really hosed on windoze and tmpgenc.
I see fwd/rev frame jitter every 10..15 frames when using the QT plugin,
looking almost like a frame-rate conversion, but both input/output settings
are 29.97 fps.
the only reliable solution i have found is to use windows qt player to
'export' my mov as a sequence of BMP files (best quality, 29.97 fps).
This is very awkward, somewhat slow, eats lots of disk space- BUT IT WORKS
100% of the time. Save the audio track as a seperate .wav file.
You Probably need to raise the priority of one of the "Vfapi Plugins", go to "Options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" and try raiseing the "Direct Show file Reader" to "2"....
>You Probably need to raise the priority of one of the "Vfapi Plugins", go to "Options" to "enviromental settings" to "vfapi plugins" and try raiseing the "Direct Show file Reader" to "2"....
This was the right solution for me. Thank you very much.
Can anybody help me please, I have version 2.58.44.152 of TMPG and when I start to encode an avi file get Error -537403781 180576 on starting encoding ???
The program has worked fine in the past, but it now produces this error on all files that I try to encode.
I am using the same operating system and settings from when it originally worked, I dont understand why its stopped working now.
Help Please
Shawn Williams
email shawnwilliams@cellular10.freeserve.co.uk
I meant Use the old version and don"t use the new version...I have seen this error quite a bit with files that were downloaded off the net on Places like Kazaa...Downloaded movies seem to be full of errors and a lot of them are just un-encodeable.....
Sorry I dont understand, use the old version of what TMPG do you mean ??
The weird thing is that I cannot encode any of the avi's that I have downloaded now. it's not just this one particular file, its all of downloaded avi's which I had previously encoded without any problems.
I have deleted TMPG files from my PC and re downloaded and installed it again, still the same problem. i wonder if there is something wrong with the registry now,What a hassle
Do you have a System Restore function on your opperateing system???Cuz you might be able to use that to restore the settings you were useing before the problems started....
Minion I dont see how that will really help as when I originally installed TMPG I took all the default options, and did the same for the latest verison 7.58.44.152. Even when I delete all the TMPG files of my system and go back to the original verison of TMPG that I downloaded the problem still remains.
I dont understand why I am having this problem, I was intending to buy the software but it seams to have loads of bugs/problems with it
First - THANKYOU to minion for his support here - he provides alot of answers, as well as others more expert in this than us novices who provide guidance.
I took minion's advice a dumped Nero doing any encoding (others concur that Nero is inferior to TMPGEnc). Thanks. I decided to try my hand at an XVCD, and followed a guide published on vcdhelp.com's site. I captured a 1 hour DV tape with Ulead VideoStudio using their template = DV 720x480 NTSC 30fps AVI. This left a 13G .avi file on my PC. I then opened TMPGEnc, selected the VCD template, un-checked the use standard VCD encoding (?) option, under settings first loaded the 352x240 format, then loaded the unlock format. This allowed me to go to some advanced settings where I set the bitrate to 1450 kbps (rather than VCD's standard of 1150). I then Started the encoding. I also repeated the above, but tried the 2-pass VBR setting with average set to 1450 and max set to 2000 kbps (took twice as long to encode!). I then used Nero to burn the XVCD (one with un-checking of standard VCD, and the other left the check in standard VCD selection).
Resutls - both worked and the Panasonic RP82 played both!!! However, I have some observations with questions remaining:
1- Both XVCD's started playing when I hit the close DVD drawer button. My standard VCD's always start with a track menu, and I select (1) to start the movie. Is this because it sees a non-standard bit rate???
2- It appeared to me that the CBR looked slightly better than the 2-pass VBR. Theoretically the 2-pass VBR should be better. What happened??
3- Related to 2 above, should I have used different settings? Different frame rates better than different bit rate? Etc. (Note - my goal is to put a 1 hour DV onto a single 80 minute CDR).
4- Should I do anything different at the capturing step?
I forgot one other question for those who have MPEG2 capabilities - would upgrading to PLUS so that I can burn SVCD's provide any noticeable improvements within my objectives: store a 1 hour DV tape on a single 80min CDR with the best quality possible.
Yes I know - 6 to 12 months from now I'll probably be able to justify a DVD burner, and that solves my quality issue. :)
You are never going to fit an hour on a CD-R with the Highest Quality possible, maybe an hour on a CD-R with Medeocre quality...and useing mpeg2 is not going to help you achieve that goal cuz mpeg2 usually uses a higher resolution than VCD therefore you need to use more bitrate to achieve optimal quality...
minion - I think I understand what you are implying. For fun, I burned an SVCD (thankyou TE for giving a 30 day trial period for MPEG2!) and set it to maximum bitrate that would fit on an 80min CDR at 480x480 NTSC 30fps. Even though my DVD player doesn't say it supports SVCD, it played (again with no menu selection - as soon as the DVD drawer closes and it finishes "Reading" it starts to play. Is this because it is not an officially supported format??). However, there was alot of pixelizations and artifacting especially as the movement scenes increased. So far XVCD looks the best.
So minion/others - assuming the use of TMPGEnc's encoding for making XVCD's, what bit rate settings do you suggest for maximizing quality? CBR? VBR/Auto??