Not sure what exactly went wrong, but I can tell you how I fixed my LIGOS encoder problem.

I use XP Professional, and though I had PowerDVD installed (and appearing in the TMPGENC VFAPI environment properly), I could not open MPEG2 files in TMPGENC. I installed LIGOS today, and MPEG2 started working and everything was fine. Until a reboot....

Ligos no longer showed up in the available VFAPI selections. I uninstalled both TMPGENC, and LIGOS, rebooted, reinstalled, yada-yada... Nothing.

What was very strange is that LIGOS and TMPGENC worked fine on a second user's profile on this XP machine. Ligos WAS available for the second user. I scanned the registries, and the only difference between the first and second user profile was that the first user had the entry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareLigos

The second (working profile) did not.

I deleted the LIGOS hive from HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftware and everything started working again.

Go figure. I'd seen a post here by somebody claiming that TMPGENC does not use the registry. Well that's obviously NOT the case. A search for TMPGENC in the win32 registry will find several places where TMPGENC creates it's own entries, and obviously reads others.

Good luck, and thanks to the developers for a very good product!

You didn"t have to go through all that trouble to get a seperate Mpeg2 decoder to read Mpeg2 files for tmpgenc, you can use the Mpeg2 decoder that was used for ALL versions before 2.57, it was the "M2V-Vfp Plugin" and it worked fairly good but didn"t decode as fast as Cyberlink or Ligos, and at times there were problems getting reading Mpeg 2 files..but i use it cuz it has other uses than just a mpeg2 decoder, you can use it to frame serve Mpeg2 files with Vfapi...anyway I"m glad you got it worked out...
PS: Tmpgenc does read certain registry entries but it does not rely on the registry to do simple avi to mpeg encodeing, I guess that is why there is no instalation.......

I guess there are "Priority" of MPEG-2 decoders which is set
by decoders, and that is not possible to be changed by TMPGEnc.

This is one reason why TMPGEnc decided to use only a few specific
decoders (I think).

There might be case that bad decoder puts itself higher/highest
priority in Windows, as a result, decoding result gets really bad,
then some people has problem becase of bad decoder.

I do not know which has higher priority between ligos and cyberlink,
but one of them cause probelm or might not be installed properly.

In my opinion, ligos is better than cyberlink.

I tried the M2V-Vfp Plugin for the MPEG2 files I'm working with. It didn't work at all, neither did Cyberlink. For some reason, the only vfapi that reads my particular MPEG2 streams was Ligos. I had to get it working, if I was going to use TMPGENC.

Thanks.

I'm pretty new to video but I've been getting on pretty well with TMPEnc. My copy of the program doesn't have a help menu and there are some functions I'd like to know more about eg. MERGE & CUT tool there is a button marked CORRECT

Is there a list of function and what they do suitable for novices?

regards

Iain Mackay

There is a Help file that comes with the "Plus" version..The correct makes it so your files aren"t cut of joined part way through a Gop, you can only edit or join Mpeg files on an I frame...you can laern a lot about the functions of Tmpgenc at www.vcdhelp.com......

Question:
If I want to use an external tool with TMPGenc, like SSRC or tooLame, how can I set some extra switches?

Like in SSRC if I want to use the "--twopass" option, how can I do it? I tried to simply write it in the command line next to the path to ssrc.exe but TMPGenc doesn't like that...

ABS

I don"t think you can use the External Tools like that, or there might be a way but not through the Tmpgenc Interface...What i"ve been useing is Headac3e to encode my Audio files to mp2 then you can use the 2 pass audio encodeing method and have a bunch more formats to work with...

Thanx!

I used TMPGEnc for 4 movies and now whenever I start to convert an AVI to MPG
to make a CDV it starts just like normal but after the first few frames I get an ERROR -537 403781 98656, just this number. If I click OK it continues to the next frame and gives the same error again. If I continue clicking OK I suppose I will finally finish the video but that's crazy. Has anyone any idea what is the problem?

Is this happening with every single file you try to encode or just a particular file??if it happens with every file then try re-downloading Tmpgenc and try again...

hi there
i have a problem with the bitrate,i can not change the bitrate in the audio settings.it does not matter what i do,if i use the wizard at the start or not it always comes up with Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps).it always gives me 224kbps.
it is always greyed out.can someone please help me.

You have to load the "Unlock.mfc" template in the Extra" Folder, then All the settings will be unlocked...

please help if you can, i am trying to convert avi video files to mpeg file. i am having a problem getting the movie to convert with sound. i am using virtualdub for audio extraction, but cant seem to get tmpeg to convet file. i choose video source as avi file, for instance (something about mary) and then get saved wav file and begin to start conversion and tmpeg states that it cannot use as an external audio converter. please help

in tmpgenc goto environmentals settings and choose the external tools tab. If external audio encoder is checked then uncheck it. Also make sure u have a real wav file from virtual dub... u need to have audio as full processing mode and not direct stream copy when u save wav as. Also under compression choose no compression (PCM)

Does someone know why an MPEG-2 file, encoded with TMPGEnc, is bigger in size when using the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader (priority set to 1) compared to not using DirectShow Multimedia File Reader (priority set to -1)?

TIA

The reason it is bigger probably Has nothing to do with the Direct show file reader.All the Direct show does is Make tmpgenc more compatible with the file you are encodeing so it can read the format you are encodeing...Depending on the Encodeing method you are useing the file size can vary because of a few different things....

Hi Minion.

I didn't change anything (!) with all the other variables like resolution, VBR, ...
I simply change the priority of DS from -1 to 1 and the files grows!

How come?

Like I said It probably doesn"t have anything to do with the direct show file reader..The direct show file reader to not have ANY affect on the way Tmpgenc encodes a file, it just has an effect on How well Tmpgenc reads the file...If you are useing the "CBR" encodeing method then the file size should stay Constant but if you are useing the CQ method the file size can vary every time you encode the file even with the same settings....

I use VBR (2 pass). But I'm very surprised you say that the CQ file length changes even if you encode the same source file with exactly the same TMPGEnc settings! How is that possible?

Minion is right and not...

The way, TMPGEnc encodes, has nothing to do with DirectShow, but the Way it DEcodes the Movie for reencoding it a lot!

Some MPEG2-Filters are optimized for speed, but not for quality, so they decode Pictures different. You may not see any differences, but TMPGEnc WILL see them.

Use allways DVD2AVI (Save project) for decoding an MPEG2-File. That will give you allways the bestest quality, because DVD2AVI uses a Reference-Decoder.

I was using an ATI Rage 128 card and TMPGEnc worked fine.
I upgraded to a Radeon All-In-Wonder 7500 and TMPGEnc now won't start.
I'm using the trial version of 2.58
Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Cam

I found that disabling ATI Directshow filters fixed a lot of problems.

The file is named something like ativcr.dll. (I am not at my computer.) Create a .bat file with this command:

regsvr32 /S /U "C:......ativcr.dll"

When you want to capture mpeg with ATI, reenable the filters:

regsvr32 /S "C:......ativcr.dll"

If you are capturing AVI files, leave ATI disabled and use VirtualDub. It syncs the audio much better.

i used dbpower amp to extract audio from an asf file and used the wav and asf to encode a pal vcd. However the a/v synch is out in the resulting mpg but fine in the asf. Can this be caused by a framerate conversion? I have no idea what the frame rate of the asf file is...virtual dub1.3c won't open it and mp6.4 doesn't show it . Obviously the mpg has a frame rate of 25 fps. What else can cause a/v synch probs?

You HAVE to encode to the Same frame rate as the source file ,so you have to find out what the frame rate your ASF file has then encode to that Frame rate..Tmpgenc does not do Proper frame rate conversions so the resulting file will have Sync problems and jumpy playback problems..Download "ASF Tools" it should tell you what the frame rate the ASF file is so should "Windows media Encoder"..

ok i finally found where in asf tools 3.1 it says the framerate.......under re-encode...says frame rate of 30fps. btw my file is wmv not asf and will not open in virtualdubc. Another asf file will open in virtual dub and it says frame rate of 25fps...however the same file in asf tools says 30fps??(maybe asf tools info is for the target file). Anyways, at 30fps the a/v is still not matched.

What type of De-sync is it??Is the file the same amount out of sync from Begining to end or does it gradually get worse as the movie goes on??Cuz it the Mpeg file is the same amount out of sync the whole way through the movie then you can de-mux the mpeg file and re-Mux it with something like Mpeg2VCR which has a feature that allows you to off set the audio so you can try to fix Sync problem, but it only works if the file is the same amount out of sync through the whole file...

thanks minion...unfortunatly the unregistered ver does not do it...and not a cheap prog for me haha.Yes the a/v synch is out by the same amount as far as i can tell. I wounder why its out at all to start with. Guess asf is hard to encode properly or something

You can download a version with the function you are looking for at "http://www.apachez.net/ in the tools section...If you captured the WMV file from a capture card the audio de-sync is usually caused by the capture captureing the video before the audio or visa versa...

the wmv isn't out of sycn...only when i encode to mpg does that happen....got me confused as to why thats happending....maybe wmv framerate isn't exactly constant as it plays.

when i try to run mpg2vcr from that site it asks me for a serial number

I am not able to encode in mpeg-2.Have tried many different encoders (Tmpgenc,bbmpeg,etc...)and always end up with black video with blocks of color
poping in and out.The audio comes through a little better than video but it is bad quality.Am I missing a codec or video for windows problem???Any help would be appeciated.

It Depends mostly on the Format of the Source file..What Type of file are you trying to encode to mpeg2??

Thanks for your reply.I figured out that I did not have the cyberlink codec on
my system and so I installed PowerDVD and everything works now.Thanks again.

alright - i encoded a flim called spy game and half through the flim it seems to get stuck why is this happin and tmpgenc is a nice proggy but half the time theres about 1000000 errors or it can view the file i say one day a person will bring out a proggy wit no errors and work fine dam peeps lol any that my question have fun rippin me 2 bit :D

What type of errors are you getting??? What is the Format of the File you are encodeing??and were did you get the file(the net, DVD rip)??

It is possible to de-multiplex a VOB file containing a linear PCM audio stream with TMPG Enc?

I am very interested in doing it: extract video and linear PCM streams from a DVD-R disk made with ReelDVD authoring tool. The MPEG-2 video stream has been carried out with MovieMaker200 Optibase card.

I am ready to buy TMPGEnc if it is able to realize this function.

THANK YOU.

Yes just load the VOB into the TMPG de-multiplexer under File>MPEGtools and each stream should show up. Double click each stream you wish to extract.

Download TMPG first and try it to make sure, but I'm sure will have no problem.

ASHY