hi, i'm trying to make a movie widescreen but i'm having a lot of problem. I go into "clip frame" and try to put the movie at "center (keep aspect ratio)" but i see that both the left and right side are not filled up (square box looking). I also tried "full screen (keep aspect ratio)" and also see that both left and right sides are still not filled up. As a matter of fact only "center" and "no margin (keep aspect ratio) controls allow for both left and sides to be filled up and look more like widescreen. However, i would prefer to do the movie in "center (keep aspect ratio). When i tried to crop it the top and bottom get smaller but the left and right sides stay the same. Is there a way to make the left and right sides fill the screen (at 480 pixels) when using "center (keep aspect ratio). Thanks in advance

It will probably fill up the screen if Played On your TV...What is the resulution of your AVI file???

hi,it's 480x352...i tried "center (keep aspect ratio)" on my tv screen and see that both left and right sides are not filled all the way. However, "center" works nice but the "keep aspect ratio" is missing. Is it ok to use "center" and keep the "aspect ratio" out. Would my movie look weird?

You can try center and Custom size and fool around with the settings till it looks right...It is really hard to turn that resolution into a Widescreen movie Because the Picture is Taller than it is Wide were Widescreen is Wider than it is Tall..And you can try useing the "16:9" aspect ratio but you just don"t have the correct resolution to Really good Wide screen appearance..

Dear all

i want to convert a vcd to avi (DivX), but i can't find way to select the my favorite audio channel.

Regards

Whenever I try to convert my downloaded .avi movies I get an erroe telling me it can't be opened or it is unsupported. Am I doing something wrong?

Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" raise the "Direct show" to "2"...

I get an error right before the encoding of any file that i am converting when i am using 2 pass vbr, and have to stop encoding a few seconds before the encoding is complete so i can have a file. Otherwise it does not work. What is wrong help me

how to read *.cstr

Look for "CSTRVfapi100.zip", but this is made by 3rd party
so TMPGEnc may not officially support this.

dear Lupy
thank you so much for the information.
now I've solved my problems :)

btw, can you tell me how to put the subtitles in the mpeg?

thanks and take care.

glad to help :-)

tmpgenc can't do subtitles as far as i know...u need to use virtual dub and select the subtitles plug in....now to get a good movie u don't want to be encoding again cuz u loose quality each time. So what u want to do is load your asf into virtual dub. Prob is virtual dub stopped supporting asf files when microsoft told them to so u have to use a earlier ver ie virtualdub 1.3c. I don't know how well the subtitler plugin works in that ver but i guess it should work fine. get virtualdub 1.3c here http://www.vcdhelp.com/tools.htm#edit and get the subtitler plugin here http://www.virtualdub.org/virtualdub_filters. U also need a program to make the subtitles....called sub station alpha http://www.eswat.demon.co.uk/substation.html

ok...now virtual dub makes avis not mpgs so u have to frameserve it to tmpgenc....ie virtualdub kinda lets tmpgenc do the encoding after the subtitles are added....file/start frame server and load the saved file into tmpgenc...
its a lot of work huh to put subtitles into mpg from asf....i have to go now maybe someone else can give u more details on frameserving...good luck!

i created a mpeg from an avi file, the picture is fine but there is no sound? Could someone help.

You probably need to Extract the audio to a Wav file with "Virtual Dub" and use that as the audio source..

When I try to get my video source an error comes up saying can not open or its unsupported, is there a way around this

"Options"-"Enviromental Settings"-"Vfapi Plugins"-"DirectShow"-raised to "2"..

Hi,
I had done a VDR file with virtualdub.
frame server mode- virtualdub is working and frameclients installed : avi file only.

the problem is that i can not open the VDR file with TMPGEnc.

I did it from a guide:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/srtsubsvirtual.htm

please help me!

Did you make sure you installed the "Handler" with the "Auxsetup.exe" file??That is were the problem usually lies...

sometimes i think it helps if u save it as avi rather then vdr.....i don't know why

Are u sure u have installed the frameserver correctly?
For a quick check, create another .vdr file then open another instance of Virtualdub and try and load the .vdr file into it.
If it loads ok then the client is installed ok and the problem therfore lies with TMPG, if it doesn't then the client isn't installed correctly.

ASHY

Oh and if the file does load into Virtualdub then try disabling the Directshow file reader in the VFAPI plugins in TMPG then try and load the file again.

ASHY

Hi,

I have the following :-
Amd 1.4 with a GF2 32mb agp card 512mb ram running win 98se
when i use TmpGenc 2.58 i get Not responding message its totaly random and does not happen every time, has any one else had this?, is there a fix?

Thanx

Hello I allow myself to address to me to you because I have some problems with the software free TMPGenc.
indeed, in spite of the use of various versions of TMPgenc, I do not manage to convert a divx into MPEG.
. After a certain percentage, I obtain an error message according to: "Write error occurred At adress 00402å9 of module tmpegenc.exe with 008c3bd0" That can I make.
Merci TRIPS JEAN PIERRE BELGIUM Thank you TRIPS JEAN PIERRE BELGIUM

I have a video that is 352x240 resolution and I'd like to know how to make it 640x480. Thanks for any help.

resize it in settings

I did. I chose "Center Screen (Custom Size)" and made it 640x480. I then changed it back to "Full Screen (keep Aspect Ratio)" so it greyed out 640x480. But it still shows "Video-CD NTSC (MPEG-1 352x240 29.97fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)" at the bottom of the main screen.

lol....u have a vcd template loaded....vcd can only be 352x240 for ntsc or 352x288 for pal...goto the extras folder and load unlock.mcf

Can I just ask what the point of resizing to a larger resolution is? The image won't look any better and will become out of spec.
If you still insist on resizing the image to make it larger even though it is pointless then you must change the output resolution to 640x480 by loading the unlock.mcf template then clicking Setting>Video and then alter the size.

The settings you have changed only affect the input resolution not the output.
Simply set the input to 4:3 525 line (NTSC) and fullscreen aspect ratio and the output as above.

ASHY

And resizeing to a Higher resulution will ruin any detail and quality you had in the Original video..I mean it will look absolutly Horrible...