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Can you add an option to set the drop-frame flag on the MPG2 encoded files? It would make encoding for DVDs easier, some programs need drop-frame flagged MPG2 files to correctly add subtitles.
That would be a Good feature cuz it would help with Keeping audio sync with some files..A 2 hour movie with 29.97FPS Drop frame time code is a second or so shorter than a plain 29.9fps file, I just noticed this recently while useing the Drop frame feature in CCE while encodeing some Analog captures and they all stayed in total sync..
I believe that feature exists but it is not translated very well.
In settings/encode mode there is "3:2 pulldown when playback". This is available for 29.97 footage. The tooltip description, again, is hard to understand but seems to indicate that the video will be analyzed and dropframe flags added.
3:2 Pulldown is Totally Different that "Drop Frame time code"....3:2 pulldown Makes 29.9FPS-NTSC to 23.9FPS-NTSC Film, were "Drop frame" is the differance between 29.9fps/30fps time code and plain 29.9fps time code...
3:2 pulldown has nothing to do with drop frame detection at all.
3:2 pulldown is a process of turning a 23.976 fps progressive movie into a 29.97 fps interlaced movie without having to speed it up.
The process involves adding extra frames per second in a certain sequence and is accomplished by the player. This is how most NTSC DVD's are made.
Please look at the tool tip for "3:2 pulldown when playback" in the Video sheet, NOT "3:2 pulldown" in the Advanced sheet. Consider that this started as Chinese may have a translation issue:
"Output information to 3:2 pulldown when movie which is 23.96 is played. With this feature, the outputted movie would be 29.97fps. Since encoding is done with noninterlace, this would be better quality then the case of 3:2 pulldown when encoding"
My re-translation:
"Output the information (drop field flags) for progressive players to do a 3:2 pulldown when playing a movie which was originally 23.96fps. The original movie will be converted to 29.97fps during encoding but the quality will remain the same because repeated fields are not re-encoded"
Better description of that: Perform inverse 3:2 pulldown on 23.96fps movie and insert drop field flags.
In any case it looks like the original has to be 23.96 to get this feature which means you would have to do a 3:2 pulldown in the advanced page first (which is a real pain.
I just ran a little test using "3:2 pulldown when playback".
23.96 input results in a 29.97 output file. Playing the file on WinDVD shows NO interlace artifacts on 2 of 5 frames like you see if straight frame rate conversion is done.
Processing with DVD2AVI in forced film mode produces a flawless 23.96 result but I don't know if that requires drop field flags.
This all has me annoyed because I encoded a lot of 23.96 clips which DVD Workshop does not accept. It might accept the equivelent 29.97 version with flags and still play progressively.
Thanks to the original poster for making me look into this some more.
I was referring to the "3:2 pulldown when playback" under the video tab and you have just found out exactly what I said in my previous post.
3:2 pulldown is simply a flag which tells the player to perform this operation and is accomplished by the player repeating fields in a certain sequence. This results in a 23.976 fps movie playing at 29.97 fps.
The flag can quite easily be stripped by the right software such as DVD2AVI. This returns the interlaced 29.97 fps movie back to a progressive 23.976 fps movie. This can also be done by IVTC, but if you can using ForcedFilm in DVD2AVI is the better method.
I dont know of any DVD authoring software which will not accept a 3:2 pulldown movie as this is a perfectly compliant movie and is the 'norm' for NTSC DVD.
By the way, there is a program which will allow you to add the required 3:2 flags to your 23.976 fps movie to make it a compliant 29.97 fps movie even after you have encoded.
If I remember rightly it is called pulldown.exe, it is a command line program, but a GUI is available.
One other point there is no such thing as a progressive 29.97 movie which has had 3:2 pulldown applied. It must be interlaced to produce the required fields needed so they can be repeated in the correct sequence. As you must know interlaced movies are made up of 2 interlaced fields.
3:2 pulldown is done by overlaying one frame on to 3 fields in a sequence.
>Your response also helped me. Thank you. Now I have a question: What is the difference between a regular MPEG-2 and a program stream MPEG-2? Let us say that I used SmartRipper and demuxed the video and audio to two separate files: *.m2v and .ac3, then went ahead and converted the audio into a .wav, and would like to mux the *.m2v and the *.wav with TMPGEnc; however, I get a buffer overflow error when I attempt to do so. Your response is much appreciated.
A short question. When I want to stop the encoding process,
it takes a very long time (there's a lot of disk access).
Is there an other way besides to kill the process in the
taskmanager?
The reason that Tmpgenc is still working is because it is trying to write the sequence end code on the file so it will be playable up to were you Aborted the Encodeing session..So I guess the answer it No...
Minion is right TMPG hasn't finished writing data to the file.
What you are doing could render the file unusable and I'm sure that the time you are talking about isn't really THAT long.
If you want to shorten the time it takes to finish the operation then create seperate Video and audio streams when encoding. The encoding will stop almost straight away then just multiplex the 2 together, but it seems a bit of a long winded way just for the sake of waiting a short while.
When I convert an avi file to an mpeg, the video portion records at nearly twice the speed as the audio. In other words, the video plays back at about 175% while the audio plays back at it's normal rate.
I have 2 files, one video file in .m2v and one audio file in .mp2
But when i tried to mux them together, the resulting system was always no video (black screen), but the audio was going OK.
What did i do wrong ?????? was it the setting ??????/
Also, when it finished mux-ing, there was an error said "buffer overflow, the system might not play properly" ==> what the hack is that......??????
Please anyone help...i'm in the middle of despair now.......
OK..Did you look at the "m2v" file before you Multiplexed it??? and were did you get these files from? Did you encode them with Tmpgenc? You can sometimes Get "Buffer-underflow" errors when Muxing from trying make a SVCD out of a Mpeg2 video file and a Mpeg audio file but the Mpeg video file isn"t a SVCD mpeg2 file but a Plain Mpeg2 program stream..You can get this error because when Encodeing a SVCD file the encoder makes the svcd file out of Certain sized Data Packets which are a different size than Mpeg2 Files so if you try to mux and Mpeg2 file with the SVCD Setting the Multiplexor expects a certain sized data packet but when it recieves a different sized data packet the buffers Underflow or overflow..This can cause problems with playback..You can try to Mux it as a Mpeg2 file instead of a SVCD then run the file through the "Merge & Cut" with the SVCD Setting which will put a SVCD Header on the file so you will be able to burn it to a CD-R, but some programs will accept plain Mpeg2 file as the svcd source...I don"t know if this was your problem or not cuz You didn"t leave much to go on so this is just speculation as to what your problem might be...Good luck...
Did you use the correct stream setting when you multiplexed or did you just leave it as it was and muxed the 2 files together.
You must use the stream setting 'MPEG2 SVCD(VBR)' for SVCD not the default setting which can and usually does cause playback problems because it is not the correct setting for that kind of file.
3 hours for a 1 hour film is a Fairly good speed for tmpgenc..you are lucky Some poeple have to wait 12 to 36 hours with some slower systems..But it all depends on your system..I guess if you have a 1GHZ it could take 3 hours to encode 1 Hour of AVI depending on the avi file..Tmpgenc isn"t known for being one of the fastest encoders arround, it is actually somewere in the middle..Some fast encoders are CCE and the new Main Concept encoder is really fast and good quality but those ALL cost anywhere from 3 to 50 times as much as Tmpgenc Plus....
Hmm...I see you are new to encoding. Some people are going to see your post and be quite jealous of the speed you are achieving.
3 hrs is by no means that slow, but if it's too slow for you then get the fastest encoder there is, CCE, that is if you have $2000 handy. If not upgrade your CPU.
I have some video files in MPEG 1 format and I would like to put them on VCD. I use Video Explosion Deluxe to burn VCDs. The size of the file is 740 MB and it will not fit on 1 CD. If I cut the file to lesser size using VED it obviously recompresses the MPEG File and that is where I think the loss of resolution comes from. My question is 1) Can I use TMPGEnc program to make a VCD without altering the size of the file? 2) Can I use TMPGEnc to edit the file if (1) is not doable? 3) Will installing TMPGEnc cause other programs like the Video Editing Software and DVD Burner program like MyDVD and video capture program to malfunction? Thank you. You have a very informative web site!
OK but does the unknown device error that pops up when i try to actually create the dvd mean that I need to call somebody or get in contact with dell to fix it? And minion if you wouldn't mind telling me how to rip dvd's? that would be great... however i take it you know how to burn soemthing that is more then 120 mins, so if you could explain that to me step by step in non computer lingo, as i said i am not that big of a computer guy sorry, i appreciate it very much. thanks
OK I am trying to burn a DVD with Sonic MYDVD. When I click get movies on the toolbar I go to my shared folders and bring in some movies that I have downloaded from KAZAA. When They are importing it says that it cannot do that because I am trying to bring NTSC files to a PAL project then it tells me to switch it in my preferences to NTSC but when I do and go to create it won't let me because of the unknow device error, however, I have successfully made a dvd already so does that mean that my dvd burner is messed up since then, and if so would I have to pay to get it fixed, I bought my computer on the 10th of September with a one year coverage so is that covered? And also another question the blank DVD itself says it can play 4.7 GB / 120 min video, however when i tried to bring in a 700,000 kb file from kazaa it said it was too big is there a way to fit allot of kaza files on it seeing how it says 4.7 GB? I know this is long but if you can help please do, thanks!
The problem could be that you are useing Files downloaded off Kazaa...Files downloaded off the Net are Notorius for being corrupted in one way or another, after I started Ripping DVD"S I haven"t even considered Useing a Downloaded movie, Problems problems problems...You say that you are Importing AVI files into MYDVD..Have you tried to import Mpeg2 files?? Have you tried to use a Different DVD Authoring ptogram?? My DVD Sucks pretty bad...It"s one of those cheapo programs that they Give out with the Purchase of a DVD Burner...Your problems might be somved by Useing something else to Author DVD"S..Even "Ulead DVD Workshop 1.3" is better that MyDVD...
What do you mean by "Scrambled"??? For the Audio you probably need to Extract the audio to a WAV file and use that as the audio source...and for the Video go to "Options" to "enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct show" to "2"...
I am trying to encode a divx encoded movie to an MPEG 2, but cannot get any sound. The video is fine but sounds is gone. I have the latest divx software installed.
Ever Since the "Plus Version" of TMPG (The one I paid for) I am seeing that all my durations are coming out less than the original AVI (ex. a 45 minute video will be around 18 minutes! All the footage is there and the file is really small, but now I can't use them in authoring because audio and chaptering is all screwed up because the file has a wrong duration. What is happening here? anyone know how to fix this?