I am trying to encode a DivX AVI to an MPEG-1 stream for Video-CD burning. The video comes out fine but there is absolutly no audio. Here are the specs of the source file:
AUDIO
Audio Format: MPEG Layer-3
Average data rate: 22.677 Kb/second
Sample rate: 48.00 kHz
Channels: 2 (Stereo)

VIDEO
Frame width: 640 pixels
Frame height: 272 pixels
Play length: 3610.860 seconds
Frame count: 86574
Frame rate: 23.976 frames/second
Data rate: 197.962 Kb/second
Video sample size: 24 bit
Video compression: DivX codec

I have had great success with other files and this is the first time I have run into this problem. I have downloaded the latest version of TMPEGEnc and I am running a Win2K machine with a P4-1.8Ghz and 512MB RAM. Please help.

This is the most common problem poeple run into, you need to extract the audio to a WAV file with something like "Virtual Dub" and use that as the audio source in tmpgenc...

Why would you even want to convert from DivX to MPEG1?? Just copy the DivX file to your cd and play using a the DivX 2.0 player.

My problem is I am using TMPGEnc and QTreader to convert a Quicktime 5.0 MOV to MPEG1 and can't get any audio either!

>Why would you even want to convert from DivX to MPEG1?? Just copy the DivX file to your cd and play using a the DivX 2.0 player.

Because he wants to play the disk on his set top DVD player which doesn't play DIVX files.

ASHY

A friend's VCD's play on my dvd, but when I make my own they don't. I'm pretty sure i've encoded and burned right. The files are on the disc but when i put in the dvd player it says no disc. I've asked him, he had no idea. Could it be the cd-burner I'm using or possibly the os system, which is 98. It will play on the computer though. Any ideas would be appreciated.

explain what u did...did u burn the files as a vcd? in your burning software?

yes burned as vcd, will play on media player but not on dvd. I have tried nero and vcdeasy, but still no sucess. When I look at the vcd after its burned it does have the files its suppose to. Do I need some kind of a menu maybe?

Have you tried playing VCDs on your DVD before? Not all DVDs support VCDs and also not all support burnt CDs...

Yes vcd's do play on the dvd. I'm just trying to figure out where the problem is. Not sure if its in the burning or the encoding, but haven't had any errors on either one. I use tmpgenc and have burned with nero and vcdeasy. Have files on the vcd once it's burned, but i must be missing something somewhere.
When ecoding have tried pal and nstc, although dvd supports both. It's a classic 102 dvd. From what i have read so far, no one has had any problems with them. But when I pop the vcd in it keeps saying no disc. I've wasted about 12 cd-r's on trying everything, almost ready to give up

Use CD-RW"S...

sounds like you encoded mpeg2 (svcd) which will not play on many dvd players

yes use cd-rw when experimenting....please...don't waste so many cd-rs..are u using the vcd template? if not then use them (load button) to get the correct settings...and choose ntsc or pal accoring to the framerate of your source they must be the same). Also make sure the audio gets encoded properly....always use wav with tmpgenc....or if converting a mpg, demux out the mp2 and remux with the encoded video etc....if all that fails then maybe the laser in your burner is getting weak....

I have had the problem before with the NO DISC" using a Panasonic DVD player. With my player it has a lot to do with what brand of disc I use. I cannot get CD-R's to play at all, says WRONG FORMAT. But yet I can use Roxio ver.4 and burn CD-RW's all day long. I have found that the Maxell 700 MB CD-RW's work bet for me. Every once in a while I will get one that won't work at all no matter what I try.

I have had the problem before with the NO DISC" using a Panasonic DVD player. With my player it has a lot to do with what brand of disc I use. I cannot get CD-R's to play at all, says WRONG FORMAT. But yet I can use Roxio ver.4 and burn CD-RW's all day long. I have found that the Maxell 700 MB CD-RW's work bet for me. Every once in a while I will get one that won't work at all no matter what I try.

i will try the cd-rw and see if that works, did also buy different cd-r's. Not sure how to check if laser's getting weak on burner, but did have alittle trouble burning some music, something with overrun buffer. It is encoded in mpeg1 use vcd 2.0 when burning. Have encoded correctly, and even uncorrectly just to see if it would work. Although I thought you could convert from pal to nstc using tmpgenc. But have also did do the template with the correct source. After the cd is burned and it plays on media player then im assuming that everything went correctly with encoding and burning. So i'll see what happens with the new discs i bought. And will try the cd-rw although im pretty sure my dvd doesn't play them. Thanks for the suggestions

Not all types of disks play as VCDs, it may just be that you have to change the maker of the disk that you are using. Either switch to your friends (cause you know it works) or go to http://www.vcdhelp.com/ and go under DVD players, then find your DVD player to see EXACTLY what disks will and won't play in your system.

I'm using a registered TMPGENC Plug 2.58 and I can't change any of the settings whether I run the wizard or not. I want to change bit rate, but it is greyed out and I can't make any changes.

What's the trick?

load the unlock.mcf template in the extras folder

Can any one tell me where I can find virtual dub. I need to use this because some of the films Ive down loaded, when I use tmpge cant get any sound.

just use a search engine like google.....its.easy enough http://www.virtualdub.org/

Hi when i try to encode the d2v and the wav at 24% i receive an error about ntdll.dll what i neeed to do ?

thnaks
everything stop there

I have never seen this error whith Tmpgenc before..the ntdll.DLL File is a Kernel Driver for you operateing system and shouldn"t be accessed while encodeing accept through MSVCR.DLL but it shouldn"t cause problems...So No help here...

I have made MPEG1 and MPEG2 files with Tsunami (TMPGEnc) with no problem. They play just fine on the computer and on an APEX AD1100w DVD player burned through NERO as (X)SVCD or (X)VCD. The question I have is in regards to the errors I always get when I open TMPG and close TMPG. On openning TMPG I get the following error...
At Address 02CEDB4A Read error occured at address 02CEDB4A

Click ok and everything seems to work just fine. On closing TMPG I get...
Run Time Error 216 at 0003D9F4
This error keeps popping up everytime I click OK, another window comes up with the same thing. Won't go away until I CTRL+ALT+Del to end task of the error.

Any ideas on why this would happen?

Source files are AVI files encoded with Pinnacle capture card in the DV codec directly off MiniDV camera. Running WIN98SE on an AMDK6 500mHz system. Any suggestions would be fantastic!

-mamapajama

Problem Solved. Rearranged VFAPI plugin priorities.

To what

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/userguides/94288.php

while encoding from avi to mpeg2, I keep receiving an error saying (index of scan line is out of range). can anyone help!!!!

That error is usually a problem with the AVI File it self and i don"t know of a Way to fiX it..it is very common with Files downloaded off the net..You can try frame serveing it..or try a different encoder if you can tmpgenc to work on it but another encoder might have the same problem...

The problem I'm having is I'm trying to convert an AVI file to Mpeg to record it to a DVD disk.

It say's that it will take 13 hours to complete it, that ok but its been running for 3 hours now its says that is progress is 25% but the source position hasn't moved off of 00:00:00

Is this normal or am I wasting my time?

I'm using TMPGEnc Plus Version 2.54.37.135 which I paid for
My system is a dual PIII 1 gig, gig of ram, 3 80gig seagate 7200 rpm h/drives & running win-xp pro

Thanks in advance, Orbie

if i'm reading it right it seems your set at "vbr" which will scan the movie first then place the bitrate where needed. once the scan completes it will start to encode and the frame numbers will start moving.

I downloaded a movie and converted it from avi to mpeg now when I try to burn it on to a disk it says I don't have enough room on cd. I don't have a dvd burner but I do have a dvd player so that's why I have to burn it on a regular 80 min cd.
So is there a way to split the movie into to parts? If so how?

Well You should know how big your Mpeg file is before you burn it to CD! And It isn"t very ecinominal to just Fill up one cd-r and then Just put a couple of minutes on the second cd-r..So before you Start encodeing you should figure out how long the AVI file is and Figure out how many Disks you are going to Need then Adjust the Bitrate so that all of the space is filled up on each CD-R and that way you will get the best Quality possible without wasteing valuble CD space...To Split the file go to "File" to "Mpeg Tools" to "Merge&Cut" then load in your file and I"m sure you can figure it out from there it is Very easy...

Explain some more pls

Explain some more pls

how do you do the second half

Thanks Minion for the help! I will give it a try. My first burn of sriderman didn't come out half bad but for some reason I have japenese sub titles on the bottom lol!
So if I get what your saying I can strecth the video to fill both cd's maybe and my picture will be sharper and better?

I hooked up my vcr through a tv wonder device and put a movie on the computer. I want to make it into a vcd so I'm able to play it on my dvd player. I think I converted it into a vcd wtih TMPGEnc but nothing happens when I try to play the cd. If any one can help me I would appreciate it greatly, I've been trying to figure it out but needless to say I haven't.

u have to burn the cd as a vcd .....puting the vcd mpg directly onto the cd won't work.....vcds have to a special folders on them etc......your cd burning software has to have a vcd option.....ie burn as a video cd

Hi - assuming the file plays OK on your PC - how did you burn it? I take it that you realise that you need to burn it as a special VCD disk - not a data disk with the mpg file on it. Try downloading VCDEasy and burning a disk with that - it'll check the source and burn a correct copy - and its free.

Good luck

I have a problem enconding with tmpgenc and virtualdud for de subtitles.
when seeing the film in my dvd the image sometimes stops, not for long but we can see that the image stops, specialy in fast moves , can anyone tell what do i have to do to sove this.

the encode is from divx to svcd... i use highest quality and i tried to put up the bitrate but nothing seems to work...


tanks in advance
nuno

The image stops where? On your DVD player?
If thats's the case you should lower the bitrate not raise because it is too high for your player.

If it does the same when played on the PC then it is another problem, post back with a little more clearer info in that case.

ASHY

yes it is on the dvd player, it does not stop for like a minute, but it stops for i say half a second and several times, hope you understand, but in the pc is the same thing, in the beguining is whem is moust noticed.


thanks in advance..
nuno

yes it is on the dvd player, it does not stop for like a minute, but it stops for i say half a second and several times, hope you understand, but in the pc is the same thing, in the beguining is whem is moust noticed.


thanks in advance..
nuno

What is the framerate of your source file and the framerate of your output? Are they different? If so this is your problem. TMPG does not do correct framerate conversion, but there are ways you can.

ASHY

tanks for the answer, the input divx is 23 frames and the output is 25 is it the problem?, can i correct it with wath???

You Mean the frame rate is 23.9FPS and 25FPS?? The way to correct this is to encode it at the same frame rate as the source file so if the file is 23.9FPS encode it at 23.9 fps...