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Are you Talking about the DVD2AVI.VFP Plugin??If you don"t see it listed in the "Vfapi Plugins" in the "Enviromental Settings" then Go into the "DVD2AVI" Folder and Copy and paste the "DVD2AVI.VFP" File into the Tmpgenc Folder then restart the aplication and it should be listed in the plugins list...
Help !
Similar to a previous post, I have an AVI encoded using XVID codec. When I review under VirtualDub it shows the audio is 5 channels. So first question -
Does this mean it's in 5.1 surround sound?
If it is .. how can I add all the channels to my DVD when I burn?
I have encoded many movies using TMPGE to MPEG2, then authored using Dazzle or Spruceup, but each time the best I get is 2 channel stereo audio.
I have tried seperating the audio from the AVI to an AC3 file using VirtualDub direct stream copy which works, but how do I then get that file back into the movie with all the sound channels???
What you have to do is either Demux the audio or extract it to AC3 and then after encodeing just the video to Mpeg you Mux the AC3 audio to the mpeg2 video..Now the problem is getting the AC3 Audio out of your AVI file..What you will need is "Virtual Dub" and "AC3FiX" Virtual Dub actually just Demuxes the AC3 file and put"s a WAV header on the File, so you Load the file into Virtual Dub and Save as a wav the ReName it as an AC3 file, then load it in AC3fiX and it will correct the Header..Now just encode the Avi file to a M2V Video file and after encodeing just Mux the AC3 with the M2V file and that is It...you can get ac3FiX here: http://www.quellicheilpc.it/quelli02/download.php?op=getit&lid=84
If you download Virtualdub_Ac3 and use the direct stream copy option you won't need the extra step. Just name the file with an .ac3 extension.
Another way and I think more reliable is to use AVImux to extract the Ac3.
Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to help.
I tried the way Minion suggested and it works a treat !!!
Fantastic 5.1 surround sound on my burnt DVD.
Cheers again Minion !!
Bobby
PS. Ashy .. I'll give your suggestion a go as well. Thanks.
I have a problem using TMPGENC. If I try to load Avisynth (*.avs) files, it says "Can not open or unsupported". I tried setting the priority of the VFAPI Plugins a lot of ways, but it not worked, it just keeps saying the same error message. Someone please could help me with fixing this?
The only thing I can think of is to "Dis-Able" the "Direct show" in the "Vfapi Plugins"...if that don"t work you can try to frame serve with something else like "V-Dub"....
Minion: I tried disabling DirectShow, but that did not solved my problem. The biggest problem is that I want to use DVD2SVCD to convert movies, but that is only working with AVISynth, not with V-Dub.
ABS: in the plug-in list I have a .DLL called Avisynth reader, so I have that installed, but still it says "cannot open or unsupported".
Is there any way to fix this problem, or it is a new kind of problem?
The only solution I can think of is for you to re-name tmpgenc.ini to another name, like tmpgenc.bak, then delete CurrentCfg.tpr and which will allow the program to return to it's original settings. I have solved few problems like that in the past.
NOTE: when replacing tmpgenc.ini, your user defined Q-matrixs will be unreacable, this is why I said to rename it and not delete it so In case you'll need them you could could still copy them from the file later...
Wait a second, found out another thing that causes this!
After you created the .d2v file, did you delete the source file on which you ran DVD2AVI? if the original file isn't found it also causes this!
ABS: Thanks for the suggestions, I tried them out, but they did not worked for my problem... Maybe it is got something to do with my TMPGENC version (2.54)?
Have you actually tried re-installing AVIsynth? It won't work unless you have it installed correctly. The easy way to check is to open the .AVS file with mediaplayer, it should play the file as if it was a movie if everthing is working ok.
Also what Version of AVisynth are you using?
i'm just a beginner but i was getting a simllar message trying to convert avi to mpg and virtual dubit would not work either. Turned out i did not have the correct codec. Need mpg4v3. Installing new codecs solved my unsupported error.
I'm trying to convert a movie that's avi format to mpeg. The movie is DivX encoded.
When I try to load it as the video sorce, it says "File can not open, or unsupported.
Is there some setting I need to change, or does the program not support DivX?
"OPtions" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" raise the "direct Show" to "2"...Look before you post next time this question has been answered literally Hundreds of times and usually half a doZZen times a Day....
I have edited with Adobe Premiere 6.0 a video which is originally captured from miniDV through Firewire. In Premiere I used Export Timeline, Movie function which makes .avi file of edited video.
Then I try to make with TMPGEnc 2.5 plus a .mpg2 file from .avi for burning a PAL SVCD. After selecting a certain .avi file for input TMPGEnc gives this error message: File can not open or unsupported.
Any ideas why is it unsupported??
Original captured (unedited) .avi file is ok for TMPGEnc. Here are properties info from Premiere:
Original .avi file (ok for TMPGEnc):
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File Path: F:OHJELMATIEDOSTOTADOBEPREMIERE 6.0Levi0c.avi
File Size: 3,74GB bytes
Total Duration: 0:18:00:01
Average Data Rate: 3,55MB per second
Image Size: 720 x 576
Pixel Depth: 24 bits
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,067
Frame Rate: 25,00 fps
Audio: 32000 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo
AVI File details:
Timecode: 00:00:01:20
Reel name: '001'
User Timecode: 00:00:01:20
Reel name: '001'
Contains 1 video track(s) and 1 audio track(s).
Video track 1:
Total duration is 0:18:00:01
Size is 3,61GB bytes (average frame = 145,55KB bytes)
This movie appears to have DROPPED FRAMES
There are 26988 keyframes.
There are 13 empty frames.
Frame rate is 25,00 fps
Frame size is 720 x 576
Depth is 24 bits.
Compressor: 'dvsd'
Audio track 1:
Size is 131,84MB bytes
Rate is 32000 samples/sec, stereo
Sample size is 16 bits
Edited file (unsupported by TMPGEnc):
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File Path: F:OhjelmatiedostotAdobePremiere 6.0Levi2.avi
File Size: 3,36GB bytes
Total Duration: 0:16:10:08
Average Data Rate: 3,55MB per second
Image Size: 720 x 576
Pixel Depth: 24 bits
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,067
Frame Rate: 25,00 fps
Audio: 32000 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo
AVI File details:
Contains 1 video track(s) and 1 audio track(s).
Video track 1:
Total duration is 0:16:10:08
Size is 3,25GB bytes (average frame = 145,61KB bytes)
This movie appears to have DROPPED FRAMES
There are 24257 keyframes.
There are 1 empty frames.
Frame rate is 25,00 fps
Frame size is 720 x 576
Depth is 24 bits.
Compressor: 'dvsd'
Audio track 1:
Size is 118,44MB bytes
Rate is 32000 samples/sec, stereo
Sample size is 16 bits
This second file doesn't have time code. Is that the reason??
If anybody knows the answer please send it also by email to
Juhani.Hartikainen@kolumbus.fi
You probably just need to raise the "direct show File Reader" ..You do this by going to "options" to "enviromental Settings" to "vfapi Plugins" and raise the direct Show" to "2"...There are Much better ways to encode to mpeg 2 if your files are in Premier that haveing to re-render the file to AVI, you can frame serve it or use one of the many Mpeg plugins..The new Premier 6.5 has it"s own Mpeg encoder...
And thank you! It helped. I'm just a beginner with these DV-video-PC things so I'm curious about what I did. Why I had to give higher priority to DirectShow Multimedia File Reader? Originally it had -1.
And what is the difference between captured .avi file and rendered .avi file (not supported by TMPGenc before this priority change)?
You wrote: There are Much better ways to encode to mpeg 2 if your files are in Premier that haveing to re-render the file to AVI, you can frame serve it or use one of the many Mpeg plugins..
What is frame serveing? How do I do it with Premiere?
Is it possible to encode directly from timeline of Premiere with some plugin?
Where do I find them? Is it possible to use TMPGenc as plugin?
Lots of questions because this beginner wants learn these things.
I want to use TMPGEnc's compressor in Adobe Premiere because my avi's created by my digital camera are limited to 2.4 GB which is only about 20 minutes of video. So i want to be able to create my video cds using TMPGEnc's compressor in Premiere. Can anyone tell me the name of the compressor so i can choose it from the list. It doesn't have a general name like TMPGEnc, or MPG etc etc.
It won"t be in the List..Unless you have somehow installed it as a Plugin..But you can use the "Premier Video server" to frame serve to Tmpgenc..you can get it at : http://www.videotools.net/
I am trying to convert an MPEG2 file to AVI DV Type 1 format.
I have figured out how to output AVI from TMPGEnc, but there isn't an option for DV Type 1 in the AVI compression tab. There is a Microsoft Type 1, but that is an older non-DV codec.
I have Media Studio Pro installed on my system, so I know that there is a DV codec on my machine. Does anyone know how to get TMPGEnc to see it and use it?
That is not a very relyable way to believe you have a DV Codec, it could be useing the compression from your DV Device..Check your Codec list..In XP you go to "Controll panell" to "Sounds and audio devices" to "Hardware" to "Video codecs" and highlight it then click "properties" then see it you have a DV Codec that compresses to DV...If not try going to the "Canopus" web site and download a Freeware one ...
Why not just use Media Studio if it has the codec you want.
Make sure you have the latest update patch that installs their new Mpeg.Now codec. Load mpeg to the timeline and set the DV compression codec at project settings or when saving the movie.
Or, if Virtualdub sees the codec, use DVD2AVI/VFAPIConv/Virtualdub. This method is not as bad as it sounds and gives the most flexibility in how the AVI will be saved (old formats, segmented, etc.). TMPGEnc can be used to decode the audio for Virtualdub.
Remember, mpeg is 4:2:0 and DV is 4:1:1 (color sampling). You can't go mpeg->DV->mpeg without degradation. If you are archiving, try to stay in the same format.
I have finally gotten some good avi's converted from my real media files, but everyone that I try to encode w/ the tmpgenc has great audio, but no video. There is only a black box where the video usually plays as it's being done. Also, I have stopped the encoding to see what the finished mpeg would be like and it's the same thing, great sound no picture! What could be the problem? I must also mention that I have done files that I myself did not convert, but simply downloaded somewhere and they work just fine. But all the files I have created do this and a few that I have downloaded do this. Has anyone else had this problem? What can I do to fix it?
I setup a batch file and it works fine. I call it from the command line using the /batch option. Is there a way to have tmpgenc exit after the batch is complete? Also the .tbe file that is created seems to be in japanese unicode characters. Is there a setting to change that to english?
When I get to the final step (or at least I think its the final step b4 burning)I click on burn and it tells me "File "the movie" does not exist, Do you wish to create? Yes or No so I click on yes and another page pops up and this is what it tells me when I click on start "Can't Load P3Package.dll" what am I doing wrong I tried to go by the steps in the VCDHelp section??????? btw I have to use TMPGEnc cuz when I used Nero it made my files play upside down on my DVD player.
Well you should only get this error if all the Files that came with Tmpgenc are not in the same folder, you cant just have all the files sitting on your desktop...And if all the files are in the same folder then look in that folder and look for a File called "P3P Package.DLL" if it isn"t there then that is what your problem is, but if it is there you can try to Copy & Paste the file into the "System" directory and if that don"t work then download Tmpgenc again and if that don"t work you are SOL....
Well, I uninstalled TMPG and reinstalled it, and it finally worked and to top that off after I burned my mpeg file to a vcd it finally played rightside up(that was my problem all along, first vcd played upside down). Thanks for the info.