I have imported an "Pinnacle DC10+"-AVI file for converting it into MPEG1 for an VCD. But the result is much too dark. The changing of brightness and contrast (and even gamma correction) does not bring out the results i wanted to have.

What can i do for having an correct result. Other encoders are working with the correct brightness but the quality is very low. So i would be pleased to have TMPG work.

Thanks alot
Kind regards
Andrew / Germany-Hamburg

Try raiseing the "Direct show file Reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins"..

Thank you for the answer. I put the "directshow file viewer" to priority 0 (it was -1 before) and the result is the same.

Then i put it to priority 1 and the programm tells me "file can not open or unsupported"

So i put the "directshow file viewer" back to priority -1

What else can i do?

Hello!

In v2.59 there is a new feature, the chained files or "open sequence as movie". I enabled it, renamed the files to DV-0001.avi and DV-0002.avi, but TMPGEnc only encodes the first file!

Any hints?

Thank you very much in advance-
Peter

Hi

I also did a quick test and found it worked AOK

I renamed 2 avi files DV-0001 and DV-0002

Note I did not add the .avi as the files were AVI type already. Sorry if I state the obvious but it worked for me. All you then do is select the DV-0001 file and automatically found the second file and I assume any further ones had they been named.

HTH

Thank You for your advice, but it still won't work.

1. Under ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS I select "Open sequence files as a movie",
2. Then with BROWSE i open the first of three files called DV-0001.avi.
3. Then I LOAD a VCD (PAL) template.
4. I press START.
5. TMPGEnc encodes only the DV-0001.avi file and stops.

What's wrong?

Also just used the same file names and works fine here too.

If the files are chaining together properly then you should see this using the preview option.

ASHY

Sorry to state the obvious, but are both files the same type? What is different about them. We don't know enough about the new feature, but I can imagine if you're files are way different like different FPS, different type of codec, different resolution, etc. maybe that would cause TMPGEnc to refuse to chain them?

i have a huge problem... i had tmpgenc and it was working properly and then all of a sudden it stopped working it said there was an error and will shut down. under environmental settings it said i needed tmpgenc.vfp. is there anyone out that can help me????? pleaseeeeee! nicole

You download the Tmpgenc.vfp at the same spot as you downloaded Tmpgenc..You have to have the Vfapi Plugins installed or Tmpgenc will not work...

I saw someone else ask this question and I never saw the answer to it. I am using virtualdub to extract the audio wave file then using the tmpg2.9 to split the avi and audio into two mpg files but the second file the sound is a couple seconds before the video, how do I correct this?

If this is Just with the Mpeg file then you can use a Program like "Mpeg2VCR" to Mux the audio and video together Cuz it has a Feature to off set the audio to match the video...

Alright...I'm capturing my files in Premiere via FIrewire from my DV camera. Let's say I capture an AVI file, save it and open it with TMPG....opens fine, no problems. Now, I take the same file, edit it with files of the same settings, export it with the same settings, and try to open it with TMPGenc. It give me an error that says unsupported. Any suggestions why? If it's all the same settings shouldn't it be able to open it no problem??? Any help is appreciated. THanks

Have you tried to Raise the priority of the "Direct Show file Reader"????

Make sure that the AVI compressor is the same in all cases. Uncompressed
AVI files seem to work for me. The DV compressor in Premiere is OK, but
it seems that TMPGEnc likes to encode it at half-resolution (at least with
the codecs I have installed).

What I would recommend is to export from Premiere directly to TMPGEnc,
without writing out the intermediate AVI. You can do this with the
Avisynth program, which you can get for free. There is an Avisynth
plugin for Premiere, so all you have to do is set the export type to
Avisynth, set up a couple of other files, then tell TMPGEnc to open one
of them, and suddenly Premiere will be talking directly to TMPGEnc.
I'm running a compression process for DVD as I type this, which was DV video
edited in Premiere and sent directly to TMPGEnc for encoding.

in the setting screen video, changing the values maximum, minimum and average bitrate I always obtains the same final size...this does not happen with version 2.58

I think this has to do with the bug I have already reported.

See the 2 posts below for more info:

Bug report - Muxing rate bug No.30802
Question - tmpg 2.59 larger video files!!!!!! No.30774

ASHY

I am planning some projects that need the sequential files facility of version 2.59

How quick do you think this bug will be fixed? I do not want to start my work with the problem version release.

Thanks

The bug is easily circumvented by remuxing the encoded file with an earlier version of TMPG.

ASHY

Thanks ASHY

Muxing etc is one area of TMPGenc that I have never ventured into.

I have version 2.58 still on the PC and will have to try remuxing a file to see the effect on file size but I would like to think that the developers will be able to release a fixed version 2.59 as soon as possible.


Piccolo

Thanks ASHY

Muxing etc is one area of TMPGenc that I have never ventured into.

I have version 2.58 still on the PC and will have to try remuxing a file to see the effect on file size but I would like to think that the developers will be able to release a fixed version 2.59 as soon as possible.


Piccolo

Hi, I have an intermittant sound problem when using TMPGEnc. After converting AVI files to MPEG2 for DVD anything longer than 10 mins resuls in the sound dropping out for approx 1 second at exactly the same point 9mins 37 seconds. This happens on various settings.

Can anyone help!!!!!

Phil

Have you tried maybe to encode the audio with a Different Audio encoder????

Hi Minnion,

Thanks for you comments but I am relatively new to codec's and the way they work. I wonder if you could possibly explain to me how I go about using another audio encoder at the same time I am encoding the video.

Thanks

Phil

I have a problem with my mpeg. The application said (esp virtual dub) that i have a packet sync error. Any body know how to fix it.....

Try Running the file through the "Multiplex" which should Re-Packetize the file and Hopefully correct it...

OK well a while back I posted praising TMPGEnc for the ability to load AVI segments and encode as a single video file (I still think it rocks)! Then I said in the future, the ability to chain together mpg segments into a single encode would rock too..

Ashy then posted and said it already does this, try it out..

So I did? I have mpeg-2 segments named exactly the same as the AVI segments were. The AVI segments all load up properly chained together in TMPGEnc. But the Mpeg-2 segments will not. It still just loads the first one then stops. Am I missing something obvious here, or was I right to begin with that TMPGEnc will not load multiple mpg segments as a single animation?

Thx!

You need the MPEG2 VFAPI plugin. It doesn't work with any other MPEG2 codec.

Dowload it from this page. Look for 'm2v_vfp-0.4.6.zip'

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/tmpgenc.html

ASHY

Hi, thanks for the tip. I downloaded m2v.vfp and put it into TMPGEnc folder. Then in environmental settings I made sure that the MPEG-2 Video Plug-In was enabled. Now, when I opened a segmented mpg 2 file, it did load all of the segments! I had 109 minutes of mpeg-2 video loaded all at once.

BUT, it shows 'video file' only? The Audio File source doesn't load at all. The mpeg-2 segments actually consist of both video and audio. If I just were to load one of the segments by itself using the normal intervideo mpeg-2 codec, TMPGEnc would load both the video and audio streams. With m2v it doesn't load the audio stream at all.

Am I doing something wrong? Is this plug-in supposed to load the audio with the video source so I can output everything together?

PS: What about Mpeg-1 files, there is no way to load them as segmented source?

Thanks!

MPEG1 files are working perfectly here. Have no problem at all chaining them together.

ASHY

Seems like the VFAPI plugin will only allow the Video part to be chained in MPEG2 files.

There is no such problem chaining MPEG 1 files together though.

ASHY

This is wierd. When I open a group of segmented MPG1 files, only the first one loads... They are all named properly.

AVI segment loading does work ok for me though.

I'm trying to convert a QuickTime MOV file to VCD format: What a nightmare.
The file MOV to MPG VCD conversion stalls at 12% each time I try it.

So I thought I would try converting to AVI first, and then going AVI to VCD. This appeared to work okay (it didnt stall at 12%). But when I played the AVI file, colors were a mess, there were red, green, and blue horizontal lines through the entire video, all of the action scenes were basically grayscale, each frame basically consisted of 3/4 of one frame and 1/4 of another frame, and the entire video displayed at about a 25 degree angle.

There HAS to be a way to make this conversion. I'd appreciate any suggestions!

Thanks

how did u convert mov to avi?

>how did u convert mov to avi?

I did MOV to AVI the same way i would convert anything else (such as an oversized MPG) to AVI - Used TMPGEnc, Divx codec, pretty basic stuff that *always* works fine. Can you think of any reason why it turned into such a disaster?

Thanks

hello,

I'm using TmpgEnc v2.58 to convert AVI file ( Divx ) to Mpg file ( VCD ).
It' s a very good software. But i've a little problem with an AVI file.

When I look the movie in windows media player it's Ok. After encoding, when i look the Mpg file ( in windows media player or with BsPlayer ) the Movie freeze and the sound continue normally !!! Strange isn't it !!!

What's happend ?
Can you help me ?

Thanks for your reply

Jef

Just a comment,

I found the problem the AVI have some frames corrupted. The player can read, But TmpgEnc can't encode correctly and freeze the picture just before the corrupted frame and freeze.

I correct the problem with AVIedit to encode a new time the avi file ( with the same parameters ). Now, TmpgEnc work correctly.

This experience say me that the software like DivFix ( to repair corrupted avi file) doesn't work efficiently, Better work is encode the file a new time.

So, I hope that this experience can be of use to the other users of TmpgEnc

Bye and sorry for my poor english
Jef

Like the one in VirtualDub?

MPEG Tools have this option but it doesn't have advanced options like in some other programs like M2-Edit Pro.