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I stumbled on to something really cool here? I use Virtual Dub to capture segmented AVI. There is a spill drive, so the avi segments are usually split up between drive D: and drive E: and in completely different folders.
I didn't think TMPGEnc would know about segments on drive E: if I loaded the first segment on drive D:.. But it did!! It loaded up all AVI segments even those on another drive/directory as a single animation.. Is this by design? I had thought, at first, that every segment had to be in the same directory for it to work.
It's really cool so I wonder if TMPGEnc was designed to do it this way. I know some AVI's have code in them that point to the drive/folder location for loading the next segmented AVI in a chain. Does the TMPGEnc segmenting feature look for this code and use it if it's there?
all i want to do is to select more than only one avi-file after i have already set my template. after i took more than 50 scenes from my dv-cam to my harddrive, these 50 scenes must be added one by one (50 times ctrl+s to save a project and then adding all to the batch-list). This takes time......
If there is still a solution for my problem (and for many more dv-cam users) please tell me, if not - please integrate it in this great encoder.
maybe it works... but i don´t want to rename them, cause scenalyzer gave them all the name of the datastamp. i want to keep the filenames as they are (i want to create a video-dvd with the originally scene-names like 20011117 13.00.18 in the menu.
the option you mean is probably environmental setting-> general-> open sequence files as a movie ? it don´t works. i renamed the scenes as you told me, but tmpg don´t select automatically the other scenes.
But wouldn't it be nice to have a multiple file input for the wizard?
I want to build a kind of index of my DV-Tapes. I captured all scenes with e.g. Scenalyzer, every scene is a separate avi-file. Instead of selecting one file only it would be nice to select all files in one directory. The following settings can be used for each file. After burning a VCD with all MPEG-files you can navigate through the scenes at a DVD-TV-set, without PC or DV-Camcorder.
Except that it only loads up to 20 files at a time. It would be nice if it could load hundreds at a time (e.g. many of my DV projects are split into one scene per AVI file).
I have added subtitles to an avi file using virtualdub. Having completed this process, I start frameserving and open up TMPG v2.58 and attempt to open the .vdr file. I then get an error message saying that the file is not supported, can anyone help me solve it please ?
Have to set up the "Frame server Client" correctly??? try opening up another instance of V-Dub and try to open up the VDR file with it and if it doesn"t open then you haven"t set up the frame server correctly or there is some other problem with V-Dub..but if you can open it with V-Dub then there is some problem with tmpgenc...
on the same lines as the previous question, is it possible to convert a low frame rate such as 12 or 14fps into something that will give a decent result when converted to a mpeg.
thanx again
Yes it is possible But Not with Tmpgenc, you have to use something like "Advanced NtSC/Pal converter" or "Procoder" will do it but you can"t do it properly with Tmpgenc..There is a AVSynth command that will do it also...
AVIfrate will change the framerate of an AVI, but bear in mind this will de-sync the audio which you will then have to shrink or stretch with Cooledit to make it the same length as the AVI.
How can I add a subtitle to an Mpeg 2 film. I've got a movie (DivX)
and a hungarian subtitle for it (.sub, .srt). I can watch it on PC with
MicroDVD but I cant add this file to an encoding. The main thing is : I want
to make a VCD with a subtitle on it, encoded on the video.
Another question: I started to encode a (.asf) movie and the estimated time was
29:35:12 and lenght of the movie is 20 minutes. why does it take so long
You will have to use something like "Virtual Dub" to FrameServe the File and the Subs to Tmpgenc....ASF Files are notoriusly full of errors so if you use something like "ASF Fix" to fix the file and maybe it will encode faster...
hi?
I had today download TMPGEnc 2.59.
I want make s-vcd format mpeg-2.
but I get the error in less than a day : "mpeg-2 encoding function has expired."
where is the problem ?
Thanks for your reply.
thanks.
You are only allowed to use the Demo Version Once and when it runs out you Have to Buy the program...You can"t just download a new demo when ever yours runs out...
usually I use the frame server fonction of virtual dub to re-encode XVID files into divx 5.02 before encode them in TMPGenc to MPEG2 format.
But recently Tmpgenc send me a "unsupported file" message, and I can't use this methode anymore.The frameserver looks working fine, I can encode the XVID with VDUB in a 5.02 avi file. Then I can transform the 5.02 avi in MPEG 2 with TMPG. To be clear :
* XVID --> Divx 5.02 via frame server (VDUB) --> MPEG2 (TMPGenc) : not working
* XVID --> Divx 5.02 in avi file (VDUB), avi --> MPEG2 (TMPG) : working
* Divx 3 or 4 --> Divx 5.02 via frame server (VDUB) --> MPEG2 (TMPG) : working
Why are you doing it this way????Besides degradeing the Quality by re-encodeing the XViD to DivX you are wasteing a lot of time by doing it this way....And XVid and DivX are both Mpeg-4 formats and they should be close in Quality well not after you re-encode it to divx...I would sudgest doing it the Correct way and Not encode to DivX cuz you WILL Loose Quality this way...
Thanks to NOT answer to my question. The quality is absolutly not the problem. Some XVID files produce error in TMPGEnc, and reencoding it in Divx can solve the problem. With the Frame server I don't loose any time.
And the reencoding isn't the only problem. If I want to include subtitle inside the video, I have to use the Subtitler filter of Virtual Dub, with the frame server again. With a XVID, it fails : "unsupported format".
So, you can keep your all-in-one opinion, and only take your keyboard if you have a real solution...
What are you talking about??? Don't be so disrespectful to someone who is trying to help you.
Minion has just given you some sound advice which you have shunned.
I too don't see the point of re-encoding to Divx 5 and what do you mean by via the Virtualdub frameserver?
Are you saying you are frameserving to TMPG and using IT to encode to Divx 5 and then using TMPG again to encode the Divx file....
....what a waste of time.
If you are having problems with XVID files in TMPG then simply load them into Virtualdub and Frameserve them as they are straight to TMPG and encode directly to MPEG. This DIVX 5 step is totally unecessary.
If you are having problems loading XVID files into Virtualdub then it must be a codec problem so you probably need to re-install the XVID codec.
Ashy, thanks to answer to my question, but when I frameserve XVID in virtual Dub, it's make a unsuported format in TMPG. Like I said before : I can open XVID files in virtualdub, I can convert them or use filter on them in virtual dub, I only can't frameserve them ! It's the only point.
Try this program. It can do almost exactly the same as Virtualdub and some things it can't. It can create project files which can be opened in TMPG. http://www.divx-digest.com/software/aviutl.html
The flicker and general quality is real bad and hard on the eyes.
I've tried all possible settings.
If I take a ripped .dat file from a commercial VCD and convert it to .mpg with TMPG and then burn that, the quality is identical to the original - very good.
So the problem is not with burning or DVD player. The problem must be with the encoding from the DV camera's captured .AVI file to the .mpg file.
Perhaps it's the DV codec.
Has anyone had this problem ?
I don"t really Know what you mean By "Flicker"...But it sounds like you are encodeing your source file to a different frame rate as the source file...You have to encode the Mpeg file to the same frame rate as the AVI file you are encodeing...But if not then try to explain the problem a bit more...
I do agree with Jimbo that when encoding from DV file the quality drop so much when compare with the same footage but capture in RGB24.Perhaps,the conversion from YUY2 to RGB is the real problem.Any suggestion?
By "Flicker" I mean that when there is a camera pan, the picture is blurred and flickers horizontally.
This only happens with DV camera AVI files. ie. PAL 720 X 576 25FPS.
I've tried rendering AVI file to PAL 352 X 288 25FPS first and then converting that to MPG. I've also tried deinterlacing and upper/lower frame first and also progressive scan. Still no good !
Commercially ripped VCD(.dat)files that have been re-burnt to CDR/CDRW are fine with good quality. 25FPS is maintained throughout, by the way.
Ive tried the different VFAPI codecs too.
How are other users of TMPG getting on with DV camera AVI files ?
Hi Jimbo
Did you try Procoder with DV Pal? Quality is excellent and much much better than TMPGEnc espectially in PAN/ZOOM area.
I live in PAL area and dealing with DV and TMPGEnc still big headache for me.
I have tried every possiblity to inprove my VCD(from DV file) with TMPGEnc but
no luck.
I am having a problem when I try to convert an AVI to MPEG for DVD on the new 2.59 version. I would also like to point out that this is NOT a problem with the 2.58 version. I want to produce a single MPEG file which I get the error : "File xxxx can not open, or unsupported"
However, if I change the environmental settings under general and uncheck enable multiplex, TMPGEnc will encode happily to two seperate files. Is this the correct place to select whether to create a single MPG file or am I possibly using an incorrect parameter?