ok here's my problem. i just had to re-install windows and what not due to a crash of my pewter. but anyhow all of my avi's when pulled up in Tmpgenc will not encode i get an error that sez that the avi is not compatible or not supported. has anyone else seen this or is there a way to fix this?

Thank You!
Twirlz

Make sure you have the correct codecs installed ,and did you raise the priority of the "Direct Show" file reader????

My version of TMPGEnc (the latest one) seems to be finding WAV files output by DVD2AVI "unsupported". Has anyone else encountered this?

I'm following all the usual steps in DVD2AVI before saving the project, including downmixing Dolby and setting 48Hz -> 44.1Hz, and decoding to WAV rather than AC3. The WAV file plays fine on its own.

Wave you tried to raise the priority of the "Wav File Reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins"?????

>Wave you tried to raise the priority of the "Wav File Reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins"?????

Yes, all the way to 3, where all the others are 0 or less. No dice....

You are Better off useing a different audio encoder anyways...like "Headac3he" or something..

I can never get that goddamn headac3he software to work properly.

ASHY

Hi,
I am looking for information on how TMPG is carrying out the resizing of the frame. Does anybody know whether resizing is "bilinear", "bicubic", etc.?
Thanks for a any hint.
FrankUl.

Call it shitty instead of bicubic or bilinear, and you call it right ;)
The Resize-Engine of TMPGEnc does not give you good results, and it is slow too.
Better use AVISynth with the Resizer Lanczos, that's the best one.

www.videotools.net

Have upgraded from 2.53Plus to 2.59Plus. OS is Win2K, SP3, US-Version

Task Prio is always "normal", although set to minimum in "environmental settings".

When feeding 2.59Plus via VirtualDub's frameserver, picture is fine, but the .vdr sound data "cannot be opened or is unsupported". 2.53Plus works fine. VirtualDub itself is fed via Adobe Premiere 6.02 (avisynth), normal PCM (WAV) sound, 16 bit, stereo, 44,1 kHz Sampling frequency.

Muxing an already encoded .mp2 however works with 2.59Plus.

Kind regards Frederick

Hi,

I tested V 2.53, I've set the settings in the "Option", "Environmental Settings", "CPU" for multithreading (2 CPUS) - and both CPUs together are running with 50%....

Jack does report the same problem in V 2.58 (some threads beneath).

I would want to BUY the newest V 2.59 / 2.60-version - if this version would use both CPUs to 100%.

Is this bug fixed in the newest version?

Regards,
Reinhard

Abit VP6, 2 x P-III/1000, W2K

See:

http://www.8ung.at/quintus/forumstreffen3/gifs/tmpgenc1.gif

http://www.8ung.at/quintus/forumstreffen3/gifs/tmpgenc2.gif

Regards,
Reinhard

MPEG encoding is a task that does not lend itself to efficient multi processing. I have only ever seen impovements of around 20% using 2 processors. I think some of the filters (noise reduction, deinterlacing) may use more than one, you periodically see during encoding, CPU usage going over 50%.

A much more efficient way, is to split your input file (AVI etc) in half and run two copies of TMPGenc (with multithreading off). You then have two CPUs 100% occupied.

Sorry, a bit quick on the send. You then join the 2 resulting MPEGs using the MPEG tools.

>>>MPEG encoding is a task that does not lend itself to efficient multi processing.<<<


I think: if TMPGEnc would use 100% of (both) CPU-power it would render faster....? Or am I wrong?

Thx,
Reinhard

Yes, but writing and debugging an MPEG encoder that is able to do this (if indeed it is possible), is not a trivial task.

The method I outlined almost exactly halves you encoding time over running the whole job on one CPU.

Hi rs,

yes, this is indeed a good workaroud - it does work. Thanks for this hint.

Regards,
Reinhard

this program won't read or right some avi's movies and won't always convert sound to mp3 like I set it to. And need to intergraded divx.com's codec in to it so that it will read my avi's that are divx format.

If you want to MAKE AVI/DivX files then DONT use tmpgenc for this...Tmpgenc can do it But there are better programs for this and it is not what Tmpgenc was made for, so use the Proper tools for Makeing AVI Files like V-Dub...

can yuo guys make the next version with the divx codec installed with program already

No, because it would not be legal and why would you require such a thing.

ASHY

I am currently using the Haupaugge WinTV-PVR-250 to capture some video (VBR). With version 2.59 of TMPGenc, I seem to be getting alot of crashes in Windows XP when trying to use the MPEG Tools to cut set the start and end of the MPEG, then re-output it. At first I throught that it was a issue with my computer, so I did a fresh build with hardware and software (Windows XP, latest Drivers, etc) but it still seems to happen. It only seems to happen when I drag it to the end of the file. My hardware is as follows:

AMD Athlon 1800+
ECS Motherboard (Cheapo)
512 Megs of RAM (running memmory checker on this now)
Integrated SIS Video (allocating 64 Megs)
Integrated SIS Sound
Western Digital 120 Gig HD
Haupaugge WinTV-PVR-250
Microsoft USB Mouse & PS/2 Keyboard
Windows XP SP1
Latest Drivers
WinDVD 4.0
ULead DVD Movie Factory

I have similar issues in the NanoMPEG software that came with the Haupagge, in which it crashes at the end of the file. Thinking it was a file corruption issue, I imported the file into the Tmpgenc MPEG tools, and did a reoutput with no changes. When I tried to open the new output file, again it crashed. The size of the file is about 3.7Gigs, if this matters.

Does anyone have any idea what I could be doing wrong? Do you have another tool you could suggest to see if I can eliminate the problem from TEMPGenc. I would like to purchase this software, if it will work.

Thanks,

Matthew
Video Newbie!

I have experienced this problem on Many occations and there is no solution for this...What you have to do is use a Different Mpeg editor..You can use something like "Mpeg2VCR" or Mpeg scissors..

Made the same experience with consistent crashes of MpegTools (running Win98), contrary to the demo version of mpeg1vcr that works reliable. This is why I do not believe in a problem in the Hauppage file or system environment. If the problem in TMpgEnc cannot be solved (as indicated by the previous response) I wonder whether many interested people want to invest in a purchase. As for me, though I was impressed by the other features of TMpgEnc, I will spend my bucks for a different tool. As for TMpgEnc, this is a sad story.

A disappointed potential customer, now lost to competition.
Robert.

Tmpgenc"s "Merge & Cut" only supports files that have been encoded by Tmpgenc and only supports files that have been encoded useing the CBR encodeing Method...But that said it still doesn"t work very often ...But like A Lot of software I usually have to use other pieces of software instead of useing the same function in the original software..

I got an AVI of 730 MB and I want to convert it to MPEG 2 without changing it at all i want similar size and same or even better quality....
how can i do it???

Well You Most likely CANT do it...The size on the Mpeg file is directly related to the "LENGTH" of the AVI file NOT the size of the AVI file, if the AVI file is a Full Movie say 90 Minutes then the Minimum size if the File in Low Quality Mpeg1/VCD will Be 900MB and if you want it to be high Quality Mpeg2/SVCD at 90 minutes will be about 1.8gb..So for Mpeg1/VCD then it is about 10mb per minute and about 20mb per minute for Mpeg2/SVCD....

when encoding tmpeg uses 100%of processor then eventually shuts pc down can i stop this happening and how

I am having this exact same problem. After running for a little while, the entire computer will just shut down. Does anyone know what we can do here?

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?

hi, sorry for bad english:

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.


Sportsfreund

Rename each AVI file something like Movie-01.avi, Movie-02.avi etc. etc.

In environmental settings 2.59 select option to load segmented avi as single animation.

Open the first AVI file, the rest should be loaded as well. You can check by looking at the total length of loaded file.

Encode as normal.

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.

that´s not possible, i think.

but thanks for the answer !!!

Sportsfreund

Well why don't you simply tag it on the end then.
for example: 20011117 13.00.18-001, 20011117 13.00.18-002 and so on....

ASHY

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.

schade, :(

sportsfreund