I have TMPGENC Plus and use on a Windows system.

A friend has a CD burner but an apple system.

If I encode DVD MPG2 standard mpegs, put them on a couple of Cd's and take them to his place can I create a DVD from that?

He is using Apple's DVD Studio Pro and the way he currently uses it is the application merges separate video and audio streams. The QuickTime plug-in creates two separate streams, one for video and one for audio which DVDSP then imports and merges as part of the formatting process.

No!

YES..well Probably...a mpeg file is a Mpeg file no matter if it is on a Apple or a PC...what might matter is if the language that the mpeg file is written in is compatible with APple..Well I think it should be Cuz Like I said a Mpeg file is a Mpeg file no matter what system it is on....

You know Ashy, i might have gone off the path a little, but the reason i asked about the whole "Divx/AVI" thing is that, I wanted to know, and learn how to create movies in all format, new and old. And since i have Tmpgenc, and it has an "avi" output, i really wanted to know basically how to use it to make a Divx file. It didn't have any listings of different types of forums to go to, it just said "TMPGEnc BBS" so i figured pretty much that meant anything goes.

But like i said i might have strayed off the path, but i still want to know how to use the avi function in TMPGEnc. The so called "on-line manual" that comes with the Plus version is kind of vague. I know all about codecs, it's just getting it (Divx Pro) to work with TMPGEnc,when the Divx Pro screen pops up, which i know how to get to come up. I just want to make sure i get my $48 bucks worth. Making a MPEG is no problem, i just want to go down my list a know how to do it all. Anyway, thanks for your help, and any links that you do have, will be greatly appreciated


B.B

OK, so i just got a DVD player that plays VCD, so if i use this program to make a VCD file, why does it just make a mpg file - will this play in the player? or does it need the .dat files etc to play VCD's - im just not sure how all this works. If someone could gimmie some advice, id appreciate it. thanks.

When tMPGEnc makes the MPEG file, that's just the first step. After that, you need to consider the CD burning software your going to use. Consider Nero by Ahead software. When you run it, you tell the wizard that you want a "VIDEO CD" and it pre-builds all of the needed directories and files (minus the actual movie). Then you drop the MPEG file into Nero's file window, Nero examines it for consistancy (and can rebuild if needed), then will burn the CD as a standard VCD. So tMPGEnc is half the job. You still need a package that will generate the VCD layout for you, and this is found in most popular burning programs. =)

HI...
Out of say 10 movies i tried to cut , only 4 work.

The problems that occured are : no sound and will just NOT cut on the
marks i set it to cut at. (plus some just wont let me view it as i cut)

I think TMPG is quiet limited to the file types it can handle, could
somebody recommend a different, more versatile programme please?

Thank You Very Much.

Dave.

No

Look, you realize that where you can cut is limited by what type of video you have right. It won't matter what tool you use. Some video (like DIVX) only store a keyframe every 300 frames if that's how it's setup in the codec. If you then try to edit it with anything, you're not going to cut anywhere but at one of those keyframes. Just a heads up. I have a feeling the video you are working with is the problem and NOT TMPGEnc.

I have a strange Problem.
Recently i installed Tmpgenc 2.59 und try to convert divX5 to SVCD (2 CD'S).

But the 4th window shows an estimated Filesize of 3 gig (400 % of an 700 MCB cd).
I can increase the average bitrate but not lower it, even in expert settings, the bitrate i.e. 800 isn't shown there it stays at 1600.
Can anybody explain why it isn't imposiible to lower the Bitrate?
ciao I

First off Don"t nescessarily Believe what Tmpgenc says the final file size is going to be Cuz It doesn"t seem that it is very accurate..Use a Bitrate Calculator...If you are trying to Lower the Bitrate down to 800kbs(Much to low unless you like Crappy Quality) you will need to Load the "Unlock.Mfc" Template from the Extra Folder then all the settings will be unlocked...at 1600KBS you should be able to Fit about "One Hour" of SVCD on a 700mb(800mb) CD-R with OK Quality, But if you lower it any more than that the Quality will get progressivly Worse and at 800kbs the Video will be hardly recognizeable as the movie you encoded...

Hi minion,
that's what I want to know, some times ago, I installed a previos release of tmpgenc and there I could reduce the bitrate as I need.
And now I thought I missed an option something like this.

thnks a lot.
ciao

Hi minion,
that's what I want to know, some times ago, I installed a previos release of tmpgenc and there I could reduce the bitrate as I need.
And now I thought I missed an option something like this.

thnks a lot.
ciao

Hi, I'm trying to use tmpgenc to encode an avi into mpeg, I've never had problems with doing this before, but now when I try and do it, after doing the first few frames it brings up a dialog box, that says error, and a couple of random numbers, eg 1 10016 or, 22556 3345772 if I click ok, it brings up another box with a different number after a few more seconds, whats going on? and can I change something to stop this? At the moment I'm just using the default settings to turn it into a pal SVCD.

change from progressive to interlace or vice versa...

I keep hearing this can be done and looking inside this BBS for two day and could not find anything. Please Help!

Thanks.

Just burn it as it is as a VCD. It will fit because an 80min VCD will fit 800mb.

ASHY

You Might NOT Be able to Fit 83 minutes on a CD-R..Try to enable Overburning if Possoble..I have been able to burn 825mb with Overburning useing VCDEasy...But that is the most I have been able to burn On TDK Cd-R"s...

Sory...781mb will easily fit on a CD-R....

Thanks

If You Want More Room, Look On Ebay. You Can Buy 90Min. Cdr's For Dirt Cheap. I've Bought A Couple Of Hundred Of Them, And They Work Great. Just Make Sure That You Use "Nero" And That Your CD-Burner Can Read The 90-Min CDR.You Have To Do An Overburn And Use "Disc-At-Once" Setting. Just Remember This, Because You Must Overburn When Going Over Past The "79:59 Min Mark.
Good Luck!

This is risky because a lot of burners don't support those disks.

ASHY

When I am encoding a movie with Tmpgenc Plus and I am using the 2 pass mode
on about half of the movies when it gets to 50 percent it stops and gives
invalid pointer error and once it gave error 65534 65536?
I am using a pentium 4 with 768 RDRAM and windows XP. Can someone help ?

Problems with AVI files.

I have been using Tmpgenc to encode AVI files captured from my SONY camcorder. I have been using Windows Video Maker to capture the DV. This has all been working well until I installed DVD2SVCD.

Tmpgenc no longer recognises AVI files that have been rendered within Windows Video Maker. If I render the AVI files within VideoStudio then Tmpgenc will recognise the file and encode.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated

Try using avisynth and frameserve it to TMPGEnc.
A380

Hi, I'm trying to use tmpgenc to encode an avi into mpeg, I've never had problems with doing this before, but now when I try and do it, after doing the first few frames it brings up a dialog box, that says error, and a couple of random numbers, eg 1 10016 or, 22556 3345772 if I click ok, it brings up another box with a different number after a few more seconds, whats going on? and can I change something to stop this? At the moment I'm just using the default settings to turn it into a pal SVCD.

What settings are you guys using to encode avi files to mpeg2?
I'm trying to encode some stuff that was shot in DV (NTSC). It's about 15 minutes in length. I was also curious about TMPG's VBR capabilities. I tried a couple test encoding but the resulting file was horrible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
C.J. Sanders

When I am encoding a movie with Tmpgenc Plus and I am using the 2 pass mode
on about half of the movies when it gets to 50 percent it stops and gives
invalid pointer error and once it gave error 65534 65536?
I am using a pentium 4 with 768 RDRAM and windows XP. Can someone help ?

When I use the merge&cut window to cut a scene from a vob, the output file is video only. During cutting I see only [producing video stream, multiplexinbg, writing header] no audio messages.

I choose mpeg2 prg stream as the type and the input vob plays aud and vid in power dvd. Renaming the vob to .mpg has no effect :(

Any-one know what I am doing wrong?

Because the Merge&cut feature doesn't handle Ac3 audio.

ASHY

You Shouldn"t edit VOB files from Ripped DVD"s with Tmpgenc anyways.....

What should I be using to cut/edit vobs?

I don't want to file spilt on file size, rather in number of seconds.
vobedit sounded like a good idea but it just seems to show a list of packets in the stream. I tried some other tools but nothing seems to work completely..

Just being able to say, cut the file at 1h2min3sec would be good enough.

Well you might try the newest version of "Womble Mpeg2VCR" it supports AC3 audio But you should strip out any Subtitle tracks or extra Video tracks and try to only keep the audio stream you want...But if you are going to encode these VOB files to make a VCD/SVCD/DVD then you shouldn"t encode the VOB files directly But frame serve them with DVD2AVI...

What should I be using to cut/edit vobs?

I don't want to file spilt on file size, rather in number of seconds.
vobedit sounded like a good idea but it just seems to show a list of packets in the stream. I tried some other tools but nothing seems to work completely..

Just being able to say, cut the file at 1h2min3sec would be good enough.