MY TRIAL PERIOD HAS ENDED IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS WHY I AM HAVING THIS PROBLEM THE FILES I AM TRYING WERE TESTED BEFORE WITHOUT A PROBLEM.

If the trial has ended then you can"t encode to Mpeg2 anymore But you should be able to encode to mpeg1/VCD forever...have you tried raiseing the "Direct show"???

THANKS EVERY THING WORKING FINE AGAIN

When I try to open a DVD2AVI project file, it says "cannot open or unsupported"... I've formatted my PC last week... and after that I couldn¡­t load the DVD2AVI project¡­s into TMPGEnc (as I made before).

Do you know how to solve this?

Thanks!

Did you copy DVD2AVI.vfp into the TMPGEnc-Folder?

I am trying to convert a movie i have downloaded from Shadow Movie Realm. When i try to open any movies to convert them with TMPGEnc it says the movie cannot be opened or is unsupported. what is the problem?

And exists a DVD2AVI.vfp? :o)

OK! I've already found it! thanks a lot!

HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am following this DVD2DVD guide (http://www.digitalforums.com/dvd2dvdr/intro.htm)
I am to the step where I amn using TMPGEnc and the guide is telling me this process should take at most 6 hours.... It's gone for 9 hours and the project is only 2% done. What can I do to speed this up??? Is it really this hard to recreate DVD's????
Thanks,
Speedy

Since the Link you posted doesn"t go anywere I Don"t know what method they got you useing to Make a DVD Backup..And the speed of the encodeing depends on the speed of your computer and You will have to have a Very fast computer to encode a DVD To a DVD in 6 hours especially with Tmpgenc which is one of the slower encoders arround..The correct method Involves Ripping the Vob file to your DRive and then useing DVD2AVI to extract the audio and make a D2V frame server file then useing Tmpgenc to encode the D2V and the Audio to a Mpeg2 file for DVD..If your Instructions have you useing a Differant method than the one i basicly explained then I would consider useing a Different method...

i know this has been answered several times...but i need to convert an avi file with 5 channels....to wav form to encode in tmpg....simple explanations only please...lol
thanks for bearing with me....

What you have is a 5 Chanell Dolby Digital audio track and you can extract this audio track to a Wav file with a Program called "AVI-MuX" it will de-Mux the audio from the video and Uncompress it to a WAV file....

tried that one already minion....but when it extracts the audio it comes out choppy...i.e ...sound goes on and off very quickly..if u get the jist.
i have 2 files that are the same format...both come out the same.
Ive tried alsorts short of recording the wav externally...last resort
heres the details of the files...

video codec
divx codec = DivX;-) MPEG4 v3
bitrate = 1111 Kbit/s

audio codec
AC3-Digital
bitrate = 438
channels = 5 (surround)
samplerate = 48000 Hz

hope this helps...could send sample of video if needed to see if u could tackle it.
Thnx for quick response

There is a Version Of "Virtual dub" that supports AC3 audio it is called Virtual-Dub AC3, I think you can get it here "http://www.apachez.net/"..You can use "AVI-Mux" to Just De-Mux the file ,That shouldn"t make it choppy then use "Headac3he" to encode it to whatever you want...

Just change the Interleave and Preroll setting to 0ms in AVI-Mux. It should solve your problem.

ASHY

na...no go...the problem seems to that if i extract the audio file...with say virtualdub or nandub or avimux the the resulting file comes out invalid or corrupt...it plays but but like i say..its choppy.

in virtualdub it will only extract as a direct stream copy not full processing

tried that ashy....it come out choppy but faster...so tried it off the top of my head at 100 preroll and 100 interleave and yahoooooo....perfect sound.will try it now in tmpg....thnx guys...u doin swell job on advice

I'm trying to export a series of keyframes as jpgs from premier.

Does anyone know of a plugin or way to do this so that I can identify a region and auto generate frames at a specified interval.

Thanks,
kahunaa

So what I gather from what you are saying is that you want a series of Jpeg"s encoded into single Mpeg frames and you want it to be exported from the premier timeline...I suppose it is Possible ,What is the purpose of this Because there might be an Easier way Cuz if you just want these Key frames to be images so you can use them as Menu"s in a DVD/SVCD/VCD Project then you can do it with most authoring programs while authoring....If you have an Mpeg encoder Plugin for Premier you Can export these frames directly to an encoder directly from the timeline...

Hi all

A quick question regarding TMPGEnc's MPEG2 capabilities:

We have a project that currently runs as a CD-Rom Multimedia app that allows the user select a series of mpegs. Pretty straight forward stuff. So much so that we were thinking of 'enhancing' it to run as DVD-Video, so it can run off home TV's and the like. Baring in mind that this will be our first foray into DVD-Video, does anyone have any experience of using TMPGEnc to create MPEG-2's for this format. Any compatability issues and whatnot? I realise most of you will be biased here ;) but is there a more 'industry standard' method of creating MPEG-2s?

I guess what I'm really asking is TMPEnc capable of creating the kind of quality you get on movie DVDs?

Thoughts / suggestions really appreciated!

Many thanks

Ben

Well yes and no...Tmpgenc has Good mpeg2 encodeing abilities better than Most encoders But not all...As long as the Source file is of pristene Quality then the output video should be of Simular quality..There are better Mpeg2 encoders But they also cost a lot more money,If you want to e-mail me I"l give you a list of software that will make your project easier...

When trying to open an piece of video which has been captured directly from the Mini DV Camcorder I am able to open the AVI in TMPGEnc and create resulting MPEG file, however, when I use Adobe Premier V6 to create an AVI (from a selection of video clips) I recieve the following message frin TMPGEnc when trying to open the AVI:

File 'XXXXXXXX.avi' can not open, or unsupported.

Any help for a beginner in this area would be appreciated.

Best Regards

Try This..Go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "direct show" to "2"..

i tried this and it still doesn't work

Well then I would Sudgest trying to frame serveing the file with V-Dub or AVISynth...

>Try This..Go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "direct show" to "2"..

Hey....I had the same problem and i did the above...but then my video started to have greem patches all over it....Can someone help out?

Hi, I hope someone can help me !!!
Every time I tried to convert an avi to s-vcd, when TMPGEnc reached 50%, I got this error "stream read error" !!!!

What I can do to solve this trubble ??

TNX to all for reply

MLC

Was it an DivX-AVI with MP3-Sound?
If it so, the try to convert the Audio-Part to WAV first (VirtualDub) to encode Audio and Video separatly. Or use VirtualDub als Frameserver.

Thanks B-Racer,

Yes, It was an MP3 audio.
I used dvd2svcd for conversion, and it's not possible for me to use separate video and audio files (dvd2svcd want *.avi source file only !).

The only way is to set the "rate control mode" (in dvd2svcd) NOT in 2 pass VBR.
All the others settings are good, (TMPGEnc no errors !!), but the quality......

Bye

Then convert your Video directly, not with dvd2svcd, which is not suitable for converting AVIs.

Hi, I got a question - is it possible to convert an *.ifo file (ripped from a DVD, including all necessary *.vob files) directly to a mpeg video file? I know some other programmes that are able to do this but I think there might be a loss of qualitiy when converting videos with those other programmes.

Additionally, in the *.ifo file there is more information such as available languages and / or subtitles which might make converting more comfortable.

Please answer if you know anything! Thanks in advance!


BlackPirate

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

Try downloading RAD Video Tools to convert the MOV file

> Try downloading RAD Video Tools to convert the MOV file

I forgot to add that to list of things that I tried and that failed. :|

The title says it all - only the audio stream encodes in the VCD - The video stream is nothing but a black screen. I had the same problem when trying Ulead Media Studio Pro. Maybe the DIVX codecs are messing with the MS-MPEG4 V3 AVI codecs, BUT, the AVI plays fine. It just wont convert. Any thoughts ?

Thank you

Does it play in MediaPlayer? If not, then you need the Codec.

Have you tried to raise the "Direct Show file reader"??Go to "options" to "enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "Direct show" to "2"..

>Does it play in MediaPlayer? If not, then you need the Codec.

Yes, I mentioned "BUT, the AVI plays fine. It just wont convert." Thnx anyway though.

>Have you tried to raise the "Direct Show file reader"??Go to "options"
>to "enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "Direct show" >to "2"..

You, sir, are the man. It's converting as we speak. Thank you!

Every time i try to encode an avi divx file to a dvd mpeg file it never lets me encode it into one file. It always splits it up into 2 files, an audio and a movie. Why does it do that? At the end of the wizard it has a check box that says "output video and audio as individual elementary streams" But it doesn't let me uncheck it. It stays checked. I think i need to uncheck that but it wont let me. Somebody please help...

That's because multiplexing is part of things, an DVD-Authoring-Program should do (and every Authoring-Program is doing it!).

i was using free version with no problems, then i installed the 14 day trial. Now when i start program the wizard open okay, but when i browse to the avi file that i want to split and/or convert the program shuts down, no warning or error codes, just closes completely.
can anyone help?