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i have been using tmpg for year and a half. have encoded many avi's to svcd.
last five avi's, 3 with ac3, 2 with mp3. they all play fine in media plyer but when i encode the sound delayed. i have tried many things and have read much in vcdhelp. all to no avail. im wondering if i may have installed some files that could interfer with tmpgs output? if so what would they possibly be?
With Premiere 6.0 in conjunction with Pinnacle DV500-Plus it is possible to create a video file in DVD-format (.mp2, Pinnacle MPEG2, PAL, 720x576) and a separate audio file (.mpa) . When these video files are viewed or processed by TMPGEnc (convert to SVCD) it increases extremely brightness/gamma. Manual reduction of brightness or gamma will not bring back the original view. Other video viewers shows the correct brighness and colours.
What Plugins are you talking about..Most of the Plugins you need come with Tmpgenc Unless you are looking to encode "MOV" Files then you would need the MOV Plugin, the DVD2AVI Plugin should Load automaticly after running DVD2AVI one Time...And Please explain what you are talking about with regard to "how do i get rid of purple bits in the flim decode".. This doesn"t really make any sence ?
I am using the evaluation version of TMPGRnc to process an AVI file at 496x384. I have a couple of questions:
1. On the wizard, I seem to have the choice of only making the picture smaller or larger and in the advanced settings the boxes to change the picture size are greyed out. Can I adjust the size in the fll version?
2. Is there a reason I don't want an MPEG at 496x384, like it won't play correctly? It would sem that going to 352x240 gives up much of the content in the larger format.
You Can Change all the Settings But you have to Load the "Unlock.mcf" template first then all the settings will be unlocked, Or you can just go to "Settings" and Click were it says "Size" and go to "Unlock" then you will be able to change the Resolution...I don"t really understand what your Second Question is about, But if you are Trying to Make a VCD then you Have to have the resolution set to 352+240 for NTSC or it will not be VCD Compliant and You won"t Loose any of the Picture by resizeing it will just be scaled down to the Correct resolution...
Well Quite a Few poeple have had this Problem with MOV Files and Tmpgenc..What you are going to need to do is Extract the audio out of the MOV File to WAV with a Program that supports MOV files and Use the WAV audio as you audio source in Tmpgenc..I don"t think Virtual Dub will work for this But One Program that does is "Sound Forge" it can even extract the audio to a Mp2 File that you would Just need to Mux with the Mpeg video file, It can even encode the Mov file to mpeg for you But tmpgenc Is Better at it..
I do not Know if it is Possible to Encode Tiff files to Mpeg with Tmpgenc..Tmpgenc Does support Quite a Few Image formats But I did not see Tiff Listed..But I guess you Can try..The way you Load Image sequences into Tmpgenc is To Name the Images in Numerical order, like This :Image#001.tif, Image#002.tif and so one till they are all numbered and in the same folder, then you Just choose the First file and then rest will be loaded in the order you Numbered them..But if you Can"t get Tmpgenc to encode the Tiff files to Mpeg then there a Few Programs that are Made specificly For Photo DVD"s, Like on fairly good one is called "Ulead DVD Picture Show" it supports Tiff files and Many other ones also and it does Make Fairly good Presentations, i Have used it once before to Make a Photo VCD and it looked pretty Good...You Can Learn about it a Bit more here: http://www.ulead.com/dps/features.htm/ , You can also Download a Fully Functioning 15 day demo from here: ftp://ftp.ulead.com/pub/Trial/PictureShow/DVDPS_E_T.exe , There are Other Programs that can do it also But I believe this one is pretty easy to use and has some good features....
I am trying to encode a 16 min file that is over 8 gig's and It dosen't show up in the tmpeg program when I go to the preview window. Does anyone have experence making a mpeg 2 file from a clip this large ? I am using a avi file created in Discreet edit , the file type is M-JPEG and I am running tmpeg 2.59.
thanks
david
So your Saying that you Can get the File to Load But you can"t get See a Picture while encodeing or in any of the Preview Windows??Well The First thing you should try is to Raise the Priority of the "Direct show File Reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins", to get there you go to "Options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise it to "2"..This usually works with this type of Problem..Next you should make sure that the Proper Codec is enabled and set up properly, Cuz I know with the Pic-Video Mjpeg Captures I do, I have to have the Codec enabled and I have to turn off the "Force YUY2 Output" Setting or I get the Same problem you are haveing ,But this might not apply to you depending on which codec you are useing..But if after this you Still Can"t get the Picture to show up then you Might try to "Frame Serve" the File to Tmpgenc with Something like "Virtual dub", If you can get "Virtual Dub" to Read the File then you Should Be able to Frame serve it without a problem..I have encoded Files Much larger than 8 gb even Over 80gb useing HuffyUV and a 2.5 hour Movie at full resolution and have Usually been able to Overcome any problems useing One of these Fixes....
Well ASF Files can Be Tricky to encode sometimes Cuz Being such a compressed format they Can Have lots of errors in them..There is a Program Designed to fix ASF and WMV files it is Called "ASF Tools" it is Freeware and Can be found by looking on any Search engine like Google..But First you Should Try raiseing the Priority of the "Direct Show File Reader" in the VFAPI Plugins, this Usually fixes problems with Loading files But if that don"t work then Try Useing the "ASF Tools" to Fix it..
buffer underflow of 200.000 packets (of a 5 minutes mpeg2 clip)is still teasing me. Once someone in this forum proposed that buffer size is a value described in a file header. If this descritpor is corrupted by some unaware application then tmpcgenc may fail to keep track of buffers.
Still couldn't find any more information ... even I'm not sure what packets of what size are considered, it likely depends also on maany factors.
The Packet size for a SVCD stream is 2324kb the Packet size for a Mpeg2 file is 2048kb..So if you try to Mux a Mpeg2 file as a SVCD then you will get the "Buffer Underflow error" and if you try to Mux a SVCD file as a Mpeg2 file you will probably get the same error..Tmpgenc doesn"t have the Option so set the Packet size to what you want so if for some reason there is a problem encodeing and the Packet size is incorrect then you will get these errors in the Multiplex..One Solution is To re-packetize the Mpeg file, this can not be done with Tmpgenc, There is a Muxer that can do it, it is called "Womble Mpeg2VCR", it can re-packetize the Mpeg file while Muxing to correct any Buffer underflow errors But the file size can get Quite a Bit Bigger...
sorry to come back to this problem. I'm demuxing and muxing clips of original dvd. I haven't envolved with SVD anyhow.
If packet size is 2048 kb then in a mb is 500 packets and total in a 500 mb clip would be only 2500 packets. Likely you mean kbit not kbyte what makes 8x2500=20.000 packets in a 500 Mb clip. Where these 200.000 come from?
It looks like I missed the point :-)
It doesn"t Matter if you are Makeing a SVCD or a DVD or were the Files came from the problem is the same and the solution is the same, and Yes I meant Kilo-Bit..Why do you need to Mux an original DVD???
1. Because I want to cut clips out from vob and ac3 stream isn't supported in most available applications, so I want to replace it with mp2.
I tried to make ifo to vob clips and burn a DVD but this failed and didn't play properly.
2. Also some clips because may differ as clips are from differnet titles.
I'm trying to found out if this 200.000 may be a wrong alarm or perhaps just a wrong media descriptor in a file header correctable with hex editor.
I have avoided any re rendering. So clips can't be corrupted. Perhaps except some may have poor header which I have cut with Chopper named cutter. But all files are viewable with software DVD players without noticabe degradation.
if you mean Muxer that can do it, what is called "Womble Mpeg2VCR", then with it demuxing and re muxing this stream doesn't change a bit! Still the same amount of approx 200,000 s packets underflow. Likely sometimes such a stream also crashes mpeg2vcr but not always.
That is teasing me if just editing applications are to percisely following standards, as players don't care of this amount, which might be destructive as "normal" is 10-20 if any.
Help me...
Can i span a video-cd on many cd 80 min?
I try to convert avi in mpeg2 but don't go in a cd of 80 min...hoe can divide it?
Thank You very Much!!!