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I just downloaded a xvid video and when i try to convert it, the file size is like 3 or 4 times the normal . and when i use vdub and save as wav, then use tmpg,it seem to crash. any clue?
Make sure you have the right Codecs and try going to "options" to "Enviromental Settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "Direct Show" to "2"..........
hey i have been using tmpeg for awhile but when i upgraded to windows 2000 i get problems like "invalid pointer operation" , tmpeg will just close for no reason, and when i hit encode it just stops and says there is an error and wont continue?
nope i havent found anything the whole thing gets messed up i also have problems half way through encodes on certain movies it just stops at part way through and says there is an error and it is always there my whole tmpeg thing is messed up is there any other good svcd encoders out there to encode divx/ac3/xvid files into svcd mode?
I have 1 mpeg1 file that I tried to convert to dvd mpegs but recieve this error message "illegal floating decimal point calculation error" I can't seem to figure out what the problem is, I've tried the "mpeg-corrector" program but still recieve this error message. I have never recieved this message before anyone have any suggestions that would help?
Usually If you get this error in the same spot every time then There is Something wrong with the file,You can try encodeing up to were you get the error then use the source range to start encodeing a few frames after were you got the error the after you can join the 2 files with the Merge & Cut...If this file is a Low resolution VCD/Mpeg1 file and you are encodeing it to mpeg2 to make a DVD The Quality will Not be nearly as good in DVD format especially if you up size the resolution to 720+480/576,........
Well that is strange ,I have only ever gotten that error while encodeing..Well then there is definately something wrong with the file...Since it is a Mpeg1 file you can try to see if Virtual Dub will Load the file then try to frame serve the file to Tmpgenc, But if Virtual Dub has problems with the file then there is definately something wrong with the file..If it is a Downloaded Mpeg1 file that then it is Probably corrupted..Very few of the Mpeg files I have downloaded have ever Been NOT Corrupted.....
Hi, I am a newbie at encoding using TMPGEnc. I decided to turn an AVI file to an MPEG file in order to burn it onto an SVCD to watch on TV. Since it's my first time making an SVCD, I'm unfamiliar with all the options. When making VCD, I noticed the size of the file is 352x240. When converting the AVI file right now, I noticed that it's 480x480. I'm wondering if that will fit on my TV screen?
I use TMPGEnc for more than a year now but the following issue is present in all versions.
I have a PAL source and use the standard VCD and SVCD templates. There is no framerate conversion. It is 25fps all the way.
After encoding my PAL AVI file to MPEG1 (VCD) or MPEG2 (SVCD) and playing it on my standalone DVD player I notice occasional hickups. Most of the time they are not present, but often when de picture gets dark (movie is playing a night scene) a frame is skipped.
First I thought it was my standalone DVD player, but bbMPEG and LSX encoder do not have this issue.
I altered allmost all of the settings in TMPGEnc, but none of them helped.
It is not only at dark scenes, but also when the background is more or less an uniform color. I made some sample movies with a black, white, red, blue, green and a picture as background. In front of the background I placed a moving object. The object skips a frame when a black, white, red, blue or green background is used but not when I used a picture as background.
The MPG file is OK when played on a PC, it is only the stand alone DVD player that skips a frame. Remember bbMPEG and LSX encoder do not skip frames with any sort of background. Their quality is less so I do not want to use them.
I burn my (S)VCD's with VCDEasy and only with TMPGEnc it keeps complaining "strange (possibly non-compliant) user_data seen... (not a problem, usually a sign of TMPGEnc)". Maybe this is my problem, but I can't get rid of it.
That message you are getting in VCDEasy is Normal with Tmpgenc encoded files..Those "Frame Skips" as you call them could be cause By Sudden Bitrate spikes...Tmpgenc has Been known to Have these Bitrate spikes..They way to find out if this is the Problem is to remember were in the File you get these skips and Put the file into a Bitrate Viewer and Look for any Sudden Bitrate Jumps at the point were the Skips happen.....
OK that could be it but I'm not sure it is. If I look at the MPEG stream with Bitrate Viewer, the highest bitrate seems to be 2-3 seconds later than when the frame skip occurs. The highest bitrate is not that high. It is 2704kbps according to bitrate viewer.
Lets assume that it is this birate spike that causes my frame skip. What can I do to make this spike lower or disappear? Is there a utility to lower the bitrate of an MPEG file or do I have to encode differently in TMPGEnc?
When I look at the Q-level of several of those MPEG files from TMPGEnc, bbMPEG and LSX encoder, I noticed that the Q-Level is very erratic with TMPGEnc. The Q-Level of bbMPEG and LSX encoder are much conservative. I do not mean a flat graph but much less eratic than TMPGEnc. What is this Q-Level and can it be the source of my problem?
I get the message "Read error occurred against address 0259DB4A" when I try to convert to VCD and whole prossess stops. I operate at Windows 2000. Can somebody help me?
Sup Dude! I am very happy to help you. I just had the same problem. I searched fricken everywhere for help on the subject and found pretty much nothing. So me helping you now makes me happy.
YOUR PROBLEM:
The error is saying that your computer can not read information from the RAM.
When TMPGEnc encodes a MPEG, it takes the .vob or .avi or .2dv or whatever your trying to encode, and puts bits and pieces in your RAM (random access memory). If you have different RAM cards in your motherboard, there is a chance that they are different speeds (example: 33, 66, 100, 133). If TMPEnc copies data to one of your ram cards that, for example, is running at PC 133 and then runs out of space, it has to go to your next RAM card that, for example, is running at PC 100. This causes our o so frustrieghting "READ ERROR AT....bla bla bla".
There is another posibility. Your ram might damaged. If it has a bad area on it or at a certain "Address", you will get our error.
HOW TO FIX YOUR PROBLEM:
-Open up your computer and pull out your RAM card(s). If you only have one, you know right away that it is damaged and that you need a new stick.
-If you have more than one, see if they have any stickers or anything on them that say the speed and/or size. If you can see somehting like "PC 100" (or 33, 66, or 133 or if you have some really really fast ram it will be like 800 or something) or it might just Say "100 MHz" or something similar. Now, if you found something like that on the one stick, check the other one or two sticks that you have. If you find out you have, for example, two PC 100 and one PC 133, depending on the size, put in the two PC 100. Try to encode again. If you get the same error, try your PC 133 stick without the other two in. If you get the same error in TMPG, you need to by a new stick.
I hope I helped you and didn't just confuse you. If you need any additional help or want to know where to get some cheap RAM, you can e-mail me at energymanz@yahoo.com (bring on the junk mail spam bots!!!).
Could also be that you installed something that replaced your working video codecs with ones that don't. In Environment->VFAPI it should list the codecs you're using, either Cyberlink, or... One of two others. I had to re-install PowerDVD to get TMPGEnc to work again.
Now, I was making a DVD's, not VCD's, so this may not apply to you. But, just in case...
major problem with out of sync audio/video....rip dvd with cladvdXP1.3 then use tmpgenc to do the rest......never had this problem before so this means that i am doing something differently......is the aspi layer related to this in any way?......the dvd's are not movies but original music videos....so no subtitles, language options etc, just plain stereo audio......
please can anyone offer advice cause i am running out of ideas to play with....
frogot to mention a couple important details.......don't know if this is related to ths out of sync problem but when ripping dvd using claddvdXP1.3, a message flashes at the bottom of the window and it says "THE AUTHENTICATION ROUTINE FAILED TO UNLOCK THE LOCKED SECTORS".....what does this mean?.....
also i convert from dvd to vcd.....i need help with this problem please anybody.....
Well it is Possible that the error you are getting is related to you Problem...The error means that it couldn"t decrypt the Copy protection for parts of the DVD...You should Try useing "SmartRipper" cuz I have never had a Problem with it Not decrypting parts of a DVD....
If you did then this is your problem. This ASPI layer does NOT work with most rippers and will cause exactly the problem you are having. Most of todays rippers are designed to work with Aspi 4.6.
Downgrade to 4.6 and your problem should be solved.
thx fellas for both sets of advice......but guess what?....after spending the entire weekend trying everything that i think is possible i still have the out of sync problems.......here are some additional details.....
winXP pro...trying to make vcd from dvd with pcm audio.....claddvdxp1.3....tmpgenc.....STILL OUT OF SYNC......used this same set of progs earlier this year and everything worked perfect.....are the new versions of tmpgenc not able to handle lpcm audio?.....i really really need some advice......even tried smartripper, then dvd2avi, then tmpgenc...same problem...HELP PLEASE ANYBODY!!!!!
I got about 150 avi movies on my HD that i want to convert to vcd's . But when i do this i keep getting frame skips or a frame hitch ( dunno how you call it ) but the image is not fluent. Can someone explain me how i can get the image fluent , i am using tmpgenc now.But if someone has advice about using another program plz let me know. If you know how to solve this can you also explain how i have to do this.
Well the answer to Why you are getting the "Jumpt Playbeck" is in the Title of your Post...Tmpgenc Can"t properly convert Frame rates ,there is an AVISYnth script command that is supposed to convert the framerate for you while Frameserveing..and there are Programs that do NTSC/Pal conversions Like "ProCoder" and "Advanced NTSC/Pal Converter" But you would be better off useing AVISynth cuz it would be much faster....
Non, no, no, TMPGEnc can handle this perfekt. It's a trick to know how. There's no need to do a Framerate-Conversion. That's because you can handle this the same way, DVD-Producers do: PAL-Speedup.
If the AVI is a Film with 23.97 FpS, open it in TMPGEnc.
Choose PAL als Videoformat (25 FpS)
Select Advanced, select Do not Frame Rate Conversion
Encode the Video.
Wrong, TMPG CANNOT handle this perfect. Selecting 'do not framerate conversion' will indeed produce a PAL movie with 4% speedup, but the audio WILL lose sync.
The movie will be speeded up to play at the faster 25 fps and will become shorter, but the audio length stays the same causing de-sync.
This can then only be remedied by shrinking the length of the audio to match the duration of the Video with Cooledit or similar.
The easiest way and produces pretty good results without the associated jerkyness is to use AVIsynth.
AVIsynth uses a method very similar to professional framerate conversion techniques.
Yeah, forgot this Audio-Thing. But i don't use AVISynth for that, because it speeds up the Audiopart too. That's why i'm using WAVELab to do an inverse Timestretch. That's much better, because the Sound sounds exaktly like the Original.
AVIsynth doesn't alter either the Audio or Video length when using the CONVERTFPS command, but uses other techniques to create a smooth conversion whilst keeping the movie the same length and thus the audio in sync.
I just replaced the older version with this and thought this will be better.. :( but no.. When I set the video bitrate + audio bitrate it makes bigger files than older version with the same values (about 50Mb bigger). Even if I change the bitrate values it still makes same sized files... strange.. what causes this???
video audio
1140 160 48000 = 843Mb
1135 160 48000 = 843Mb (??? this is weird)
I have always used batch mode successfully. Recently, whenever i leave it on over night, i come back to find that TMPGEnc has closed and none of the movies have been encoded successfully. Any ideas?
> Recently, whenever i leave it on over night, i come back to find that TMPGEnc
> has closed and none of the movies have been encoded successfully
Acts like some sort of buffer overflow that kills TMPGEnc, right? Was happening to me. I was also getting lots of "Read error at..." messages that would end the transcoding. Very annoying. What it was...
I installed an old, old, DVD authoring package. It installed its own ancient mpeg codecs, wiping-out the cyberlink ones from PowerDVD XP. PowerDVD worked, but TMPGEnc wouldn't for long.
I re-installed PowerDVD. TMPGEnc transcodes again! Life is good.