I am trying to set a VCD from DivX format, so I can view it on my DVD player. The problem I have is when Iam trying to frameserve from VirtualDub to a TMPGenC. Is this possible and how?
Thanks.
Tadi.

Don"t double post!!!!!

When I export a video from my Creative Labs Digital VCR (hardware MPEG-2 encoder), TMPEG will not load it. It says that the MPEG is invalid. However, if I use DVD2AVI to convert the file to AVI with DivX 4, it will accept it...

Is there a work around this without having to go to DVD2AVI?

Lauren

OK..What you do is Load the Mpeg2 file into DVD2AVI but Don"t make an AVI File, instead go to "File" to "Save Project" and save a D2V project File, Now load the "D2V" file into Tmpgenc and encode it..This is the Proper way to encode Mpeg2 files with Tmpgenc...DVD2AVI will also Demux the audio from the Mpeg file and you just Mux this audio file with the Encoded mpeg file after the encodeing is Finnished...

I am trying to set a VCD from DivX format, so I can view it on my DVD player. The problem I have is when Iam trying to frameserve from VirtualDub to a TMPGenC. Is this possible and how?
Thanks.
Tadi.

You don"t have to Frameserve it , you should just be able to load the DivX file directly into Tmpgenc, But if for some reason you have to Frame serve you First Have to Install the "Handler"..Run the "AuxSetup.exe" file in the V-Dub folder, then go to "Install Handler"....after the Handler is installed run Virtual Dub load in your File add any filters then go to "File" to "Run Frameserver" and give the Frameserver file a name with a "vdr" extention, then load that into Tmpgenc.....That is Basicly it....

Hi there:

I'm in trouble when converting MPEG II streams to MPEG I from vob files because TMPGEnc only recognize the first half of the file. Is that to say, if the stream is 30 minutes long, TPMGEnc works ok until the 15th minute and the remain 15 minutes are filled with the last frame.

some suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

You shouldn't be loading VOBs dirtectly into TMPG. TMPG cannot parse the streams correctly.
You should be using DVD2AVI to create a project file then load that into TMPG.

ASHY

I see you are still here helping people out ... good work fellas
Happy New Year

Olli

(Still watching DivX on TV via laptop and Svideo ...might start converting again though when I get a DVD burner)

Happy New Year Olli.

ASHY

Hi

Happy New Year All!

I captured dv file from my sony dcr pc-7 dv camcorder using premiere 6.0. When I try to encode original capture file, there is no problem.

But after I add more audio tracks for background music and export to microsoft dv-avi file, tmpgenc can't read up the file.

What is the problem? Do I have to install some additional codec?

Thnaks.

Kisoo

I think the audio may be your problem. I seems TMPG cannot handle more than 1 audio stream at a time.

Your best bet is to re-encode the audio with Virtualdub to a wav then use this as your audio source for TMPG.

ASHY

Whenever I try to open an SVCD file to encode, it says cannot open or unsupported. Is there a fix to this?

Why do you need to encode a SVCD file???If it is allready a SVCD then you can just Burn it, But if you are trying to say make it into a VCD or a DVD it is a Bit of a Waste of Time and effort Cuz the Movie will loose Quality from Re-Encodeing it and will Never look as Good as the Original especially if you are makeing a DVD Out of it...But if you for some reason have to do it then there are better ways than loading the File directly into Tmpgenc and encodeing...The best way to encode Mpeg2 files with Tmpgenc is to Use DVD2AVI to Make a D2V project file and demux the audio, then just encode the D2V file to Mpeg and Mux the Audio with it...To load Mpeg files directly into Tmpgenc you need to have a certain Mpeg2 decoder Installed on your Computer and it has to show up in your VFAPI Plugins..You need either the "Cyberlink Mpeg2 decoder" the "Ligos Mpeg2 decoder" or the "Sony Mpeg2 decoder", if you have Power DVD Installed then you should have the Cyberlink Decoder and if you install the "Nemo" or "Tsunami" Codec pack then you will Have the "Ligos Mpeg2 decoder"...

what exactly is tmpgenc for?, what purpose does it serve?, i called my hp and the guy recommended this to make the movie fit on one dvd, and now i don't understand what exactly to do. I have run the avi through tmpgenc and it is separated into two files mpg and wav, now what?

It seems that you Really don"t have a Clue what you are doing...Tmpgenc is For encodeing AVI/ASF/Mpeg/WMV/Mov/ Files to Mpeg1/2 format to be Used in the Creation of VCD/SVCD/DVD"s..Once you have the Mpeg Video file and the Audio file it needs to Be authored to DVD/CD-R with an Authoring Program..An authoring Program will Help you add Chapters and Menu"s and Titles and the other stuff you see on DVD"s and it will Format the Mpeg and audio file to a Video-TS Folder and Burn it to DVD-R..There is Much Much more to Makeing a DVD/VCD/SVCD than just makeing a Mpeg file and Burning it to a Disk, You will Need to do Quite a Bit of Learning and Trial and error Before you will be able to Watch your Movie on your DVD Player...Go here "www.doom9.net/" and here: www.vcdhelp.com and read up on some stuff and take a Look at some guides...

Very helpful Minion. Once again the more I thought I new,
the less I can actually do. I am nearly as clueless, but
have read everything I can find on the topic. Could you please
help me with my problem below.

I am using Nero 5.5.9 and oddly, it will only allow my tmpgenc encoded
m2v video file in the AUDIO_TS folder (not the VIDEO_TS folder), and
will not accept my .wav file at all (requests other formats such as VOB). I dont need any menus, chapters, or further editing. I just want to burn my
m2v file with my wav file to DVD-R and my deadline grows ever nearer.

Any help?
Dave

You will need a DVD Authoring program before you can burn with Nero.What other software did you get with your DVD burner?

whenever i try to encode a dvd rip ive downloaded the video encodes fine but theres no audio i tried to encode the audio only (a sample) BUT IT STILL WONT PLAY.

I guess you are Talking about a DivX Copy of a DVD Rip..The Reason why there is No audio is Because the Audio in the DivX file is either VBR MP3 or AC3 and Tmpgenc Doesn"t handle these Audio Formats very well...The audio needs to be Extracted to a WAV file with Virtual Dub or AVI-Mux, then use the Extracted WAV file as the audio source...

Every time I encode a vcd or svcd to dvd format with Tmpgenc Plus I get high pitched beeps in certain spots all through the movie. It's not from joining two files together because it does it before I join anything and they're definitely not in the original. I've tried using the external audio tools like toolame, ssrc, smpx, but nothing seems to get rid of those beeps. Can someone please help with this? Thanks.

set your vbv buffer size to 0-automatic.

Rick

I tried chaning the vbv to 0-automatic, but I still have the same problem - high pitched beeps at regular intervals all the way through the movie. Any other suggestions on what this is and what might help? I've tried adjusting every setting I cn think of and nothing seems to fix it >:(

If these beeps are random. This is most likely to be a problem with using cheap DVD disks or burning the disk too fast.
Try to burn your DVD at 1x.

This sounds like decoding errors. I have experienced this on several occasions myself with VCD/SVCD burned to cheap CDR or burned too fast.

How are you importing the audio into your DVD program? Are you using MPEG audio or wav audio?
My suggestion is to import the audio as wav audio.

ASHY

In case anyone has ever wondered how Closed Captions (not the DVD player generated subtitles, but those bloack boxes that pop up when you hit the CC button on your TV set) are included in DVDs, it's part of the MP3 transcoding process.

I noticed TMPGEnc has a "Multiplex"ing feature and wondered if they had any plans to make those nifty and VITAL SCC caption files multiplexable with their software. It's a pretty basic script with the time codes (hh:mm:ss:ff) and a row of commands and hex chars (convertable from the disassembly language very easily) so I'd imagine it would be very easy to write support into their current setup since the SCC files are already in a compatible format.

A good site to read more about this trick which MANY would find useful is here:


http://www.sonic.net/~mcpoodle/SCC_TOOLS/DOCS/SCC_TOOLS.HTML

I have TMPGEnc version 2.58. When I encode a video the high action scenes are boxy. How do I prevent that from happening. I am using SVCD template with bit rates of 1700. I have tried VBR and CQ settings and both gave articrafts at high action scenes like blast or fire.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Well the reason why the Artifacts appear at high motion scenes Is because your Bitrate is Too Low, it is 800kbs below standard so there will be Blockyness, if the Motion search is set to "Medium" try moveing it to "High" which should help a Little bit But raiseing the Bitrate will help...

The bitrate is far too low for SVCD.
To get rid of the blockiness almost completely, do as minion suggests and use the CQ method of encoding then set the bitrate to:- Min- 1800 Max- 4000 Quality- 65
Reduce the audio to 160 and split the movie to 2 disks.

This will allow you to fit a regular movie of high quality of about 100mins on 2 disks .

ASHY

Also check out reports on your player at www.vcdhelp.com to see what max rate your player can handle ....

Thankyou all for replying so quick. I have 120min. of movie. Would I still be able to set the minimum bitrate to 1800 to fit the movie on 2CDs. I already use 128 for audio.

Would CQ_VBR not improve the picture quality at high scenes still keeping the bit rate for slow scenes low.

Thanks,

Don't use '2 pass' or 'CQ_VBR' for VBR encoding use 'Constant quality(CQ)'. this is by far the best method for encoding most movies.

For a 2hour movie you would probably be better off encoding to MPEG1, but if you want SVCD then a min bitrate of 1200kb/s and max of 3500kb/s and quality 55 should just about do it, but you may need to overburn the disk.

ASHY

How do you calculate min. max bit rates and CQ value. Is there any calculator available for this.

Thanks,

Well you can't really, but there are ways of finding out roughly.

First of all 1800kb/s is the minium you will be able to go without noticible macroblocks being introduced.

To find out what max bitrate and quality you should set you need to encode about a minute of a regular part of the movie.

Multiply the resulting filesize by the number of mins in the movie and you will have a rough idea if it will fit or not. To make it more accurate encode a 5min test file and do the math.

This is obviously trial and error but it gives something to aim for. In time with experience you will instinctively know what settings to use for each movie.

Refer back to the previous post above for some good starting point settings.

ASHY