I just started to use SSRC for frequency conversion and tooLame for my layer II audio encoder. My first SVCD (Sopranos season 1 epsode 1 backup) worked just fine (source dvd2avi 192, 48, 2ch AC3 to wav). My second one (episode 2), SSRC processes then tooLame fails with, Error opening mpa-4.wav (i think that is the file name, I'm at work now). Do not cache is checked. Temp directory is set and has plenty of space. The file is there. I have rebooted and cleaned the temp directory, Same problem occurs again. Encoding works using SSRC with built-in encoder. Other settings, stream type system, mpeg1 layer II, 44100, stereo, 192kbps, error protection, audio edit change volume 200%. Any help would be appreciated. I'll retest with episode 3 at lunch or this evening.

Well you Can Just use a Total seperate Audio encoder and encode the wav file to Mp2 then Mux it with the encoded Video..I use "Headac3he" to encode My Audio files ,It is a Very High Quality audio encoder...

Looks good. I was having a look at BeSweetGUI. HeadAC3he looks easier to configure and uses pretty much the same utilities.

Thanks,
Mark

When I set up TMPGEnc to convert .avi file to .mpg file TMPGE will run for 95% of the file and then stop and shut down with out completing the job.

Here are the steps I take in using TMPGEnc:

Convert .avi file to .mpg movie file with TMPGEnc wizard...

1/5 choose VideoCD NTSC
2/5 choose your video file (.avi) and the audio file (.wav) you created
3/5 choose other settings
choose advanced tab
go to Video Arrange Method
choose Full Screen (keep aspect ratio)
select OK
4/5 select CDr 80
5/5 rename file
uncheck start

Go to file and choose preview to check settingsEBR>If everything checks OK then startEBR>
Half of the files I convert work just fine. They go through the conversion process and at the end of the conversion my finish .wav plays and I have the completed .mpg file. The other half converts almost to the end and then TMPGEnc just shuts down and I get an incomplete .mpg file.

Am I missing something??? Any suggestions would be appreciatedEBR>

Well there Might be something wrong with the AVI file at the point were it Stops encodeing..if these Files are downloaded off the net then that can very well be the case..You can try to Maybe frame serve the file and see if that works...

So sorry...TMPGEnc is not the problem...

I read on one of the boards about a shutdown problem if TMPGEnc runs out of audio and that is what is happening. My audio file was corrupt or to short for some reason. It had something to do with how the audio was compressed. When the audio ran out TMPGEnc would just close.

When I made an uncompressed audio file with virtualdub and then did the .avi to .mpg conversion with TMPGEnc it worked much much better.

Thanks for your suggestion...I donÃÕ know what frame serve is so I did a search for a tool to check for a corrupt .avi. My .avi tested OK and that lead me to some information about a possible audio problem. Sure enough my audio file was x minutes shorter than my video file. Does that make sense to you???

Thanks again...


PS...if you could direct me to some info on what ÅÇrame serve the fileEis all about. IÃÅ like to read up on it just in case...db

Hello,

I sent this once before but noone responded.


I have source video stored as fields; that is, file p00000.jpg is the odd
lines and p00001.jpg is the even lines (or vice-versa).

Is there a way in TMPGEnc or TMPGEnc Plus to have these fields combined
into a frame and then encoded?


Thanks all for your help. Please reply here and to my E-Mail address.

Lamar
lmclouth@softhome.net

No not possible with TMPG as it will just treat each .jpg as a seperate frame and don't really know of any software which can deal with induvidual fields. This seems like a very strange way to capture images. What software did you use?

ASHY

Have you actually just tried loading the .JPGs into TMPG and watching the result and maybe try using the 'double' de-interlacing filter?

ASHY

If you can Encode all the JPEG Fields into a AVI file you can use the Bob De-interlace filter in V-Dub to turn each Field into a Frame, you would loose a Little Definition But it still Might work...Just a Thought...

He can do the following:

Encode all the frames to an AVI.
Resize the Video to the half High.
Use VirtualDub-Filter Deinterlaced / Fold side-by-side fields together.
As the result, he has a true interlaced Video (if the Frames/Pictures are really out of an interlaced Video).

Oops, forgot the first step:

Combine 2 Picutes to one side by side.

I just happened to write the following Avisynth script to convert 59.94fps video that had been Bob deinterlaced back to interlaced. If you can get your JPEG files combined into an AVI file, this might work.

The output of this script (1440x240) can be served into Virtualdub deinterlace filter- fold fields together.

vid = AVISource("video_60fps.avi")

vid_0 = SelectEven(vid).AssumeFrameBased().SeparateFields().SelectEven()
vid_1 = SelectOdd(vid).AssumeFrameBased().SeparateFields().SelectOdd()

# StackHorizontal(vid_0, vid_1) # Bottom field first
StackHorizontal(vid_1, vid_0) # Top field first

I get an audio only output file (wave sound file),with no video when setting the trial version of TMPGEnc to DVD-NTSC. I need an output file that has sound and video (DVD-NTSC), do I need to use TMPGEnc Plus 2.5?, or pay for the full version? (US $50)

What is your Stream Type Setting? ES (video only) ES (audio only)...System (video+audio)? TMPGEnc will create the mpeg files for you. You will then need an authoring program and burning software.

the setting i am using is greyed out at ES (video+audio)........i am not able to chhose a start and stop point without TMPGEng swithing my setting from the desired System( audio+video) to the setting where i get no video ES (audio+video).

the setting i am using is greyed out at ES (video+audio)........i am not able to chhose a start and stop point without TMPGEng swithing my setting from the desired System( audio+video) to the setting where i get no video ES (audio+video).

The trial version will work for 14 days.

So you are using the Project Wizard. You select DVD-NTSC, you click next, you then input your video and audio file, then you... I am making a lot of assumptions here, could you be more specific? What are the source files? What settings did you use, etc?

If you are Trying to Encode an AVI file to Mpeg2 then you can try Raiseing the Priority of the "Direct Show File Reader" in the Vfapi Plugins" to "2" this should get you a File with a Picture in it, But if you are trying to Get PCM/Wav audio then you will get 2 files, one will be a WAV audio file and the other will be a M2V Video file, you will have to Load these files into your DVD Authoring Program seperately to author your DVD....

I am converting some VCD's to DVD. I was following a guide from afterdawn.com. I go to the MPEG Tools, and choose the Simple De-multiplex. I choose the input from the cd. I then set the video & audio output to my hd. It appears to work fine however when I pull the new movie up in DVDit LE, It did not do all of the movie. Does anyone have any suggestions.

Is there a TMPEGENC plug-in so it will read Quicktime (.MOV) files? I would like to splice & convert my Nikon Coolpix 2500 15 second silent videos to MPEG / VCD, etc.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Best,

Stan

Check this out... ;)

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4942/svcd.html

i get no video using mgeg2 (DVD) quality (720x480) resolution, only sound file.

A little More information!!!! are you encodeing an AVI file???? If so Go to the answer I left in the Post Below this one...

I try to encode a DIVX file but it gives a black screen but the audio is fine so any help would be greatful

Try to load the DivX-Video into VirtualDub and use VirtualDub as Frameserver.
If this does'nt work, you maybe need the right Codec.

Go to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "Vfapi Plugins" and raise the "Direct show" to "2"...

Sorry to disturb... But I tried all possible means to open the downloaded TMPGEnc-2.510.49.157-Free.zip file (and others), and it does not open saying "ZIP archive is invalid or corrupted"

Is there a trick?

Dmitrij

Yes, the trick is to download it again.

ASHY

it's possible find a Italian language version?
thanks

No chance.

ASHY

This is the error I get after a few minutes encoding of one movie, then TMPGEnc simply does not go on to encode allthough the file is a lot longer. Any Ideas what I could do?
Thanks!
m

What are the source files? Avi's? Which codec?
Are the source files corrupted perhaps?


Try checking your hard disk with Scandisk or some other tool.

I'm also having this same problem with a XVID encoded video. The movie is about 900000 frames and I'm planning on splitting it in 2 for SVCD, frames 500000 - 900000 work and encode fine but frames 1 - 500000 doesn't work. I tried setting the Direct Show Filter to 1 under VFAPI plug and it encoded but when I burn it to SVCD and play it back on my DVD player its distorted.

Hi,

I try to multiplex two saperate .m2v and a .mp2 files to a MPEG-I stream. I was told that I have to install the plugins VFAPI and Toolame, otherwise I always just had a audio but no video signal in the muxed stream. But like sunz (19519) I have the problem, that I don't really know who to install them. Because it is not possible to save the job and open it in VFAPI again by the reason that I use the MPEG-tools for that.

Thanks a lot. Cheers,
Doerky

You don't need any plugins at all to multiplex an m2v and mp2 stream. Just use the simple multiplexer.
Also you can't multiplex to an MPEG1 stream either. The file you have is MPEG2.

ASHY