Does some one know how to go below 1600 Kb/sec of bitrate in the version 2.510.49.157 of TMPGEnc (The newest version)?
I got stucked there with the auto settings SHIT!!!
I tried to enable it and to disable it a lot of times but still, I cant change the bitrate, the file size or the percent of the CD...
Please help me.

Load the unlock.mcf template then set your strean setting to 'MPEG1 VCD(non standard)'

ASHY

yes i have installed the newest version of tmpg and i go to convert and it gets to about 2% and freezes and wont continue converting... i am stuck . so i tried an older ver of tmpg and same thing . i am at a dead end.. i have a p4 win xp .. please someone help me out email me with the resolution ..the funny thing is that i didnt have a proublem with it before . but i recently did a full system restore on my computer and after downloading tmpg and installing it this is what i get .. thanks ...

i have same prob. with my p4 comp with geforce 4 ti4600 agp board.

my athlon 1.0 gh with ati all-in-wonder does not have any prob reading a divx file to convert to mpg file.

but my p4 also freezes..

If you just did a System restore then Maybe you forgot to install the Codecs needed to decode the file you are trying to encode..And have you tried Raise the the Priority of the "Direct show File reader"??? and do you have Media Player 9 installed that can also cause Problems...

THAT WORKED minion THANKS ALOT . NOW THE ONLY PROUBLEM I HAVE IS THAT WHEN I CONVERT THE PICTURE MESSES UP PART WAY THRU THE CONVERSION KINDA LIKE WEIRD COLORS AND BLOCKEY LIKE IT ISNT CATCHING UP ????

If it is a divx or XviD file try reaise the Direct show and try installing the FFDshow Filter..The file might also be corrupted and that is why it is breaking up....

Hope anyone can help here.
Use DVD Decrypter to copy VOB files then DVD2AVI convert to AVI/WAV, finally
use TMPGEnc to encode to MPEG-1 VCD format, the output files looks perfect when
play on my PC using WMP, however when I put it into the VCD player, somewhere
middle of the disc the image start to become distorted and finally unable to
play, anyone has a clue?

You burned the disk too fast. Drop your burn speed to 4x or the nearest you can to 4x.

ASHY

I'm trying to convert AVI files to MPEG using TMPGEnc. It'll open some files no problem, but others it'll say 'can't open' or 'not supported'.

One website I checked out said to change the priority number higher for the Directshow Multimedia File Reader to either 1 or 2.

When I do this and try to open an AVI, I get the 'send error report?' window and it shuts the program down?

Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Has nobody else had this problem??

Download and install FFDSHOW.

ASHY

I downloaded FFDSHOW, and it told me to run ffdshow.exe but it wasn't part of the download?

I'm sorry if I sound like an idiot, but truth be told I am. I know very little about computers and have only been using this program for a week or so.

Do you know what's even causing the problems or what the problem is?

Thanks in advance.

You downloaded the wrong file. You have downloaded the source files. Download again, this time download the file that ends with .exe

ASHY

LOL, I told you I was an idiot. That got it working again, thanks a lot.

You need to decompress the avi file first.

A lot of the files I have say Video Compression : DivX Codec in the summary part of properties. When I convert those to MPEG there isn't any problem, but if it doesn't say video compression when I convert it the file size becomes enormous and the sound quality isn't as good (I use Virtuadub to do the sound).
Are those the ones I need to decompress?

There is never really a reason to decompress a file defore encodeing it, Audio is different But most poeple do not have enough hard drive space to hold a uncompressed AVI Movie at about 1.5gb per minute, the encoder decompresses the file as it is encodeing it and it uses the codec that the file was compressed to to decompress it..There is No need to decompress video before encodeing it...

>You need to decompress the avi file first.

There is absolutely no need to decompress the video in AVI and cannot think of any reason or situation where you would ever have the need to either.
It is sometimes required to decompress the audio to wav, but not the video.

>A lot of the files I have say Video Compression : DivX Codec in the summary part of properties. When I convert those to MPEG there isn't any problem, but if it doesn't say video compression when I convert it the file size becomes enormous and the sound quality isn't as good (I use Virtuadub to do the sound).
Are those the ones I need to decompress?

It doesn't matter what type of file you encode or whether it is compressed or not, this has no bearing on the output size whatsoever.

It is the length of the source which determines the difference in the file size as well as the bitrate, and depending on the encoding method, the resolution you choose for the output.

If you use the same settings for every source file and use a CBR encoding method then the only thing that can influence your file size is the movie length.

I recommend you start using the wizard for encoding or choose a template.

ASHY

Hope anyone can help here.
Use DVD Decrypter to copy VOB files then DVD2AVI convert to AVI/WAV, finally
use TMPGEnc to encode to MPEG-1 VCD format, the output files looks perfect when
play on my PC using WMP, however when I put it into the VCD player, somewhere
middle of the disc the image start to become distorted and finally unable to
play, anyone has a clue?

Do you mean that the image starts to break up into Blocks and distorts till it isn"t playable??? I have gotten this From Burning at a High speed, you should allways use a Low speed to burn VCD/SVCD"s cuz they have no error correction, and I have noticed that VCDeasy is really prone to this Problem when burning...

hi!

i tried encoding a movie (.avi) and it said that the outcome (.mpg) will be about 2.5G.. does anyone know why it's so large, and how i can reduce it? i thought it should be alot smaller than that, maybe less than 1G.

another thing is that there's no sound either. i tried previewing before encoding, i didn't hear any sound. i also played the encoded part of the movie (.mpg) and the same thing, i can see the movie but there's no sound at all. what's wrong? please help! thks...

anyway i have read through more threads n forums but still nothing is clear. y do i have to extract the audio file seperately? y can't this program encode the avi to mpg properly, with both video and audio working?

the audio in your AVI file probably needs to be extracted to a WAV file and the wav file used as the audio source, you can extract the audio with Virtual dub or AVI-Mux..And a 2.5GB file would be about the size of and average 2 hour SVCD, Most VCD"s and SVCD"s have to go on at least 2 CD-R"s and with SVCD"s sometimes 3 or more CD-R"s...

thks for the reply minion, but y do i have to extract the audio file seperately? y can't this program encode the avi to mpg properly, with both video and audio working?

are there any other encoding programs out there that can encode avi to mpg and have both video and audio working? anyone knows?? pls help! thks..

The audio in your AVI file can"t be decoded because the format is Probably AC3 and Most programs can not properly decode AC3 audio..So you would most likely have to extract the audio no matter what program you used, and there are NO Freeware Mpeg encoders out there that have the Quality of Tmpgenc, but there are some that aren"t freeware but they also cost a few Bucks....

Can you suggest a COMMERCIAL piece of software that will convert from AVI or DIVX or whatever to VCD?

This should be simple - I've "converted" a DivX avi to mpeg-2 using TMPG and split the file in 2 so it fits on 2 cds. That part worked fine and I can play each of the files on my PC - the audio and video are in synch. I then used Nero 5 to burn to a 700Mb cd-r using the SVCD option at 2x speed - which seemed to go ok. After the burn I tried loading up the cd on my pc but i can't even read the cd....any ideas?

Well you need a Program that will read a SVCD from your CD-Drive, you usually just can"t stick the disk in and have it play automaticly..You should be able to navigate through the SVCD Disk and go to the "MpegAV" folder and Run the file called something like "AVSEQ01.MPG" then it should play..But if there is a Different problem let us know...

I'm putting it down to a bad burn and will try again as I couldn't even access the CD via explorer to naviagte the directories..

Will Tsunami MPEG Encoder be supporting MS MPEG4 V3 (MP43)? This codec is not listed on MS codecs site. It is distributted as part of MS Windows Media Tools 4 and includes improvements over the earliear MPG4. I have several avi files that were produced using this codec. I want to convert them to MPEG. (This info is from FOURCC.org)

Also, being new to converting avi to mpeg, why can WMP find the codec, but TMPGEnc and others cannot find it? Are the codecs somehow embedded in the programs?

Any info and help would be appreciated.

Yes Tmpgenc supports Mpeg-4, if it says the file is unsupported then go to "Options" to "enviromenta Settings" to Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct show file reader"..this should get Tmpgenc to read the file.

If you have mediaplayer 9 installed then this is most likely your problem.

Mediaplayer is causing all sorts of problems with programs like TMPG, but not just TMPG.
It seems that Microsoft has implemented some sort of code into mediaplayer 9 and it's MPEG4 codecs which is blocking other software from using it's MPEG4 codecs. Microsoft has always tried to block the use of it's MPEG4 codec with anything other than it's own software.

You could try and find the hacked version of the MPEG4 codecs which are available on the net which should allow you to open these files or try FFDSHOW which can open all MPEG4 codecs including Microsoft,DIVX and XVID.

Your best bet if that doesn't work is to remove Mediaplayer9 and install FFDSHOW. This usually gets TMPG working with MPEG4 files.

ASHY

How do I stop the encoding and then resume it later on

I don't think you can really stop and pick up later but you can effectively pause by clicking on abort - but don't hit Y or N - this should work whilst the computer is on - just hit N when you want to resume.

hello all can anyone tell me the best way to cut avi and xvid films so they can fit on vcd .........thanks for all replys

You can either Cut the AVI files before encodeing to Mpeg with something like "Virtual Dub" or you can cut the mpeg file after it has been encodeing to mpeg with the Mpeg tools or with a Real Mpeg editor like Mpeg2VCR....

htanks for your he;p but were can i get hold of this software

Use a search engine like Google, With it you can find anything...

Hi,

I'm getting a problem with the Merge & Cut Mpeg Tools. Like some other posts on this site, when I try to edit the input video stream time frames I get a blank window instead of the time segment selection window.

This only affects one user on the PC, if I logon as someone else everything works fine. Previously I simply deleted the affected user profile and started fresh. This fixed it but is a big pain, as it has happened 3 times in 3 days now.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

How do you get vfp plug-ins to work? I've got the QT Reader.vfp and tried to convert a .mov file to mpg but I got the "Cannot Open Or Unsupported" error message.

Many thanks

Did you put the QT Reader.vfp into the TMPG folder?
Also go to the VFAPI plugins and raise the priority of the QT reader to 2.

ASHY

The QT Reader was put in the same folder as the tmpgenc.exe file. I've tried raising the priority to 2 as suggested and still no joy

Do you have the latest Quicktime installed???

I thought you didn't have to have QT installed for the plug-in to work - otherwise I might as well leave the file as a .mov

Of cource you need QuickTime installed, you would need it to Watch the File so Tmpgenc needs it to decode the file....