Ok I think I have a solution to using out of spec MPEGs such as 480x480 or 480x576 with TMPG DVD author.

You will need an exact copy of the MPEG you wish to use then use DVD patcher to patch one of them to 720x576. Import this one into TMPG. When it comes to the menu's and chapters select the unpatched MPEG(480x576 or 480x480). This then prevents the problem of the green bar at the right hand side of the menu and the squished images.

Then just continue and create the VOBs as normal.

After authoring don't forget to patch just the main VOBS back to 480x...

Thanks great tip, I found with 480x480 SatTV material, I had to patch it to DVD specs to import, then patch to 544x480 to edit the chapter pictures.

Also, found no need to patch back to the original resolution, it plays fine in a Sony DVD player and with PC apps.

Even better, you don't need 2 copies.

Just patch to DVD specs to allow the import,
then patch right back to the source resolution.

Everything works as expected, thumbnails, etc.

Yes you're absolutely right.
I did actually try this, for some reason it didn't seem to work, but I was patching the entire file.
You only need to patch it for the import then patch it back for the menus.
You don't need to patch the entire file just the headers and it's works as you say, there is no need to patch the output again as DVD author automatically adjusts it to the right resolution in the output. Everything plays fine.

When I am making an NTSC Video CD from an avi File w/ the stats:
(Video=602 Kbps, 24.0 fps, res. 448*272 (16:9), MP43 = MS MPEG4 V3)
(Audio=96 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 chan., 0x55 = MPEG Layer-3)
and I use the expert>audio tab>Use audio edit>Change Volume setting up to 130% to 150% the TMPGenc just freezes when it's only about 20% complete. Some avi files will work ok with this setting but others just keep making it hang. When I change the settings to not use the audio edit>Change Volume the file will work without any problems. Is this a bug or some kind or pilot error that I'm not aware of???
Thanks,
FLIPSIDE

My email is not correct in the post above my correct email is
ontheflipside11@hotmail.com Sorry for the mix-up.

She you will be obeyed has now decided that this DVD I'm trying to produce for her family in the USA (from a PAL DV source) is fine so far (and many thanks to B_Racer, Minion, Ashy and others for their help so far) but it should be in widescreen format ...

I tried to tell her that either (a) I'd have to cut off her head and feet or (b) make her even shorter and fatter than she already is ... I think she thought I was joking but she says it has to be widescreen DVD ...

Except 2.511 only seems to have DVD PAL & NTSC and not film templates ... can anyone tell me the correct settings for PAL or NTSC widescreen for a fully compliant DVD - because they'll be BIG TROUBLE if Auntie Elsie in Chicago finally gets her DVD and it doesn't work ...

Don't you sometimes wish they'd never invented computers or non-linear editing LOL :-)

Well Makeing it Widescreen Will Probably Make things Look a Bit Squished But Most poeple Do not even really notice if it isn"t too Bad, They do it all the time when Broadcasting movies on TV..Well you Should do some tests, Go to the "Clip Frame" settings and Play with the "Video Arrange Method" Custom Size" settings and the Clip Frame settings and try to Get it to look the Way you want, and Try useing the 16:9 aspect ratio setting and see if that helps also, Do a Bunch of test encodes of a Minute or so each with Different settings and save the settings as templates and you can burn the test encodes to a RW and see how they look on TV..Aspect Ratios aren"t my expertise I basicly use what looks right...

It depents on the Source. Is it Letterboxed (with Black Bars) or is it anamorphic?
Whatever it is, you can use the AVISynth-Script from the other Thread, but the Output-Options ar different.
But i never tried a PAL->NTSC-Konversion with widescreen video, so i'm not sure about the correct settings.

When encoding avi to dvd is there a maximum size to encode to coz nero says no bigger than 2 gig. Also what are .d2v files and how do you burn them in nero.

The maximumsize depends on your operating system. If it's Fat32 then your limited to 4gb.
In any case this is not how you burn a DVD any way. You need to author the finished MPEG with a DVD authoring program first befor burning to disk.

You do not burn d2v files. A d2v file is just a project file which you use to import into TMPG for encoding from VOBS.

Ever since I installed .511 I've had some problems.

1) Choppy audio. The source has perfect audio. Whether I do mp2 audio or just rip the .wav, the audio comes out choppy- like stop and go.

2) After I quit the application, I can't start it again until I try like 10 times. When I double click the icon, the task momentarily shows up in task manager, but quickly goes away. If I keep trying to run it, eventually it works.

3) Multi-CPU problem that I described in another thread on this message board.

Can anyone else verify any of these? I used the self-extracting version...

Same problem over here starting up 2.511. Must at least always start twice before program becomes visible.

I just bought a DVD writer and succesfully did some backing up of my DVD disks, so I know the thing is working.
However, I have a good collection of 600-800 Meg different Divx and other avi films from the net that did not look too good when I sqweezed them (using TMPG) onto 1 CD (in VCD or SVCD). When I ask TMPG to put them onto a DVD disk, it tells me in the final window that almost the whole size of the DVD disk will be taken (3Gig out of 4.3) However, this is a waste of space, since no new information is being added, right? Is there a way of putting several Divx avi movies onto one DVD disk?

Respectfully,

Alex.

>I just bought a DVD writer and succesfully did some backing up of my DVD disks, so I know the thing is working.
>However, I have a good collection of 600-800 Meg different Divx and other avi films from the net that did not look too good when I sqweezed them (using TMPG) onto 1 CD (in VCD or SVCD). When I ask TMPG to put them onto a DVD disk, it tells me in the final window that almost the whole size of the DVD disk will be taken (3Gig out of 4.3) However, this is a waste of space, since no new information is being added, right?

Correct, but by telling it you want a DVD, it's using a bit rate compatible with DVD, this is much higher than the bitrate for a standard SVCD.

> Is there a way of putting several Divx avi movies onto one DVD disk?
>
>Respectfully,
>
>Alex.
>

There sure is, tell TMPGEnc your making an SVCD instead of a DVD, then it'll only be 1.5-2 gigs and you can fit 2 or 3 movies on a DVDR. If you turn down the bitrate to make 1.1 gig files, you can even squeeze 4 movies per disk with quite acceptable results.

Test different bitrates and settings, and burn test with a DVDRW before you burn anything to DVDR though, some DVD players are pretty picky about non standard files.

How do you want them on your DVD Disk???? Do you want to be able to Watch them on your DVD Player or just store them so you can watch them on your Computer or for later use??? If you want to Actually watch them on your DVD Player?? To Turn the DivX Movie into DVD Compliant Mpeg files and Watch them on a DVD Player then Yes there is More information being written to the Disk because the Movies will Not be DivX movies any more they will Be Mpeg movies which are Bigger files, You could encode the Movies to Mpeg1-VCD but instead Encode the audio to 48000hz then they will Be compliant with The Lowest Quality DVD Standard (352+240/288, Mpeg1 1800kbs-Max 48000hz audio), then You can probably fit 4-6 hours on a DVD-R with VCD Quality, but you will need a DVD Authoring Program that supports that DVD Format...

anyone?

What Type of Bilingual AVI(Dual Chanell, Joint Sterio, 2 Seperate audio tracks??), and encode to What, VCD/SVCD/DVD/AVI ECT????

it's 2 separate audio track (mandarin+cantonese), AVI

You are Going to Have to leave more info than that, Dont wory we Wont Bite you..So you Have some sort of File possibly an avi file?? and you have 2 seperate Audio Tracks that Might be in seperate Files?? Or they Might Be In the Source File?? and you want to Take this File and turn it into Something (AVI,Mpeg/VCD/SVCD/DVD?) that has 2 Seperate audio Tracks that I guess would be Selectable??? Since I do not Know what you have and What you are Trying to Do I can only speculate, I can Tell you that VCD does not Support 2 audio Tracks and SVCD Supports 2 audio tracks and I believe AVI Can have Quite a Few But you would need a software Media Player that can select audio tracks from an AVI file..For a SVCD I believe you would just use the "Multiplex" in the "Mpeg tools" to Mux Both audio tracks to the Video file, But not all DVD Players can select audio tracks off of a SVCD.And you could allways take each audio track and Mix it to a Mono Track then take each Mono Track and Mix it to a Sterio Track then Encode and Mux the new sterio track with the Video, So when you Panned to the Far left it would be one Language and when you panned to the Right it would be the Other Language..But since I dont have Much info on what you are doing I can"t give to a Better answer...

I converted a file for burning to vcd, I got the standard frame rate,
but the HxW would not change. I burned it anyway with Nero Burning Rom and
got perfect sound, but no picture. I've been making glass coasters all week.
I think I'm almost there. Heeeeeeeeellllllllllpppppppppp.

Either load the correct VCD template or load the Unlock.mcf template to unlock the settings.

Hi guys, does anyone know of a simple program that will covert the VOB files off a DVD-R disc into an mpeg file???

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hi ash, do you know of a program that will convert vob files to a mpeg file?

What do you mean By Convert Vob"s to a Mpeg file??? Vob"s are Basicly just Mpeg files, You can even Change Vob to Mpeg Just by renameing the file to Mpeg, But if your Plan is to Make Mpeg files that are Much smaller than the Vob files ,say for makeing your Own SVCD"s or VCD"s or even your Own DVD"s then you Can use DVD2AVI and Tmpgenc to encode them to SVCD/VCD/DVD, But since your Question is sort of Vague it"s hard to help...

I just thot that maybe for example if there was a way to change all the files on an existing dvdr that one has, into one mpeg file for example-for
re-authoring in 'tmpgenc dvd author'???????

Thanks guys

TMPGEnc can import VOBs...!

SmartRipper (or DVD DeCrypter) can produce a single MPEG-File directly from a DVD.

TMPGEnc is able to Merge the VOBs and save them as MPEG-File.

Try this.
http://www.angelfire.com/nc/evilmastr/vobmain.html

By the way. You will lose the audio if you attempt to use TMPG to merge VOBs.

To be correct: 1 Audio Stream works, i've often done this. But you'r right, VOBMerge is the better solution.

I'm sorry, but that's incorrect. It depends on the DVD.
If it only contains AC3 audio then you will only end up with a file with no audio at all. Only if the audio is in MPEG format will it allow one track to be saved. The Merge and cut tools do not support Ac3 or PCM.

I just installed 2.511.51.160 yesterday. If windows media player has loaded a copy of a file in the directory the browser button is set to, when I click on the Browse button on the main page of TMPGEnc, the browse window appears for a few seconds and then the whole program shuts down without any message. (I am running winxp on a dell 8100. I haven't installed SP1 because last time I did, I had to reformat and start from scratch.)

hello, everybody

I am trying to create VCD's from Avi. I am quite new at this, so I could really use some help. I have tried several pages, that explain how to encode the avi files. I find TMPG encoder, a really super program, but I now also understand that there is difference between anime, and real movies, but how can I find out the best settings for both of them. When I have encoded them, with the highest settings, which also take the longest, they play super, on my pc, but quite bad, on my stand alone. If anybody could help me I would appiciate it.

Thanks already,

Supreme87

Use TMPEng to create the mpeg file and then use Nero Express to create the VCD. Nero will also encode but, from my experience, it slows the computer down considerably.

Do NOT Use Nero Vision Express to Make your VCD, You can use the Nero Burning Rom to Burn the VCD but Do NOT use Vision Express to Make the VCD Because it will Re-Encode the File and Totally Ruin the Quality and it Totally Defeats the Purpose of Useing Tmpgenc..Well You should read a Couple of Guides on how to use Tmpgenc to encode Files to VCD/SVCD/DVD at "http://www.dvdrhelp.com/" there are step by Step Guides that can give you more help than we Can Here..

Thank you, very much.

By what I read from your replies, I think I didn't make my self quite clear.
Let me explain of wath I already can do. I know most of the setting of tmpgencoder, and I use VirtualDub, to extract to Wav. And I burn with VCD easy.
My problem is the same as of somebody who posted a quistion here. When I have burned the movie on disk, It is great on my computer, but not on my stand alone. I also heard that there are differences between animated movies, and real movies. I am sure I use the right templates, and that I am not trying to convert to higher bitrate example: input(352x255) output(400x366).This is just an example but you know what I mean. I just wasn't able to find the right settings, but I'll keep on looking and thanks for your advice.

Greetz,

Supreme87

Well VCD"s will Usually Not Look Very Good on TV and will Look Good on your Computer when watching them in a Small Window, VCD Just isn"t a Very Good Quality Format, the Resolution is Too Low and so is the Bitrate...

i was recently trying to convert an xvid when i got so many errors.
when i try to preview a window pops up saying component name jobpreviewforum is already used. so i went back and tried again, then a different message popped up saying read error occured at address 00472268 of module tmpgenc.exe with 00000000. and now i exit the program and am followed by more errors. eaccessviolation caused at c08bb35d of module tmpgenc.exe. at address c08bc35d, read error occured against address c08bc35d. and the LAST error says runtime error 216 at 00052C93. this has NeVeR happened to me before. i need some help plz.

Well this Can be Because your File has a Lot of errors in it Or You might just try Useing the "FFDShow Filter" to decode the file instead of the XviD Codec..Try deleteing the XviD codec and then download the "FFDShow Filter" and install it and then encode the File....