Hey lennyp75,
I probably have the same Panasonic as you have & I've also been trying to convert an SVCD with header trick, but have not had any success; wasted quite a few cds in the process. Have you had any luck since and if so would you like to share it? I've tried doing what Minion suggested in his reply to you, but still no luck. I guess I could just go out & buy another player that plays SVCDs, but that would be too easy.

I love to use TMPGEnc to mux my elementary video file with ac3. It gives excellent results with no problems on my dvd. I am wondering if there is any experts who can advise me if there is any utility to force TMPGEnc to accept dts files for muxing as well? I simply love DTS sounds to AC3- robust and more fidelity. I really hope the folks at TMPGENC can come up with a DTS version as well in future.

If you are burning to ordinary CDR and not DVD I'm very surprised that your player even plays MPEGs with Ac3 let alone DTS.
I'm afraid your gonna find that those disks you have made with Ac3 won't work on most other players. I hope your DVD player doesn't fail because when you buy a new one it's likely your disks won't play in it so your gonna be left with a s..t load of unplayable disks.

As for DTS and MPEG there is very little chance even your player could handle this unless burning to DVD.
I guess you would need a DVD authoring package for DTS muxing, but which one is capable I don't know.

DTS and AC3 are 2 Totally different Audio formats, ac3 can be Muxed to a Mpeg video file pretty Easilly useing BBMpeg or Mpeg2VCR But DTS is a Different Story I don"t know of any muxer that Accept DTS but there are a Couple DVD authoring Programs that will accept DTS like DVDLab but that is just for DVD"s, Even if you could get DTS in a VCD or SVCD the Chances your DVD Player will Play it is Next to nill, and AC3 in a SVCD is Possible as My Player will Play them but only on CD-WR But it is hard to find a Program that will Burn SVCD"s with AC3 or DTS for that Matter...

I know I am already asking for trouble by using a non-standard size, but I have a number of animations I ran which I later encoded to MPEG using TMPGEnc. I could have outputed the frames in a more standard size, but since my intention was not to use it on anything but my own system, I chose to leave the image sizes at 800x600. I used only the standard settings from "System (video only)" to do the encoding.

The problem that came up occured when I tried to play them. When playing it in Windows Media Player it produced a series of dotted pink lines on the right edge. Quicktime converted and played them correctly with no visible problem, until I switched to another window, then it showed the same problem as in Window Media Player. Real Player was imho worse, wraping the image around so that the same band of the movie that was mucked up in Media Player was wrapped over to the left side. :p It also wouldn't play in the full size in that anyway, but since I don't use Real Player, I really don't care about that one.

So, is there just something inherently screwed up with WMP and Quicktime that causes these odd colored lines or is there actually some setting I can use to fix it? I suspect, from the act that Quicktime only does it when running in the back ground, that this is just a problem with the way they get played back, but one can hope. ;) lol

I don"t really know what it could be but any time someone starts talking about Pink discoloration on an encoded file with Tmpgenc I think of the Angel Potion codec, Check you system for this codec and delete it as it causes a lot of problems it might be listed in your device manager under video codecs as "apmpeg4v3.dll"...and the only other thing that might help is to Raise the Priority of the "Direct Show file Reader" in the "Vfapi Plugins", this has helped with bad color before...You should try outputting as a Standard Video Resolution like 720+480?? Just a Thought...

Your problem is likely your resolution. MPEG resolutions need to be in multiples of 16 or you will get aspect errors which manifests itself as the problem you have encountered.
800x600 is not a correct resolution for MPEG. It needs to be 800x592 or 800x608, so you need to resize it in TMPG to this resolution.

Hmm. Well I do have an apmpeg4v1.dll in there, so that could be one source of the problem. Now if I can just figure out how to get rid of it. lol

And as for the size issue. 800x608 is reasonable I guess. Didn't know about that limitation..

Thanks.

Well that IS the "Angel Potion Codec" that is most likely the Source of your Problem, You should be able to delete it in your Device manager....

How do i get the output as a single MPG, not separate wav & m2v files?

Trying out the newer version of tmpgenc, but now the output file is useless as nerovision needs an mpg to work with, which i don't get anymore :(

Anybody know how to turn off the separate stream outputs? (it's greyed out on the final page of the wizard, so you can't just selecct that you don't want it)

Cheers

SB

Sorry for double post, this odd BBS software took my page refresh as a resubmission.

SB

I tried to archive mini DV into SVCD of NTSC.
Can anyone give the best encoding setting with the highest quality in mind
for those precious moments?

One major problem I found between the original mini DV and SVCD image
quality is the color. SVCD's video color is not as good as the original.
SVCD images seem washed off and I have to adjust TV color setting to
make it better.

I don't have a DVD burner yet. So I could not really compare how much
difference it really makes. Does DVD video make so much differences in
home made video? I know SVCD images I ripped from the commercial movie
DVD is only slightly lower in quality.

Hope all of the good will experienced friends can help.

Thanks a lot.

Well it is a Good idea to Have the Image in your DV Files cleaned up as much as possible before you encode them useing Maybe the editing Program you use to capture the Footage, and there are Color settings in Tmpgenc you can use to Change the Color or Brighten up the Images and there are Many other Filters you can use, and when it comes to Mpeg the Higher the bitrate the better the Quality will be so useing the Highest bitrate without going above the SVCD Standard would achieve the best quality but I allways use a VBR encodeing Method like CQ(Constant Quality) cuz it gives you the Quality but still keeps the File size as low as Possible..You basicly have to Experiment with some stuff before you get every thing the way you like it...good luck

How do i get the output as a single MPG, not separate wav & m2v files?

Trying out the newer version of tmpgenc, but now the output file is useless as nerovision needs an mpg to work with, which i don't get anymore :(

Anybody know how to turn off the separate stream outputs? (it's greyed out on the final page of the wizard, so you can't just selecct that you don't want it)

Cheers

SB

You Can"t ,Pretty Much any Encoder as long as you are useing Wav as your Output audio format, You have to set it to "Mpeg 1 Layer 2" Audio then you will get a Mpeg file with Both audio and Video..But you don"t need to do that, Just encode the Wav file that you have to Mpeg 1 Layer 2 then go to "File" to "Mpeg Tools" to "Simple Multiplex" and Load the M2v video file and the Mpeg 2 audio file in and Click "Run" and it will Mux the Audio and Video together..Mostly Low end DVD authoring Programs will only accept Plain Mpeg files....

Ahh, so it's me being a spanner and setting the wrong input settings then, oops.

I use nerovision as it can take a fully converted mpeg and just cut it into VOB files and it's done. I tried Sonic My DVD, and it tooks HOURS and chewed up a big wack of drive space, whereas nerovision only needed about 5 gig of temp space, and the resulting files were much smaller.

IE if i feed a 4 gig mpg into nerovision, it outputs to a fraction over 4 gig, if i feed the same file into sonic My DVD (which then demuxes the file), the resulting files take up nearly 6.5 gig, and i have NO idea why ! :)

Cheers

SB

Ahh, so it's me being a spanner and setting the wrong input settings then, oops.

I use nerovision as it can take a fully converted mpeg and just cut it into VOB files and it's done. I tried Sonic My DVD, and it tooks HOURS and chewed up a big wack of drive space, whereas nerovision only needed about 5 gig of temp space, and the resulting files were much smaller.

IE if i feed a 4 gig mpg into nerovision, it outputs to a fraction over 4 gig, if i feed the same file into sonic My DVD (which then demuxes the file), the resulting files take up nearly 6.5 gig, and i have NO idea why ! :)

Cheers

SB

Hmm, ,anybody know how to refresh the page without sending the old text again? lol

sb

Click 'View article' at the bottom of the page.

Well Sonic MyDVD Sucks also ,Niether of them will accept AC3 as an audio format which sort of Sucks Cuz Wav takes to much Space and Mp2 is lower Quality ...

Can you tell me how to encode a smaller m2v file?

I am trying to convert a PAL DVD to NTSC. The length of the PAL movie is 2 hours 14 minutes. The PAL DVD is in one DVD-5 single layer disc ripped to 4.83GB. The PAL video is interlaced, 4:3, 625 line (704x576)

I use TMPGenc to encode output movie.m2v size is 5.998 GB.
That is too big for one single DVD-R disc.

The TMPGenc setting is:
704x480 NTSC (to try to make smaller file)
Frame rate = 23.976
Automatic VBR
DC component precision: 8 bits
Motion search precision: Motion Estimate Search (fast)

What other setting in TMPGenc can I do to reduce file size to 4.9GB and maintain reasonable good quality picture?

Thank you for your advise. Jerry

The only way to reduce the Size of the Mpeg file is to Lower the Bitrate ,while useing the "Wizard" it will tell you what bitrate to use so that the Movie fits on a DVD-R and a Ntsc DVD has to have 29.97fps as the Framerate unless you are doing 3:2 Pulldown in a seperate Program or your authoring program supports it ,but these are the least of your Problems because You Can"t use Tmpgenc to Properly Convert Pal to Ntsc or Ntsc to Pal, If you try the Movies will have a Jumpy effect especially when there is a Lot of Movement ,you will notice it more on your TV set..You are going to Have to find a Different way of converting the Framerate unless you don"t mind the jumpy effect which some poeple don"t even notice as first, One of the Best ways is to Use AVISynth to frameserve and do the Frame rate conversion or if you have a High end video editor that has a built in encoder like Vegas video 4 or Premier then you can use it to do a Proper Frame rate conversion..I hear that when the version 3 of Tmpgenc comes out it will have Proper Frame rate conversions and many other neat features...

I ripped the PAL DVD to VOB files. I used DVD2AVI to process the VOB files to get the d2v files and ac3 audio files. I used the TMPGenc to encode the video to get a 5.9GB m2v files. I used IfoEdit to DVD author the DVD. So far, the movie looks OK. I do not notice the jumpy part.

The TMPGenc setting, I used automatic VBR - assume this is automatic variable bitrate set by system. If I want to reduce m2v file size, should I select CBR and pick a rate such as 4000?

The input PAL has frame rate of 25, so if I use 23.97 for NTSC, the picture would be jumpy? But when I use 23.976 it would not be jumpy, right?

My advice would be to encode the movie to 23.976 and enable '3:2 pulldown when playback' and check the 'Do not frame rate conversion' filter under the 'Advanced' tab

This will prevent the movie from becoming jerky and will encode it to the correct NTSC framerate. This will also desync the audio so you will have to encode the video first then check it's length and then stretch the audio to match with something like Cooledit.
After that just encode the audio to MPEG and mux with the video.

If you want to avoid all this then you could use AVIsynth's CONVERTFPS command and frameserve the d2v to TMPG which will do a proper conversion and won't de-sync the audio.

Why do you are trying to encode with the stimate movement option fast?
If the source video have good quality, you must always use the bigger stimation, because you will get a smaller video out.

(sorry my english)
cris

I'm trying to do a job for a client and am stuck.

I have DVD's that I need to re-encode - at the highest possible quality - as quicktime files. I need to split the files into chunks also and therefore need to make a bit-for-bit copy of each DVD which I can then save in a format I can export to something like Veedub.

I've used DVD2AVI to create files that can be read by TMPG Enc but then am stuck.

1) I used the 'fil look' cunction in AVI2DVD - how can I change the frame rate in TMPG to 23.976?

2) How can I combine the decoded vob files into a single .avi without losing quality?

3) Why can't I get any of the .avi files I make to play with audio?

Thanks in advance for helping a newbie.

Sam.

I'm trying to do a job for a client and am stuck.

I have DVD's that I need to re-encode - at the highest possible quality - as quicktime files. I need to split the files into chunks also and therefore need to make a bit-for-bit copy of each DVD which I can then save in a format I can export to something like Veedub.

I've used DVD2AVI to create files that can be read by TMPG Enc but then am stuck.

1) I used the 'fil look' cunction in AVI2DVD - how can I change the frame rate in TMPG to 23.976?

2) How can I combine the decoded vob files into a single .avi without losing quality?

3) Why can't I get any of the .avi files I make to play with audio?

Thanks in advance for helping a newbie.

Sam.

I"m sorry but your Question is Very Confuseing and I can"t seem to follow it,Can you explain everything in more detail ....

I need to take all the video from a DVD, chop it into 20 minute chunks and then encode each chunk as a high quality Quicktime file.

I intend to use VirtualDub or Premiere to cut the file into sections but need the file as an AVI to load it into these programs.

How can I turn the VOB files on a DVD into a single AVI file and lose as little quality as possible? As I need to use quicktime as the final format I want to lose as little information between the DVD and the intermediate AVI as possible.

Sam.

I need to take all the video from a DVD, chop it into 20 minute chunks and then encode each chunk as a high quality Quicktime file.

I intend to use VirtualDub or Premiere to cut the file into sections but need the file as an AVI to load it into these programs.

How can I turn the VOB files on a DVD into a single AVI file and lose as little quality as possible? As I need to use quicktime as the final format I want to lose as little information between the DVD and the intermediate AVI as possible.

Sam.

You DON'T need to create an intermediate AVI this will just lose quality and is a waste of time.
All you need to do is create a d2v and wav with DVD2AVI then load the d2v into the VFAPI converter or AVisynth. This will quickly create a suedo AVI that can be loaded into any AVI compatible program.

I wanted to put 3 files onto VCD but it won't fit so I set off cutting out the ending credits and opening credits. But, it came out inaccurate! How do I get it accurately? I believe it was the same frame, but after multiplexing it, it didn't even cut the intended part (but cut another part that wasn't supposed to be cut). Is there an easier way to cut? This is what I did:

1. In "MPEG Tools>>Merge & Cut", I added the MPG I wanted to cut. I double-clicked it. On the blue scroller, I scrolled to the point where the first part ends and clicked }. Then I clicked Run.

2. Then, I go to the end of the cutted part and clicked {, then at the end of the MPG file, I clicked }. Then I clicked Run.

3. Then I use "Multiplex".

But it ended cutting the wrong part. In the scroller part, the display image isn't fast enough and doesn't show the intended video. Is there a way to make it fast enough so it works efficiently like the one in "Source Range"? And, is there an easier cutting method?

Actually for the third step, I used "Merge & Cut" to merge them together. Not "Multiplex".

I think this is because Tmpg has to start from the nearest keyframe take a look here http://www.divx.com/support/guides/guide.php?gid=14

DVDs played on my Philips DVD763SA Standalone DVD player pause for approx 1/2 sec at each point where I have edited the source using Tmpgenc DVD author 1.5.11.37.

When I examined the authored files with Ifoedit, it indicated a 'Layer Break'
at the edit point - I understand this to indicate a discontinuity in the PTS
timecode. I then ran VOB Extras in Ifoedit, and selected Rebuild PTS. The resulting VOB file was then burned to DVD and the pause at the cut point
nolonger occurred. Is this a bug in Tmpgenc DVD Author?

>srb ( Mail ) 2003/08/05 (Tue) 15:46 ( ID:kuahwndk/ek )
>
>DVDs played on my Philips DVD763SA Standalone DVD player pause for approx 1/2 >sec at each point where I have edited the source using Tmpgenc DVD author >1.5.11.37.
>
>When I examined the authored files with Ifoedit, it indicated a 'Layer Break'
>at the edit point - I understand this to indicate a discontinuity in the PTS
>timecode. I then ran VOB Extras in Ifoedit, and selected Rebuild PTS. The >resulting VOB file was then burned to DVD and the pause at the cut point
>nolonger occurred. Is this a bug in Tmpgenc DVD Author?

I was trying to figure this problem out as well. The bug still occurs on version 1.5.15.49. This bug might never be fixed, but at least you came up with a remedy. I appreciate that very much!

There was error in my first report. TMPGEnc 2.520 doesnt detect correctly 2 physical CPU. TMPGEnc only uses one physical CPU even when system have 2 physical CPU.

Have you enabled Hyper Treading in the settings???

Sure HT is enabled from TMPGEnc settings. Like i said in first bug report TMPGEnc says in settings "2 logical" CPU's when it should say 4 logical. Error which i made in first bug report was that i said TMPGEnc only uses 100% of CPU time when there aint other programs running but that was my brain fart that only happened with P4 + HT enabled. In Dual Xeon + HT Enabled machine CPU usage stays between 60 - 75% even if TMPGEnc is "only" running program. If someone is intrested about this bug i can provide screenshots of TMPGEnc settings & Task Manager CPU usage and information how many threads TMPGEnc is using and even collect information from SoftICE for checking assembly code & CPU registry etc values from TMPGEnc when its detecting CPU's and thread starting settings, etc.