I'd really like to see the following features added to TDA's template editor:

*) custom "highlight"- & "action"-color (per element would be nice)
*) "inverse highlight" option (for "grayed out" thumbs that are not selected)
*) custom text-fields
*) a "dont show" attribute for standard buttons (to "delete" buttons like the nasty "play all" button)
*) editing of attributes like the "drop shadow" and the "shadow color/range/etc."

Also nice would be an option to specify a "trailer" track, that plays before the menu and does NOT show up in track/chapter-selection

And the all-perfect-master-of-the-universe feature would be custom menu structures - like the one used in the "Blue" template :)

I know the "per element" custom colors are tricky because subpictures are limited to 16 colors, but even to change the default yellow/red to some other colors would be a HUGE step forward!

So far I really like the program because it just does what it says it does, doesn't crash, and doesn't complain all too much about some minor stream-errors, it can handle VCD-standard mpeg files and other stuff that makes life MUCH easier then with other DVD authoring apps!

I'd even like to pay for some "external" menu-template-editor (as an addon to TDA) if that would allow me to make some nive menus - some extra 20-30$ should not be a problem :)

Maybe you let me know what to expect in future versions of TDA, and when to expect them :)

Anyway, thanks for the great work, also for TMPGEnc Plus,
bye,
--hustbaer

i am trying to make a Battlefield 1942 clan video. i got fraps, then i took it to Virtualdub and edited the scene i wanted. then i followed these steps to the letter...

" 7: Now, as you may have noticed, our movie is huge, more than 100 MB. That's because it's still Raw, Uncompressed AVI. Now we're going to use that Divx codec I made you download. Open Tmpg Enc (If that stupid "Wizard" pops up, click Cancel), then look at the 3 bars at the bottom that say Video Source, Audio Source, and Output File Name. Click the Browse button next to the Video Source box, and select your movie. The Audio Source box and Output File Name should automatically be filled in to your movie path when you select the movie in the Video Source column. If not, copy and paste the path from the Video Source to the Audio Source. Then, in the Output File Name Column, rename your file to what you want it to be called."

when i do that i get "annot open p3package.dll"

i am at an absolute loss with this..beginning to annoy me slightly:/

any help would be great, cheers

Step 8: Now, we compress. Click File, Output To File, AVI File. A little menu will pop up. If you don't see "Divx codec" in the Video box, click the Setting box and select it from the pulldown menu. Click Save, and relax. You're done.

Search this BBS for your answer. Just type p3package.dll.
It's been answered 1,00000000000000000,0000000000000000,000000000000000000,000000000 times already

Excellent program , easy to use , does exactly what its supposed to without any fuss.

I've been capturing video and audio Separately . After a lot of trial and error , I get good quality results at the end of it.

But because I'm using separate files (not started at the same time) , I have to keep quitting TMPGEnc DVD Author , trim the start of the audio file in a separated audio editor restarting TMPGEnc DVD Author to view the files , until , finally I've got them in sync.What with having to save large files over and over ,it probably costs 15-20mins getting it right this way.

What would be real handy would be the ability to be able to alter the audio sync in the Chapter Cut Edit page. Maybe work with sound files up to 5 seconds longer than the start of the video file.

I know there is a section in TMPEnc plus where you can alter the audio sync but its not really that usable because you dont hear the sound , you see the sound bar so, until youve encoded a file, you still dont know if its in sync or not.

One big audio sync button please...!!

I have just tried to convert piglets big movie avi. When playing the avi file in media player the sound is fine. But after ripping the audio to a wav file in virtualdub and converting to mpg in tmpgenc the audio goes out of synch by about 1/2 second over the length of the movie. ??? any fixes welcome thx

Try installing the AC3ACM decompressor. Then let TMPG decode the audio in the AVI instead of creating a WAV.

hey all, ok i just converted avi to mpeg, 4:3 525 line ntsc,non interlace, mpeg setting on high quality,and when im finished the audio goes outta wack. the mouthes move, but there is a delay in audio. im 99.9% sure that the origanal source was good, but of course i delited it..............DOH!!! any suggestions? thanks t t f n

sorry but this may not be anything to do with tmpgenc at all, but when I encode using an SVCD format and try to play the audio back in windows all I get is bubbly squeeks (yum) for sound. When I play on a dvd player the sound is fine.
I looked at the audio settings for VCD and SVCD templates and they are both 224kbps mpeg 1 layer II but my VCD files play fine (sound is fine) on my computer and the DVD player.

Has anyone any idea whats going on?, if this is anything to do with tmpgenc encoding or not ? like I say it only happens when the audio is packaged with a mpeg 2 video stream so I dont know where to look...

Thanks in advance.
Jon.

What are you using to play the SVCD?

well I tried a couple of things ... mediaplayer 6, my ATI fileplayer and something called EO Video.. all the same :(
Jon

... Im using those players to play the mpg file that tmpgenc produces ..

Use a real MPEG2 player like WinDVD or PowerDVD. Mediaplayer is crap for SVCD.
How's the picture when playing, OK?
What speed of CDROM drive do you have?

Can someone help me?... i downloaded and MPEG and i managed to make three disks with nero and they work fine.. but the 4th one in nero says that its an unsupported format which puzzles me cause i downloaded 2 parts and split them with easy vido splitter. So i decided to encode it with TMPGEnc Plus.. the video is fine but the sound from the file doesn't seem to encode at all, am i doing something wrong or am i missing something........HELP PLEASE

Tmpgenc doesn"t Like Some compressed audio formats so you will have to extract the audio from the AVI file and decompress it to Wav format and then use the wav file as the audio Source in tmpgenc....

Well im not really to familar on how to extract it.. is there something built in?. and i was also wondering how i can make these files smaller so i don't have to use 3 or for disks

thanks

with virtualdub.
load it there, and then file -> Save WAV.
You could also demux with tmpgenc and try using winamp or scmpx to create the .wav.

http://www.din.or.jp/~ch3/index_e.html
http://virtualdub.org

Setsunaaa

I am sorry I made a little mistake before but I also have a problem. TMPGEnc worked fine before but after having a lot of problems with the computer I had to reinstall xp again to start from scratch,everything works great agin accept for TMPGEnc, everytime I try to load my .vdr in the video source it says TMPGEnc has encountered a problem and needs to close,when I look in the technical report I see something about a ole32.dll, I think that is the problem but I am not sure, any help would be appriciated to solve my problem.

You are trying to load a Virtualdub frame server file.
Have installed the frame server handler first?

I just tried that in auxset(install handler-handler succesfully installed) but I still get the error message.

Here's a test to see if the frame server is installed correctly:
Create a .vdr file with Virtualdub then open another instance of Virtualdub.
Try and load the .vdr into Virtualdub. If it loads OK the frame server is working fine, so it must be a TMPG problem.

If that is the case then raise the 'AVI VFW file reader to' 2 and the 'Directshow reader to 1' or disable it altogether.

If it still doesn't load then download the AVSreader for TMPG.
http://ms2.hyps.tp.edu.tw/~hy147/zip/tmpgenc-readavs.zip

hi, thank you for trying to help me I am so confused I don't understand what you mean by open another substance of virtdub,so I cannot test if the handler is working correctly, I did try to raise the two options you said but I cannot change them to another value and if I disable them then it says cannot open or unsupported, the last thing I did was to dl the thing you said but I have no idea what to do with it and how to install it, I don't understand it anyway because TMPGEnc always worked super but after "fooling' around a bit it just won't work anymore, I did a complete system recovery hoping that would solve the problem, but it didn,t, hope you can help me with this issue.

And can you tell me if I need special codecs, now I use the k-lite codecs pack but I am not sure if I also need avi and/or mpeg2 - 4 codecs.

>hi, thank you for trying to help me I am so confused I don't understand what you mean by open another substance of virtdub

I never said substance, I said instance.
Which means open another copy of Virtualdub. I can see I'm gonna have to do this step by step with you...

Ok. Start Virtualdub and create your .vdr file by starting the frame server.
Now start Virtualdub again (don't close down the frame server). Try and load the .vdr into Virtualdub.

If it loads the frame server is working fine. If not there is your problem.

If it does load follow my instructions as already said and change the priority of the 'Directshow reader' in the VFAPI plugins to 1 or disable it and change the priority of the 'AVI VFW reader' to 2.

>I did try to raise the two options you said but I cannot change them to another value and if I disable them then it says cannot open or unsupported
It is NOT disabled.

To do this you must right click on the name and then select the required option from the menu.

I shouldn't have to tell you how to install the AVSreader, the instructions are with the file and are easy to understand.

One question:
Why are you trying to load a .vdr file into TMPG anyway, what are you attempting to do?

ksp

I am trying to convert AVI files from my digital still camera (CANON Powershot A70) to MPEG 1 files but I get the following error: "Cannot open or unsupported". The AVI files are 15 fps and resolution is 640 x 480 with mono sound. Any advice appreciated, thanks.

Try moving the VFAPI setting for images to the top of the list, and of course, make sure it has a tick in the box!

Images?
It's an AVI.
You either need the codec your camera is using to decode the AVI and/or you need to raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2.
If your AVI is DV then try raising the AVI2(openDML) reader to 2 instead.

just wanted to mention that my digital camera creates MJPEG (motion jpeg) encoded avi files, so youll need to get a codec for that if you dont already have it .. if you can play the avi file in media player then you shoule always be able to use tmpgenc to encode by moving the direcshow media file reader to a higer priority than the other file readers.
Jon

I have some AVI files which sound the frequency as 48000, which I believe is Dolby 5.1, how do I get TMPGEnc to encode these to VCD? I have the AC3 audio filter, and I can watch the files fine on the PC as AVIs. TMP leaves teh audio box blank on the wizard when I load the file.

I have tried Vdub as well, to rip the sound out to wav, but with limited success.

Any ideas?

Go to http://www.dvdrhelp.com and get VirtualDubMod to demux the audio stream. If it's an AC3 audio stream, get Ciler's AC3 tool (also available @ dvdrhelp.com) to convert the AC3 stream to WAV. You can then use the WAV file as the audio source.

Okay, thanks. I'll see how I go on!

Download and install the AC3ACM decompressor.
TMPG will then be able to decode your audio.

I'll try it.

Ive installed the AC3ACM decompressor, now when I open the AVI file to encode TPMGenc is telling me the file is unsupported!

I was getting this before, so I installed FFDshow, which let me encode the avi files again. Should I reinstall this? Or is the AC3ACM included in FFDshow?

Help!

No, FFDSHOW is a Video decoder not and audio decoder.
Install both and you should be fine.

>No, FFDSHOW is a Video decoder not and audio decoder.
Install both and you should be fine.

Sorry the above should read:

No, FFDSHOW is a Video decoder not an audio decoder.
Install both and you should be fine.

Thanks Ashy, its excepting the files now, just the mpeg filesize is massive. Its encoding the movie then the sound, making the size twice as big as it should be. Direct show is already set to 2 in VFAPI settings. Ive come across this before but forgot what I did!

What do you mean it's encoding the movie then the sound?

I think you are mistaken. TMPG encodes both at the same time.
What you may be experincing is TMPG encoding blank data at the end of the movie the same length as the actual movie.

You have 2 options if this is the case.
1. Simply cut it away with the Merge&Cut tool in TMPG MPEGtools
2. Use the source range function and set the start and end points of the encode.

OK, so I installed the latest version, and now I've got error messages out the ass. What the hell? It won't even open an AVI to encode to VCD 1.1 over half the time. I went to an OLD copy of TMPGEnc because I couldn't find where I'd saved the one I was using before I installed this latest copy. No good. It doesn't seem to be compatible with VCD 1.1, which is what I use because my DVD player seems to like it, and play it back with very good quality. (For those of you who are going to think you know more than I do about the settings, I set video for NTSC 29.97 fps at a resolution of 352x240, and the audio to MPEG 1 Layer 2 224kps. In other words, to VCD 1.1) So... I delete all the stuff from the older version, reinstall the newer version into the TMPGEnc folder, and OCCASIONALLY it will work. Win2K is nothing but Windows NT 5.0, and XP is 5.1, so if anyone else has been locked into this particular corner of hell, and has a solution, please reply to this.
For those of you who want to know, the normal error messages are either write errors to ntdll.dll, or write errors to TMPGEnc.exe. Thing's driving me bonkers. HELP!!!

>So... I delete all the stuff from the older version, reinstall the newer version into the TMPGEnc folder

What do you mean you by this?
You should have completely deleted the whole folder before attemptimg to install the new version.

Also a bit more info wouldn't go amiss.
Like what sort of source are you using and where did you get them?
What sort of CPU do you have...AMD..P4 which?

Ok, computer specs:
AMD Athlon XP2400+ (2.0ghz) processor
768mb of ddr2100 ram
Soyo Dragon KT333 Ultra motherboard
128mb GeForce4 video card

Source files:
AVI's I created from dvd-rips.
Sound: LAME mp3 codec 44,100hz @ 224kps, stereo
Video: XviD codec 1050kps, 1 pass CBR or DivX codec 1050kps, 1 pass CBR
Source files created with FlaskMPEG
Original rip to hard drive using Smartripper
Split on keyframes using VirtualDub

I've been backing my DVD's up this way for about a year now, and it worked just fine until I installed the latest version of TMPGEnc. Anyone have any ideas?

Firstly try this.
Download and install FFDSHOW. Configure it to decode all MPEG4 AVI's including your XVID.

If that doesn't work on ot's own then goto Options>enviromental settings>VFAPI plugins and raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2

Secondly I'm a bit worried about the process you are using to create your DVD backups.

You do realise what you are doing is a waste of time and quality. Nobody uses the FlaskMPEG method anymore.

You don't need to create an intermediate AVI. This will just prolonge the process and definitely degrade the quality of the final output.

You should be using the DVD2AVI method of creating DVD backups.
Simply install DVD2AVI and run it then load your VOBS ripped from the DVD into it and select File>Save project.

DVD2AVI will create 2 files. A .d2v and a .wav
Now just load the .d2v as the video and the .wav as the audio into TMPG and encode.

This method simply creates a direct link between TMPG and the VOBS and is by far the best and fastest method there is.

Time's never been an issue. I usually set it to do whatever conversion I want, and then head out the door. I use FlaskMPEG because it's what I've always used, and am comfortable with it. The only other DVD2... tool I've used was DVDx, and it's proven itself inferior to FlaskMPEG. I'm willing to give DVD2AVI a chance though, and have downloaded it. As for quality, it may not be DVD quality anymore, but I don't have to worry about my nephews scratching up my DVD's this way. :-)
One more question. The newest version of TMPGEnc will split the files for me? And, if so, where is this setting that gets it to do it? Mine always tells me that I've selected too much data for the selected destination (80 minute CD).
I appreciate the help Ashy, and will post again within the next day or so to let you know how things have worked out.