Hello. I have a movie sized 712x400. It's in widescreen because it is wide and the top and bottom black bars have been clipped out from the video file. The characters look fine, they don't look stretched out. So what settings for Video Arrange Method in TMPGEnc should I select to maintain the widescreen? I want to make an XVCD. Again, here are the weird settings I use:

Output Size: 480x480
RCM: Constant Quality
Bitrate: 2520 kbits/sec
Motion Search: Normal
Video Arrange Method: Center (420x420)

The reason why I have the VAM at center is because the side won't go off the TV screen. But it won't work for this widescreen because it stretches the video to drastic measures! Should I make it 420x400? Please teach me how you make the calculations in easy steps so I don't have to ask again next time (I have another widescreen movie that I might need help with next time). Thanks! :)

Woops, I forgot to add. I need to add some subtitles to the video too. But, the subs have 2 parts, a SUB and an IDX file. The creator said that you need both in order to view the subtitles correctly and their filenames must be the same as the AVI file. While I know the subtitling process via Virtualdub, I don't get what to do with this SUB and IDX file. :( Help? Also, Virtualdub only accepts SSA files. :(

>Hello. I have a movie sized 712x400. It's in widescreen because it is wide and the top and bottom black bars have been clipped out from the video file. The characters look fine, they don't look stretched out. So what settings for Video Arrange Method in TMPGEnc should I select to maintain the widescreen? I want to make an XVCD.

set ur source aspect ratio to 16:9(fullscreen keep aspect ratio) not centre

But I don't have a widescreen TV. And I need to keep it center at 420x420 for non-widescreen movies for overscans. So now I don't know what to do with this widescreen movie because setting it at that might turn out to be too wide.

i dont have a widescreen tv either, do u notice that nearly all dvds are 16:9 widescreen, you dont lose any picture with a dvd do ya, you just get the black bars at top and bottom of screen which is fine yea?

thats exactly what you'll get if you do 16:9 (fullscreen keep aspect ratio), i promise you, ive encoded many widescreen xvids with this method and i never get any cut-offs

try encoding a little 30sec segment of your vid (so you dont have to wait a long time for end result) with these settings and you'll c what i mean

Thanks, I'll try it. But will converting it that include overscans? Because I must leave a 30 pixel border on each site so my subtitles won't go off the screen...

if you use the standard templates with the settings i said b4, you shouldnt have any cuts what so ever, although i havent tried with subs =/, but that shouldnt really make a differance

also my non widescreen tv only overscans when i 'dont' use the settings that ive said b4, it could b ur settings causing the overscan

No. Before I was using one of TMPGEnc's default VCD templates. And most of the times, long subtitles would go off the screen. Therefore, I experimented and found that setting the VAM at center 420x420 works best for me. The subtitles stayed on screen.

I think I know what you mean by 16:9. Before, I selected 4:3 525 lines NTSC under aspect ratio. So now, I selected 16:9 525 lines NTSC. Is that correct? Also, would that selection work for a video with a size of 640x360?

I tried that option with the video 640x360 but the widescreen is not appropriate. :( The characters turned plump! Any suggestions?

for source aspect ratio there should be an option with just 16:9 (not 16:9 ntsc, pal, blah blah ect) then set the video arrange method to full screen keep aspect ratio

settings:
source aspect settings: 16:9 display
video arrange method: full screen keep aspect ratio

if you use standard templates and those exact settings you will have no cut offs

Then what is 16:9 NTSC 525 line do? They're both 16:9 so wouldn't it be the same? I would understand that 16:9 PAL is different and I don't use PAL...

Oooh! I get what you're saying. I had originally set SOURCE Aspect Ratio as 1:1 VGA. And then under Video Stream Settings for Aspect Ratio, I set it at 16:9 525 line (NTSC). Now that I know what the problem is, what should I set the aspect ratio under Video Stream settings?

Source Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Display
Aspect Ratio: ?
VAM: Full Screen (keep aspect ratio)

Sorry, even setting it at 16:9 Display doesn't work. The characters are too plump. Just a side note, I downloaded this movie. It's a DVD-rip. So wouldn't it make sense to set the source aspect ratio as 1:1 VGA

>The characters are too plump

but do you get any over scan?? is it fitting the screen??

>source aspect settings: 16:9 display
video arrange method: full screen keep aspect ratio
(use the standard templates)

if you use those settings and it still doesnt work, well im at a loss

i'll say this again i use those exact settings and NEVER get any troubles (cut offs, obscure picture ect ect). if you have actually done what ive said and you are having problems with cutt offs or whatever, then i dont know what it could be.

and by the way, if you dont already know this (you probably do) the coverted movie will have different resolution than the original movie, which may or may not be causing the 'plumpness' as you say, but if the movie is fitting the screen well i'd take plumpness over terrible overscan anyday

>Output Size: 480x480
RCM: Constant Quality
Bitrate: 2520 kbits/sec
Motion Search: Normal
Video Arrange Method: Center (420x420)

whoa whoa whoa, your output size is standard compliant ntsc svcd resolution, are you creating a svcd or a vcd? (vcd ntsc res is 352x240)

I'm creating an X(S)VCD where the resolution is 480x480. And no, I don't think there is too much overscan, or there is too little overscan that I don't notice.

Also, if I do this it works:

Aspect Ratio: 16:9 525 line NTSC
Source Aspect Ratio: 1:1 VGA
Video Arrange Method: Center (480x360)

It works perfectly well for some unknown reason. The reason why I set it at 360 is because the source video's height was also 360. It work well anyway.

>It work well anyway.

excellent
i was running outta ideas

Hi, I am trying to convert svcd (mpeg2) to vcd format using VCDTrick. It works great for most files. But I am seeing problems while multiplexing some of the files. While doing simple multiplexing, part of the file is missing. I am not sure the reason for this. I really appreciate if someone could help me on this.

Im Trying to install TDA 1.5 & Im getting error -


'The installation source for this product is not available
verify that the source exists and that you can access it'

and' The feature you are trying to use is on CDRom'

also error 1714

please help

many thanks

I'm new at this. I am getting mono sound from my encoding. Great picture but not stereo. I am assuming that I have to separate the audio, does TMPG do that itself first? What do I use to put the files back together afterwards. Not a natural english reader.

Well If your Source File is Mono you will never get True sterio..All you need to do is Choose "Sterio" on the audio Settings and you should get a sterio Mpeg file but if your source file is Mono you will get a Psudo Sterio File with the same Chanell being Played out both speakers.....

Hi, I'm a new user and I'm trying to convert a .wmv file to .mpg to put a small 320X240 video on my webpage to have a variety of available video formats for the user to view. I've already converted many of my .wmv files except one older file [bit rate: 235Kbps; 320X240; 20 kbps; 32 kHz; mono 1-pass CBR] that comes out pixelated and choppy. Is there an appropriate setting or filter for this bit rate? Thank you!

Well Choppynes could because you are makeing a Mpeg files with a different Frame rate as the WMV Files..Tmpgenc does not convert Frame rates Properly, Pluss a WMV Files at such a Low Bitrate is going to be Quite Low Quality and even Lower when encodieng to Mpeg at a Low Bitrate, so you can either Raise the Bitrate which will help or deal with it, You can"t expect very high quality when the source is a Low Quality format Like WMV...

Browsing a little and found this:

http://download.pegasys-inc.com/download_files/te3xp_3.0.0.4beta_setup.exe

I will give it a go ;O)

Hendrik

The current notes (translated) can be found here:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tmpgenc.net%2F.%2Fbetatester_jp%2F.%2Fdoc_whatis.html

I was wondering why no new upgrades since September 03....now we know.

Doesn't work for me. You need tmpgenc 2.5 plus JAPANESE. I have English.
The Software is in Japanese.

I recently installed TMPGEnc Plus 2.5. I've used previous versions in the past and without any problems. I am trying to encode and avi(huffyyuv) file to mpeg2. When I choose the file I wish to encode and select next. A window appears with a progress bar. The window is titled "Judging field order...". THe progress bar immediately jumps to 8% and then stops. The task manager indicates that the app is not responding however if I leave it for 2 hours it does eventually complete. It normally completes at appox 8% every 10 minutes. Patiently I waited and returned to learn that my 2hr avi file had completed the "Judging field order..." in just over 2hrs :(. Then I selected the crop video in order to chop a few seconds of the start and end of the video. When I tried to advace frames the hourglass appeared and the app hung once again. I decided to closed the app and search for some info on this issue. Can anyone help with this?

I am running Windows XP Professional on an AMD Athlon 2800+ with 1024MB of Twin DDR333 Corsair Memory. I have three 160GB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drives with plenty of space.

Try this, Go into your HuffyUV Codec settings and enable the "Allways Suggest RGB Format for Output" option and see if this helps...OR ,Don"t use the WiZard, Tmpgenc only does the Judgeing Field order when useing the WiZard so if you don"t use it it will not freeze...Cheers

If you check out the Japanese version of the TMPGEnc web site, you can find out about the new TMPGEnc 3.0. It was released for Japanese beta testers who have a Sony VAIO last month.

The new features look exciting:

It will have a completely redesigned user interface similar to TMPGEnc DVD Author.

TMPGEnc can now handle YUV colorspace. (No more forced conversion to RGB24!!!)

The MPEG1/MPEG2 encoding engine were rewritten which gives better quality and a much needed speed improvement.

The filters have been done allowing for real time preview. The noise reduction filter has been greatly improved. Users now have the option of resize filters such as Lanczos, bilinear, etc.

These are just some of features listed in Japanese section.


Video Guy

I was just about to post a note asking this question. Thanks for the info.

hi
I am creating vcd-pal ,and im using virtual dub for frame serving , but vhen i load virtual dub-s output file in tmpgc , there are no subtitles found. Hov can i include subtitles in these case?
Can i somhov include them in mpg file
Thanks

I know how it's so frustrating where you converted to MPEG but something's not right and you have to convert all over again. I did that once.

To add subtitles, you must first go into Virtualdub's folder and click on the auxsetup.exe. Click on "install handler" to enable frameserving (I guess you've already done this part). Then, go download the latest subtitle filter here:

http://www186.pair.com/vdub/virtualdub_filters.html#me_subtitler

Open the ZIP file and extract the VDF file into the Plugin folder (that's in the Virtualdub folder). Open Virtualdub, open your AVI file. Click on "Video" and then "Filters". Click "Add" and then click "Load". Go to your Plugins folder and double-click on the VDF file you extracted. Then in the list, double-click "subtitler" and then select your subtitle file in SSA format. After that, do your usual frameserving and then convert like you normally do in TMPGEnc. :) In Virtualdub, you can't edit the subtitles style though. Hope that helped!

I'm trying to convert a divx file to mpeg2 for inclusion on a DVD. I use the NTSC (4:3) settings in tmpgenc and get an mpeg2 which plays in windows media player. When I try to create a DVD filesystem with dvdauthor, I get many warnings:

WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...

then I get:

STAT: VOBU 0 at 0MB, 1PCGS

Then dvdauthor core dumps.
I tried to demux the files with mpgtx then remux with mplex. dvdauthor gets further but then complains that the sound track times go backwards and I should remux. Any ideas? How do I get tmpgenc to include the VOBU sectors?

I'm having a problem with TDA importing DVD video into a project. When I attempt to import a DVD title, the Edit Clip screen declares there's no audio, when in fact I selected an audio stream that was indeed there. This seems to happen randomly.

How can we fix this? I just installed the latest build available on your site and the problem seems more predominant now.

Greetings,

After importing and editing a video in DVD Author, I received the following error when I tried to output the work to DVD:

"The ordinal 373 could not be located in the dynamic link library "PX.DLL".

Any clue to what is causing this? I have uninstalled and installed several times.

I found a solution that worked on a search with Google. The problem was a corrupted px.dll from Winamp. I obtained a good version of the px.dll, copied it to my C:windowssystem32 directory and all is fine.

Now that I know it works, I will purchase the product.

One comment about TMPGEnc.net. A pre-sales tech question ability would be very helpful.

>I found a solution that worked on a search with Google. The problem was a corrupted px.dll from Winamp. I obtained a good version of the px.dll, copied it to my C:windowssystem32 directory and all is fine.
>
>Now that I know it works, I will purchase the product.
>
>One comment about TMPGEnc.net. A pre-sales tech question ability would be very helpful.

I have the same problem. Where would I obtain the "correct" version of the
px.dll?? I have not installed Winamp so not sure why the existing px.dll is
corrupted?? Thanks for your help.