It seems only able to join some mpegs - i've just tried some and they go out of sync when you join two clips. The sound of clip 2 start about 30 seconds before clip 1 has finished! Why is that?

When I convert a Divx Video file to VCD there is no audio - Why ?

There is a error window(invalid pointer operation) whenever i press to encode or set option.
Can someone help?
thanks

did u get any replies ? it seems like a new message i never got it before and i use it for a few months

>There is a error window(invalid pointer operation) whenever i press to encode or set option
>the ol' divx/xvid error

your source is corrupted or youve used something like divfix on a partially downloaded file or/and........

dont ever use wizard, load ur file manually that may help, also uninstall any evil codec packs (yes they are evil, im a convert) only install the codecs that you actually need. i only ever got that error when a codec pack was installed, but since uninstalling that flith, tmpge runs perfectly, even on my P.O.S p2 350

I am getting this error as soon as TDA starts burning the movie to dvd. The authoring process goes smoothly. I have authored a few dvds in TDA that have burned ok. I am using Memorex & TDK -R blanks, both of which I have used previously with no problems. I authored the movie to a -RW first & had no problems, but when I tried to burn the same movie in TDA to a -R, I got the error message. I tried copying the -RW to a blank -R in another program & it copied but I got an "Invalid Disk" error when I tried to play it in a stand alone player. The -RW plays in the stand alone. I am confused about what the error means & how to correct it.
Movie was captured using an ATI All In Wonder 9000 Pro in the TV application. I don't understand why it burned to the RW but get the Invalid Unit Number errors when burnig to a -R. I even tried re-authoring the mpeg file & got the same error.
I'd appreciate any help/suggestions.

I presume that you are burning a .iso file, i had this exact problem and i solved it by creating a dvd folder instead of the .iso
You have four options for this.
1. Make your authoring program output to dvd folder.
2. Burn the iso to a rw disc and copy the disc to hdd using windows explorer
3. Use a tool like dvd shrink www.dvdshrink.org with no compression set and output to dvd folder (my personal favourite option)
4. Use a cd/dvd emulation program to mount the iso file as a virtual drive.

samuel

THIS STILL DOES NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION WHAT IS (INVALID UNIT NUMBER )

ANY HELP

When I convert a Divx Video file to VCD there is no audio - Why ?

>When I convert a Divx Video file to VCD there is no audio - Why ?

you have to decompress the audio to wav, then use that wav as your audio source

many many many programs are able to do this including virtualdub

(use the search function next time, this question is asked often)

I just need a simple softward program to convert an avi file from my Canon powershot g5 to a mjpeg file. I don't need audio and the max time is 3 mins. I am having no luck getting the free version to even open one of my avi files, let alone get it to do anything. Help please. As you can tell I am very new to this. Thanks

I have been trying to change the yellow color of the highlight (selection) in DVD Author after reading about the Hex Editor and changing the 44 44 to 33 33 blue and that is what I want, it worked, almost. This worked for the first two menu's but I cannot change the rest of them (6 menu's total 1 main and 5 with 6 chapter motion thumbs each) . They still show up as yellow. Anyone have any success with changing all of the menu's to have the highlight from yellow to another color?

OK, if you have more than one page for Chapters it is a little more complicated, as the bytes in the vob file are at different byte offsets from the beginning of the file. However this can be solved with vobedit (get it from Derrow: http://mpucoder.kewlhair.com/Derrow/index.html ).
Procedure:
Open the VTS_XX_0.vob with vobedit (open button in the lower left corner)
In the left window you see the "content" of the vob file. Double click on the first line 000000 [Navigation Pack] [VOB: 1]
A Hex Editor window pops up. Change the "44 44" bytes in the line 000000A0 to your preferred values like "33 33" and click "OK"
Back in the "Main Vobedit window" scroll down the left window until you find the next "[Navigation Pack]"entry. Double click on the line and change again the "44 44" in the Hexeditor at line 000000A0. Do this for all "Navigation Packs"
The changes are saved immediately.

After an hour of changing each one, and still not done, I have decided that it's just not worth it. I either need to make only a two menu(one main the other chapter)movie with TMPGEnc (the yellow is easy to change then)or accept the fact that I would have to do so much more work to get it to another color or use another program entirely. Thanks for your reply I was really happy to see the color change but don't have the patience or time to go through every navigational link and change the color on all the movies past menu 2.
Hopefully this color change will be something that TMPGEnc will add in the future. Otherwise I am really happy about the program but will be using another program until this is changed.

TMPGEnc, Thank you for making a really good program, love the motion thumbs that you don't have to render yourself and the GUI is also very nice. And thank you for the 30 fully functional free trial.

Later,
Dragonfly007

>After an hour of changing each one, and still not done...
OK, I understand!
If you are still interested in this topic, there is a very fast possibility:
Use the hexeditor from nextsoft: http://download.nextsoft.de/hexedit.zip
It's German, but you can change the language to English if you like (menu: "Optionen"->"Einstellungen" click on the directory symbol, choose English. Close and restart the Hex-Editor)
Open your VTS_XX_0.vob file with this hexeditor. Use the search & replace function. Search for: "000000444473A0111173A00000000000"
replace with "000000333373A0111173A00000000000" (or whatever color settings you like instead of "4444") with the "replace all" option. Save the file. This takes no longer than half a minute.

Your suggestion worked. I tried the rest of the numbers.
00 00
11 11
22 22
33 33
55 55
66 66
77 77
88 88
99 99

And for TMPGEnc DVD Author I got these colors as the highlights.

Search For:
000000444473A0111173A00000000000 Yellow Highlight Color

Replace with:
000000000073A0111173A00000000000 for Light Black Highlight Color

000000111173A0111173A00000000000 for Red Highlight Color

000000222273A0111173A00000000000 for Bright Green Highlight Color

000000333373A0111173A00000000000 for Blue Highlight Color

000000555573A0111173A00000000000 for Light Pink Highlight Color

000000666673A0111173A00000000000 for Bright Aqua Blue Highlight Color

000000777773A0111173A00000000000 for Light Black Highlight Color

000000888873A0111173A00000000000 for Light Black Highlight Color

000000999973A0111173A00000000000 for Light Black Highlight Color

I am back to using TMPGEnc DVD Author now.

Thank You.

You wouldn't happen to know the HEX for the selection color?

Forgot to mention that I had to do this to the VIDEO_TS VOB file for the main menu highlight to change color and the VTS_01_0 VOB file for the rest of the chapters to highlight in the color that I want them to.

Thanks Again

Borax
I have posted this on www.DVDRhelp.com also to help others who like the program, but hate the yellow color highlight. http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=207873
I hope that you don't mind.

Just wondering i made a dvd with this program and it wouldnt allow me to zoom the movie. Is there some special settings i need to enable zooming?

My source video clip is NTSC 720x480 29.97fps progressive.

I want to encode it to the DVD format so I can watch it on a regular televison and also on my computer. If I encode the clip as progressive, I know it will look jumpy on the regular televison as it needs to be interlaced. If I encode it as interlaced, I am afraid of hurting the progressive quality and introduce interlace lines which would look bad on the computer.

This would be very simple if my source was 24fps as I would just use pulldown.exe to set the flags. But since my source is 30fps progressive and can't be decimated to 24fps, I am confused how to encode it.

Is there some setting I should use in TMPGEnc or perhaps pulldown.exe to properly encode this.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

Encode it progressive. It will not become jerky.
But if it is realy 29.97 fps progressive, it must have be deinterlaced by someone. But that's no Problem, both is possible: 29.97i and 29.97p.

The playback will not become jumpy or jerky if it is true progressive at 29.97 fps (which seems a little strange for that frame rate?)

Your player will play back a progressive stream no problem, but will output an interlaced stream to the T.V.
So just encode at 29.97 progressive.

Thanks for all the help.

The new Canon digital camcorders capture in true 30fps progressive frame.

In the past, the progressive scan option on camcorders was limited to 15fps and then somehow it would be played back at 30fps. But now camcorders are coming to market with true 30fps video.

To me it would make better sense for the camcorder to capture at 24fps and then put pulldown flags to produce the 30fps, that way it keeps with the movie industry and dvd standard. But I don't design camcorders.

I am having trouble trying to convert some WMV files to MPEG1

I have checked the files with AVIcodec and this is what it says about them
File : 55 Mb (55 Mb), duration 0:10:26, type ASF, 1 audio stream(s), quality 28 %
Video : 52 Mb, 708 Kbps, 11.515 fps, res. 480*360 (4:3), WMV3 = Windows Media Video 9, Supported
Audio : 2.54 Mb, 33 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 1 chan., 0x161 = Windows Media Audio 9, Supported

Here are my priorities in TEMPGEnc
Direct show MM reader 2
AVI VFW reader 1
AVI2(open DML) 1 reader 1
MPEG-1 decoder 1
BMP/PPM/TGA/JPG reader 0
Wave file reader 0
QuickTime reader 0
TMPGEnc Project File reader 0

Any idea what I might be missing, or need to change?

>Any idea what I might be missing, or need to change?

you have to convert the audio to wav with something like 'dbpoweramp music converter'(google search it), you'll need to download the wma/wmv codec that can be found at the same site.

when youve converted the file to wav, load that wav as your audio source

and bobs ur fathers brother

Thanks for the suggestion.
The audio isn't the problem. I can extract and convert the audio with either CoolEdit or Goldwave.
The problem is the video portion of the files.

>The audio isn't the problem. I can extract and convert the audio with either CoolEdit or Goldwave

try dbpoweramp because the audio is the problem

tmpge has trouble with wmv apparently, but with dbpoweramp ive never had any problems

as long as you have the mircosoft codecs v3/v2

I have just captured my movie clip for editing into microsoft DV avi format but then I can't use TMPGEnc to convert the file to VCD format but TMPGEnc can't open the file. It doesn't support it. ANyway plug-ins for this?

Thanks.

Is it type 1 or 2? It must be type 2.
You need to convert it if it isn't.

OK, I'm attempting to convert some files to VCDs, but for some reason, no matter what I set the video bitrate at, it ALWAYS comes out over 800MB... Is there something I'm missing?

Also, what can I use for an external MP3 encoder?

if your video is over 80mins then youll have to split it on put it on 2cds(or more), use merge and cut for that. lowering the bitrate will just give you a horrible quality mpeg, i'd just leave it on default 1500 (i think =). in saying that though if the file is less than 80mins and its showing it as much more than you expect, just use source range to set start frame and end frame,(its not getting to the root of the problem which is your source, but its a nice workaround).

>Also, what can I use for an external MP3 encoder?
if your trying to encode a vid file with mp3 audio id convert the audio to wav, especially if its vbr mp3, if you try encoding the vid without converting the audio you'll most probably get an mpeg with outta sync audio, or simply no audio at all. many programs are able to convert mp3 audio including virtual dub

You need to set the stream type to 'MPEG1 VCD(non standard)' otherwise TMPG will just add padding to make the file have standard VCD bitrate.
Run your MPEGs through the 'simple multiplexer' using the above setting to remove the padding.

>You need to set the stream type to 'MPEG1 VCD(non standard)' otherwise TMPG will just add padding to make the file have standard VCD bitrate.
>Run your MPEGs through the 'simple multiplexer' using the above setting to remove the padding.

That's EXACTLY the answer I was looking for..
Cheers :)