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I have a clip in a project that is fully recognized by TDA (from start to finish, video and audio). And I have created a bunch of chapters in it. The chapters are recgonized and I can click to the last chapter and last frame in the editing screen.
However, when I author the clip to DVD, the last chapter is #50 and the title ends. The help file says 99 chapters are possible.
What could be the problem? I have started from scratch twice, there is nothing wrong with the orignal clip, TDA "sees" it ok, it's just the authoring that goes bad.
I'm using my stand alone player, which plays every other disc I've authored using TDA. I must have re-authored this project 5 0r 6 times already, and I'm convinced it's the clip itself and not TDA.
Anyone know a good format checker for VCD files? Illegal frames, bit rates, etc?
Once the Divx encoder is installed, it will appear in the compressor list for any application that uses Directshow compression plugins in a "Save As" dialog.
TMPGEnc is meant to control its own mpeg encoder. It has a "Save As AVI" mode but other apps are better. A good one is VirtualDub. It can load numbered BMP sequences directly.
I am also using TDA to make back up copies of DVDs for my friends. So this is what I did:
1.Create New Project
2.Add DVD Video
3.Select DVD drive; VIDEO_TS
4.Double-click on first title
5.Uncheck reading chapters
6.Check copy to HDD
7.Ok
For some reason, near the end of the progress, it said "Stream write error" or something like that. Last time I did this, it worked and there were 3 outputted MPEG-2 files in my folder. What I'm trying to do is extract the videos from the DVD, and then load them back into TDA to burn to a DVD+R. Last time it worked, but this time, I'm getting all sorts of errors.
Have you looked at the product at all? There's a lot of editing you can do with the menus. From the "Create Menu" screen, you click on "Edit Menu Theme" or the "Edit" button to specify background images, change buttons, etc.
I really like this product, but it would be nice to have an UNDO button on the editing screen as well as a SAVE button so you could save it after a lot of edits in case something goes wrong.
A couple of times, I have somehow made an incorrect CUT and an UNDO button would have saved me a lot of work. A SAVE function would be very useful after you have made a lot of edits and you could save it without getting out of the EDIT function.
I just purchased DVD Author and am having a problem importing a DVD I have copied to my harddisk using DVD XCOPY. It plays with no problem in my software DVD player (PowerDVD).
On the ''Source Setup'' screen, I click on ''Add DVD Video'' and point to the VIDEO_TS folder where the files are located. In the ''Select Title'' screen, it shows the title I want to import correctly. In this case, Title 4 which is 5hr20min13sec and 6477mb.
When I click NEXT, on the ''Options settings'' screen, I click ''Copy the clip video data to the HDD'' and point to a folder, however, there is a message in red below the ''destination folder'' box that says ''3453 mb of video data has been copied to this folder'', not 6477mb as shown in the previous screen. The endpoint in the imported clip is not the end of the movie, because it apparently didn't copy all the data.
Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Can it be fixed? I purchased this product because I liked the simple interface and it did exactly what I wanted, however, it is not much use to me if it doesn't copy the entire movie.
Hi! If you want to rip DVD movie, try to use DVD shrink. It's an excellent program to that purpose. Than you can author it using any program you like the most. Also you must specify a drive that can support a large amount of data. On the other hand, you HD has to have enough free space to handle it. The best way is to have one drive for all systems and one for only DVD transfer (ripping), I mean, 2 HDs.
Every time I tried to normally uninstall TMPGenc from the Add/Remove Programs control panel, the Install utility loaded up and promptly exited without any notice or warning. So I manually brute-force uninstalled it by deleting the TMPGENC folder and it's contents and then I deleted every reference to it in the registry.
Then I rebooted and tried to install the new version of TMPGenc, but it always fails with the following error messages:
"Error 1714 during install -- unable to remove old version"
THEN:
"Feature transfer error
Error: -1603 Fatal error during installation
Consult Windows Install Help (msi.chm) or MSDN for more info"
It turns out that error 1603 means: "Error installing Windows Installer engine. A file which needs to be replaced may be held in use. Close all applications and try again."
Naturally, I tried exiting all applications and then re-installing, but I got the same error.
So then I tried installing it from Safe Mode (although I'm still having trouble getting into Safe Mode deliberately) but I again got the message that it couldn't uninstall the previous version.
What should I do? Thanks in advance for your help!
So I FINALLY got the xvid .avi file to convert to an mpeg via TMPGEnc, and burned my vcd's.
Overall the quality is very good. But every once in a while (not at scene changes and not with fast action, necessarily) the video just hesitates; sometimes for just a second or two. other times, I have to mess with the pause/play/search buttons to jar it out of it and make it play again!
I encoded using the standard template for VCD/NTSC.
I burned the disc using the Roxio Platinum VCD utility.
Any ideas how I can get it to play more smoothly. I am using FFShow which is how I got it to work in the first place; before that it did not work at all; and as you may recall I set my DirectShow setting to 2 at the top of the list in Settings. And I'm playing the dvd on a Panasonic dvd player, an RV-32. (not a computer dvd player, a stand alone one, with my tv.)
Does the actual XVID have any playback problems itself?
You may have a movie which is encoded with the new XVID codec which causes this jerky play back if you try to use the old XVID or FFDSHOW codec.
You need the updated version of FFDSHOW which will solve this problem. http://athos.leffe.dnsalias.com/ffdshow-20040329.exe
>Does the actual XVID have any playback problems itself?
No, it plays back fine on the computer with WMP. Only on the dvd player with my tv does it give me problems. Also, I have no problems with other vcd's I've made from vcd-ready files (I have not made any others with TMPGEnc, so I don't know...)
>You may have a movie which is encoded with the new XVID codec which causes this >jerky play back if you try to use the old XVID or FFDSHOW codec.
>You need the updated version of FFDSHOW which will solve this problem.
>http://athos.leffe.dnsalias.com/ffdshow-20040329.exe
I will try that. Thank you! But, do I need to uninstall the previous version of FFDSHOW, first? (I have the 20040325 version.)
I already tried cleaning my recorder and my player, and if the above does not work I will try another brand of cd-r, but right now I dont have any others. But I doubt that is it, I've never had a problem before with Imation cd-r's on my TDK 4800.
ok, i put the avi file in the input video place and selected the output folder. then i clicked the load button and chose DVD(NTSC) and tried to begin my conversion when it gave me an error saying that there was a read error with "ntdll.dll" please help.
Xvid seems to be the number one cause of ntdll.dll errors.
Is this your format of avi? You might want to try installing ffdshow to decode the avi. This should fix your problems.
(I just read my previous post and it sounded sarcastic. Sorry about that, it was not my intention. I had just misphrased myself. Just meant to say that the "search" is your friend.)