What does it mean when there's no sound under the MPEG Tools>Merge and Cut?

I used to always be able to make short scenes from a long and have audio, now rarely does the final result have that.

Anybody know why?

AC3 audio is not supported in the Merge&Cut tool.

I'm using TMPGEnc Plus 2.5, and for some reason when I try to load up an AVI of some DVD rips, it gives me a "cannot open, or unsupported" error... how can I get it to work?

thanks

My is doing the same thing I think I am missing the codec maybe the mpeg4 or something anyone know whats wrong ?

Hey guys, I had the same problem a couple of days ago. I redistributed my hard disk partitions and suddenly my TMPGEnc stopped working. I had some movie.d2v files that I had created using DVD2AVI before repartitioning and that I couldn't access with TMPEG afterwards. Yesterday I installed a new mpeg2 codec and created a new movie2.d2v file. Now TMPEG works fine.

I think you'll need to reinstall the same mpeg2 codec that you used when creating the avi files. Otherwise, you can install any mpeg2 codec and create the avi files again, TMPEG should then work.

Hope this helps, it worked for me.

Your problem you had was because you had changed the path to the soure files in the d2v by repartitioning.
You CANNOT move, rename, or delete the d2v, the source files or any of the folders associated with them until you have finished encoding.

As for the original question - cannot open, or unsupported
I refuse to answer this question any more. I must answer it almost every day and I alone must have answered it many hundred times by now. If you include all the others that have answered it then I would guess it must have been answered close to a 1000 times.

The solution can quite easily be found by getting off your ass and using the search function.

>If you include all the others that have answered it then I would guess it
>must have been answered close to a 1000 times.
>
>The solution can quite easily be found by getting off your ass and using
>the search function.

Gee, this sure sounds like a frequently asked question. Might it not be a bad idea to add it to the FAQ?

Firstly I am totally new to this Ive been using TMPGenc for a couple of months but I really dont know much about it.

Ok my problem is this, when I try to convert an AVI file to MPEG the video freezes on the first frame and doesnt move any further, the sound however converts fine and when I play the finished MPEG back its the first frame of the video with the sound playing as normal. Can anyone help me?

It might also be worth mentioning I used to have no problems converting AVI's to MPEG and I cant remember installing anything recently that would cause a problem. I cant play AVI files (hence me wanting to convert them to MPEG) using any program that I have (including divx player, windows media player and real player) and also MPEG's play in windows media player but really jerkily (itll play a couple of seconds then stop for a few seconds and repeat this cycle) so I have to play them through real player. Does anyone have any idea what I might have installed to cause this problem or does anyone know some codecs, files or programs that would remedy this?

I hope you guys can help :)

is there any output template for output to ppc (320x240) available?

Sorry, no template for this one, but you can still make one yourself, if you know the kind of format you have to use.

RGB

I have heard some really good thngs about TMPGEnc, mainly concerning the quality of it's encoding.

However, I cannot verify this as the program has never once run without crashing. Not once. I can always get to the Encode phase, but it ALWAYS crashes during encoding, regardless of the original file size.

I'd really like to evaluate this program, but if it won't run, then there's no way I'll be buying it. Any help would be much appreciated.

I'm running Windows XP Pro with SP1a, Athlon XP 2200+ CPU, 768 MB DDR333 RAM, 120GB Media Drive (NTFS, recently defragged) on Primary Slave. This machine was rebuilt two weeks ago using latest drives and firmware for everything.

Although the ads say the product is Intel and AMD freindly I think you may be experiencing platform problems. TMPGenc 2.5 is oriented towards Intel processors and I would imagine that 3.0 is built on the foundation of 2.5. I'm not cetain but the problem may actually be the fact that you are using AMD products. I am using Intel and have never had any problems with any version.

I have an AMD Duron Processor and I have never had problems with TMPGEnc.

I have a Intel Pentium 4 2800mhz fsb 800 and the Encode phase ALWAYS crashes during encoding. (tmpegEnc 2.59.47.155)

I just going to try the xpress version...

Try disabling the "Preview" option, I have always used AMD CPU's with great sucess, however I have come across certain files that were poorly encoded and have had to disable the "Preview" during encoding to avoid a crash. Try a different file and see if you have the same problem ex. MPEG, AVI ect... L8r G8r

I have an AVI with weird resolutions. It is 480x320 and it has 23.976 fps. I want to put this on DVD-R so what should I set the Video Arrange Method as? I usually have it set at Center (custome size 640x420) so the subtitles won't go off the screen. But in this case, should I do the same?

Let me note that in some scenes, the people's faces seem a bit elongated...is there anyway to resize it to its proper height and then convert to MPEG2?

Sounds like a wrong resized 4:3-Video
Try Center (Custom Size) 656,448, Letterbox to 704x480
Do not use 720x480.

Use the Project Wizard to create a DVD 16x9.

When you use a program like DVD MovieFactory, the file will look elongated in that program. But when you play it in a DVD player, it will play back at 16x9 anamorphic.

Lauren

Use the Project Wizard and set up a DVD project. If you want it in 16x9 or 4:3, select that option at the beginning. When you get to the screen where you select the input file, change the input ratio to 1:1.

Lauren

In Windows XP i have the following error
Read error ocurred at adress 0009A61A of module TMPGENC with 0946DC2C.

try vacuuming your processor and motherboard, its probably a heat issue

Is it possible to change the 'Play All' button to text so it doesn't look so out of sorts with the other text selections?

Thanks

No, but you can draw your own Button and use it instead of the standard button.

I have TMPGEnc installed in the newest version.
I execute it on a laptop with Windows XP Pro. SP1 and all updates.
I installed K-Lite Codec Pack to get some codecs to encode into.
The specifications of the laptop is.

CPU: Centrino 1.6Ghz
RAM: 512MB RAM
HD: 60GB C: free: 10.3GB D: free 5.63GB
Graphic Card: Ati Radeon Mobility 9000

I use the TMPGEnc wizard to encode my videos.

:::::Issue:::::
I run the wizard and get to the source range clip editing. Then I edit the video file, but then if I'm away for some time doing other things, it could be for 10 minutes or longer, only to get back to finalize my editing or just accept the editing by clicking ok then TMPGEnc crashes.
When I push ok to accept the editing in the source range window TMPGEnc crashes.
Then I have to do my editing all over again.
This can't be true, am I doing anything wrong or is there a patch out there for TMPGEnc, because this is really annyoing.
I really hope we can find a solution regards Lars Bengtsson.
Thank you in advance.

OK my problem is this.... I'm tring to open an m2v file which was created with a Pinnacle Silver editing suite. I've download and installed the latest (or what i'm assuming is the latest, it's version 0.6.47) m2v vfapi plugin (which works fine in 2.5), fails to work. Can anyone please help or have any suggestions.

P.S.
Using a m2v file which was made within TMPGEnc Xpress 3 via the demultiplex work fine but we mainly deal with (and use) the m2v from the Silver and so we really need this feature.

Try changing your reader priorities under preferences. That has a good change of solving your problem.

I am looking for a guide to the preference settings in particular Pref Page 2 Multichannel Audio Decoder Settings. I want to preserve the AC-3 format my MPEG 2 file is encoded with, I do not know nor do their seem to be any guides on what boxes need to be turned on to accomplish this. I find that there is no online manual that I can find that details all the functions under preferences.

G.B.

I'm having a weird problem. I have set up 4 tracks and a menu. The bar the bottom says it's only 4086MB out of 4438MB. There is still a chunk of white space left in the bar. I have burned it onto a DVD+RW (4.7GB) and all of them plays fine. However, when I burn it onto a DVD-R, the last track cannot load. The other three tracks and menu plays excellent but when I select the last track, it doesn't load. Why is this? I have double-checked in TDA and everything is fine. The M2V plays fine on the computer as well. The brand of DVD-R I'm using is unknown because it's generic, there is no brand name or disc capacity anywhere. Please help! At first I thought it was a corrupt DVD-R but now I have wasted 2 DVD-Rs. :(

I forgot to add that I used DVD Shrink to open my authored VOBs and I played the last track and it plays fine.

Maybe you are using cheap DVD-R brands. They often have some Errors on the outher Tracks... they often ARE the Problem.