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If I start a project on laptop "A", using a removable firewire or USB drive, then try to use laptop "B" to further edit the project, or encode the project, I get the following errors:
(jpg file contining error messages is located at:)
www.hecht-haus.net/TMPGEncError.jpg
The drive letter for the removable drive are the same on both laptops.
This is crazy! I am starting to believe that the project file created on one computer cannot be edited (or encoded) on another computer! Is this true? Both computers have licensed versions of the product.
Also, I have tried renaming the AVI file on the removable drive, in hopes that TEMPGEnc would ask me to find it, and then be happy, however, it then looses all the editing cut points.
I have also noticed that there is no option to save the the new TEMPGEnc file format in a text format. This was a really cool feature in the 2.x versions, and allowed us to do some pretty cool edits. Wish that was possible in the 3.x version.
Hello
I hope someone can help me. I usually encode video captured through a PCTV card using the frameserver feature in Vdub. That means AVI is captured using Vdub and Xvid, edited later in Vdub, frameserved to TMGEnc who then creates mpeg2 file. This process works great with 2.5, but the new 3.0 refuses to encode the file. The file gets recognized indeed but an error occurs when actual encoding starts. The 2.5 version I am using is a registerd one, while the 3.0 is the trial one.
TMPgenc support just told me they do not guarantee frameserver applications.
Has anybody gone through this problem already?
I have an AVI where the audio is really bad. The source was like this too. The sound is really muffled. Is there any way to make it better? Here are the specs of the audio in terms of GSpot:
And I have another question about converting the video to MPEG-2 for DVD. The resolution is: 608x464 (1.31:1) [~13:10]
It is definitely supposed to be full screen. Should I use VAM Center, Full Screen, or Full Screen (Keep Aspect Ratio)? I really don't understand which to use in cases like these.
Maybe I should've asked at the Videohelp.com forums for the audio issue since it has no relation to TMPGEnc. But for some reason, Videohelp.com won't load for me (both of my computers) and yet it loads for other people. I'm wondering if my IP address got blocked by them or what but I don't remember doing anything bad at their forums. :(
My knowledge of TMPGenc is very very basic and so basically I will just load up a file and then convert it usually altering no settings at all. So my question is this, what settings should I edit to reduce the file size of an mpeg file (whilst still retaining decent audio and visual quality) and where are those settings located? If anyone has any advice about compressing the file as another format (although Im hoping only to work with mpegs and avi's) in other programs instead then that will be appreciated too.
HELLO GUYS
I am new and I need to transfer a 480 MB AVI file to DVD or to SVCD in order to burn it on DVD or CD. ?
Can anyone help with this > and how long should it take...it took me about 8 hours to encode it..Many thanks for all your tech help.
Regards,
WILLY
I have converted tons of DV material already but now I have a serious problem.
The source has lots of fast motion in it, and when I convert the source to mpeg2(doesn't matter which format) the picture is kind of jumpy, jerky and stuttering.
CCE is able to convert the DV source correctly, but I need the filters so I have to use Tmpgenc. Maybe I should try AVISynth
It looks like Tmpgenc removes to many information so fast movements are not smooth anymore.
Following settings:
DC component precision = 10
Motion search precision = Very Slow
Field order = Tried both
Filters = Deinterlace
Use floating point DCT = Tried both
Detects scene changes = On
I also have this problem with some Avi's and DivX's where it jitters every second or half second.. i have only used TMPGenc simply to convert avi>dvd or divx>dvd and have no experience in setting any other parameters... it mostly does what i ask it.. but i would dearly love to get rid of the jitter
BobMcN
Also, my other files don't have the correct proportion either. Here's what GSpot says:
Resolution: 634x464 (1.34:1) [~16:12]
Should I still do the Center like above? Also, the audio codec is MPEG-1 Layer 3. It plays in Windows Media Player but in Virtualdub and VDubMOD, it said it could not decompress the audio. Why is that? Should I just convert it normally in TMPGEnc?
Center (without anything) is the best choice if TMPGEnc has not to do any resizing. If the Input size is the same than the Output size, always use Center.
Your second Movie seams to be 4:3 (something like that...).
For a propper fit i suggest to clip it to 628x464.
Use Center (Custom size) 688,464
Target size is 704x480 (NOT 720x480)!
Thanks. Is there a difference between Center and Full Screen? I thought the output size is 720x480 because that's the standard? Then the input size (704x480) is not the same as the output size...?
I agree I have recently been trying out the new LANCZOS4 resizer in AVISYNTH with excellent results.
Reduces mice teeth and stair stepping to a minimum and are hardly noticible when compared to some other resizing methods.
Trialling DVD Author at the moment with CD-RW and Nero's miniDVD option. All works well on my PC with PowerDVD -- the menu is the first thing shown (as I requested), but on my standalone DVD player (LG) there is no menu at all and the first track is played... and it won't let me press the Menu button to go to the menu. PowerDVD does all this just fine, so I doubt it's the miniDVD's fault... probably just my standalone LG player? Thoughts?
In the Menu configuration screen in TDA, at the top right, make sure the drop down menu is at "Display Main Menu." Also, this happened to me whenever I use TDA author. My DVD remote has 2 buttons: Title and Menu. For TDA DVDs, I can return to the menu using Title. Menu doesn't work for me for some reason. It might be because I'm only using a main menu and no chapter selection menus. Why don't you try that on your remote as well to see if it would work?
Yes, it is set to "Display Main menu" in all options for it.
Also, pressing Title does nothing -- it doesn't go to the menu.
Further, pressing Next Chapter from the playing clip doesn't go
to the menu either. Either my player is bad (doubt it) or TDA
has a few issues at this time.
My DVD player is the LG DVR 4810 player/recorder, and I have exactly the same problems..Any disc I create using TMPGEnc DVD Author, the menu's will simply not play on the LG, but are fine on three other brands I've tried them on.
Are there any websites that contain sample avi's and their corresponding TMPGenc encoded mpeg2 files (along with settings used to encode) so that we could use them for comparison? I have been tinkering with video for over a year now and I have yet to produce an mpeg2 file that I am satisfied with the quality. It would be nice to see compare my encoded video with others.