I share my problem with many users of this progrmmm. After having encoded the AVI File there is no sound in the MPG file. What shall I do? Please help me.

dude did u selected the wrong stream type ?

This can happen with compressed audio. Try to open the video with another program like Virtual Dub and save audio to WAV file. Then in TMpegEnc, select your new WAV file as audio source, and the original movie as video source.
Videos for which you don't have the decoder, can't be processed at all, like new Quick Time or Windows Media Format (WMV / ASF support had to be removed from virtual dub because of Microsoft patent. I doubt you can find a decoder other than Windows Media Player / Movie Maker anymore.)

hey,
i got the similar problems esecially converting from xvid vids, any plugin/ patch for this problem ?

fraktalisman answered your question ...

But it's better to use VirtualDubMOD, not VirtualDub, the MOD-Version supports more formats.

I have a similar problem - although I already hav a .wav file of the audio stream, but when trying to multiplex, TMPG wont recognise it as a valid audio source. Any ideas why or another solution??

Hi! I have been searching this forum for answers to my question of 2005/01/30, without much luck. I have downloaded virtualDub 1.4c, and am now trying to get this to help me convert files to mpeg using TMPEGEnc. I would, of course, be very happy if this solves my problems, but what I still don't understand is this:
-Why will TMPGEnc not convert my .avi-files?
-Why will TMPGEnc not convert the same file it had already converted successfully once?

What I would like to know is what had happened in the five minutes between it converted the file once and refused to convert any files at all, and what needs to be done to get TMPGEnc to work it's magic like it the first time.

I have tried the following:
-Uninstalling (and re-installing) TMPGEnc.
-Installing FFDSHOW (and later on uninstalling it again).
-Uninstalling Media Player 9 (or whatever) ang going back to my old version.
-Converting several different .avi-files, all with the same result.

If anyone knows the answers to my problems, please reply. I have looked for a solution here (Hi, Ashy), but only got so much closer to a solution.

Thanks.

Erik

I would re-install FFDSHOW first then go into the configuration settings and make sure that DIVX, XVID and any other MPEG4 decoding is enabled.
Next I would raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2 in the TMPG VFAPI plugins and make sure it's top of the list.

If this doesn't work then there may be a problwm with your AVI's.

You could try VFW decoding by enabling XVID, DIVX, etc. in the VFW part of FFDSHOW and then making the 'VFW file reader' top priority in TMPG.

Thanks! I'll try that. VirtualDub sort of solved my problems, though, except that I have to open the avi-files in VD, compress them, save them as a new (and different) avi, and then using TMPGEnc to convert the new avi-file. Also TMPGEnc is working extremely slowly now, indicating it will use over ten hrs to convert a 20 min video file. I'll let it finish it's current project before I try your soloution. It would be nice if it saves me the bother of having to use VD all together. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Erik.

Oh, well. The slowness of TMPGEnc was due to the highest quality setting. Saw the tip about using "high", and restarted the project, and it bumped decoding time down to about two hrs. Still not fast, but about five times better. Thanks again.

Erik

If you have to resort to using Virtualdub, and I don't see why you would need to, you don't need to create another AVI.

That's just pointless and a waste of time and quality.
Just frame serve your AVI's to TMPG.

Load up the AVI into VD as normal then go to 'File' and start the 'Frame server'

Follow the on screen prompts to create the frame server file then load that into TMPG and encode as normal.

Hey, that's pure gold. Saves me a lot of time and effort. Will try right away. Meanwhile, here is another problem that I encountered.
I now have the new compressed .avi's frim VirtualDub (which I apparently never needed to make). These look ok and have good sond quality. TMPGEnc accepts these files and convert them to .mpeg2's (using the super video disc PAL setting). These files, while still looking good, have no sound at all. The same thing happened when I used Nero to convert the .avi's to .mpeg's.
I am positive that both the original and the VD-treated .avi's have sound. So, what happened to the audio?

OK, still have no idea why the audio disappeared, but a quick search on this forum helped me find AC3ACM, which seems to have fixed the problem.
However, even after re-installing FFDSHOW, TMPGEnc will not accept .avi's that have not been trough the VirtualDub. Will try the frame serving next. Right now I have enough files to work with that have already been trough the VD.
Once again, thanks a lot for all help, and sorry for asking too quick this time.

Find out what the FourCC code is of then AVI's and post it here.

i'm sorry if this is a repeat question..but i really just what to know... for my virtual dub i dont have a frameclient... i tried to look on the net and stuff but i'm like lost... i downloaded AviSynth but it doesnt seem to work.

Every Virtualdub has a frame server client.
Open you Vitualdub installation folder then run AUXSETUP.EXE next click the 'Install handler' button then 'OK' the rest of the boxes.

Run Virtualdub then load your AVI.
Click 'File' then 'Start frame server'
Now just follow the prompts.

What is you problem with AVISYNTH?

oh nvm abt avisynth but i got my programs working by using VFAPICodecV105

Hi! Back from a long weekend, and still cant open avi's without vd. How do I find out the forur CC code? I'll post them as soon as I find out what they are.
Erik

And now, as I try to open some new .avi's i downloaded over the weekend, VirtualDub gives me this message: "Couldn't locate decompressor for format 'DX50' (unknown)

VirtualDub requires a Video for Windows (VFW) compatible codec to decompress video. DirectShow codecs, such as those used by Windows Media Player, are not suitable."

Is there any simple solution to this problem? I just installed VD, and have FFdshow installed already.

Erik

And there is more. When I'm trying to frameserve, I get the same message from TMPGEnc. "Can not open, or unsupported." How do I get frameserving to work?

Erik

I'm sure I already mentioned this, but I suppose I'll do it again anyway.
Virtualdub requires VFW codecs, you will need to enable all DIVX and XVID decoding in the VFW part of FFDSHOW.

START>PROGRAMS>FFDSHOW>VFW CONFIGURATION>DECODER then make sure 'libavcodec' is enabled for all DIVX and XVID sources.

This will probably solve your TMPG problem too if you make the 'VFW reader' the highest priority in the VFAPI plugins.

It works!!!!

Without using VD or anything!!!

Thanks a lot, ashy!

Gonna be a long night in front of the tv tomorrow...

Erik

No prob.

>I would re-install FFDSHOW first then go into the configuration settings and make sure that DIVX, XVID and any other MPEG4 decoding is enabled.
>Next I would raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2 in the TMPG VFAPI plugins and make sure it's top of the list.
>
>If this doesn't work then there may be a problwm with your AVI's.
>
>You could try VFW decoding by enabling XVID, DIVX, etc. in the VFW part of FFDSHOW and then making the 'VFW file reader' top priority in TMPG.

Hi ashy, I've been reading yours and erik's posts. I'm afraid I have the same problem and I'm new to Movies and codec thing.

So my question is
1.What's FFDSHOW? Is it a CODEC pack, I have KLite Codec pack, would that do?
2.If it does, what extra config would I have to do to let TMPGEnc convert my AVIs to MPGs. (After all Windows Media Player can play the file)
3.Where is this "the priority of the 'Directshow file reader'". Is it is TMPGEnc? I'm using 2.5 by the way.

Well that's it. I would appreciate you answer.
Thanks
Big

>Every Virtualdub has a frame server client.
>Open you Vitualdub installation folder then run AUXSETUP.EXE next click the 'Install handler' button then 'OK' the rest of the boxes.
>
>Run Virtualdub then load your AVI.
>Click 'File' then 'Start frame server'
>Now just follow the prompts.
>
>What is you problem with AVISYNTH?

Hello,

I have MPG file which if very big. I split it using MPEG tool and it works well.

My question is:

Does splitting MPEG file degrade the video quality?

Thank you for answer in advance.

MSS

No.

Just bought copy of Tmpgenc plus 2.5, have used trial to make VCD successfully,
I use DVD2AVI for frameserving, never a problem, downloaded new copy of Tmpgenc plus, and now I get same message on most every .d2v video file "Can not open , or Unsupported"
I have been setting for DVD NTSC, but even going back to VCD NTSC now I get that message even on that, What's up? now I can't even make a VCD out of .d2v file...Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I solved this problem by reinstalling all software dvd2avi and tempgenc

I had the same problem. Its a problem of the TMPGenc's environmental settings', just FYI....raising/lowering some piriority fixes all...

strange, i thought i posted this earlier. it appears to be missing.

just to eliminate any confusion, i did a search for this info in the bbs, before posting. no luck.

so here we go.....

i have an avi file, which i convert with tmpgenc 2.5. i then take the m2v / wav files and convert them to DVD file structure. when i am done, i burn a dvd. i have no audio. the first time i did this it worked, but hasn't since.

am i missing the magic button? what is my next step?

paul

Does the WAV file actually have any audio? I'm guessing not.
Find out what the audio is in the AVI. It is likely AC3. If it is you will need the AC3ACM decompressor installed.

Or open the movie with VirtualDub, select Audio__Full processing mode, Save the uncompressed WAV file (10.1 MB / min) and load it as 'audio input' in TMPGenc. In this way VirtualDub will uncompress AC3 --> WAV (if your PC is able to deal with the format of the compressed audio).
Inn this way you solve also the problem 'audio out-of-sync if the AVI is converted to MPG'.
If you cannot decompres the audio with VirtualDub, try selecting Audio___Direct Stream Copy and compress WAV --> MP2 for SVCD with BeSweet (the WAV will not be an 'uncompressed audio', but BeSweet will decode it more likely). The MP2 will be loaded as 'audio input' by TMPGenc.

did i miss something. i submitted a question and Ashley responds with the one word reply: "answered"

could someone elaborate?

paul

just a note to ashy. don't you think i did a search for the answer to my question, before i posted? my search came back with nothing. happy to hear you know the answers.

I did *ONE* search with the title 'Settings greyed out' and the first line that came up had the answer.
Look below. Next time try harder.

http://bbs.pegasys-inc.com/bbscgi/search/docs/en/tmpgenc/box37/tmpgenc_post_15458.html

I have been using TMPGEnc for a couple of months now. It is a great program. However I have been experiencing a couple of problems. I have converted and burnt numerous movies using this program. Only thing is some of them work on my DVD player and some do not. Some simply say invalid disc. I can not see what I am doing different on the ones that don't work from the ones that did work. Any advice would be appreciated since I have alot of Harddrive being taken up right now with movies that I can't get working.

i started with an avi file, which i then encoded to mv2/wav. i then use the dvd author tool to create a dvd file structure. burn the disc, and i have no audio on it.

any ideas?

paul

This happens to me all the time.
You may be missing the audio codec needed. Use GSPot.

Most likely though, it just didn't come through.
Try extracting the audio track.
Use Virtual Dub for avis.
Or use TMPGENC go to File/Tools/Demupliplex.
Double click on the audio track to extract and save to disk.
Then when you fo to author click browse to specifically select the extracted audio, thus overriding the audio track loaded by default.

-j

When I trie to convert from avi to svcd the result "hacks".
Managed to convert some movies but then suddenly every time I
try to do a conversion the mpg hacks. It looks somewhat like
when you play a game and the framerate is low. Otherwise
the quality is good.

Anyone?

I have not yet tried to split the audio and video, just using the
wizard with the whole avi. Since it worked fine from the beguinning, i
figured I would continue with that. Will it change anything if I
tried to split them first?

It won't let me open my AVI file. I looked at solution already posted, but it didn't work for me. The file is DivX encoded, does that make a difference? If so, how do I fix it?

Install FFDSHOW.

I have just read the last 5 or 6 posts. Non of these have had a reply.
Almost every single one of these questions has been answered many, many times over before.

I have been a member with this board for a very long time and know the answer to every one of these questions. However Iam sorry to say I'm tired of repeating the same thing day in day out to the same common questions that get asked time and time again especially when the answer is already on this board.

Time permiting I will continue to help out on this board and will try and answer most questions I feel could not be simply solved by a quick search.

If you want to help yourself then use the search function. You WILL find your solution if you persevere.

If you have already tried and made a real effort to find the solution yourself then fair enough, say so in your post and you will more than likely get help.

Hi, I've been using this great program for a couple of years now and love it, but I was wondering whether or not it can help me put a file on "1" cd-r instead of having to make it in 2 parts?

Thanx, victoria

Go to the KVCD site and download one of their templates.
http://www.kvcd.net/

The only problem is that the templates will create a .M1V file without sound. To have a full movie, small but with sound, multiplex the movie with a MPEG-1/2 version of it, choosing, as type, 'MPEG-1/2 ... Non-standard'.
After that, you can delete hte 'dummy' MPEG-1/2 standard, which you can create also with video____'motion search precision = fast' (you'll need it only for audio...).

What...no it won't?

Ofcourse it will have sound, but at a lower bitrate.
How you arrived at that one I don't know.