I'm making a widescreen DVD. However there are hardcoded subtitles are runs off the sides of the TV screen. What should I do to keep them in and preserve the widescreen?

Send your complains to the creator of the Video ...
You have to make the Video smaler in Picturesize.

I'm trying to use tmpgenc to convert some avis to mpg2, but everytime i do it, the program stops responding and wont do anything. This happens at the very start of encoding (the new file appears, but nothing works).

I tried encoding other avis from a different source and they work fine, but all of these new files I'm trying to do wont work...

any advice?

thx

Careful, your PC could lack the possibility to see a MPEG-2 file due to a failure in MPEG-2 decoding..this doesn't mean you encoded it badly (for instance: can your PC watch DVDs?).
Just for test, try making, with VCDGear, a SVCD into a CD-RW and watch it on a DVD player...

Just for being sure this is that AVIs problem, try to make a mpeg-1. It should fail, too...

Likely a decoding problem.
First try raising the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' in the VFAPI plugins to top of the list.

If that doesn't work install FFDSHOW.

What is the format of the AVI...XVID, DIVX, etc?

Is there any way of looping a chapter on a DVD,

Basically i have a 50 second animation which i need to put on a DVD and it will loop automatically without having to press repeat on the DVD player.

HereÃÔ how to loop projects in DVD Workshop:

1. Create a standard blank menu. Change the blue default color to black.
2. Drag a button onto the menu.
3. Drag your video clip onto the button.
4. Set Menu time-out to 5 seconds (or whatever) 1 second works.
5. Go to ÅÅisplay” settings in the button menu. Adjust transparency to 99%.
It wonÃÕ go to 100% but is still invisible.
6. Select Ūnvisible” in button attributes
7. Create disk. You now have a disc that seamlessly loops forever, without a flicker.

I am currently starting a buisness i need straight answer as to which program is the best to use for encoding CCE or this. And Which takes the most time the files we will be encoding are 40gb Quicktime files. Please advise

CCE is a lot faster, but you have to know exactly what you'r doing if you wish a real good quality.

I'm wondering why.
If I select the language to be English in the program and I trying to load in a MPG file, it says the MPG cannot be openned.

However, if I change TMPGEnc to use other language, I can load in the MPG file no problem.

Can Anyone tell me why?

I am new on this post. I was able to successfully convert AVI to MPG format for both SVCD and MPEG2 format. The converted file is a single mpg file. I can not play this play on Power DVD and not even on my home DVD player. but I can play it in Realplayer. Have I done something wrong? I used Sonic Record Now for buring CD.

Is there any guide for encoding and burning process?

Making a MPEG-1 (for VCD) or a MPEG-2 (for a SVCD) is only the 1st step. Now you should make mpeg-1 ---> VCD or mpeg-2 --> SVCD.

Just be careful to split (e.g. with MPEG Tools ____ Merge & Cut) the movie into pieces < 830 MB [usually 2, for SVCDs you can also choose 3] and to use VCDGear or Nero or VCDEasy to make mpeg --> VCD/SVCD image [usually (S)VCD1.bin/(S)VCD1.cue plus (S)VCD2.bin/(S)VCD2.cue].

Finding the right settings for having a MPEG-2 file = 830 MB is a little tricky, I use FitCD and TMPGenc 2-pass encoding for this.

I have been trying to use TMPGEnc 2.5 to edit & cut some DVD videos but having problems. On the Project Wizard window I select DVD & try to load the ".vob" files but an error message "...cannot open or not supported." keeps popping up. So how do I go about editing & cutting DVD files into shorter videos to burn on a dvd burner? If it's possible please explain step by step procedure.
Thanks.

I never used TMPGenc for VOBs, but maybe you need TMPGenc Plus to open mpeg-2 files...

maybe you can open the VOB with VOBEdit first, then using TMPGenc...

Hello People,

My TMPGenc Plus suddenly crashed and now when I am trying to open AVI files I do NOT see Preview (because its black) and output is also black (contains no video) but only audio.

Never had this problem before

1.I reinstalled TMPGenc Plus
2.I installed FFDSHOW
3.My AVIs playing normally in Windows Media Player and VirtualDub
4.I raised priority to the top for DirectShow Multimedia File Reader

What possibly can be wrong?

Thank you in advance,
taboo

yes, this seems a plugin proprity problem. But I can't imagine what it is...

I've noticed that m2v files encoded by TMPG are always shorter in duration than the source avis. For example, I recently encoded an avi that was 1:18:53 in length. The resulting m2v (and mpg when I didn't go to elementary streams) was 1:18:48. The corresponding ac3 file was 1:18:53, as expected.

So the question is, what accounts for the 5 second discrepancy? This isn't a one-time event, and the time difference seems to vary linearly with the length of the clip.

Anybody know what's going on here?

I am getting an error code when I try to encode an .avi into elementary streams--the code is 29 809119792--does anyone know what this means? It is only doing it on one file-the file does not appear to be corrupt in any way!

TIA,

Ben III

Hi,

I am new to encoding. Actually I am trying to capture personal home movies. I used Vdub to capture to HufYUV codec YUY2 for a 1.5hour movie, and it came out to 40gb. No problems at all, it plays fine. I want the final format to be xvid. I was going to use Avisynth to correct color and other stuff, but I found that it was much to cumbersome, one of my friends suggested TMPGENC along with VFAPI to output to xvid.

He told me to select all my settings and save the project as a .tpr file or something like that, then use VFAPI to output to AVI. I ran VFAPI exe and set the input as the tpr and the output as blah.avi, but when I did this, the output file ended up being 1gb and took only like 3minutes to encode, but the video was messed up - it skipped about every 15 frames or so. So when I tried to figure what the problem was, I went to TMPGENC and noticed that I can save the output to AVI without using VFAPI - when i tried this, it said that the encode time would be 80hours. it is still running. is this normal???

First off I would not use TMPG for what you are trying to acheive.
I would stick with Virtualdub. It is far better at it, faster and the quality will be better.

What is the problem you are having using Virtualdub. It is fairly easy to grasp?

I didn't have this problem when converting from avi to mpeg with 2 or 3 other files. But now, whenever I try to convert them, the file size seems to always be larger than 1gb. What am I doing wrong? I didn't change any settings. They're all the same as before. Even the format is the same (NTSC under Video CD). Please help. The file sizes should only be around 400-something mb, not OVER 1gb.

What are you trying to do create a VCD?

If you have reduced the standard VCD bitrate to make a smaller file then you MUST select 'MPEG1 VCD (non standard)' as the output type.

Run your existing MPEG through the simple multiplxer using the setting above. It will remove the padding and should reduce the size of the file.

I'm not trying to create a vcd, I'm just simply trying to convert an avi file to mpeg/mpeg1. I did not reduce the standard VCD bitrate. I have not changed any settings at all. I always use the "non standard" setting.

I also can't change the bitrate setting as I have the free version.

I have no idea why you wish to create an ordinary MPEG as you will not reduce the size, but the quality will be reduced.
The output size depends on 2 things, the length of the source and the output bitrate.
What is the length of the AVI?

To change the bitrate you must 'Unlock' the settings first by loading the 'Unlock.mcf' in the template folder.

Then which is the problem? 10' VCD movie = 100 MB. It's a simply rule. Therefore 1 CD-R = 80' VCD and you'll use 1 CDs for an average movie.
What's the problem? Just use Settings___Advanced___Select Range [CD1: 0--F frames; CD2: F+1-->end (-1 frames)] or File___MPEG Tools___Merge & Cut (type: MPEG-1 Video-CD).

"I have no idea why you wish to create an ordinary MPEG as you will not reduce the size, but the quality will be reduced.
The output size depends on 2 things, the length of the source and the output bitrate.
What is the length of the AVI?

To change the bitrate you must 'Unlock' the settings first by loading the 'Unlock.mcf' in the template folder."

This didn't help. I still can't change the bitrate settings. Do you want pictures of what's going on?

I'm trying to convert avi files to mpeg format so that the files can be played on a dvd player for a friend. And I'm still getting the same result. The file size is still going way over 1gb.

One last thing. The length of the original avi file is 43 minutes, but if I try to convert it to mpeg1, it'll change to 117 minutes.

>I'm trying to convert avi files to mpeg format so that the files can be played on a dvd player for a friend. And I'm still getting the same result. >The file size is still going way over 1gb.

In your earlier post you said you weren't trying to create a VCD.
If you wish to play an MPEG on a DVD player it has to be either DVD/SVCD or VCD. VCD is MPEG1.

To solve your length problem try raising the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to top of the list in the VFAPI plugins.

>>I'm trying to convert avi files to mpeg format so that the files can be played on a dvd player for a friend. And I'm still getting the same result. >The file size is still going way over 1gb.
>
>In your earlier post you said you weren't trying to create a VCD.
>If you wish to play an MPEG on a DVD player it has to be either DVD/SVCD or VCD. VCD is MPEG1.
>
>To solve your length problem try raising the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to top of the list in the VFAPI plugins.

Sorry, I forgot it is a VCD I'm creating. Anyways, making the Directshow file reader a higher priority seems to work. :) Thanks so much for yer help. :)