I have made a free, proof-of-concept program in Visual Basic that shows how it would be possible to enable mixing frame-rates in progressive video using TMPGEnc. If anybody uses/tests it, wants to help develop it, etc, I'd love to know.

It uses no blending of frames or interlaced 3:2 pulldown. Instead, it uses the "REPEAT_FIRST_FIELD" and "TOP_FIELD_FIRST" MPEG-2 flags to instruct the player software or device on how long to display each frame. By applying these differently throughout the file, a mixed frame rate can be achieved in a progressive MPEG2 video (these flags are unfortunately not available in MPEG-1).

Here's my post on the doom9 forum that tells more about the program: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=93691

Here's the link to my page with the program file and a tutorial on how to use it: http://davidbloom.home.mchsi.com

Thanks!
David Bloom
tmpgbbs@3lesson.org

I have an avi movie which plays fine on windows media player (with srt subtitles showing). When I open it in TMPGEnc to convert to VCD the subtitles show up just fine, but the picture is upside down. The resulting VCD is upside down except for the subtitles which are fine.

The DirectShow Multimedia File Reader VFAPI plug-in is the highest priority. If I lower the priority the avi will be right-side-up and encode to VCD perfectly... except without subtitles.

So I encoded the movie right-side-up without subtitles thinking I could then raise the priority of DirectShow Multimedia File Reader back to the highest spot and then re-encode a second time with subtitles. No luck, the subtitles will not show up on preview when I try to re-encode the VCD to VCD with subtitles.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

You have several options depending on what codecs and software you are using.
If you are using VOBSUB to overlay the subs then you can check the option to either flip the picture or the subs or both.

If you are using FFDSHOW to decode the AVI you can check the 'flip picture' option. Anothjer option is to frame serve the AVI through AVIsynth and use the 'Flip vertical' command.

You can also try making the VFW reader or AVI2 reader in the VFAPI plugins top priority however you may lose the subs.

The mpeg files are converted through TMPGEnc Plus with AVI file and wav file which is made through VirtualDub-1.6.4 and HeadAC3he_024a12.
The mpeg file is played correctly with sound if the convert templet is "Video-CD NTSC (MPEG-1 352x240 29.97fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)"
But other mpeg file is played with NO SOUND if the convert templet is "Super Video-CD NTSC (MPEG-2 480x480 29.97fps CBR 2520kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)"
The audio source are same at both.

I wish MPEG-2 file with sound.
What is matter?
Please help...

I wouldn't bother with the wav extraction etc. Just load the avi into tmpgenc and set to ES video + audio. This works well in my experience (for a PAL DVD)

Hi, I read some old messages talking about templates for encoding VCD at best quality. I've got some Divx movies that I'd like to convert to either VCD, XVCD, SVCD, or XSVCD. Whatever it takes to give me the same quality of the original source. I don't care the size of the files and I don't mind if I have to use 3 CDs to save a 1 hour movie.
I prefer VCDs (non-standard) so if anyone could send me a template to give me the most cristal clear quality I'd be thankful.
Either send the template or send the whole settings I should use... whatever.
Thanks in advance

I've got an avi file that won't convert properly to mpeg in tmpgenc. The picture is a wash of colors when I look at it in 'filter settings' under 'source range' or in the preview window. All my other avi files convert perfectly. I did a check on the avi file using avicodec and it tells me this:

Video : 642 MB, 1049 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 608*336 (16:9), DIV3 = DivX v3 ;-) MPEG-4 (Low-Motion), Supported


I also ran gspot on this non working avi file and it tells me it's a div3 codec and that I have two supporting codecs installed that can play it. I also did a render check and it says my direct show can play it as well. All my media players (vlc, wmp) can play this avi file. So why does tmpgenc show me nothing but a mess of colors when I try to convert it to mpeg?

I've used tmpgenc before, but this time, i got a problem. my output file is alot longer and alot bigger than the oringinal. from past experiences i know this is not suppose to happen and the size is suppose to be about the same as the oringinal aswell as the length. However, its not and i get 2 hrs of black screen. i remember solving this problem before, but that was years ago, so i cant remember, anyone care to help me solve this problem of black screen after video?

P.S. i checked the FAQ and i used the search, i cant find a solution.

Same problem here. I haven't changed any of the settings but the result is awful. I've unistalled and reinstalled the program but nothing has changed.
Hope someone's got a clue about the problem.

Using TmpgEnc to convert Avi to M2V, it always stop at 97% with "Stream Writing Error". I have followed the instruction by TmpgEnc official site to change the Environmental setting for the temp file, it still won't rectify the problem. Can someone help?

This does not seem to be an issue with TMPGEnc itself, but I am hoping someone here can shed some light on my issue.

I have a Dazzle DVC80 capture device and using MovieStar5 to capture my video to raw avi. For 25 minutes of video, my file size is roughly 5 gigs.

I tried to use the MovieStar software, TMPGEnc, and also Nero to convert this raw avi file to SVCD. Each program will completely lock up my computer and random times during the encoding process.

I tried VCD and it looked like it was working, but with about 4 minutes of encoding time left, everything locked up again.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this may be happening?

I'm using the VirtualDub MPEG2 version and want to remove logo's from my MPEG2 files. I use TMPGENC to encode the files that are modified in VirtualDub using the Frame Server function.

However following the tutorials to remove the logo's yielded files that were orginal 2.5GB down to 350MB. Naturally with this unwanted compression I get unwanted artifacts etc.

Has anyone used this process to remove the logo's without altering the video quality?

Are there special settings within TMPGenc that need to be set to retain the original video quality? If so, what or where can I find these settings?

Here is the method that I have been using to remove the logo's.

1) Open VirtualDub and load a MPEG2 file.
2) Open filters and add Delogo and then configure to remove logos.
3) Then select Video Compression and here is where I select Uncompressed.
4)Then I open Frameserver
5) Then I open TmpgEnc to encode the files

As mentioned before the original size was 2.5GB , after doing the above the filesize is 350MB. I don't want to compress anything video or audio , all I want to do is remove the logo's.

I have tried other settings such as : select in Audio & Video processing modes..."Direct Stream Copy" or "Full Processing Mode"... Neither option yielded an uncompressed file. By the way when I used Direct Stream Copy it took over 18+ hours.

Another point to mention is that in all cases the audio was synced with the video.



Any help, comments, tutorials etc will be appreciated.

Thanks!

Cannot get the audio to snyc up with the video. There is about a 6-8 second delay. Video happens then audio come in about 8 seconds later.

REQUEST for an x64 build now that WinXP-x64 has been officially released

This is one app that would benefit greatly by 64-bits; with sixteen 64-bit gp registers and a huge amount of addresable memory I wouldn't be surprised if the speed increase weren't threefold over a 32-bit build.

here here to that would definatelty get my dual core 3800 cooking

yeah, definitely.

i think its divx or xvid encoders, encode twice as fast on xp64, without being optimised.

x64 will revolutionise video encoding!, its probably the only real reason a home user should chose it over 32 bit. (ur average joe blog :D)

I have an avi file (which plays flawlessly), with ac3 (5.1 CH audio). I seperate it (using Virtual Dub) and produce m2v file with the video only using tmpgenc.

I finally wish to make a DVD out of it.

The result is always deley in the vidoe of about 7-8 seconds.

How can this be corrected?

Is it a continous async (delay) or is it becoming bigger and bigger while playing?

I have this problem. Mine the delay gets worse as the video goes along. I separate the video from the audio and save the audio as a wav file using virtualdubmod. It doesn't happen on all videos but is the same on repeated attempts at the video. When watching the DVD you'd hear little hickups in the audio and they accumulate over time to make the delay worse and worse each time.