I am trying to convert AVI files from my digital still camera (CANON Powershot A70) to MPEG 1 files but I get the following error: "Cannot open or unsupported". The AVI files are 15 fps and resolution is 640 x 480 with mono sound. Any advice appreciated, thanks.

Try moving the VFAPI setting for images to the top of the list, and of course, make sure it has a tick in the box!

Images?
It's an AVI.
You either need the codec your camera is using to decode the AVI and/or you need to raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2.
If your AVI is DV then try raising the AVI2(openDML) reader to 2 instead.

just wanted to mention that my digital camera creates MJPEG (motion jpeg) encoded avi files, so youll need to get a codec for that if you dont already have it .. if you can play the avi file in media player then you shoule always be able to use tmpgenc to encode by moving the direcshow media file reader to a higer priority than the other file readers.
Jon

I have some AVI files which sound the frequency as 48000, which I believe is Dolby 5.1, how do I get TMPGEnc to encode these to VCD? I have the AC3 audio filter, and I can watch the files fine on the PC as AVIs. TMP leaves teh audio box blank on the wizard when I load the file.

I have tried Vdub as well, to rip the sound out to wav, but with limited success.

Any ideas?

Go to http://www.dvdrhelp.com and get VirtualDubMod to demux the audio stream. If it's an AC3 audio stream, get Ciler's AC3 tool (also available @ dvdrhelp.com) to convert the AC3 stream to WAV. You can then use the WAV file as the audio source.

Okay, thanks. I'll see how I go on!

Download and install the AC3ACM decompressor.
TMPG will then be able to decode your audio.

I'll try it.

Ive installed the AC3ACM decompressor, now when I open the AVI file to encode TPMGenc is telling me the file is unsupported!

I was getting this before, so I installed FFDshow, which let me encode the avi files again. Should I reinstall this? Or is the AC3ACM included in FFDshow?

Help!

No, FFDSHOW is a Video decoder not and audio decoder.
Install both and you should be fine.

>No, FFDSHOW is a Video decoder not and audio decoder.
Install both and you should be fine.

Sorry the above should read:

No, FFDSHOW is a Video decoder not an audio decoder.
Install both and you should be fine.

Thanks Ashy, its excepting the files now, just the mpeg filesize is massive. Its encoding the movie then the sound, making the size twice as big as it should be. Direct show is already set to 2 in VFAPI settings. Ive come across this before but forgot what I did!

What do you mean it's encoding the movie then the sound?

I think you are mistaken. TMPG encodes both at the same time.
What you may be experincing is TMPG encoding blank data at the end of the movie the same length as the actual movie.

You have 2 options if this is the case.
1. Simply cut it away with the Merge&Cut tool in TMPG MPEGtools
2. Use the source range function and set the start and end points of the encode.

OK, so I installed the latest version, and now I've got error messages out the ass. What the hell? It won't even open an AVI to encode to VCD 1.1 over half the time. I went to an OLD copy of TMPGEnc because I couldn't find where I'd saved the one I was using before I installed this latest copy. No good. It doesn't seem to be compatible with VCD 1.1, which is what I use because my DVD player seems to like it, and play it back with very good quality. (For those of you who are going to think you know more than I do about the settings, I set video for NTSC 29.97 fps at a resolution of 352x240, and the audio to MPEG 1 Layer 2 224kps. In other words, to VCD 1.1) So... I delete all the stuff from the older version, reinstall the newer version into the TMPGEnc folder, and OCCASIONALLY it will work. Win2K is nothing but Windows NT 5.0, and XP is 5.1, so if anyone else has been locked into this particular corner of hell, and has a solution, please reply to this.
For those of you who want to know, the normal error messages are either write errors to ntdll.dll, or write errors to TMPGEnc.exe. Thing's driving me bonkers. HELP!!!

>So... I delete all the stuff from the older version, reinstall the newer version into the TMPGEnc folder

What do you mean you by this?
You should have completely deleted the whole folder before attemptimg to install the new version.

Also a bit more info wouldn't go amiss.
Like what sort of source are you using and where did you get them?
What sort of CPU do you have...AMD..P4 which?

Ok, computer specs:
AMD Athlon XP2400+ (2.0ghz) processor
768mb of ddr2100 ram
Soyo Dragon KT333 Ultra motherboard
128mb GeForce4 video card

Source files:
AVI's I created from dvd-rips.
Sound: LAME mp3 codec 44,100hz @ 224kps, stereo
Video: XviD codec 1050kps, 1 pass CBR or DivX codec 1050kps, 1 pass CBR
Source files created with FlaskMPEG
Original rip to hard drive using Smartripper
Split on keyframes using VirtualDub

I've been backing my DVD's up this way for about a year now, and it worked just fine until I installed the latest version of TMPGEnc. Anyone have any ideas?

Firstly try this.
Download and install FFDSHOW. Configure it to decode all MPEG4 AVI's including your XVID.

If that doesn't work on ot's own then goto Options>enviromental settings>VFAPI plugins and raise the priority of the 'Directshow file reader' to 2

Secondly I'm a bit worried about the process you are using to create your DVD backups.

You do realise what you are doing is a waste of time and quality. Nobody uses the FlaskMPEG method anymore.

You don't need to create an intermediate AVI. This will just prolonge the process and definitely degrade the quality of the final output.

You should be using the DVD2AVI method of creating DVD backups.
Simply install DVD2AVI and run it then load your VOBS ripped from the DVD into it and select File>Save project.

DVD2AVI will create 2 files. A .d2v and a .wav
Now just load the .d2v as the video and the .wav as the audio into TMPG and encode.

This method simply creates a direct link between TMPG and the VOBS and is by far the best and fastest method there is.

Time's never been an issue. I usually set it to do whatever conversion I want, and then head out the door. I use FlaskMPEG because it's what I've always used, and am comfortable with it. The only other DVD2... tool I've used was DVDx, and it's proven itself inferior to FlaskMPEG. I'm willing to give DVD2AVI a chance though, and have downloaded it. As for quality, it may not be DVD quality anymore, but I don't have to worry about my nephews scratching up my DVD's this way. :-)
One more question. The newest version of TMPGEnc will split the files for me? And, if so, where is this setting that gets it to do it? Mine always tells me that I've selected too much data for the selected destination (80 minute CD).
I appreciate the help Ashy, and will post again within the next day or so to let you know how things have worked out.

Posted this on the dvdrhelp.com dvd author forum but got no responses. Thought I'd try it here:

I've been using TDA for a week or so and have a question about title and track menus and remote controls.

What I wanted to accomplish was making a dvd of my son's 3 dvd videos and to have a simple menu. I wanted the dvd to start up automatically and loop at the end and for the menu to appear if I pressed the menu button on my remote - profound I know.

I used dvdshrink to rip the movies separately and made 3 tracks in TDA. In menu options I chose Main Menu Only and for the tracks to play on startup and for them to loop. I burned it to disk and tried it out on my 4 dvd players.

Everything played ok but nothing happened when pressing the menu button on my remotes. On two remotes pressing Title would display the menu, one pressing Top Menu would display the menu, and my fourth and newest dvd/vhs combo wouldn't display it at all - no title or top menu buttons.

So I made a new dvd choosing automatic with the same play options and hitting the menu button would now display the Track Menu with the same thing as above happening when attempting to get to the main menu.

My awe-inspiring intellect quickly concluded that the Title button only works with the main menu and the Menu button only works with the track menu. I also wondered why my new dvd player didn't have a title button. Stupid new dvd player.

Just for fun I made a test dvd with roxio dvd builder with only a main menu and 3 tracks and when pressing menu OR title/top menu the Main Menu displays. Go figure.

So how do I get TDA to do the same thing? Going into this I natively thought hitting menu would open the menu. Is there something I'm not understanding? Thanks.

well.
there are several different menus on DVDs.
-> title, root, subtitle, audio, angle and chapter.

most dvd-players can only access the title and the root menu directly via the remote.
seems like TDA just assigns a command to the "title"-menu, not "root".

something like that :)

Hi everyone,

I'm using TMPGEnc and the project wizard keeps freezing on me when i load a SVCD. I also tried to load it without the project wizard. I even have PowerDVD installed as a external codec and the VFAPI Cyberlink is set for 0. I made the SVCD with TMPGEnc. I also got the newer version of the program from tmpgenc.net. Does anyone know why it's freezing on me?? Please reply back as soon as possible. Thanx guys..

Those Decoders do not work very well that is why the disconued active support for those Decoders and Now use a Built in one that comes when you buy the Plus version...I found the best and easiest method for encodeing Mpeg2 files as the source file is to Use DVD2AVI to Frameserve the Mpeg2 Video to Tmpgenc ,It is faster than other Mpeg2 decoders and this way you only encode the Video because re-encodeing the audio will just degrade the audio Quality and the SVCD Audio is allready VCD ,SVCD, and DVD Compliant....

I was wondering if anyone could help me out with this.

I was trying to load up an .AVI file (Using the NTSC Film template, which I believe to be correct based on the FPS of the .AVI), and I loaded it into video just fine.

When I tried to load the .AVI file into the Audio bar, it said:

"File [Address To File On My PC] can not open, or unsupported."

I then tried to use another .AVI, and the same thing happened.

Both of them use the AC3 Codec for audio purposes.

I was wondering if anyone could help me out?

if you come across a problem with tmpgenc, it has most probably has been covered on previous post, so to save urself time in the future try searching first.

but in answer to ur question in short: U NEED CODECS

if your not sure what video and audio codecs you need for any avi, d/l a program called 'g-spot codec information', it will tell you exactly what codecs you need to be able play and encode the avi

(slaps self)
sorry didnt read ur post properly, yes im blind =p

you need an ac3 decompressor

never mind my last posts if video loads up ok then it aint a codec issue

tmpgenc doesnt support ac3 (not that im aware of), so you must convert the ac3 audio to wav so tmpgenc can recognise it

i think (dont hold me to this) that vitualdub may be able to do this

Get VirtualDubMod. Demux the audio stream with vdubmod. Re-encode the AC3 stream to WAV using Ciler's AC3 Tool. You can get VirtualDubMod, and Ciler's AC3 Tool @ http://www.dvdrhelp.com.
Good luck.

TMPG will decode Ac3 in AVI if you install the AC3ACM decompressor.
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/AC3ACM/

(slaps self again) =p

i made a 16 minute video which i had to capture with virtualdub because i'm on windows ME and i have that darn 4 gig limit. anyway...when i transfer the avi files to mpeg 2 svcd the files sound fine...but when i joined all the mpeg 2 files together,the joined file now has a beep and pause where the splits used to be. is there a way to get rid of this or make it less obvious?? maybe using the source range to cut out the small pause and beeps?? if so how many frames would be best to cut out?? thanks if any one can answer in advance...sorry if it's a dumb question..just a beginner.

First of all you should capture your AVI's as segmented AVI's to get around the 4GB barrier.
This means that when the file size approaches a predefined size such as 3.9GB the capture program will begin capturing to another file. These files will all automatically link up as one big file in either Virtualdub or TMPG or indeed any program that supports segmented AVI's (I guess you are already capturing segmented anyway).

Rename your AVI's in sequence such as AVI-001.avi, AVI-002.avi and so on.
Start TMPG and goto Option>enviromental settings>general then put a check in the box 'Open sequence files as a movie'
Now load your first AVI and the rest will automatically load.

The answer to your original problem is that you must click the 'Correct' button before joining the MPEGs. This will avoid files being joined at the wrong point in the GOP.

When ever i try to split an mpeg with with the mpeg tools feautre tmpgenc crashes right before it starts multiplexing. Any ideas?

hi i dl ffdshow and enabled the codecs..i can see the video but no sound.. what can i do??!!

thx very much!

also..i have trouble converting it to wav using virtual dub...

can someone guide me in the steps to using virtual dub in converting audio to wav...i think i did the wrong things. thx

Make sure you select 'full processing' under audio options then select PCM as the compression method. Next click File>save wav

can someone guide me in the steps to using virtual dub in converting audio to wav...i think i did the wrong things. thx

when i try to save wav...it says "no audio decompressor could be found"...would should I do?

I dl the AC3 ACM Decompressor but i don't know how to activate it in virtual dub when saving the file

You don't need Virtualdub if you have mthe AC3ACM decompressor. TMPG will decode the audio in the AVI directly once it's installed.

Angel,
Do yourself a huge favor, and download VirtualDubMod from http://www.dvdrhelp.com and use it to demux the audio stream. Then you can convert the stream to WAV. MOST avi's use either AC3 audio, or MP3 audio. VirtualDubMod will give you an exact copy of whichever one the avi you're working with uses, and you can then use another tool to convert it to WAV if that's what you want to do. Other usefull tools: MP3 to WAV - MusicMatch Jukebox, AC3 to WAV - Ciler's AC3 Tool. MusicMatch can be downloaded from http://www.musicmatch.com and Ciler's AC3 Tool can be downloaded at dvdrhelp.com. Good luck.

You don't need another tool to do the Ac3-wav conversion if you have Virtualdubmod or Virtualdub_ac3. Either will convert Ac3 to a wav.

In any case you don't need any third party tools once the AC3ACM decompressor is installed. TMPG WILL decode the audio once it's installed.

Cna TMPGEnc create MPEG-2 TS File?

or support transcoder?

No. You will have to convert it to a TS with something like MPEG2VCR or MPEGcarver.

Just started using the software. I need to save the cut/edited VOBs for future use. Currently, the only way I know how to do it is to author the project, then save the resulting VOBs; and if I have a few cuts, I just separate them into different tracks, they they come up separate VOBs too.

Is there an easier way - meaning, not having to go through the authoring step, like a save clip button or something ?

Just creat a TitleSet without a Menu, that's all.

The downloaded XVID movie is in audio sync. Everytime I process it with either TMPG, virtual dub or easy video splitter, sound goes out of sync. The sound is encoded with VBR, which is causing the problem. I've had this problem before but then I managed to fix it by uncrompressing the audio to .wav, but it isn't working with this file. It's out of sync from the start. I expect I may need to delay video somehow,(it's ahead by about 3 seconds) but how?

Use virtual dub to find out the delay you need then add this to the source range in TMPG.

thanks, i got it working perfectly now. I also ran into a second issue with a stream write error that was fixed by downloading the ffdshow codec.