The divx engine in tmpgenc dvd author 3 with divx authoring is rather old.
That is to say: divxenc.ax, divxdec.ax, divxmux.ax should be updated. The corresponding files in Corel DVD Copy 6 pro are much newer than in TDA3.

I use the chaptering tool to automatically generate chapters. The problem is that if I don't manually do through and name each chapter after they are automatically created, the chaptering doesn't work in the final video file.

I will get some Chinese character as the chapter names (same character for every chapter) and selecting a chapter returns to the beginning of the video when using DIVX's official player ver. 6.7.0.

How do I fix this and what am I doing wrong?

If there is no fix, is there a way to automatically generate chapter numbers/names so I don't have to manually name each chapter?

Thank you.

John,

Are you able to play your DVD on any DVD player or do you have to have a DivX player only for the video to play correctly?
\Peter

TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX Authoring v3.1.1.174
when I try to modify the menu configuration, the font selection could not show the Chinese font name(for example:Song , only show ???.

Just started using TMPGEnc author and like a lot of things about it, but I having trouble getting a menu the way I want.

I have a TOP menu with several chapters, one is DOCUMENTS, what I want to do is click on DOCUMENTS, go to a sub menu with 3 different choices, each choice is a collection of several documents. Choosing any of the 3 would take you to another menu displaying all the pages individually for play.

Closest I can get is 2 menu levels and use slideshow, but it does not do what I really want, am I missing something simple here ?

I get the aforementioned error when i try to load the disc writing tool. I have re-installed cleaned the registry and it still comes up. B's recored is started in services. No idea what it could be any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hi. I successfully created an ultra divx with menus. I used DiVX player to test it on the computer and everything works find. But when I try to play it on my DVD/DiVX player it goes straight into the movie. The menus never appear. Just in case I got a philips dvdr3505. Any help would be great.

Your player probably isn't DivX Ultra certified. If it doesn't have the DivX Ultra logo on it, then it won't be able to display the menus.

For differences between DivX certified and DivX Ultra certified go here:
http://www.divx.com/products/ultra-vs-certified.php

Thx for the repply. I didnt know there was a substantial difference between DivX abd DivX Ultra. Anyways, thx for the help :)

Is it possible to extract still images from a video clip (mpeg-1) in Editor 2.0 premium?

I'm trying to create a PAL DVD from a 25fps avi file with pcm audio. Everything is fine through the start/source/simulation flow. When I try to create the DVD I get an error "No stream available. (error Code 0x80048001)"
Any ideas what might be wrong ?

Turn off the motion for thumbnails in the chapter section.
You can find it in the "global dvd settings -> motion" and then just uncheck thumbnails.
It definetly worked for me!

Just downloaded a trial version (4.4.2.238) and installed it. I cannot start a "New Project" because of the error. Running XP SP1. What is missing?

I have the same problem on WinXP SP2...
Hope someone replies with an answer..

Regretfully, we haven't heard one reply from anybody including TMPGEnc Support.
Therefore I uninstalled mine and shall pursue other options.

yeah seems the lab rats at tmpgenc didnt actually do any checkign before releasing this verison becuase as you can tell it was shafted as soon as you try anything.

This same thing is happening to me. I've reinstalled this thing 3 times already, and nothing works.

Hi,

is there any possibility to stop an authored DVD movie with the end of each chapter (without jumping to a menu)?

The Movie should stop at the last keyframe of eacht chapter, so that it continues after the user goes on to the next chapter.

Greets

We are using 4.0 to encode our videos to HD wmv videos for web. We start with a .mov file created in Final Cut Pro on a Mac and after the video is encoded it ends up being noticably lighter than the original footage. Is there any reason that this is occuring that I am missing?

Thanks for your help.

Dave G

I have this feeling you viewed the end item via quicktime, if so DONT as for some stupid reason it lightens any video, try viewing it via vlc player or medeia classic player etc.

I downloaded the "TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX® Authoring Menu Templates" looking for something a bit different than what came with my purchase of DVD Author. I found one that almost works perfectly in this package http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/template/tda30_template3.html (The Autumn Moon template).

The only issue with this is the placement of the preview and chapter links. I'd like to move them, but all these items are showing as locked.

Can they be unlocked so they can be moved? If so, how?


EtG

Unfortunately, the premade menu templates can't be edited. :(

Can anyone suggest a way to create or edit the backgroung/button template files?