How do you pass through video without recoding for blu ray.

I am creating a Blu ray project where I just want to author the video at the native bit rate without encoding or recoding. I tried the automatic setting but the bit rate setting for average and maximum bitrate is greyed out at 23000 kbs.

The original source are 5 separate demuxed TS files that have been edited within the software onto one project.

1280x720 Progressive
50 fps frame rate
PAL
the files each have a different avg frame rate of about 15500 kbs

I am creating a blu ray for both pal and ntsc formats.

please advise

Rick

If you are changing from PAL to NTSC, then it will have be fully re-encoded no matter what. If you are just doing PAL to PAL then it shouldn't re-encode anything unless you've cut some scenes, and even then it will only re-encode the areas around the cut scenes.

While creating a blu ray noticed that the frame rate in the menu drop down for ntsc 720P 1280-720 was 29.97 fps. should be 59.94 fps. The menu upon play back was a little jittery.

Hmm, you're right that's not correct. In the meantime, you can change the menu framerate to 23.976 fps in the global menu settings--Output tab. That framerate should be compliant with the Blu-ray specs.

Playback does not catch up! is the message i get whn hitting the play button in the preview window. What does it mean?

And if i get it to play then the program locks up.

That happens if your PC is working t o hard...your processor is very busy...shut down other heavy programs and try again...you will see the preview.

Well no, processor is doing almost nothing.

Ive updated the graphic-card driver and that solved it.

its seems when i convert a file to blu-ray format the end result for the movie is the movie sticks a little during playback and is not running smooth as it should

hope you guys fix this asap

thanks

Is it somehow possible to create a 720p blu-ray project that's 30 fps instead of 24/50fps? Or if it's possible to just passthrough a AVCHD .m2ts file in 30 fps, rather than having to re-encode it?

Any solution for this is much appreciated, even if it's just a temporary one. Or if it's possible to swap the re-encoded file in the finalized project with the original one instead.

Best regards.

30 fps does not conform to the Blu-ray specs. It has to be 24 or 59.94 fps.

BTW, those were for NTSC. It's different for PAL but 30 fps is still not standard.

Would someone please look into adding support for either dolby digital 5.1 or ac3 5.1 output.
I have asked the question before as have numerous others and never once had a reply to say why you don't support it or even if it i going to be implemented.
You do not make it obvious on your features page that express does not support 5.1 output, in this day and age when 90% of people want to convert a file that contains 6 channel audio it is misleading to give the impression that this product can (in my opinion deliberately so)when in fact it can only handle the input of multi channel audio.

I like many others would not have paid for this product as i for one feel ripped off especially as this product is not cheap!!!

regards
Bluetac

You probably won't get an official answer here. This forum is just for users helping other users. You need to email them if you want some kind of real response.

In their defense, they don't say that it does do 5.1 audio on the features page, and if you look at the specs, they only list mono and stereo for the audio output (except for WMV, which CAN output up to 7.1 audio). So if you're assuming it can do 5.1 then I don't see how they're to blame. I don't expect them to have a feature listing saying "NEW! Cannot output 5.1 audio!"
How do they give the impression that it can output 5.1 audio?

Nevermind the fact that you could have downloaded the trial version and seen for yourself that it doesn't do it. I don't know about you, but I don't just purchase $100 software without trying it first.

Don't get me wrong though, I'd love to see 5.1 DD output too, but I guess it doesn't bother me as much since I don't have a 5.1 audio system yet and most of the things I've been converting don't have 5.1 audio to begin with.

TMPGEnc XPress support for AC3 5.1 output (a simple stream copy - no AC3 5.1 encoding) seems to be something like a Trillian Astra final version - with the difference that nobody thinks about or works on it.

Dear PEGASYS, TMPGEnc XPress is a great peace of software, really... but without a simple AC3 5.1 stream copy feature you could cut off DVD input completely as well. I don't want to use TMPGEnc XPress for my iPod only.

I really hope you will think about this... Bluetac and many, many others are right - absolutely!

Dear PEGASYS, I just tried TMPGEnc XPress 4.0 and the quality output is great, but yes, 5.1 is a great missing feature that should be there. I'm, and I'm sure there are a lots of people thinking the same way, owner of PS3, Xbox 360, mini pc or other media reader connected to an HDTV with a 5.1 sound system would like to put their movies and tv shows on these media readers.

Think about that, more TMPGEnc XPress selling could happen.

Oh and... I hope the Cuda or OpenCL integration will be better in the future. When encoding a Divx, only 7% of the power of the GPU was used. I'm already using a software that encode mp4 at 40fps of more in 720p(sure you know what software I'm talking about.). :)

Thanks

I agree with the others. TMPGenc Xpress 4 is almost perfect. Support for 5.1 DD support will bring it one step closer to perfection.


On a different note, CUDA support for transcoding (not just filtering) will also bring this wonderful program one step closer to perfection. Badaboom has shown how effective transcoding can be on the GPU, but they don't have the image quality TMPGenc has. Come on guys, give us 5.1 output and GPU transcoding and your little "Nothing else comes close!" slogan will be true!

So what other software that is similar to Xpress can actually do the 5.1?

Similar to Xpress is no measurement in this case.

Take a look around, most of the video encoding, transcoding solutions can do a direct stream copy of the audio stream -- AC3 5.1 audio stream included.

So I agree with the others. AC3 5.1 audio stream copy is a must have for this kind of software today.

Yes I was very disappointed to not find this feature in this great software as well.

Especially because 5.1 is fully supported in the Authoring Works 4 software.

How can I write a text in the beginning of a clip in my project?

Use the subtitles editor.
Go here: http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/taw4_tutorial/taw4_tu_subtitle01.html

Hi
In trial version I see that I cant transcode Bluray compliant files more than 32mbps.

Is there any solution to transcode at 40Mbps?
Thanks
Chandna

It doesn't seem like it. I think it's limited so that the audio and video bitrate combined don't exceed 40MB/s. If you choose Linear PCM as your audio stream format, you can get pretty close to 40MB/s.

I have an AVI file that is 700mb and 2 hours long. When I try to burn this using TMPG it will not work. TMPG claims that it will not fit a 4.7gb DVD disk putting the project size at roughly 6gb.

Is there anyway round this? I know it says 120 mins on the DVD and that this may be the problem.

Also, at PC World, 10 Writable, Dual Layer DVD Disks cost £24.99. Day-light robbery!!! lol

On the output panel, before you start the output, set the size to fit on a 4,7 dvd disc (target size). It will be compressed to fit.

I have tried this, but there is no option for compressing to fit a 4.7gb disk, or is there?

Also, I seem to have made the sound run out of sync (on time) but cannot remember where the option is to restore it. Thanks in advance.

You just choose the size on the Output Pannel in the box [Target Size]...there you have:
None (Transcoding will not be done)
Single Layer DVD Media (4.7 GB)<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<IT´S THIS ONE
Dual Layer DVD Media (8.5 GB)
Custom Target Size (Use target size setting)

You can also make your movie bigger then 4,7 (chosse Dual Layer DVD Media 8,5)and then use another program to burn the dvd, one that shrinks, like DVD2ONE or DVDFAB.In fact it´s better this way since TMPGEN 4 does NOT use the full space on a 4,7 dvd, if you chosse that size, but a "shrinker" does that when it shrinks a bigger movie like the one you made with 6 Gb.

About the sound...you used an AVI file, and that happens sometimes (AVI is a container with sound and image separated)...solution: convert your avi to mpeg2, and if the sound in the mpeg2 is in sync...them use it for your project, it will be OK for SURE.

Hello,

I have been using TDA3 for six months or so. I have been importing a variety of files, and having no issues regarding a/v sync. However, lately it's been churning out DVD's that are a second or two out of sync. The files themselves are ok. I have played them in a variety of players. I have also checked the preview within TDA3 and it is in sync. I went ahead and burned a couple DVD's using Windows, and the audio is right in sync with the video. Only when I burn the DVD's with TDA3 does this problem occur. I have read other accounts of this, but yet to see a clear answer on the issue.

All I know was that it was working, and now it isn't. Any help on this would be appreciated. Please keep in mind that I don't know much by way of tech-speak, so please reply as though I don't know what I am doing. For the most part, I don't. Thanks. -JB

Is it possible (when will it be possible) to convert the new file format that is used in the new Windows Media Center. The file format is WTV, and not anylonger DVR-MS.
The new Windows Media Center will be available with Windows 7, and can already now also be downloades seperately.
Thanks

All you have to do is right click on the new format .wtv file and choose "Convert to .dvr-ms Format." You can then import the newly created .dvr-ms file directly into TMPGEnc.

Convertion to dvr-ms is not a solution, it's just a waste of time. The software should be able to open wtv files directly - do you plan to implement this feature and when? Thank you, Pavel (satisfied customer)

the conversion wtv to dvr-ms is not possible when wtv is H264 container. When is container for mpeg2 the conversion to dvr-ms works but not with H264.
Did TMPEGEnc directly support wtv ??

Any news on getting 5.1 surround sound fixed or aleast a alternative? Just found out that all my ripped Blu Ray's did not encode the 5.1 as TMPGenc Express 4.6.3.268 had me believe it did. I had selected the WMA 10 Pro and it said the track was 5.1, yet after verifying in my audio receiver, it only plays back in stereo. I checked my standard DVD's and they play back in 5.1, but the M2TS files that were converted to WMV using WMA 10 Pro 5.1 are NOT. Tell me this is being worked on. How can this even be acceptable!

Yeah people that think theirs are in 5.1 just b/c Xpress says it is better check the movies again. If they are, please tell me what your setup is, so I can duplicate.

How are you inputting it into your receiver? Unless your receiver has a WMA Pro decoder, you'll have to input with 5.1 analogue inputs. SPDIF input will only give you stereo (as far as WMA Pro is concerned).

Using HDMI all the way through.

Why would it matter if my reciver could decode wma? Doesn't the computer decode it, and then send it to the receiver? I could understand if the computer couldn't decode it, but if it can then there is no need for the receiver amp to deocode it again.