omg, the pain, so much suffering just to make a st00pid dvd -movie, can't they make it anymore difficult!? anyway, found the settings, but dunno wut to change in the GOP thingy? any advise/ sollutions!? thanx
Hiya paracite, Have a look through the help file that comes with TMPGEnc DVD Author, there you will find the settings you require for TMPGEnc 2.5 (resolution, bitrates, audio, GOP limits etc.) The problems you have with encoding are common. A lot of Newbies don't take onboard the fact that DVD-Compliant MPEG-2 files are a SUB-SET of MPEG-2 (all DVD-Compliant files are MPEG-2, but NOT ALL MPEG-2 files are DVD-Compliant). Have Fun...
mmh, i read the help file, did as it said, but didn't understand anything bout the gop thingy.. the rest i did like the help text of dvd author said... then again, somewhere it was written to follow the wizard, so i did it.. but that wizard gave me all the rates, size etc, wrongly...!? wut am i not now getting in meh head! =/
To get rid of the error about the "Sequence Herder before each GOP" have to select certain setting In Tmpgenc, so run tmpgenc and go to "Settings" to "Gop" and were it says "output Interval for Gop Header" set it to "1" and this should solve your Problem...Cheers
tried it, but didn't work. Now i'm trieing Output interval 15 and MAX number of frames in a GOP 15... is it completly wrong that too?
Well I can tell you Having One Sequence header for every 15 GOP"s is NOT going to work...Haveing a 15 frame Gop is OK but you MUST have a Sequence Header before EVERY Gop not Every 15 Gop"s..That is the whole Nature of that error you had but the other error were for different reasons...As long as you have a GOP has 21 or less Frames and a Sequence header before Every Gop and are useing on of these Resolutions for NTSC of cource "720+480(Full D1), 704+480(Broadcast D1), 352+480(Half D1), 352+240(Sif), and you have a Framerate of 29.97fps or 23.976fps with 3:2 pulldown, and have a Video Bitrate Under 9800kbs, then you will have an Absolutly Perfectly Compliant NTSC DVD Mpeg2 file.....
MPEG-2?? that's wut i should use.. i was using 1,, not that i know wut the different is.. But since i live in Finland, we don't have NTSC... atleast not our TV.. we have PAL? u know the settings for the best quality for PAL? Thnx
Well that was your Problem ..All Standard DVD Formats MUST Use Mpeg2 ,There is only one DVD Standatd that uses Mpeg1 and that is the SIF Standatd which is not used Very Much and when it is used they usually use Mpeg2 with it...The Pal DVD Standard needs a Resolution of "720+576(Full D1),704+576(Broadcast D1) ,352+576(Half D1) and ,352+288(SIF) and must use a Frame rate of 25fps...I believe the Pal standard supports a Slightly Longer GOP but you still get better compression with a Shorter GOP so a Good size for pal is 12 or 15, and Pal also needs a sequence header before Each GOP....Cheers
aaaah, noow i get it! sweeet!! i really appriciate the help. Thnx Pete, Thnx Minion! but don't worry, i'll be back, with more problems, more issues, more questions once i start converting to VOB =P
Hiya all, [bold]Minion:[/bold] I don't want to seem as if I am disagreeing with you, but that is a bit misleading: He is not creating DVD STANDARD files at this moment in time, he is trying to create DVD-COMPLIANT files - different things.... Look in the TMPG DVD Author help file under DVD Author Specification, there is a full page, approx 1/3rd of which is specs for the use of MPEG-1 files as sources for DVD Author, which Paracite is using.. MPEG-1 files ARE acceptable, if they meet the input specs (see Supported video stream specifications). All these settings are supported in TMPGEnc 2.5 Have Fun...
What makes you Think that he wants to use Mpeg1?? I was under the Impression he was useing Mpeg1 because he thought he had to, and if you are going to use the Sif Standard which Is the Only DVD standard that supports Mpeg1 you Might as well use Mpeg2 because of the superior Compression cuz the SIF standard will support both Mpeg1 and Mpeg2 at 352+240/288-Pal for DVD and Mpeg2 Looks better........Cheers
Hiya Minion, Nothing, and I never claimed such. I was trying to point out (and failing miserably, it seems) that there is a difference between creating DVD STANDARD files and DVD-COMPLIANT files. As Paracite is using TMPGEnc to create files that TMPG DVD Author will ACCEPT, I attempted to point out the difference. DVD Author is the program (mentioned as being used) responsible for creating DVD STANDARD files, which it creates FROM DVD-COMPLIANT inputs. input file(s) -> DVD Author -> output files where input file(s) can be MPEG-1 (DVD-COMPLIANT) OR MPEG-2 (DVD-COMPLIANT) as listed in the help file of DVD Author. output files will be DVD STANDARD. Your statement that [bold]All Standard DVD Formats MUST Use Mpeg2[/bold] was misleading, and I was only pointing that out. I apologise if the failure to communicate clearly was mine. [bold]Paracite:[/bold] sorry for hijacking.
Nah, ur weren´t hijacking or anything, it's just good for me, if u guys have different views of different things.. i keep getting some stuff in my head, which i didn't understand at the beginning!
Umm, ok, now i've converted to VOB.. but howcome the Audio_TS file is empty, and Video_TS file has things in it!? Can i anyway burn the movie and hear, or will it be mute?
Paracite, If you have got to the stage where you have VOBs (assuming you used DVD Author), you have a playable DVD structure - try it out in your software DVD application. You only need the VIDEO_TS folder (and all files contained in it, of course) on the DVD. WARNING: the AUDIO_TS folder MAY be needed on the DVD (even though it is empty). As far as I have been able to ascertain, the AUDIO_TS folder came about because of the addition of DVD-AUDIO support to the DVD Standard (addition was made about a year after DVD-VIDEO Standard was released). Subsequently, it seems that: SOME players NEED the AUDIO_TS folder to be there or they will not work. SOME players take up to 10 seconds longer to recognise the DVD if the AUDIO_TS folder is missing. The VAST MAJORITY of players couldn't care less. So, burning the empty AUDIO_TS folder on the disk will do no harm, it takes a very small number of bytes (an entry in the structure table), and MAY improve compatability with SOME players. Suck it and see.... Have Fun....
OOh, k, well, atm i'm burning the movie, after a sucessful convert and shrink with DVDshrink. Let's se how it goes. Thanx for your help!!
Good, there are a few things we can do to improve quality, if you want, but it can take lots of time. TMPGEnc 2.5 is VERY powerful, but also very complicated, and that is where quality can be lost or gained. Have Fun...
hmm, well we can go to that a lil later ;-) now another problemo accured, now sound on the movie, burn process was complete, i burned it on a DVD+RW.. it played on our DVD-player, but without sound..?
No sound? The problem PROBABLY lies with the AVI into TMPGEnc 2.5 step. Download GSpot: http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_tools/gspot.cfm and feed the AVI file into it, press render then report back with the results (dimensions, audio etc). Have Fun
K, here: Video Src Type. [bold]4ccIV3[/bold] Audio Src. [bold]MPEGLAYER3 (MP3) (0x0055)[/bold] Video Path. [bold](S) --> AVI Splitter --> DivX Decoder Filter --> (R)[/bold] Audio Path. [bold](S) --> AVI Splitter --> MPEG Layer-3 Decoder --> (R)[/bold] that the thingy u wanted?
