Needing help with TMPGenc and Virtualdub

Well, as far as I remember...

I loaded the avi into Virtualdubmod FIRST. went to the audio screen, right clicked avi, set to full audio proc, saved audio as wav to a folder.

brought up the GUI program to conver the wav into ac3. Ok, done. Audio is complete.

Now with the video, I did everything you asked. Took the avi once again and opened it up in TMPGenc 2.5 ES (video only) NRSC or whatever that format code was thats NOT pal.

Set header to 1, gop frames to 18, etc

Did the settings you asked, 5666kbs set, did the convert to M2v.

Opened up TDA, and clicked on ADD file. Loaded up the video, clicked on add file again and loaded the audio file.

skipped the chapters, and went from add file directly to start convert and THATS when I saw the length bar in red going over 4.7gbs, but afterwards showed in Nero Burning Rom to be only 1.1gbs long when I dragged over audio and video folder over.

But results were only a 30 min segment of the movie and only 1 chapter

 

Yup. TDA has authored one chapter.
Because you told it to.
Either author them all, or none, but because you simply clicked NEXT...
Make sure the .vob's add up to approximately the same number of megabytes as the original m2v+ac3 and it should be ok.

 

Well, if it helps, the error or message I was getting after adding both the video and audio in TDA was....

THE CAPACITY OF THE DVD IS EXCEEDED
The estimated size of the dvd folder you are about to create is 12465mbs.

This exceeds the capacity of a 4.7gb dvd by 4437mbs

I just click on ignore error and continue which is an option.

when I click on ignore, it says

Ignorning error will result in an out-of-standard DVD. do you which to ignore and continue?

I click on yes and it converts both files to created folders in a destination drive Ive chosen

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Well, I did it again in TDA, viewed the chapter screen, choose it to load 1 chapter, all video, and I played it and it played the whole movie on one chapter.

When I converted it, it still only converted 25 mins of the movie.

I just dont know what Im doing wrong.

 

Something may be wrong with the avi, and Gspot is reporting a 90 minute video, which is probably double that, or tmpgenc is outputting a video at twice the size it should be.
I have no idea why TDA would report 12465mbs. That's just silly.
Is the final m2v +ac3 actually 12465mb, or what?
TDA may be screwing this up, although it does not re-encode anything, and I don't know enough about TDA to give more suggestions.
Post a screenshot of the folder with the m2v and ac3 in it, as well as a shot inside the finished VIDEO_TS folder (all the vobs and stuff). I need to see sizes.

 

Yah, I think it will be best if I screen shot what Im viewing and go from there and we can figure this out together...

How do you post up screen shots on here, Jim?

 

You'll need some web space. Usually your ISP gives you a few meg. Upload the pictures to there, then link from here.
If you haven't got anywhere to upload to, just email them to me. I'll put them up.
ONE TIME disposable email address: dvdeo@shaw.ca

 

Sounds good.

Check your email. Im just going to send you the shots via email in order and you can figure this out with me.

Will send you 2 emails or 3 depending on the amount of shots I need to send you.

 

Unfortunately, I don't have MS Office installed, so I can't view your attachments.
Save the screenshots as .jpg then send them please.

 

Ahh great.....

Ok.... It will have to wait until tonight as once again, Im at work lol

Good thing I didnt delete them.

 

In the mean time, I'll see if I can get something to read those...
Edit: I found a viewer, so here goes...

I managed to view the files.
In the tmpgenc settings screen, aspect ratio should be set to 4:3 for standard TV, or 16:9 for widescreen, not 1:1.
Rate control mode, should be 2 pass VBR, not CBR. Click the Settings button, and change average bitrate to 5666, leave max and min alone.
Set DC Component precision to 10, not 8.
You can leave Motion Search Precision the way it is, although "Motion Search Estimate" should be fine on a 2 pass VBR encode.
Other settings here will make it take far longer to encode.

The Advanced settings are correct. Leave them.

GOP screen is fine, leave it.

TDA clip info is fine.

TDA Movie load is where things get funny. It says the mpg is 12,466 MB.
Is it really? Open Windows Explorer, find the m2v and see how big it really is!
Audio is fine.

TDA has totally screwed up the output.
A .vob can be NO larger than 1 gig, and it's output a huge, out of spec vob.
It's supposed to cut them up automatically, and hasn't. This has nothing to do with chapters, something else is severly wrong.
The chapters screen thinks the movie is 4 hours 54 minutes and 18 seconds long. This is obviously wrong.

Do me a favor, and download the DVDLab trial from http://www.mediachance.com
Load the m2v and ac3 into that. Put the audio and video into movie 1, by drag and drop.
Click View, DVD Topology, and tell me if there's any RED circles.
Look on the far bottom right, and tell me how large DVDLab thinks it is.

 

You might be able to read them, using wordpad as every windows as it under acceseries.

You should have a word somethin in windows. Like for me, my windows 2000 came with a word program. its like the cheesy version to Microsoft Word, but it works. It reads all word files too

 

I think we posted at the same time.
FYI, Word in XP doesn't read the images.

 

Aight, Ill change this all around tonight.

So you think the 30 min segment burn has nothing to do abou the frames and chapters, huh?

Aight, Ill go by your instinct and figure this out tonight.

ttyl

 

0h man.... (throws up)

XP SUUUUUUCKS....... I used to work for HP/Compach support, lucky me back when XP came out and Ill tell ya, that OS POS system was crap.

Never have loved it. Its simply a costume cover put over 2000. Thats all it is, with the priviledge from Gates to modify the icons and settings around.

Pure crap. Never will buy XP. I love 2000. Its simple and straight to the point.

From what I heard, Microsoft is supposed to go in delelopment soon in creating a newer 2000 version later on. Will be pretty much the same design that 2000 was focused on with an upgrade version to networking.

So to those that are reading this, that are thinking about upgrading their OS.......PLEASE.....stay away from XP. Worse POS OS there is. Stick with NT or 2000.

 

TDA Movie load is where things get funny. It says the mpg is 12,466 MB.
Is it really? Open Windows Explorer, find the m2v and see how big it really is!
Audio is fine.

No, Im not sure how big the mpeg file was...

To my surprise the size of the m2v file is 11.6 GB, which doesnt seem right at all. 11 gigs big???

 

Nope not right at all.
Re-encode it, with the settings I told you to change a few posts up.
CBR is what you were using, and if the bitrate is too high you're gonna get a file this size.

 

Do me a favor, and download the DVDLab trial from http://www.mediachance.com
Load the m2v and ac3 into that. Put the audio and video into movie 1, by drag and drop.
Click View, DVD Topology, and tell me if there's any RED circles.
Look on the far bottom right, and tell me how large DVDLab thinks it is.
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Ok, I installed this dvdlabpro, loaded the audio and video files into it. Dragged them over.

No red circules viewing DVD Topology. The size of it at bottom right is 12.96 GB. wow. thats big. It says DVD 5 next to the size. *shrugs*

 

Yep...... I think I goof'd....... LOL

Ok, round 7.......here we come lol

Going to change the settings to what you suggested and we'll see what happens.......

 

Dang.....

I woke up this morning and the damn thing is still running.

Its at 71% lol

 

Yes, the settings I gave you are slow to encode, but a higher quality product.
When you load this new m2v and AC3 into dvdlab, it should read about 4.6gig, not 12.8