Video gets darker after encoding to MPEG-1 with TMPGEnc

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  1. Taschan

    Taschan Member

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    I've got a serious problem and if anyone knows the solution please reply.
    I have no problem with converting between types. I've read all of your guides and most of your forums. But I couldn't find an answer. Here is my problem:
    [bold]When I convert from any type to MPEG-1 with TMPGEnc, resulted video gets darker.[/bold] I mean not too much but in some movies you can not see anything in some scenes. I've tried color, brightness and gamma filters but I couldn't solved my problem. If anyone knows a particular list of settings that can be used for all of the movies to eliminate the dark please reply.
    Thank you.
     
    Taschan, Jul 11, 2003
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  2. Dela

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    That is a bit confusing the way u said that, is MPEG-1 your imput?? or output??

    If output then what is your input?? (sorry for all the input/outputs ;-) )
     
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  3. Taschan

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    Sorry about the confusion. I've ripped a chapter from a DVD movie, decoded audio to .wav by using DVD2AVI and used the .d2v frameserver file generated by DVD2AVI. Like I said the problem is resulted MPEG-1 file is darker than the original DVD movie.
     
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    Ah well unfortunately there is not a lot you can do about that. I have made a lot of MPEG-1 VCD's in the past and almost all of them had that result, some scenes that were dark on playback. I find SVCD much more reliable!
     
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  5. ABMone

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    Shouldnt adjusting the brightness work.

    Settings>advanced>simple color correction
     
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    Obviously not ;-)
     
    Dela, Jul 12, 2003
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  7. ABMone

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    sorry didnt read the whole thing i guess.

    but couldnt you expirement and just put the brightness and an obserdly high level and see what happens
     
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    Sure could yes, and dont worry, i rarely read the whole thread ;-)
     
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    Thanks Dela.
    I tried to increase brightness but it didn't felt right. It seems still something is missing. I mean color levels still don't match. And you can realize it when you put both videos on the same screen.
    Anyway, it seems to me that I have to keep trying to find the exact combination of filters but it wouldn't be easy...
     
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    yep more than likely unfortunately!! I think SVCD is a much better option, its weel known that mpeg-2 is better than mpeg-2 by far!
     
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