TMPG only sees 75% of VOB ????????

[hendern88]

I have TMPG 2.58.44 and I,m running XP sp1 on with the NT file system.

After DVDdecrypting to a single M2V then placing it in TMPG , TMPG only sees 75% of the movie.

I have tried this with 2 movies of different lengths and its still 75% for both.

The M2V files are fine and are full length. Also after trying to encode I cannot load another M2V file at all into it as it says an supported formatt.

If I break the file down into 1GB bits it does the 1st bit fine but then cannot load any more files giving the above unsupported error.

I am at my wits end with this one.

Anyone any ideas and anyone suggest another encoder that will not give this silly hassle.

many thanks
Neil :cry: :cry:

[biggantdogg]

My only suggestion is in TMPGenc...go to FILE, then New Project....
Then reload your files that you want to encode.....
Hope that helps!!

[wulf109]

Problem is caused by something called Program Time Stamp. These are in the vob and the .m2v,Tmeg reads the PTS points as the end of the file and and stops encodeing. The .m2v file is more likely a VOB ID. I'm afraid there's no way around this problem. The following procedure is a workaround that has worked for me.

Rip the DVD as one large file.Most rippers have this option. Smartripper 2.41 has it.
Rip in stream mode and select only the video stream and the primary audio stream,this
will keep the file to the smallest size.The primary audio stream will normally be the
6-channel ac3 stream,but some movies also have a 2-channel ac3 stream also. Just be sure
that it's a soundtrack,many movies use the 2-channel stream for Director's comments.
Using the 2-channel stream will trim another 200Mb's from the final file size.
Now you want to determine if the vob file can be encoded directly by Tmpeg or needs to be
remuxed into an mpg file. To do this start Tmpeg and go into Wizard mode.
Load the vob file into the wizard and click next until you come to the screen that tells you the length of the
file in time. If it reports the length as the actual known running time of the movie you
can open and encode the vob itself in Tmpeg. If it reports a shorter time then you need to
remux the vob into an mpg. Most movies will require remuxing but many will not.
To remux the vob open Tmpeg and start Mpeg Tools. It will open in simple remux mode,stay in that
mode. Click the browse button in the video input line and select your vob file. Tmpeg will load the
vob into the video and audio input boxes,it will also load an mpg file in the output box.
Click Run and Tmpeg will create an mpg from the vob. This mpg can be opened and encoded in Tmpeg
and it will preserve the video and audio quality of the vob file.
Load whatever template you prefer and encode the movie. It does require addition hard disk space
with this method but it is only temporary. The remuxing time will be longer than frame serving.
The benefits however are resolution,color saturation,and contrast very close to the original
DVD. The improvement in color saturation and contrast is worth the extra effort. 480x480 and even
720x480 can be used and 720x480 will produce a visible improvement in resolution. 2-pass VBR is slow
but is very effective at getting rid of macroblocking and other motion artifacts at the lower bitrate
most users will need to fit a two hour movie on two or three CDR's.
Other benefits include natural,fluid movement when for example people walk thru a scene or the camera pans.
You will see no stuttering or stumbling.