TMPGenc

[EAO]

Are there any mpeg formats that TMPGenc cannot open?

[bugster]

It has 'difficulty' opening mpeg-2, but there are several solutions that allow it to. Also many people complain of difficulty in opening xvid (mpeg-4) but with the right settings and codecs this can be overcome.

Short answer - No

Even if TmpGenc cannot open a particular format, chances are it can be frameserved.

[EAO]

For mpeg 2, what is the easiest program to use - with decent quality - that does this? Final objective is DVD format.

[bugster]

It depends exactly what version of TmpGenc you have. The very latest version I think will open mpeg-2 nativley. Slightly older versions require you to have one of several particular mpeg-2 codecs installed. The PowerDVD codec is one, can't remember the others.

Probably the most reliable way of opening mpeg-2 in Tmpgenc is to use DVD2AVI. Open your mpeg file in dvd2avi, select save project. It will demux the audio and save it in one file, then save a .d2v file, which is the project file. You can then open this .d2v file as the video in TmpGenc, and the audio file as audio input (if you want) and encode from there. Works every time for me.

[EAO]

Thanks for the details - I suspect that I'll need them.

Never done this before, and very interested. Where would I find directions on how to take codecs from PowerDVD and put them into TMPGenc. Can I substitute WinDVD codecs instead?

[bugster]

Not sure about WinDVD, I think it should be OK, check TmpGenc's web page. The TmpGenc history info should tell you which are the supported mpeg-2 codecs.

You can get the PowerDVD codec by downloading the trial version. With recent versions the codec would continue to work even after the trial had expired. Not sure if that is true of the latest but it may well be as the codec is a seperate DLL.