what's a TMPG template?

[fei28000]

i'm a newbie, plz help me. i'm very confused

[koinhelgo]

As far as I know.......
This confused me a bit at first too.
When you encode a file (avi or whatever) with TMPGEnc you need to tell hte program what format to encode it as, for example as a pal compliant vcd mpeg or an NTSC vcd or a super video cd or whatever.
You can do this manually but there are already "templates" made up for you that you can load up and will set most of pr all the settings for you so you don't have to woryy about things like bitrate etc etc.
At the bottom right of TMPGEnc you will see three tabs, SETTING, LOAD and SAVE.
Click load and browse to where you have TMPGEnc on your harddrive you should have a sub-directory called templates, inside there are standard templates you can use - you can also download new ones from this site (they are better).
Once you have loaded in a template you can change the settings on various bits via the SETTINGS tab, to change the greyed out video sections you will need to load in the unlock template. Once you have a settings that work well for you, you can use SAVE tab to save them as a template that you can load up next time. After setting the template you just set up[ the output file and click start.
If you don't set up the template you will "probably" end up with a standard mpeg1 file that you will not be able to burn as a vcd ( and media player probably won't play it - but xing player will)
Hope this helps - more info can be found by clicking F.A.Q at the left
Regards

[Vejita-sama]

You've got the general idea. Basically there are 1001 settings in TMPGenc you can play with and rather then enter them each time you encode you save them as a template.

TMPGenc comes with several templates to make standard (aka white book) VCD and SVCDs for both NTSC (Japan, US and Canada) or PAL (Europe). But people like to make their own for various reasons. Sefy's SxVCD and SeVCD seem to be popular as they allow you get more movie on each CDR. But you can use a bitrate calculator to do the same job if you choose.