Problems with TMPG Encoder

[Headshot]

Hmm, I can't understand it.. most of my .avi files is on about 700 MB. When I want to Encode the .avi file with TMPG encoder it says the file is about 4 to 5 GB big ! What can I do about that....?

Plz help a noob

[Mavrick]

Need more info... What kind of AVI file? Is it a DivX movie? What are your settings, etc...

[Baldrick]

It depends what you encoding to. If VCD it will be 10 MB/min, SVCD about 10-20 MB/min and DVD 20-50MB/min.

So if you have 700 MB avi and the playtime is 100 minutes you will get a 1000 MB VCD MPEG.

www.vcdhelp.com/newbie

[Headshot]

I'm going to encode the .avi (DivX) file to SVCD format so I can see it on my DVD player...
Before I got a movie on about 90 mins. on two CD's and the file got to about 1.6 GB...
But now the Encoder is warning me that the file will be up to 4-5 GB large...
It's a bit difficult tp explain, most because I'm not very godd in English...

Do I have to decompress the file somehow ?

[Mavrick]

The only thing I can think of, would be your bitrate. Make sure its not set too high...

[Headshot]

You see, before I had to set the bitrate to a film on about 90 mins. to 1900 or something but now to about 500...
I don't now what's wrong...

[afwasborstel]

I have the same problem with some Divxfiles....seems to be something with a VBR that is used in some Divx files...problem is very quikly solved....

Go to settings of your template...---> Advanced...

And then double click on source range

Click on Move to End Frame...
Set End Frame...

Et Voila....problem solved


Altough I am very intrested howcome we seem to have this problem and others not....

[Headshot]

OK, not worse?
Thanks buddy!

But I have to say that there's some bugs with this encoder...
Is there any other encoders for free, that is better than TMPG?

[bugster]

This kind of problem in TmpGenc is often cause by VBR encoded audio. It does not seem to recognize the end of the audio correctly. The solution suggested by afwasborstel usually works but can occasionally cause sync problems. The answer in this case is to extract the audio from the video using virtualdub or Goldwave, save as uncompressed PCM and then use that as the audio input to TmpGenc with the avi as the video, then encode.

[afwasborstel]

I always demux my audiostreams..

Thre are some other encoders around...but they are not free

TMPGenc might not be flawless but it is one of the best around

Goodluck...

[Headshot]

Hmm, what do you mean about demux ?

And what program is the best for repairing an mpeg file. I have encoded some files to svcd format but they sometimes stops in the middle of the film...It's freezing in a kind of way..Is this normal?