TMPGenc problem???

[grayboe]

I have an AVI that I used TMPGenc to encode to mpeg-1 for a VCD. When I try to burn the CD Adaptec 4 and Nero 5 tell me my mpeg has a bit rate of 104857, and does not meet the VCD specs. TMPGenc has the bitrate setting grayed out but shows it is set for 115k. Am I missing something?I have tried TMPGenc h and f and gotten the same error.

[grayboe]

Added info. for anyone thats interested.

After a lot of re-encoding looking for settings that work, I have found that using CBR I get a video bitrate of 115k but then I get a "system clock reference" of 1058. Which Adaptec says is incompatible with VCD standard. If I use a VBR setting (either 2-pass or manual) I get a video bitrate of 104857 which Adaptec says is no good.

Any ideas would be appericiated.

[Andrew Deemer]

TMPGEnc isn't very accurate with bitrates . . however if you get the latest NERO patch it becomes a lot more forgiving. I couldn't get anything to work in my DVD player - once I patched the Nero - I've had no trouble.

Hope that helps

[grayboe]

Nero 5 offers to fix the problem and then will add it to the burn list. However I wanted to be able to make a VCD compliant file so I could experiment with Nero and Adaptec to see which I liked best. I understand there are other programs to write with (I'll check the tools section here), and I need to be able to encode a compliant file.

[homerpez]

I'm wondering about this one... since i'm burning SeVCD's as "Compliant VCD" and it works great... no complaints from NERO at all...

Must be I have a late enough version...

[grayboe]

OK. I downloaded a copy of BBmpeg and encoded with it. Same error meesage from Adaptec. says the video bitrate is 104857. Nero says invalid stream and audio stream. Audio is encoding at 48000 in BBmpg because thats what ulead videostudio is capturing at. Do the capture settings in Ulead have anything to do with the encoding? I wouldn't think so.

[cosiz]

This is similar to a problem I am working on...

I have some MPEG-1 files. I want to re-encode them to VCD compliant files.

When I use the source MPEGs and start to encode on TMPG using the NTSC VCD template, I get an error message of 'illegal bitrate' (or invalid bitrate).

When I use demuxed video and audio and start to encode on TMPG, I get the same error.

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UPDATE:
I found that the source MPEGs are not what I thought they were. I read elsewhere on this site that the MPEGs can be dragged and dropped on a new project and TMPGenc tells what the specs are on the file. After I figured out what the source was, I was able to re-encode to VCD specs. Cheers

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: cosiz on 2001-11-10 11:41:36 ]</font>