tmpgenc does not cut svcd..post here!!!!

[dick bininya]

hey,
no matter what i try, the play pause trick ,etc.
i cant get tmpgenc to cut my finished product.
this is irritating. i guess i can chop it before i encode, but i dont want to guess , and most of the time i can come close to fitting it on one cd.
anyone else have this problem? all i get is a greyed out box where the video should be displayed, and the start and finish clip bittons are greyed out. all i can do is hit play, pause, forward and rewind.
i cant drag the slidebar- i have to use the forward and rewind buttons. also if i get the bar to the start of the movie and hit play nothing even happens!!!
tmpgenc is a great tool, maybe im just retarded, but there has to be a way around this, hopefully someone can shed light on the subject.
thanx
=(

[gambit32]

Another thing you can try is setting your output file first and then double clicking to cut the file. I had the same problem just yesterday. This worked once. Also completely shut down Tmpgenc and give it a few minutes then retry. That seemed to work best for me.

[spidey]

I've hada the same deal. The last solution to use is the Source Range option prior to encoding. I have only had this issue on newer versions of TMPG, so you may also "regress" to an older one just for cutting.

[dick bininya]

hey,
thats a good idea, getting an older version just for cutting.
any ideas on which one works best for this?
i tried the select output file first trick and still nothing..
what do you think?

[gambit32]

For SVCDs try the beta version. It doesn't have a letter after it. I got the suggestion off this forum to use it for encoding SVCDs and it gave me really good results on my SVCDs. Here's a link:
http://www.granavenida.com/vcdspain/down/tmpgenc.htm

[dick bininya]

excellent.
thanx i will try it for sure.
i hope it works out well, im curious to see.
ill let you know.

[dick bininya]

question,
how are you supposed to know where to cut before you encode?
i mean with a vbr you can never really tell how big the finished svcd will be.
if i did, i wouldnt worry about having to cut anything.
any info would be helpful.
thanx-

[aldus4]

Try using "Fitcd" a calculation tool/bitrate calculator ( http://members.tripod.de/fitcd/ ).

As you usually have a max/min and avg. bitrate you can more or less work out how much to cut. You can of course be slightly wrong with your calculations - then you cut/join again, use a bigger/smaller CD-R or just leave it. Perfectionism always takes longer

[slobbie]

I'm fairly new at this, but I think you want to use bbmpeg. You can download it from one of the guides at the dvdripguides.com. Aha, here:

http://www.dvdripguides.com/dvdrip2e2.html

You tell it how much each of your cd-r's can hold, and it will separate your video into the needed amount of files.

I've used it, and it works.

slobbie

[chjan]

Try this!!!
M2-edit to cut SVCD. It works perfect. However, need to De/Mux with TMPGenc to make it compliate with SVCD.

Chjan

[dick bininya]

good deal,
these all seem like different approaches.
thanx for the ideas guys.
demuxing blows but whatcha gonna do?

[Flt_Ldr]

Chjan,
I've been looking for a full copy of M2-Edit. Do you know where I might "find" one?

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Try this!!!
M2-edit to cut SVCD. It works perfect. However, need to De/Mux with TMPGenc to make it compliate with SVCD.

Chjan
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[VidGuy]

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On 2001-07-10 19:02:55, chjan wrote:
Try this!!!
M2-edit to cut SVCD. It works perfect. However, need to De/Mux with TMPGenc to make it compliate with SVCD.

Chjan
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Have you tried this with a large (1.4 GB) SVCD? If it worked - was it muxed with TMPGEnc or BBEdit or something else - I always have audio sync problems after using M2-Edit, and I also always have problems with it giving me color bars and saying that it cannot seek, and when I finally get it saving to disk - it will normally ultimately tell me it can't find a video frame.