What do I do now

[Foz]

I have been trying several programs, Ulead Movie Factory 2 being one of them. It is easier to use than TMPGEnc Plus and TMPGEnc DVD author. It also encodes faster,but I am wondering if the quality is as good as TMPGE? If you or anyone else reading this forum has input on the quality of these 2 encoders please reply. Had a DIVX movie with MP3 audio,(700MB) and it took TMPGEnc Plus 11+ hours to encode to MPEG 2 with MPEG 1 layer ll audio. I authored it using TMPGEnc DVD Author, and this took another 1:19:33. I burned the thing in Nero Burn and this took another 25 minutes. The end product has a nice video, but neither of my computers or my stand alone JVC DVD player will play the audio. I can re-encode using PCM audio, but the size of the file is so large. I need some info on this AC3 audio, this might be what I should use. Thanks Foz

[jimmalenko]

Unless you have a P2-200 TMPGEnc shouldn't take that long. What are your computer specs ?

Also if you are doing MPEG-1 layer 2 audio it has to be @ 48KHz and not 44.1KHz. This could be why your DVD player won't play it.

[Foz]

jimmalenko,Thanks for your interest, here are my computer specs.
System Information:
Dell Dimension 8250
Processor-P4-2.4Ghz
Memory-768MB
Network Card- PRO/100M
CD R/RW- LG-GCE-8400B
Microsoft Windows XP Home -5.1.2600-SP1
Bios- Dell-Version A01
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801BA Bus Master
Hard Drive-(C)ST3120023A (111.79-GB) NTFS
Hard Drive-(E)WD2000JB (1st partition 93.1-GB)
Hard Drive-(F)WD2000JB (2nd partition 93.1-GB)
Video-64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
Sound-Creative SB Live! Series(WMD)
Belkin-IEEE 1394 card
Roxio ECDC
MGI Photo III
MGI Videowave 4.0.637.0
Pinnacle Studio 8
Ulead Movie Factory 2
TMPGEnc Plus
TMPGEnc DVD Author
Nero Express 6
Sorry for this double post, Tried to edit and delete it?


Foz[b]

[Foz]

jimmalenko,Thanks for your interest, here are my computer specs.
System Information:
Dell Dimension 8250
Processor-P4-2.4Ghz
Memory-768MB
Network Card- PRO/100M
CD R/RW- LG-GCE-8400B
Microsoft Windows XP Home -5.1.2600-SP1
Bios- Dell-Version A01
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801BA Bus Master
Hard Drive-(C)ST3120023A (111.79-GB) NTFS
Hard Drive-(E)WD2000JB (1st partition 93.1-GB)
Hard Drive-(F)WD2000JB (2nd partition 93.1-GB)
Video-64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
Sound-Creative SB Live! Series(WMD)
Belkin-IEEE 1394 card
Roxio ECDC
MGI Photo III
MGI Videowave 4.0.637.0
Pinnacle Studio 8
Ulead Movie Factory 2
TMPGEnc Plus
TMPGEnc DVD Author
Nero Express 6
NEC 1300A DVD R/RW


Foz

[jimmalenko]

I would try using TMPGEnc Plus to convert your DivX AVI to a DVD compliant MPEG2 using the Project wizard and one of the templates. Then author using TMPGEnc DVD Author. I'm gathering this is very similar to what you have already done.

I don't see why TMPGEnc Plus would take that long - are you doing anything else on the computer while it works ?

Could you also be specific about your methods used previously ?

[Foz]

I used the template DVD (NTSC) mcf in TMP Plus, and in TMP Author I followed this guide https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/172123.php
The only exception in one of these, I don't remember which, I changed the audio bitrate from 384 to 192.

[jimmalenko]

Good !

I would look (if you haven't already) for a guide that converts DivX to DVD using TMPGEnc Plus. I can't put my finger on it but somewhere something is going wrong because it shouldn't take that long.

Sorry I can't be more of a help. Good Luck !

[jimmalenko]

Just thad a thought - make sure that the drive you are outputting to is defragged. TMPGEnc may be taking 11 hours because it has to fragment the files.

[Foz]

Thanks for your help, I will find a guide for this and if I can get my encoding time down I will reply.

[Foz]

Yes, I checked all 3 HD just before starting, 1 needed defragging the other 2 did not. It took a long time to defrag this 93GB section, it was mostly red, but I don't remember taking that long in past. I would estimate 2 to 3 hours.

[grossjamesh]

Foz,

If its taking that long for TMPGEnc to finish I believe that there is something very wrong on the setup of your system. When TMPGEnc is running open the performance monitor and check processor usage - it should be around 12-15% on a system like yours.

Goto http://www.blackviper.com and read about XP optimizations.

Do you have an AV program running when re-encoding?
How many processes are running?(should be around 20-25)
Do you have an active network connection at the time?

Tuning a computer for video work can be an art.

I willl be glad to help. [/url]

[Craig Tucker]

I think the problem may well be that your source divx file has audio encoded with variable bitrate mp3. TMPGENc does not handle VBR audio well and misreports the file duration. This could account for the long encode time, and the fact that you have no sound.

Open the divx file with virtualdub. It should warn you if the file has VBR audio. You need to save the audio stream as an uncompressed wav file. Under audio select full processing mode, and no compression. Then save wav file. Then Encode with TMPGEnc, selecting the divx file as the video source and the wav file as the audio source.

It is also impossible to say how long your encodes should be taking as you did not tell us the bitrate you were encoding with.

Oh, and please only post your question once.

[Craig Tucker]

When TMPGEnc is running open the performance monitor and check processor usage - it should be around 12-15% on a system like yours.

TMPGEnc will run the processor at 95%-100% (assuming nothin else is requesting CPU usage) no matter what the processor.

[grossjamesh]

You're right. I was not re-encoding. I used a valid mpeg2 file.I will have to give it a try with a file that need encoding. Sorry.

[Foz]

Craig Tucker, You are correct, I d/l Virtualdub and my source does have a VBR audio encoding. In pop-up VD said it will rewrite audio header with standard CBR values during processing, which may introduce up to 4373ms of skew from video stream. If this is unacceptable decompress entire audio stream to wav and recompress with a CBR encoder (bitrate 80:4 _+66.1Kbps). When I capture, encode, or author I always disconnect internet connection, close antivirus, turn off firewall, and any other programs in tray. When I check my running processes there are 32 to 35 and the only one using CPU is system idle process. It has a CPU # of 98. Please advise me which of the VD suggestions I should follow, rewrite or decompress. I don' know how to do either, but maybe I can learn. Thanks to all for your help. Foz

[Foz]

Craig, There is something I forgot, I tried encoding this same source in Nerovision and after about 30 minutes this program would close with error report (error 128) and lots of other info I didn't understand. Could this VBR MP3 in source have caused shut down? Foz

[Craig Tucker]

When I capture, encode, or author I always disconnect internet connection, close antivirus, turn off firewall, and any other programs in tray.

This is a good idea for capture if you are dropping frames, although I never need to do so as I dont drop any frames. It is not necessary for encoding though.

I already explained what you need to do in my previous post.

Open the divx file with virtualdub. It should warn you if the file has VBR audio. You need to save the audio stream as an uncompressed wav file. Under audio select full processing mode, and no compression. Then save wav file. Then Encode with TMPGEnc, selecting the divx file as the video source and the wav file as the audio source.