TSCV Chapters...black screen and wrong size!

[SHaque]

I am having a strange problem with TSCV. Everything was working great until I got to teh chapters screen. Here, the mpg I loaded is being recognized as being an godly number of frames and like 13 hours!

There is no video in the media player, only a black screen. So I obvioulsy cannot set my chapters when there is no video and it is reading the mpg incorrectly. Nothing seems to solve this problem. Can anyone help!

Thanks!

-Shahid

[martymizah]

have you made and loaded your vfapi

all while keeping virtualdub open?

lemme know

[SHaque]

Thanks for the reply!

The way I am doing it is I am loading my completed and ultiplexed mpg. So I didn't think I had to mess with vfapi at all. If I do, then could you tell me what exactly I need to do? I did try loading the mpg into the vfapi reader, and it wouldn't accept any mpg files. It would only accept DVD2AVI files and another file type that I do not remember.

I tried creating a DVD2AVI project file and loading this into vfapi, and then loaidng this into TSCV, but that gave an error message.

I'd appreciate your help!

-Shahid

[ipf123]

You have to use vfapi v1.03, load the mpg file, de-select audio and click convert.

[SHaque]

Thanks, but no matter what I try vfapi 1.03 or 1.04 will not load the mpgs. It gives me an error message with lots of ???? and gibberish text. I have gotten them from a number of different sources in case it was a bad file.

-Shahid

[martymizah]

ok

ive gotten that error before

when i use certain mpgs it does the same thing

when you try to open it it gives you some crazy ass error...i never did figure it out...

however it only happened with random mpgs (ones not encoded by me in tmpgenc) i dont know what causes it, perhaps the format (audio/video setting)

try re-encoding your file...if its really long and thats a pain in the ass, try to demultiplex it and remultiplex it under the mpg tools option of tmpgenc

lemme know

[sunmiztres]

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On 2001-10-20 17:17:09, SHaque wrote:
I am having a strange problem with TSCV. Everything was working great until I got to teh chapters screen. Here, the mpg I loaded is being recognized as being an godly number of frames and like 13 hours!

There is no video in the media player, only a black screen. So I obvioulsy cannot set my chapters when there is no video and it is reading the mpg incorrectly. Nothing seems to solve this problem. Can anyone help!

Thanks!

-Shahid
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First off to get rid of the timeline messup and possibly the black chapters you need mpegparser.ax and mpegdecoder.ax. INstall these in the register with regdrop and alot of your problems will dissappear.

[bugande]

What you need to try is this... open an mpeg file (not your movie) in media player and pause it. Now open the mpeg you want in TSCV and make your chapters. The problem is overlay and this will overcome it.

[waldok]

Hi,

For weeks I had the same problem, even when VirtualDUb was open while using TSCV. yesterday, I decided to uninstall the ATI Multimedia center for some other reason (I have an ATI 1ll in WOnder 128 Pro). Surprise, TSCV now works like a charm, MPEG2 filr duration is OK and it appears in the media player window...
So maybe if you have an ATi capture card too, just give it a try and deinstall MMC... Now I'm goinf to try and find out what causes this...
By the way, I had great expectations on this media player feature in TSCV in order to set exact chapters for the final SVCD, but random access in the movie is so sloooow in TSCV that it is completely useless (would take ages to setup chapters entry points).
SO I'm back to importing chapter Xtractor chapter list, which works great with only a few frames shift in chapters entry times.

If anybody can use TSCV media player feature 'smoothly ', please let me know.

Waldok.

[martymizah]

thats really odd, my movieplayer in tscv runs fine all the time. pulls through the movie without any pause at all

im thinking that it has something to do with your mpg encoding....if you are making your mpg in tmpgenc then you should check your GOP structure under the configure tab. If you do not load a template you may have forgotten to set them up

your best way is to load a template, see what the settings are then just enter them in when you set yours.

what the GOP does is make points for media players to skip to. without them, or with them too far apart, skipping through an encoded mpg will be extremely slow.

if you open it in media player is it slow too?

try this, lemme know

[mpack]

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On 2001-10-21 22:33:39, sunmiztres wrote:
First off to get rid of the timeline messup and possibly the black chapters you need mpegparser.ax and mpegdecoder.ax.
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Good advice... care to give me even a teeny hint though as to *where* I might find these things?

[martymizah]

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/r/d/rdm186/regdrop.zip

there ya go...download it soon because i cant keep it up on my schools server for too long

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/r/d/rdm186/

thats also a site that can walk you through eveything give it a look

[sunmiztres]

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On 2001-10-22 12:30:45, mpack wrote:
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On 2001-10-21 22:33:39, sunmiztres wrote:
First off to get rid of the timeline messup and possibly the black chapters you need mpegparser.ax and mpegdecoder.ax.
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Good advice... care to give me even a teeny hint though as to *where* I might find these things?

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you can mpegdecoder.ax and mpegparser.ax and regdrop on my ftp along with the newest release of TSCV.

ftp://tscv:ttool@65.208.195.148:21

[mpack]

Thanks Marty and sunmiztres for the pointers. I don't have time at the moment to work out what I need, so I just grabbed everything in the folder for now. I hope nobody minds.