TMPGenc not giving right size output.

[Afterlife]

I feel stupid asking this but cant seem to trouble shoot it.

I use TMPGenc to do all of my conversions, and usually I work with cartoons or anime. This time I have to use actual footage which is no biggy.

I used AniCalc to determine the bitrate, 6 shows, each 30 minutes approx (no commericals). So I figured each episode could be a CBR of 3100.

I set this up as HalfD1 as the source is 4:3 and Im not sure will provide a great 1:1 with FULL, and let it encode. I was expecting 6 shows in m2v format of about 600MB each. What I got was 6 shows at about 1.8GB. So woah not useful. So ive tried a few things and cant get the correct size.

Ive never done this witha real show, usually if im working with live action footage Its just for movies, is there a trick for multiple episodes?

Would using DIVX2DVD or AVI2DVD or some other 1 click solution be easier?

Thanks!

[yoda313]

Have you tried a different bitrate calculator?

Try this one and see if you get the same results:

https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=VideoHelp_Bitrate_calculator

[manono]

3100 is about right for 3 hours of video. I would guess that your audio got converted to WAV, rather than the AC3 you wanted, or should have wanted, and that accounts for the bloated size. That's just a guess though, because my figures don't exactly match yours if it was WAV audio you got.

[Afterlife]

I already tried doing an audio check. Im converting to elementary streams, and there is no audio, output is a m2v and the size is still huge.

[manono]

Scratch that idea, then.

So, obviously you didn't get a bitrate of 3100. I had figured about 700 MB per video at 3100. If you get 1.8 GB files, then that figures out to somewhere around an average bitrate of 8000. You can confirm that by opening the M2V in DGIndex and running the Preview with Options->Playback Speed->Maximize. It'll still take a few minutes, but itll give you the most accurate indication of the video bitrate of any tool.

So, next guess is, are you sure you didn't set 8000 as the average bitrate rather than the max bitrate?

[Afterlife]

Found the issue.

Ok so in TMPGenc 2.5 there is the field for the video source, the audio source, and the output. Along with your output type as radio buttons on the right side (elementary etc).

So I USUALLY delete whatever is in the audio source as im doing elementary video, but recently I left it in as I figured it wouldnt use it as I dont need it. Wrong. Even if I pick elementary video but leave the audio source intact it will include the audio, which was inflating my file size. How it had 650mb for video and 1.2GB for audio ill never know though lol.

Maybe my TMPGenc is just buggy like that. I did a including the audio source and not and I confirmed my suscpision.

Thanks anyways

[jimmalenko]

If you choose ES (Video only) then only a video-only M2V file should be output, irregardless of if there is an audio source specified or not.

[Afterlife]

You would think

But mine for some reason screws up if it sees an audio source.