Tmpenc - Picture is jumpy.

[Adrian6]

Hello!

I have a question about Tmpenc. Many movies i try to make into vcd from divx files gets jumpy. I mean the picture is not being smooth enough.

Is there any settings, because i cant find any. Perhaps i have a shity computer...

AMD 1700+ with 512 ram. And a 40 gig hardisk with at least 2 gig to spare.

Hope someone can help me.


Regards
/Adrian

[snowmoon]

What is the frame rate of the .avi file and what template are you using under TMPGenc?

[LowcrawL]

That's smokin, compaired to my AMD 600 with 256MB (OK - stop laughing!). It sounds like you may be running low on drive space and/or the drive may be severely fragmented. If you've got a gig or less, than that's probably the prob, since your page file is about a gig itself. And 40 gigs ain't much, dealing with video. The choppiness is usually due to lag in the processing. No room for the page file would definately do it, but it certainly wouldn't be due to the lack of processing power with the AMD. You've got just as fast of a PC, if not better, than most of the folks out here. Also, just because it plays horrible on the PC, doesn't mean that it's not encoded right. It may be the software is struggling to play the MPEG because of poor resource management, particularly if you're using Windows Media Player. And you may find that burning it to a CD and throwing in the DVD player is a lot better, than on the PC. So, clean the junk off your drive, and give it a thorough defrag. And make sure you have the latest version of TMPGEnc. Good Luck!

[snowmoon]

Lowcrawl:

The encoder does not care how fast it runs, as long as it does not error out you should get the same results. Capturing video is a diffrent story. But to insinuate that 40GB is not enough space to encode is silly.

Often "jumpy" means they are encoding NTSC ( 23.976 ) video's as straight 25 or 29.97 mpeg this WILL lead to uneven movement.

[LowcrawL]

It's not all that silly. 40 gigs for one movie (other than DV) is silly. But 40gigs of space ain't jack if you've got a decent sized collection, or have it partitioned funny. A jacked up system can cause an encode to be jumpy. And it's not just HD space, but a number of issues, as previously stated. I've had it happen before, and the best way I cleared it was straightening up the hard drive and cutting down on the processes. I've probably got the crappiest PC on this forum, so I consider myself an expert on encoding on an inadequate system.
But there's no arguing that encoding from different frame rates CAN lead to a jumpy picture. And if Adrian6 doesn't reply anytime soon, it's all for nothing, anyway.

[Adrian6]

Hello guys.

Thanks for all the good advice!
Sorry havent been around for a while.

It must be the framerate.
Is there any settings if i want to encode a ntsc movie into a pal vcd. Or any known problems when doing this that might couse the jumpy scenes?


Thanks!

[snowmoon]

NTSC movie = 23.976 fps PAL = 25 so their will be a noticible pause every secong to make up for that extra frame.

Search the forums for lot's of good scripts to convert to and from PAL-NTSCfilm