shafted when cutting with TMPGEnc

[Dionysus]

Can anyone tell me when I am cutting a file to burn I put it to exactly half way throught the movie so for example 5750 secs and then run it but when it's doing it's thing it only cuts to 5713.94 of 5750 (for both audio and video) but it works fine and the movie looks good sound is in synch but I was wondering if there was a way to get exactly what I want so I don't have about 36.06 secs of video with no sound at the ends of both cd's??

Thanx everyone

[Caffreys]

Wierd - never seen that problem before. Slicing's always been the easiest and most problem free area of ripping for me, and TMPEGenc seems to do a perfect job of it every time.

What format are you trying to slice up ?

Cheers,

Caffreys

[Dionysus]

I'm doing an Mpeg-2 SVCD. Yeah well it seemed to be easier than anything else, i mean what's so hard about clicking and running. But I mean I'll live if it's not fixed but it would be nice to know what the deal is. I was also wondering, maybe you might know this question too, I want to burn a normal cd-r that can be played in any computer cd-rom cuz I just burnt it onto a cd-r and it will play in my computer dvd but I really am figuring this ripping stuff so I can copy to normal cd-rom cd-r's.

thanx

[Caffreys]

Well - that's interesting. I haven't yet tried to make an SVCD Mpeg-2, so that may be where the problem is. Funnily enough, I plan to produce an SVCD as my next rip so I guess you'll have to wait until I've done it, then I can tell you whether I have the same problem with the slicing and burning of it. (I should have it done within the next couple of days)

So far I have been producing some pretty great quality standard VCD's MPEG-1, and have had no problems when slitting or playing them. These are playable on ordinary CD-Roms, and standalone DVD players etc. However, I would've thought that your SVCD's should play on your CD-Rom too.

Have you tried playing them on your CD-Rom and it's come up with an error ? If so, what does it say the error is ?

I take it the burned structure of an SVCD is the same as of a VCD (with the CDI, EXT, MPEGAV, SEGMENT and VCD Folders), in which case you should be able to open up the MPEGAV Folder, and open the *.DAT file inside with Windows Media Player to play the movie.

Let me know if you have any luck. I'll post a new message when I've finished processing my first SVCD, which I'm starting tonight.

Cheers,

Caffreys

[abstractmotion]

I have the same problem when making SVCD. Most of my other SVCD is fine. The last one I just made has the last 30 seccond with video but no sound. The only different was this cd is not as full as the other cd's, it only has about 20 mins of video.

Also, when I do the cut, It does not always cut at the exact point. Always a few seconds before or after the cut point. Anyone else notice this?

[Caffreys]

Hmmmmmmmmm ... so .... I've created my SVCD, and burnt it following all the best guidelines I have found, however, Power DVD doesn't recognise it as a viable format.

I'm partly thinking that this is due to the fact that it's a NTSC movie that I've ripped as opposed to PAL, and therefore my UK player doesn't like it, however I have heard that most DVD players can play PAL and NTSC formats with no problem atall .... crap eh ?

I've wasted 2 CDR's so far, and am tempted to return to my super-cool VCD format that never ever kicks up any errors ...

I cut the SVCD up into 3 Disk's worth, and didn't seem to have any of the sound problems that you have encountered, but as I say, these perfect MPEG-2 format mpg's are of no use if I can't burn 'em and play them (or give them to my mates to play !!).

Has anyone got any links on how to burn PAL SVCDS, and also, is it easily possible to keep the SVCD file size down to two CDR's, or does it always run to about 3 ? Any info/links on SVCD creation would be useful, cos I've just about given up on the format, and yet I've heard it's very popular ... so you have to wonder why !

Cheers,

Caffreys

[KF]

I had exact same problem with a SVCD 23.976 fps NTSC format.
I tried several times but TMPG would lose about 30 secs of audio.
Then I tried DVTool to cut instead. Perfect result. Only problem is that DVTool cuts according to file size rather than time. So a little trial and error and I managed to create two files with about two seconds of overlapp.

[travis morgan]

I was having the same problem. When I used tmpgenc to cut the .mpg file, I was losing 30-40 seconds of audio from the first cut. So instead of encoding the whole movie and splitting it, my solution was to encode the movie in two parts. Double-click on Source Range in the Advanced Settings. Set a Start Frame and a End Frame for the first part and encode. Then set a Start Frame and End Frame for the second part and encode. Also, what I find very helpful here, I can advance or retreat 1 frame at time. This makes for a very precise cut. By using this process, I end up with 2 .mpg files split exactly where I want them.

A quick after thought...

I haven't tried it, but I assume it would be possible to save each encoding as a separate project and then run in a batch encoding.

[Dionysus]

thanks man that's the most logical and well thought of idea that anyone has ever given me. I'll try it on my next movie

[travis morgan]

Let me know how it goes.

:)

[Dionysus]

dude it worked flawlessly. Thanx for the idea, now I'm not so negative about SVCD/VCD encoding cuz that to me was the only downfall to the whole encoding process.

Thanks again man.

[travis morgan]

great. glad it worked for you.