TMPGEnc analyzing

[rhynot99]

Im going through the analyzing part of the DVD2SVCD process with TMPGEnc, its taking about 6 hours which i assume is right with highest quality. Well where it says stream type, ES (video only)is selected. does that mean that my movie will have no audio?

[Cyberia]

I think you should ask this question in the DVD2SVCD forums, not the DVD2AVI forum.

[rhynot99]

well im converting from an avi to a dvd

[neuron2]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=59667

Moving to appropriate forum.

[ralphthedog]

Nope :)

Don't worry rhynot99, DVD2SVCD uses other applications to convert the audio, mux, etc.

[rhynot99]

now a new problem......i woke up this morning to a sonic scenarist error......the log on the dvd2avi said vido conversion had been finished but i cant find it anywhere? did it finish?

[Paulcat]

Im going through the analyzing part of the DVD2SVCD process with TMPGEnc, its taking about 6 hours which i assume is right with highest quality. Well where it says stream type, ES (video only)is selected. does that mean that my movie will have no audio?

The time depends on your system...with an AthlonXP 1900+ (1.6GHz) system it takes me about 5 hours to make an MPEG-2 file from a 2 hour AVI. Don't bother doing the highest quality motion search with TMPGEnc, high quality is generally good enough.

And yes, if it says ES video only, you will get an .M2V file with no audio.

EDIT:

I just re-read the post, if you are going from AVI to DVD, are you using the program AVI2DVD or just doing the process? If you are just using TMPGEnc (which you can), it will have problems if you have AC3 or AAC audio. If your AVI has AC3 audio, it's best to demux it from your avi, and add it back to the dvd at the end and just convert the video.

[ChickenMan]

now a new problem......i woke up this morning to a sonic scenarist error......the log on the dvd2avi said vido conversion had been finished but i cant find it anywhere? did it finish?
Use the free bundled/built-in DVDAuthor to author the final result rather than Scenarist. Scenarist is just plain to problematic.

If your AVI does contain AC3, then in audio tab select the "Do not convert audio" option.

[rhynot99]

where do they save the file on default.....i am using the dvd2avi bundle....i had dvd author problems so i started using sonic. i will try again on high quality. there is no ac3 on this file

[ralphthedog]

Many of these authoring problems (when converting avi's) are really audio problems, make sure you have "do not convert audio" on the audio tab unchecked (unless you really know what you're doing).

If you have a search of the forum and have a look at the stickies you'll see many of the problems stem back to the "do not convert audio" box.

:logfile:

[rhynot99]

okay...well look at this, i tried to do a mopvoe that had english, but had japanese dubbed over it. you could hear the english barely under the japanese. anywher possible i could i selected english as a language and ran the program i had a dvdauthor error and the log is at the bottom. also i have sonic scenarist too. here is the log and thanks for any problem solvers

this is the original dvd2avi log
Executing DVDAuthor. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\dvdauthor.exe" -x "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVDAuthor.xml"
DVDAuthor failed for unknown reasons!
For details open: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVDAuthor_log.txt"

this is the dvdauthor log
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.10.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: Locale=C
INFO: Converting filenames to US-ASCII
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg...
ERR: Error opening C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg: No such file or directory

this is the mplex log
INFO: [???] mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [???] File C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_NTSC.mpv looks like an MPEG Video stream.
**ERROR: [???] File unrecogniseable!
**ERROR: [???] File èN2 unrecogniseable!
**ERROR: [???] Unrecogniseable file(s)... exiting..

[ralphthedog]

Looks like audio problems to me!

The logfile we're mostly interested in is dvd2svcd_log.txt