Hi all, I have been looking at the forum for a while and reading the various guides....Very useful! However I am coming up against a problem. I have got an XVID movie that I wish to burn to DVD. However when I use TMPGEnc, I get to the fourth page of the wizard and the file size is too high, I cant get it lower than 120.22%. Do I use DVD shrink or is there a setting I am missing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
What's the running time of the video? Use a bitrate calculator to determine actual bitrate needed. Click the Advanced button in the wizard, and manually lower the bitrate if needed, or better yet, don't use the wizard at all.
The running time is 1hr 44min. The average video bit rate is at 2000 and wont go any lower. And the audio, if I set it at 64 kbits. The file is still 104.08% in the guide it says to be between 95 and 97%? Thanks for the response.
For that running time, audio at 224kbps, you should be able to use a video bitrate of 5635kbps. Something may be wrong with that video, and tmpgenc is not getting it's length correct. Using the Source Range option, on the Advanced tab, set the video from 0 to 104 minutes, and discard the remainder. This should sort out the problem. You'll have to open the video in something like virtualdubmod to get the start and end frames correct, then input those numbers into tmpgenc's source range for start and end. The remainder will be simply black (or green) junk.
With the audio set to 224kbit, it goes down to 120.22% With the video at 5635Kbps it become huge again. I am not sure on the options but when I go into MPEG setting by clicking expert and then select the advanced tab I double click on the source range, but there isnt an option to change running time just start and end frames? Thanks for your help, I am pretty sure its not the movie as I have a few like it.
That's exactly what I wanted you to do. Open the video in virtualdubmod, slide the slider all the way to the very end, and find out EXACTLY what the end frame is. Go to the Advanced tab, source range, and set it from 0 start frame, to the number you got from virtualdubmod as the end frame.
Finally got round to burning the DVD and that worked thanks rebootjim, however there is no audio? Thought it maybe an error on my part but I cant see where I went wrong. Any ideas. When I play it back through my computer it saus Audio:German. But there isnt any audio?
Tmpgenc is lousy at doing audio. Look around the forums for how to extract it using virtualdub, and then transcoding it, and getting it back into the video.
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