vv3, vcd & tmpgenc

mayberryman wrote on 12/24/2001, 9:56 PM

I have a .avi clip captured using a Ulead product. TMPGenc accepts this clip & encodes it to a vcd compliant mpeg, which plays fine on my dvd player. (I've made dozens without any trouble).

I've loaded this same .avi file into vv3. When I render it as an .avi, TMPGenc will not accept it. So...what can I do to make vv3 render an .avi which TMPGenc will accept?

I purchased vv3 with the idea of leaving tmpgenc behind and rendering my vcd's using the mainconcept encoder. I've used the ntsc vcd template and burned from vv3. The resulting vcd has a couple of audio stutters. I've experiemented until I'm dry...can NOT get vv3 to burn a vcd without audio stutter. I've also taken the vv3 created vcd and burned from Nero...audio stutter still present (so...not the burn routine I'm thinking)

The vcd file created by vv3 plays perfectly on my pc..the audio stutters occur only on the dvd. SO..I'm thinking there must be some "adjustment(s)" needed to the mainconcept encoding settings...but I simply can't seem to figure out what they would be.

So..in summary...I'm really stuck. I can't use vv3 to make the vcd, and I can't use it to make an .avi file which I could encode using tmpgenc to get around the audio stutter.

Thanks for any assist.

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osiase wrote on 12/27/2001, 3:26 PM

I've used VV 3.0 to create a .avi file, imported into TMPGenc then went back to VV 3.0 to burn a VCD. I wasn't successful in using Adaptec 4.0 to burn a VCD that my DVD player acknowledges. No problem with using TMPGenc with .avi output from VV 3.0. I've not seen any stuttering problems when burning directly from VV 3.0 to VCD. The quality of TMPGenc is better (lots of discussion on this topic in this forum) but the Main Concept MPEG-1 is built into VV 3.0 and doesn't require the intermediate building of the .avi file.
I suspect the difference maybe in that you are getting your source via ULEAD. After reading through many of the discussion in this forum, seems like VV re-renders any other product's files. This may be the source of your problems. Any chance you can capture the source in VV 3.0 directly?

mayberryman wrote on 1/1/2002, 11:04 AM

thanks for your reply. After many frustrating hours, I've learned that the "trick" to getting tmpgenc to accept the vv3 .avi file is to bump the DirectShow multimedia plug-in up to a priority of 1 in tmpgenc's environmental settings.

The audio "dropout/stutter" problem remains unsolved. I have a 10 second audio clip which will always produce a dropout/stutter in the vcd file when encoded with vv3 and never produce it using tmpgenc. Completely baffled, since one would think the audio component of vv3 superior to anything out there. I recaptured this audio clip again, using vv3, and the problem remained. However, it seems to only happen on this particular clip.

Any additional suggestions much appreciated.