avi to mpeg2 conversion results into garbage / mpeg1 works

[Dave2001]

Guys ,

Iam trying to convert an avi file ( captured from an analog camera ) to a mpeg2 file so that i can make an SVCD out of it .
Anyhow - everytime i convert it - the picture is just garbage - green grey - all colours of the rainbow squares are on my screen - but the sound is ok . When i convert it to MPEG1 - it works just fine ( except the quality is pretty bad ) . My first thought was that the size i captured with was wrong - i captured it in a vcd format . So i resized it with VirtualDub - making it work as a frameserver for TmpegEnc . The picture looks fine in TmpegEnc - but when i try to play it - it is garbage again . Then i made a streamcopy ( it is a 4G file now ) but still only garbage . Iam pretty sure that iam overlooking something here .... but i cant figure out what ....



Thanks already ...

[Gazorgan]

With what did you capture it? What capture card? What capture codec? Bitrate? What capture resolution? What software? Your profile is blank, can your machine keep up? It sounds like a XviD/FFDShow problem, with the green.

[Dave2001]

My PC is a 1400 AMD Athlon Thunderbird - The capture card is a MSI with a Video in . I captured it as an AVI with 352 x 288 .

I actually found out that my stand alone DVD will play it just fine - but now the sound is gone .... weird stuff ...