Converting

[harmonykorine]

I'm having major issues converting 2 xvid files with TMPG after going on a nice first 10 runs of everything working fine.

The files are both XVid files.. both are part 1 of large 2 part movies. All four total files work fine on all my media players.

The problem is..

When I try to convert them to mpegs in TMPG one gets about 35% done every time and crashes with a "encounted problem and needs to close" error, the other does this earlier.

I've tried the following: Scanning for errors with VirtualDub and various other programs...extracting the audio and using it as a wav *same thing still happens* using AviFix *made video go crazy*, cutting out about 500 frames before AND after the frame it always crashes at *still crashed in that area*

I'm new to this, but I've been following tutorials like mad trying to solve this and am out of ideas... heres the specs on the files...

624x336
bit rate: 448
data rate: 151kbps
video sample size 24bit
compressor: xvid

Any help would be great! Getting very frustrated!

[DJRumpy]

Just try frameserving it to your encoder. It's an easy workaround to getting around bad frames. Use AVISynth, or VirtualDub.

[Hardcoreruss]

Your file would not happen to be the New Lord of the Rings would it ?

[harmonykorine]

Sure isn't... 1 is 1 half of Pianist, the other is 1 half of Bowling for Columbine. I'm totally stumped. I'll try frame serving it tonight. Thanks!