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  1. Ok, lesse if I can start from the beginning...
    I have an avi that is 166mb and this is the info on it, according to Gspot:
    FourCC:div3
    Codec: Divx 3 Low-Motion
    Vendor: DivX
    Status: Codec IS installed
    Framerate: 23.976fps
    Avg Bitrate 782kb/s
    Audio:
    Encoding: Mp3
    Avg Bitrate: 160 kb/s

    This is an anime episode, and I had no trouble converting the others before it to vcd, but this one won't work for some reason. It's a complete file, as in not truncated. When I load it into EO Video and try to convert, EO Crashes and gives me this error:

    Error Signature-----
    AppName: eo.exe AppVer: 1.3.6.0 ModName: ffdshow.ax
    Mod Ver: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 0001c08


    Well, I get a reply back from EO's support and they say that EO can't really work well with FFDSHOW.ax. No big deal, I'll just use TMPEGEnc.

    Well, when I converted the other episodes, I got files that were just over 200mb. When I convert with TMPEGenc, I get files that are 600mb. I talked to a friend of mine that uses it all the time for his stuff, and he told me to use the templates, so I did. I tried all three NTSC and all three NTSC Film[after finding that those were for files that had a framerate of 23.976fps] and I still had the same results.

    What I want to know is what should I do? How can I make TMPEGenc make these files into vcds and have them not be a huge mpeg? I don't know how EO Video made them so small[there was no real quality loss], so I'm kinda stuck.

    Any help is appreciated. I searched through the forums and site and didn't see anything, but if it's been posted before and I just missed it, then please point me to it and I apologize for posting it again.

    ~Hino
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  2. A standards compliant VCD has a bitrate of 1150kb/s. This equates to approx 10mb per min of video. The only thing that affects the size of an mpeg file is the bitrate and the playing time. You don't say how long the video is so I can't say if your file sizes are correct.

    You can reduce the filesize by reducing the bitrate, but quality will suffer. Also, you must change the Stream type, on the settings sytem tab, to mpeg-1 VCD (non-standard) if you do this, otherwise Tmpgenc will pad the bitrate back to 1150.
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  3. The video is about twenty minutes long.

    I'm not at home now, so I can't check, but when I left, I was encoding it to an mpeg at 768kb/s, which is close to what the original file was. I'll try the stream type when I get home to see if it effects it any.

    It must have been padding the bitrate, but I don't know. I'll have to check it when I get home.
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  4. I've encountered a similar issue when converting certain anime avi's with TMPGEnc into DVD compliant m2v (video) files.

    I noticed that whenever I had a file that "exhibited" this problem in TMPGEnc, when I loaded it into VirtualDub it complained about VBR audio problems.

    I also noticed that despite the fact that my output m2v files were super huge, everything was encoded properly until the last frame, which seemed to repeat for at least "half of the file size". In a nutshell I knew my output m2v should be around 1.2GB, but they were coming out at 3GB+! That other 1.8GB was wasted on repeating the last frame.

    I have yet to find out how to stop TMPGEnc from reacting this way to these particular files. However, I use the TMPGEnc MPEG cutter to trim off all of that extra last frame garbage - wihout any problems.

    Do you see the last frame repeated in your output video files?
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  5. What I have is the length of the episode[minutes] is roughly doubled. I get about 20 more mins of nothing. There's also no audio, but I've heard about the probs with mp3 audio.

    I'm going to try what bugster posted about the stream types now that I'm home.

    And if it repeats, I'll see about trying out the cutter then.

    Thanks for all the help
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  6. It look s like AmuroRay was pretty much on the mark. Now we have a few more details it can be seen to be a typical VBR audio problem. Tmpgenc does not like VBR audio in the avi file and waht you are seeing is the usual result. There are two possible remedies.

    1) Use Tmpgenc's source range feature. Set the start point at frame 0 and the end point 1 frame before the end.

    2) Ope the avi in virtualdub, set
    audio->full processing
    audio->compression - None (PCM)
    file->save wav
    and save out the audio as an uncompressed wav file. Use this file as the audio input when you encode in Tmpgenc.

    Hope this helps.

    Bugster
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  7. I got it to work last night by doing just that. Everything seems to work now.

    Thanks so much for all the help.
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