Video pixelation and stuck issues?

[serialtoon]

I recently encoded an .avi to mpeg 2 format using Main Concept MPEG Encoder. Heres the problem, although i LOVE the time it takes to encode a movie, towards the end of the flick it gets stuck and doesnt move but the audio continues. Also the quality seems to drop as i get alot of pixels and choppiness. Anyone have any clues? Also ive used the SVCD2DVD app to convert avi to DVD movies and it works fine but 18-20 hours of encoding time is too long for me. Please help.

[serialtoon]

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[serialtoon]

WOW! No one eh?

[spectroelectro]

This sort of thing very occasionally happened to me. Causes boiled down to 1 of 2: either (1) I was trying to encode a non-standard AVI withsome problems in it, typically an AVI made from a DiVX file, or (2) the encoder program had gotten corrupted for some reason.
Solution to problem (2) is to remove and re-install the encoder program. TMPGenc started misbehaving with exactly these kinds of problems a while back. Removed it and re-installed it and the problem went away.
Solution to problem (1) is to feed the AVI into VirtualDubMod and let VDub report errors and fix 'em. Turned out lotsa bad frames etc. had gotten into the AVI. VDub fixed 'em, re-encoded, problem solved.
It's barely possible that you might need more RAM or a bigger virtual memory settting but in all likelihood it's one of the 2 problems cited above.
SVCD2DVD takes a long time to encode and produces mediocure quality MPEG files. MainConcept runs far quicker and produces far better quality output. Stick with MainConcept. Along with CCE and TMPG it's one of the 3 best video encoders on the market.
Pixelation may result from inadequate bitrate settings. In my experience standard SVCD settings don't suffice to avoid pixelation in high-motion scenes. Whenever I encode to SVCD format I use radically non-standard SVCD bitrates: min 100, av 2100, max 5000. If the encoded file winds up too large for a single CD-R, use ReJig to squish the file down to 690 megs.

[Roy47]

Have you tried using there latest Ver 1.41. It solved my problems

Roy