45 min DIVX becomes 2hr Mpeg?

[Spassvogel]

I downloaded a 45 minute DIVX file, and wanted to burn it to a DVD. I ran the file through TMPGENC and the result was two files, a .wav file and an m2v file.

Together they totaled about 4.1gig.

I then used TMPGENC's DVD Authoring program to author the thing, and again, it successfully produced a VOlume1 folder that contained the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. Then I used their program to burn the thing as well.

The result of all of this was a blank black, silent video clip that was two hours long.

What the heck did I do wrong????

Thanks

Spass

[Forum Troll]

Perhaps try encoding directly to MPEG-2, instead of demultiplexing the file, then import the MPEG-2 into the authoring program.

[bugster]

The result of all of this was a blank black, silent video clip that was two hours long.

What the heck did I do wrong????

Thanks

Spass

You didn't test the output from TmpGenc in a software player before authoring and burning. Thats one thing you did wrong! (at least you don't say you did, just covering my back from the Forum Troll ).

Seriously though, that is definatley a mistake. Check the output of each stage before moving on to the next otherwise you could be performing the next stage of your process with dodgy inputs, never a good starting point.

As to why you got a 2hour black video, lets see.

The extra apparent length is commonly caused by feeding TmpGenc with an avi that contains VBR audio, TmpGenc doesn't like it. Open the avi in virtualdub. If it has VBR audio you will get a warning pop up. In this case, save the audio as an uncompressed wav and use that file as the audio source and the avi as the video source when you encode with TmpGenc.

Black video, not so sure, did you scan the file for bad frames? Virtualdub can be used for this too.