Help, Trying to Convert from DivX into VCD

[kyp4]

OK, I am trying to convert some movies I have in DivX format into VCD MPEG format so that I can watch them on my DVD player so I don't have to sit at the computer. My problem lies in doing that conversion. I've tried just about everything I could think of but I still get these weird, inconsisant errors.
I tried using both TMPGEnc as well LSX MPEG Encoder (I have full version) but I get inconsistant errors. The most common error is the dreaded 'Illegal Operation' box. But I also get unhandled exceptions and a couple others. They seem very inconsistant, they don't occur at the same point in the conversion, though I've never gotten past the first like 20 minutes without some dumb error.
I've looked through all the information I could find about both converters but found nothing about this. I tried multiple versions of TMPGEnc and both the DivX 4 codec and the Krystal Studios codec.
I'm using an Athlon 900MHz running Win98, I disabled the MMX feature in TMPGEnc in case that was a problem. I also tried the audio thing, right now I'm not even worrying about audio: I can't even get the video to work right. I don't know what to do. Oh, and I also made sure to use the correct FPS, in case that had anything to do with it.
Any help would be MUCH appreciated.

[523pfe]

Can you split off 5 mbs and send to me. I'll see if I can encode.
n.mazure@btopenworld.com

[w00kiee]

did you try frameserving from virtual dub to tmpgenc... that might help... sounds like your problem might be bigger than just this divx... but using virtual dub to decode the divx might be the quick fix that gets the job done
see -
http://www.vcdhelp.com/virtualdubframeserve.htm

[JHowell]

I had the same problem last night while trying to convert and then merge a DivX to mpg. The problem for me was the size of my virtual swap file. I'm using Win2000 and had to change the max default size of 574MB to 2048MB so it would use 2Gigs for a virtual swap file. Once I did that I received no more errors. You should be able to do the same in 98 by taking control of the Virtual Swap File and not letting Windows manage it. I am almost the same configuration as you, I am using an Abit KT7 with an Athlon 900 except running Win2K. Try it, what have you got to lose.

[lizzoqops]

Every divx seems to be different...sometimes you can fix this problem by saving the audio to a wav in vdub...sometimes I've had to re-encode the whole movie in vdub using codecs I know will work in tmp. If the above solutions don't solve your problems, try this.

Liz

[w00kiee]

Every divx seems to be different...sometimes you can fix this problem by saving the audio to a wav in vdub...sometimes I've had to re-encode the whole movie in vdub using codecs I know will work in tmp. If the above solutions don't solve your problems, try this.

Liz

liz - you would benifit from frame serving as well.. saves you from lowering the quality by doing that extra encode.. (unless your doing an unlossy encode resulting in a multi gigs of avi) frameserving will have the same result as the extra encode without lowering quality or needing tons of space . it gives tmpgenc a non divx avi to work with (virtually) read ->

http://www.vcdhelp.com/virtualdubframeserve.htm

[lupus]

Remember to increase the priority for the TMPGEnc AVI file reader to 0 or else it will probably bomb. (Environmental Settings VFAPI tab)
A lot of people seem to have had this problem (including myself)

[Stinky]

Run DivFix - rebuild the index - that helps A LOT

DivFix : http://www.vcdhelp.com/DivFix.zip

also yes always convert the audio stream to WAV before