TMPGEnc 3 Express - Generates Bad MPEG Index

[djsdjs]

I generated a MPEG 2 file (chose defaults in TMPGEnc) from an AVI file. At a certain point the index is messed up so I can't place chapters where I want.

I have observed this in Nero Showtime, but happens in other players as well.

The beginning and end of this one hour MPEG clip seem fine, however, somewhere in the middle if I move forward to a position by typing in a time (say 27 mins) I get playback starting at a certain scene. If I play for about 5 minutes (now the file is past the problem area) and type in 27 minutes I get playback from a difference position. The position is not random - if I am moving forward to the problem area I get the same scene, if I am moving backward to the problem area I get the same scene - but I don't get the same scene for moving forward and backward.

There seems to 5 minutes or so that is indexed differently depending on which direction I am moving across the file.

This causes problems when Nero Vision tries to assign chapters.

I thought maybe there was a problem with the AVI - AVICodec said that the code was unknown so I recapture and AVI type 2 file and re-encoded to MPEG - I had the same problem.

It this a problem with the encoder or am I doing something wrong?

[djsdjs]

I forgot to mention that I used the latest version Scenalyzer (not beta) to capture the AVI.

[djsdjs]

OK, so three seconds after I post, I snoop the forum for other converters and decide to give The FilmMachine 1.4 a try. When it trys to open the AVI it complains "List index out of bounds(3)"

Would this cause the MPEG indexing problem or is FilmMachine mistaken (this version of FilmMachine is refusing to calculate a bitrate - so I don't know if the software is solid)?

I used a stop timer in scenalyzer - does Scenalyzer have any known issues?

Is there software for checking the integrity of AVI and/or MPEG files? I searched high and low and could not find any.

Thanks,
D.

[djsdjs]

PLEASE IGNORE THAT LAST POST - I was pointing to the wrong AVI.