I've recently downloaded the latest trial version of tmpgne plus to try the extra features & see if it is worth purchasing. I liked the free version & had no problems with convertions using it. I was told recently if you up the bitrate a little when coverting a AVI to mpeg for VCD it can improve the picture quality. I found I could not do this in the free version I had so I had a look at the plus version and it had a template for VCD pal with a slightly higher bitrate. I converted AVI using this template & the result was quite good. I also burnt it to CD and it played fine in my standalone DVD player. So I decided to convert a few more using this template with no changes to the settings of the previous one which worked. After roughly an hour to convert the resulting mpeg only has sound for the first 5mins. I tried again using the AVI I used for the original succesful conversion but this time the sound on this one also disappeared after 5mins.
Can anyone tell me if this is an issue with the latest plus version of TMPGNE or is it something that may have changed in the settings that I'm not aware of?