Hi

I must have posted this several times this evening, where people are having problems converting downloaded AVI files.
Most people are downloading and attempting to convert them with TMPGEnc straight away.

Well not all movies can be converted straight away...

After you download the AVI, you need to make sure that its not corrupt. Downloading from several sources, a brake in the download, all adds problems to the AVI. Not too mention the person who made the AVI has dropped frames in the capture

Vdub 1.49 comes with "Scan Video stream for errors" this will scan through the movie searching for "Freeze frames" Vdub calls them Junk frames "read the help that come with it" "yes there is one "

A while ago this was not available so someone modified a copy of Vdub 1.4C to include it.
The program is called "vdub-mp3-freeze.exe" (search Grokster for it) what this does is scan the movie for bad frames.
If it finds any then it creates a list of them at c:\badframes.log

With this log file you can now go to each block of frames and remove them. If there are several blocks you need to delete the first block, save the movie out with streaming, then load the second copy back in and scan again, to delete the second block as the movie length changes after you delete the first block.

When all bad frames are removed, you can now convert with TMPGEnc.

Deleting bad frames should always be done at "Key frames" so if the start of the bad frames was 230 then you would need to go to that frame then hit the yellow key < once backwards to jump to the nearest Key Frame, then select this as the start.

If the end of the bad frames in the first block is 241 then you would need to go to then hit the yellow key > once forward to jump to the nearest key frame then select end. You can now delete this block of bad frames.

Using Vdub 1.49>, makes things a little easier, its suppose to remove all the bad frames if you save out another copy. First Load your AVI, then from select Video > Scan Video Stream For Errors.
Next Set Video and Audio to streaming, and SAVE AS, save out another copy, then use this in TMPGEnc
Most audio problems, out of sync problems, TMPGEnc errors can be avoided by fixing the bad frames before you encode.

Hope this helps, and I'm sure there are some people who will say they still have problems and it does not help, well it works for me with "ALL" the bad movies I have downloaded no matter what codec was used.