VERY weird problem with tmpeg

[swass]

I've been trying to convert an .avi file using tmpegenc to PAL-vcd... I have never had any problems before but suddenly this happened:

tmpeg estimated the encoding time to somewhere near 16 hours instead of the usual 5 (about 90 minutes of video). After about 1½ hours it was 10% done, but 26 minutes into the movie.
For some reason it added about 3 hours worth of black screen, and, on top of that, there was no sound on the newly encoded file.

If anyone has an idea or a similar experience I would like to hear what they did... or maybe someone could suggest an alternative to tmpegenc that I could try it out on.

thanks

[marcusaxavier]

I had a problem similar to this. It was adding extra time to every mpg that I was creating. The mpg would run it's normal time, and then skip the extra time, but it still registered the extra time and even took up actual space as if it was there. Such as a 1 min mpg would be 10MB, after encoding (from avi) the mpg would be 2 minutes and 15-20MB (just an example).

My solution was to uninstall Microsoft Media Player (all versions) and the mpg tools and files associated with it (not the mpgs I made, just the files that MMP installs). I reinstalled MMP, then tried to encode the same avi clip over. It worked like a charm.