AVI & TMPGenc question

[spooky]

I am wondering what could this be.
I have an AVI file with the episode of Enterprise, when I try to convert it over to MPEG for VCD after the import to TMPGenc the program states that the file is over two hours long, but when I play it on Media Player it plays file for 45 min ( lenght of the show )
When I open the file in VirtualDub I get this error:
" VirtualDub has detected an improper VBR audio encoding in the source AVI file and will rewrite the audio header with standart CBR values during processing for better compatibility." etc.
After opening the file & saving it again to AVI the audio is out of SYNC now so the next step I am going to try is to save the WAV & then combine it with AVI video portion of it using TMPGenc.
But what I am wondering is what would the problem be?
Thanx

[andyg]

Not sure what you mean when you say 'when I try to convert it over to MPEG for VCD after the import to TMPGenc the program states that the file is over two hours long' Do you mean that the resulting mpeg file is large? Most CD-R's can take upto 700MB so if your file is bigger than 700MB chances are that it won't fit. When you decode using TMPGEnc, use the constant bitrate 1150. 45 minutes of video should be about 500MB of data using this setting - small enough for one disk. Regarding the audio, only decompress if TMPGEnc won't encode it (encode a portion and see if there is sound or not). I use the Audio decompressor program that comes with Virtual Dub. It converts the audio to pcm format that TMPGEnc supports. Let us know how you get on.

[spooky]

Thanx for the reply
First off what I was trying to say was that the file size ( in minutes ) would read as 133min for a 45min video ( odd ).
Anyhow, what I did was to extract the audio from AVI using VirtualDub ( into WAV ) then imported both AVI & WAV into TMPGenc, started the encoding into VCD NTSC, after about 20 min of encoding ( 5 min clip ) I stopped it & tried to see how the audio cam out & it looks like it is fine. So now I just need to spend about 2 hrs to encode that flick into VCD Mpeg & I am done

Thank you again

[Compound]

I am wondering what could this be.
I have an AVI file with the episode of Enterprise, when I try to convert it over to MPEG for VCD after the import to TMPGenc the program states that the file is over two hours long, but when I play it on Media Player it plays file for 45 min ( lenght of the show )

ive had this problem before to if you were to complete this encode at the end of the clip the audio would just keep on playing. i have no idea why because they play fine in windows media player as avi.but i found the easy solution when converting in tmpge just use source range and set the begin frame at the very begining and the end frame a couple frames before the actual end.then encode as usual. now it will read the actual minutes and the encode time will be cut down significantly.
hope this helps.

[reman]

TMPGEnc cannot work on a file that has VBR audio encoding. Bring it into Vdub and save the audio to a wav file then bring the video into TMPGEnc and the audio wav file into TMPGEnc on the video and audio areas.

Good luck
reman