TMPGEnc showing incorrect file size ?!?

[Purge]

I am trying to convert avi versions of the original Star Trek to SVCD, but on a few of the episodes TMPGEnc shows that the video is like 190 min 35 sec, and 400% of disk capacity . When I play the files in Windows Media Player they're fine. Any help would be much appreciated.

[josh80]

I don't know if this will help you or not. I never seem to see anyone mention it. I find that when I try to encode with TMPGEnc, it often shows that the resulting file will be huge. Way bigger then what it needs to be.

So what I do is first extract the audio with Virtualdub in an uncompressed .wav format. Then I encode again with TMPGEnc, except this time I use the new .wav as the audio source. For some reason using this method makes TMPGEnc create a smaller file (the size it should be). You can give this method a try. It always works for me, or it could just be my computer. Can anyone verify that it does this on there computer too, and if so, then why?

Hope this helps.