Problems with TMPG and SMR movies

[onerag9]

I normally download SMR movie rips, and re-encode them to VCD so i can burn them onto a disc. This has worked just fine for the past... Christ, i don't even know how long. For a long time, i've been using TMPG Plus v2.56. I've never had a single, solitary problem with it until about a month ago. Every encode has been flawless, and i've burned hundreds of VCDs.
Normally, i'll use the "batch encode" feature and encode several files overnight while i sleep, or during the day while i'm at work. But now when i let the program run, i'll come back in a couple of hours and check on it, and find that it has shut itself down - no error message, no warning, no ANYTHING. It's just stopped running. I open the program and check the batch list, and it says "Aborted by user."
If i check my destination directory, usually the first file has been encoded... BUT, the last 3-5 seconds are missing. If i have a video that is 40:25 in length, the encoded clip will only be 40:22 or something close to that. What the hell?
So then i started just trying to encode one file at a time, but i've been getting the same results as of late. I've even tried downloading the newest version of TMPG, but the results are the same. Thus far, i haven't had a problem with videos downloaded from other places (TMD, MTG, etc), but only with the SMR clips.
Anyone have any suggestions? It's driving me insane!

[LordKariya]

Gnomes are hitting the cancel key.

Actually, is it possible that SMR intentionally puts errors in the final seconds to prevent re-encoding ? A lot of release groups don't like having their stuff tampered with. How about chopping off the last 10 seconds and seeing if they re-encode ?

[onerag9]

That's not a bad idea... although i can't say i would be happy about cutting off 10 seconds of my movie right in the middle... especially if there's dialogue. But i'll give it a whirl.

[loveturtleozark]

try frameserving from virtualdub without any filters or anything,except maybe null transform I use to have to do that for a few downloaded movies that I would encode to vcd to watch on the cd-i machine at work
I remember at least 3 movies I had to encode this way-just runing them through TMPEG didnt work for them