DVD > SVCD w/ffmpegx... pauses on single frame!

[behoovedgirl]

my dad and i are attempting to burn a ripped 90min DVD to SVCD.
we ripped it with osex, and it gave us a single 4.7GB .vob file, which we previewed in VLC and looked fine. then attempted to encode it as a standard SVCD with ffmpegx. we had to rename the .vob to .mpg to get the program to accept the file...
this worked fine, except the audio and video were WAY out of sync, and it looked to be non-linear, because no matter how many offsets/remuxes we tried, it wouldnt stay constant thru the whole movie (variable frame rates maybe?).

so we started over, and this time i used this guide i found to making in sync SVCD's from DVD's. i followed the steps exactly, which required renaming the .vob to a .mov, and started the process over...

the encoding took about 3 times longer than it normally should have. when we tried it the first time it finished in less than one night, but this time it went all the way through to the next afternoon! the terminal said it completed encoding with no errors. but then when we previewed the .m2v file, it was fine up until about 1/4 of the way in... where it just literally stops on 1 frame, and plays that single frozen frame for the last hour or so of the movie.

could this just be a fluke? or is it a known problem with a solution? any advice would be appreciated, thanks!

[bilestyle]

you have run into the infamous ~4 gig quicktime bug, there is no solution to this problem, short of ripping the movie as elementary streams and muxing into a 4000 meg segment and 700 meg segment and feedin those one at a time through ffmpegx and then joinin them.. -- if u wanna go by that process.

[behoovedgirl]

thanks for your reply... i saw that bug mentioned in the guide, but had no idea what it actually did, until now. doh!

what program would you recommend for muxing the elementary streams into 2 segments of desired sizes?

thanks again

[behoovedgirl]

oh wait, i see a "force segment" option in missingmpegtools, that will probably do it, yeah?