picture problem when converting 550x224 avi to vcd

[em-pathy]

Howdy,
I'm currently trying to turn a Divx Mpeg-4 Fast-Motion avi into a vcd of pal format. The original avi file Squarepusher - Come On My Selector.avi is also pal format and I have no trouble encoding the audio in it to a wav file in VirtualDub 1.4

The problem occurs when I attempt to use TMPGEnc 2.150 and/or 2.58.44.152 to turn the original avi into a vcd format file using the seperate wav file as the audio for the video (I have also tried using the audio straight from the original source file but that makes no differance). The job encodes completely to 100% and produces an output mpg file. When I attempt to play it though there are either one of two problems. I have included a picture of the first which I think speaks for itself (the video is not meant to look like that). http://empathy.netfirms.com/tmpgencproblem.jpg. The picture stays all distorted and weird like that but the movie still plays and you can see that it's playing at a normal frame rate but that's about all you can see.

Playing around with the settings slightly and experimenting with suggestions in other forum advice I managed to get the picture clear but when I encoded the entire file and went to view it about 1/3 of the picture on the left side was now on the right. Hard to describe I think but it was like the picture was split but then the splits sides were swapped around.

I have the latest Nimo Codec Pack, Number 5 Build 9 I believe or whichever is the latest as of about 5 days ago. I have made a lot of vcds with many differant files with varying frame rates and codecs used but this one I have been unable to problem solve around.

Sorry for the extremely long explanation but hopefully I've provided substantial information for a soloution to be provided. Any suggestions are welcome at all.

[KingJohn]

Looks like you have a bad codec installed, especially since you used Nimo... Sorry but Nimo has been the cause of so many problems, it is always best to install only the codecs you need and not from a codec pack, but install them separately. I take it that the AVI is fine and you have scanned it for bad frames ?

I recommend you get rid of Nimo and install the codecs separately, you should also check the settings of TMPGEnc plug-ins to make sure the priorities are right. It looks like DivX 5 is decoding the DivX 3.11 alpha and not working as it should.

In this order
KingJohns Guide to Codecs V2
KingJohn's Guide to bad frames V2 VBR Update
KingJohns Guide TMPGEnc Plug-in