Divx to DVD: After encoding got 8 minutes of A/V then...

[Burner27]

I have a Divx file that I used VirtualDUB to strip out the audio and then I used TMPGEnc (followed the instructions on "convert" section of VCDHELP) but I have an problem. When viewing the final product of the encoding process, I get a nice picture and sound for about 8 minutes of the movie then the video cuts out and i only hear audio for the rest of the movie. Any idea of what I am doing wrong? It says it supposed to take 8 hours or so to encode, it only took 2 hours to complete this on my PC which makes me think something got FUBAR'd.

Any advice is appreciated. Thank you.

[IMAD!man]

I do DIvX to DVD all the time with TMPGEnc and I have never seen this happen. Did you watch the DIvX version all the way through? I have noticed that sometimes TMPGEnc will not work and I just use CCE and it works about the same. It's actually a lot faster too but no wizard.

[Burner27]

CCE? Forgive my newbie-ness but could you tell me what that is and where to get it?

And yes, Iwatched it all the way through without problems while it is in Divx form.


Thanks.

[Burner27]

I do DIvX to DVD all the time with TMPGEnc and I have never seen this happen. Did you watch the DIvX version all the way through? I have noticed that sometimes TMPGEnc will not work and I just use CCE and it works about the same. It's actually a lot faster too but no wizard.

Can you help me out with CCE then? I still have the same problem no matter what settings i use in TMPGEnc.

I could really use the help.

Thanks

[bugster]

Did you scan the avi for bad frames in virtualdub? If not then this may be your problem. There is a guide on finding and removing bad frames.

[Treebeard]

I would go into the environmental settings under the vfapi tab and increase your directshow priorty to like 3 ( make sure that it is the highest on the list)

[Burner27]

Bugster:

I got this with VirtualDub:

34 frames masked(1 frames Bad, 33 frames good but undecodable)

How do I fix this?

SLBOSS926:

Directshow is highest on list with priority at 4.

[mysticgohan17]

try frameserving instead of loading the movie directly to TMPGEnc,
if you need to learn how to frameserve click here make sure you use the virtualdub 1.4.9 avifile frameclient support restart your PC then use the guide. hope i helped

[sammie]

I've had a lot of the problems mentioned above. I'm only so so at avisynth frameserving, but do VDub all the time and it didn't help much. What I found works best is useing DVD2SVCD in the file mode. Works like a charm. Just follow the settings in the guide for creating a DVD using it. I think part of the problem, although I have no way of showing this for sure, is that VDub doesn't identify all the badframes, good enough for playback, but not good enough for encoding.

[BJ_M]

CCE? Forgive my newbie-ness but could you tell me what that is and where to get it?

And yes, Iwatched it all the way through without problems while it is in Divx form.


Thanks.

CCE costs $2000 but if you want to buy it - get it here www.cinemacraft.com

[Craig Tucker]

Bugster:

I got this with VirtualDub:

34 frames masked(1 frames Bad, 33 frames good but undecodable)

How do I fix this?

SLBOSS926:

Directshow is highest on list with priority at 4.

You have bad frames and this is almost certainly the cause of the video freezing. Once you have scanned for bad frames and vdub gives you this message simply save as avi with a new filename (select direct stream copy for video and audio) vdub willl save the file minus the bad frames. You should then be able to encode this new avi file with no problems.

[Burner27]

Bugster:

I got this with VirtualDub:

34 frames masked(1 frames Bad, 33 frames good but undecodable)

How do I fix this?

SLBOSS926:

Directshow is highest on list with priority at 4.

You have bad frames and this is almost certainly the cause of the video freezing. Once you have scanned for bad frames and vdub gives you this message simply save as avi with a new filename (select direct stream copy for video and audio) vdub willl save the file minus the bad frames. You should then be able to encode this new avi file with no problems.

Did what you said, but now my audio is not synched anymore. What is the problem?

[Craig Tucker]

Your audio is not synced after you encode the avi to mpeg, or the audio is not synced in the avi itself after removing the bad frames ?

If you mean after you encode the audio is no longer synced, this could be because the audio in the avi has a variable bit rate. When you open the file in vdub does it give a vbr warning ?. If the audio is vbr you need to save it out as an uncompressed wav file and use that as the audio source in TMPGEnc.

Open the avi file in vdub,

Audio
Full processing mode
Conversion (44.1khz for (S)VCD 48Khz for DVD)
Compression (no compression PCM)

Save wav file

[KingJohn]

Use Vdub MP3 not the regular Vdub

KingJohn's Guide to bad frames V2 VBR Update

[Burner27]

Your audio is not synced after you encode the avi to mpeg, or the audio is not synced in the avi itself after removing the bad frames ?

If you mean after you encode the audio is no longer synced, this could be because the audio in the avi has a variable bit rate. When you open the file in vdub does it give a vbr warning ?. If the audio is vbr you need to save it out as an uncompressed wav file and use that as the audio source in TMPGEnc.

Open the avi file in vdub,

Audio
Full processing mode
Conversion (44.1khz for (S)VCD 48Khz for DVD)
Compression (no compression PCM)

Save wav file

It's not synched after removing the bad frames.

[KingJohn]

Your audio is not synced after you encode the avi to mpeg, or the audio is not synced in the avi itself after removing the bad frames ?

If you mean after you encode the audio is no longer synced, this could be because the audio in the avi has a variable bit rate. When you open the file in vdub does it give a vbr warning ?. If the audio is vbr you need to save it out as an uncompressed wav file and use that as the audio source in TMPGEnc.

Open the avi file in vdub,

Audio
Full processing mode
Conversion (44.1khz for (S)VCD 48Khz for DVD)
Compression (no compression PCM)

Save wav file

If you do that with a AVI with bad frames the output will not be in sync, it has to be done with Vdub MP3 to remove the bad frames, once they are gone, then you can switch back to the normal Vdub to save audio

[Craig Tucker]

I use mp3 freeze if I get an mmx error with the regular version of vdub, otherwize I just use vdub (regular) to scan for freezes, save as a new avi file. Then save the audio uncompressed from this new file (assuming it has VBR). I have never had problems with audio sync doing it this way.

I use vdub rather than mp3freeze just for the convenience, it is easier to let vdub mask the frames rather than removing them manually.

[KingJohn]

Yes but you have not said that, you said to use the normal Vdub to save out the audio using full processing mode, but if the file has bad frames that will cause the lip sync.

If the AVI has VBR and bad frames, then you cannot continue, as saving the audio out uncompressed, is going to be a different size to saving the video (Less the bad frames) using streaming

[Craig Tucker]

I did say that earlier in this thread.

You have bad frames and this is almost certainly the cause of the video freezing. Once you have scanned for bad frames and vdub gives you this message simply save as avi with a new filename (select direct stream copy for video and audio) vdub willl save the file minus the bad frames. You should then be able to encode this new avi file with no problems.

[KingJohn]

um

You have bad frames and this is almost certainly the cause of the video freezing.
Yes...
Once you have scanned for bad frames and vdub gives you this message simply save as avi with a new filename (select direct stream copy for video and audio) vdub willl save the file minus the bad frames.
No, because if there is VBR, then that will cause lip sync. The regular vdub cannot be used with bad frames AND VBR.

1, Scan for bad frames with Vdub MP3, and remove any it finds
2, Save out another copy using streaming.
3, Now use the Normal Vdub to load that save and save audio