Tmpegenc Freezes vidoe due to bad frames in avi files

[Cataphract]

I am converting to XVCD using tmpegenc from avi files which are mostily divx or xvid codecs.

The problem I am having is that because some files may not be of the optimum quality and have some frames in the middle that are corrupted or I don't know what but they freeze on the preview screen when it reaches there and the video processing basically stops at that stage. (If I play the file in Windows media player, I can basically see that precisely at the point when the processing stopped, the frame is either out of sync or has bad pixels and things like that)

Tmpegenc continues to run until the end of the file but after the point where video was frozen, only audio is processed, can this be resolved by seperately extracting audio and video?

Has anyone else had this problem?
I hate to ditch the entire file because of a few bad frames in the middle, as the overall quality is otherwise excellent.

[Treebeard]

2 ideas;

get Divfix and load your avi file and rebuild index, small chance it will help

or open file in Virtualdub & scan for bad frames, then remove those frames

[Cataphract]

2 ideas;

get Divfix and load your avi file and rebuild index, small chance it will help

or open file in Virtualdub & scan for bad frames, then remove those frames

Thanks.

Will try VDub first.

[Gazorgan]

Vdub gives better results, as it looks for bad frames. DivXfix is more for viewing partial files.

[Cataphract]

In Vdub I selected "Scan Video Stream for errors", it scanned the file and came up with results like "5 bad frames and 380 good but undecodable frames", now do I need to save this file with the changes?

Or does it automatically remove the bad frames from the original file? I did not see any option for saving the corrected version.

[honorarybrutha]

use vdub mp3 freeze (in tools section to the left). it does NOT automatically remove bad frames. there is a specific way to remove them. see: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/153907.php

[Cataphract]

use vdub mp3 freeze (in tools section to the left). it does NOT automatically remove bad frames. there is a specific way to remove them. see: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/153907.php

Thanks for the link.

Damn that is a painful process to get rid of the bad frames

[Craig Tucker]

vdub automatically removes the frames when you save the file after scanning. But it does not work well with files encoded with VBR audio. vdub mp3 freeze works fine with vbr audio but you have to remove the frames manually.

[Donna Stefani]

I have an mpg file that I'm trying to load into tmpgenc to convert for vcd, but it is telling me that there is only 6 mins of movie when there is over an hour. Someone told me elsewhere to demux it, & that I could do it in tmpgenc, but what they told me to do, under the file, mpg tools, cut & delete & multiplex, etc., only gives me a 23 min. movie. So, I remembered having a problem before with a movie not fully converting & that I was told to scan for errors in virtual dub. I couldn't remember the directions, so I came looking for them & ended up here. It won't load into the mp3 freeze one or the regular one. It keeps giving me some sort of error towards the end of the file, but the box dissapears & I cannot see what it says. The only one I can get it to load into is the mpg2-ac3 one. I chose the check video stream for errors & it says 12 frames masked, 1 bad frame & 11 frames good but undecodable, at the bottom.
I read earlier here that it either logs it or deletes the errors depending on the version you're using. I cannot find the badframes log, but I also can't figure out how to save the mpg file again either. It only gives me avi options & this is a huge file.
What can I do with this thing to get it to load & convert into tmpgenc? I'm begining to think this thing isn't worth all this aggravation & will pitch it if I can't get if figured out soon.