Hey everyone, this is my first post here, so hopefully I'm doing this correctly. I have been using TMPGEnc & VCDEasy for some time on a PC with Windows 2000 with few problems. So when I got a newer computer (PC with Windows XP), I was interested to see how much faster the conversions on TMPGEnc would go. And I was pretty pleased. In the past, converting a 45 minute WMV file to MPEG took about 2 and a half hours. On the new computer it took about 22 minutes.

But when I went to burn it to a VCD, after VCDEasy analyzed the MPEG, it claimed it wasn't even a video file. I tried to open it and play it and Windows told me the same thing. It looked like the correct size, it had the right file extension, but it wasn't being recognized as anything. So I went back and converted a few avi files with the same result. It worked faster than my old computer and looked fine during the conversion in TMPGEnc, but the end result was not being recognized as a file.

The original WMV and avi files were not the problem, since I moved those to my old computer, ran them through TMPGEnc and got good, burnable results.

So I went off in search of another converting program and tried Canopus Procoder. While it refused to work with about 50% of the avi files I had, the ones it did convert I tried to burn with VCDEasy. After VCDEasy analyzed them, it told me they would require autopadding and that the end result might not be watchable. I tried anyway, and the VCDs turned out fine. On my old computer, TMPGEnc never made files that required autopadding.

So I guess these are my questions:

1) Why is Procoder making MPEGs that require autopadding? What exactly is autopadding?

2) What on earth is going on with TMPGEnc on my new computer? Why is it taking 30 minutes to make files that apparently aren't even files? and why are they the same size that a real MPEG file should be and why does everything look normal during the conversion?

3) Why does Procoder refuse to work with some avi files that TMPGEnc has no problem with?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.