Tomb Raider and Spy Kids.

[corwin1]

I have had the same problem with both of these files, which are dvd rips (avi files). When I go to load them in TMPGEnc, I use standard SVCD templates. First problem is about halfway through the encoding, there is black screen, no populated frames, but its still encoding fine. Essentially the end of the movie has come and gone (credits have already rolled by) in the encoding process and it continues to encode a black screen only.

When I look at the number of frames in the top right corner it shows well over 380000 in total, and approx 189000 encoded when it starts to encode the "black screen". That's impossible because the movie is only 1 hour 40 minutes which is generally around 190000 frames for a decent DVD rip. When the encoding is done (16 hours which normally takes 8 when the movie is under 2 hours), the video is fine, but there is absolutely no audio and the movie length has increased from 1:40 hours to 2:28 hours!! I have had exactly the same problem on both movies. I have had no problems with other files (other than a few out of sync issue).

Why the doubling of frames? is this a region code issue? is that why I can't seem to get an mpeg out of it without losing all of the audio? How do I fix this?

[Baldrick]

convert the audio separate
http://www.vcdhelp.com/virtualdubaudio.htm

and use the source range under settings->advanced in tmpgenc when encoding to select what to encode.

[corwin1]

Sorry, I know Baldrick has received a private response from me, but I wanted to get some clarification on this forum, so that others may benefit from this knowledge. Although I have only tried this procedure listed above once, I'm not sure it will work. The file that I tried it on was the spy who shagged me and the reason I tried the above mentioned fix was because the audio was out of sync on the converted avi (to SVCD). As it turns out, it did not fix the problem on that movie file as there was a bad frame or two that caused it to go out of sync, although the funny thing was the source file avi was fine, no sync problems. Vdub saw that there were to bad frames so I tried deleting them, but then the audio went out of sync on the source file avi!!