XVID to DVD troubles

[sulimo]

I've been converting a whole bunch of tv episodes in XVID format to MPEG2 and making DVD-Video's up using TMPGenc and DVDLab.

Anyway, for some strange reason I've come across one episode that when converted and made into a DVD and played on a standalone player the video freezes up every so often (always the same spots). Other episodes on the same disc play fine. All the episodes play fine using PC DVD software (Power DVD).

I've converted the file a couple of times to the same effect each time.

Anyone got any idea what this could be or help solving the problem?

[mats.hogberg]

Have you scanned your source AVIs for bad frames? If not, I suspect a bad source here...

/Mats

[sulimo]

Have you scanned your source AVIs for bad frames? If not, I suspect a bad source here...

/Mats

No. What tool does that?

[mats.hogberg]

VirtualDub MP3 Freeze. Always, when dealing with AVIs of uncertain origin, (I'm not saying that it is so in this case...) scan them for errors before doing anything else to them. If errors are found, you have 2 options: Delete the damned thing, or prepare yourself for a legthy session of bad frames removal and audio sync fixing. To me, the latter is very seldom worth the investment, but YMMV...

/Mats

[sulimo]

Well...there doesnt seem to be any bad frames. And I managed to make a VCD out of it that played fine. Very odd.

[mats.hogberg]

Have you tried burning the DVD to another disc? Might be a "weak spot" where your standalone has problems...

/Mats

[sulimo]

Well...it seems like it was an audio problem. I was encoding it into AC3, but encoding it into MP2 audio and the problem went away. Weird.

I have come across another problem with another file though. I start the encode and the viewable window shows nothing, then I get an 'index scanline out of range' error. What does that mean?

[mats.hogberg]

but encoding it into MP2 audio and the problem went away. Weird.

Could be the mere act of burning the DVD to a new disc did the trick, or did you try writing your AC3 version to a 2nd disc?

scanline out of range' error. What does that mean?

Mostly a bad source file. Again: Did you scan it for bad frames?

/Mats

[Floydscruffy]

Ive been having problems with ac3 aswell some times, problems seem to go away when y run the ac3 file through bslice or ac3 fix