Strange problem with wmv-files (recorded from mlb.com - legally)

[Abrus]

I have been watching baseball from mlb.com for years. I record the game wmv-files with WMRecorder 11 and convert them to XVID with TMPGenc Xpress and watch them with my Creative Zen Vision:M and everything has worked fine till now. Now recording works as smoothly as before but corverting doesn't work. In every file I record, corversion stops exactly at 84.6%. The avi I get is complete, it's rewindable and all but the last 15.4% is missing.



Strange thing is that the missing part is always 15.4% of the file, not a certain number of frames etc. I have tried other conversion programs, f.ex. MediaCoder, WinAVI and SUPER and the result is always the same. I have also tried to fix the file before conversion by using ASF Repair and ASFcut with no effect.

When I watch the file with WMP, I can see the whole video without any problem, it is just the conversion that doesn't work.

What is the problem? Is there something purposefully added to the wmv by mlb.com to deny converting the files?

Please help. I'm getting desperate.

[Krispy Kritter]

Maybe a WMRecorder issue? Have your resulting files sizes changed lately...IE, gotten larger?

Try opening and resaving the wmv files with WMM before your conversion.

[Abrus]

I don't think the problem is WMRecorder because files downloaded from other sites work perfectly like before. But I'll try WMM. I get back later.