Aloha all...

Was converting some dvix videos with mp3 vbr audio to cbr (for compatibility with my Philips 5140) and found that some videos were freezing after conversion (the video portion wasn't changed and the original videos play fine). This happened both when checking the videos on MPC and on my 5140.

After a few tries I discovered that somewhere along my conversion process (listed below), I got a bad demux / extraction. Long story short, redid the process and the videos play fine!

My conversion process. A long way around I know, but it works!

1) Open video in VirtualDubMod or VirtualDubMP3 2) Ignore the error warning that the video contains vbr audio.
3) Extract audio as mp3 ("demux" in VdubMod or "save as wav", then rename to mp3 in VdubMP3).
4) Convert audio to wav with CDex
5) Open original video in VirtualDub, choose "direct stream copy" for video and "Wav audio" with "Full audio processing" with cbr mp3 compression (and interleaving with appropriate delay if out of sync) for audio.

If the video freezes, extract audio with different Vdub version. The freezing seems to be caused by the demux / extraction process rather than the conversion to wav.

Hope this helps! :P