FitCD thinks 43 minute video is 2 minutes long - ditto TMPGEnc

[natrap]

I'm using FitCD to create an AviSynth script that I add in TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress to convert to DVD (xDVD to be precise). The source file is a 350MB XviD. It plays fine in every player.

I'm attaching screenshots from GSpot, FitCD and TMPGEnc. FitCD thinks there are 3069 frames. TMPGEnc then says its 3073 (I assume this difference is inconsequential). There's actually 60016 frames.

If I don't use FitCD and just add the file directly in TMPGEnc then there is no problem.

The result is that TMPGEnc produces a file with 43 minutes of audio but the video just displays the same frame after about 2 minutes.

What do I do to fix this? I need to use FitCD to account for overscan as TMPGEnc doesn't do it correctly on its own.

Help will be much appreciated.

[guns1inger]

All FitCD does is help you create an avisynth script. That's it. So FitCD isn't your problem. Somewhere in the video is a glitch, probably small. Not the end of the world for many players, but for tools designed for encoding it can be a problem.

First thing I would do is change the Avisnth script created by FitCD. Replace AVISource with DirectShowSource and see if it loads correctly.

If not, open the file in AVIDemux, unpack, rebuild indexes and anything else it asks to do, then save it out again using Copy mode forboth video and audio, and see if it repairs the video.

[natrap]

Changint AVISource to DirectShowSource did the job. Thanks very much.

[mh2360]

With files like this, that show the incorrect length, I find that running it through Virtualdubmod, (simply load the file, select Direct Stream Copy, and save a new version), can fix the problem.