Im jonesing for a fix....and I need the junk.

[Penisaurus Rex]

Can anyone please tell me how to correctly "fix" an Avi so that I can convert it to MPEG. I am using roxio Videopack for the conversion to MPEG, which is really fast, about 40 minutes per Avi. It works only about half the time though because of problems that seem to originate with the original video that I have downloaded. If the video freezes, the conversion halts, usually more than halfway through. So for the sake of this two second freeze, the whole process does not work which is a major piss off.

I have tried everything that this website has suggested but it seems as though their suggestions are to fix the file so that you can watch it on your computer, not to convert it. I've used DivFix but Roxio Videopack would not recognize the file once it had been fixed through that and I have tried Virtualdub which seemed like it worked once, but did not work the next time. I do not use TMPGEnc to convert because I find it very slow and the program I use to burn the VCD's does not recognize the MPEGS if the were converted using it for some reason.

I've wasted more time and effort on this than Mr. T has wasted trying to jumpstart his carreer, so anyones advice would be greatly appreciated.

[mrebman]

Dude:
I use TMPEnc & like it, I get 40 Minute conversions to 90 Minute, depends on the size & quality of the .Avi.
Look, if you have a Bad .Avi just get rid of it & Re-Download it! There is a lot of junk out there & I too have beat my head trying to deal with a crappy .Avi file, just junk it!

P.S. - Get rid of that crappy Roxio stuff, it's garbage! I like Nero 5.5 for Burning & TMPEnc 2.54 for Encoding (Use Version 12a if you can't get 2.54 to work). Then use Virtualdub to extract the Audio into a .Wav file & feed both the .Avi & .Wav files into TMPEnc & Voila, you have a watchable VCD (If you use Kwag's Templates, you can burn it on 1 CD-R!)
-Good Luck-
Mick