Sudden audio stop on VCD

[skipc10]

I've done dozens of VCDs using TMPGE, and the latest ones with Toolame audio and all were fine (except for the APEX player post earlier). I just did one and 3 minutes or so into playing it the audio just quit. The mpeg file has the stopped audio, but the AVI is fine. It was encoded as above with no special settings.

What would cause audio to stop right in the middle of the conversion, and why now?

Thanks.

[jolo]

I don't have a solution, but have asked the same question without comment as well.

Toolame fails on me about 1 in 4 or 5 times with no explaination, sometimes at the beginning, sometimes at the end.

When it works, it is great, but woould love to know what other options there are as well.