This is baffling.....

[fmctm1sw]

Here's what I did:
I capped a bunch of TV programs overnight with VirtualVCR using picvideo compression @17. It was 12 hours to be exact. I used my directv timers to change channels and set virtualvcr to cap for 12 hours.

result:
I opened the resulting (50GB) avi file with WMP and it played fine. Although towards the end the sync was a little off (but that's the least of my worries right now). I opened the file with virtualdub and saved a few wavs (music channel stuff) off. I then tried to save a cartoon off as AVI further into the file but it produced no audio. As a matter of fact after the first 20 miutes or so, you cannot save any audio at all. I've tried saving as wav, as AVI, messed with direct stream copy, etc but had NO audio.

Now for the weird part:
I set the exact same range in TMPG as I did in a virtualdub test and converted to VCD. I opened it with WMP and had video and audio! It even looked in sync. I really want to use virtualdub to save off the cartoons as individual AVIs and convert from there. What is going on?

[BJ_M]

you can use tmpgenc to do the same thing .. just use source range and/or cut and/or encode what you want .. using batch mode will speed up things ...