66 min movie, TMPGE reads as 199min movie???

[sopranoswhack]

i had downloaded the dvd rip in .avi format of course. i went to convert to VCD, and it says that it will be 199 min. and 28 sec. long. but really, its only 66 min. long. what do i do? should i convert it and burn it anyway?

[hwoodwar]

My guess is it is actually an XVCD recorded at approximately three times the fixed VCD video bitrate of 1150 kbits/sec that would account for the time discrepancy. The only easy thing to do would be to split it into three equal parts, then encode and burn to three separate disks.

Something else to consider though, is, if I am right, does your DVD player support XVCDs with bitrates as high as 3450 kbits/sec?

[sopranoswhack]

thank you, i appreciate your input, but i can't burn it as its current state, its a .avi file.
so what should i do? should i cut it in 3 parts?
but u see, its the first cd in a two cd movie.
so that would b 6 cds for one movie, and that blows.

any other suggestions

[TheLostTimberwolf]

Ive had similar things happen with some 30 min anime episodes I downloaded in avi format. When I went to convert them the length of each episode was miss-reported around 3 times larger.

I managed to get tmpgenc to correctly identify the length by loading the avi into Virtual Dub first, select both Video and Audio as Direct Stream Copy and them saving the avi.

Load the newly saved avi into tmpgenc, that worked for Me I had lip sync problems then though but that was easy enough to fix, when I used the Virtual Dub edited avi file, I only encoded Video, and I encoded only Audio from the original file then I muxed the two together and bingo working fine.

Bit of messing around, but thats what I did hope it helps...

[Craig Tucker]

The file probrably has variable bitrate audio, TMPGEnc cannot handle this and misreports the length of the movie. You need to save the audio as an uncompressed wav file using vdub, and then use this wav file as the audio source when encoding in TMPGEnc.

If you open the file in vdub it will tell you is it has VBR audio.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/virtualdubaudio.htm

[sopranoswhack]

thanx, im gonna try to do extract the audio

[puertorican138]

Use VirtualDub MP3, as it can save out your video and VBR audio without skewing and lip sync errors. :P

[EddyH]

I get this a lot - ends up I have the film I want, and then twice the length as silent blackness (eating up a lot of disc space and encode time, if I dont notice it). Just an odd bug. Easy work-around is to go into TMPGEnc advanced setup/filters, choose Source Range, and just set the range to start at frame 0, and end at the last movie frame. Usually Source Range reads the length correctly, so you can just drag the slider all the way to the right, attempt to increase the frame number with the roller-box arrows a few times to be sure, then press Set.

EZ/Squeezy!


Never took much of a notice as to the cause before, thought it was just a bug, but I'll be sure to check for VBR audio next time! (Pretty sure I've had it happen on random AVIs where I stripped the sound, though...)

[puertorican138]

You can also use VirtualDub to save out (direct stream-audio & video) a new file without re-encoding as VirtualDub usually fixes problems with TMPGEnc reporting super long movie lengths.

Hope That Helps!!! :P