cannot encode.....I do not get any

[Tawnee]

sound. and TMPGnc says that it will take 24 hours for 600MB, so I let it convert by the time it was done, there was no sound, and It only encoded 13minutes of the movie and went straight to the credits. does anyone know why this is happening? I followed all the instructions from this sight. How do I fix this? it is a divx.avi movie. and how long should a movie of this size usually take on a 400mghz, 64MB, PentII?

[AnnihilatorTokyo]

First of, buy lots more of memory, it's so cheap now!
I encode a 90 min movie in 100 minutes on my machine using Standard VCD NTSC template.

I had the same problems as you had, and what I did was open the file in VirtualDub and save the wav seperately. Make sure you chose Full processing mode under Audio. The file get's quite big, depending on the movie.
Then you open the movie in TMPGenc and chose to use the audio from your wav file, and encode. Think there is a guide how to do it also to the left, under "How to"