XVID -> DVD-R picture freeze problem

[IceFog]

I have some XVID movies I would like to burn onto DVDR, but Im having a problem.

Im not sure what setting to use in TMPGEnc when I do the conversion to MPEG2. It seems that no matter what settings I use, the picture freezes for 5-10, sometimes 30 seconds at various times during the movie, once its burned. I've tried burning w/out audio, same problem. These XVIDs are about 1.5GB, with another 1.3GB or so for the audio (combined 2x700MB or so). The audio is unaffected, and plays normally. There is no loss of sync, the video picks up where it should, it just shows the same frame for that 5-10 sec period of time.

I've tried frameserving with vdub, but the problem remains, and I've tried this on multiple movies to eliminate the possibility that it is a bad file.

If anyone has successfully converted XVIDs to DVD without this problem, I'd love to know how you overcame this problem, or better yet, I'd like a working TMPGEnc template for the conversion.

Im using:
Vdub to rip the audio
TMPGEnc for encoding
DVDMaestro for the compiling, and Nero to burn

Thanks in advance.

[Buddah]

You can try to Frameserve the file from vdub to TMPG. There are guides in the NEWBIE section to learn how. This worked for one of my XVID files, but I gave up on the other, as the end result had a frozen frame for the last 20 min of the dvd-r. I recently read the someone did post a guide that teaches you how to eliminate bad frames from XVID videos but i haven't gotten arround to trying.

[ghoster]

well i had the same problem with xvid. what i did was i used vdub. i sperated the video and audio into 2 sperate files. i saved the audio to a wav file. for the video i clicked on direct stream copy and saved to avi. then i loaded the audio and video files into tmpgenc. so far i have done 3 videos and no more problems.

[IceFog]

thanks. ill try that.

[rodonoghue]

if that doesn't work use vdub mp3 freeze and get rid of the bad frames - it is the easiest way (you lose a few milliseconds or so but it works)

[Don2050]

A second to ghoster's method

[IceFog]

Thanks. I tried it and got good results.
However, you just do "direct stream copy"? Doesnt that just make another XVID file?

I did full processing mode and selected microsoft MPEG4 compression.

[Don2050]

Actually...all you have to do is 'Full Process' for audio and then 'Save WAV' Then you can load the Xvid in TMPGenc and for audiio then select the WAV file you just made.

He was saying Direct stream copy for video...so you dont re-encode the Xvid and loose quality and then have TMPGenc re-encode agian and loose quality.