Encoding MPEG 2 - Playback Freezing

[marcus2704]

I have a problem which I am hoping someone here can help with.

I have numeous music video files which I want to burn onto a DVD. They are all MPEG2 M2V videos, 29.97fps and play fine when viewed before encoding with WMP and Power DVD. I use TMPGEnc Plus to encode them to DVD format, 5000 BitRate, same framerate.

However, on selected (say a third) of the videos, they freeze at specific points, although the encoding software appears to continue encoding the videos. In preview, the image freezes at the same point as it does when viewed afterwards.

I asked this question before but got no response, I would really appreciate it if someone could suggest any guidance as to how I can use these videos that keep on freezing.

Thanks

[marcus2704]

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[vhelp]

Hi marcus,

Are you saying that those .m2v files freeze when you play via SW, ie, when
playing under PDVD ??

-vhelp

[marcus2704]

Hi,

When I play them via Power DVD they play through fine, its only when I try to convert them to a DVD format that they freeze at the same point when encoding. Ive tried TMPGEnc, Ulead DVD Author and also an applicatin known simply as MPEG Tool and they all freeze at the same points. Ive also tried exporting them as an AVI via TMPGEnc, same thing happens..

[marcus2704]

Can anyone advise on -

- A tool or tools apart from TMPGEnc that will enable me to convert these M2V files to DVD or AVI format

- A tool that can "fix" these files, if they are corrupted for any reason

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[vhelp]

Hi marcus,

Looks like you'll have to re-encode them again

Use DVD2AVI, and make your .d2v source file(s) and then import them
into vdub.

scan through them if you want (will be time consuming) or,
If you know the exact place where the issues are, you can go there, and
see if vdub continues after that point. If it does, then you are safe to
frameserve it into TMPG for re-encoding, but if it doesn't, then the only thing
that I can suggest, is to go to the frame "just before" the bad frame, and
then select it w/ the cut arraows, and then press Ctrl+G to "go to" the frame
just after the bad one, and then press the end cut button, and then press
the DEL key, to delete it.

Then, continue frameserving it into TMPG, unless tere are other areas within
that same clip, then you'll have to do the same for each.

That's about the best suggestion that I can come up with.

Good luck,
-vhelp

[marcus2704]

I have tried to convert this with DVD2AVI, I am able to do so using DIVX (I get the annoying logo...) but TMPCEnc does not like the stream when trying to convert it to DVD format, whilst No Recompression and Full Frames appear to do nothing whatsoever...

I then tried to save the project as a .D2V, however upon running this into Virtual Dub I get error "cannot determine file type .d2v", whilst TPMCEnc gives me an "Illegal Stream" error.

[vhelp]

hi marcus,

Sorry, but vdub can't open .d2v files

You have to take this .d2v file and psuedo it:
* If not already, D/L VFAPI (a small little app that makes psuedo .avi files)
* run it, then
* open your .d2v (or drag it in) and click on Convert button and the rest
...it self explanitory.

Then, you can feed that .avi file inside vdub or TMPG for further processing
or encoding.

Another alternative is to use AVIsynth scripts, and open the .d2v source files
that way.. though it requires learning how to write scripts. But, it's just
easier to go the VFAPI route instead.

You can do a search on google.com for the file "VFAPIConv-EN.exe" and
you might find a copy. I use VFAPI Reader Codec v1.04 BETA

-vhelp