TMPEGEnc is absolutely merciless!

[Clockwork]

Although I've scanned my avi.'s in Virtualdub (all versions of Virtualdub)
it reports "No Bad Frames Found", but if I do a manual frame by frame scan in Virtualdub, I can actually see the corrupt frames.

How can I make Virtualdub(mp3 freeze...or whichever...) look at my corrupt file more sensitively .....OR.....
how can I change settings in TMPEGEnc to look past such small imperfections that are giving me synch problems? (Even with extracting .WAV with Virtualdub or Goldwave)

[wee haggis]

Have you tried to "restream " the AVI with Vdub?
or
If its a DIVX ,have you tried DIVFIX ?
If you can do a manaul scan and determine how many and where there is bad frames, is it a quantity that can be removed without impacting your movie too much? (a couple of hundred for example)?

[Clockwork]

Have you tried to "restream " the AVI with Vdub?
or
If its a DIVX ,have you tried DIVFIX ?
If you can do a manaul scan and determine how many and where there is bad frames, is it a quantity that can be removed without impacting your movie too much? (a couple of hundred for example)?

DIVFIX doesn't work.

I know exactly where the bad frames are and how to remove them.
(Generally with V-Dub mp3 freeze)

But I'm looking for a more sensitive utility or perhaps a V-dub setting or filter so I don't have to manually go through the file, frame by frame.
I could do it the loooong way, but it take too much time to meticulously eye-ball each frame or batch of frames.

Generally the bad frames appear as having some slight discoloured pixelation at various parts of the screen, or also as having a smeared effect.

[wee haggis]

I would suggest that if the bad frames are so inobtrusive as to not be picked up by Vdub ,then maybe you can still encode with no problem.
Have you actually tried TMPGE using the AVI "as is"?
I've personally been able to encode a couple of movies with minor "blocky,pixelly" moments that don't really spoil my enjoyment of the movie.

[Clockwork]

No good.
As soon as TMPEGEnc come to a bad frame(s), the video hangs for the duration of the corruption, but the audio glides along smoothly, thus giving me an out of synch mpeg.

I agree about not being too put off by minor glitches, but how do I get TMPEGEnc to go along with that?

[wee haggis]

For you not to be able to do this manually, can i assume that your bad frames are happening at several spots?

[EddyH]

how about frameserving from Virtualdub to TMPGEnc, if it plays thru in Vdub?

[CaptainC]

You need to manually cut these frames if they are causing lockups.
Any program that corrects this will only cut out the frames anyway which i havent found anything that will do this correctly.
VirtualDub cutting is the best thing, you cannot repair the badframes using any tool they have to go one way or another or be replaced with good ones.
TMPEGENc needs to read accurate headers on DivX movies and if the file corrupted it cannot pick up from the error point as the headers are at the Begining and continuous.
If you are going to encode a Divx or XviD into a SVCD with more than one part you should cut the DivX into the parts prior and load each part into TMPEGENc. letting TMPEGEnc divide XviD and DivX files during encoding results in unsmooth movies that jitter.
I've tried DIVFix and it didnt work either but even worse it destroyed the header totally and concequently the DivX file lucky I made a copy.
VirtualDub is the best when dealing with DivX thats around at the moment.

[Clockwork]

I know I have to remove the bad frames.
I know how to remove them.

I just don't have the patience to manually scan through the file, frame by frame.

V-dub and V-dub mp3 freeze do not detect the bad frames that I know are there. I've seen them.

These frames, even slightly corrupted, causes TMPEGEnc to stutter on the video while the audio proceeds smoothly, giving me out of synch mpegs.

[Clockwork]

BTW, the same thing happens in Virtualdub when played.
Hangs on the video during bad frames.

[CaptainC]

Theres no easy way to do this if you cant find a way to cut out the bad frames then the movie wont work.
You could try Divfix and select remove bad frames but i never got any good results.
There are also fixes for files posted around the forums try doing a search some movies without mentioning names are downloaded and have the same error on all the files downloaded.
Fixes for some movies can be downloaded just search the forums.

[wee haggis]

As I suggested before...have you tried to restream the movie?...
(ie:In Vdub ....video-direct stream copy-----Audio-direct stream copy------Save as AVI).
Also,a previous post suggested that to cut the DIVX in Vdub is better than cutting in TMPGE.
I disagree.In my experience the guaranteed method of cutting a movie (without jitters) is during the encode process (ieetting up sections of the movie ,saving as projects ,and Batch encoding)....

[CaptainC]

The problem with that theory is it cant read the header at the beginning of the movie. Beleive me I have a wonderful set of coffee coasters that will last until 2008.

[wee haggis]

The problem with that theory is it cant read the header at the beginning of the movie. Beleive me I have a wonderful set of coffee coasters that will last until 2008.

Captain C....
I don't doubt what you say....but I still stand by my own results which shows over 200 movie convertions all done using the same method and not a frisbee in sight (as opposed to other method which caused me grief beyond belief with sync issues and coasters by the dozen).
I guess you stick with what works for you.

[CaptainC]

I Guess we will

[tans66]

As wee higgins suggested - use virdub
video-directstream
audio-directstream or no audio if you already have a wav file from original that you stripped with virdub
Save as avi

I had alot of bad frames in one movie once and soon as I restreamed her and fed the "new avi" to Tmpgenc I had no probs.
Hope this helps