troubles with XVID to SVCD using TMPGenc...

[LadyMalice]

This was my first go at this, or anything like this for that matter, so I followed all of the tutorials step by step, and all of the tutorials on correcting problems, etc etc. Then I floated around the forums for 2 days trying to see if my problem had been covered, and in every instance where the problem resembles mine the individual was simply given a link to one of the troubleshooting tips that I have already been through.

I tried to convert an XVID to SVCD using TMPGenc and your tutorial on how to do so...my first attempt ended up looking very nice for the first 7mins 27secs then the rest of it was black, and the whole thing had no sound. I dealt with the sound using virtualdub to change to WAV, and changed the VFAPI plugin settings in TMPGenc as suggested in troubleshooting tips. My next attempt came out completely black. Then I tried the suggested Frameserves option using virtualdub, but after 20 mins the "frameserver mode" window never did ANYTHING, and the tutorial on that didn't specify any troubleshooting for that issue, so I gave up on that.

Lastly I said F#ck it and went back to TMPGenc and tried to make it a VCD instead of SVCD.... I watched the whole thing convert, it looked really good, I got very excited when it finished and I burned it to CD-r...pop it in the DVD player, still looks good!! Watch it for approximately 7 and a half minutes (the same time it took to go black in the first attempt) and all of a sudden the audio was out of sync with the video.

I really want to learn how to do this, and I know I have to be doing something wrong...the tutorials are great on here but I really am stuck and have burned myself quite a few new "coasters" already. I am almost positive I have read everything on here that could have helped (and if I did miss anything i'll be suprised), now I just really need help from someone who knows what they are doing. I would greatly appreciate anyones help...and I apologize for the novel-like post but I wanted to be as specific as possible on what I did.

Thanx
~Malice

[wee haggis]

I have 2 suggestions.
1)Some may disagree but I never extract the audio as a WAV when encoding XVID (only for DIVX).
2)You may have corrupted frames if it keeps jamming up at 7-1/2 mins
(download Virtualdub 'MP3 Freeze" version and run the video scan for bad frames)

[LadyMalice]

You are correct...Since my first post I did find 33 consecutive corrupt frames and used VDub to cut them out but now I cannot get the audio to stay in sync after the cut, not the source audio or the converted wav audio. You said you never convert Xvid to WAV, may I ask what you do do? Leave it as is? convert to mp3? If I use the source audio VDub gives me that error that is reported all over the tutorials and forums, but I have no idea how to fix it :/

I know it has to be something simple i'm missing here, but it has now been 3 days trying to convert this movie and I dont have a great deal of patience left.... any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

[wee haggis]

You are correct...Since my first post I did find 33 consecutive corrupt frames and used VDub to cut them out but now I cannot get the audio to stay in sync after the cut, not the source audio or the converted wav audio. You said you never convert Xvid to WAV, may I ask what you do do? Leave it as is? convert to mp3? If I use the source audio VDub gives me that error that is reported all over the tutorials and forums, but I have no idea how to fix it :/

I know it has to be something simple i'm missing here, but it has now been 3 days trying to convert this movie and I dont have a great deal of patience left.... any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

When I use an XVID I feed it in "as is" to TMPGE.
You obviously (for some reason )cannot do this.
Did you follow this guide on cutting out frames while keeping synced?
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/153907.php

[LadyMalice]

I had'nt seen that particular tutorial, but in the grossly early hours of this morning I decided to give the program NANDub a try, and low and behold, it worked like a charm! I'm so glad it's over Thanx for trying to help Wee, and thank goodness for this website too!

~Malice