TMPGEnc keeps freezing?!

[jjsworld82]

I'm trying to use it to cut a movie in file in half and encode it (from MPEG4 to MPEG2). When I'm at the source screen, where I pick where I want the file to start and end, I noticed it is incredibly slow at some points, it doesn't have that fast & fluid motion if you hold down any of the arrow keys. Instead it goes frame by frame, one at a time. Sometimes it freezes here, unless you give it time. But when everything is set, and I hit start to encode it, the preview screen stays black, and it freezes. I re-DL'ed the program, and restarted, but it keeps happening.

This is on a P4 with 512MB ram. I doubt it's a hardware problem. Does this sound like a problem with the file or with TMPGEnc or with my codecs maybe? I've already encoded a file which is the first half of this same movie.

BTW the movie comes in 3 files, each about an hour long. Would it be better to sew them all together into one file? Or leave them seperate? I intend for them to be put onto DVDs when it's all said and done.

[wee haggis]

First of all run it through this version of Virtualdub and do a Video Scan for bad frames.
(Scroll down to the Mp3 Freeze version)
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/virtualdub.html

If its a DIV ,I would then extarct the audio and save as a WAV using the resulting WAV as the audio source in TMPGE
https://www.videohelp.com/virtualdubaudio.htm

If the 3 parts are equal size ,I'm not sure why you are cutting it again?
(if for some reason one of the 3 files is still too big,then use the Source Range and Batch encode process which will work better)

If you still want to put all 3 parts together, I would use the append function in Virtualdub and join it in its AVI state then use the source range and Batch encode to Mpeg2.