Xvid frameserving problem

[gonzalimator]

I'm trying to convert an Xvid movie. When I load the movie straight into TMPGEnc, it shows the wrong framerate. The movie's framerate is 23.976 (yes I used Vdub, AVIcodec and plain old Windows to figure out the framerate) and TMPGEnc shows 30! If it encodes at 30 or if I force it to 23.976, the playback is choppy.

I figured out that if I frameserve the avi, it shows the correct framerate in TMPGEnc and the encoded mpg plays smoothly. I can only use AVISynth to frameserve the file because the Vdub vdr pointer won't open in TMPGEnc (first time this happened to me, I've frameserved with it before).

The problem: AVISynth shows an "access violation" error 30 mins into encoding.
my script: AVISource("I:NNNNN/NNNN/NNN.avi")
that's it.

Any ideas?

[Tommyknocker]

Why won't Virtual frameserve into TMPGEnc?

[gonzalimator]

I don't know. The AVI is XVID. This is the only thing that is different from prior frameserving experiences. When I used Vdub with this avi, the VDR wouldn't open in TMPGEnc. TMPGEnc worked with a DivX avi file I frameserved from Vdub last week, but it won't with the Xvid file. The Xvid file opens in TMPGEnc just fine except for the problems I stated earlier (framerate crap).

[Tommyknocker]

I meant, what was the error message?

[gonzalimator]

vdr error in tmpgenc: file not reconized or unsupported

avisynth error: access violation at .....

I found a horrific number of unreadable frames with Vdub-mp3-freeze so I figure that's why avisynth failed but I still don't know why tmpgenc reads the wrong framerate or why vdub's frameserver won't work with this file.

[Tommyknocker]

Okay, you set your Direct Show priorities, but did not tell us right?