OK, this one's quite weird, and its going to take some explaining.

I have a group of m2v files, and linear PCM .wav files. They need to be multiplexed in individual pairs to get the final output (these are several different videos, not one huge video that needs to be made out of individual smaller ones).

The individual files can be run and they are fine.

The files can be loaded up into TMPGEnc, and multiplexed, producing a final video file of whatever format I choose.

When run, that video file appears to work fine.

However, the output file when played gets to within a hundred or so frames of the end, and while the sound continues on, the video image freezes.

As I say, the m2v file is fine and runs to the end. However, when the original file is played in Media Player, the time tracking bar gets to the end and says its reached the end of the movie. The movie keeps playing for a little while longer though. The timer bar reaches the end at about the same place as the image froze in the multiplexed file.

When attempting to convert the m2v file to another video format before doing the multiplex, the resultant file (avi) plays fine, but actually stops at the same point at which the video-only froze in the multiplexed file, and where the timer bar ran out despite the fact there was more video to be played in the original file.

My only guess is that somehow the file header of these m2v files is corrupt, and programs either playing these back or editing them believe the files to be a small bit shorter than they really are.

My reason for putting this problem here is that I don't know everything about mpeg2. Are there files where you would have about a hundred frames of video on the end in some sort of hidden video space? Is this a problem that is solvable by using options in TMPGEnc? Or is it that the original m2v files are somehow corrupted in the data header that explains how many frames of video there are for playback, even though they playback fine?

If you wish to try this for yourself, the videos are those extracted off the DVD for the PlayStation 2 game Final Fantasy X. The program FFX2Mov can be found here (it was recently updated to work on Japanese, NTSC and PAL-UK versions of the game):

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood/4205/file/ffx2mov_2.10.zip

This is a program that will extract the movie and sound streams directly off the DVD (you MUST have an original copy of the game for this program to work). It is possible that the program somehow has screwed up the extraction and put the wrong piece of information in the m2v headers.

Any help regarding this matter is very appreciated.

Regards,
Jazael.