TMPGEnc source range takes a lot of time

[msdan]

I'm converting a XVid movie to SVCD into 2CDs.

When I'm selecting the source range for each part it takes a lot of time for TMPGEnc to display. Seems there is a lot of activity on HDD. After 5 minutes of waiting I can get the screen to select the source range. All this time TMPGEnc is frozen.

The machine is PIV 2.4G, so I'm trying to figure out what's happening.

Did anybody had this problem?

Thank you for your responses,
Dan

[garryheather]

Some Codecs and the way they are used will cause problems and delays like that - if there is not say an I frame for one hell of a long time in the source, then TMPGenc has to find the last preceeding full frame and then work forwards to the point you have selected. This can indeed take a very long time to process.

[VCDHunter]

Is the Xvid AC3 ? This is the only time I have experienced this.

[msdan]

Is the Xvid AC3 ? This is the only time I have experienced this.

The sound is PCM.


Another problem that I had with TMPGEnc was when I tried to load an AVI captured with Huffyuv codec - I got the message "File '' can not open, or unsupported", even the codec was installed (I captured with it ). And I had DirectShow with priority 2 (highest). Any thoughts about this?

Thank you Garry for your response; I think you are right.

[VCDHunter]

Is the Xvid AC3 ? This is the only time I have experienced this.

The sound is PCM.

Must be a massive AVI then unless you've uncompressed the audio prior to encoding. But I don't know as the only time this happens is when I have AC3 sound.