TMPGenc -

[Big_Ben_C]

I am trying to convert a divx into mpeg2 using TMPGenc and am running into a problem I have not encountered before. The AVI is a 25fps file with a total of 133,378 frames, but when I load it into TMPGenc it reads as 363738 total frames! I have tried a multitude of combinations of settings to figure this out, but every time it still comes up with the extra frames. When it encodes, it does the first 133,378 frames as it should, and then the extra 200,000 frames are just a still of the very last *real* frame in the movie. The movie still comes out okay, but it's taking twice as long to encode it because of all the additional uneccessary frames. Anyone else ever encountered this and/or have any advice?

[Kingnog]

This has happened to me. I forgot how I fixed it

It has something to do with the total length of the video and a setting that you put somewhere...try setting the frame start/finish manually. Hmm...wish I could remember how I fixed it!

[Kingnog]

Of course as soon as I post the message I realize what it was. It wasnt TMPGenc...my problem was with DVDx, encoding to DivX. Anyway, the problem was that I has set the 'end frame' so something way larger than the real 'end frame' of the movie, so it kept going until it reached that many frames, using the last frame of the video over and over. DOubt this helps, though.

[DiablosuX102]

u could also try what i suggested in this thread https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=205110

good luck, josh

[ZippyP.]

I agree, it's probably VBR audio screwing it up. I use Goldwave to extract the audio from the avi to wav, then use the wav as the audio source.

[Big_Ben_C]

Thanks guys, I managed to fix it. Turns out it *was* the VBR audio causing problems. I had already extracted the audio from the .avi (as is my common practice) and when encoding in TMPGenc video only, I always left the 'audio:' input the same as the 'video:' input since it was the same file, and I figured since I was encoding just the video the audio couldn't screw it up. Guess it did, though! I just erased the file from the audio input, and it worked fine.

Thanks again for your advice, this has been bugging me a while now!