***MainConcept Dropping Audio During Encoding***

[jjpslu]

Hi,

Why would MainConcept maintain video quality yet drop the sound midway through the VCD/SVCD encoding process from a decently captured 6.5hr. .avi?

Thanx!

[Gurm]

You didn't get any responses, but I've been seeing this as well - it drops audio partway through, for no apparent reason!

[edDV]

6.5 Hr, hmm

As a point of reference, I have a version of the Mainconcept MPeg encoder included in the ULead Video Studio 8 package.

I've routinely captured 8-12 hrs of VCD standard MPeg1 video, MPeg L2, 44.1kHz, 224Kbps audio.

I just leave it on CNBC (from cable box) while at work. Never had a problem.

Realtime SVCD capture maxes out my lowly Celeron 2.4GHz over long captures causing rebuffers and lost frames.

[edDV]

Here is the place to ask. They have excellent support forums but response may take a day

http://www.mainconcept.com/support.shtml

[sanjayk]

I am new to MainConcept. I have been using TMPGEnc for quite sometime. Recently I tried to encode small duration high resolution sample AVI files to mpeg using MC just to get the feel. I observed the same thing.

After encoding the same file again and again but with diff values for birates etc just to get the hang of it I noticed that suddenly there was no sound in the encoded mpeg. I thouth that maybe I did something but after reading some of the thread I realised that it is indeed a bug with MC. Will check out the MC support fourum for that.

[SatStorm]

I don't know why and when it happens, but when you encode with mainconcept, better install only the codecs you need at the time...

Not a true solution, but that helped me to bypass those bugs or whatever it is....

[zanos]

It has to do with your codecs but I have no idea what's causing the problem. I uninstalled all my codecs because of another problem and I reinstalled them and guess what? My audio after encoding all of sudden doesn't work now. My tmpgenc doesn't even let me encode. It's a damn mystery because I have all the codecs I need.