Bizzarre error when encoding with TMPGEnc

[BobbyDigital]

While I was encoding an avi to mpeg I got this error : Illegal floatind decimal point calculation order. That is the 2nd time with this particular encode. I have changed a couple of things from the 1st attempt and it did it again. Can anyone tell me what this means or how to solve this and encode this file correctly? Thanks BD

[muddyshooz]

I've had this happen to me a couple of times in the past. I tried various settings for output to see if it was a glitch in one particular bit rate or something, but it happened every time. I decided to use the timeline to advance through the clip (I could do this since it was only about 10 minutes long) and found the point at which the program choked. I then restarted the program, reloaded the clip, advanced to a couple of frames before the problem occurred (using ctrl-g ?), pressed "home", pressed ctrl-g again to advance about 20 frames past, pressed "end", cut out the -possibly- offending section, resaved, and retried. Cutting out those few frames solved the problem. Seriously.

[koinhelgo]

Hi
I usually find that ones with this kind of problem usually have frames later in the film that will cause problems too. I have'nt found any other way than seing when Tmpeg drops out and noting about the place in happens each time and removing with virtual dub. It's usually just one bad frame. When you get to near where the part is in virtual dub use stop and advance frame by frame. When the bad frame is loaded it will crash - note what frame it was - note you must keep a record before it crashes cos the frame number gets corrupted. Close the error mesage and then re-open virtual dub. Use edit and go to the fraem before the bad one and mark this as the beginning of section now go to the next frame past the bad one using edit and mark as the end of frames. Now edit and delete frames. this way you only lose the one bad frame.
You can find the bad frames a little quicker if you load the avi and save as an avi with a different name this forces virtual dub to try and read the avi and it will dip out when it comes across a bad frame - so you can see if there are any other bad frames in the avi.
However please note I don't know if this might mess up the audio sync or not - I have only done this for porn films (german) and it don't matter if the audio is perfectly synced for these.
Regards

[muddyshooz]

Ooops. Yes, I meant for you to use virtualdub to cut the chunk out as well. Sorry for the confusion.

[BobbyDigital]

Hey thanks guys for the pointers I will give it a shot, I figured it must have been a bad frame and nothimg more I just wasnt sure how to go about correcting it, until now that as. Thanks a million fellas.
BD