Using DIKO, not converting complete video?? Please Help!

[mike_ek]

Ok, I have a few 50min videos which are in .avi format. I wish to convert them to SVCD using DIKO. I read the tutorial, which was very helpful, and was successful in converting about 10 of 13 of them. They are all in the same format, all play, and are all about 50min long. All of them that I converted converted successfully, so it says, but when I open some of them they are only 10min, 30min and 36min long, when they should be 50min like the rest of them. So, I burned the ones that converted correctly and I don't know what to do with the ones that didn't completly burn. I didn't receive any error messages and the converted short vids play and burn, but the rest of the vid is not there. I am using XP pro on a p4 pc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Shadowmistress]

I don't know about Diko, but I've had that same problem in the past using other software and usually it's the sound's fault. There can be bad frames in sound as well as video which would cause the encoder to not recognize anything past that bad frame and just assume it's the end of the file. (This would not produce an error warning)

Use virtualdub or something to rip the sound from the episode as a wav. Then look at the wav and see how many minutes it is. If it's shorter than it's supposed to be, use avi2wav to convert it to wav. I've had great success with it where many other programs failed.
Then feed that as your audio source into Diko.
Still have problems? Use a video frame repair tool on them also.

[jimmalenko]

Extract audio with virtualdub

Video Repair/Fix Tools