Help with TMPGENC and incorrect time stamps

[nerys]

I am honestly not sure if I posted this already if so I apologize

I am having a problem. I have some movies that are longer than there time stamp.

one example I just bought macross of ebay (real deal not a copy) and am converting it to mpeg1 like any other disc I have. (this also happened with what the bleep to we know and used cars) this is all recent last week NEVER ONCE happened before in my life !

the episode is 39 minutes long but the TIME INDEX counter stops at 35 and it thigns it only 35 munutes long and all editing programs will nto go past 35 munutes but if its PLAYING it plays the full 39 minutes just fine (the last 4 miunues it just stays at 35 minutes or therabouts ie whatever it happens to be its not precisely 35 minutes)

what would cause this and how do I resolve it ?

I am attempting to reencode them right now (will see in the morning if it works) any ideas as to why this is happening ?

I rip with dvd shrink (no compression) and DVD Decrypter (it has happened with rips from both programs)

I then strip it with dvd2avi

then I encode with tmpgenc plus 2.524

NONE of these programs has been changed. same versions I have been using for quite some time on the same machine which likewise has not changed.

suggestions ? I am afraid if I burn them they will STOP at the false time in a dvd players or cause other problems.

Chris Taylor
http://www.zodiacreview.com/

[Red Barchetta]

I have had this happen to me a few times. - Usually when the video bit-rate is set lower than standard (done to force longer clips on to a single disc, but at the cost of video quality) - However, it has happened even with everything standard.
I really don't know why, but I can tell you that at least in my cases - the clip always played fully once burned to (S)VCD - it simply had incorrect time-stamps all through it - BUT, nothing wrong with the clip itself.

[reboot]

Why are you ripping to vob, shrinking, then encoding to avi, then re-encoding to mpg?
I would rip with decrypter.
Extract m2v and ac3 with ReJig.
Re-Encode from there.

[nerys]

nono direct from vob to mpg1 nothing inbetween

here is the process

Rip with shrink (NO compression its just a convenient way ti clip start and end time and get rid of the rest of the stuff ie faster rip)

then I hit it with dvd2avi to make the files tmpgenc needs since it can not interface directly with the vob files

then I run it through tmpgenc to make my mpeg1 file

thats it.

Note dvdx DID NOT experience this problem alas it makes files that do not look nearly as nice as tmpgenc

Chris Taylor
http://www.zodiacreview.com/

[Abond]

This happened to me some times with elementary video stream. After multiplexing it with audio, the times were again correct.