Virtual Dub crashes with seconds to go

[AlexCR]

Guess you guys probably have seen this problem a million times but I don't know why it's happening...

I never had a single crash with Virtual Dub until I reformatted my HDD a few weeks ago, reinstalling everything. I had been using DivX 5.2.1 but when I reinstalled everything I got the latest version (DivX 6.0). Now whenever I try to encode a piece of video (usually they're only about two or three minutes long) Virtual Dub crashes just as it's about to finish. Here is the error message:



I suspect it has something to do with the video and sound going out of sync or something, but I'm not sure. The video is still in the directory where I was saving it but I cannot play it back in WMP, and when I play it back in VirtualDub it finishes maybe two or three seconds earlier than it should.

Is there a quick fix? Thanks!

[guns1inger]

Uninstall Divx 6 and go back to 5.2 and see if it works. Or use Xvid instead.

[AlexCR]

Uninstall Divx 6 and go back to 5.2 and see if it works. Or use Xvid instead.

OK so I'm back to 5.2 and there are still problems... but different ones!



I get this error message seconds from completion... are the video and audio going out of sync or what? Thanks.

[Darth Paris]

What type of audio compression are you using?

[AlexCR]

What type of audio compression are you using?

I use MPEG Layer-3 compression at 56 / 24 / 7 (stereo). I've never had problems with it in the past.

My other options are...

No compression (file too big)
WMA v1 or v2
AC-3 ACM Decompressor
Some Microsoft ones
And a few others I have no idea about.

Can you reccommend something better, then?