When encoding video file, it stops short of actual video time.

[Nelson37]

Suggest you spend some time reading so you are able to accurately describe just exactly what it is that you are doing. Very difficult and frustrating to troubleshoot a problem remotely without accurate information.

The problem now is that if you stated "the sky is blue", I would deem it necessary to stick my head out the window and look up.

Probable solution to your problem is to frameserve the video from Vdub to TMPGenc, and also save the audio as a WAV file. You may, or may not, have sufficient room to save the AVI as an uncompressed or Huffy file, this was the reason for the request for precise numbers.

Procedure for frameserving is well documented, check the guides and/or do a search. IF you have problems AFTER READING AND ATTEMPTING this procedure, post again.

But your description needs to be accurate, descriptive, and clear, you have not been doing well in this area.

[jimmalenko]

Good lord ... after reading this thread I'm more confused than a blind lesbian at the fish market ...


OK, so you've got an AVI file, and you want to fix an overscan problem, but you want the output as AVI still.

I suggest AVISynth.

AVISource("yourfile.avi")
AddBorders(16,16,16,16)

That's as simple as your script needs to be. Open that in virtualdub after installing AVISynth. Make sure you select compressions (XVID/MP3) for both video and audio. Go to File > Save as AVI and Bob is your father's brother-in-law.

[Nelson37]

Why Jim, what a Sexist and Non-Work Safe comment!

And what the hell does "bob's your uncle" actually mean? I always thought it was kind of like "there ya go", but where does that come from? Was there some very active guy named Bob, are half the guys in England named bob, what?

[SilverWind]

Well, I don't have Bob for an uncle, I guess. Using Jim's suggestion, It went all the way up to the problem point, and it stopped encoding, but didn't close out the program. When I opened up the file on the desktop, to view in VLC, and it had no video or sound, or a total time count at all.

Using Nelson's suggestion, by frameserving, It didn't work either. Using this guide, I encoded up to the problem point, then stopped encoding, then a box popped up saying: "Read error occured at address 004A74B3 of module 'TMPGEnc.exe' with 00133000."[/url]

[pijetro]

Nelson37 wrote:

Why Jim, what a Sexist and Non-Work Safe comment!

I wonder how that got past my firewall at work... :P

@SilverWind
IT's been a while for me.. but if you closed out Tmpgenc, then VirtualDub should still be resident, with the last frame served...You'll see that frame on the desktop.
This could be your problem frame...
Go to the keyframe before that, mark the in point..Go to the keyframe after that, mark the out point...and press delete..
You should be able to continue (although with some information loss)...

[SilverWind]

sorry pijetro, I don't understand your post. When I frameserve, it goes all the way to the problem frame, the frameserver box closes out and TMPGEnc is left up with an error message.
"Read error occured at address 004A74B3 of module 'TMPGEnc.exe' with 00133000."

[pijetro]

Yes, but if you maximize VirtualDub, you'll see the frame that crapped out...
If you're serving to Tmpgenc, VirtualDub is still resident (just running in the background)..
Once you've interrupted Tmpgenc, VirtualDub should reveal the bad frame...

[SilverWind]

:/... It's just not there. the only thing that's running is TMPGEnc, and the box that shows the stats on the frameserving. When it hits the bad frame, the error box pops up, and the frameserver stats dissapears. The main VDub program is nowhere to be found.

[pijetro]

When it used to crap out on me, i'd exit the error message, close the frameserve box, and VirtualDub would pop back up with the last frame served...

Again, you've probably got an .M2V file anyhow, so at least you can determine which set of frames are troubling you. Go to that same frame within the .AVI, and doing as i previously suggested..Cut out the bad keyframe segment...

I hope you're not encoding from beginning to end..
You do know that you can delete any part of the .AVI within Vdub, and simply frameserve a small portion..

[SilverWind]

Argh... How do I cut the frames and how do I know how many to cut? I've already tried checking the video for freezes, but it said there wasn't any bad frames...

[pijetro]

Check out steps 1 to 4 on this VirtualDub guide...

Cut out unwanted parts, and encode smaller segments to find out the problem...

[SilverWind]

Anything I do just doesn't work.

[jimmalenko]

It's a download. These things happen. Toss it, and move on.

Lesson learnt ...

[SilverWind]

Well, I did remove about 300 frames of an unwanted part, and it works, so how do I save that file?

[pijetro]

Silverwind.....
As i said, your mpeg file shows you the problem area (obviously, since that was the last frame that was served to Tmpgenc)...
Simply go to the .AVI, and go to the problem frame..Go to previous keyframe, mark in point, go to next keyframe, mark outpoint, Press DELETE....

You can serve this to Tmpgenc, or simply save out as a new .AVI, and give Tmpgenc the new .AVI..

so how do I save that file?

Video>Direct stream copy
Audio>direct stream copy

Save as .AVI..

[SilverWind]

Sorry for bringing up an old thread, but any idea why after I remove a bad frame, it still messes up like it has?

[pijetro]

but any idea why after I remove a bad frame, it still messes up like it has?

I don't understand...You can't control a bad DivX,Xvid encode...Just like somebody can't control your bad MPEG encode...
You can try and repair, rederive keyframes, etc...but like jimmalenko says, toss it out..
Heck, make a rip, and create the DivX yourself, if you want it done right...