Can't navigate mpeg-2 output from TmpgEnc (VurtualDub as frameserver)

[Alex.the.pretty.good]

I have started digitizing my VHS collection, and encounter the following issue:
I capture in MPEG-2 with my Ion VCR2PC. I can open these MPEG without problems in VLCplayer and jump to any point in the movie.

Due to the quality of capture from VHS, I wanted to apply filters to clean up the image before burning the movies to DVD. I apply the filters in VirtualDub and frameserve to TmpgEnc 2.5 (registered version).
It is with the output of TmpgEnc that I have a problem.

I can open the output movie in VLC player and it plays fine. But if I want to navigate in the movie, I only get sound and no image any more (the last image just keeps being displayed).

I thought that it was a problem with the filters, but even if I framserve the source movie without applying any filter, the problem stays the same.

If I demux the output movie from TmpgEnc, I can open the m2v in VLC player, and in that movie, I can navigate to any moment in it. So I tried to re-mux the output from TmpgEnc. I remuxed the output m2v with the mp2 taken from the source file, and that video kept having the problem of not being able to navigate in it. If I remux the m2v taken from the source file with the mp2 from the output file, there is no problem with navigating in the movie.

Based on advise I found on this site, I tried Womble Mpeg Video Wizard. By just making a full copy of the movie, I finally got an mpeg-2 in which I could navigate to any point (and confirm that the filters did a good job). The file has the exact size as the TmpgEnc output, so I don't even have an idea what Womble might even have
changed about the file.

So it looks to me that something went wrong with the output of TmpgEnc.
Output settings are:
- mpeg-2;
- Automatic VBR (CQ_VBR);
- Maximum bitrate 8000 kbps
- PAL (same as input source)
- 720 x 576 (same as input source)
- Interlaced (same as input source)

Does anybody have an idea what I might have set up wrong in TmpgEnc?

[jagabo]

This is most likely a problem of incompatible MPEG splitter and MPEG decoder on your system. Not a VirtualDub it TMPGEnc problem.

[Alex.the.pretty.good]

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle.

I de-installed VLC Player with all it's associated settings, installed the most recent version and the output from TmpgEnc now plays perfectly and I can jump to any point in the movie

Thanks, jagabo.