Tmpg ver 2.53 Horrible mpeg 2 limit????

[mazinz]

for the past week or so i have been trying to get this one film to work right (another story), in the end i ended up re-encoding this file which was 73mins long (at mpeg 2, vari rate, dvd template--captured with the Dazzle 2).
This problem has now occured a few times now and im convinced their is a problem with tmpg ver 2.53.
it shows the whole film convert, yet during playback at roughly 40-41mins the pic freezes, but the sound plays on, it does this for the rest of the film. I love wasting 7 hours.
Previously i would re-encode just the video part of it and it would do the file yet at 73 mins the film was in the middle and not the end, but thats how the file would end. This is why i tried it again using the sound with it.
i am using the automatic vbr setting, and i do set the quality control for it up to 100, the bitrate is roughly the same as the actual clip 8.5 high-4.0)
The other day i did this file with sound and it seemd to work but 3 minutes before the film ended the sound cut out and then came back in the last minute--again no reason why, the original clip was not like that.
So can anyone tell me what is wrong here? Is their a bad bug/limit in tmpg 2.53, i am on windows xp with the ntfs file system, so size should not be a problem for the file. thanks again--

[SatStorm]

Did you use a frameserver to feed the file to tmpgenc, or you just load it and hit encode?

Those problems use to appear when you don't frameserve your source to tmpgenc....

[mazinz]

i just loaded it and hit encode. what program could i frameserve it with as it is already an mpeg 2 file? thanks

[SatStorm]

The best mpeg2 frameserver, is DVD2AVI

Take a visit to the guides of VCDhelp if you want to learn more