AVI 2 MPEG coming out 3 x as long!

[demosthenes]

I am trying to get The One and Kiss The Dragon onto a DVDR. I have both these files as AVI's. I am having trouble converting The One using TMPGENC and using the PAL DVD mcf! When it is completed WMP says that it goes for 3:20 (or there about) but when i load the avi file in WMP is says it goes for 1:27. I should have noticed this when using the TEMPGENC wizard and at 2000 bitrate it was still over 4gb?

HELP PLEASE

These are the details of the AVI.

Video
576x240
23 frames
136 kbps
24bit
divx codec

Audio
duration 1:27:20
160kbps
mpeg layer-3

[adamp007]

The DIVx codec is massively compressed since it is based on MPEG4 compression. This does give compressions up to a factor of 11x over MPEG2 at the same video resolution. That is why your MPEG2 file will be a lot larger. eg. 6 gig VOB files in DVD compress to about 800Mb at an acceptable bit-rate

Cheers
Adam

[demosthenes]

Sorry mate, I don't think I was clear.

In the resluting m2v file created, the moveis finishes at 1:27:20 as it should but wmp will keep playing through to about 3:20 with just black screen. Other avi files i have converted do not do this?? Other avi files I convert in the same way have gone from 700mb avi to 800mb m2v with the movie legth being the same. using the same TMPGENC settings this avi fiule goes from 700mb to 1.8gb and the movie length is as described above!

HELP!! i think i will try and cut 99% of the frames using VirtualDub and then try and encode it again.

[Baldrick]

use the source range in tmpgenc when encoding
under settings->advanced and double click source range and only select what you want.

[demosthenes]

Cheers Baldrick! I didn't realise this was an option in tmpgenc. In the end I just cut 99% of the avi with vitualdub and then used tmpgenc to encode it. Worked a treat!!