Avi to Mpeg troubles, again. (Is there any solution?)

[Nokio]

This entire week I've been trying to convert a downloaded DVD rip movie (.avi format) which plays fine when I watch in Windows Media Player. No matter what I do with TMPGenc, it never converts the .avi movie into a good Mpeg file. The audio is always out of sync with each conversion. I tried the advice that someone gave me yesterday (Save the audio as a wav file using virtual dub and use it as the audio source when converting with TMPGenc) and that wasn't even successful. I was wondering if anyone knows a solution to this problem, because conversion take hours for me and its a waste of time when the final product isn't successful. Would anyone recommend a different (yet working) avi to mpeg converter? Thanks.

[KingJohn]

When you saved the AVI, did you set it at 44.1 Khz ?

Audio > full processing
Audio > Conversion > 44.1Khz

Save WAV

And did you scan for junk frames ?

And you don't need to convert it all before testing, just hit stop after a few min

[Nokio]

I did all that except for scanning for "junk frames." How would I go about doing that?

[KingJohn]

paste

If Vdub finds any... All you need to do is save out another copy of the movie to fix the problem. Vdub will save without the junk frames.

Video > scan video stream for errors
Video > Direct stream copy
Audio > direct stream copy

SAVE AS

save movie2.avi

If Vdub fails, this is a MMX problem in the new vertion, use "vdub-mp3-freeze.exe" instead. In makes a log file on drive C of the bad frames.

[man_friday]

Do you have the same problem with any AVI or just this particular file?

[wee haggis]

Scroll down to vdub_mp3_freeze:
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/virtualdub.html

[bugster]

Also, check the framerate of the avi and compare to the framerate of the (S)VCD template you are using in Tmpgenc. Chose a template that most closley matches the framerate of the avi. If you end up with a format that your DVD player/TV cannot handle properly (NTSC or PAL) you will have to read up on framerate conversion methods in the guides elsewhere on this site.

Good Luck!