TMPGEnc 2.5 problem

[geewiz]

Greetings all. I'm currently trying the trialware version of TMPGEnc. Trying to convert a hq avi (little over a gig in size). I've set kbs @ 550 and end up with a file of remarkable quality at around 500MB. Thing is, it's consistently short by about 27 minutes. No matter how many times I attempt re-encoding, I'm always ending up with a lenght of 1 hour 25 minutes, where the source is 1 hour 52 minutes or so. What am I doing wrong? Any help appreciated. TIA

[BJ_M]

go into settings and see if "source range " is checked .. if so , uncheck it ..

also did you check your avi for bad frames ? it may be stopping on a bad frame

[geewiz]

thanks for the reply; it's not source range (which, incidently, when I use, generates constant error numbers every few seconds, then continues encoding). Now, regarding the bad frames, that seems likely as encoding always ends at same point. I've played the original source from the point TMPGEnc ends until true end of video and detect no problems. Is there a utility to check for bad frames? TIA

[BJ_M]

vdub

From the VDub Help section:

Quote:
Deleting JUNK chunks from a file

VirtualDub never puts JUNK chunks in any AVI file it creates, so the solution is to turn off all processing:


· Set the video processing mode to Direct Stream Copy.
· Set the audio processing mode to Direct Stream Copy.
· Open the source file, and save to the output file.



Audio interleaving options work in this mode, and video range selection works to the nearest key frame, so you can re-interleave or trim off ends at the same time.

[geewiz]

Tried your suggestion, and now have "write error at address...". This about 32% into encoding. Now, here's what weird. The incomplete mpeg is 32 minutes long, but about the same file size as my previous encodings, which were approximately 92 minutes in lenght!! Huh???

[wee haggis]

Download this:
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/virtualdub.html
Scroll down to version named"mp3_freeze".

Virtualdub > Open > Video > check video for freezes.

this takes a few minutes.
If you have bad frames a window will pop up telling you how many and where they are located.Jot it down and in Virtualdub:

Open > Edit > Go-To > (if you have a more than one section of bad frames type in the first bad frame of the last section first) > ok > go back 1 key frame(button on bottom row) > click on Mark In (little button at the bottom ,second from right) > Edit > Go-To > Type in last bad frame of that section > ok > go forward 1 key frame > mark out (button ,bottom right) > Edit > Delete selection.
Repeat above steps with all bad frame sections ,working your way to the beginning of the movie.
Then Video > Direct Stream > Audio > Direct Stream > File > Save As AVI.

[geewiz]

v'dubs scan video stream for errors reports nuthin'.

[geewiz]

wee haggis, next time I'll thoroughly read thru a post (and at least be sober doing so). Ran the mp3_freezer ver, go the log of errors, and will now start the deletion process. I'll post results. Again, thanks.

[wee haggis]

LOL....no problem,,,,hic!..hic,,,,

it happens to the best of us.
Good luck.

[geewiz]

No joy. Keep getting write errors when converting.

[wee haggis]

If its DIVX ,run it through DivFix tool

[geewiz]

Well, after rebuilding index w/ divfix, still no go. I ended up demuxing and using the separate avi & wav files with tmpgenc. The resulting 770MB mpeg looks great on my crt, but the burn sucks; also, lost audio sync and experiencing pops.

[wee haggis]

Did you check to see if your DVD is on the compatability list to the left?

[geewiz]

It's not a matter of compatability; I've yet to have burned a dvd that I couldn't playback on any dvdplayer. I believe my problem was related to original audio encoding. Went back to orignal source, demuxed again then re-encoded and so far so good. Now it's just a matter of tweaking for a 1 cd burn.