Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[ZeRo_X12]

Hello everyone! I hope you guys can help me with my problem cause I have tried everything I can think of. Ok, here goes. I have a avi video that is about 23 minutes long. I am using TMPGEnc to encode the avi into a mpg, so I can burn a SVCD. Anyways, I start the encodeing and all is going fine, then about a third of the way through the encode TMPGEnc slows way down, its still encodeing but at a painfully slow rate. My computer can do a 23 minute video in about an hour but now its only at 50 percent after 7 hours. I stopped the encode and checked the movie. At the point of the slow down the sound chops out for a few minutes then its totally gone. I looked at the avi and it turns out the audio is in 'Windows Media Audio V2'. So I tried to extract the audio out using both AVI2WAV and Virtual Dub. Both produced a wav file but neither would play(in winamp and other software). What I can't figure out is why everything is fine all the way up to around 20-30 percent and why the produced wav file is unplayable. I thought maybe that the audio was corrupt but it the avi plays through without any problems. If any of you have any ideas on what I need to go, I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me! Thanks!

[secretagent]

most likely that sound is encoded in ac3 audio. the only program i have that works all the time is cooleditpro 2 which extracts audio from video, then save as wav. In virtual dub it sometimes works if you go to audio, check full processing mode, then conversion, 44100, stereo 16 bit, hi quality and save as wav, but you may have to save the file as an ac3 from virtual dub, change.wav to .ac3 and work with it in headache, or besweet.

[ZeRo_X12]

Cool! Thanks man. When I did what you said in Virtual Dub I actually got a working audio file so we'll see what happens. I am encoding right now. Thanks again!

[ZeRo_X12]

Worked like a charm, Thanks!!!