tmpgenc problem..audio stops for no reason.

[cushman]

im trying to convert an uncompressed AVI to vcd/svcd, and the video encodes fine but the sound plays and cuts off after around 1 minute and 40 seconds into the video; yet the whole audio is there in virtualdub.

i've tried another (smaller) uncompressed avi and it still cuts off around that point.

any ideas? i'm clueless and i need to have this video done asap.
thanks in advance.

[Tommyknocker]

Here. And good luck!

[cushman]

i've tried that also..virtualdub stops and freezes.
even when i open the file in Soundforge, it just shows the first 1min 40 of sound and then nothing..

[downer]

I have the same exact problem. I captured from my DV camera using Scenalyzer, and the .avi file plays through the whole way with sound. Then i encoded with TMPGEnc and the sound is only there for the first minute or so.

I am going to try the suggestion by tommyknocker.
Also when i watch the video on my DVD player it seems when i had moved the camera back in forth these lines come on the screen, hard to explain, but anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

[cushman]

for your second question, that appears to be interlacing.
if you use adobe premiere when you export your movie you can tell it to de-interlace and it gets rid of those ugly lines.

update: still havent figured out my problem yet either..but when i compress the original avi's individually in tmpgenc, it works fine..which is very odd.
i can have 10 compressed avi's that work perfect, but when i join them up when they're uncompressed into one big file in vdub and bring it into tmpgenc, the audio still cuts off.
im clueless..

im gonna try and total re-export of my movie from premiere and see if that helps..

[downer]

converting the avi to a wav with virtual dub then encoding with tmpgenc worked fine for me.

i also did the interlaced thing and worked like a charm!

[Mastiff]

I, too, have a similar issue...different format.

+ Analog video capture to AVI with VirtualDub v1.4.10,
+ Encode to DVD-MPEG2 with TMPGEnc Plus v2.5.

After approx. 1 min 40 sec audio vanishes in generated file.

I haven't given up, am still experimenting with different settings.

[Betamax]

It's a typical TMPGenc problem that it stops encoding the audio after some time.
The only thing that solves this is by demuxing the video and audio into seperate files before you start encoding to MPeG.
You can do so using VDub : First save the audio into a WAVe-file, then set in the Audio-menu 'No Audio' and save the avi to another file.
In TMPGenc open the AVI and WAV in their input-boxes (video/audio) and hit encode.
TMPGenc will autoencode the wav into a mp2 file, which it will mux with the encoded avi on the fly. At the end your mpeg will be correct.

I don't know why TMPGenc still has this problem, it seems to be still there in the latest 2.58 version. I've got it even in the Plus release.
It seems TMPGenc has trouble with it if one is encoding large pieces of movies (more than 25minutes long).

Follow my directions, and all will go fine... (until TMPGenc has solved it, once in the future I hope?)