Mpeg2 with Tmpeg

[Darkash]

I'm trying to convert a 37 minute avi using the dc30 m-jpeg coded into an SVCD using TMPeg . After it converts 23 minutes it goes to black. I've tried CBR and VBR 2-pass. Also I've tried the latest three versions of the program and they all stop about the same point. Does anyone have any ideas. Thanks.

[Vejita-sama]

Can you play your source file past 23min? If no then you're original capture has problems.

If you can play the source, load in TMPGenc as you normally would. Then click settings, and then click the advance tab. Double click on source range, and scroll to 0:22:50 or so. From here first make sure you can see and display/preview after 0:23:00 AND from 0:22:50 click on the scroll poiner, hold down the 'right arrow key' and let movie play/preview past 0:23:00.

We're looking to see if any errors in the video stream occur.

[Darkash]

The source is good. It plays all the way to the end. When I play it in rhe source range preview it stops at 0:23:17, but it still showes the remaining time as a froozen image.

[Darkash]

I Believe I narrowed the problem down to two possible causes. First it is either the Mirovideo dc30 plus M-jepg codec or it is the size of my file. I can't really say which one. I've tried the cinepak codec and I can get the whole video to convert into mpeg2. But this might be because the whole avi file is less than 2 GB while the Mirovideo file is closer to 3 GB. I prefer to not use the cinepak codec since it quality isn't a good. Anybody have any ideas?

[iant]

The answer is that TMPEG will not accept a file larger than 2 gig. Use VirtualDub to frameserve the larger file to TMPEG and you'll be fine.

Best bet is to capture as a multi-segment using VirtualDub or AVI_IO and then frameserve to TMPEG. It avoids all filesize problems. ( Unless you make an mpg too big to fit on 1 CD, of course. )