Tmpgenc reports whacky running time

[magwell]

I have an 85 minute PAL divx file (640x480) which seems to freak out Tmpgenc. When I load the avi using Tmpgenc's standard PAL VCD template, a window pops up saying "judging field order." The progress bar loads to 100% ok, but when I get to step 4 of the wizard (bitrate setting), Tmpgenc reports the running time as 210 minutes! Now, I watched the avi in its entirety with Windows Media Player and it is indeed only 85 mins long (85m10s to be exact).

I should also mention that I first scanned for bad frames with the regular version of vdub and got the "improper VBR audio" message. I then used vdub-mp3-freeze.exe instead and there were no bad frames reported. Is the VBR audio somehow causing Tmpgenc to misjudge the running time?

How do I fix this? Anyone?

[Baldrick]

If TMPGEnc says that the video time / runtime is way too long
Try change the directshow reader priority, in TMPGEnc under Option->Environmental settings->VFAPI plug-in and right click on the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader and increase the priority to 1 or 2 and reopen the video. If that doesn't help you can always use the source range to select exact what to encode, under Settings->Advanced in tmpgenc.


www.dvdrhelp.com/tmpgenc#problems

[magwell]

Thanks Baldrick! Setting directshow to 1 did the trick. A followup question if I may. After encoding the avi in question, should I reset directshow back to its default setting of -1?