ADVC-100 with Scenealyzer & TmpGenc conversion problem

[TBoneit]

Hello All

I just captured some video (20 minute clip with the ADVC-100 using Scenealyze Live.... No problems there.

Playsback fine in WMP XP version

Then tried to convert to VCD w 48Khz audio and TmpGenc 2.5xx, TmpGenc finished with no errors. Unfortunately only over 9 minute output file. More or less 1/2 the length of the input file.

As a Test I fed the original avi into MF2 (trial) and it worked fine so I'm guessing some problem with TmpGenc??

The only trial s/w is the MF2, all other s/w IE Scenalyzer and Tmpgenc are registered and paid for. I'll probably purchase the MF2 when the trisal runs out as it works and does what I want aimply & easily.

Any thoughts/suggestions. The original isn't that good a quality and the VCD reszie output, what there was of it, looked good enough for this material.

Does the CCE Basic do VCD output? I looked at the trial version but didn't see a setting for that.

Thanks for any help?
Roger t

[DJRumpy]

What does your output look like? Is it sped up, or just chopped in the middle somewhere?

You can use CCE for VCD output (your audio spec is wrong though, it needs to be 44.1Khz, not 48Khz).

[TBoneit]

The output was not sped up or anything it was just chopped. I choose that setting for audio so I could take this particular material that isn't that good a quality, The VCD portion playback was looking OK. I chose that (48Khz) So I could put these all on one DVD in MF2.

Since the source has some digital artifacts from when it was delivered (Carnaval 2003 from Brazil) via Sat Tv. Those parades with all the colors and motion seem to really need tons of bandwidth. Even though 1 hour of parade used 3 hours (approx.) of PVR storage. So they must have been allocated much more than bandwidth than normal. I suspect the artifacting may have been on the uplink side.

Why put vcds on a dvd?
1. Using brand name media, the DVD works out cheaper than multi CDRs.
2. Source was only OK.
3. Not archiving as such, just so other family members can see the carnaval parades without carrying PVR all over.

But the big reason vcd on dvd is cheaper and smaller, 1 disk vs 6-8 CDRs.
And Playback is more likely with DVD than VCD on aLL DVD Players in the family. FWIW I made sure mine all play VCD/SVCD.

Thanks

[DJRumpy]

Load your AVI into VirtualDub, and scan it for errors (under the VIDEO menu I believe). If could be simple frame corruption.

You could also try frameserving it to TMPGenc to get around the problem.

[TBoneit]

Just curious, I know it killed the cat, If it had a bad frame, wouldn't MF2 have choked too?

There are garbage frames in the source, Green blocks and pixelated, but they are in the source where it is on the PVR and I suspect a bad uplink to my provider. But just because they are garbage does not equal a bad frame in the AVI?? Or does it? Beause the avi captures with no dropped frames shown.

The AVI looked like the source when it is played on the PVR direct record of the sat data stream to its hard drive.

Wow is it slow here at work lately. OT Comment
Never tried frameserving, How would you suggest (tutorial or S/w) I do it.

Anyway, Thanks
Roger

[DJRumpy]

Not necessarily. Apples to oranges.

Better coding to handle bad frames? Karma? Who knows

As long as it works...

[TBoneit]

Oh, OK< Thanks