I have never seen anything like this before, check it out:

- I'll grab a divx or xvid movie
- Use decompress to change the audio from MP3 to Wav
- Try to encode it using the ULBR template
- At 99% completion, the program shuts down on its own
- When you try to play the file, it wont play and will have a crazy ending time, something like this - 4:5215861954494:4596455164587
- But if I join the file and burn it using Nero, the disc will play fine in the dvd player but will allow no playback on the pc
- I have tried many versions of tmpenc with the same results

dvd - apex-ad1500
pc - athlon xp 2400 512mb ddr


Hit me if you have any info

Are you encoding the audio and video simultaneously with TMPEG, or are you encoding them separately

I am encoding the audio and video simultaneously. I have always done it this and have had no problems. Its weird, I used to do all of this stuff on my old system, amd k-6 350mhz, 256sdram, win98se.

Try encoding the video stream only, and encode the audio with HeadAC3he. Then multiplex both streams with BBMpeg.

-kwag

Hi Mind-Over-Mhz

After an abnormal terminaison, the MPEG-1 header is wrong. This can explain the "crazy ending time"
A simple solution to allow playback on your PC is to use the "Simple Multiplex" option of TMPGEnc (from MPEG Tools)
-1 Select Video Input : your wrong file
-2 Select type : MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard)
-3 Set Output and then RUN!

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Thanx hachemoncourt, I will try that. I have a couple of questions. Should I do this before every encoding job? Why is the program terminating before completion?

No, only use this procedure to fix wrong file header after abnormal terminaison.

Sorry, I don't know

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hacheMoncourt

to fix this use the source range and clip off the end of the film works every time i clip all my ends all the time i dont have to rencode

Thanx herndon, this worked great! I am still curious about why the program is terminating without warning and for no reason, but whatever - thanx again.