video capture stops halfway through while re-encoding
 

Capturing Futurama with virtualvcr into 480x480 avi. Editing in virtual dub and saving as stream avi and wave. When processed with TEMPGEnc, the vido stops halfway through the produced mpg, though the sound continues. Have tried several formats. The avi output file I'm loading into TMPGEnc plays all the way in vdub or media player. The mpg file out doesn't. No bad frames were found by vdub-mp3.

Hi nicksteel,

As you are processing a captured AVI, go to TMPEG and uncheck all CODEC support in environmental settings, except "AVI VFW Compatibility Reader". Now encode your movie again. It should encode completely :!:

-kwag

Tried this, no change. Can't figure out why this has started happening. I did reinstall avisynth, tmpgenc and dvd2avi last week. It is strange. The avi is complete, sound and video. The mpg misses about the second half of video. Have tried with KDVD half and a tmpgenc vcd template with same results. This is happening also on another Futurama capture.

Just tried previewing and viewing in source range in tmpgenc. Video stops halfway thru. Evidently deleting sections in virtualdub has caused a problem. The avi output from virtual dub looks fine, but tmpgenc can't process it.

Hi nicksteel..

If you know the frame or frames that is bad, do this w/ vdub (once you
know the frame, you can use AVS's TRIM() command to cut that out, if you
prefer the AVS way)

* open vdub
* load in your troubled .avi source
* go as close to the frame as you can, hopefully at the frame just before
...the bad one.
* NOW, press Ctrl+G (this is the Goto command) and type in the next frame
...number after the bad frame, and press DEL key. That should delete the
...bad frame out. Vualla!! I hope :)

Now bring into TMPG, and re verify through Source Range if TMPG acts up
or not.

If this works, perform the same steps using AVS's TRIM() command.. NOW
that you know the frame number.

Good luck,
-vhelp

Thanks, guys.

My problem was with TMPGEnc environment settings. Kept trying things until things started working again.