Okay: here's another one to pick your brains over.
I have a set of AVIs from Fushigi No Umi No Nadia (a.k.a. The Secret of Blue Water, a.k.a. Nadia). The set includes all 39 episodes and the epilogue. The files are from an old encode of Nadia and have some small errors, but they cause the programs I use to halt/stall.
In Virtual Dub, I ripped and recoded all the audio tracks to clean up the audio a little bit, make it a little more suitable. The video was put through VDub using the warpsharp and SmartSmoother filters to clean it up some and refresh the lines. I am please with the outcome of the files that have made it successfully, all things considered.
There are certain files that will not go through the filter process all the way. These I decided to leave alone (primarily because I don't know any other programs that re-encode AVIs with filters) and use the original AVIs that came off the discs to mux the new audio with in TMPGenc.
When I go to encode these files, they all stop at a certain point in the video where there seems to be an error of some sort. I have checked the AVI and it looks like a discoloration in the video with lots of pixel blocks that do not match any color in the frame. The message from TMPGenc (using batch encode) is "Illegal floating decimal point calculation order". That's Greek to me.
So now the questions:
1. What other program can I use to change the AVI file into an MPEG format?
2. Is there a way to get TMPGenc to 'ignore' the bad spots and continue the encoding process?
3. Is there a way to fix the bad spot in the original AVI so I can put it through filters and re-encode it?
Sorry for the long winded post, but I like to be specific when asking questions about stuff like this. Thanks in advance for your time --
PopGenie

