Mobile Encoding Problem

[Lopton]

Hi,
I've tried searching but have not found anything that really answers this question. I have encoded a couple of movies using DVD-RB with the mobile option. And all of my movies that are longer then 1:47:24 are showing up in the players as having a length of 1:47:24 or 1:47:25. In windows media player when the movie reaches that point it stops, but in the DIVX player it actually keeps going, so I know the movie is actually encoded properly and stored, but for some reason it is setting the "length" to 1:47:24. Does any one have any idea what I am doing wrong? :confused:

here is the logs from one of the conversions.
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[08:47:20] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- DVD-RB v1.28.2
- AVISYNTH 2.5.6.0
- HC v0.23.0.0 encoder selected
- "Movie Only" mode is enabled.
- Output in MOBILE format only.
- Audiostream (for mobile) is 0x80
- Source: T2
- VTS_02: 3,418,879 sectors.
-- ANGLE and/or INTERLEAVING is present.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
- Processed 68.7MB ILVU section...
- Processed 166.8MB ILVU section...
- Processed 47.5MB ILVU section...
- Processed 27.9MB ILVU section...
- Processed 166.1MB ILVU section...
- Processed 82.8MB ILVU section...
- Processed 128.1MB ILVU section...
- Processed 123.0MB ILVU section...
- Processed 90.7MB ILVU section...
- Processed 97.0MB ILVU section...
- Processed 61.3MB ILVU section...
- Processed 19.0MB ILVU section...
-- Processed 229,328 frames.
-- Building .AVS and .ECL files
- Reduction Level for DVD-5: 70.1%
- Overall Bitrate : 4,158/3,326Kbs
- Space for Video : 3,883,482KB
- HIGH/LOW/TYPICAL Bitrates: 5,130/1,178/3,326 Kbs
[09:00:12] Phase I, PREPARATION completed in 13 minutes.
[09:00:12] Phase II ENCODING started
- MOBILE Encoding:
- Video: XVID (720x480) 1200Kbs
- Audio: MP3 128Kbs
- Encoding: VTS02_PGC_00002.AVS
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200003001.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200003002.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200003003.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200006001.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200006002.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200006003.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200006004.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200009001.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200012001.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200012002.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200012003.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200015001.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200015002.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200015003.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200015004.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200018001.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200018002.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200018003.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200018004.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200021001.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200021002.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200021003.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200024001.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200024002.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200024003.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200028001.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200028002.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200031001.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200031002.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200031003.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200034001.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200034002.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200034003.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200037001.VOB
-- Extracting ILVU: VI0200037002.VOB
[11:40:43] Phase II ENCODING completed in 160 minutes.

Also when I try to open the file in G-Spot it doesn't load it completely, no error message, but it just doesn't analyze it and tell me the key-frames, etc...

Thank you for your time.

-Matt

[Lopton]

ok, after much struggling I have more information.

here are my settings from the custom menu

XVID - AVI
720 - 480
1200 - 12
9000 - MP3
Off - 128
1 pass - 1.5

When I load the files in question in VirtualDub it gives me this error message:

"VirtualDub has detected an improper VBR audio encoding in the source AVI-file...this will introduce up to 0 ms of skew...if this is unacceptable decompress the entire stream to an uncompressed WAV-file and recompress with a constant bitrate encoder."

Obviously 0ms of skew is no problem, and after saving it from VirtualDub and trying to play it the problem is fixed. But I am wondering what I am doing wrong?!

-matt
:stupid:

[Lopton]

After some more playing around I have found that changing the audio format from MP3 to AAC has no effect on the time issue. But if I change the VBR settings from 1200 / 9000 peak to 768 / 2500 peak the AVI out put has the correct time on it.

-Matt-