Problems frameserving to TMPGEnc

[Will Hay]

I use Vdub to capture at 720 x 576 with the PicVideo mjpeg codec at quality 20 and then encode using TMPGENC Plus to dvd complaint mpeg2.
I wasn't aware of the frameserving facility but having tried it it doesn't appear to work for me :(
I created a test.avi and then hit the frameserving option. A box appears called DESKTOP/test.avi and then another specifing my source, so in here I call it test save as a vdr file right?).
I then leave that running and open TMPGEnc but the programme freezes, 'not responding' appears shortly afterwards.
I've tried an earlier version of both Vdub and TMPGEnc but get the same results.
I've run the auxsetup and just recently the proxyon tool - no luck.
Anyone any idea's what it could be?
I want the facility to delete frames from the centre of my capture file (TMPGEnc doesn't have this facility, only at the beginning and end)
Thanks in advance,
Will

[VJWitness]

TMPEG-Enc acts very strange in accepting *.vdrs or not. Transcode it to a 2.5 Mbit DivX and use the DivX in TMPEG. It´s not the professional but often the only possible way.

[angelyote]

You could use virtualdub to figure out which frames you'd like to cut, then create an avs with the trim option to remove the frames. Then you can feed the avs to tmpgenc.

Dave