Why do divx movies have pauses where video stops but audio doesn't?

[duragezic]

I uh had some divx movies that in several parts of the movie, the video would pause but the audio wouldn't and you would have to skip over a couple seconds past that screwed up part. It's very annoying. Are they encoded bad? I've never had any of those in the divx videos that I've encoded...

 

[JediKnut]

Yep, it's because of bad encoding. I have a couple of divX's & nothing like that happens... I've seen VCD's (converted from VHS) where that happens though... & it's because of bad converting/encoding...

 

[Shooters]

It's caused by a dead frame. There's actually a setting in NanDub that helps eliminate it called the "anti-sh!t threshold".

 

[tomcat]

I believe it actually has to do with errors in the TCP/IP protocol when resuming a transfer. This utility should fix your problem, though I haven't tried it myself.

 

[somethingwitty]

There's a program that claims to skip (but not fix) the bad frames. I've never used it, but you can find it somewhere here. let me know if that works-I'm curious

doh, tomcat beat me to it. use his site

 

[duragezic]

Thanks. I currently only have one that I remember has that type of pause and I don't remember where the pause was so I'll check on it later and see if it works.