Pink & green discolouring

[Echo147]

Had a bit of an odd problem tonight while encoding a TV episode from an MPEG source. I've been working on the Red Dwarf series for well over 40 episodes with no problems so far, but on this one I get colour distortions in the recompress.

Best I can describe it is, the screen becomes increasingly pink and more rarely, green until it reaches the next keyframe and returns to correct colour.

The only thing that I can see about the source that isn't quite right is, there's a lot of dropped frames in it. Is this the cause? And if so, can I correct it?

Thanks in advance for any tips :)

p.s. I'm using the rock solid DivX 3.11 Alpha, low motion :D

[techno]

how are u converting it? are u capturing? what are ur methods or settings? post it here and I will help you personally (of course, other people are allowed to contribute! :) )

Techno

[Batman]

what is "Red Dwarf"? just curious :)

[Echo147]

I downloaded it - tis a standard looking interleaved 320x240 mpeg, with 32khz stereo audio.

Conversion is done with VirtualDub 1.4.8 & the DivX 3.11 low motion codec.

I've been fiddling with it some more, and discovered it doesn't discolour when using the fast motion dll - weird huh?

[Echo147]

Originally posted by Batman
what is "Red Dwarf"? just curious :)

British 'space parody' comedy from 1988-1999 :)

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094535

[Batman]

thanks for the info. Seems interesting. :)