VirtualDub crashes

[costabrava]

I've been converting .AVIs with VBR-MP3 Audio into VCD/SVCD using TMPGEnc, by first separating the audio into .WAV in VirtualDub. I've just ran into my 3rd .avi where I am separating the .wav and VirtualDub crashes (same things happens when just playing the file), all of the them near the end of the audio sample. Crash reason states 'access violation'. I've tried deleting the end of the .AVI and then saving the .WAV from the new .avi, but VirtualDub crashes again during the .WAV saving process. It's possible that all of the .AVIs are corrupted (downloaded from a P2P), but after this third one I'm suspicious it's something else...any ideas?

TMPGEnc ver 2.53.35.130
VirtualDub ver 1.4.5

Thanks in advance...

[Enchanter]

Out of space? Or perhaps drive too fragmented?

[costabrava]

well, I've got 15 gigs of space available on a 40 gig drive, but I guess I can run a defrag. I've been doing this process with other .AVIs lately with no problem...

if the AVIs are corrupted, any suggestion on how to repair them so VirtualDub can do its normal magic?

as always, thanks for the help

[costabrava]

a fix

I defragged the harddrive, but still had same problem, but I found a fix:

When preparing an .avi with VBR audio for encoding in TMPGEnc and VirtualDub crashes while saving the audio as .wav.....use AVI2WAV instead to save the .wav...then use VirtualDub to save the silent .avi...then reopen VirtualDub to add the silent .avi and the .wav you made in avi2wav...worked liked a charm on those few files that seem to have a problem on the audio track that my VirtualDub wouln't process